Linux Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Linux Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Linux Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 17 May 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
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 269 352 350
Rank change year-on-year +83 -2 +16
Contract jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 118 94 156
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.58% 0.41% 0.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.63% 0.43% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 62 96
10th Percentile £340 £327 £363
25th Percentile £419 £428 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% +20.25%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £550
90th Percentile £650 £638 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £570 £525
% change year-on-year -7.89% +8.57% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 19
10th Percentile £52.50 - £58.25
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £60.00 - £60.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £60.75 - -
UK median hourly rate £60.00 - £60.00
% change year-on-year - - +27.66%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 18,796 21,663 29,128
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 94.29% 95.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,463 15,116 20,427
10th Percentile £213 £225 £203
25th Percentile £363 £393 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.82% +2.90% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,267 1,107 1,446
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.73 £18.02 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £44.92
90th Percentile £73.85 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Linux Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Linux Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Linux Engineer in the UK excluding London

Linux Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Linux Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Linux Engineer in the UK excluding London

Linux Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux Engineer in the UK excluding London

Linux Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Linux Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Linux Engineer in the UK excluding London

Linux Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 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
South East +28 34 £475 -13.64% 16
Scotland +59 32 £425 -5.56% 3
East of England +21 19 £550 -4.35% 6
North of England +26 18 £450 -10.00% 3
South West +7 10 £550 - 10
North West +12 9 £425 +21.43% 3
Yorkshire +18 8 £613 +11.87%
Midlands +20 5 £500 +12.36% 6
West Midlands +16 3 £450 -23.08%
East Midlands +12 2 £500 +18.34% 6
North East +14 1 £431 -17.90%
Wales +14 1 - - 1
Linux Engineer
UK

Linux Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 17 May 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 UK excluding London region featuring Linux Engineer in the job title.

1 118 (100.00%) Linux
2 49 (41.53%) Python
3 44 (37.29%) Red Hat
4 37 (31.36%) Unix
5 36 (30.51%) Security Cleared
6 34 (28.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 31 (26.27%) Ansible
8 28 (23.73%) VMware
9 25 (21.19%) Windows
9 25 (21.19%) Perl
9 25 (21.19%) Kubernetes
9 25 (21.19%) Social Skills
10 24 (20.34%) SC Cleared
11 22 (18.64%) Bash
12 20 (16.95%) High Availability
12 20 (16.95%) AWS
12 20 (16.95%) Git
12 20 (16.95%) Solaris
13 19 (16.10%) Software Engineering
13 19 (16.10%) VMware Infrastructure
14 18 (15.25%) Platform Engineering
15 17 (14.41%) Agile
16 15 (12.71%) Windows Server
17 14 (11.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 14 (11.86%) OO
17 14 (11.86%) C++
18 13 (11.02%) Veritas
18 13 (11.02%) Finance
18 13 (11.02%) Azure
18 13 (11.02%) Linux Command Line

Linux Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 4 (3.39%) Apache
1 4 (3.39%) nginx
1 4 (3.39%) SAS
2 3 (2.54%) Confluence
3 1 (0.85%) JBoss
3 1 (0.85%) MQSeries
3 1 (0.85%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (5.93%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (0.85%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.85%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 20 (16.95%) AWS
2 13 (11.02%) Azure
3 8 (6.78%) OpenShift
4 6 (5.08%) IaaS
5 5 (4.24%) Datadog
6 3 (2.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (2.54%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (2.54%) Amazon S3
6 3 (2.54%) CloudFront
6 3 (2.54%) GitHub
6 3 (2.54%) Route 53
6 3 (2.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (1.69%) Fastly
8 1 (0.85%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.85%) Nutanix
8 1 (0.85%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 12 (10.17%) SAN
2 10 (8.47%) DNS
3 8 (6.78%) Firewall
4 6 (5.08%) VPN
5 4 (3.39%) Fibre Channel
5 4 (3.39%) iSCSI
5 4 (3.39%) TCP/IP
6 3 (2.54%) DHCP
7 2 (1.69%) NAS
7 2 (1.69%) Software-Defined Radio
8 1 (0.85%) AMQP
8 1 (0.85%) FTP
8 1 (0.85%) HTTP
8 1 (0.85%) LAN
8 1 (0.85%) LTE
8 1 (0.85%) Modbus
8 1 (0.85%) MQTT
8 1 (0.85%) Network Security
8 1 (0.85%) tcpdump
8 1 (0.85%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.63%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (6.78%) MongoDB
3 6 (5.08%) RDBMS
3 6 (5.08%) Relational Database
4 5 (4.24%) MySQL
5 4 (3.39%) Big Data
5 4 (3.39%) DB2
6 3 (2.54%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.69%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.85%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 20 (16.95%) Git
2 11 (9.32%) Jenkins
3 7 (5.93%) GitLab
4 5 (4.24%) Bitbucket
5 4 (3.39%) Artifactory
6 3 (2.54%) JIRA
7 2 (1.69%) Subversion
8 1 (0.85%) Eclipse
General
1 25 (21.19%) Social Skills
2 13 (11.02%) Finance
3 9 (7.63%) Banking
4 5 (4.24%) Investment Banking
5 4 (3.39%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.54%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.69%) Aerospace
7 2 (1.69%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.85%) Advertising
8 1 (0.85%) Aviation
8 1 (0.85%) Electronics
8 1 (0.85%) German Language
8 1 (0.85%) Italian Language
8 1 (0.85%) Law
8 1 (0.85%) Legal
8 1 (0.85%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.85%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.39%) Flash
1 4 (3.39%) POSIX
1 4 (3.39%) XML
2 3 (2.54%) REST
2 3 (2.54%) RESTful
2 3 (2.54%) SOAP
3 2 (1.69%) Django
3 2 (1.69%) HornetQ
3 2 (1.69%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (1.69%) Redfish
3 2 (1.69%) VCL
3 2 (1.69%) YAML
4 1 (0.85%) Anaconda
4 1 (0.85%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (0.85%) CSS
4 1 (0.85%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.85%) HTML
4 1 (0.85%) Web Services
4 1 (0.85%) XSLT
4 1 (0.85%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 13 (11.02%) Linux Command Line
2 11 (9.32%) Clustering
3 4 (3.39%) Client/Server
3 4 (3.39%) Data Centre
3 4 (3.39%) Management Information System
3 4 (3.39%) NVMe
4 3 (2.54%) Smart Meter
4 3 (2.54%) Virtual Team
5 2 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.69%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (0.85%) IoT
6 1 (0.85%) PKI
6 1 (0.85%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.85%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 118 (100.00%) Linux
2 37 (31.36%) Unix
3 34 (28.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 25 (21.19%) Windows
5 20 (16.95%) Solaris
6 15 (12.71%) Windows Server
7 11 (9.32%) VMS
8 9 (7.63%) Debian
9 6 (5.08%) Ubuntu
10 5 (4.24%) CentOS
11 4 (3.39%) Data ONTAP
11 4 (3.39%) Embedded Linux
12 3 (2.54%) SUSE
13 1 (0.85%) AIX
13 1 (0.85%) Fedora
13 1 (0.85%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (16.95%) High Availability
2 19 (16.10%) Software Engineering
3 18 (15.25%) Platform Engineering
4 17 (14.41%) Agile
5 14 (11.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 14 (11.86%) OO
6 12 (10.17%) Computer Science
6 12 (10.17%) DevOps
7 11 (9.32%) ITIL
7 11 (9.32%) Runbook
8 10 (8.47%) CI/CD
8 10 (8.47%) Project Delivery
8 10 (8.47%) Scrum
9 9 (7.63%) Change Management
9 9 (7.63%) Containerisation
9 9 (7.63%) Visualisation
10 8 (6.78%) Customer Service
10 8 (6.78%) Infrastructure as Code
10 8 (6.78%) Multithreading
10 8 (6.78%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 49 (41.53%) Python
2 25 (21.19%) Perl
3 22 (18.64%) Bash
4 14 (11.86%) C++
5 12 (10.17%) C
6 11 (9.32%) Shell Script
7 10 (8.47%) SQL
8 7 (5.93%) MATLAB
9 5 (4.24%) Java
10 4 (3.39%) PowerShell
11 3 (2.54%) C#
12 2 (1.69%) JavaScript
13 1 (0.85%) R
Qualifications
1 36 (30.51%) Security Cleared
2 24 (20.34%) SC Cleared
3 8 (6.78%) DV Cleared
4 7 (5.93%) Degree
5 6 (5.08%) RHCE
6 3 (2.54%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.85%) Linux+ Certification
7 1 (0.85%) LPIC
7 1 (0.85%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.24%) SLA
2 2 (1.69%) GDPR
3 1 (0.85%) QA
System Software
1 19 (16.10%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (9.32%) vSphere
3 9 (7.63%) Docker
4 8 (6.78%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (5.93%) Active Directory
6 6 (5.08%) Hyper-V
6 6 (5.08%) KVM
6 6 (5.08%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (4.24%) VMware Workstation
8 4 (3.39%) GPFS
8 4 (3.39%) NFS
9 3 (2.54%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (2.54%) VirtualBox
9 3 (2.54%) VMware NSX
10 2 (1.69%) Ceph
10 2 (1.69%) Varnish
10 2 (1.69%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 1 (0.85%) Firmware
11 1 (0.85%) Samba
11 1 (0.85%) Xen
Systems Management
1 31 (26.27%) Ansible
2 25 (21.19%) Kubernetes
3 9 (7.63%) Red Hat Satellite
4 7 (5.93%) Packer
4 7 (5.93%) vRealize
5 5 (4.24%) Grafana
5 5 (4.24%) Rancher
5 5 (4.24%) SCOM
5 5 (4.24%) SELinux
5 5 (4.24%) Terraform
5 5 (4.24%) Tivoli Identity Manager
6 4 (3.39%) Prometheus
6 4 (3.39%) Veritas Storage Foundation
7 3 (2.54%) Dell DRAC
7 3 (2.54%) HAProxy
8 2 (1.69%) NetBackup
8 2 (1.69%) Pacemaker
8 2 (1.69%) Podman
8 2 (1.69%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.85%) Rsyslog
Vendors
1 44 (37.29%) Red Hat
2 28 (23.73%) VMware
3 13 (11.02%) Veritas
4 11 (9.32%) Oracle
5 10 (8.47%) IBM
6 7 (5.93%) Dell
6 7 (5.93%) HP
7 5 (4.24%) Arqiva
7 5 (4.24%) SolarWinds
8 4 (3.39%) Brocade
8 4 (3.39%) EMC
8 4 (3.39%) Google
8 4 (3.39%) NetApp
8 4 (3.39%) Sybase
9 3 (2.54%) BMC
10 2 (1.69%) Cisco
10 2 (1.69%) Sun
11 1 (0.85%) CheckPoint
11 1 (0.85%) Microsoft
11 1 (0.85%) Temenos