Linux Contracts in Cambridgeshire

Linux
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridgeshire 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 17 18 23
Rank change year-on-year +1 +5 +8
Contract jobs citing Linux 29 31 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 7.63% 6.20% 7.63%
As % of the Operating Systems category 78.38% 38.27% 44.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 21 32
10th Percentile £344 £313 £66
25th Percentile £361 £463 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £550 £438
Median % change year-on-year -21.59% +25.71% -12.50%
75th Percentile £556 £675 £556
90th Percentile £628 £700 £625
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 4
10th Percentile £48.25 £38.30 £16.14
25th Percentile £49.38 £72.50 £16.35
Median hourly rate £57.50 £75.00 £34.75
Median % change year-on-year -23.33% +115.83% -30.50%
75th Percentile £63.75 £77.50 £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
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
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 37 81 122
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 9.74% 16.20% 17.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 39 86
10th Percentile £225 £132 £151
25th Percentile £344 £178 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £400
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +18.75% +14.29%
75th Percentile £500 £575 £485
90th Percentile £595 £678 £625
East of England median daily rate £431 £465 £375
% change year-on-year -7.26% +24.00% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 29 16
10th Percentile £48.25 £13.23 £12.06
25th Percentile £49.38 £13.29 £13.19
Median hourly rate £57.50 £14.50 £16.74
Median % change year-on-year +296.55% -13.36% +15.41%
75th Percentile £63.75 £21.00 £18.81
90th Percentile - £77.50 £38.75
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 Cambridgeshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Cambridgeshire

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Daily rate trend for Linux in Cambridgeshire

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in Cambridgeshire

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux in Cambridgeshire

Linux
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the Cambridgeshire 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
Cambridge +7 25 £425 -20.56% 20
Linux
East of England

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 7 (24.14%) Confluence
2 3 (10.34%) WordPress
3 1 (3.45%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 12 (41.38%) Azure
2 10 (34.48%) AWS
2 10 (34.48%) GCP
3 3 (10.34%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (3.45%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.34%) RS-485
2 1 (3.45%) Internet
2 1 (3.45%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.45%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 7 (24.14%) JIRA
2 6 (20.69%) Artifactory
3 5 (17.24%) Git
4 2 (6.90%) GitLab
5 1 (3.45%) Visual Studio
General
1 9 (31.03%) Electronics
2 4 (13.79%) Wearables
3 2 (6.90%) Finance
3 2 (6.90%) Manufacturing
3 2 (6.90%) Marketing
3 2 (6.90%) Public Sector
3 2 (6.90%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (34.48%) Senior
2 6 (20.69%) Software Engineer
3 5 (17.24%) Design Engineer
4 4 (13.79%) Digital Design Engineer
4 4 (13.79%) Digital IC Design Engineer
4 4 (13.79%) Digital IC Engineer
4 4 (13.79%) IC Design Engineer
4 4 (13.79%) Senior Software Engineer
4 4 (13.79%) Senior Systems Engineer
4 4 (13.79%) Systems Engineer
5 3 (10.34%) Development Engineer
5 3 (10.34%) Senior Development Engineer
5 3 (10.34%) Senior Software Development Engineer
5 3 (10.34%) Software Development Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Applications Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Consultant
6 2 (6.90%) Functional Consultant
6 2 (6.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Lead
6 2 (6.90%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.34%) Laravel
1 3 (10.34%) React
2 2 (6.90%) .NET
2 2 (6.90%) Node.js
2 2 (6.90%) REST
2 2 (6.90%) SOAP
2 2 (6.90%) Web Services
3 1 (3.45%) JSON
3 1 (3.45%) Qt
3 1 (3.45%) WPF
3 1 (3.45%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (27.59%) Public Cloud
2 7 (24.14%) Virtual Team
3 6 (20.69%) FPGA
4 5 (17.24%) Verilog
5 4 (13.79%) Augmented Reality
5 4 (13.79%) Smartphone
5 4 (13.79%) Virtual Reality
6 3 (10.34%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (10.34%) Data Structures
7 2 (6.90%) ASIC
7 2 (6.90%) Data Centre
7 2 (6.90%) Taxonomies
8 1 (3.45%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (3.45%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.34%) Windows
2 1 (3.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (37.93%) Agile
1 11 (37.93%) Computer Science
2 9 (31.03%) CI/CD
3 8 (27.59%) Software Engineering
4 7 (24.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 7 (24.14%) Performance Tuning
4 7 (24.14%) Security Patching
4 7 (24.14%) Task Automation
4 7 (24.14%) Vulnerability Management
4 7 (24.14%) Workload Management
5 6 (20.69%) Continuous Integration
5 6 (20.69%) DevOps
5 6 (20.69%) Electronic Design Automation
6 5 (17.24%) Mentoring
6 5 (17.24%) Validation
7 4 (13.79%) IC Design
7 4 (13.79%) Test Automation
8 3 (10.34%) Data Protection
8 3 (10.34%) OOP
9 2 (6.90%) OO
Programming Languages
1 20 (68.97%) Python
2 12 (41.38%) Bash
3 7 (24.14%) Perl
4 6 (20.69%) C#
5 5 (17.24%) SystemVerilog
5 5 (17.24%) Tcl
6 4 (13.79%) Rust
7 3 (10.34%) PHP
8 2 (6.90%) C++
8 2 (6.90%) Java
8 2 (6.90%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (31.03%) Degree
2 6 (20.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (17.24%) PhD
4 3 (10.34%) Master's Degree
5 1 (3.45%) SC Cleared
5 1 (3.45%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.79%) JTAG
2 1 (3.45%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 6 (20.69%) Firmware
2 4 (13.79%) Embedded Firmware
3 2 (6.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (6.90%) VMware NSX
4 1 (3.45%) Docker
4 1 (3.45%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 11 (37.93%) Ansible
2 8 (27.59%) Terraform
3 3 (10.34%) Kubernetes
4 2 (6.90%) Packer
5 1 (3.45%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (3.45%) vCenter Server
5 1 (3.45%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 7 (24.14%) Google
1 7 (24.14%) IBM
1 7 (24.14%) Red Hat
2 4 (13.79%) Siemens
3 3 (10.34%) VMware
4 2 (6.90%) SAP
5 1 (3.45%) Altera
5 1 (3.45%) Intel
5 1 (3.45%) Microsoft