Linux Contracts in London

Linux
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 44 29 37
Rank change year-on-year -15 +8 -4
Contract jobs citing Linux 818 1,729 2,448
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 4.63% 6.58% 6.39%
As % of the Operating Systems category 38.97% 45.62% 46.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 574 1,263 1,810
10th Percentile £325 £450 £435
25th Percentile £450 £521 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £561 £625 £610
Median % change year-on-year -10.20% +2.46% +16.19%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £700
90th Percentile £775 £823 £775
England median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 17 20
10th Percentile - £20.00 £27.86
25th Percentile - £51.25 £40.05
Median hourly rate £62.50 £75.00 £49.29
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +52.16% -1.42%
75th Percentile - - £70.31
90th Percentile - £86.25 £80.95
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year - +8.33% +26.32%

All Operating Systems
London

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 London with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 2,099 3,790 5,232
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.87% 14.43% 13.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,502 2,767 3,786
10th Percentile £200 £213 £225
25th Percentile £350 £404 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £631 £675 £669
90th Percentile £750 £767 £750
England median daily rate £470 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -8.29% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 62 100
10th Percentile £14.68 £18.93 £16.13
25th Percentile £17.96 £22.75 £21.88
Median hourly rate £22.00 £43.75 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.71% +75.00% -41.52%
75th Percentile £25.14 £68.38 £50.00
90th Percentile £60.00 £82.30 £72.68
England median hourly rate £22.00 £37.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year -41.33% +70.45% +23.94%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in London

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Linux in London

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in London

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux in London

Linux
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 within the London region over the 6 months to 9 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
Central London -7 112 £600 -6.98% 29
West London +10 22 £488 -10.34% 22
East London 0 11 £450 -40.00% 3
South London -25 7 £511 -8.75% 10
North London +1 2 £250 -52.38% 2
Linux
England

Linux
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 46 (5.62%) nginx
2 44 (5.38%) OpenStack
3 42 (5.13%) Confluence
4 30 (3.67%) Apache
5 13 (1.59%) Tomcat
6 11 (1.34%) Apache Spark
7 10 (1.22%) IIS
7 10 (1.22%) JBoss
7 10 (1.22%) Microsoft Exchange
7 10 (1.22%) SAS
8 7 (0.86%) SharePoint
9 6 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
10 5 (0.61%) Oracle Self-Service HR
11 4 (0.49%) Luigi
12 3 (0.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.37%) MQSeries
13 2 (0.24%) IBM Domino
13 2 (0.24%) NetWeaver
13 2 (0.24%) WebLogic
13 2 (0.24%) WebSphere
Applications
1 12 (1.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.86%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.24%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.12%) Weka
Business Applications
1 12 (1.47%) ION Anvil
2 9 (1.10%) Loan IQ
3 8 (0.98%) ION MarketView
4 6 (0.73%) Temenos T24
5 5 (0.61%) Endur
6 4 (0.49%) Aladdin
6 4 (0.49%) SimCorp Dimension
7 3 (0.37%) Fidessa
7 3 (0.37%) Global One
7 3 (0.37%) Shopify
8 2 (0.24%) Advent Geneva
8 2 (0.24%) Front Arena
8 2 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
8 2 (0.24%) SAP IBP
8 2 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
9 1 (0.12%) BusinessWorks
9 1 (0.12%) Cloudability
9 1 (0.12%) R3 Corda
9 1 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 251 (30.68%) AWS
2 187 (22.86%) Azure
3 58 (7.09%) GCP
3 58 (7.09%) GitHub
4 51 (6.23%) PaaS
5 35 (4.28%) Serverless
6 28 (3.42%) SaaS
7 27 (3.30%) Amazon EC2
8 26 (3.18%) Amazon S3
8 26 (3.18%) Azure DevOps
9 25 (3.06%) AWS CloudFormation
10 23 (2.81%) Cloud Computing
10 23 (2.81%) IaaS
11 22 (2.69%) OpenShift
12 20 (2.44%) Azure AKS
12 20 (2.44%) Entra ID
12 20 (2.44%) GitHub Actions
13 19 (2.32%) Amazon EKS
14 18 (2.20%) AWS Lambda
15 17 (2.08%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Communications & Networking
1 73 (8.92%) Firewall
2 48 (5.87%) DNS
3 36 (4.40%) TCP/IP
4 25 (3.06%) HTTP
5 24 (2.93%) SSL
5 24 (2.93%) VPN
6 21 (2.57%) SSH
7 20 (2.44%) DHCP
7 20 (2.44%) SAN
8 18 (2.20%) NAS
8 18 (2.20%) Network Security
9 16 (1.96%) FTP
10 14 (1.71%) Kerberos
11 12 (1.47%) LAN
11 12 (1.47%) VLAN
12 11 (1.34%) Wireless
13 10 (1.22%) Cisco Nexus
13 10 (1.22%) Wi-Fi
14 9 (1.10%) WAN
15 7 (0.86%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (8.19%) SQL Server
2 47 (5.75%) Relational Database
3 44 (5.38%) MongoDB
4 39 (4.77%) MySQL
5 37 (4.52%) PostgreSQL
6 33 (4.03%) NoSQL
7 24 (2.93%) Elasticsearch
8 23 (2.81%) RDBMS
9 22 (2.69%) Oracle Database
10 18 (2.20%) Big Data
11 17 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
11 17 (2.08%) KDB
12 16 (1.96%) Data Lake
13 15 (1.83%) Hadoop
14 12 (1.47%) DB2
15 10 (1.22%) Apache Cassandra
16 9 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
16 9 (1.10%) Sybase ASE
17 7 (0.86%) Power BI
18 6 (0.73%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 112 (13.69%) Jenkins
2 102 (12.47%) Git
3 62 (7.58%) GitLab
4 58 (7.09%) JIRA
5 21 (2.57%) Bitbucket
6 18 (2.20%) Mockito
6 18 (2.20%) TeamCity
7 17 (2.08%) Artifactory
8 14 (1.71%) Cypress.io
9 12 (1.47%) JMeter
10 11 (1.34%) Cucumber
10 11 (1.34%) JUnit
11 10 (1.22%) Maven
11 10 (1.22%) Sonatype Nexus
11 10 (1.22%) Visual Studio
12 9 (1.10%) Selenium
13 8 (0.98%) SonarQube
14 7 (0.86%) Subversion
15 6 (0.73%) Gatling
15 6 (0.73%) Gradle
General
1 216 (26.41%) Finance
2 160 (19.56%) Social Skills
3 102 (12.47%) Banking
4 82 (10.02%) Analytical Skills
5 66 (8.07%) Public Sector
6 46 (5.62%) Investment Banking
7 32 (3.91%) Telecoms
8 31 (3.79%) Front Office
9 21 (2.57%) Marketing
10 19 (2.32%) Manufacturing
11 16 (1.96%) Electronics
12 14 (1.71%) Financial Institution
13 12 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
14 11 (1.34%) Documentation Skills
15 9 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
16 7 (0.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 7 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
17 6 (0.73%) Retail
18 5 (0.61%) Back Office
19 3 (0.37%) Military
Job Titles
1 142 (17.36%) Developer
2 104 (12.71%) DevOps Engineer
3 79 (9.66%) Senior
4 59 (7.21%) Architect
5 50 (6.11%) Java Developer
6 47 (5.75%) AWS Engineer
6 47 (5.75%) Linux Engineer
7 45 (5.50%) Analyst
8 44 (5.38%) Lead
9 40 (4.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 40 (4.89%) Senior Developer
10 33 (4.03%) Consultant
11 31 (3.79%) Applications Support
11 31 (3.79%) Support Engineer
12 30 (3.67%) Azure Engineer
12 30 (3.67%) Solutions Architect
13 29 (3.55%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 28 (3.42%) AWS DevOps
15 27 (3.30%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 26 (3.18%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (8.56%) Kafka
2 47 (5.75%) HTML
3 44 (5.38%) FIX Protocol
4 38 (4.65%) Elastic Stack
5 37 (4.52%) LDAP
6 35 (4.28%) CSS
7 33 (4.03%) Spring
8 27 (3.30%) JSON
8 27 (3.30%) REST
9 24 (2.93%) .NET
9 24 (2.93%) React
10 23 (2.81%) Web Services
11 22 (2.69%) Node.js
12 21 (2.57%) Laravel
13 20 (2.44%) Sass
14 19 (2.32%) RabbitMQ
14 19 (2.32%) XML
15 18 (2.20%) WebSockets
16 17 (2.08%) RESTful
17 16 (1.96%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 59 (7.21%) Data Centre
2 45 (5.50%) Linux Command Line
3 42 (5.13%) Distributed Systems
4 37 (4.52%) Replication
5 29 (3.55%) Data Protection Act
5 29 (3.55%) Derivative
6 28 (3.42%) Management Information System
7 26 (3.18%) Algorithms
7 26 (3.18%) Data Structures
7 26 (3.18%) Fixed Income
7 26 (3.18%) Public Cloud
8 25 (3.06%) Onboarding
9 21 (2.57%) Clustering
10 20 (2.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 16 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
12 15 (1.83%) Cloud Native
13 14 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
14 13 (1.59%) PKI
15 12 (1.47%) Product Ownership
16 11 (1.34%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 250 (30.56%) Windows
2 216 (26.41%) Unix
3 91 (11.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 62 (7.58%) Windows Server
5 40 (4.89%) CentOS
6 18 (2.20%) Ubuntu
7 16 (1.96%) Mac OS X
7 16 (1.96%) VMS
8 15 (1.83%) Oracle Linux
8 15 (1.83%) Solaris
9 11 (1.34%) Android
9 11 (1.34%) Apple iOS
10 10 (1.22%) Windows Server 2016
11 8 (0.98%) Windows Server 2019
12 6 (0.73%) zOS
13 5 (0.61%) Mac OS
13 5 (0.61%) Windows Server 2012
14 4 (0.49%) Kali Linux
15 3 (0.37%) Windows Server 2003
15 3 (0.37%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 214 (26.16%) DevOps
2 208 (25.43%) CI/CD
3 180 (22.00%) Agile
4 121 (14.79%) Problem-Solving
5 93 (11.37%) Infrastructure as Code
6 88 (10.76%) Microservices
7 83 (10.15%) Test Automation
8 82 (10.02%) Migration
9 74 (9.05%) Containerisation
9 74 (9.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 67 (8.19%) TDD
11 64 (7.82%) Disaster Recovery
12 60 (7.33%) Software Engineering
13 59 (7.21%) Continuous Integration
14 56 (6.85%) Cybersecurity
15 53 (6.48%) ITIL
16 52 (6.36%) Computer Science
17 51 (6.23%) Configuration Management
17 51 (6.23%) Scrum
18 49 (5.99%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 276 (33.74%) Python
2 161 (19.68%) Java
2 161 (19.68%) SQL
3 94 (11.49%) Bash
4 92 (11.25%) PowerShell
5 68 (8.31%) JavaScript
5 68 (8.31%) Shell Script
6 61 (7.46%) C#
7 48 (5.87%) C++
8 44 (5.38%) Go
8 44 (5.38%) Perl
9 29 (3.55%) PHP
10 25 (3.06%) C
11 20 (2.44%) T-SQL
12 14 (1.71%) Scala
13 10 (1.22%) Groovy
14 8 (0.98%) Korn
15 6 (0.73%) PL/SQL
16 5 (0.61%) TypeScript
17 4 (0.49%) Rust
Qualifications
1 185 (22.62%) Security Cleared
2 135 (16.50%) SC Cleared
3 82 (10.02%) DV Cleared
4 57 (6.97%) Degree
5 35 (4.28%) Computer Science Degree
6 27 (3.30%) AWS Certification
7 11 (1.34%) Cisco Certification
8 8 (0.98%) ISTQB
9 7 (0.86%) Azure Certification
9 7 (0.86%) CCNP
9 7 (0.86%) GIAC
9 7 (0.86%) OSCP
10 5 (0.61%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 5 (0.61%) Master's Degree
10 5 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (0.61%) Numerate Degree
11 4 (0.49%) CCNA
11 4 (0.49%) CHECK Team Leader
11 4 (0.49%) CISSP
11 4 (0.49%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (3.67%) QA
2 19 (2.32%) SLA
3 16 (1.96%) Accessibility
4 12 (1.47%) GDPR
5 11 (1.34%) NIST
6 8 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (0.98%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 5 (0.61%) NCSC
7 5 (0.61%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.49%) ISO 15022
9 3 (0.37%) Data Quality
10 2 (0.24%) HL7
10 2 (0.24%) MiFID
11 1 (0.12%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.12%) JTAG
System Software
1 148 (18.09%) Docker
2 72 (8.80%) Active Directory
3 64 (7.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 46 (5.62%) Virtual Machines
5 18 (2.20%) NFS
6 17 (2.08%) Hyper-V
6 17 (2.08%) KVM
7 16 (1.96%) Firmware
8 12 (1.47%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 12 (1.47%) HDFS
9 8 (0.98%) vSphere
10 6 (0.73%) VMware NSX
11 4 (0.49%) Samba
11 4 (0.49%) Veritas Cluster Server
12 3 (0.37%) Terminal Services
13 2 (0.24%) Ceph
13 2 (0.24%) iptables
13 2 (0.24%) Lustre
13 2 (0.24%) PowerDNS
13 2 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 169 (20.66%) Kubernetes
2 163 (19.93%) Ansible
3 159 (19.44%) Terraform
4 67 (8.19%) Grafana
5 66 (8.07%) Puppet
6 57 (6.97%) Prometheus
7 29 (3.55%) Progress Chef
8 22 (2.69%) Consul
9 19 (2.32%) ITRS Geneos
9 19 (2.32%) Kibana
9 19 (2.32%) Packer
10 17 (2.08%) logstash
11 11 (1.34%) Netcool
12 10 (1.22%) Nagios
12 10 (1.22%) SCCM
13 9 (1.10%) Argo
13 9 (1.10%) Tivoli
13 9 (1.10%) Tivoli Storage Manager
14 8 (0.98%) Dell DRAC
14 8 (0.98%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 127 (15.53%) Microsoft
2 94 (11.49%) VMware
3 93 (11.37%) Oracle
4 74 (9.05%) Red Hat
5 47 (5.75%) IBM
6 38 (4.65%) Cisco
7 37 (4.52%) Dell
8 34 (4.16%) SAP
9 33 (4.03%) Splunk
10 23 (2.81%) Qualys
11 22 (2.69%) Google
12 21 (2.57%) CyberArk
12 21 (2.57%) HP
12 21 (2.57%) ServiceNow
13 20 (2.44%) Isilon
14 19 (2.32%) ION Trading
14 19 (2.32%) Sybase
15 16 (1.96%) F5
16 15 (1.83%) Dynatrace
17 14 (1.71%) SaltStack