Linux Support Contracts in England

Linux Support
UK > England

The median Linux Support daily rate in England is £240 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 520 605 747
Rank change year-on-year +85 +142 -130
Contract jobs requiring a Linux Support 11 35 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.030% 0.073% 0.031%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.033% 0.077% 0.033%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 26 12
10th Percentile £234 £372 £289
25th Percentile £235 £581 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £240 £675 £459
Median % change year-on-year -64.44% +47.14% -23.54%
75th Percentile £338 £700 £700
90th Percentile £503 £713 -
UK median daily rate £337 £600 £459
% change year-on-year -43.92% +30.79% -23.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate - £20.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - -61.90% -
75th Percentile - - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £20.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year - -61.90% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 33,787 45,579 67,163
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.59% 95.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,417 32,381 47,891
10th Percentile £284 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.36%
75th Percentile £644 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £760 £744
UK median daily rate £525 £544 £525
% change year-on-year -3.40% +3.52% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,440 1,334 1,845
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.28 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.92 £44.77 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.54% +94.63% +6.38%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £64.75
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Linux Support
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Linux Support in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Linux Support in England

Linux Support
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Linux Support in England

Linux Support
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux Support in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux Support in England

Linux Support
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux Support in England

Linux Support
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux Support within the England region over the 6 months to 18 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
London +76 3 £275 -59.26% 3
East of England - 3 £240 -
South West +8 2 £500 -28.57% 5
North of England - 2 £238 -
Yorkshire - 2 £238 -
South East +29 1 - - 6
Linux Support
UK

Linux Support Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 18 May 2024, Linux Support contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Linux Support in the job title.

1 11 (100.00%) Linux
2 8 (72.73%) Windows
2 8 (72.73%) Windows Server
3 7 (63.64%) Active Directory
4 6 (54.55%) Clustering
4 6 (54.55%) VMware
4 6 (54.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (54.55%) High Availability
5 5 (45.45%) Bash
5 5 (45.45%) VMware Workstation
5 5 (45.45%) Release Management
5 5 (45.45%) ITIL
5 5 (45.45%) VPN
6 4 (36.36%) DNS
6 4 (36.36%) Red Hat
7 3 (27.27%) Shell Script
7 3 (27.27%) Python
7 3 (27.27%) Incident Management
7 3 (27.27%) Azure
7 3 (27.27%) PowerShell
7 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
8 2 (18.18%) Rocky
8 2 (18.18%) Runbook
8 2 (18.18%) Server Management
8 2 (18.18%) systemd
8 2 (18.18%) Entra ID
8 2 (18.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (18.18%) Ubuntu
8 2 (18.18%) Korn
8 2 (18.18%) AWS

Linux Support Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 1 (9.09%) Apache
1 1 (9.09%) JBoss
1 1 (9.09%) nginx
1 1 (9.09%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (9.09%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) Azure
2 2 (18.18%) AWS
2 2 (18.18%) Entra ID
3 1 (9.09%) GitHub
3 1 (9.09%) IaaS
3 1 (9.09%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 5 (45.45%) VPN
2 4 (36.36%) DNS
3 1 (9.09%) Firewall
3 1 (9.09%) Network Security
3 1 (9.09%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) RDBMS
1 2 (18.18%) Relational Database
2 1 (9.09%) MongoDB
2 1 (9.09%) MySQL
2 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Git
1 1 (9.09%) GitLab
General
1 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Electronics
3 1 (9.09%) Manufacturing
3 1 (9.09%) Marketing
3 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
3 1 (9.09%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) CSS
2 1 (9.09%) IBM Integration Bus
2 1 (9.09%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 6 (54.55%) Clustering
2 1 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (9.09%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (9.09%) Replication
2 1 (9.09%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 11 (100.00%) Linux
2 8 (72.73%) Windows
2 8 (72.73%) Windows Server
3 2 (18.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (18.18%) Rocky
3 2 (18.18%) Ubuntu
3 2 (18.18%) Unix
4 1 (9.09%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) High Availability
2 5 (45.45%) ITIL
2 5 (45.45%) Release Management
3 3 (27.27%) Incident Management
4 2 (18.18%) Coaching
4 2 (18.18%) Mentoring
4 2 (18.18%) Migration
4 2 (18.18%) Runbook
4 2 (18.18%) Server Management
5 1 (9.09%) Agile
5 1 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (9.09%) CI/CD
5 1 (9.09%) Cloud Security
5 1 (9.09%) Containerisation
5 1 (9.09%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (9.09%) Programme Management
5 1 (9.09%) Project Delivery
5 1 (9.09%) Scrum
5 1 (9.09%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) Bash
2 3 (27.27%) PowerShell
2 3 (27.27%) Python
2 3 (27.27%) Shell Script
3 2 (18.18%) Korn
3 2 (18.18%) tcsh
4 1 (9.09%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 7 (63.64%) Active Directory
2 6 (54.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (45.45%) VMware Workstation
4 2 (18.18%) NFS
5 1 (9.09%) VMware NSX
5 1 (9.09%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) systemd
2 1 (9.09%) Ansible
2 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (9.09%) Packer
2 1 (9.09%) Terraform
2 1 (9.09%) vRealize
2 1 (9.09%) VxRail
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) VMware
2 4 (36.36%) Red Hat
3 2 (18.18%) Oracle
4 1 (9.09%) Arqiva
4 1 (9.09%) Dell
4 1 (9.09%) IBM
4 1 (9.09%) SAP
4 1 (9.09%) SolarWinds
4 1 (9.09%) Temenos
4 1 (9.09%) Veritas