Linux Contracts in the City of London

Linux
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London 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 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 40 32 45
Rank change year-on-year -8 +13 +5
Contract jobs citing Linux 110 195 216
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 5.04% 5.69% 5.21%
As % of the Operating Systems category 39.01% 41.05% 42.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 128 153
10th Percentile £390 £463 £425
25th Percentile £455 £550 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £585
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +11.11% +6.36%
75th Percentile £710 £713 £675
90th Percentile £771 £760 £760
Central London median daily rate £625 £648 £585
% change year-on-year -3.47% +10.68% +6.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £66.25 -
Central London median hourly rate - £66.25 £41.50
% change year-on-year - +59.64% -

All Operating Systems
City of London

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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 282 475 505
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 12.92% 13.86% 12.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 327 383
10th Percentile £225 £153 £176
25th Percentile £350 £263 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +7.50% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £604
90th Percentile £750 £738 £700
Central London median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 9
10th Percentile - £37.50 £13.88
25th Percentile £21.25 £41.25 £15.75
Median hourly rate £24.38 £50.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -51.25% +100.00% +76.99%
75th Percentile £27.59 £68.13 £35.00
90th Percentile £28.66 £77.50 £68.50
Central London median hourly rate £23.00 £42.50 £25.75
% change year-on-year -45.88% +65.05% +80.70%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in the City of London

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Linux in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Linux in the City of London

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in the City of London over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in the City of London

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Linux in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Linux in the City of London

Linux
Contract Job Locations in the City of 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 City of London region over the 6 months to 13 June 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
London Bridge +1 1 £501 -9.00%
Linux
Central London

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 4 (3.64%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (3.64%) nginx
2 3 (2.73%) Apache
3 2 (1.82%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.82%) Confluence
3 2 (1.82%) JBoss
3 2 (1.82%) Luigi
3 2 (1.82%) OpenStack
3 2 (1.82%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.91%) Oracle Self-Service HR
4 1 (0.91%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.91%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.82%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.82%) Temenos T24
2 1 (0.91%) Advent Geneva
2 1 (0.91%) BusinessWorks
2 1 (0.91%) Endur
2 1 (0.91%) Front Arena
2 1 (0.91%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 30 (27.27%) Azure
2 24 (21.82%) AWS
3 13 (11.82%) GitHub
4 9 (8.18%) Azure AKS
5 7 (6.36%) PaaS
5 7 (6.36%) Serverless
6 6 (5.45%) Amazon EKS
6 6 (5.45%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (4.55%) Azure Functions
7 5 (4.55%) Azure Service Bus
8 4 (3.64%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (2.73%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (2.73%) Amazon S3
9 3 (2.73%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (2.73%) Entra ID
9 3 (2.73%) GCP
9 3 (2.73%) SaaS
10 2 (1.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (1.82%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (10.91%) Firewall
2 4 (3.64%) FTP
2 4 (3.64%) Network Security
2 4 (3.64%) SSL
3 3 (2.73%) SAN
4 2 (1.82%) DNS
4 2 (1.82%) Internet
4 2 (1.82%) Kerberos
4 2 (1.82%) MQTT
4 2 (1.82%) NAS
4 2 (1.82%) SSH
4 2 (1.82%) WAN
4 2 (1.82%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.91%) HTTP
5 1 (0.91%) IPv4
5 1 (0.91%) Multicast
5 1 (0.91%) Skype
5 1 (0.91%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (14.55%) MongoDB
2 12 (10.91%) SQL Server
3 11 (10.00%) Relational Database
4 9 (8.18%) DB2
4 9 (8.18%) RDBMS
5 7 (6.36%) MySQL
6 6 (5.45%) KDB
6 6 (5.45%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (4.55%) Sybase ASE
8 4 (3.64%) Hadoop
9 2 (1.82%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.82%) Oracle Database
9 2 (1.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.91%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.91%) Data Mart
10 1 (0.91%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.91%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.91%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.91%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 12 (10.91%) GitLab
1 12 (10.91%) Jenkins
2 9 (8.18%) Git
3 7 (6.36%) Cypress.io
3 7 (6.36%) JIRA
4 5 (4.55%) Bitbucket
4 5 (4.55%) JMeter
4 5 (4.55%) TeamCity
5 3 (2.73%) Mockito
5 3 (2.73%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.82%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.82%) GoCD
6 2 (1.82%) Postman
6 2 (1.82%) Subversion
7 1 (0.91%) AppScan
7 1 (0.91%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.91%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.91%) Maven
7 1 (0.91%) Pylint
7 1 (0.91%) Terragrunt
General
1 35 (31.82%) Social Skills
2 23 (20.91%) Finance
3 19 (17.27%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (16.36%) Banking
5 10 (9.09%) Investment Banking
6 5 (4.55%) Public Sector
7 4 (3.64%) Front Office
8 3 (2.73%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.82%) French Language
10 1 (0.91%) Arabic Language
10 1 (0.91%) Aviation
10 1 (0.91%) Back Office
10 1 (0.91%) German Language
10 1 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.91%) Japanese Language
10 1 (0.91%) Korean Language
10 1 (0.91%) Spanish Language
10 1 (0.91%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (15.45%) Developer
2 14 (12.73%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 13 (11.82%) DevOps Engineer
3 13 (11.82%) Site Engineer
4 10 (9.09%) Java Developer
5 9 (8.18%) Analyst
6 8 (7.27%) Platform Engineer
6 8 (7.27%) Python Engineer
6 8 (7.27%) Senior
7 7 (6.36%) Java Engineer
8 6 (5.45%) Implementation Specialist
8 6 (5.45%) Senior Developer
9 5 (4.55%) Architect
9 5 (4.55%) AWS Engineer
9 5 (4.55%) Azure Engineer
10 4 (3.64%) DBA
10 4 (3.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (3.64%) IT Engineer
10 4 (3.64%) Lead
10 4 (3.64%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (24.55%) Kafka
2 12 (10.91%) RESTful
3 11 (10.00%) RabbitMQ
4 9 (8.18%) React
5 6 (5.45%) FIX Protocol
5 6 (5.45%) HTML
6 5 (4.55%) Node.js
7 4 (3.64%) JSON
7 4 (3.64%) LDAP
7 4 (3.64%) Middleware
8 3 (2.73%) .NET
8 3 (2.73%) ActiveMQ
8 3 (2.73%) CSS
8 3 (2.73%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (2.73%) JAX-RS
8 3 (2.73%) pytest
8 3 (2.73%) REST
8 3 (2.73%) Spring
8 3 (2.73%) WebSockets
8 3 (2.73%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (16.36%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (10.00%) Algorithms
2 11 (10.00%) Data Structures
2 11 (10.00%) Linux Command Line
3 9 (8.18%) Replication
4 7 (6.36%) Management Information System
4 7 (6.36%) Public Cloud
5 4 (3.64%) Cyber Threat
5 4 (3.64%) Machine to Machine
5 4 (3.64%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (2.73%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.73%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.82%) Clustering
7 2 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.82%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.82%) PKI
8 1 (0.91%) Derivative
8 1 (0.91%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.91%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 41 (37.27%) Windows
2 26 (23.64%) Unix
3 11 (10.00%) Windows Server
4 9 (8.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (3.64%) Mac OS X
6 3 (2.73%) Android
6 3 (2.73%) Apple iOS
7 2 (1.82%) CentOS
7 2 (1.82%) Oracle Linux
7 2 (1.82%) Solaris
7 2 (1.82%) Ubuntu
7 2 (1.82%) VMS
7 2 (1.82%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (1.82%) zOS
8 1 (0.91%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.91%) Rocky
8 1 (0.91%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.91%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (33.64%) DevOps
2 32 (29.09%) CI/CD
3 27 (24.55%) Problem-Solving
4 21 (19.09%) Agile
5 20 (18.18%) Microservices
6 19 (17.27%) Task Automation
7 17 (15.45%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 15 (13.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 13 (11.82%) Continuous Integration
9 13 (11.82%) Test Automation
10 11 (10.00%) Analytical Thinking
10 11 (10.00%) Platform Engineering
11 10 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
11 10 (9.09%) Migration
11 10 (9.09%) Software Engineering
11 10 (9.09%) TDD
12 9 (8.18%) Computer Science
12 9 (8.18%) Incident Management
13 8 (7.27%) Information Security
14 7 (6.36%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 51 (46.36%) Python
2 29 (26.36%) Java
3 21 (19.09%) Shell Script
3 21 (19.09%) SQL
4 14 (12.73%) C++
5 11 (10.00%) PowerShell
6 9 (8.18%) Bash
6 9 (8.18%) Go
7 8 (7.27%) Perl
7 8 (7.27%) T-SQL
8 6 (5.45%) C#
9 5 (4.55%) JavaScript
10 3 (2.73%) PHP
11 2 (1.82%) Bicep
12 1 (0.91%) JCL
12 1 (0.91%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.91%) SPARQL
12 1 (0.91%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.91%) XPath
Qualifications
1 15 (13.64%) Security Cleared
2 12 (10.91%) Degree
3 8 (7.27%) SC Cleared
4 6 (5.45%) DV Cleared
5 4 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.64%) GCIA
5 4 (3.64%) GCIH
5 4 (3.64%) GIAC
6 3 (2.73%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.82%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.82%) ISEB
8 1 (0.91%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.91%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.91%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.91%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (11.82%) QA
2 4 (3.64%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.82%) COBIT
3 2 (1.82%) GDPR
3 2 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.82%) NCSC
4 1 (0.91%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.91%) SLA
System Software
1 22 (20.00%) Docker
2 12 (10.91%) Active Directory
3 11 (10.00%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 10 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (5.45%) NFS
6 5 (4.55%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 5 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
7 4 (3.64%) HDFS
8 3 (2.73%) Hyper-V
8 3 (2.73%) KVM
9 1 (0.91%) Ceph
9 1 (0.91%) iptables
9 1 (0.91%) Time Sharing Option
9 1 (0.91%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.91%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 36 (32.73%) Kubernetes
2 21 (19.09%) Terraform
3 16 (14.55%) Grafana
3 16 (14.55%) Prometheus
4 14 (12.73%) Ansible
5 12 (10.91%) Consul
6 5 (4.55%) Argo
6 5 (4.55%) Nessus
6 5 (4.55%) Puppet
7 4 (3.64%) CSIRT
7 4 (3.64%) QRadar
8 3 (2.73%) Packer
8 3 (2.73%) Progress Chef
8 3 (2.73%) SCCM
9 2 (1.82%) CASB
9 2 (1.82%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (1.82%) Graylog
9 2 (1.82%) Nagios
9 2 (1.82%) SCOrch
9 2 (1.82%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 31 (28.18%) Microsoft
2 17 (15.45%) Oracle
3 11 (10.00%) Red Hat
3 11 (10.00%) SaltStack
4 10 (9.09%) IBM
4 10 (9.09%) VMware
5 7 (6.36%) ServiceNow
6 6 (5.45%) SAP
6 6 (5.45%) Sun
6 6 (5.45%) Sybase
7 5 (4.55%) Veritas
8 4 (3.64%) BeyondTrust
8 4 (3.64%) CrowdStrike
8 4 (3.64%) Dell
8 4 (3.64%) Isilon
9 3 (2.73%) HP
9 3 (2.73%) TIBCO
10 2 (1.82%) Bloomberg
10 2 (1.82%) Citrix
10 2 (1.82%) Temenos