Linux Contracts in Buckinghamshire

Linux
South East > Buckinghamshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Buckinghamshire with a requirement for Linux skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Linux over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 19 39 15
Rank change year-on-year +20 -24 +17
Contract jobs citing Linux 32 36 86
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 6.61% 4.23% 9.62%
As % of the Operating Systems category 44.44% 31.86% 37.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 34 57
10th Percentile £386 £382 £400
25th Percentile £425 £440 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £505 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.19% -8.18% -
75th Percentile £550 £550 £650
90th Percentile £604 £559 -
South East median daily rate £530 £525 £536
% change year-on-year +0.95% -2.10% +15.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £16.25
Median hourly rate - - £17.50
75th Percentile - - £18.75
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £50.39
% change year-on-year -3.85% +29.01% -8.39%

All Operating Systems
Buckinghamshire

Linux is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Buckinghamshire with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 72 113 230
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 14.88% 13.28% 25.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 98 158
10th Percentile £206 £211 £150
25th Percentile £244 £332 £211
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £475 £444
Median % change year-on-year -6.58% +7.04% -1.39%
75th Percentile £517 £550 £550
90th Percentile £559 £596 £650
South East median daily rate £470 £463 £450
% change year-on-year +1.62% +2.78% +10.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 1 12
10th Percentile - - £12.33
25th Percentile £18.00 £18.50 -
Median hourly rate £22.58 £19.00 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.84% +46.15% -48.00%
75th Percentile £48.75 £19.50 £22.06
90th Percentile - - £23.75
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £55.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year -13.64% +214.29% -20.45%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Buckinghamshire

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Daily rate trend for Linux in Buckinghamshire

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in Buckinghamshire

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux in Buckinghamshire

Linux
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 23 May 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
Milton Keynes +19 29 £523 +2.05% 9
Linux
South East

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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 (12.50%) NetWeaver
2 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 4 (12.50%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 5 (15.63%) Azure
2 3 (9.38%) PaaS
3 2 (6.25%) AWS
3 2 (6.25%) OpenShift
3 2 (6.25%) Slack
4 1 (3.13%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.13%) Azure Functions
4 1 (3.13%) IaaS
4 1 (3.13%) Power Platform
4 1 (3.13%) SaaS
4 1 (3.13%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 10 (31.25%) SAN
1 10 (31.25%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.13%) Firewall
2 1 (3.13%) VPN
2 1 (3.13%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.50%) SAP BW
1 4 (12.50%) SAP HANA
2 2 (6.25%) Oracle Database
3 1 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (3.13%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (3.13%) Oracle Exadata
3 1 (3.13%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Git
1 2 (6.25%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (15.63%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (9.38%) Public Sector
3 2 (6.25%) Social Skills
3 2 (6.25%) Telecoms
4 1 (3.13%) Finance
4 1 (3.13%) Financial Institution
4 1 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (37.50%) Developer
1 12 (37.50%) Python Developer
2 8 (25.00%) Analyst
2 8 (25.00%) Security Analyst
3 6 (18.75%) Consultant
4 5 (15.63%) Analyst Developer
4 5 (15.63%) Developer Analyst
4 5 (15.63%) Programmer
4 5 (15.63%) Python Programmer
5 4 (12.50%) Backend Developer
5 4 (12.50%) SAP Basis Consultant
5 4 (12.50%) SAP Consultant
6 3 (9.38%) Linux Developer
6 3 (9.38%) Operations Analyst
6 3 (9.38%) Security Operations Analyst
6 3 (9.38%) Senior
7 2 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (6.25%) Linux Engineer
7 2 (6.25%) Senior DevOps
7 2 (6.25%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.50%) SAP Basis
1 4 (12.50%) SAP Fiori
2 2 (6.25%) Fluent Bit
2 2 (6.25%) Loki
3 1 (3.13%) Anaconda
3 1 (3.13%) Flash
3 1 (3.13%) Regular Expression
3 1 (3.13%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.25%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.13%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (3.13%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.13%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 12 (37.50%) Debian
1 12 (37.50%) Ubuntu
1 12 (37.50%) Windows
2 6 (18.75%) Unix
3 3 (9.38%) Windows Server
4 2 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (3.13%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (34.38%) Configuration Management
1 11 (34.38%) Data Modelling
2 10 (31.25%) Agile
2 10 (31.25%) Data Engineering
2 10 (31.25%) ITIL
3 9 (28.13%) Prototyping
3 9 (28.13%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 7 (21.88%) Incident Response
5 6 (18.75%) Customer Service
5 6 (18.75%) Matrix Organization
5 6 (18.75%) Performance Tuning
5 6 (18.75%) Software Engineering
6 5 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
7 4 (12.50%) Problem Management
7 4 (12.50%) SAP Security
7 4 (12.50%) Security Operations
8 3 (9.38%) Design Thinking
8 3 (9.38%) DevOps
8 3 (9.38%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 15 (46.88%) Python
2 2 (6.25%) Bash
2 2 (6.25%) PowerShell
3 1 (3.13%) C
3 1 (3.13%) SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (53.13%) Security Cleared
2 13 (40.63%) SC Cleared
3 12 (37.50%) DV Cleared
4 4 (12.50%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.13%) COBIT
1 1 (3.13%) GDPR
1 1 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (3.13%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (6.25%) Active Directory
1 2 (6.25%) Docker
2 1 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (9.38%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.25%) Ansible
2 2 (6.25%) Argo
2 2 (6.25%) Grafana
2 2 (6.25%) Kustomize
2 2 (6.25%) Prometheus
2 2 (6.25%) Terraform
3 1 (3.13%) SCCM
3 1 (3.13%) SELinux
3 1 (3.13%) yum
Vendors
1 13 (40.63%) Microsoft
1 13 (40.63%) Red Hat
2 12 (37.50%) VMware
3 4 (12.50%) SAP
4 3 (9.38%) Splunk
5 2 (6.25%) Oracle
6 1 (3.13%) Ab Initio
6 1 (3.13%) Citrix
6 1 (3.13%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (3.13%) LogRhythm
6 1 (3.13%) Netskope
6 1 (3.13%) Remedy
6 1 (3.13%) TippingPoint
6 1 (3.13%) Trend Micro