Linux Engineer Contracts in the Thames Valley

Linux Engineer
South East > Thames Valley

The median Linux Engineer daily rate in the Thames Valley is £595 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 June 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
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 126 141 156
Rank change year-on-year +15 +15 -8
Contract jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 6 14 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.23% 0.49% 0.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.51% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 11 10
10th Percentile £446 £438 £376
25th Percentile £507 £506 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £595 £520 £469
Median % change year-on-year +14.42% +10.93% +7.14%
75th Percentile £650 £554 £650
90th Percentile - £575 -
South East median daily rate £475 £550 £469
% change year-on-year -13.64% +17.33% +17.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £16.25
Median hourly rate - - £17.50
75th Percentile - - £18.75
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £62.50 - £17.50
% change year-on-year - - -20.45%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley. 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 the Thames Valley with a recognized job title 2,443 2,720 3,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.64% 94.44% 96.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,366 1,848 2,386
10th Percentile £213 £300 £205
25th Percentile £375 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 192 82 99
10th Percentile £15.85 £17.11 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £21.16 £13.00
Median hourly rate £47.95 £49.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% +182.86% -16.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £23.75
90th Percentile £87.46 £78.97 £58.35
South East median hourly rate £48.20 £50.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -3.60% +150.00% -20.00%

Linux Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Engineer in the Thames Valley

Linux Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Linux Engineer in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Linux Engineer in the Thames Valley

Linux Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux Engineer in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 3 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux Engineer in the Thames Valley

Linux Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Linux Engineer in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Linux Engineer in the Thames Valley

Linux Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 3 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
Buckinghamshire +25 3 £476 -8.41% 3
Berkshire -8 3 £650 +52.94%
Linux Engineer
South East

Linux Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley

For the 6 months to 3 June 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 Thames Valley region featuring Linux Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Linux
2 5 (83.33%) Security Cleared
3 4 (66.67%) SC Cleared
3 4 (66.67%) Kubernetes
3 4 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (66.67%) Containerisation
4 3 (50.00%) Bash
4 3 (50.00%) Python
4 3 (50.00%) Unix
4 3 (50.00%) Red Hat
5 2 (33.33%) Shell Script
5 2 (33.33%) Firewall
5 2 (33.33%) Oracle
5 2 (33.33%) VMS
5 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (33.33%) VMware
5 2 (33.33%) yum
5 2 (33.33%) MongoDB
5 2 (33.33%) Oracle Database
5 2 (33.33%) Ansible
5 2 (33.33%) SELinux
5 2 (33.33%) GitLab
5 2 (33.33%) vSphere
5 2 (33.33%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (33.33%) Security Hardening
5 2 (33.33%) Packer
5 2 (33.33%) vRealize
5 2 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (33.33%) Platform Engineering

Linux Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) MongoDB
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle Database
1 2 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) GitLab
General
1 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Anaconda
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (16.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
2 4 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (50.00%) Unix
4 2 (33.33%) VMS
5 1 (16.67%) CentOS
5 1 (16.67%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
2 2 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) Security Hardening
3 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
3 1 (16.67%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Bash
1 3 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 4 (66.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) Degree
3 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
1 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (33.33%) vSphere
2 1 (16.67%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (33.33%) Ansible
2 2 (33.33%) Packer
2 2 (33.33%) SELinux
2 2 (33.33%) vRealize
2 2 (33.33%) yum
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (33.33%) Oracle
2 2 (33.33%) VMware