Linux Systems Administrator Contracts in the UK excluding London

Linux System Administrator
UK > UK excluding London

The median Linux System Administrator daily rate in the UK excluding London is £520 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 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
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 361 410 488
Rank change year-on-year +49 +78 -58
Contract jobs requiring a Linux Systems Administrator 17 25 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.083% 0.11% 0.059%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.090% 0.12% 0.062%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 12 7
10th Percentile £411 £51 £392
25th Percentile £462 £313 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £437 £438
Median % change year-on-year +19.13% -0.23% +2.94%
75th Percentile £530 £459 £466
90th Percentile - £611 £545
UK median daily rate £475 £450 £431
% change year-on-year +5.44% +4.35% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 2
10th Percentile - - £81.53
25th Percentile - £51.25 £81.94
Median hourly rate - £52.50 £83.25
Median % change year-on-year - -36.94% -
75th Percentile - £60.63 £83.94
90th Percentile - £73.07 £83.98
UK median hourly rate - £52.50 £55.63
% change year-on-year - -5.62% -

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 18,835 21,601 29,071
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.47% 94.28% 95.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,498 15,031 20,385
10th Percentile £213 £225 £205
25th Percentile £363 £394 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.31% +3.43% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,316 1,097 1,445
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.40
25th Percentile £15.75 £17.72 £14.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.16 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.11% +110.78% +5.26%
75th Percentile £61.64 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.44%

Linux Systems Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Systems Administrator in the UK excluding London

Linux Systems Administrator
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Linux Systems Administrator in the UK excluding London

Linux Systems Administrator
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux Systems Administrator in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux Systems Administrator in the UK excluding London

Linux Systems Administrator
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux Systems Administrator in the UK excluding London

Linux Systems Administrator
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 Systems Administrator within the UK excluding London 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
South East +16 8 £520 +890.48% 4
Midlands +37 5 £520 +15.56%
East Midlands - 5 £520 -
Scotland +41 3 - -
South West +7 1 £450 +0.22% 2
Linux Systems Administrator
UK

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

For the 6 months to 23 May 2024, Linux Systems Administrator 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 Systems Administrator in the job title.

1 17 (100.00%) Linux
2 16 (94.12%) Red Hat
2 16 (94.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 13 (76.47%) SC Cleared
3 13 (76.47%) Security Cleared
4 10 (58.82%) Red Hat Satellite
5 8 (47.06%) Ansible
6 7 (41.18%) Linux Command Line
6 7 (41.18%) Public Sector
6 7 (41.18%) Shell Script
6 7 (41.18%) Hyper-V
7 6 (35.29%) Bash
8 4 (23.53%) Storage Management
8 4 (23.53%) Docker
8 4 (23.53%) GitLab
9 3 (17.65%) Technology Roadmap
9 3 (17.65%) PowerShell
9 3 (17.65%) Roadmaps
9 3 (17.65%) Confluence
9 3 (17.65%) JIRA
9 3 (17.65%) Atlassian
9 3 (17.65%) Python
9 3 (17.65%) VMware
10 2 (11.76%) Windows
10 2 (11.76%) Degree
10 2 (11.76%) VMware Infrastructure
10 2 (11.76%) Azure
10 2 (11.76%) AWS
10 2 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
10 2 (11.76%) Windows Server

Linux Systems Administrator 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 3 (17.65%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (11.76%) AWS
1 2 (11.76%) Azure
2 1 (5.88%) IBM Cloud
Development Applications
1 4 (23.53%) GitLab
2 3 (17.65%) JIRA
General
1 7 (41.18%) Public Sector
2 1 (5.88%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 7 (41.18%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (5.88%) Clustering
2 1 (5.88%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 17 (100.00%) Linux
2 16 (94.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (11.76%) Windows
3 2 (11.76%) Windows Server
4 1 (5.88%) Ubuntu
4 1 (5.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (23.53%) Storage Management
2 3 (17.65%) Roadmaps
2 3 (17.65%) Technology Roadmap
3 2 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (5.88%) Compliance Management
4 1 (5.88%) Computer Science
4 1 (5.88%) High Availability
4 1 (5.88%) Information Security
4 1 (5.88%) Migration
4 1 (5.88%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 7 (41.18%) Shell Script
2 6 (35.29%) Bash
3 3 (17.65%) PowerShell
3 3 (17.65%) Python
Qualifications
1 13 (76.47%) SC Cleared
1 13 (76.47%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.76%) Degree
2 2 (11.76%) RHCSA
3 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.88%) DV Cleared
3 1 (5.88%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (41.18%) Hyper-V
2 4 (23.53%) Docker
3 2 (11.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (5.88%) KVM
4 1 (5.88%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 10 (58.82%) Red Hat Satellite
2 8 (47.06%) Ansible
Vendors
1 16 (94.12%) Red Hat
2 3 (17.65%) Atlassian
2 3 (17.65%) VMware
3 1 (5.88%) IBM