Linux Contracts in Bedfordshire

Linux
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bedfordshire requiring Linux skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Linux over the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 27 26 32
Rank change year-on-year -1 +6 -7
Contract jobs citing Linux 3 8 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 1.80% 3.69% 1.43%
As % of the Operating Systems category 16.67% 27.59% 11.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 6 2
10th Percentile - £319 £329
25th Percentile - £334 £334
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £413 £363
Median % change year-on-year - +13.79% -9.38%
75th Percentile - £494 £384
90th Percentile - £506 £386
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £62.50 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 - -
75th Percentile £73.75 - -
90th Percentile £77.50 - -
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £72.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -10.34% +11.54% +40.54%

All Operating Systems
Bedfordshire

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 18 29 35
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 10.78% 13.36% 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 19 21
10th Percentile £186 £163 £163
25th Percentile £325 £184 £188
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £375 £240
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +56.25% -26.15%
75th Percentile £428 £531 £375
90th Percentile £456 £550 £513
East of England median daily rate £431 £465 £375
% change year-on-year -7.26% +24.00% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 10
10th Percentile £52.83 - £11.88
25th Percentile £55.80 - £14.58
Median hourly rate £61.25 - £17.50
75th Percentile £67.50 - £18.25
90th Percentile £73.75 - £53.13
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £17.72 £32.38
% change year-on-year +266.82% -45.27% +79.86%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

Job postings citing Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire.

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Bedfordshire

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Linux in Bedfordshire.

Daily rate trend for Linux in Bedfordshire

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Linux in Bedfordshire.

Hourly rate trend for Linux in Bedfordshire

Linux
Hourly Rate Histogram in Bedfordshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Linux in Bedfordshire over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Linux in Bedfordshire

Linux
Contract Job Locations in Bedfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 31 October 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Luton +9 3 - - 8
Linux
East of England

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bedfordshire 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 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Rational DOORS
1 1 (33.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (33.33%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Principal Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Principal Software Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) VxWorks
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) SDLC
2 2 (66.67%) UML
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Requirements Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C++
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) MISRA
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Wind River