Linux Contracts in Lancashire

Linux
North West > Lancashire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Lancashire 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 24 17 27
Rank change year-on-year -7 +10 -2
Contract jobs citing Linux 5 19 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Lancashire 2.17% 7.88% 5.26%
As % of the Operating Systems category 35.71% 30.16% 26.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 13
10th Percentile - £528 -
25th Percentile - £550 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £600 £675
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -11.11% +58.82%
75th Percentile - - £700
90th Percentile - £645 £730
North West median daily rate £450 £525 £580
% change year-on-year -14.29% -9.48% +29.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 9 0
10th Percentile £47.30 - -
25th Percentile £47.75 £25.75 -
Median hourly rate £48.00 £37.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +28.00% - -
75th Percentile £48.75 £43.39 -
90th Percentile £50.10 £52.13 -
North West median hourly rate £48.00 £30.00 £37.14
% change year-on-year +60.00% -19.22% -18.37%

All Operating Systems
Lancashire

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 Lancashire with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 14 63 49
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 6.09% 26.14% 19.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 18 41
10th Percentile £174 £139 £156
25th Percentile £184 £143 £175
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £231 £425
Median % change year-on-year -13.51% -45.59% +41.67%
75th Percentile £215 £536 £650
90th Percentile £435 £600 £700
North West median daily rate £431 £475 £456
% change year-on-year -9.21% +4.11% +21.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 25 7
10th Percentile £22.72 £25.75 £11.25
25th Percentile £31.44 £29.30 £15.31
Median hourly rate £48.00 £42.50 £17.91
Median % change year-on-year +12.94% +137.30% +43.28%
75th Percentile - £47.83 £29.88
90th Percentile £49.50 £49.52 £45.03
North West median hourly rate £15.00 £27.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -45.45% +37.50% +25.00%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Lancashire

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

Daily rate trend for Linux in Lancashire

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux in Lancashire

Linux
Contract Job Locations in Lancashire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the Lancashire region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
Preston +3 2 £650 - 1
Lancaster - 1 - -
Linux
North West

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Lancashire 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:

Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Link 16
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
1 1 (20.00%) Mercurial
1 1 (20.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (60.00%) Aerospace
2 1 (20.00%) Avionics
2 1 (20.00%) Military
2 1 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Public Speaking
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (20.00%) Lucene
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) SDLC
3 1 (20.00%) Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (20.00%) Creative Thinking
3 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Information Retrieval
3 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (20.00%) Open Source
3 1 (20.00%) Product Management
3 1 (20.00%) QMS
3 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (20.00%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) C++
2 1 (20.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft