Linux Contracts in Glasgow

Linux
Scotland > Glasgow

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 15 5 19
Rank change year-on-year -10 +14 0
Contract jobs citing Linux 93 169 78
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 11.11% 19.20% 8.25%
As % of the Operating Systems category 52.25% 74.45% 46.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 104 55
10th Percentile £313 £400 £401
25th Percentile £338 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £522 £621 £525
Median % change year-on-year -15.98% +18.33% +23.53%
75th Percentile £655 £732 £575
90th Percentile £750 £750 £645
Scotland median daily rate £550 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 0
10th Percentile - £51.58 -
25th Percentile £57.50 £57.35 -
Median hourly rate £60.00 £62.46 -
Median % change year-on-year -3.94% - -
75th Percentile £62.50 £67.11 -
90th Percentile - £68.09 -
Scotland median hourly rate £60.25 £59.79 £54.50
% change year-on-year +0.77% +9.71% -18.05%

All Operating Systems
Glasgow

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 Glasgow with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 178 227 166
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 21.27% 25.80% 17.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 153 115
10th Percentile £200 £250 £179
25th Percentile £313 £413 £308
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year -25.45% +22.22% +18.42%
75th Percentile £600 £676 £550
90th Percentile £735 £750 £613
Scotland median daily rate £425 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -10.53% +5.56% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 2
10th Percentile £30.10 £13.96 £15.79
25th Percentile £51.25 £31.12 £16.91
Median hourly rate £60.00 £57.50 £20.43
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +181.45% -42.62%
75th Percentile £62.50 £63.56 £24.80
90th Percentile - £67.44 £26.42
Scotland median hourly rate £39.25 £47.73 £17.72
% change year-on-year -17.77% +169.36% +1.26%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Glasgow

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Daily rate trend for Linux in Glasgow

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in Glasgow over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in Glasgow

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux in Glasgow

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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 6 (6.45%) IIS
2 5 (5.38%) SAS
3 4 (4.30%) Confluence
4 2 (2.15%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (1.08%) Jupyter
5 1 (1.08%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 20 (21.51%) AWS
2 9 (9.68%) Azure
3 7 (7.53%) OpenShift
4 6 (6.45%) IaaS
5 2 (2.15%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.08%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.08%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (1.08%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (1.08%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 1 (1.08%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 1 (1.08%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.08%) AWS Fargate
6 1 (1.08%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.08%) GCP
6 1 (1.08%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.08%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.08%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.08%) Route 53
6 1 (1.08%) Serverless
6 1 (1.08%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.53%) DNS
2 6 (6.45%) SAN
3 5 (5.38%) DHCP
3 5 (5.38%) Fibre Channel
3 5 (5.38%) iSCSI
4 3 (3.23%) TCP/IP
5 2 (2.15%) Firewall
5 2 (2.15%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.38%) MariaDB
1 5 (5.38%) MySQL
1 5 (5.38%) Oracle Database
1 5 (5.38%) Oracle Database 12c
1 5 (5.38%) Oracle8/8i Database
2 4 (4.30%) DB2
2 4 (4.30%) Metadata
3 3 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.08%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.08%) InfluxDB
4 1 (1.08%) Power BI
4 1 (1.08%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (7.53%) Git
1 7 (7.53%) Jenkins
2 5 (5.38%) Artifactory
2 5 (5.38%) Cucumber
2 5 (5.38%) Selenium
3 4 (4.30%) JIRA
4 3 (3.23%) Burp Suite
4 3 (3.23%) WebDriver
5 1 (1.08%) Bitbucket Server
5 1 (1.08%) Gatling
5 1 (1.08%) GitLab
5 1 (1.08%) JMeter
5 1 (1.08%) Terragrunt
General
1 20 (21.51%) Finance
2 18 (19.35%) Social Skills
3 14 (15.05%) Banking
4 9 (9.68%) Investment Banking
5 8 (8.60%) Financial Institution
6 7 (7.53%) Public Sector
7 4 (4.30%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (26.88%) Linux Engineer
1 25 (26.88%) Python Engineer
2 17 (18.28%) DevOps Engineer
3 16 (17.20%) Developer
4 12 (12.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 12 (12.90%) Java Developer
4 12 (12.90%) Java Scala Developer
4 12 (12.90%) Linux Developer
4 12 (12.90%) Linux Scripter
4 12 (12.90%) Scala Developer
5 10 (10.75%) Unix Engineer
5 10 (10.75%) Unix Linux Engineer
6 9 (9.68%) Platform Engineer
7 8 (8.60%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
7 8 (8.60%) Network Engineer
8 7 (7.53%) Hardware Engineer
9 6 (6.45%) 3rd Line Support
9 6 (6.45%) Linux/Unix DevOps
9 6 (6.45%) Virtualisation Engineer
9 6 (6.45%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (7.53%) Middleware
2 6 (6.45%) REST
3 5 (5.38%) Flash
3 5 (5.38%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 5 (5.38%) POSIX
4 3 (3.23%) Gherkin
4 3 (3.23%) Web Services
5 2 (2.15%) Redfish
5 2 (2.15%) RESTful
6 1 (1.08%) AWS CDK
6 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Graph
6 1 (1.08%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.68%) Data Centre
2 5 (5.38%) Linux Command Line
2 5 (5.38%) NVMe
3 4 (4.30%) Algorithms
3 4 (4.30%) Client/Server
3 4 (4.30%) Data Structures
3 4 (4.30%) Embedded Systems
4 3 (3.23%) Cyber Defence
4 3 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (3.23%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.15%) Distributed Applications
5 2 (2.15%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.15%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.08%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 28 (30.11%) Unix
2 17 (18.28%) Windows
3 12 (12.90%) Windows Server
4 9 (9.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (6.45%) CentOS
5 6 (6.45%) Debian
5 6 (6.45%) Windows Server 2008
5 6 (6.45%) Windows Server 2012
5 6 (6.45%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (4.30%) Data ONTAP
7 3 (3.23%) Embedded Linux
7 3 (3.23%) Kali Linux
8 1 (1.08%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (26.88%) DevOps
2 23 (24.73%) Agile
3 22 (23.66%) OO
4 21 (22.58%) Software Engineering
5 12 (12.90%) CI/CD
5 12 (12.90%) Observability
5 12 (12.90%) Task Automation
6 11 (11.83%) Platform Engineering
7 10 (10.75%) Test Automation
8 9 (9.68%) Containerisation
8 9 (9.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 8 (8.60%) High Availability
9 8 (8.60%) Infrastructure as Code
10 7 (7.53%) Computer Science
10 7 (7.53%) Migration
10 7 (7.53%) Problem Management
10 7 (7.53%) SDLC
11 6 (6.45%) Capacity Planning
11 6 (6.45%) Investment Management
11 6 (6.45%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 51 (54.84%) Python
2 33 (35.48%) Perl
3 23 (24.73%) Java
4 12 (12.90%) Scala
5 6 (6.45%) SQL
6 5 (5.38%) Shell Script
7 3 (3.23%) C
7 3 (3.23%) C++
7 3 (3.23%) Embedded C++
7 3 (3.23%) JavaScript
8 2 (2.15%) Bash
8 2 (2.15%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.08%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 10 (10.75%) Security Cleared
2 6 (6.45%) MCSA
2 6 (6.45%) MCSE
2 6 (6.45%) Microsoft Certification
2 6 (6.45%) RHCT
2 6 (6.45%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.23%) OSCP
4 2 (2.15%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.30%) Disclosure Scotland
2 3 (3.23%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 15 (16.13%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (6.45%) Active Directory
2 6 (6.45%) Hyper-V
2 6 (6.45%) KVM
3 5 (5.38%) Docker
3 5 (5.38%) NFS
3 5 (5.38%) Oracle RAC
4 4 (4.30%) GPFS
5 2 (2.15%) Firmware
5 2 (2.15%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 16 (17.20%) Kubernetes
2 9 (9.68%) Terraform
3 7 (7.53%) Ansible
3 7 (7.53%) Grafana
4 6 (6.45%) Prometheus
5 5 (5.38%) Oracle RMAN
6 4 (4.30%) Data Guard
6 4 (4.30%) Veritas Storage Foundation
7 3 (3.23%) Dell DRAC
8 2 (2.15%) NetBackup
8 2 (2.15%) Packer
8 2 (2.15%) Progress Chef
9 1 (1.08%) Argo
9 1 (1.08%) Istio
9 1 (1.08%) Kibana
9 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (1.08%) Puppet
9 1 (1.08%) SCCM
Vendors
1 15 (16.13%) VMware
2 8 (8.60%) Oracle
2 8 (8.60%) Red Hat
3 6 (6.45%) Citrix
3 6 (6.45%) Veritas
4 5 (5.38%) Microsoft
5 4 (4.30%) Brocade
5 4 (4.30%) EMC
5 4 (4.30%) Google
5 4 (4.30%) IBM
5 4 (4.30%) NetApp
5 4 (4.30%) Sybase
6 3 (3.23%) BMC
6 3 (3.23%) Splunk
7 2 (2.15%) Atlassian
7 2 (2.15%) HP
8 1 (1.08%) Dell