Linux Contracts in Scotland

Linux
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 25 16 37
Rank change year-on-year -9 +21 -4
Contract jobs citing Linux 164 266 200
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 7.53% 9.63% 5.82%
As % of the Operating Systems category 45.56% 51.35% 40.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 171 138
10th Percentile £324 £400 £372
25th Percentile £414 £457 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% +5.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £664 £674 £550
90th Percentile £750 £750 £603
UK median daily rate £550 £583 £570
% change year-on-year -5.66% +2.28% +14.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 6 7
10th Percentile £56.00 £49.49 £45.46
25th Percentile £57.50 £53.20 £49.35
Median hourly rate £60.25 £59.79 £54.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.77% +9.71% -18.05%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.06 £56.63
90th Percentile - £67.66 £57.50
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% +25.65%

All Operating Systems
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 360 518 499
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 16.54% 18.76% 14.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 239 361 330
10th Percentile £181 £160 £145
25th Percentile £313 £260 £208
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.68% +5.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £545
90th Percentile £740 £723 £600
UK median daily rate £468 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -8.24% +2.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 15 24
10th Percentile £17.61 £15.79 £13.13
25th Percentile £18.17 £17.72 £15.59
Median hourly rate £39.25 £52.50 £18.90
Median % change year-on-year -25.24% +177.78% +39.84%
75th Percentile £60.75 £58.89 £48.13
90th Percentile £62.50 £64.16 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £38.50 £23.00
% change year-on-year -42.86% +67.39% +29.58%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Scotland

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Linux in Scotland

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for Linux in Scotland

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux in Scotland

Linux
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 within the Scotland 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
Glasgow -8 97 £563 -10.64% 13
Edinburgh -2 31 £520 +4.00% 30
South Lanarkshire - 17 £600 - 1
Aberdeen - 4 £625 - 3
Perthshire +11 3 £475 -
Fife +1 2 £365 - 1
West Lothian -3 2 £650 +62.50% 1
Renfrewshire -3 1 £600 +20.80%
Linux
UK

Linux
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 17 (10.37%) Confluence
2 6 (3.66%) IIS
2 6 (3.66%) SAS
3 5 (3.05%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.22%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.61%) Apache
5 1 (0.61%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.61%) JBoss
5 1 (0.61%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.61%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.61%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.61%) WildFly
Applications
1 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 39 (23.78%) AWS
2 21 (12.80%) OpenShift
3 13 (7.93%) Azure
4 12 (7.32%) Amazon EC2
4 12 (7.32%) Amazon S3
5 11 (6.71%) AWS CloudFormation
6 10 (6.10%) AWS Lambda
6 10 (6.10%) Serverless
7 8 (4.88%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 8 (4.88%) IaaS
8 7 (4.27%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (3.05%) Amazon ECS
9 5 (3.05%) AWS Fargate
10 3 (1.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (1.83%) OCI
10 3 (1.83%) Oracle Service Cloud
11 2 (1.22%) AWS CodeBuild
11 2 (1.22%) AWS CodeCommit
11 2 (1.22%) Microsoft 365
11 2 (1.22%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 15 (9.15%) Firewall
2 8 (4.88%) DNS
3 6 (3.66%) DHCP
3 6 (3.66%) Fibre Channel
3 6 (3.66%) iSCSI
3 6 (3.66%) SAN
3 6 (3.66%) TCP/IP
4 5 (3.05%) Internet
5 3 (1.83%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 3 (1.83%) HTTP
5 3 (1.83%) LAN
5 3 (1.83%) NetScaler
5 3 (1.83%) SSL
6 2 (1.22%) Cisco ASA
6 2 (1.22%) Modbus
6 2 (1.22%) NAS
6 2 (1.22%) SNMP
6 2 (1.22%) WAN
7 1 (0.61%) Network Security
7 1 (0.61%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.10%) Oracle Database
2 8 (4.88%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (4.27%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (3.66%) Oracle Reports
4 6 (3.66%) SQL Server
5 5 (3.05%) DB2
5 5 (3.05%) InfluxDB
5 5 (3.05%) Oracle Database 12c
5 5 (3.05%) Oracle8/8i Database
6 4 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (2.44%) MariaDB
6 4 (2.44%) Metadata
6 4 (2.44%) MySQL
7 3 (1.83%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (1.83%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.22%) Big Data
8 2 (1.22%) Informix
8 2 (1.22%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.22%) NonStop SQL
9 1 (0.61%) Oracle Database 11g
Development Applications
1 22 (13.41%) Jenkins
2 20 (12.20%) Git
3 19 (11.59%) JIRA
4 10 (6.10%) Artifactory
5 9 (5.49%) Maven
6 8 (4.88%) Gradle
7 6 (3.66%) GitLab
8 3 (1.83%) Burp Suite
8 3 (1.83%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.83%) Selenium
8 3 (1.83%) WebDriver
9 2 (1.22%) Capybara
9 2 (1.22%) CMake
9 2 (1.22%) Oracle Forms
9 2 (1.22%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.61%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.61%) Bitbucket Server
10 1 (0.61%) Gatling
10 1 (0.61%) JUnit
10 1 (0.61%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 38 (23.17%) Social Skills
2 26 (15.85%) Finance
3 22 (13.41%) Public Sector
4 19 (11.59%) Banking
5 10 (6.10%) Investment Banking
6 8 (4.88%) Financial Institution
7 7 (4.27%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (3.05%) Electronics
9 4 (2.44%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.83%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.61%) Military
Job Titles
1 29 (17.68%) Linux Engineer
2 25 (15.24%) Developer
3 24 (14.63%) Python Engineer
4 21 (12.80%) DevOps Engineer
5 18 (10.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 17 (10.37%) Java Developer
7 14 (8.54%) Linux Developer
8 13 (7.93%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
8 13 (7.93%) Platform Engineer
8 13 (7.93%) Support Engineer
9 12 (7.32%) Java Scala Developer
9 12 (7.32%) Scala Developer
10 11 (6.71%) Linux Scripter
10 11 (6.71%) Software Engineer
11 9 (5.49%) Senior
12 8 (4.88%) Administrator
12 8 (4.88%) DBA
12 8 (4.88%) Embedded Software Engineer
12 8 (4.88%) Hardware Engineer
12 8 (4.88%) Unix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (9.15%) REST
2 10 (6.10%) AWS CDK
3 9 (5.49%) Middleware
3 9 (5.49%) Web Services
4 6 (3.66%) Flash
4 6 (3.66%) POSIX
5 5 (3.05%) Oracle GoldenGate
6 3 (1.83%) Gherkin
6 3 (1.83%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (1.83%) React
6 3 (1.83%) Spring
6 3 (1.83%) Yocto
7 2 (1.22%) AngularJS
7 2 (1.22%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (1.22%) Java EE
7 2 (1.22%) Kafka
7 2 (1.22%) RESTful
7 2 (1.22%) Spring Boot
7 2 (1.22%) WebKit
7 2 (1.22%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (9.76%) Data Centre
2 11 (6.71%) Linux Command Line
3 9 (5.49%) Product Ownership
4 8 (4.88%) Data Protection Act
5 7 (4.27%) Cloud Native
6 6 (3.66%) Algorithms
6 6 (3.66%) Data Structures
7 5 (3.05%) Clustering
7 5 (3.05%) Embedded Systems
7 5 (3.05%) NVMe
8 4 (2.44%) Client/Server
8 4 (2.44%) Device Driver
8 4 (2.44%) IoT
8 4 (2.44%) Operational Technology
8 4 (2.44%) PCIe
8 4 (2.44%) Verilog
8 4 (2.44%) VHDL
9 3 (1.83%) Cyber Defence
9 3 (1.83%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.83%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 41 (25.00%) Unix
2 36 (21.95%) Windows
3 29 (17.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 17 (10.37%) Windows Server
5 9 (5.49%) Embedded Linux
6 7 (4.27%) Ubuntu
7 6 (3.66%) CentOS
7 6 (3.66%) Debian
7 6 (3.66%) Windows Server 2008
7 6 (3.66%) Windows Server 2012
7 6 (3.66%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (3.05%) Solaris
9 4 (2.44%) Data ONTAP
9 4 (2.44%) VxWorks
10 3 (1.83%) Kali Linux
10 3 (1.83%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.61%) AIX
11 1 (0.61%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (31.10%) Agile
2 36 (21.95%) DevOps
3 35 (21.34%) CI/CD
4 28 (17.07%) Software Engineering
5 22 (13.41%) OO
6 20 (12.20%) Infrastructure as Code
6 20 (12.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 19 (11.59%) Migration
8 18 (10.98%) High Availability
9 16 (9.76%) Continuous Integration
10 15 (9.15%) Observability
10 15 (9.15%) Problem-Solving
11 14 (8.54%) Containerisation
12 13 (7.93%) Roadmaps
12 13 (7.93%) Test Automation
13 12 (7.32%) Task Automation
14 11 (6.71%) Configuration Management
14 11 (6.71%) Data Migration
14 11 (6.71%) Service Management
14 11 (6.71%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 72 (43.90%) Python
2 37 (22.56%) Perl
3 35 (21.34%) Java
4 21 (12.80%) Bash
5 15 (9.15%) SQL
6 12 (7.32%) Groovy
6 12 (7.32%) Scala
6 12 (7.32%) Shell Script
7 10 (6.10%) C
8 8 (4.88%) JavaScript
8 8 (4.88%) Ruby
9 6 (3.66%) Embedded C
10 5 (3.05%) PowerShell
11 4 (2.44%) TypeScript
12 3 (1.83%) C++
12 3 (1.83%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 31 (18.90%) Security Cleared
2 23 (14.02%) SC Cleared
3 9 (5.49%) Degree
4 6 (3.66%) MCSA
4 6 (3.66%) MCSE
4 6 (3.66%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (3.66%) RHCT
5 4 (2.44%) RHCE
6 3 (1.83%) OSCP
7 2 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.22%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.66%) Disclosure Scotland
2 5 (3.05%) PCI DSS
3 4 (2.44%) MISRA
3 4 (2.44%) MISRA C
3 4 (2.44%) SLA
4 2 (1.22%) QA
5 1 (0.61%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 1 (0.61%) NCSC
5 1 (0.61%) NIST
System Software
1 16 (9.76%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (6.71%) Docker
2 11 (6.71%) KVM
3 8 (4.88%) Active Directory
3 8 (4.88%) Firmware
4 6 (3.66%) Hyper-V
4 6 (3.66%) NFS
5 5 (3.05%) Oracle RAC
6 4 (2.44%) GPFS
7 2 (1.22%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.61%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 1 (0.61%) Embedded Firmware
8 1 (0.61%) HDFS
8 1 (0.61%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 31 (18.90%) Kubernetes
2 23 (14.02%) Ansible
3 18 (10.98%) Terraform
4 15 (9.15%) Grafana
5 7 (4.27%) Kibana
6 6 (3.66%) Prometheus
7 5 (3.05%) Oracle RMAN
8 4 (2.44%) Data Guard
8 4 (2.44%) Red Hat Satellite
8 4 (2.44%) Veritas Storage Foundation
9 3 (1.83%) Nagios
9 3 (1.83%) Packer
9 3 (1.83%) Puppet
10 2 (1.22%) Dell DRAC
10 2 (1.22%) NetBackup
10 2 (1.22%) OpenView
10 2 (1.22%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.61%) Icinga
11 1 (0.61%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 19 (11.59%) Oracle
1 19 (11.59%) Red Hat
2 18 (10.98%) Atlassian
3 17 (10.37%) VMware
4 7 (4.27%) Microsoft
5 6 (3.66%) Citrix
5 6 (3.66%) Splunk
5 6 (3.66%) Veritas
6 4 (2.44%) Brocade
6 4 (2.44%) EMC
6 4 (2.44%) F5
6 4 (2.44%) Google
6 4 (2.44%) IBM
6 4 (2.44%) Intel
6 4 (2.44%) NetApp
6 4 (2.44%) Sybase
7 3 (1.83%) Commvault
7 3 (1.83%) Fortinet
8 2 (1.22%) BMC
8 2 (1.22%) Cisco