Linux Contracts in Oxfordshire

Linux
South East > Oxfordshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Oxfordshire 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 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 17 11 18
Rank change year-on-year -6 +7 +5
Contract jobs citing Linux 10 25 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 4.55% 10.87% 6.67%
As % of the Operating Systems category 27.03% 34.25% 26.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 10 15
10th Percentile £372 £169 £141
25th Percentile £419 £375 £150
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £488 £188
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +160.00% -46.43%
75th Percentile £500 £563 £706
90th Percentile £550 £578 £838
South East median daily rate £530 £525 £536
% change year-on-year +0.95% -2.10% +15.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £46.63 - -
25th Percentile £47.19 £48.50 £46.25
Median hourly rate £48.75 £49.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.51% +3.16% -
75th Percentile £49.69 £49.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £49.88 - -
South East median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £50.39
% change year-on-year -3.85% +29.01% -8.39%

All Operating Systems
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 37 73 67
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 16.82% 31.74% 24.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 43 47
10th Percentile £128 £180 £148
25th Percentile £138 £243 £170
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £238 £350 £190
Median % change year-on-year -32.14% +84.21% -37.96%
75th Percentile £391 £475 £306
90th Percentile £481 £568 £583
South East median daily rate £470 £463 £450
% change year-on-year +1.62% +2.78% +10.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 5
10th Percentile £16.08 - -
25th Percentile £16.19 - -
Median hourly rate £32.50 £18.08 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +79.76% -9.60% -39.27%
75th Percentile £49.06 - £48.75
90th Percentile £49.63 £36.93 -
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £55.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year -13.64% +214.29% -20.45%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Oxfordshire

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Linux in Oxfordshire

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in Oxfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in Oxfordshire over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in Oxfordshire

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux in Oxfordshire

Linux
Contract Job Locations in Oxfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 23 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
Oxford -6 4 £500 +2.56% 7
Abingdon - 1 - - 2
Linux
South East

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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 1 (10.00%) Drupal
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) InfiniBand
2 1 (10.00%) DHCP
2 1 (10.00%) DNS
2 1 (10.00%) Firewall
2 1 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Git
1 1 (10.00%) GitLab
General
1 3 (30.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Marketing
3 1 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (20.00%) Network Engineer
1 2 (20.00%) Senior
1 2 (20.00%) Senior Network Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Administrator
2 1 (10.00%) Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Drupal Developer
2 1 (10.00%) IT Administrator
2 1 (10.00%) IT Systems Administrator
2 1 (10.00%) Security Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (20.00%) Grid Computing
3 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (10.00%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (20.00%) Windows
3 1 (10.00%) Solaris
3 1 (10.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 2 (20.00%) Performance Metrics
2 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (10.00%) Antivirus Management
3 1 (10.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (10.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (10.00%) Creative Thinking
3 1 (10.00%) Cyber Assurance
3 1 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (10.00%) Data Acquisition
3 1 (10.00%) Incident Response
3 1 (10.00%) Information Security
3 1 (10.00%) ITSM
3 1 (10.00%) Migration
3 1 (10.00%) Patch Management
3 1 (10.00%) Project Management
3 1 (10.00%) Scrum
3 1 (10.00%) Security Patching
3 1 (10.00%) Service Management
3 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) Perl
1 1 (10.00%) PHP
1 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) CTC Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) HNC
2 1 (10.00%) RHCE
2 1 (10.00%) RHCSA
2 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) NFS
1 2 (20.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Docker
2 1 (10.00%) Firmware
2 1 (10.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Ansible
2 1 (10.00%) CFEngine
2 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (10.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Red Hat
1 3 (30.00%) VMware
2 2 (20.00%) Cisco
3 1 (10.00%) Dell
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft