Linux Contracts in Essex

Linux
East of England > Essex

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Essex 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 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 33 15
Rank change year-on-year +17 -18 -1
Contract jobs citing Linux 15 7 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Essex 6.70% 2.83% 11.22%
As % of the Operating Systems category 45.45% 26.92% 41.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 27
10th Percentile £299 £280 £310
25th Percentile £372 £438 £471
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £567 £500
Median % change year-on-year -24.98% +13.30% +2.09%
75th Percentile £441 £583 £630
90th Percentile £446 - £631
East of England median daily rate £550 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £24.18
25th Percentile - - £29.31
Median hourly rate - - £38.25
75th Percentile - - £46.81
90th Percentile - - £51.73
East of England median hourly rate £60.00 £58.75 £60.00
% change year-on-year +2.13% -2.08% +77.78%

All Operating Systems
Essex

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 Essex with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 33 26 106
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 14.73% 10.53% 27.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 14 60
10th Percentile £103 £160 £153
25th Percentile £188 £179 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 £288 £456
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% -36.99% +1.39%
75th Percentile £456 £583 £556
90th Percentile £550 £738 £631
East of England median daily rate £363 £425 £400
% change year-on-year -14.71% +6.25% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 6
10th Percentile £13.73 £21.96 £24.58
25th Percentile £15.04 £22.96 -
Median hourly rate £19.38 £24.62 £28.41
Median % change year-on-year -21.28% -13.34% +4.81%
75th Percentile £36.38 - £40.85
90th Percentile £59.55 - £50.00
East of England median hourly rate £57.50 £18.26 £21.50
% change year-on-year +214.98% -15.09% +21.13%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Essex

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Essex

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

Daily rate trend for Linux in Essex

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in Essex

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in Essex over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in Essex

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Essex

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux in Essex

Linux
Contract Job Locations in Essex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the Essex region over the 6 months to 31 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
Brentwood - 15 £425 - 4
Linux
East of England

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Essex 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 1 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (6.67%) Amazon Cognito
1 1 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (6.67%) Amazon Kinesis
1 1 (6.67%) Amazon S3
1 1 (6.67%) AWS
1 1 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (6.67%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
1 1 (6.67%) CloudFront
1 1 (6.67%) Route 53
1 1 (6.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) RTMP
1 1 (6.67%) RTP
1 1 (6.67%) RTSP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) GitLab
2 1 (6.67%) CMake
2 1 (6.67%) Git
General
1 6 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 9 (60.00%) Developer
2 2 (13.33%) DTV Project Manager
2 2 (13.33%) Linux Developer
2 2 (13.33%) Project Manager
2 2 (13.33%) Technical Manager
2 2 (13.33%) Technical Project Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Architect
3 1 (6.67%) Audio Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) C Developer
3 1 (6.67%) C/C++ Developer
3 1 (6.67%) C++ Developer
3 1 (6.67%) DevOps Architect
3 1 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) DTV Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Firmware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (46.67%) Yocto
2 1 (6.67%) FFmpeg
2 1 (6.67%) GStreamer
2 1 (6.67%) POSIX
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) STB
2 3 (20.00%) Digital TV
3 1 (6.67%) Device Driver
3 1 (6.67%) MPEG
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) CentOS
1 2 (13.33%) Ubuntu
2 1 (6.67%) Unix
2 1 (6.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (33.33%) Agile
1 5 (33.33%) Open Source
2 3 (20.00%) Multithreading
3 2 (13.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (13.33%) Configuration Management
3 2 (13.33%) DevOps
3 2 (13.33%) Embedded Software Development
3 2 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (6.67%) Agile Project Management
4 1 (6.67%) Auto-Scaling
4 1 (6.67%) Coaching
4 1 (6.67%) Code Quality
4 1 (6.67%) Computer Science
4 1 (6.67%) Mentoring
4 1 (6.67%) Programme Management
4 1 (6.67%) Project Management
4 1 (6.67%) Sprint Planning
4 1 (6.67%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (66.67%) C
2 5 (33.33%) Bash
3 4 (26.67%) C++
4 1 (6.67%) Java
4 1 (6.67%) JavaScript
4 1 (6.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (6.67%) Degree
1 1 (6.67%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Docker
2 1 (6.67%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Ansible
1 2 (13.33%) Kubernetes
1 2 (13.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Splunk