Linux Support Contracts in the UK excluding London

Linux Support
UK > UK excluding London

The median Linux Support daily rate in the UK excluding London is £340 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 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
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 375 432 495
Rank change year-on-year +57 +63 -67
Contract jobs requiring a Linux Support 16 12 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.079% 0.052% 0.043%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.085% 0.055% 0.045%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 4 4
10th Percentile - £306 £273
25th Percentile £235 £310 £278
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £340 £381 £346
Median % change year-on-year -10.82% +10.11% +44.27%
75th Percentile £408 £508 £420
90th Percentile £510 £623 £442
UK median daily rate £340 £600 £459
% change year-on-year -43.33% +30.79% -23.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate - - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £20.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year - -61.90% -

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 18,752 21,824 29,184
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.48% 94.30% 95.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,467 15,208 20,476
10th Percentile £213 £225 £204
25th Percentile £363 £394 £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 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,268 1,112 1,441
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.38
25th Percentile £15.74 £18.07 £14.51
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 £45.00
90th Percentile £73.83 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -18.89% +87.50% +6.67%

Linux Support
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Support in the UK excluding London

Linux Support
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Linux Support in the UK excluding London

Linux Support
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux Support in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux Support in the UK excluding London

Linux Support
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux Support in the UK excluding London

Linux Support
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 Support within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 19 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
Scotland +42 6 £340 - 3
South West +15 4 £488 -30.36% 6
East of England - 3 £240 -
North of England - 2 £238 - 1
Yorkshire - 2 £238 -
South East +18 1 - - 6
Linux Support
UK

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

For the 6 months to 19 May 2024, Linux Support 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 Support in the job title.

1 16 (100.00%) Linux
2 11 (68.75%) High Availability
2 11 (68.75%) Red Hat
2 11 (68.75%) Clustering
3 7 (43.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (43.75%) SC Cleared
3 7 (43.75%) Security Cleared
3 7 (43.75%) Social Skills
4 6 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 6 (37.50%) Windows Server
4 6 (37.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (37.50%) VMware
4 6 (37.50%) Windows
4 6 (37.50%) Active Directory
5 5 (31.25%) RHCE
5 5 (31.25%) VPN
5 5 (31.25%) Solaris
5 5 (31.25%) ITIL
5 5 (31.25%) VMware Workstation
5 5 (31.25%) SLA
5 5 (31.25%) Release Management
5 5 (31.25%) Bash
5 5 (31.25%) KVM
5 5 (31.25%) Compliance Management
5 5 (31.25%) Customer Service
6 4 (25.00%) Ubuntu
7 3 (18.75%) Rocky
8 2 (12.50%) Server Management
9 1 (6.25%) Disaster Recovery
9 1 (6.25%) Oracle EBS

Linux Support 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.25%) AWS
1 1 (6.25%) Azure
1 1 (6.25%) Entra ID
1 1 (6.25%) GitHub
1 1 (6.25%) IaaS
1 1 (6.25%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 5 (31.25%) VPN
2 1 (6.25%) DNS
2 1 (6.25%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) MongoDB
1 1 (6.25%) MySQL
1 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (6.25%) RDBMS
1 1 (6.25%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Git
1 1 (6.25%) GitLab
General
1 7 (43.75%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 11 (68.75%) Clustering
2 1 (6.25%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (6.25%) Replication
2 1 (6.25%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 16 (100.00%) Linux
2 7 (43.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (37.50%) Windows
3 6 (37.50%) Windows Server
4 5 (31.25%) Solaris
5 4 (25.00%) Ubuntu
6 3 (18.75%) Rocky
7 1 (6.25%) Unix
7 1 (6.25%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (68.75%) High Availability
2 6 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 5 (31.25%) Compliance Management
3 5 (31.25%) Customer Service
3 5 (31.25%) ITIL
3 5 (31.25%) Release Management
4 2 (12.50%) Server Management
5 1 (6.25%) CI/CD
5 1 (6.25%) Containerisation
5 1 (6.25%) Database Security
5 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (6.25%) Migration
5 1 (6.25%) Performance Tuning
5 1 (6.25%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (6.25%) Project Delivery
5 1 (6.25%) Re-Platforming
5 1 (6.25%) Runbook
5 1 (6.25%) Scrum
5 1 (6.25%) Storage Management
5 1 (6.25%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (31.25%) Bash
2 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
2 1 (6.25%) Python
2 1 (6.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (43.75%) SC Cleared
1 7 (43.75%) Security Cleared
2 5 (31.25%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (31.25%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (37.50%) Active Directory
1 6 (37.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (31.25%) KVM
2 5 (31.25%) VMware Workstation
3 1 (6.25%) VMware NSX
3 1 (6.25%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Ansible
1 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
1 1 (6.25%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 1 (6.25%) Packer
1 1 (6.25%) Terraform
1 1 (6.25%) vRealize
1 1 (6.25%) VxRail
Vendors
1 11 (68.75%) Red Hat
2 6 (37.50%) VMware
3 1 (6.25%) Arqiva
3 1 (6.25%) Dell
3 1 (6.25%) Oracle
3 1 (6.25%) SolarWinds
3 1 (6.25%) Veritas