Linux Engineer Contracts in Scotland

Linux Engineer
UK > Scotland

The median Linux Engineer daily rate in Scotland is £425 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 22 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
22 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 94 144 159
Rank change year-on-year +50 +15 -5
Contract jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 28 18 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.34% 0.67% 0.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.42% 0.71% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 10 14
10th Percentile - £413 £383
25th Percentile £340 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% - -10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £494 £484
90th Percentile £707 £589 £518
UK median daily rate £525 £568 £525
% change year-on-year -7.57% +8.19% +10.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.50 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
75th Percentile £57.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £60.00 - £60.00
% change year-on-year - - +27.66%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Scotland. 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 Scotland with a recognized job title 1,978 2,545 3,252
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.42% 95.39% 95.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,224 1,790 2,301
10th Percentile £200 £225 £225
25th Percentile £355 £400 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% +2.70% +8.82%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £550
90th Percentile £650 £638 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.82% +2.90% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 45 52
10th Percentile £12.30 £12.90 £15.71
25th Percentile £16.25 £14.25 £17.67
Median hourly rate £24.29 £21.67 £35.22
Median % change year-on-year +12.09% -38.46% +1.34%
75th Percentile £60.00 £59.03 £48.19
90th Percentile £66.00 £68.25 £55.83
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Linux Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Engineer in Scotland

Linux Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Linux Engineer in Scotland

Linux Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux Engineer in Scotland over the 6 months to 22 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux Engineer in Scotland

Linux Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux Engineer in Scotland

Linux Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux Engineer within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 22 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
Glasgow +22 21 £650 -5.97%
Edinburgh +28 7 £340 -24.44% 3
Linux Engineer
UK

Linux Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland

For the 6 months to 22 May 2024, Linux Engineer 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 Scotland region featuring Linux Engineer in the job title.

1 28 (100.00%) Linux
2 21 (75.00%) Python
3 17 (60.71%) Perl
4 14 (50.00%) Social Skills
4 14 (50.00%) Unix
5 11 (39.29%) OO
6 10 (35.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (32.14%) High Availability
8 8 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 8 (28.57%) Observability
9 7 (25.00%) Security Cleared
9 7 (25.00%) Windows
9 7 (25.00%) Kubernetes
9 7 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
10 6 (21.43%) Windows Server
10 6 (21.43%) OpenShift
10 6 (21.43%) Veritas
10 6 (21.43%) Red Hat
10 6 (21.43%) SAN
10 6 (21.43%) SC Cleared
10 6 (21.43%) Computer Science
10 6 (21.43%) Banking
11 5 (17.86%) Investment Banking
11 5 (17.86%) Finance
11 5 (17.86%) Clustering
11 5 (17.86%) Problem Management
11 5 (17.86%) RHCE
11 5 (17.86%) SLA
11 5 (17.86%) Solaris
11 5 (17.86%) SQL

Linux Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 4 (14.29%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 6 (21.43%) OpenShift
2 4 (14.29%) AWS
2 4 (14.29%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 6 (21.43%) SAN
2 4 (14.29%) Fibre Channel
2 4 (14.29%) iSCSI
3 2 (7.14%) NAS
4 1 (3.57%) DHCP
4 1 (3.57%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (14.29%) DB2
2 1 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (10.71%) Git
1 3 (10.71%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.57%) Artifactory
General
1 14 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (21.43%) Banking
3 5 (17.86%) Finance
3 5 (17.86%) Investment Banking
4 3 (10.71%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.57%) Electronics
5 1 (3.57%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (14.29%) Flash
1 4 (14.29%) POSIX
2 3 (10.71%) REST
3 1 (3.57%) Redfish
3 1 (3.57%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.86%) Clustering
2 4 (14.29%) Client/Server
2 4 (14.29%) NVMe
3 3 (10.71%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (7.14%) Management Information System
5 1 (3.57%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 28 (100.00%) Linux
2 14 (50.00%) Unix
3 10 (35.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (25.00%) Windows
5 6 (21.43%) Windows Server
6 5 (17.86%) Solaris
7 4 (14.29%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (39.29%) OO
2 9 (32.14%) High Availability
3 8 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 8 (28.57%) Observability
4 7 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
5 6 (21.43%) Computer Science
6 5 (17.86%) CI/CD
6 5 (17.86%) Compliance Management
6 5 (17.86%) Customer Service
6 5 (17.86%) DevOps
6 5 (17.86%) Problem Management
7 4 (14.29%) Capacity Management
7 4 (14.29%) Customer Requirements
7 4 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
7 4 (14.29%) Preventative Maintenance
7 4 (14.29%) SDLC
7 4 (14.29%) Software Engineering
7 4 (14.29%) Storage Management
8 3 (10.71%) Investment Management
8 3 (10.71%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (75.00%) Python
2 17 (60.71%) Perl
3 5 (17.86%) SQL
4 4 (14.29%) Java
5 1 (3.57%) C
Qualifications
1 7 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (21.43%) SC Cleared
3 5 (17.86%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (17.86%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (17.86%) KVM
2 4 (14.29%) Docker
2 4 (14.29%) GPFS
2 4 (14.29%) NFS
Systems Management
1 7 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (14.29%) Grafana
2 4 (14.29%) Prometheus
2 4 (14.29%) Veritas Storage Foundation
3 3 (10.71%) Ansible
3 3 (10.71%) Dell DRAC
4 2 (7.14%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 6 (21.43%) Red Hat
1 6 (21.43%) Veritas
2 4 (14.29%) Brocade
2 4 (14.29%) EMC
2 4 (14.29%) Google
2 4 (14.29%) IBM
2 4 (14.29%) NetApp
2 4 (14.29%) Sybase
3 3 (10.71%) BMC
4 1 (3.57%) Dell
4 1 (3.57%) HP
4 1 (3.57%) Splunk