Linux Administrator Contracts in London

Linux Administrator
England > London

The median Linux Administrator daily rate in London is £425 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 380 462 555
Rank change year-on-year +82 +93 -104
Contract jobs requiring a Linux Administrator 10 15 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.057% 0.059% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.061% 0.062% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 10 28
10th Percentile £325 £400 £361
25th Percentile £344 £425 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +11.76% +6.25%
75th Percentile £450 £640 £515
90th Percentile £458 £654 £572
England median daily rate £425 £474 £425
% change year-on-year -10.29% +11.47% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
10th Percentile - £47.88 £22.24
25th Percentile - £48.44 £22.59
Median hourly rate - £51.25 £26.38
Median % change year-on-year - +94.31% -
75th Percentile - £53.44 £31.34
90th Percentile - £53.63 £32.41
England median hourly rate - £52.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +10.53% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 16,359 24,202 36,895
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.56% 95.18% 95.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,819 17,639 27,124
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £440 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £678 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 326 276 418
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.74 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.22 £22.60 £22.91
Median hourly rate £27.81 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.75% +2.86% +8.63%
75th Percentile £46.77 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £66.75 £82.38 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.63 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.39% +88.21% +11.21%

Linux Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Administrator in London

Linux Administrator
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Linux Administrator in London

Linux Administrator
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux Administrator in London

Linux Administrator
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux Administrator within the London region over the 6 months to 31 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
East London - 1 £475 -
Linux Administrator
England

Linux Administrator Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

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

1 10 (100.00%) Linux
2 4 (40.00%) DNS
3 3 (30.00%) Apache
3 3 (30.00%) Tomcat
3 3 (30.00%) Red Hat
3 3 (30.00%) SMTP
3 3 (30.00%) Load Balancing
3 3 (30.00%) Puppet
3 3 (30.00%) F5
3 3 (30.00%) Cloudflare
3 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (20.00%) Patch Management
4 2 (20.00%) Azure
4 2 (20.00%) AWS
4 2 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (20.00%) Data Protection
4 2 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (20.00%) Cisco
5 1 (10.00%) CCIE
5 1 (10.00%) CCNP
5 1 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (10.00%) Python
5 1 (10.00%) Shell Script
5 1 (10.00%) IIS
5 1 (10.00%) Unix
5 1 (10.00%) Windows
5 1 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (10.00%) Finance
5 1 (10.00%) CMS

Linux Administrator Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 3 (30.00%) Apache
1 3 (30.00%) Tomcat
2 1 (10.00%) CMS
2 1 (10.00%) IIS
2 1 (10.00%) Sitecore CMS
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) Cloudflare
2 2 (20.00%) AWS
2 2 (20.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) DNS
2 3 (30.00%) SMTP
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Banking
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (10.00%) Unix
3 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (30.00%) Load Balancing
2 2 (20.00%) Data Protection
2 2 (20.00%) Patch Management
3 1 (10.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (10.00%) Open Source
3 1 (10.00%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (10.00%) Security Patching
3 1 (10.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (10.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (10.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) Python
1 1 (10.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) CCIE
1 1 (10.00%) CCNP
1 1 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) F5
1 3 (30.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (20.00%) Cisco
3 1 (10.00%) Qualys
3 1 (10.00%) Sitecore
3 1 (10.00%) Splunk