Linux Engineer Contracts in Glasgow

Linux Engineer
Scotland > Glasgow

The median Linux Engineer daily rate in Glasgow is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 31 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
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 54 78 85
Rank change year-on-year +24 +7 -6
Contract jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 18 10 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 2.20% 1.11% 0.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.32% 1.17% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 2
10th Percentile £458 - £408
25th Percentile £525 £671 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £691 £450
Median % change year-on-year -20.43% +53.61% -14.29%
75th Percentile £650 £712 £494
90th Percentile £693 - £513
Scotland median daily rate £340 £450 £450
% change year-on-year -24.44% - -14.29%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Glasgow

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Glasgow. 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 Glasgow with a recognized job title 776 853 890
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.87% 95.09% 96.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 522 603 677
10th Percentile £257 £325 £213
25th Percentile £363 £410 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +8.43%
75th Percentile £566 £575 £538
90th Percentile £619 £688 £620
Scotland median daily rate £450 £475 £470
% change year-on-year -5.26% +1.06% +10.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 21 18
10th Percentile £12.03 £12.13 £21.00
25th Percentile £16.00 £13.16 £23.77
Median hourly rate £40.94 £14.50 £37.43
Median % change year-on-year +182.34% -61.26% +113.52%
75th Percentile £53.75 £47.73 £43.36
90th Percentile £67.50 £60.55 £56.00
Scotland median hourly rate £19.50 £18.50 £37.43
% change year-on-year +5.41% -50.57% +66.36%

Linux Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Engineer in Glasgow

Linux Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Daily rate trend for Linux Engineer in Glasgow

Linux Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

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

Daily rate histogram for Linux Engineer in Glasgow

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

For the 6 months to 31 May 2024, 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 Glasgow region featuring Linux Engineer in the job title.

1 18 (100.00%) Python
1 18 (100.00%) Linux
2 14 (77.78%) Perl
3 12 (66.67%) Unix
4 9 (50.00%) OO
5 7 (38.89%) Platform Engineering
6 6 (33.33%) Social Skills
6 6 (33.33%) Observability
7 5 (27.78%) Kubernetes
7 5 (27.78%) CI/CD
7 5 (27.78%) Windows
8 4 (22.22%) Veritas
8 4 (22.22%) SAN
8 4 (22.22%) Banking
8 4 (22.22%) OpenShift
8 4 (22.22%) DevOps
8 4 (22.22%) Grafana
8 4 (22.22%) Windows Server
8 4 (22.22%) Prometheus
9 3 (16.67%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 3 (16.67%) Ansible
9 3 (16.67%) Dell DRAC
9 3 (16.67%) Investment Banking
9 3 (16.67%) Software Engineering
9 3 (16.67%) Computer Science
9 3 (16.67%) Problem Management
9 3 (16.67%) Jenkins
9 3 (16.67%) REST
9 3 (16.67%) Git

Linux Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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 2 (11.11%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 4 (22.22%) OpenShift
2 2 (11.11%) AWS
2 2 (11.11%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 4 (22.22%) SAN
2 2 (11.11%) Fibre Channel
2 2 (11.11%) iSCSI
2 2 (11.11%) NAS
3 1 (5.56%) DHCP
3 1 (5.56%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) DB2
2 1 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Git
1 3 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.56%) Artifactory
General
1 6 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (22.22%) Banking
3 3 (16.67%) Finance
3 3 (16.67%) Investment Banking
4 2 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (16.67%) REST
2 2 (11.11%) Flash
2 2 (11.11%) POSIX
3 1 (5.56%) Redfish
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (11.11%) Client/Server
2 2 (11.11%) Management Information System
2 2 (11.11%) NVMe
3 1 (5.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 18 (100.00%) Linux
2 12 (66.67%) Unix
3 5 (27.78%) Windows
4 4 (22.22%) Windows Server
5 2 (11.11%) Data ONTAP
5 2 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) OO
2 7 (38.89%) Platform Engineering
3 6 (33.33%) Observability
4 5 (27.78%) CI/CD
5 4 (22.22%) DevOps
6 3 (16.67%) Computer Science
6 3 (16.67%) Problem Management
6 3 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 3 (16.67%) Software Engineering
7 2 (11.11%) Agile
7 2 (11.11%) Capacity Management
7 2 (11.11%) Customer Requirements
7 2 (11.11%) Data Deduplication
7 2 (11.11%) Data Protection
7 2 (11.11%) High Availability
7 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Automation
7 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 2 (11.11%) Preventative Maintenance
7 2 (11.11%) SDLC
7 2 (11.11%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (100.00%) Python
2 14 (77.78%) Perl
3 3 (16.67%) SQL
4 2 (11.11%) Java
5 1 (5.56%) C
Qualifications
1 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Docker
1 2 (11.11%) GPFS
1 2 (11.11%) NFS
Systems Management
1 5 (27.78%) Kubernetes
2 4 (22.22%) Grafana
2 4 (22.22%) Prometheus
3 3 (16.67%) Ansible
3 3 (16.67%) Dell DRAC
4 2 (11.11%) NetBackup
4 2 (11.11%) Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) Veritas
2 3 (16.67%) BMC
3 2 (11.11%) Brocade
3 2 (11.11%) EMC
3 2 (11.11%) Google
3 2 (11.11%) IBM
3 2 (11.11%) NetApp
3 2 (11.11%) Sybase
4 1 (5.56%) Dell
4 1 (5.56%) HP
4 1 (5.56%) Splunk