Linux Contracts in the East Midlands

Linux
England > East Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 25 50 50
Rank change year-on-year +25 0 -20
Contract jobs citing Linux 45 34 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 5.88% 3.35% 3.30%
As % of the Operating Systems category 26.01% 16.75% 14.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 22 35
10th Percentile £328 £351 £208
25th Percentile £407 £420 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.73% -5.32% +18.75%
75th Percentile £553 £547 £500
90th Percentile £588 £634 £715
England median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £41.25 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year - +13.04% +19.79%

All Operating Systems
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 173 203 327
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 22.61% 20.02% 23.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 141 208
10th Percentile £128 £122 £129
25th Percentile £160 £190 £165
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £344 £375 £300
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +25.00% +13.74%
75th Percentile £500 £538 £450
90th Percentile £570 £675 £500
England median daily rate £470 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -8.29% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 25 33
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.80 £13.72
25th Percentile £14.27 £14.52 £15.00
Median hourly rate £17.00 £18.38 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.51% -8.10% +35.09%
75th Percentile £20.00 £23.75 £23.50
90th Percentile - £40.25 £37.50
England median hourly rate £22.00 £38.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -42.11% +76.74% +22.86%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Linux in the East Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Linux in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Linux in the East Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Linux in the East Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Linux in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Linux in the East Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the East Midlands 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
Leicestershire +19 13 £487 +39.00% 11
Northamptonshire +15 13 £363 - 16
Derbyshire +8 12 £575 +30.68% 9
Nottinghamshire +5 3 £450 +1.12% 21
Linux
England

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 5 (11.11%) JBoss
2 2 (4.44%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (4.44%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 10 (22.22%) AWS
2 5 (11.11%) Azure
2 5 (11.11%) OpenShift
3 3 (6.67%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (4.44%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (4.44%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (4.44%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (4.44%) Serverless
5 1 (2.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (2.22%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 13 (28.89%) SAN
2 8 (17.78%) Fibre Channel
3 6 (13.33%) TCP/IP
4 1 (2.22%) InfiniBand
4 1 (2.22%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (15.56%) Elasticsearch
2 6 (13.33%) RDBMS
2 6 (13.33%) Relational Database
3 4 (8.89%) SQL Server
4 2 (4.44%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (2.22%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 6 (13.33%) Jenkins
2 5 (11.11%) Bitbucket Server
2 5 (11.11%) CA Release Automation
2 5 (11.11%) Git
2 5 (11.11%) JIRA
2 5 (11.11%) SonarQube
2 5 (11.11%) Sonatype Nexus
2 5 (11.11%) TeamCity
3 4 (8.89%) GitLab
General
1 6 (13.33%) Public Sector
2 5 (11.11%) Social Skills
3 2 (4.44%) Automotive
3 2 (4.44%) Banking
3 2 (4.44%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.22%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.22%) Finance
4 1 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (15.56%) Support Engineer
2 6 (13.33%) Systems Administrator
3 5 (11.11%) Administrator
3 5 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
3 5 (11.11%) Developer
3 5 (11.11%) Python Developer
3 5 (11.11%) Senior
3 5 (11.11%) Storage Engineer
4 4 (8.89%) Backup Engineer
4 4 (8.89%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 3 (6.67%) Analyst
5 3 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (6.67%) Senior Analyst
5 3 (6.67%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
6 2 (4.44%) AWS DevOps
6 2 (4.44%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Embedded Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) IT Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Ubuntu Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
1 5 (11.11%) Spring Boot
2 2 (4.44%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (2.22%) OpenMP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.33%) HP Storage
2 4 (8.89%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 3 (6.67%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (4.44%) Clustering
4 2 (4.44%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (4.44%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.22%) Grid Computing
5 1 (2.22%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.22%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 24 (53.33%) Windows
2 14 (31.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 10 (22.22%) AIX
4 9 (20.00%) Solaris
5 7 (15.56%) Ubuntu
6 5 (11.11%) Debian
7 3 (6.67%) Windows Server
8 1 (2.22%) SUSE
8 1 (2.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (28.89%) ITIL
2 9 (20.00%) DevOps
3 7 (15.56%) Performance Tuning
4 6 (13.33%) Agile
4 6 (13.33%) CI/CD
4 6 (13.33%) Project Delivery
4 6 (13.33%) User Acceptance Testing
5 5 (11.11%) Code Quality
5 5 (11.11%) Configuration Management
5 5 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
5 5 (11.11%) Customer Service
5 5 (11.11%) Data Engineering
5 5 (11.11%) Data Modelling
5 5 (11.11%) Deployment Automation
5 5 (11.11%) Matrix Organization
5 5 (11.11%) Microservices
5 5 (11.11%) Migration
5 5 (11.11%) Prototyping
5 5 (11.11%) Statistics
5 5 (11.11%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 11 (24.44%) Python
2 6 (13.33%) PowerShell
2 6 (13.33%) SQL
3 5 (11.11%) Bash
3 5 (11.11%) Perl
4 3 (6.67%) Shell Script
5 2 (4.44%) C
5 2 (4.44%) C++
5 2 (4.44%) Embedded C
5 2 (4.44%) Embedded C++
5 2 (4.44%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 26 (57.78%) Security Cleared
2 21 (46.67%) SC Cleared
3 13 (28.89%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.22%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (4.44%) AUTOSAR
2 2 (4.44%) GDPR
3 1 (2.22%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (20.00%) Docker
2 7 (15.56%) Active Directory
3 4 (8.89%) Hyper-V
4 2 (4.44%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (2.22%) KVM
5 1 (2.22%) Lustre
5 1 (2.22%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (2.22%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (20.00%) EMC NetWorker
2 8 (17.78%) Kubernetes
3 7 (15.56%) Ansible
4 6 (13.33%) HP Data Protector
4 6 (13.33%) NetBackup
4 6 (13.33%) Progress Chef
5 5 (11.11%) Kibana
6 3 (6.67%) Red Hat Satellite
6 3 (6.67%) SCCM
6 3 (6.67%) SCOM
6 3 (6.67%) SCSM
6 3 (6.67%) Terraform
7 1 (2.22%) Data Guard
7 1 (2.22%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (2.22%) PowerBroker
Vendors
1 16 (35.56%) Red Hat
2 13 (28.89%) Microsoft
3 10 (22.22%) EMC
4 8 (17.78%) Brocade
4 8 (17.78%) Cisco
4 8 (17.78%) VMware
5 6 (13.33%) HP
5 6 (13.33%) Oracle
5 6 (13.33%) Symantec
6 5 (11.11%) AppDynamics
6 5 (11.11%) Splunk
7 2 (4.44%) ServiceNow