Linux Contracts in the East of England

Linux
England > East of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 26 27 18
Rank change year-on-year +1 -9 +8
Contract jobs citing Linux 112 143 220
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 5.93% 7.28% 8.62%
As % of the Operating Systems category 50.45% 31.78% 39.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 95 105
10th Percentile £286 £260 £375
25th Percentile £344 £360 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £495
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -9.09% +16.47%
75th Percentile £641 £613 £600
90th Percentile £679 £631 £660
England median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 13 30
10th Percentile £54.25 £48.25 £46.71
25th Percentile - £51.25 £55.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £52.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -12.50% +90.48%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 -
90th Percentile - £73.75 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £57.73
% change year-on-year - +12.60% +20.89%

All Operating Systems
East of England

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 of England with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 222 450 563
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 11.76% 22.92% 22.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 304 325
10th Percentile £175 £163 £160
25th Percentile £235 £213 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £413 £400
Median % change year-on-year -15.15% +3.13% +9.59%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £500
90th Percentile £650 £676 £625
England median daily rate £471 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -8.10% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 57 82
10th Percentile £13.50 - £13.25
25th Percentile £14.00 £13.29 £14.38
Median hourly rate £36.00 £17.47 £21.75
Median % change year-on-year +106.07% -19.68% +31.82%
75th Percentile £65.00 £27.50 £55.00
90th Percentile £65.88 £62.00 £60.00
England median hourly rate £22.00 £38.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -42.11% +72.73% +23.94%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in the East of England

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for Linux in the East of England

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in the East of England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in the East of England

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux in the East of England

Linux
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Linux in the East of England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Linux in the East of England

Linux
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 16 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
Hertfordshire -2 77 £550 +10.00% 34
Essex +14 18 £425 -24.98% 7
Cambridgeshire -22 14 £550 +22.22% 63
Bedfordshire -5 2 £375 -14.29% 4
Suffolk +11 1 £188 -53.13% 3
Linux
England

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 12 (10.71%) CMS
2 6 (5.36%) Apache
2 6 (5.36%) Tomcat
3 4 (3.57%) IIS
3 4 (3.57%) NetWeaver
4 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 7 (6.25%) Simulink
2 4 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (3.57%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 1 (0.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (0.89%) Amazon Cognito
1 1 (0.89%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (0.89%) Amazon Kinesis
1 1 (0.89%) Amazon S3
1 1 (0.89%) AWS
1 1 (0.89%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (0.89%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
1 1 (0.89%) CloudFront
1 1 (0.89%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (0.89%) PaaS
1 1 (0.89%) Route 53
1 1 (0.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (8.93%) TCP/IP
2 7 (6.25%) HTTP
3 6 (5.36%) Ethernet
4 5 (4.46%) 5G
4 5 (4.46%) NAS
4 5 (4.46%) Radio Access Network
5 4 (3.57%) FTP
5 4 (3.57%) H.323
5 4 (3.57%) Wireshark
6 3 (2.68%) DNS
6 3 (2.68%) Firewall
6 3 (2.68%) Intrusion Detection
6 3 (2.68%) SMTP
6 3 (2.68%) SSL
6 3 (2.68%) VPN
7 2 (1.79%) Kerberos
7 2 (1.79%) RS-485
7 2 (1.79%) SAN
8 1 (0.89%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (0.89%) RTMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.46%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.57%) SAP BW
2 4 (3.57%) SAP HANA
3 1 (0.89%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.89%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 10 (8.93%) Git
2 9 (8.04%) Visual Studio
3 8 (7.14%) JIRA
4 7 (6.25%) Eclipse
4 7 (6.25%) Subversion
5 4 (3.57%) gcov
5 4 (3.57%) GDB
5 4 (3.57%) GitLab
5 4 (3.57%) Gradle
6 1 (0.89%) CMake
6 1 (0.89%) Gerrit
6 1 (0.89%) Jenkins
General
1 23 (20.54%) Social Skills
2 11 (9.82%) Telecoms
3 7 (6.25%) Multimedia
4 6 (5.36%) Military
4 6 (5.36%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (3.57%) Electronics
5 4 (3.57%) Legal
6 2 (1.79%) Aerospace
6 2 (1.79%) Law
6 2 (1.79%) Public Sector
7 1 (0.89%) Advertising
7 1 (0.89%) Aviation
7 1 (0.89%) Finance
7 1 (0.89%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.89%) Marketing
7 1 (0.89%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 19 (16.96%) Linux Engineer
1 19 (16.96%) Software Engineer
2 15 (13.39%) Developer
3 14 (12.50%) Analyst
4 12 (10.71%) C++ Software Engineer
4 12 (10.71%) Senior
4 12 (10.71%) SOC Analyst
5 10 (8.93%) Senior Analyst
5 10 (8.93%) Storage Engineer
6 8 (7.14%) C Software Engineer
6 8 (7.14%) C# Software Engineer
6 8 (7.14%) C/C++ Software Engineer
7 7 (6.25%) Design Engineer
7 7 (6.25%) Real Time Engineer
7 7 (6.25%) Real Time Software Engineer
8 6 (5.36%) C++ Developer
9 5 (4.46%) Infrastructure Design Engineer
9 5 (4.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (3.57%) Support Engineer
10 4 (3.57%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (10.71%) Yocto
2 8 (7.14%) Web Services
3 6 (5.36%) Node.js
4 5 (4.46%) LDAP
5 4 (3.57%) JSON
5 4 (3.57%) SAP Basis
5 4 (3.57%) SAP Fiori
5 4 (3.57%) YAML
6 2 (1.79%) FFmpeg
6 2 (1.79%) GStreamer
6 2 (1.79%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 12 (10.71%) Cyberattack
2 11 (9.82%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 11 (9.82%) Security Operations Centre
3 7 (6.25%) Management Information System
3 7 (6.25%) STB
4 6 (5.36%) Digital TV
4 6 (5.36%) FPGA
5 5 (4.46%) ASIC
5 5 (4.46%) PKI
5 5 (4.46%) Verilog
6 4 (3.57%) IVR
7 3 (2.68%) Clustering
7 3 (2.68%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.79%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.79%) Enterprise Storage
9 1 (0.89%) Augmented Reality
9 1 (0.89%) Embedded Systems
9 1 (0.89%) Replication
9 1 (0.89%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 44 (39.29%) Windows
2 16 (14.29%) Unix
3 13 (11.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (8.04%) Solaris
5 6 (5.36%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (4.46%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (3.57%) Ubuntu
7 4 (3.57%) Windows Server
8 3 (2.68%) CentOS
9 2 (1.79%) AIX
9 2 (1.79%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.89%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (18.75%) Agile
1 21 (18.75%) Software Engineering
2 18 (16.07%) Incident Response
3 15 (13.39%) Cybersecurity
4 13 (11.61%) Change Management
4 13 (11.61%) Problem-Solving
4 13 (11.61%) Visualisation
5 11 (9.82%) CI/CD
5 11 (9.82%) Migration
5 11 (9.82%) Security Operations
6 10 (8.93%) High Availability
6 10 (8.93%) Multithreading
6 10 (8.93%) Validation
7 9 (8.04%) Open Source
8 8 (7.14%) Digital Twin
8 8 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 8 (7.14%) Mathematics
8 8 (7.14%) Synthetic Environment
9 7 (6.25%) Data Analysis
9 7 (6.25%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 29 (25.89%) C++
2 28 (25.00%) C
3 18 (16.07%) Python
4 11 (9.82%) Bash
4 11 (9.82%) C#
5 8 (7.14%) JavaScript
6 7 (6.25%) MATLAB
7 5 (4.46%) Shell Script
7 5 (4.46%) SystemVerilog
7 5 (4.46%) Tcl
8 3 (2.68%) Assembly Language
9 2 (1.79%) Rust
10 1 (0.89%) Java
Qualifications
1 45 (40.18%) Security Cleared
2 28 (25.00%) DV Cleared
3 8 (7.14%) SC Cleared
4 6 (5.36%) Degree
5 4 (3.57%) Master's Degree
5 4 (3.57%) SAP Certification
6 2 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.79%) PhD
7 1 (0.89%) CISSP
7 1 (0.89%) Linux+ Certification
7 1 (0.89%) LPIC
7 1 (0.89%) RHCE
System Software
1 18 (16.07%) Active Directory
2 17 (15.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (4.46%) Docker
3 5 (4.46%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (3.57%) Firmware
5 3 (2.68%) Hyper-V
5 3 (2.68%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (2.68%) VMware Workstation
6 2 (1.79%) LXC
7 1 (0.89%) Embedded Firmware
7 1 (0.89%) HDFS
7 1 (0.89%) KVM
7 1 (0.89%) NFS
7 1 (0.89%) Xen
Systems Management
1 6 (5.36%) Ansible
1 6 (5.36%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.57%) SCOM
3 3 (2.68%) Rancher
3 3 (2.68%) Red Hat Satellite
3 3 (2.68%) Tivoli Identity Manager
4 2 (1.79%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.79%) Proxmox
4 2 (1.79%) SCCM
5 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.89%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.89%) Puppet
Vendors
1 27 (24.11%) VMware
2 25 (22.32%) Microsoft
3 18 (16.07%) Red Hat
4 15 (13.39%) Splunk
5 12 (10.71%) Darktrace
5 12 (10.71%) FireEye
5 12 (10.71%) LogRhythm
6 10 (8.93%) NetApp
7 5 (4.46%) SAP
8 4 (3.57%) Avaya
8 4 (3.57%) Cadence
8 4 (3.57%) Klocwork
8 4 (3.57%) Perforce
8 4 (3.57%) Verint
9 3 (2.68%) Dell
9 3 (2.68%) HP
9 3 (2.68%) IronPort
9 3 (2.68%) Symantec
9 3 (2.68%) Synopsys
9 3 (2.68%) Xilinx