Unix Linux Engineer Contracts in England

Unix/Linux Engineer
UK > England

The median Unix/Linux Engineer daily rate in England is £475, 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 501 579 741
Rank change year-on-year +78 +162 +11
Contract jobs requiring a Unix Linux Engineer 13 10 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.042% 0.025% 0.034%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.045% 0.027% 0.036%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 20
10th Percentile - £444 £385
25th Percentile £463 £465 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -12.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £495 £519 £600
90th Percentile £528 £524 -
UK median daily rate £475 £495 £550
% change year-on-year -4.04% -10.00% +22.22%

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%

Unix Linux Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Unix Linux Engineer in England

Unix Linux Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Unix Linux Engineer in England

Unix Linux Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Unix Linux Engineer in England

Unix 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 Unix 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 West - 7 £475 -
East of England - 3 £550 -
London +46 1 - -
North of England +29 1 - -
North West +26 1 - -
South East - 1 £480 -
Unix Linux Engineer
UK

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

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

1 13 (100.00%) Unix
1 13 (100.00%) Linux
2 11 (84.62%) VMware
2 11 (84.62%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (84.62%) ITIL
3 8 (61.54%) TCP/IP
3 8 (61.54%) Configuration Management
4 7 (53.85%) CheckPoint
4 7 (53.85%) Firewall
4 7 (53.85%) IPsec
4 7 (53.85%) Samba
4 7 (53.85%) VPN
4 7 (53.85%) HTTPS
4 7 (53.85%) MQSeries
4 7 (53.85%) LDAP
4 7 (53.85%) FTP
4 7 (53.85%) HTTP
4 7 (53.85%) tcpdump
4 7 (53.85%) Wireshark
4 7 (53.85%) Network Security
5 4 (30.77%) Security Cleared
5 4 (30.77%) Ansible
6 3 (23.08%) Red Hat Satellite
6 3 (23.08%) Rancher
6 3 (23.08%) Kubernetes
6 3 (23.08%) SCOM
6 3 (23.08%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (23.08%) Hyper-V
6 3 (23.08%) IBM
6 3 (23.08%) HP

Unix 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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (53.85%) MQSeries
2 2 (15.38%) Apache
3 1 (7.69%) Tomcat
3 1 (7.69%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.69%) AWS
1 1 (7.69%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 8 (61.54%) TCP/IP
2 7 (53.85%) Firewall
2 7 (53.85%) FTP
2 7 (53.85%) HTTP
2 7 (53.85%) HTTPS
2 7 (53.85%) IPsec
2 7 (53.85%) Network Security
2 7 (53.85%) tcpdump
2 7 (53.85%) VPN
2 7 (53.85%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (7.69%) PowerCenter
General
1 2 (15.38%) Finance
1 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
2 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (53.85%) LDAP
Operating Systems
1 13 (100.00%) Linux
1 13 (100.00%) Unix
2 3 (23.08%) Solaris
3 1 (7.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (84.62%) ITIL
2 8 (61.54%) Configuration Management
3 3 (23.08%) Change Management
4 1 (7.69%) Batch Scheduling
4 1 (7.69%) ETL
4 1 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (7.69%) Process Improvement
4 1 (7.69%) Server Management
4 1 (7.69%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.69%) Shell Script
1 1 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) DV Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 11 (84.62%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (53.85%) Samba
3 3 (23.08%) Hyper-V
3 3 (23.08%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) Ansible
2 3 (23.08%) Kubernetes
2 3 (23.08%) Rancher
2 3 (23.08%) Red Hat Satellite
2 3 (23.08%) SCOM
2 3 (23.08%) Tivoli Identity Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Control-M
3 1 (7.69%) Puppet
Vendors
1 11 (84.62%) VMware
2 7 (53.85%) CheckPoint
3 3 (23.08%) Dell
3 3 (23.08%) HP
3 3 (23.08%) IBM
3 3 (23.08%) Red Hat
4 1 (7.69%) F5
4 1 (7.69%) Oracle