Linux Contracts in Somerset

Linux
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Somerset 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 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 27 6 14
Rank change year-on-year -21 +8 0
Contract jobs citing Linux 6 26 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Somerset 3.17% 13.68% 10.33%
As % of the Operating Systems category 15.00% 48.15% 45.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 8 14
10th Percentile £425 £349 £304
25th Percentile £431 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £538 £571
Median % change year-on-year +16.28% -5.87% +42.75%
75th Percentile £853 £618 £702
90th Percentile £925 £747 £750
South West median daily rate £538 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -2.27% -4.35% +19.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 15 4
10th Percentile - - £48.93
25th Percentile - £48.32 £49.62
Median hourly rate - £59.68 £51.11
Median % change year-on-year - +16.78% +7.59%
75th Percentile - £65.00 £56.88
90th Percentile - - £58.56
South West median hourly rate £70.00 £69.62 £65.50
% change year-on-year +0.55% +6.29% +3.97%

All Operating Systems
Somerset

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 Somerset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 40 54 48
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 21.16% 28.42% 22.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 27 34
10th Percentile £188 £138 £164
25th Percentile £210 £143 £191
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 £225 £400
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -43.75% +14.29%
75th Percentile £565 £450 £571
90th Percentile £638 £643 £700
South West median daily rate £525 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% +18.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 17 6
10th Percentile - £46.99 £17.76
25th Percentile - £48.32 £26.93
Median hourly rate - £52.21 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - +4.41% +175.79%
75th Percentile - £65.00 £54.46
90th Percentile - - £57.81
South West median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +7.69% - +64.35%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Somerset

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

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

Daily rate trend for Linux in Somerset

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in Somerset

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in Somerset over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in Somerset

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Somerset

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux in Somerset

Linux
Contract Job Locations in Somerset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the Somerset region over the 6 months to 31 October 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
Bath -4 3 £450 -18.18% 1
Linux
South West

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Somerset 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 3 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) Wireless
2 1 (16.67%) 5G
2 1 (16.67%) DHCP
2 1 (16.67%) DNS
2 1 (16.67%) Firewall
2 1 (16.67%) HTTP
2 1 (16.67%) Internet
2 1 (16.67%) IPv4
2 1 (16.67%) IPv6
2 1 (16.67%) MQTT
2 1 (16.67%) Network Security
2 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
2 1 (16.67%) VLAN
2 1 (16.67%) VPN
2 1 (16.67%) VXLAN
2 1 (16.67%) X.509
General
1 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (33.33%) Electronics
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Manufacturing
2 2 (33.33%) Marketing
2 2 (33.33%) Telecoms
3 1 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (16.67%) Administrator
1 1 (16.67%) Embedded Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Embedded Software Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Head of IT
1 1 (16.67%) Head of Support
1 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Manager
1 1 (16.67%) IT Support
1 1 (16.67%) Linux Administrator
1 1 (16.67%) Linux Systems Administrator
1 1 (16.67%) Senior
1 1 (16.67%) Senior Systems Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Systems Administrator
1 1 (16.67%) Systems Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Protocol Buffers
1 1 (16.67%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Client/Server
1 1 (16.67%) Embedded Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
1 2 (33.33%) Windows Server
2 1 (16.67%) CentOS
2 1 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) ITIL
1 3 (50.00%) Line Management
1 3 (50.00%) Service Delivery
1 3 (50.00%) Service Management
2 2 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 2 (33.33%) Digital Marketing
2 2 (33.33%) Edge Computing
2 2 (33.33%) Programme Management
2 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Budgeting and Forecasting
3 1 (16.67%) Cryptography
3 1 (16.67%) Embedded Software Development
3 1 (16.67%) Performance Monitoring
3 1 (16.67%) Planning and Forecasting
3 1 (16.67%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) C
1 2 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) DV Cleared
1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Hyper-V
2 1 (16.67%) Docker
2 1 (16.67%) KVM
2 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (16.67%) Xen
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) SCOM
2 1 (16.67%) Ansible
2 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (16.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Altiris
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (50.00%) VMware
2 2 (33.33%) SAP
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco
3 1 (16.67%) Red Hat
3 1 (16.67%) SolarWinds