Linux Contracts in Shropshire

Linux
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Shropshire requiring Linux skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Linux over the 6 months leading up to 11 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 28 9 19
Rank change year-on-year -19 +10 +4
Contract jobs citing Linux 6 20 115
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Shropshire 4.20% 21.98% 16.62%
As % of the Operating Systems category 20.69% 46.51% 48.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 16 70
10th Percentile £299 £475 £405
25th Percentile - £517 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £540 £495
Median % change year-on-year -44.44% +9.09% +1.02%
75th Percentile £513 - £540
90th Percentile £519 £552 £655
West Midlands median daily rate £550 £545 £495
% change year-on-year +0.92% +10.10% +10.00%

All Operating Systems
Shropshire

Linux falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring operating system skills in Shropshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 29 43 235
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 20.28% 47.25% 33.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 32 144
10th Percentile £200 £401 £279
25th Percentile £299 £516 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £540 £495
Median % change year-on-year -33.70% +9.09% +20.73%
75th Percentile £500 £551 £540
90th Percentile £535 £585 £586
West Midlands median daily rate £447 £475 £425
% change year-on-year -5.89% +11.76% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £11.50
25th Percentile - - £11.88
Median hourly rate £14.00 - £13.00
75th Percentile - - £14.38
90th Percentile - - £14.90
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.50 £18.25 £16.45
% change year-on-year +23.29% +10.94% +9.67%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Shropshire

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

Daily rate trend for Linux in Shropshire

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in Shropshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in Shropshire over the 6 months to 11 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in Shropshire

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux in Shropshire

Linux
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the Shropshire region over the 6 months to 11 June 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
Telford -16 6 £300 -44.44% 1
Linux
West Midlands

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Shropshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
1 2 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) DHCP
1 4 (66.67%) DNS
1 4 (66.67%) Fibre Channel
1 4 (66.67%) LAN
1 4 (66.67%) Remote Desktop
1 4 (66.67%) SAN
1 4 (66.67%) WAN
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Artifactory
1 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Administrator
1 4 (66.67%) Server Administrator
1 4 (66.67%) VMWare Administrator
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Django
1 2 (33.33%) FastAPI
1 2 (33.33%) Flask
2 1 (16.67%) Next.js
2 1 (16.67%) React
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) CentOS
1 4 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 4 (66.67%) Ubuntu
1 4 (66.67%) Windows
1 4 (66.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Change Control
1 4 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
1 4 (66.67%) Load Balancing
1 4 (66.67%) Patch Management
1 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (66.67%) Task Automation
1 4 (66.67%) Virtual Infrastructure
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Domain-Driven Design
2 2 (33.33%) OO
2 2 (33.33%) OOP
2 2 (33.33%) TDD
2 2 (33.33%) Web Development
3 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
3 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Bash
1 4 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 2 (33.33%) Groovy
2 2 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Active Directory
1 4 (66.67%) VMware ESXi
1 4 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (66.67%) VMware NSX
1 4 (66.67%) VMware Server
1 4 (66.67%) vSphere
2 2 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) vCenter Server
2 2 (33.33%) Ansible
2 2 (33.33%) Docker Swarm
2 2 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 4 (66.67%) VMware