Linux Contracts in Devon

Linux
South West > Devon

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Devon 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 22 23 12
Rank change year-on-year +1 -11 +7
Contract jobs citing Linux 12 7 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Devon 5.02% 4.09% 9.87%
As % of the Operating Systems category 25.53% 26.92% 47.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 5 18
10th Percentile £463 £674 £248
25th Percentile £525 - £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £675 £635
Median % change year-on-year -18.52% +6.30% +21.18%
75th Percentile £600 - £674
90th Percentile - £715 £675
South West median daily rate £575 £550 £525
% change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% +13.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £50.00 -
South West median hourly rate £70.00 £65.61 £65.00
% change year-on-year +6.70% +0.93% +30.00%

All Operating Systems
Devon

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 Devon with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 47 26 48
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Devon 19.67% 15.20% 20.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 22 33
10th Percentile £142 £125 £156
25th Percentile £150 £157 £215
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £195 £350 £450
Median % change year-on-year -44.29% -22.22% +16.13%
75th Percentile £591 £572 £653
90th Percentile £600 £675 £674
South West median daily rate £525 £500 £448
% change year-on-year +5.00% +11.73% +11.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £17.36
25th Percentile - £47.50 £17.63
Median hourly rate £60.00 £50.00 £19.06
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +162.36% +15.50%
75th Percentile - £52.50 £20.51
90th Percentile - - £20.81
South West median hourly rate £65.00 £65.50 £53.78
% change year-on-year -0.76% +21.80% +186.58%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Devon

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Devon

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Devon

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

Daily rate trend for Linux in Devon

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in Devon

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in Devon over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in Devon

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Devon

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux in Devon

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Contract Job Locations in Devon

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the Devon region over the 6 months to 1 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
Exeter +5 6 £600 -11.11% 2
Linux
South West

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Devon 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 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) OpenShift
2 2 (16.67%) AWS
2 2 (16.67%) Azure
3 1 (8.33%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (8.33%) IaaS
3 1 (8.33%) PaaS
3 1 (8.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (33.33%) Firewall
1 4 (33.33%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
General
1 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Subject Matter Expert
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Hackathon
Operating Systems
1 4 (33.33%) Windows
1 4 (33.33%) Windows Server
2 2 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) DevOps
1 6 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 4 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 3 (25.00%) Service Management
4 2 (16.67%) Data Science
4 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (16.67%) Machine Learning
5 1 (8.33%) Information Security
5 1 (8.33%) Open Source
5 1 (8.33%) Problem Management
Qualifications
1 6 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (41.67%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 4 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 4 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
1 4 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (33.33%) VMware NSX
2 2 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) Ansible
1 4 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) CyberArk
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 4 (33.33%) VMware
2 1 (8.33%) Red Hat
2 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow
2 1 (8.33%) Splunk