Linux Contracts in Bristol

Linux
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bristol 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 21 28 25
Rank change year-on-year +7 -3 -4
Contract jobs citing Linux 80 69 94
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 7.25% 6.08% 6.67%
As % of the Operating Systems category 57.14% 47.26% 37.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 29 29
10th Percentile £383 £453 £279
25th Percentile £450 £513 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £529 £630 £600
90th Percentile £544 £655 £651
South West median daily rate £563 £550 £525
% change year-on-year +2.27% +4.76% +13.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 28 28
10th Percentile £65.00 - -
25th Percentile - £60.91 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.61 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.70% +0.93% +26.21%
75th Percentile - £70.30 £65.75
90th Percentile - £71.71 £75.00
South West median hourly rate £70.00 £65.61 £65.00
% change year-on-year +6.70% +0.93% +26.21%

All Operating Systems
Bristol

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 Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 140 146 251
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 12.69% 12.86% 17.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 89 125
10th Percentile £185 £190 £163
25th Percentile £220 £275 £210
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £439 £550 £425
Median % change year-on-year -20.14% +29.41% +21.43%
75th Percentile £521 £675 £555
90th Percentile £581 £719 £654
South West median daily rate £525 £500 £450
% change year-on-year +5.00% +11.11% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 37 37
10th Percentile £52.50 £29.40 £19.53
25th Percentile £65.00 £53.75 £57.50
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.87% +0.77% +64.56%
75th Percentile - £70.30 £65.75
90th Percentile - - £75.00
South West median hourly rate £68.75 £65.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +4.96% +19.09% +161.90%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Bristol

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Daily rate trend for Linux in Bristol

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Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in Bristol over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in Bristol

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux in Bristol

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Hourly Rate Histogram in Bristol

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Linux in Bristol over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Linux in Bristol

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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 (5.00%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (1.25%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (2.50%) NEC Housing
2 1 (1.25%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 27 (33.75%) GitHub
2 11 (13.75%) Azure
3 6 (7.50%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (5.00%) Amazon Cognito
4 4 (5.00%) AWS
4 4 (5.00%) OpenShift
5 1 (1.25%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.25%) Google Analytics
5 1 (1.25%) Google Tag Manager
5 1 (1.25%) PaaS
5 1 (1.25%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.75%) TCP/IP
2 6 (7.50%) Firewall
2 6 (7.50%) FTP
2 6 (7.50%) SAN
3 5 (6.25%) Ethernet
4 4 (5.00%) HTTP
4 4 (5.00%) LAN
4 4 (5.00%) WAN
5 2 (2.50%) Cisco ISE
5 2 (2.50%) DHCP
5 2 (2.50%) DNS
6 1 (1.25%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.00%) Triplestore
2 2 (2.50%) Oracle Database
2 2 (2.50%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.25%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 23 (28.75%) Jenkins
1 23 (28.75%) JIRA
2 20 (25.00%) GoogleTest
3 5 (6.25%) Eclipse
3 5 (6.25%) Visual Studio
4 4 (5.00%) GitLab
5 2 (2.50%) Artifactory
General
1 12 (15.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (6.25%) Aerospace
2 5 (6.25%) Military
2 5 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
2 5 (6.25%) Public Sector
3 4 (5.00%) Electronics
3 4 (5.00%) Legal
3 4 (5.00%) Manufacturing
3 4 (5.00%) Telecoms
4 3 (3.75%) Finance
4 3 (3.75%) Marketing
5 2 (2.50%) Local Government
6 1 (1.25%) Automotive
6 1 (1.25%) Law
6 1 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 53 (66.25%) Software Engineer
2 25 (31.25%) Embedded Engineer
2 25 (31.25%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 21 (26.25%) Java Engineer
3 21 (26.25%) Java Software Engineer
4 16 (20.00%) C++ Software Engineer
5 6 (7.50%) Network Engineer
6 5 (6.25%) C# Software Engineer
6 5 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
6 5 (6.25%) Linux Support
7 4 (5.00%) Developer
7 4 (5.00%) Senior
8 3 (3.75%) Linux Specialist
8 3 (3.75%) Support Specialist
9 2 (2.50%) Applications Support
9 2 (2.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 2 (2.50%) IT Support
9 2 (2.50%) Java Developer
9 2 (2.50%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 2 (2.50%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (27.50%) Qt
2 5 (6.25%) CSS
2 5 (6.25%) HTML
2 5 (6.25%) Node.js
2 5 (6.25%) Web Services
3 4 (5.00%) Apache Jena
3 4 (5.00%) Apache NiFi
3 4 (5.00%) GraphQL
3 4 (5.00%) Kafka
3 4 (5.00%) PostGIS
3 4 (5.00%) REST
4 2 (2.50%) 802.1X
5 1 (1.25%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (1.25%) React
Miscellaneous
1 25 (31.25%) ARM Cortex
2 24 (30.00%) Linux Command Line
3 22 (27.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 6 (7.50%) Replication
5 2 (2.50%) Housing Association
5 2 (2.50%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.25%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.25%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.25%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (1.25%) STB
Operating Systems
1 25 (31.25%) FreeRTOS
2 15 (18.75%) Windows
3 9 (11.25%) Windows Server
4 6 (7.50%) Ubuntu
5 5 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (6.25%) Unix
6 4 (5.00%) Rocky
7 1 (1.25%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (67.50%) Software Engineering
2 32 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 27 (33.75%) DevOps
4 26 (32.50%) Agile
4 26 (32.50%) Configuration Management
5 7 (8.75%) Change Management
5 7 (8.75%) ITIL
5 7 (8.75%) Visualisation
6 6 (7.50%) Validation
7 5 (6.25%) Continuous Delivery
7 5 (6.25%) Continuous Integration
7 5 (6.25%) Digital Twin
7 5 (6.25%) Synthetic Environment
7 5 (6.25%) TDD
7 5 (6.25%) Unit Testing
7 5 (6.25%) Verification and Validation
8 4 (5.00%) Containerisation
8 4 (5.00%) Data Protection
9 3 (3.75%) Digital Marketing
9 3 (3.75%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 29 (36.25%) C++
2 25 (31.25%) C
2 25 (31.25%) Embedded C
2 25 (31.25%) Java
3 23 (28.75%) Python
4 10 (12.50%) JavaScript
5 7 (8.75%) C#
6 6 (7.50%) Bash
7 4 (5.00%) SPARQL
8 2 (2.50%) PL/SQL
8 2 (2.50%) SQL
9 1 (1.25%) Bicep
9 1 (1.25%) PHP
9 1 (1.25%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 30 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 24 (30.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.00%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.50%) Degree
5 1 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (27.50%) MISRA
2 2 (2.50%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.50%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (10.00%) VMware ESXi
1 8 (10.00%) VMware NSX
2 7 (8.75%) Docker
3 4 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.25%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 8 (10.00%) vCenter Server
2 6 (7.50%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.50%) Puppet
3 2 (2.50%) SCCM
3 2 (2.50%) Terraform
4 1 (1.25%) Ansible
4 1 (1.25%) Grafana
4 1 (1.25%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 25 (31.25%) IBM
1 25 (31.25%) Lauterbach
2 23 (28.75%) Google
3 11 (13.75%) Microsoft
4 9 (11.25%) VMware
5 8 (10.00%) Veeam
6 7 (8.75%) Red Hat
7 6 (7.50%) CheckPoint
7 6 (7.50%) Cisco
7 6 (7.50%) Palo Alto
8 3 (3.75%) SAP
9 2 (2.50%) Atlassian
9 2 (2.50%) Dell
9 2 (2.50%) NEC
9 2 (2.50%) Oracle
10 1 (1.25%) Adobe
10 1 (1.25%) ArcSight