Linux Contracts in Leicestershire

Linux
East Midlands > Leicestershire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leicestershire 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 10 29 33
Rank change year-on-year +19 +4 -6
Contract jobs citing Linux 15 3 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leicestershire 9.38% 1.89% 0.96%
As % of the Operating Systems category 32.61% 9.09% 5.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 2 2
10th Percentile £304 - £456
25th Percentile £425 - £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £350 £468
Median % change year-on-year +42.29% -25.13% +54.55%
75th Percentile £530 - £482
90th Percentile £575 - £485
East Midlands median daily rate £503 £480 £498
% change year-on-year +4.69% -3.52% +24.38%

All Operating Systems
Leicestershire

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 Leicestershire with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 46 33 55
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leicestershire 28.75% 20.75% 17.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 27 44
10th Percentile £120 £122 £94
25th Percentile £130 £217 £130
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £338 £350 £283
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +23.89% +126.00%
75th Percentile £530 £388 £351
90th Percentile £575 £418 £416
East Midlands median daily rate £350 £375 £300
% change year-on-year -6.67% +25.00% +30.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 3
10th Percentile - £13.39 £15.35
25th Percentile - £14.43 £15.88
Median hourly rate - £16.69 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year - -9.78% +42.31%
75th Percentile - £19.72 £28.88
90th Percentile - £22.14 £34.05
East Midlands median hourly rate £17.35 £16.70 £20.00
% change year-on-year +3.89% -16.50% +35.09%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Leicestershire

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leicestershire

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

Daily rate trend for Linux in Leicestershire

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in Leicestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in Leicestershire over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in Leicestershire

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Leicestershire

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux in Leicestershire

Linux
Contract Job Locations in Leicestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the Leicestershire 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
Leicester - 15 £498 - 3
Linux
East Midlands

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leicestershire 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 (13.33%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) Fibre Channel
1 1 (6.67%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) SQL Server
2 2 (13.33%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 7 (46.67%) GitLab
General
1 7 (46.67%) Public Sector
2 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (53.33%) Systems Administrator
2 6 (40.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 4 (26.67%) Administrator
4 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 2 (13.33%) Junior
5 2 (13.33%) Linux Administrator
5 2 (13.33%) Ubuntu Administrator
6 1 (6.67%) Architect
6 1 (6.67%) Backup Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (13.33%) Grid Computing
3 1 (6.67%) Clustering
3 1 (6.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (6.67%) HP Storage
Operating Systems
1 9 (60.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (40.00%) Windows
3 4 (26.67%) Windows Server
4 2 (13.33%) Ubuntu
5 1 (6.67%) AIX
5 1 (6.67%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (26.67%) Task Automation
2 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
2 3 (20.00%) Storage Management
3 1 (6.67%) CI/CD
3 1 (6.67%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (6.67%) Compliance Management
3 1 (6.67%) Containerisation
3 1 (6.67%) High Availability
3 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (6.67%) ITIL
3 1 (6.67%) Performance Monitoring
3 1 (6.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (6.67%) Project Delivery
3 1 (6.67%) Statistics
3 1 (6.67%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (33.33%) Shell Script
2 3 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (13.33%) Bash
4 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 8 (53.33%) SC Cleared
3 2 (13.33%) RHCE
4 1 (6.67%) DV Cleared
4 1 (6.67%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (33.33%) Hyper-V
2 3 (20.00%) Docker
3 2 (13.33%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (6.67%) KVM
Systems Management
1 7 (46.67%) Ansible
2 6 (40.00%) Red Hat Satellite
3 4 (26.67%) SCCM
3 4 (26.67%) SCOM
3 4 (26.67%) SCSM
4 1 (6.67%) EMC NetWorker
4 1 (6.67%) HP Data Protector
4 1 (6.67%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 8 (53.33%) Red Hat
2 4 (26.67%) Microsoft
3 2 (13.33%) VMware
4 1 (6.67%) Brocade
4 1 (6.67%) Cisco
4 1 (6.67%) EMC
4 1 (6.67%) HP
4 1 (6.67%) Oracle
4 1 (6.67%) Symantec