Linux Contracts in the South East

Linux
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 20 21 26
Rank change year-on-year +1 +5 -9
Contract jobs citing Linux 398 469 580
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 7.26% 8.24% 7.53%
As % of the Operating Systems category 41.12% 40.02% 38.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 275 315 351
10th Percentile £352 £325 £375
25th Percentile £413 £440 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £538
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -1.40% +16.22%
75th Percentile £600 £619 £638
90th Percentile £638 £694 £700
England median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 26 22
10th Percentile £35.00 £49.25 £23.45
25th Percentile £50.00 £53.31 £46.25
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £50.39
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +29.01% +3.35%
75th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £67.89
90th Percentile £75.00 - £83.98
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year - +13.04% +20.42%

All Operating Systems
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 968 1,172 1,501
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 17.65% 20.59% 19.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 642 794 964
10th Percentile £200 £197 £155
25th Percentile £280 £250 £223
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £470 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.18% +4.36% +7.14%
75th Percentile £575 £585 £575
90th Percentile £638 £650 £650
England median daily rate £468 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -8.68% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 74 105
10th Percentile £15.94 £17.73 £12.52
25th Percentile £17.69 £18.25 £14.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +176.32% -5.00%
75th Percentile £62.50 £67.13 £48.75
90th Percentile £71.88 £75.00 £60.79
England median hourly rate £22.00 £37.42 £22.00
% change year-on-year -41.21% +70.09% +23.80%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Linux in the South East

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Linux in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Linux in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in the South East over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in the South East

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Linux in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Linux in the South East

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Linux in the South East over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Linux in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the South East region over the 6 months to 13 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
Hampshire -2 162 £545 -0.91% 62
Thames Valley -7 140 £533 +6.60% 98
Berkshire -8 97 £590 +18.00% 61
Surrey +6 43 £450 -25.00% 37
West Sussex +13 32 £475 +55.74% 11
Buckinghamshire +21 31 £511 -0.29% 12
Oxfordshire -4 12 £500 +2.56% 25
East Sussex +8 8 £538 +10.26% 4
Middlesex - 3 £275 -
Sussex - 2 £550 - 1
Linux
England

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 30 (7.54%) Confluence
2 27 (6.78%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (2.76%) Apache
4 4 (1.01%) NetWeaver
4 4 (1.01%) nginx
4 4 (1.01%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.50%) IBM Domino
5 2 (0.50%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.25%) Drupal
6 1 (0.25%) IIS
6 1 (0.25%) Jadu
6 1 (0.25%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.25%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.25%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 6 (1.51%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (1.01%) SAP IBP
3 3 (0.75%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.50%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.50%) Sage X3
5 1 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 103 (25.88%) Azure
2 56 (14.07%) AWS
3 33 (8.29%) Microsoft 365
4 27 (6.78%) Azure DevOps
5 21 (5.28%) Entra ID
6 19 (4.77%) Azure Monitor
7 16 (4.02%) Azure Storage
8 14 (3.52%) OCI
9 10 (2.51%) AWS CloudFormation
9 10 (2.51%) GitHub
10 7 (1.76%) Amazon EC2
10 7 (1.76%) Amazon S3
10 7 (1.76%) IaaS
11 6 (1.51%) PaaS
12 5 (1.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 5 (1.26%) CloudFront
12 5 (1.26%) Datadog
12 5 (1.26%) Power Platform
13 4 (1.01%) Azure Data Factory
13 4 (1.01%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 65 (16.33%) SAN
2 64 (16.08%) DNS
3 53 (13.32%) Firewall
4 52 (13.07%) DHCP
5 29 (7.29%) TCP/IP
6 19 (4.77%) Software-Defined Radio
7 18 (4.52%) SSL
7 18 (4.52%) Wireless
8 17 (4.27%) SNMP
9 14 (3.52%) WAN
10 10 (2.51%) VLAN
10 10 (2.51%) VPN
11 9 (2.26%) iSCSI
12 8 (2.01%) Cisco IOS
12 8 (2.01%) NAS
12 8 (2.01%) SD-WAN
13 7 (1.76%) Fibre Channel
14 5 (1.26%) Network Security
14 5 (1.26%) OpenLDAP
15 4 (1.01%) Junos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (5.78%) MySQL
1 23 (5.78%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (4.77%) SQL Server
3 12 (3.02%) Relational Database
4 11 (2.76%) MongoDB
5 10 (2.51%) Oracle Database
6 9 (2.26%) Amazon RDS
7 8 (2.01%) RDBMS
8 6 (1.51%) Azure SQL Database
9 5 (1.26%) MariaDB
9 5 (1.26%) Power BI
9 5 (1.26%) SAP HANA
10 4 (1.01%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (1.01%) SAP BW
11 3 (0.75%) Geospatial Data
11 3 (0.75%) Oracle Reports
12 2 (0.50%) Amazon Redshift
12 2 (0.50%) CouchDB
12 2 (0.50%) Oracle Exadata
13 1 (0.25%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 54 (13.57%) Git
2 32 (8.04%) JIRA
3 28 (7.04%) Bitbucket
4 22 (5.53%) GitLab
4 22 (5.53%) Robot Framework
5 18 (4.52%) Eclipse
6 16 (4.02%) GoogleTest
7 9 (2.26%) Jenkins
8 8 (2.01%) Selenium
9 6 (1.51%) Artifactory
10 4 (1.01%) Rational DOORS
11 3 (0.75%) ClearCase
11 3 (0.75%) ClearQuest
11 3 (0.75%) Hudson
11 3 (0.75%) TestRail
12 2 (0.50%) JMeter
12 2 (0.50%) Oracle APEX
12 2 (0.50%) Subversion
12 2 (0.50%) Visual Studio
13 1 (0.25%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 75 (18.84%) Social Skills
2 34 (8.54%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (6.53%) Public Sector
4 19 (4.77%) Telecoms
5 11 (2.76%) Aerospace
6 10 (2.51%) Finance
7 5 (1.26%) Automotive
7 5 (1.26%) Billing
7 5 (1.26%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (1.26%) Electronics
7 5 (1.26%) Marketing
8 4 (1.01%) Front Office
8 4 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (0.50%) Back Office
9 2 (0.50%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.50%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.25%) Banking
10 1 (0.25%) Legal
10 1 (0.25%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 54 (13.57%) Developer
2 50 (12.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 38 (9.55%) Senior
4 33 (8.29%) Linux Engineer
4 33 (8.29%) Software Engineer
5 28 (7.04%) Analyst
6 23 (5.78%) Architect
7 18 (4.52%) Administrator
7 18 (4.52%) C++ Software Engineer
8 16 (4.02%) Active Directory Support
8 16 (4.02%) Python Developer
9 15 (3.77%) Consultant
10 14 (3.52%) Active Directory Specialist
10 14 (3.52%) Azure Specialist
10 14 (3.52%) Platform Engineer
10 14 (3.52%) Support Specialist
10 14 (3.52%) Systems Administrator
11 13 (3.27%) Applications Engineer
11 13 (3.27%) DevOps Engineer
11 13 (3.27%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (5.28%) HTML
2 19 (4.77%) CSS
3 16 (4.02%) ARM Templates
4 15 (3.77%) Flash
5 12 (3.02%) Web Services
6 11 (2.76%) RESTful
7 10 (2.51%) XML
8 8 (2.01%) .NET
8 8 (2.01%) ADO
9 7 (1.76%) Django
9 7 (1.76%) Elastic Stack
9 7 (1.76%) REST
9 7 (1.76%) SOAP
10 6 (1.51%) LAMP
10 6 (1.51%) LDAP
11 5 (1.26%) Node.js
12 4 (1.01%) AngularJS
12 4 (1.01%) Kafka
12 4 (1.01%) RabbitMQ
12 4 (1.01%) React
Miscellaneous
1 36 (9.05%) PKI
2 28 (7.04%) Data Centre
3 23 (5.78%) Self-Motivation
4 20 (5.03%) Client/Server
4 20 (5.03%) Linux Command Line
5 13 (3.27%) Management Information System
6 11 (2.76%) CCTV
7 8 (2.01%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (2.01%) Product Ownership
8 7 (1.76%) Clustering
8 7 (1.76%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (1.76%) Public Cloud
8 7 (1.76%) Smart Meter
9 6 (1.51%) Replication
10 5 (1.26%) Enterprise Storage
10 5 (1.26%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (1.01%) Fat Client
11 4 (1.01%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (1.01%) Thin Client
12 3 (0.75%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 199 (50.00%) Windows
2 81 (20.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 77 (19.35%) Windows Server
4 60 (15.08%) Unix
5 44 (11.06%) Windows Server 2019
6 36 (9.05%) Windows Server 2016
7 34 (8.54%) Ubuntu
8 20 (5.03%) Debian
8 20 (5.03%) Windows Server 2012
9 17 (4.27%) Windows 10
10 14 (3.52%) Windows XP
11 13 (3.27%) AIX
11 13 (3.27%) Solaris
11 13 (3.27%) VMS
12 7 (1.76%) Embedded Linux
13 4 (1.01%) Android
14 3 (0.75%) Windows Server 2008
15 2 (0.50%) Mac OS
15 2 (0.50%) Oracle Linux
15 2 (0.50%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (29.40%) Agile
2 75 (18.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 64 (16.08%) Scrum
4 63 (15.83%) ITIL
4 63 (15.83%) Software Engineering
5 60 (15.08%) DevOps
6 50 (12.56%) Problem-Solving
7 39 (9.80%) Infrastructure as Code
8 33 (8.29%) Release Management
9 32 (8.04%) CI/CD
9 32 (8.04%) Disaster Recovery
9 32 (8.04%) Performance Tuning
10 26 (6.53%) Application Packaging
10 26 (6.53%) Prototyping
10 26 (6.53%) Test Automation
11 25 (6.28%) Analytics
11 25 (6.28%) Computer Science
11 25 (6.28%) Storage Management
12 24 (6.03%) RBAC
13 23 (5.78%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 81 (20.35%) Python
2 74 (18.59%) PowerShell
3 51 (12.81%) C++
4 42 (10.55%) SQL
5 40 (10.05%) Bash
6 38 (9.55%) C#
7 36 (9.05%) VBScript
8 28 (7.04%) Shell Script
9 27 (6.78%) JavaScript
10 24 (6.03%) C
11 20 (5.03%) Java
12 16 (4.02%) Bicep
12 16 (4.02%) VB
13 9 (2.26%) Perl
14 8 (2.01%) ProC
15 7 (1.76%) Go
15 7 (1.76%) PHP
16 6 (1.51%) PL/SQL
16 6 (1.51%) T-SQL
17 3 (0.75%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 203 (51.01%) Security Cleared
2 131 (32.91%) SC Cleared
3 88 (22.11%) Degree
4 83 (20.85%) DV Cleared
5 21 (5.28%) Cisco Certification
6 19 (4.77%) CCNA
7 16 (4.02%) CCNP
7 16 (4.02%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 13 (3.27%) Computer Science Degree
9 9 (2.26%) Master's Degree
10 7 (1.76%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (1.26%) ITIL Certification
11 5 (1.26%) RHCSA
12 4 (1.01%) Azure Certification
12 4 (1.01%) HNC
12 4 (1.01%) MCSE
12 4 (1.01%) SAP Certification
12 4 (1.01%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 3 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
13 3 (0.75%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.27%) ISO 9001
2 11 (2.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (2.26%) QA
4 8 (2.01%) GDPR
4 8 (2.01%) SLA
5 5 (1.26%) ISO 9000
5 5 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 3 (0.75%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.25%) COBIT
7 1 (0.25%) IEC 61508
7 1 (0.25%) MISRA
7 1 (0.25%) MISRA C
7 1 (0.25%) PMO
System Software
1 94 (23.62%) Active Directory
2 84 (21.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 35 (8.79%) vSphere
4 32 (8.04%) Hyper-V
5 30 (7.54%) Virtual Machines
6 24 (6.03%) VMware ESXi
7 19 (4.77%) Firmware
8 16 (4.02%) Docker
8 16 (4.02%) Virtual Desktop
9 10 (2.51%) VMware NSX
10 6 (1.51%) VirtualBox
11 4 (1.01%) KVM
11 4 (1.01%) Virtual Servers
12 3 (0.75%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 2 (0.50%) Ceph
13 2 (0.50%) NFS
13 2 (0.50%) Varnish
13 2 (0.50%) Veritas Cluster Server
13 2 (0.50%) XenApp
14 1 (0.25%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 61 (15.33%) Ansible
2 53 (13.32%) Kubernetes
2 53 (13.32%) SCCM
3 39 (9.80%) WSUS
4 34 (8.54%) SCOM
5 28 (7.04%) Microsoft Intune
6 22 (5.53%) Terraform
7 21 (5.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 19 (4.77%) NetBackup
8 19 (4.77%) vCenter Server
9 16 (4.02%) EMC NetWorker
10 14 (3.52%) Red Hat Satellite
11 9 (2.26%) Packer
11 9 (2.26%) vRealize
12 6 (1.51%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
13 5 (1.26%) IBM BigFix
13 5 (1.26%) Nessus
13 5 (1.26%) Rancher
13 5 (1.26%) Tivoli
14 4 (1.01%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 124 (31.16%) VMware
2 98 (24.62%) Microsoft
3 63 (15.83%) Red Hat
4 59 (14.82%) Oracle
5 34 (8.54%) Cisco
6 26 (6.53%) HP
7 22 (5.53%) Veeam
8 21 (5.28%) Dell
9 19 (4.77%) 3PAR
9 19 (4.77%) EMC
10 18 (4.52%) Google
10 18 (4.52%) Juniper
11 17 (4.27%) IBM
11 17 (4.27%) Symantec
12 16 (4.02%) SolarWinds
13 15 (3.77%) Atlassian
13 15 (3.77%) Palo Alto
14 14 (3.52%) Extreme Networks
15 13 (3.27%) ArcSight
15 13 (3.27%) Brocade