Linux Contracts in Hertfordshire

Linux
East of England > Hertfordshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire 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 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 11 12 8
Rank change year-on-year +1 -4 +24
Contract jobs citing Linux 81 85 100
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 9.68% 11.41% 12.71%
As % of the Operating Systems category 67.50% 38.64% 59.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 65 26
10th Percentile £320 £260 £375
25th Percentile £350 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +2.56% +14.71%
75th Percentile £650 £631 £555
90th Percentile £715 £645 £661
East of England median daily rate £550 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 6 27
10th Percentile £56.25 £68.13 £47.50
25th Percentile - £71.25 £55.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £72.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.24% +20.83% +26.32%
75th Percentile £65.00 £73.75 -
90th Percentile - £74.13 -
East of England median hourly rate £60.00 £58.75 £60.00
% change year-on-year +2.13% -2.08% +200.00%

All Operating Systems
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 120 220 167
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 14.34% 29.53% 21.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 176 77
10th Percentile £258 £186 £160
25th Percentile £325 £260 £220
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £466 £375
Median % change year-on-year +17.96% +24.33% -
75th Percentile £575 £631 £488
90th Percentile £670 £700 £559
East of England median daily rate £350 £425 £400
% change year-on-year -17.65% +6.25% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 11 34
10th Percentile £54.00 £16.50 £16.85
25th Percentile - £33.27 £47.50
Median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +18.18% +129.17%
75th Percentile £65.00 £73.75 £60.00
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £57.50 £17.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year +238.24% -19.05% +18.31%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Hertfordshire

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Linux in Hertfordshire

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in Hertfordshire

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux in Hertfordshire

Linux
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 29 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
Stevenage -5 57 £550 +10.00% 13
Hemel Hempstead - 11 £650 - 6
Hatfield -3 7 £350 +40.00%
Watford - 4 £350 -
Hertford - 1 - - 2
Linux
East of England

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 14 (17.28%) CMS
2 4 (4.94%) Apache
2 4 (4.94%) IIS
2 4 (4.94%) NetWeaver
2 4 (4.94%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 7 (8.64%) Simulink
2 4 (4.94%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (4.94%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 1 (1.23%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (12.35%) TCP/IP
2 8 (9.88%) HTTP
3 6 (7.41%) Ethernet
4 5 (6.17%) 5G
4 5 (6.17%) FTP
4 5 (6.17%) NAS
4 5 (6.17%) Radio Access Network
5 4 (4.94%) DNS
5 4 (4.94%) H.323
5 4 (4.94%) SMTP
5 4 (4.94%) SSL
5 4 (4.94%) Wireshark
6 2 (2.47%) SAN
7 1 (1.23%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (1.23%) DVB
7 1 (1.23%) Firewall
7 1 (1.23%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (1.23%) Unified Communications
7 1 (1.23%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.17%) SQL Server
2 4 (4.94%) SAP BW
2 4 (4.94%) SAP HANA
3 1 (1.23%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 9 (11.11%) Visual Studio
2 7 (8.64%) Eclipse
3 4 (4.94%) gcov
3 4 (4.94%) GDB
3 4 (4.94%) Git
3 4 (4.94%) Gradle
3 4 (4.94%) JIRA
3 4 (4.94%) Subversion
4 2 (2.47%) GitLab
General
1 12 (14.81%) Social Skills
2 9 (11.11%) Telecoms
3 6 (7.41%) Military
3 6 (7.41%) Multimedia
3 6 (7.41%) Presentation Skills
4 4 (4.94%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (4.94%) Legal
5 2 (2.47%) Aerospace
5 2 (2.47%) Law
6 1 (1.23%) Advertising
6 1 (1.23%) Aviation
6 1 (1.23%) Electronics
6 1 (1.23%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 17 (20.99%) Software Engineer
2 16 (19.75%) Linux Engineer
3 14 (17.28%) Analyst
3 14 (17.28%) SOC Analyst
4 13 (16.05%) Storage Engineer
5 12 (14.81%) C++ Software Engineer
6 8 (9.88%) C Software Engineer
6 8 (9.88%) C# Software Engineer
6 8 (9.88%) C/C++ Software Engineer
6 8 (9.88%) Senior
6 8 (9.88%) Senior Analyst
7 7 (8.64%) Real Time Engineer
7 7 (8.64%) Real Time Software Engineer
8 6 (7.41%) Developer
9 5 (6.17%) C++ Developer
9 5 (6.17%) Design Engineer
9 5 (6.17%) Infrastructure Design Engineer
9 5 (6.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (4.94%) SAP Basis Consultant
10 4 (4.94%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (9.88%) Web Services
2 6 (7.41%) Node.js
3 5 (6.17%) LDAP
4 4 (4.94%) SAP Basis
4 4 (4.94%) SAP Fiori
5 1 (1.23%) GStreamer
Miscellaneous
1 12 (14.81%) Cyberattack
2 11 (13.58%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 11 (13.58%) Security Operations Centre
3 5 (6.17%) Management Information System
3 5 (6.17%) PKI
4 4 (4.94%) IVR
5 2 (2.47%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (1.23%) Digital TV
6 1 (1.23%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (1.23%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 41 (50.62%) Windows
2 10 (12.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (11.11%) Unix
4 7 (8.64%) Solaris
5 6 (7.41%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (6.17%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (1.23%) CentOS
7 1 (1.23%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (1.23%) Ubuntu
7 1 (1.23%) Windows Server
7 1 (1.23%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (22.22%) Incident Response
1 18 (22.22%) Software Engineering
2 15 (18.52%) Cybersecurity
3 13 (16.05%) Change Management
3 13 (16.05%) Visualisation
4 11 (13.58%) Migration
4 11 (13.58%) Security Operations
5 10 (12.35%) Agile
6 8 (9.88%) CI/CD
6 8 (9.88%) Digital Twin
6 8 (9.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 8 (9.88%) Mathematics
6 8 (9.88%) Synthetic Environment
7 7 (8.64%) Data Analysis
7 7 (8.64%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
7 7 (8.64%) Mathematical Modelling
7 7 (8.64%) Multithreading
7 7 (8.64%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (7.41%) TDD
8 6 (7.41%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 22 (27.16%) C++
2 12 (14.81%) C
3 9 (11.11%) C#
3 9 (11.11%) Python
4 7 (8.64%) JavaScript
4 7 (8.64%) MATLAB
5 2 (2.47%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 46 (56.79%) Security Cleared
2 30 (37.04%) DV Cleared
3 6 (7.41%) SC Cleared
4 4 (4.94%) SAP Certification
5 2 (2.47%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.47%) Degree
6 1 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.23%) Linux+ Certification
6 1 (1.23%) LPIC
6 1 (1.23%) RHCE
System Software
1 14 (17.28%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (14.81%) Active Directory
3 5 (6.17%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (3.70%) Docker
4 3 (3.70%) Hyper-V
4 3 (3.70%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (2.47%) LXC
6 1 (1.23%) HDFS
6 1 (1.23%) KVM
6 1 (1.23%) NFS
6 1 (1.23%) Xen
Systems Management
1 4 (4.94%) Ansible
1 4 (4.94%) Kubernetes
1 4 (4.94%) SCOM
2 3 (3.70%) Rancher
2 3 (3.70%) Red Hat Satellite
2 3 (3.70%) Tivoli Identity Manager
3 2 (2.47%) Proxmox
4 1 (1.23%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.23%) Puppet
4 1 (1.23%) SCCM
Vendors
1 27 (33.33%) VMware
2 23 (28.40%) Microsoft
3 17 (20.99%) Red Hat
4 14 (17.28%) Darktrace
4 14 (17.28%) FireEye
4 14 (17.28%) LogRhythm
4 14 (17.28%) Splunk
5 13 (16.05%) NetApp
6 4 (4.94%) Avaya
6 4 (4.94%) IronPort
6 4 (4.94%) Klocwork
6 4 (4.94%) Perforce
6 4 (4.94%) SAP
6 4 (4.94%) Symantec
6 4 (4.94%) Verint
7 3 (3.70%) Dell
7 3 (3.70%) HP
7 3 (3.70%) IBM
8 1 (1.23%) Cisco
8 1 (1.23%) Sage