SELinux Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring SELinux skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SELinux 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 300 343 473
Rank change year-on-year +43 +130 +156
Contract jobs citing SELinux 4 2 4
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.040% 0.013% 0.015%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.26% 0.12% 0.093%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 3
10th Percentile - £430 £528
25th Percentile £463 £438 £533
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £540
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -14.35% +32.52%
75th Percentile £488 £475 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £600
% change year-on-year - -20.83% +35.98%

All Systems Management Skills
Work from Home

SELinux falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,534 1,647 4,293
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 15.49% 10.73% 16.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,114 1,220 3,179
10th Percentile £386 £356 £400
25th Percentile £440 £450 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.47% -3.64% -2.22%
75th Percentile £626 £631 £675
90th Percentile £788 £700 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £563
% change year-on-year +1.90% -8.41% -0.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 23 73
10th Percentile £16.10 £21.73 £26.55
25th Percentile £25.50 £38.58 £55.00
Median hourly rate £40.88 £47.50 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.95% -28.03% +65.00%
75th Percentile £64.69 £58.13 £77.50
90th Percentile £71.38 £67.25 £87.50
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £30.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -11.83% -47.83% +155.56%

SELinux
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

SELinux trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

SELinux
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

SELinux daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

SELinux
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) Firewall
1 3 (75.00%) NAS
2 1 (25.00%) Kerberos
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Eclipse
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Linux Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) LDAP
2 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (75.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Network Architecture
1 3 (75.00%) Use Case
2 2 (50.00%) Information Management
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (25.00%) High Availability
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) C++
2 1 (25.00%) Bash
2 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) CISSP
2 1 (25.00%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (25.00%) Linux+ Certification
2 1 (25.00%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
1 1 (25.00%) NFS
1 1 (25.00%) Samba
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Nagios
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
1 1 (25.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 3 (75.00%) Splunk