Linux Contracts in Dorset

Linux
South West > Dorset

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Dorset 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 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 13 7
Rank change year-on-year -1 -6 +10
Contract jobs citing Linux 15 21 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Dorset 8.43% 9.91% 14.85%
As % of the Operating Systems category 45.45% 29.17% 61.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 9 7
10th Percentile £547 £363 £313
25th Percentile £594 £613 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £731 £700 £425
Median % change year-on-year +4.46% +64.71% -
75th Percentile £769 £738 £475
90th Percentile - £750 £500
South West median daily rate £579 £550 £525
% change year-on-year +5.18% +4.76% +13.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 9
10th Percentile - £17.00 £44.47
25th Percentile - £41.51 £47.02
Median hourly rate - £56.08 £50.77
Median % change year-on-year - +10.46% -
75th Percentile - £57.95 £56.70
90th Percentile - £60.07 £57.50
South West median hourly rate £70.00 £65.61 £65.00
% change year-on-year +6.70% +0.93% +30.00%

All Operating Systems
Dorset

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 Dorset with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 33 72 49
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorset 18.54% 33.96% 24.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 46 21
10th Percentile £175 £160 £160
25th Percentile £175 £306 £198
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £194 £525 £375
Median % change year-on-year -63.08% +40.00% +36.36%
75th Percentile £613 £612 £425
90th Percentile £769 £688 £500
South West median daily rate £525 £500 £438
% change year-on-year +5.00% +14.29% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 11 13
10th Percentile - £17.00 £42.86
25th Percentile - £17.38 £46.71
Median hourly rate £14.00 £53.35 £48.74
Median % change year-on-year -73.76% +9.46% +195.39%
75th Percentile - £57.33 £55.83
90th Percentile - £59.80 £57.34
South West median hourly rate £65.00 £65.50 £52.56
% change year-on-year -0.76% +24.63% +180.07%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Dorset

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Dorset

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

Daily rate trend for Linux in Dorset

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in Dorset

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

Daily rate histogram for Linux in Dorset

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Dorset

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux in Dorset

Linux
Contract Job Locations in Dorset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the Dorset region over the 6 months to 31 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
Bournemouth -5 4 - - 2
Poole -1 1 £700 - 1
Linux
South West

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Dorset 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 (26.67%) Apache Solr
1 4 (26.67%) nginx
Business Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 5 (33.33%) Azure
2 4 (26.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (33.33%) LAN
1 5 (33.33%) WAN
2 4 (26.67%) 4G
2 4 (26.67%) 5G
2 4 (26.67%) DNS
2 4 (26.67%) HTTPS
2 4 (26.67%) IPsec
2 4 (26.67%) Network Security
2 4 (26.67%) TCP/IP
2 4 (26.67%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) Couchbase
1 4 (26.67%) MySQL
1 4 (26.67%) NoSQL
General
1 10 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 5 (33.33%) Finance
3 4 (26.67%) Legal
4 2 (13.33%) Aerospace
4 2 (13.33%) Military
4 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
5 1 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Architect
2 5 (33.33%) Technical Architect
3 4 (26.67%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Integration Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) IT Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Network Communications Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Network Systems Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Azure Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (6.67%) IT Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Requirements Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Senior
5 1 (6.67%) Senior IT Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Software Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Systems Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Test Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Unix Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Unix Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (33.33%) Middleware
2 4 (26.67%) JSON
2 4 (26.67%) LEMP Stack
2 4 (26.67%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (26.67%) YAML
3 1 (6.67%) DPDK
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Public Cloud
2 4 (26.67%) Cloud Native
2 4 (26.67%) Management Information System
3 1 (6.67%) PCIe
Operating Systems
1 9 (60.00%) Windows
2 4 (26.67%) CentOS
3 1 (6.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) Agile
2 6 (40.00%) TOGAF
3 5 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
3 5 (33.33%) Business Strategy
3 5 (33.33%) IT Strategy
3 5 (33.33%) Technology Strategy
3 5 (33.33%) Translating Business Requirements
3 5 (33.33%) Waterfall
4 4 (26.67%) CI/CD
4 4 (26.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (26.67%) Cost Reduction
4 4 (26.67%) DevOps
4 4 (26.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (26.67%) Microservices
4 4 (26.67%) Network Management
4 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (26.67%) Risk Assessment
4 4 (26.67%) SDLC
4 4 (26.67%) Software Delivery
4 4 (26.67%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (26.67%) PHP
2 1 (6.67%) C
2 1 (6.67%) C++
Qualifications
1 5 (33.33%) Degree
1 5 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 5 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 4 (26.67%) HND
3 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (60.00%) QA
2 4 (26.67%) GDPR
2 4 (26.67%) HIPAA
2 4 (26.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (26.67%) NIST
3 1 (6.67%) Def Stans
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) Ansible
1 4 (26.67%) Kubernetes
1 4 (26.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Google
2 2 (13.33%) Sparx
3 1 (6.67%) Databricks