Linux Contracts in the Thames Valley

Linux
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 34 26 31
Rank change year-on-year -8 +5 +5
Contract jobs citing Linux 138 204 222
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 5.26% 7.17% 6.30%
As % of the Operating Systems category 38.44% 46.47% 38.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 130 142
10th Percentile £401 £325 £351
25th Percentile £448 £413 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £543
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -7.83% +20.56%
75th Percentile £608 £588 £625
90th Percentile - £638 £679
South East median daily rate £530 £525 £536
% change year-on-year +0.95% -2.10% +15.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 8 5
10th Percentile £47.00 £25.40 £28.25
25th Percentile £48.13 £43.13 £46.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 £64.38 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.33% +35.53% +20.25%
75th Percentile £59.38 £76.59 £67.50
90th Percentile £65.00 £83.21 £79.50
South East median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £50.39
% change year-on-year -3.85% +29.01% -8.39%

All Operating Systems
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 359 439 577
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 13.69% 15.44% 16.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 254 306 401
10th Percentile £195 £201 £146
25th Percentile £225 £341 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +5.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £570
90th Percentile £608 £675 £650
South East median daily rate £470 £463 £450
% change year-on-year +1.62% +2.78% +10.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 16 21
10th Percentile £16.60 £18.08 -
25th Percentile £20.25 £18.40 £13.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £38.70 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.74% +93.50% -20.00%
75th Percentile £54.75 £62.97 £48.75
90th Percentile £61.60 £78.19 £67.50
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £55.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year -13.64% +214.29% -20.45%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Linux in the Thames Valley

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate trend for Linux in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in the Thames Valley

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux in the Thames Valley

Linux
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Linux in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Linux in the Thames Valley

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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 within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 23 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
Berkshire -14 96 £605 +24.10% 63
Buckinghamshire +20 32 £511 +1.19% 13
Oxfordshire -6 10 £469 -3.85% 14
Linux
South East

Linux
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:

Application Platforms
1 20 (14.49%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (2.90%) NetWeaver
3 1 (0.72%) Apache
3 1 (0.72%) Confluence
3 1 (0.72%) Drupal
3 1 (0.72%) Jadu
3 1 (0.72%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 4 (2.90%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 62 (44.93%) Azure
2 21 (15.22%) Azure Monitor
3 19 (13.77%) Microsoft 365
4 18 (13.04%) Azure Storage
4 18 (13.04%) Entra ID
5 14 (10.14%) AWS
5 14 (10.14%) Azure DevOps
5 14 (10.14%) OCI
6 6 (4.35%) PaaS
7 5 (3.62%) Power Platform
8 4 (2.90%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (2.90%) Azure Functions
8 4 (2.90%) GCP
8 4 (2.90%) Serverless
9 3 (2.17%) Azure AKS
9 3 (2.17%) Azure Service Bus
10 2 (1.45%) OpenShift
10 2 (1.45%) Slack
11 1 (0.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 1 (0.72%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 42 (30.43%) DNS
2 37 (26.81%) DHCP
3 35 (25.36%) Firewall
4 29 (21.01%) SAN
5 11 (7.97%) TCP/IP
6 8 (5.80%) SSL
7 6 (4.35%) WAN
8 5 (3.62%) SD-WAN
9 4 (2.90%) NAS
9 4 (2.90%) Network Security
10 2 (1.45%) Broadband
10 2 (1.45%) InfiniBand
10 2 (1.45%) tcpdump
10 2 (1.45%) VPN
10 2 (1.45%) Wireshark
11 1 (0.72%) Skype
11 1 (0.72%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.52%) MySQL
1 9 (6.52%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (4.35%) Oracle Database
2 6 (4.35%) SQL Server
3 5 (3.62%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (3.62%) Power BI
4 4 (2.90%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (2.90%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (2.90%) SAP BW
4 4 (2.90%) SAP HANA
5 3 (2.17%) MongoDB
5 3 (2.17%) RDBMS
5 3 (2.17%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.72%) Big Data
6 1 (0.72%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.72%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 9 (6.52%) Git
2 4 (2.90%) GitLab
3 3 (2.17%) Robot Framework
3 3 (2.17%) Selenium
4 2 (1.45%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.72%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.72%) CMake
5 1 (0.72%) JIRA
5 1 (0.72%) Visual Studio
General
1 37 (26.81%) Social Skills
2 17 (12.32%) Telecoms
3 12 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (5.07%) Public Sector
5 2 (1.45%) Finance
5 2 (1.45%) Marketing
5 2 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (0.72%) Electronics
6 1 (0.72%) Financial Institution
6 1 (0.72%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (15.94%) Developer
2 21 (15.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 18 (13.04%) Active Directory Support
4 14 (10.14%) Active Directory Specialist
4 14 (10.14%) Azure Specialist
4 14 (10.14%) Senior
4 14 (10.14%) Support Specialist
5 13 (9.42%) Analyst
6 12 (8.70%) Python Developer
7 11 (7.97%) Architect
8 10 (7.25%) Storage Engineer
8 10 (7.25%) Support Engineer
9 9 (6.52%) Security Analyst
10 8 (5.80%) Azure Engineer
11 7 (5.07%) Consultant
12 6 (4.35%) C# Developer
12 6 (4.35%) Security Specialist
12 6 (4.35%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
12 6 (4.35%) Senior Security Specialist
12 6 (4.35%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (13.04%) ARM Templates
2 8 (5.80%) Web Services
3 7 (5.07%) XML
4 4 (2.90%) SAP Basis
4 4 (2.90%) SAP Fiori
5 3 (2.17%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (1.45%) Django
6 2 (1.45%) Fluent Bit
6 2 (1.45%) Loki
6 2 (1.45%) SOAP
7 1 (0.72%) .NET Framework
7 1 (0.72%) Express.js
7 1 (0.72%) JSON
7 1 (0.72%) Kafka
7 1 (0.72%) Node.js
7 1 (0.72%) React
7 1 (0.72%) Regular Expression
7 1 (0.72%) REST
7 1 (0.72%) RESTful
7 1 (0.72%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 30 (21.74%) PKI
2 18 (13.04%) Self-Motivation
3 15 (10.87%) Data Centre
4 8 (5.80%) Client/Server
5 7 (5.07%) Data Protection Act
5 7 (5.07%) Product Ownership
6 4 (2.90%) Fat Client
6 4 (2.90%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (2.90%) Smart Meter
6 4 (2.90%) Thin Client
7 2 (1.45%) Grid Computing
7 2 (1.45%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (1.45%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.45%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.72%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.72%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.72%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.72%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (0.72%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.72%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 77 (55.80%) Windows
2 48 (34.78%) Windows Server
3 37 (26.81%) Windows Server 2019
4 33 (23.91%) Windows Server 2016
5 19 (13.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 16 (11.59%) Ubuntu
6 16 (11.59%) Unix
7 15 (10.87%) Windows Server 2012
8 14 (10.14%) Windows 10
8 14 (10.14%) Windows XP
9 13 (9.42%) Debian
10 4 (2.90%) Solaris
10 4 (2.90%) VMS
11 2 (1.45%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.72%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (31.88%) ITIL
2 43 (31.16%) Agile
3 38 (27.54%) DevOps
4 25 (18.12%) Problem-Solving
5 24 (17.39%) Performance Tuning
5 24 (17.39%) Release Management
6 23 (16.67%) Analytics
6 23 (16.67%) CI/CD
6 23 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 21 (15.22%) Infrastructure as Code
8 19 (13.77%) Identity Management
8 19 (13.77%) Proactive Monitoring
8 19 (13.77%) Service Management
9 18 (13.04%) Disaster Recovery
9 18 (13.04%) Log Analytics
9 18 (13.04%) Multi-Factor Authentication
9 18 (13.04%) Privileged Identity Management
9 18 (13.04%) RBAC
10 16 (11.59%) Project Management
11 15 (10.87%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 46 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 33 (23.91%) Python
3 26 (18.84%) VBScript
4 24 (17.39%) C#
5 18 (13.04%) Bicep
5 18 (13.04%) VB
6 14 (10.14%) SQL
7 6 (4.35%) Bash
8 3 (2.17%) Java
8 3 (2.17%) JavaScript
8 3 (2.17%) Shell Script
8 3 (2.17%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.45%) PHP
10 1 (0.72%) C
10 1 (0.72%) C++
10 1 (0.72%) Go
10 1 (0.72%) Perl
Qualifications
1 87 (63.04%) Security Cleared
2 59 (42.75%) SC Cleared
3 56 (40.58%) DV Cleared
4 45 (32.61%) Degree
5 18 (13.04%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 14 (10.14%) CCNA
6 14 (10.14%) CCNP
6 14 (10.14%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (2.90%) SAP Certification
8 3 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.72%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (0.72%) HNC
9 1 (0.72%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.72%) RHCE
9 1 (0.72%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.62%) GDPR
1 5 (3.62%) ISO 9000
2 1 (0.72%) COBIT
2 1 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.72%) PCI DSS
2 1 (0.72%) QA
System Software
1 47 (34.06%) Active Directory
2 30 (21.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (14.49%) Virtual Machines
4 18 (13.04%) Virtual Desktop
4 18 (13.04%) VMware ESXi
5 14 (10.14%) Hyper-V
6 5 (3.62%) Docker
7 3 (2.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (1.45%) KVM
8 2 (1.45%) NFS
8 2 (1.45%) vSphere
9 1 (0.72%) Firmware
9 1 (0.72%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 36 (26.09%) WSUS
2 34 (24.64%) SCCM
3 33 (23.91%) SCOM
4 27 (19.57%) Kubernetes
5 22 (15.94%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 18 (13.04%) Microsoft Intune
6 18 (13.04%) vCenter Server
7 16 (11.59%) Ansible
8 15 (10.87%) EMC NetWorker
8 15 (10.87%) NetBackup
9 7 (5.07%) Terraform
10 4 (2.90%) Nessus
10 4 (2.90%) Prometheus
10 4 (2.90%) Red Hat Satellite
10 4 (2.90%) ZABBIX
11 3 (2.17%) Grafana
12 2 (1.45%) Argo
12 2 (1.45%) Kustomize
12 2 (1.45%) Packer
12 2 (1.45%) vRealize
Vendors
1 62 (44.93%) Microsoft
2 47 (34.06%) VMware
3 28 (20.29%) Oracle
4 24 (17.39%) Red Hat
5 21 (15.22%) Cisco
6 18 (13.04%) Veeam
7 15 (10.87%) 3PAR
7 15 (10.87%) Dell
7 15 (10.87%) EMC
7 15 (10.87%) HP
8 14 (10.14%) Extreme Networks
8 14 (10.14%) Juniper
8 14 (10.14%) Palo Alto
8 14 (10.14%) Symantec
9 10 (7.25%) Splunk
10 7 (5.07%) SAP
11 4 (2.90%) Ab Initio
12 3 (2.17%) Google
13 2 (1.45%) ArcSight
13 2 (1.45%) Citrix