Hybrid/Remote Senior Linux Specialist Contract Job Trends

Senior Linux Specialist
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior Linux Specialist daily rate for remote/hybrid work is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

 6 months to
15 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 311 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Linux Specialist 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.010% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.011% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £525 - -

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 remote/hybrid work 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 9,474 10,884 16,258
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.22% 93.11% 94.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,181 6,887 11,150
10th Percentile £328 £325 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £638
90th Percentile £720 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 339 200 364
10th Percentile £15.18 £18.40 £17.29
25th Percentile £20.58 £23.50 £26.25
Median hourly rate £45.46 £37.39 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +21.58% -28.78% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.81 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £87.85
UK median hourly rate £25.25 £34.00 £44.75
% change year-on-year -25.74% -24.02% +46.72%

Senior Linux Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Roles

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Senior Linux Specialist' in the job title and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Senior Linux Specialist job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid roles

Senior Linux Specialist Skill Set
Top 11 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs

For the 6 months to 15 December 2025, Senior Linux Specialist contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract jobs with hybrid/remote work options featuring Senior Linux Specialist in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) CentOS
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Ubuntu
1 1 (100.00%) Unix

Senior Linux Specialist Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) CentOS
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Ubuntu
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat