Oracle Linux Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Oracle Linux (formerly Oracle Enterprise Linux)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Oracle Linux skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Oracle Linux over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 296 330 441
Rank change year-on-year +34 +111 +164
Contract jobs citing Oracle Linux 8 15 36
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.081% 0.098% 0.14%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.68% 0.94% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 5 33
10th Percentile - £405 £438
25th Percentile - £450 £540
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% +18.18%
75th Percentile - £700 £835
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £550 £625 £585
% change year-on-year -12.00% +6.84% +11.43%

All Operating Systems
Work from Home

Oracle Linux falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,177 1,597 3,543
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 11.88% 10.41% 13.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 792 1,113 2,503
10th Percentile £288 £218 £250
25th Percentile £388 £350 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £520
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -8.65% +4.00%
75th Percentile £581 £588 £625
90th Percentile £675 £680 £718
UK median daily rate £475 £469 £505
% change year-on-year +1.28% -7.13% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 49 101
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.15 £19.00
25th Percentile £32.19 £14.27 £40.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £18.30 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +241.53% -68.17% +35.29%
75th Percentile £68.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £68.53 £73.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £24.18 £22.00 £39.30
% change year-on-year +9.91% -44.02% +74.67%

Oracle Linux
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Oracle Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Oracle Linux trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Oracle Linux
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Oracle Linux.

Oracle Linux daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Oracle Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (50.00%) CMS
2 3 (37.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 3 (37.50%) Documentum
3 1 (12.50%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Sage X3
2 3 (37.50%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 7 (87.50%) OCI
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (12.50%) GCP
2 1 (12.50%) IaaS
2 1 (12.50%) Nutanix
2 1 (12.50%) PaaS
2 1 (12.50%) Rubrik
2 1 (12.50%) SaaS
2 1 (12.50%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) DHCP
1 1 (12.50%) DNS
1 1 (12.50%) Kerberos
1 1 (12.50%) NAS
1 1 (12.50%) SAN
1 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
1 1 (12.50%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) MongoDB
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
1 1 (12.50%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Git
1 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
1 1 (12.50%) TeamCity
General
1 4 (50.00%) Finance
1 4 (50.00%) General Ledger
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Documentum Specialist
1 3 (37.50%) Sage Specialist
2 1 (12.50%) Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) Sage Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) Site Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Clustering
1 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (12.50%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Linux
2 7 (87.50%) AIX
3 5 (62.50%) Windows
4 1 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (12.50%) Solaris
4 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Migration
2 7 (87.50%) Re-Platforming
3 3 (37.50%) Integration Testing
3 3 (37.50%) Process Management
4 1 (12.50%) Agile
4 1 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (12.50%) Cost Optimisation
4 1 (12.50%) Data Protection
4 1 (12.50%) Data Security
4 1 (12.50%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (12.50%) High Availability
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (12.50%) Performance Measurement
4 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (12.50%) Security Hardening
4 1 (12.50%) Service-Level Objective
4 1 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) Storage Management
4 1 (12.50%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) C#
1 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
1 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (75.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) GDPR
1 1 (12.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
1 1 (12.50%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Ansible
1 1 (12.50%) EMC NetWorker
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
1 1 (12.50%) Netcool
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
1 1 (12.50%) Tivoli
1 1 (12.50%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) Oracle
2 4 (50.00%) IBM
2 4 (50.00%) Sage
3 3 (37.50%) Adobe
3 3 (37.50%) Siebel
4 1 (12.50%) Cisco
4 1 (12.50%) CyberArk
4 1 (12.50%) EMC
4 1 (12.50%) Isilon
4 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
4 1 (12.50%) Qualys
4 1 (12.50%) Serena
4 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow
4 1 (12.50%) Splunk
4 1 (12.50%) Sybase
4 1 (12.50%) VMware