Linux Contracts in Central London

Linux
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 41 32 43
Rank change year-on-year -9 +11 +9
Contract jobs citing Linux 116 219 240
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 4.80% 5.78% 5.27%
As % of the Operating Systems category 36.02% 38.90% 40.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 155 177
10th Percentile £366 £425 £425
25th Percentile £425 £525 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £645 £585
Median % change year-on-year -8.91% +10.26% +11.43%
75th Percentile £700 £703 £675
90th Percentile £763 £756 £750
London median daily rate £550 £625 £605
% change year-on-year -12.00% +3.31% +13.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £82.50 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year - +98.80% -
London median hourly rate £62.50 £71.00 £47.29
% change year-on-year -11.97% +50.14% -5.42%

All Operating Systems
Central London

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 Central London with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 322 563 596
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 13.32% 14.87% 13.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 227 403 463
10th Percentile £191 £160 £175
25th Percentile £289 £250 £307
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% +4.00% +2.35%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £604
90th Percentile £725 £738 £700
London median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 14
10th Percentile - £28.00 £13.88
25th Percentile £21.25 £32.50 £14.34
Median hourly rate £23.00 £35.00 £24.75
Median % change year-on-year -34.29% +41.41% +76.79%
75th Percentile £27.00 £47.19 £39.88
90th Percentile £28.43 £69.13 £70.13
London median hourly rate £22.00 £36.17 £24.25
% change year-on-year -39.18% +49.15% -43.60%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Central London

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Linux in Central London

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in Central London over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in Central London

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux in Central London

Linux
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the Central London region over the 6 months to 20 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
City of London -3 109 £600 -7.69% 32
City of Westminster -4 3 £400 -36.00%
Southwark +7 1 £501 -9.00%
Linux
London

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 6 (5.17%) nginx
2 5 (4.31%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (3.45%) Apache
3 4 (3.45%) OpenStack
4 2 (1.72%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.72%) Confluence
4 2 (1.72%) JBoss
4 2 (1.72%) Luigi
4 2 (1.72%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.72%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.86%) IIS
5 1 (0.86%) Oracle Self-Service HR
5 1 (0.86%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.86%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.86%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.86%) Weka
Business Applications
1 2 (1.72%) Temenos T24
2 1 (0.86%) Advent Geneva
2 1 (0.86%) BusinessWorks
2 1 (0.86%) Endur
2 1 (0.86%) Front Arena
2 1 (0.86%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 30 (25.86%) Azure
2 29 (25.00%) AWS
3 13 (11.21%) GitHub
4 9 (7.76%) Azure AKS
5 8 (6.90%) PaaS
6 6 (5.17%) Amazon EKS
6 6 (5.17%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (5.17%) Serverless
7 5 (4.31%) Azure Functions
7 5 (4.31%) Azure Service Bus
8 4 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (3.45%) SaaS
9 3 (2.59%) Entra ID
9 3 (2.59%) GCP
10 2 (1.72%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (1.72%) Amazon S3
10 2 (1.72%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (1.72%) IaaS
10 2 (1.72%) NuGet
Communications & Networking
1 10 (8.62%) Firewall
2 4 (3.45%) FTP
2 4 (3.45%) SAN
3 3 (2.59%) DNS
3 3 (2.59%) NAS
3 3 (2.59%) Network Security
3 3 (2.59%) SSL
4 2 (1.72%) Internet
4 2 (1.72%) MQTT
4 2 (1.72%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.72%) WAN
4 2 (1.72%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.86%) HTTP
5 1 (0.86%) IPv4
5 1 (0.86%) iSCSI
5 1 (0.86%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.86%) Skype
5 1 (0.86%) SSH
5 1 (0.86%) VPN
5 1 (0.86%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (13.79%) MongoDB
2 11 (9.48%) Relational Database
2 11 (9.48%) SQL Server
3 9 (7.76%) RDBMS
4 7 (6.03%) DB2
4 7 (6.03%) MySQL
5 6 (5.17%) KDB
5 6 (5.17%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (4.31%) Sybase ASE
7 4 (3.45%) Hadoop
8 3 (2.59%) Oracle Database
9 2 (1.72%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.86%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.86%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.86%) Couchbase
10 1 (0.86%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.86%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.86%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.86%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 12 (10.34%) GitLab
2 11 (9.48%) Jenkins
3 10 (8.62%) Git
4 7 (6.03%) Cypress.io
5 6 (5.17%) JIRA
6 5 (4.31%) Bitbucket
6 5 (4.31%) JMeter
6 5 (4.31%) TeamCity
7 3 (2.59%) Mockito
7 3 (2.59%) SonarQube
8 2 (1.72%) GoCD
8 2 (1.72%) Postman
8 2 (1.72%) Subversion
9 1 (0.86%) AppScan
9 1 (0.86%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.86%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.86%) Maven
9 1 (0.86%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.86%) Selenium
9 1 (0.86%) Terragrunt
General
1 34 (29.31%) Social Skills
2 24 (20.69%) Finance
3 17 (14.66%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (12.93%) Banking
5 7 (6.03%) Investment Banking
5 7 (6.03%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.31%) Front Office
6 5 (4.31%) Telecoms
7 3 (2.59%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.72%) French Language
9 1 (0.86%) Arabic Language
9 1 (0.86%) Back Office
9 1 (0.86%) Electronics
9 1 (0.86%) German Language
9 1 (0.86%) Italian Language
9 1 (0.86%) Japanese Language
9 1 (0.86%) Korean Language
9 1 (0.86%) Marketing
9 1 (0.86%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 17 (14.66%) Developer
2 16 (13.79%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 13 (11.21%) DevOps Engineer
3 13 (11.21%) Site Engineer
4 10 (8.62%) Analyst
5 9 (7.76%) Java Developer
5 9 (7.76%) Platform Engineer
5 9 (7.76%) Python Engineer
6 8 (6.90%) AWS Engineer
7 7 (6.03%) Java Engineer
7 7 (6.03%) Senior
8 6 (5.17%) Implementation Specialist
8 6 (5.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (4.31%) Architect
9 5 (4.31%) Senior Developer
9 5 (4.31%) Support Engineer
10 4 (3.45%) DBA
10 4 (3.45%) IT Engineer
10 4 (3.45%) Software Engineer
10 4 (3.45%) Sybase DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (23.28%) Kafka
2 11 (9.48%) RabbitMQ
3 9 (7.76%) React
4 8 (6.90%) RESTful
5 7 (6.03%) HTML
6 6 (5.17%) FIX Protocol
7 5 (4.31%) Node.js
8 4 (3.45%) CSS
8 4 (3.45%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (3.45%) LDAP
9 3 (2.59%) .NET
9 3 (2.59%) ActiveMQ
9 3 (2.59%) JAX-RS
9 3 (2.59%) JSON
9 3 (2.59%) Laravel
9 3 (2.59%) pytest
9 3 (2.59%) WebSockets
9 3 (2.59%) XML
10 2 (1.72%) HTML5
10 2 (1.72%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 18 (15.52%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (9.48%) Linux Command Line
3 10 (8.62%) Replication
4 8 (6.90%) Algorithms
4 8 (6.90%) Data Structures
4 8 (6.90%) Public Cloud
5 6 (5.17%) Management Information System
6 4 (3.45%) Machine to Machine
6 4 (3.45%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.59%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (2.59%) Data Centre
7 3 (2.59%) Hedge funds
7 3 (2.59%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.72%) Clustering
8 2 (1.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.72%) PKI
8 2 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.86%) Derivative
9 1 (0.86%) DTCC
9 1 (0.86%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 41 (35.34%) Windows
2 28 (24.14%) Unix
3 12 (10.34%) Windows Server
4 8 (6.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (3.45%) Mac OS X
5 4 (3.45%) Ubuntu
5 4 (3.45%) VMS
6 3 (2.59%) Android
6 3 (2.59%) Apple iOS
6 3 (2.59%) CentOS
6 3 (2.59%) Oracle Linux
6 3 (2.59%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (1.72%) Solaris
7 2 (1.72%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (1.72%) zOS
8 1 (0.86%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.86%) Rocky
8 1 (0.86%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (29.31%) CI/CD
2 33 (28.45%) DevOps
3 24 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
4 19 (16.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 18 (15.52%) Agile
5 18 (15.52%) Microservices
6 17 (14.66%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 14 (12.07%) Task Automation
7 14 (12.07%) Test Automation
8 12 (10.34%) Continuous Integration
8 12 (10.34%) Platform Engineering
9 10 (8.62%) Infrastructure as Code
9 10 (8.62%) Migration
9 10 (8.62%) TDD
10 9 (7.76%) Containerisation
10 9 (7.76%) Incident Management
10 9 (7.76%) Software Engineering
11 8 (6.90%) Analytical Thinking
12 7 (6.03%) Computer Science
12 7 (6.03%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 49 (42.24%) Python
2 25 (21.55%) Java
3 17 (14.66%) Shell Script
3 17 (14.66%) SQL
4 11 (9.48%) C++
5 10 (8.62%) Bash
5 10 (8.62%) PowerShell
6 7 (6.03%) Go
7 6 (5.17%) C#
7 6 (5.17%) Perl
7 6 (5.17%) T-SQL
8 5 (4.31%) JavaScript
9 4 (3.45%) PHP
10 2 (1.72%) Bicep
11 1 (0.86%) JCL
11 1 (0.86%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.86%) SPARQL
11 1 (0.86%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.86%) XPath
Qualifications
1 15 (12.93%) Security Cleared
2 8 (6.90%) Degree
2 8 (6.90%) SC Cleared
3 5 (4.31%) DV Cleared
4 4 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (3.45%) ISTQB
5 3 (2.59%) ISEB
6 2 (1.72%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.72%) GCIA
6 2 (1.72%) GCIH
6 2 (1.72%) GIAC
7 1 (0.86%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.86%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.86%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.86%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (11.21%) QA
2 3 (2.59%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.72%) COBIT
3 2 (1.72%) GDPR
3 2 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.72%) NCSC
4 1 (0.86%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.86%) MiFID
4 1 (0.86%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (16.38%) Docker
2 13 (11.21%) Active Directory
3 11 (9.48%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 9 (7.76%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (5.17%) NFS
6 5 (4.31%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 5 (4.31%) VMware Infrastructure
7 4 (3.45%) HDFS
7 4 (3.45%) Hyper-V
8 3 (2.59%) KVM
9 2 (1.72%) vSphere
10 1 (0.86%) Ceph
10 1 (0.86%) iptables
10 1 (0.86%) Lustre
10 1 (0.86%) Time Sharing Option
10 1 (0.86%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 35 (30.17%) Kubernetes
2 20 (17.24%) Terraform
3 17 (14.66%) Grafana
3 17 (14.66%) Prometheus
4 14 (12.07%) Ansible
5 12 (10.34%) Consul
6 5 (4.31%) Argo
6 5 (4.31%) Puppet
7 4 (3.45%) SCCM
8 3 (2.59%) Nagios
8 3 (2.59%) Nessus
8 3 (2.59%) Packer
8 3 (2.59%) Progress Chef
9 2 (1.72%) CASB
9 2 (1.72%) CSIRT
9 2 (1.72%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (1.72%) Graylog
9 2 (1.72%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (1.72%) QRadar
9 2 (1.72%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 31 (26.72%) Microsoft
2 16 (13.79%) Oracle
3 11 (9.48%) IBM
3 11 (9.48%) Red Hat
3 11 (9.48%) SaltStack
4 10 (8.62%) VMware
5 9 (7.76%) ServiceNow
6 7 (6.03%) SAP
7 6 (5.17%) Dell
7 6 (5.17%) Sun
7 6 (5.17%) Sybase
8 5 (4.31%) CrowdStrike
8 5 (4.31%) Veritas
9 4 (3.45%) Isilon
10 3 (2.59%) HP
10 3 (2.59%) Netskope
10 3 (2.59%) Palo Alto
10 3 (2.59%) Splunk
10 3 (2.59%) TIBCO
11 2 (1.72%) BeyondTrust