Linux Contracts in Edinburgh

Linux
Scotland > Edinburgh

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 44 44 51
Rank change year-on-year 0 +7 -8
Contract jobs citing Linux 31 69 88
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 3.79% 5.58% 4.56%
As % of the Operating Systems category 30.10% 36.70% 39.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 50 56
10th Percentile £340 £413 £263
25th Percentile £385 £466 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £634 £550 £550
90th Percentile £728 £576 £588
Scotland median daily rate £550 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 2
10th Percentile £55.60 - £48.46
25th Percentile £60.25 £51.25 £49.26
Median hourly rate £60.50 £52.50 £52.81
Median % change year-on-year +15.24% -0.59% -
75th Percentile £60.75 £53.75 £55.39
90th Percentile - - £55.61
Scotland median hourly rate £60.25 £59.79 £54.50
% change year-on-year +0.77% +9.71% -18.05%

All Operating Systems
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 103 188 222
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 12.59% 15.20% 11.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 140 140
10th Percentile £193 £160 £137
25th Percentile £240 £205 £178
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -8.94% - +5.88%
75th Percentile £569 £538 £550
90th Percentile £634 £625 £588
Scotland median daily rate £425 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -10.53% +5.56% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 3 9
10th Percentile £18.13 £17.70 £17.01
25th Percentile £18.24 £17.71 £17.50
Median hourly rate £22.14 £17.72 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +24.92% -11.40% +14.29%
75th Percentile £60.75 £35.74 £40.75
90th Percentile - £46.54 £54.60
Scotland median hourly rate £39.25 £47.73 £17.72
% change year-on-year -17.77% +169.36% +1.26%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Edinburgh

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for Linux in Edinburgh

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate histogram for Linux in Edinburgh

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux in Edinburgh

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 1 (3.23%) Apache
1 1 (3.23%) Confluence
1 1 (3.23%) JBoss
1 1 (3.23%) Tomcat
1 1 (3.23%) WildFly
Cloud Services
1 15 (48.39%) AWS
2 11 (35.48%) OpenShift
3 8 (25.81%) Amazon S3
4 7 (22.58%) Amazon EC2
5 6 (19.35%) Amazon EKS
5 6 (19.35%) AWS CloudFormation
5 6 (19.35%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (19.35%) Serverless
6 5 (16.13%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 3 (9.68%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (9.68%) AWS Fargate
7 3 (9.68%) Azure
8 1 (3.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (3.23%) AWS CodeBuild
8 1 (3.23%) AWS CodeCommit
8 1 (3.23%) AWS CodePipeline
8 1 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (3.23%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (19.35%) Firewall
2 4 (12.90%) Internet
3 2 (6.45%) LAN
3 2 (6.45%) WAN
4 1 (3.23%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.90%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (6.45%) InfluxDB
2 2 (6.45%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (6.45%) Relational Database
3 1 (3.23%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (3.23%) Informix
3 1 (3.23%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.23%) Oracle Database
3 1 (3.23%) Oracle Database 11g
3 1 (3.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (32.26%) Jenkins
2 8 (25.81%) Git
2 8 (25.81%) Maven
3 7 (22.58%) Gradle
4 4 (12.90%) Artifactory
4 4 (12.90%) GitLab
5 1 (3.23%) Capybara
5 1 (3.23%) JIRA
5 1 (3.23%) JUnit
5 1 (3.23%) Subversion
General
1 11 (35.48%) Social Skills
2 5 (16.13%) Electronics
3 4 (12.90%) Finance
4 3 (9.68%) Public Sector
5 2 (6.45%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (3.23%) Banking
6 1 (3.23%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (22.58%) Linux Engineer
2 6 (19.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (19.35%) Infrastructure Support
2 6 (19.35%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
2 6 (19.35%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (19.35%) Linux Support
2 6 (19.35%) Linux Support Engineer
2 6 (19.35%) Software Engineer
2 6 (19.35%) Support Engineer
3 5 (16.13%) Embedded Engineer
3 5 (16.13%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 5 (16.13%) Site Manager
3 5 (16.13%) Site Reliability Manager
4 4 (12.90%) AWS Engineer
4 4 (12.90%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 4 (12.90%) Platform Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) AWS DevOps
5 3 (9.68%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) Developer
5 3 (9.68%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (19.35%) AWS CDK
2 3 (9.68%) Spring
3 2 (6.45%) Java EE
3 2 (6.45%) Middleware
3 2 (6.45%) React
4 1 (3.23%) AngularJS
4 1 (3.23%) Guice
4 1 (3.23%) Hibernate
4 1 (3.23%) JPA
4 1 (3.23%) JSP
4 1 (3.23%) JSTL
4 1 (3.23%) Kafka
4 1 (3.23%) OpenJDK
4 1 (3.23%) Servlets
4 1 (3.23%) Spring Boot
4 1 (3.23%) STL
4 1 (3.23%) WebKit
4 1 (3.23%) XML
4 1 (3.23%) XSLT
4 1 (3.23%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 6 (19.35%) Cloud Native
2 5 (16.13%) Clustering
3 4 (12.90%) Device Driver
3 4 (12.90%) IoT
3 4 (12.90%) PCIe
3 4 (12.90%) Verilog
3 4 (12.90%) VHDL
4 3 (9.68%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (6.45%) Algorithms
5 2 (6.45%) Data Structures
5 2 (6.45%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (6.45%) Public Cloud
6 1 (3.23%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 1 (3.23%) Legacy Code
6 1 (3.23%) Product Ownership
6 1 (3.23%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 13 (41.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 9 (29.03%) Unix
2 9 (29.03%) Windows
3 5 (16.13%) Solaris
3 5 (16.13%) Ubuntu
4 4 (12.90%) Embedded Linux
4 4 (12.90%) VxWorks
5 1 (3.23%) AIX
5 1 (3.23%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (48.39%) Agile
1 15 (48.39%) CI/CD
2 12 (38.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 11 (35.48%) Continuous Integration
4 7 (22.58%) DevOps
4 7 (22.58%) OWASP
4 7 (22.58%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (19.35%) Application Security
5 6 (19.35%) Deployment Automation
5 6 (19.35%) High Availability
6 5 (16.13%) Compliance Management
6 5 (16.13%) Configuration Management
6 5 (16.13%) Customer Service
6 5 (16.13%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (16.13%) Root Cause Analysis
6 5 (16.13%) Service-Level Objective
6 5 (16.13%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 5 (16.13%) Software Engineering
7 4 (12.90%) Defect Tracking
7 4 (12.90%) Memory Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (38.71%) Python
2 11 (35.48%) Bash
3 9 (29.03%) Groovy
4 7 (22.58%) Ruby
5 6 (19.35%) Shell Script
6 5 (16.13%) Java
7 4 (12.90%) C
7 4 (12.90%) Embedded C
8 2 (6.45%) JavaScript
8 2 (6.45%) Perl
8 2 (6.45%) TypeScript
9 1 (3.23%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (19.35%) SC Cleared
1 6 (19.35%) Security Cleared
2 5 (16.13%) RHCE
3 2 (6.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (6.45%) Degree
4 1 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (16.13%) SLA
2 4 (12.90%) MISRA
2 4 (12.90%) MISRA C
3 2 (6.45%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (6.45%) QA
4 1 (3.23%) Accessibility
4 1 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (3.23%) NCSC
4 1 (3.23%) NIST
4 1 (3.23%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (16.13%) Docker
1 5 (16.13%) KVM
2 4 (12.90%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 12 (38.71%) Ansible
2 11 (35.48%) Kubernetes
3 7 (22.58%) Terraform
4 5 (16.13%) Grafana
5 4 (12.90%) Kibana
6 1 (3.23%) Packer
Vendors
1 7 (22.58%) Red Hat
2 4 (12.90%) Atlassian
2 4 (12.90%) Intel
3 2 (6.45%) Databricks
3 2 (6.45%) Oracle
4 1 (3.23%) Commvault
4 1 (3.23%) F5
4 1 (3.23%) Qualys
4 1 (3.23%) Splunk
4 1 (3.23%) VMware