Linux Contracts in England

Linux
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 35 27 28
Rank change year-on-year -8 +1 0
Contract jobs citing Linux 1,882 3,368 4,609
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 5.12% 6.88% 6.58%
As % of the Operating Systems category 37.52% 42.10% 42.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,258 2,369 3,126
10th Percentile £350 £413 £403
25th Percentile £425 £488 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £640 £688 £675
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £585 £575
% change year-on-year -5.98% +1.74% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 99 150 151
10th Percentile £36.40 £26.88 £39.55
25th Percentile £53.75 £50.00 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% +26.32%
75th Percentile £70.00 £74.50 £65.00
90th Percentile - £78.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% +25.65%

All Operating Systems
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 England with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 5,016 8,000 10,975
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.65% 16.33% 15.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,433 5,661 7,507
10th Percentile £185 £195 £174
25th Percentile £300 £325 £322
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.29% +2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £625
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £468 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -7.43% +1.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 363 385 544
10th Percentile £12.75 £13.56 £13.42
25th Percentile £14.95 £17.72 £15.93
Median hourly rate £22.00 £37.50 £22.14
Median % change year-on-year -41.33% +69.38% +24.59%
75th Percentile £60.80 £65.00 £51.71
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £38.50 £23.00
% change year-on-year -42.86% +67.39% +29.50%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in England

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Linux in England

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in England over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in England

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux in England

Linux
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Linux in England over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Linux in England

Linux
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 within the England region over the 6 months to 10 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 -13 811 £561 -10.20% 393
South East 0 403 £525 -0.94% 235
North of England -10 190 £483 -12.27% 143
South West -7 189 £570 +3.64% 170
Midlands -2 124 £545 +0.93% 121
East of England -1 112 £550 +22.22% 129
Yorkshire +12 110 £500 -9.09% 50
West Midlands -12 79 £550 +1.85% 59
North West -44 68 £450 -18.18% 85
East Midlands +29 44 £529 +17.57% 62
North East -4 12 £575 -14.81% 11
Linux
UK

Linux
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
1 108 (5.74%) Confluence
2 67 (3.56%) nginx
3 59 (3.13%) Apache
4 50 (2.66%) Microsoft Exchange
4 50 (2.66%) OpenStack
5 22 (1.17%) Tomcat
6 19 (1.01%) IIS
7 17 (0.90%) CMS
7 17 (0.90%) JBoss
8 16 (0.85%) Apache Spark
9 14 (0.74%) SharePoint
10 11 (0.58%) NetWeaver
11 10 (0.53%) SAS
12 9 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
13 5 (0.27%) Apache Solr
13 5 (0.27%) Oracle Self-Service HR
14 4 (0.21%) IBM Domino
14 4 (0.21%) Luigi
14 4 (0.21%) MQSeries
15 3 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 21 (1.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (0.53%) Simulink
4 3 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.11%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.053%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.053%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.053%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.053%) Weka
Business Applications
1 12 (0.64%) ION Anvil
2 11 (0.58%) SAP IBP
3 9 (0.48%) Loan IQ
4 8 (0.43%) ION MarketView
5 7 (0.37%) Temenos T24
6 6 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (0.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 5 (0.27%) Aladdin
7 5 (0.27%) Endur
7 5 (0.27%) SimCorp Dimension
8 4 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
9 3 (0.16%) Fidessa
9 3 (0.16%) Global One
9 3 (0.16%) Sage X3
9 3 (0.16%) Shopify
10 2 (0.11%) Advent Geneva
10 2 (0.11%) BusinessWorks
10 2 (0.11%) Front Arena
10 2 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
10 2 (0.11%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 422 (22.42%) AWS
2 397 (21.09%) Azure
3 109 (5.79%) GitHub
4 96 (5.10%) GCP
5 73 (3.88%) Microsoft 365
6 70 (3.72%) PaaS
7 64 (3.40%) Azure DevOps
8 57 (3.03%) Serverless
9 55 (2.92%) Amazon EC2
10 51 (2.71%) OpenShift
11 50 (2.66%) Amazon S3
12 46 (2.44%) Entra ID
13 45 (2.39%) AWS CloudFormation
14 37 (1.97%) SaaS
15 36 (1.91%) IaaS
16 32 (1.70%) AWS Lambda
17 28 (1.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 26 (1.38%) Amazon EKS
18 26 (1.38%) Azure AKS
18 26 (1.38%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 178 (9.46%) Firewall
2 147 (7.81%) DNS
3 126 (6.70%) SAN
4 114 (6.06%) TCP/IP
5 86 (4.57%) DHCP
6 62 (3.29%) VPN
6 62 (3.29%) WAN
7 50 (2.66%) SSL
8 49 (2.60%) LAN
8 49 (2.60%) Network Security
9 45 (2.39%) HTTP
9 45 (2.39%) Wireless
10 40 (2.13%) VLAN
11 34 (1.81%) NAS
12 27 (1.43%) FTP
13 24 (1.28%) Intrusion Detection
14 23 (1.22%) Fibre Channel
14 23 (1.22%) SNMP
14 23 (1.22%) SSH
15 22 (1.17%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (6.00%) SQL Server
2 82 (4.36%) Relational Database
3 81 (4.30%) MySQL
4 74 (3.93%) MongoDB
5 63 (3.35%) PostgreSQL
6 55 (2.92%) Elasticsearch
7 42 (2.23%) NoSQL
8 40 (2.13%) Big Data
8 40 (2.13%) RDBMS
9 38 (2.02%) Amazon RDS
10 36 (1.91%) Oracle Database
11 20 (1.06%) Hadoop
12 18 (0.96%) Data Lake
13 17 (0.90%) DB2
14 16 (0.85%) KDB
14 16 (0.85%) Power BI
14 16 (0.85%) SAP HANA
15 14 (0.74%) Apache Cassandra
16 11 (0.58%) SAP BW
17 10 (0.53%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 215 (11.42%) Jenkins
2 192 (10.20%) Git
3 161 (8.55%) JIRA
4 128 (6.80%) GitLab
5 81 (4.30%) Bitbucket
6 32 (1.70%) Eclipse
7 28 (1.49%) Robot Framework
8 26 (1.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 26 (1.38%) GoogleTest
9 25 (1.33%) Artifactory
9 25 (1.33%) Visual Studio
10 24 (1.28%) TeamCity
11 21 (1.12%) Mockito
11 21 (1.12%) Selenium
12 18 (0.96%) SonarQube
12 18 (0.96%) Sonatype Nexus
13 17 (0.90%) Subversion
14 16 (0.85%) Cypress.io
15 15 (0.80%) JMeter
16 14 (0.74%) Cucumber
General
1 405 (21.52%) Social Skills
2 274 (14.56%) Finance
3 198 (10.52%) Analytical Skills
4 151 (8.02%) Public Sector
5 118 (6.27%) Banking
6 69 (3.67%) Telecoms
7 46 (2.44%) Investment Banking
8 44 (2.34%) Aerospace
9 37 (1.97%) Front Office
10 33 (1.75%) Manufacturing
11 31 (1.65%) Marketing
11 31 (1.65%) Presentation Skills
12 30 (1.59%) Electronics
13 29 (1.54%) Legal
14 18 (0.96%) Financial Institution
14 18 (0.96%) Military
15 15 (0.80%) Documentation Skills
16 14 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
17 11 (0.58%) Organisational Skills
18 10 (0.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 257 (13.66%) Developer
2 179 (9.51%) DevOps Engineer
3 162 (8.61%) Senior
4 133 (7.07%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 133 (7.07%) Linux Engineer
5 118 (6.27%) Software Engineer
6 114 (6.06%) Analyst
7 110 (5.84%) Architect
8 71 (3.77%) Lead
9 66 (3.51%) Support Engineer
10 62 (3.29%) Administrator
10 62 (3.29%) Consultant
11 59 (3.13%) AWS Engineer
12 58 (3.08%) Java Developer
13 49 (2.60%) Azure Engineer
14 48 (2.55%) Senior Developer
14 48 (2.55%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 44 (2.34%) Network Engineer
16 42 (2.23%) C++ Software Engineer
16 42 (2.23%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (5.26%) Kafka
2 79 (4.20%) HTML
3 77 (4.09%) Elastic Stack
4 65 (3.45%) .NET
4 65 (3.45%) CSS
5 55 (2.92%) Web Services
6 52 (2.76%) JSON
7 50 (2.66%) LDAP
8 49 (2.60%) REST
9 44 (2.34%) FIX Protocol
10 42 (2.23%) YAML
11 41 (2.18%) Spring
12 40 (2.13%) Node.js
13 36 (1.91%) XML
14 32 (1.70%) Middleware
14 32 (1.70%) RabbitMQ
15 31 (1.65%) .NET Core
16 30 (1.59%) React
17 29 (1.54%) RESTful
18 27 (1.43%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 127 (6.75%) Data Centre
2 111 (5.90%) Linux Command Line
3 81 (4.30%) PKI
4 75 (3.99%) Replication
5 68 (3.61%) Management Information System
6 62 (3.29%) Public Cloud
7 52 (2.76%) Distributed Systems
8 45 (2.39%) Self-Motivation
9 44 (2.34%) Data Protection Act
10 38 (2.02%) Clustering
11 35 (1.86%) Algorithms
12 34 (1.81%) Data Structures
13 32 (1.70%) Derivative
14 31 (1.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 29 (1.54%) Onboarding
16 27 (1.43%) Client/Server
17 25 (1.33%) Fixed Income
17 25 (1.33%) Security Operations Centre
18 24 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
19 22 (1.17%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 733 (38.95%) Windows
2 366 (19.45%) Unix
3 237 (12.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 189 (10.04%) Windows Server
5 94 (4.99%) Ubuntu
6 68 (3.61%) CentOS
7 61 (3.24%) Windows Server 2019
8 56 (2.98%) Windows Server 2016
9 51 (2.71%) Solaris
10 38 (2.02%) VMS
11 34 (1.81%) Debian
11 34 (1.81%) zOS
12 33 (1.75%) Mac OS X
13 30 (1.59%) AIX
13 30 (1.59%) Apple iOS
13 30 (1.59%) Windows Server 2012
14 29 (1.54%) Android
15 26 (1.38%) Windows 10
16 24 (1.28%) Oracle Linux
17 18 (0.96%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 417 (22.16%) Agile
2 396 (21.04%) DevOps
3 375 (19.93%) CI/CD
4 249 (13.23%) Problem-Solving
5 209 (11.11%) Software Engineering
6 203 (10.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 187 (9.94%) Infrastructure as Code
8 173 (9.19%) ITIL
9 162 (8.61%) Cybersecurity
10 152 (8.08%) Migration
11 144 (7.65%) Configuration Management
12 138 (7.33%) Scrum
13 129 (6.85%) Continuous Integration
14 127 (6.75%) Test Automation
15 124 (6.59%) Containerisation
16 115 (6.11%) Disaster Recovery
17 107 (5.69%) Microservices
18 103 (5.47%) Computer Science
19 92 (4.89%) TDD
20 90 (4.78%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 525 (27.90%) Python
2 239 (12.70%) Java
2 239 (12.70%) PowerShell
3 237 (12.59%) SQL
4 196 (10.41%) Bash
5 163 (8.66%) C++
6 135 (7.17%) JavaScript
7 129 (6.85%) C#
8 118 (6.27%) C
8 118 (6.27%) Shell Script
9 69 (3.67%) Go
10 59 (3.13%) Perl
11 43 (2.28%) PHP
12 36 (1.91%) VBScript
13 26 (1.38%) T-SQL
14 22 (1.17%) Bicep
15 20 (1.06%) Embedded C
15 20 (1.06%) JCL
15 20 (1.06%) Scala
16 18 (0.96%) VB
Qualifications
1 687 (36.50%) Security Cleared
2 438 (23.27%) SC Cleared
3 282 (14.98%) DV Cleared
4 184 (9.78%) Degree
5 59 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
6 41 (2.18%) Cisco Certification
7 32 (1.70%) CCNA
8 30 (1.59%) AWS Certification
9 24 (1.28%) CCNP
9 24 (1.28%) Master's Degree
10 18 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
11 16 (0.85%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 16 (0.85%) OSCP
12 14 (0.74%) Azure Certification
12 14 (0.74%) GIAC
13 12 (0.64%) ISTQB
14 11 (0.58%) CREST Certified
15 10 (0.53%) CISSP
15 10 (0.53%) MCSE
16 9 (0.48%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (3.19%) QA
2 47 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 44 (2.34%) NIST
4 40 (2.13%) GDPR
5 31 (1.65%) SLA
6 21 (1.12%) Accessibility
7 16 (0.85%) HIPAA
8 13 (0.69%) Actionable Recommendations
8 13 (0.69%) ISO 9001
8 13 (0.69%) PCI DSS
9 10 (0.53%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 10 (0.53%) ISO 9000
9 10 (0.53%) MISRA
10 8 (0.43%) NCSC
10 8 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 5 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 4 (0.21%) ISO 15022
13 3 (0.16%) Data Quality
13 3 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 3 (0.16%) JTAG
System Software
1 248 (13.18%) Docker
2 240 (12.75%) Active Directory
3 215 (11.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 91 (4.84%) Virtual Machines
5 70 (3.72%) Hyper-V
6 68 (3.61%) VMware ESXi
6 68 (3.61%) vSphere
7 58 (3.08%) VMware NSX
8 42 (2.23%) NFS
9 41 (2.18%) Firmware
10 26 (1.38%) KVM
11 20 (1.06%) Time Sharing Option
12 17 (0.90%) Virtual Desktop
13 15 (0.80%) Apache ZooKeeper
14 13 (0.69%) HDFS
15 11 (0.58%) iptables
16 6 (0.32%) Slurm Workload Manager
16 6 (0.32%) Veritas Cluster Server
16 6 (0.32%) VirtualBox
17 5 (0.27%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 363 (19.29%) Ansible
2 306 (16.26%) Kubernetes
3 266 (14.13%) Terraform
4 106 (5.63%) Puppet
5 104 (5.53%) Grafana
6 96 (5.10%) Prometheus
7 76 (4.04%) SCCM
8 52 (2.76%) Progress Chef
9 46 (2.44%) NetBackup
10 42 (2.23%) WSUS
11 41 (2.18%) SCOM
12 40 (2.13%) Microsoft Intune
13 39 (2.07%) vCenter Server
14 38 (2.02%) Kibana
15 36 (1.91%) Packer
16 33 (1.75%) EMC NetWorker
17 28 (1.49%) logstash
18 27 (1.43%) Tivoli Storage Manager
19 25 (1.33%) PowerCLI
20 24 (1.28%) Consul
Vendors
1 340 (18.07%) VMware
2 329 (17.48%) Microsoft
3 202 (10.73%) Red Hat
4 186 (9.88%) Oracle
5 116 (6.16%) IBM
6 107 (5.69%) Dell
7 100 (5.31%) Cisco
8 89 (4.73%) Splunk
9 81 (4.30%) HP
10 63 (3.35%) Atlassian
11 61 (3.24%) Google
12 56 (2.98%) SAP
13 43 (2.28%) Brocade
14 42 (2.23%) EMC
15 41 (2.18%) ServiceNow
16 39 (2.07%) Veeam
17 34 (1.81%) Veritas
18 31 (1.65%) Palo Alto
19 28 (1.49%) Qualys
19 28 (1.49%) Symantec