Senior Linux Engineer Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Senior Linux Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior Linux Engineer daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £663, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 297 340 475
Rank change year-on-year +43 +135 +155
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Linux Engineer 7 5 2
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.071% 0.033% 0.008%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.075% 0.035% 0.008%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 2
10th Percentile - - £428
25th Percentile £613 £463 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 £488 £471
Median % change year-on-year +35.90% +3.45% +4.72%
75th Percentile £728 £525 £500
90th Percentile £734 - £508
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £520
% change year-on-year - -3.75% -30.73%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Work from Home with a recognized job title 9,288 14,354 24,650
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.77% 93.54% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,350 9,595 17,415
10th Percentile £337 £325 £360
25th Percentile £414 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.69% +2.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 579 565
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.19 £23.39 £26.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £44.74 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.06% -18.65% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.00 £63.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Senior Linux Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Senior Linux Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Senior Linux Engineer trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Senior Linux Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Senior Linux Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Senior Linux Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Senior Linux Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract jobs with a WFH option featuring Senior Linux Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) Linux
2 6 (85.71%) Python
2 6 (85.71%) Bash
3 5 (71.43%) Ansible
3 5 (71.43%) Kubernetes
3 5 (71.43%) Containerisation
4 4 (57.14%) Terraform
4 4 (57.14%) Puppet
5 3 (42.86%) Azure
5 3 (42.86%) AWS
5 3 (42.86%) Configuration Management
5 3 (42.86%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (42.86%) Unix
5 3 (42.86%) DevOps
5 3 (42.86%) GitLab
5 3 (42.86%) Jenkins
5 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
6 2 (28.57%) Deployment Automation
6 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Automation
6 2 (28.57%) Network Architecture
6 2 (28.57%) Progress Chef
6 2 (28.57%) GCP
6 2 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
6 2 (28.57%) Continuous Deployment
6 2 (28.57%) Cloud Native
6 2 (28.57%) Task Automation
6 2 (28.57%) Open Source
6 2 (28.57%) Resource Management
6 2 (28.57%) Parallel Processing

Senior Linux Engineer Skill Set
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 1 (14.29%) Apache
1 1 (14.29%) nginx
1 1 (14.29%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) AWS
1 3 (42.86%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) GCP
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) TCP/IP
2 1 (14.29%) DHCP
2 1 (14.29%) DNS
2 1 (14.29%) SAN
2 1 (14.29%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) GitLab
1 3 (42.86%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) cloud-init
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) Clustering
2 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
2 1 (14.29%) Data Structures
2 1 (14.29%) NVMe
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (42.86%) Unix
3 1 (14.29%) CentOS
3 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Containerisation
2 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
2 3 (42.86%) Configuration Management
2 3 (42.86%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (42.86%) DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) Continuous Deployment
3 2 (28.57%) Deployment Automation
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Automation
3 2 (28.57%) Network Architecture
3 2 (28.57%) Open Source
3 2 (28.57%) Parallel Processing
3 2 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (28.57%) Resource Management
3 2 (28.57%) Task Automation
4 1 (14.29%) High Availability
4 1 (14.29%) Low Latency
4 1 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Bash
1 6 (85.71%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) Shell Script
3 1 (14.29%) C++
3 1 (14.29%) Go
3 1 (14.29%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) Ansible
1 5 (71.43%) Kubernetes
2 4 (57.14%) Puppet
2 4 (57.14%) Terraform
3 2 (28.57%) Progress Chef
4 1 (14.29%) Cobbler
4 1 (14.29%) HP Data Protector
4 1 (14.29%) Packer
4 1 (14.29%) Prometheus
4 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Red Hat
2 1 (14.29%) Dell
2 1 (14.29%) EMC
2 1 (14.29%) HP