Senior Linux Engineer Contracts in England

Senior Linux Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior Linux Engineer daily rate in England is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 503 577 730
Rank change year-on-year +74 +153 +22
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Linux Engineer 11 12 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.035% 0.030% 0.050%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.038% 0.032% 0.053%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 12 29
10th Percentile - £525 £363
25th Percentile £475 £610 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £638 £450
Median % change year-on-year -21.57% +41.67% -16.67%
75th Percentile £525 £703 £523
90th Percentile - £746 £575
UK median daily rate £500 £625 £450
% change year-on-year -20.00% +38.89% -21.05%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 28,953 37,638 64,520
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.94% 93.75% 95.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,687 26,172 45,824
10th Percentile £300 £300 £313
25th Percentile £413 £418 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +7.32%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,111 1,422 1,621
10th Percentile £15.10 £15.25 £13.25
25th Percentile £21.15 £19.25 £16.69
Median hourly rate £41.50 £45.94 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.66% +53.13% +50.00%
75th Percentile £66.61 £65.00 £61.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £38.00 £45.00 £27.73
% change year-on-year -15.56% +62.28% +38.65%

Senior Linux Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Linux Engineer in England

Senior Linux Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Linux Engineer in England

Senior Linux Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Linux Engineer in England

Senior Linux Engineer
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 Senior Linux Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 31 October 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
South East +45 9 £500 -13.42% 2
London +48 2 - - 3
Senior Linux Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 31 October 2024, Senior Linux Engineer 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 Senior Linux Engineer in the job title.

1 11 (100.00%) Linux
2 10 (90.91%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (81.82%) Google
3 9 (81.82%) Embedded Linux
3 9 (81.82%) Clean Code
3 9 (81.82%) Storyboarding
3 9 (81.82%) Design Patterns
3 9 (81.82%) Continuous Integration
3 9 (81.82%) Multithreading
3 9 (81.82%) Kanban
3 9 (81.82%) Git
3 9 (81.82%) Test Automation
3 9 (81.82%) Rational DOORS
3 9 (81.82%) GoogleTest
3 9 (81.82%) Bitbucket
3 9 (81.82%) Jenkins
3 9 (81.82%) SOLID
3 9 (81.82%) TestRail
3 9 (81.82%) Multithreaded Programming
3 9 (81.82%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (81.82%) Software Engineering
3 9 (81.82%) Degree
3 9 (81.82%) JIRA
3 9 (81.82%) Computer Science
3 9 (81.82%) C++
3 9 (81.82%) Scrum
3 9 (81.82%) Agile
3 9 (81.82%) OO
3 9 (81.82%) OOD
4 6 (54.55%) Self-Motivation

Senior Linux Engineer 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) DHCP
1 1 (9.09%) DNS
1 1 (9.09%) FTP
1 1 (9.09%) InfiniBand
1 1 (9.09%) SSH
1 1 (9.09%) TCP/IP
1 1 (9.09%) Telnet
Development Applications
1 9 (81.82%) Bitbucket
1 9 (81.82%) Git
1 9 (81.82%) GoogleTest
1 9 (81.82%) Jenkins
1 9 (81.82%) JIRA
1 9 (81.82%) Rational DOORS
1 9 (81.82%) TestRail
General
1 6 (54.55%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Electronics
2 1 (9.09%) Finance
2 1 (9.09%) Manufacturing
2 1 (9.09%) Marketing
2 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
2 1 (9.09%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (54.55%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (100.00%) Linux
2 9 (81.82%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (81.82%) Agile
2 9 (81.82%) Clean Code
2 9 (81.82%) Computer Science
2 9 (81.82%) Continuous Integration
2 9 (81.82%) Design Patterns
2 9 (81.82%) Kanban
2 9 (81.82%) Multithreaded Programming
2 9 (81.82%) Multithreading
2 9 (81.82%) OO
2 9 (81.82%) OOD
2 9 (81.82%) Scrum
2 9 (81.82%) Software Engineering
2 9 (81.82%) SOLID
2 9 (81.82%) Storyboarding
2 9 (81.82%) Test Automation
3 2 (18.18%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (9.09%) Digital Marketing
4 1 (9.09%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (81.82%) C++
2 1 (9.09%) Bash
2 1 (9.09%) Python
2 1 (9.09%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 9 (81.82%) Computer Science Degree
1 9 (81.82%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) NFS
1 1 (9.09%) Samba
Vendors
1 9 (81.82%) Google
2 1 (9.09%) SAP