Linux Engineer Contracts

Linux Engineer
UK

The median Linux Engineer daily rate in the UK is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 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
3 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 426 469 564
Rank change year-on-year +43 +95 -50
Contract jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 167 246 304
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.38% 0.42% 0.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.41% 0.44% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 190 213
10th Percentile £345 £402 £376
25th Percentile £427 £466 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £568 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.57% +8.19% +16.67%
75th Percentile £598 £654 £613
90th Percentile £650 £738 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £488 £475
% change year-on-year +2.56% +2.63% +26.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 19
10th Percentile £57.75 - £58.25
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £60.00 - £60.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £61.13 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.00 - £60.00
% change year-on-year - - +41.18%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 40,241 56,070 84,738
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.64% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,194 39,189 59,507
10th Percentile £277 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,676 1,567 2,091
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.28 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.16 £15.52
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +91.49% +4.44%
75th Percentile £61.26 £65.75 £48.76
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.55 £42.37 £19.52
% change year-on-year -6.64% +117.03% +2.74%

Linux Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Engineer in the UK

Linux Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Linux Engineer in the UK

Linux Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux Engineer over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux Engineer in the UK

Linux Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux Engineer in the UK

Linux Engineer
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 3 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
England +65 135 £525 -8.70% 64
UK excluding London +82 113 £500 +2.56% 50
Work from Home +82 51 £525 -2.78% 24
London +25 48 £544 -9.38% 19
South East +29 34 £500 -9.09% 10
Scotland +49 27 £550 +22.22% 5
East of England +28 19 £550 +4.76% 11
North of England +26 19 £450 +7.46% 6
South West +24 9 £550 +10.00% 14
North West +9 9 £425 +21.43% 3
Yorkshire +26 8 £613 +11.87% 3
Midlands +18 5 £500 +7.24% 4
West Midlands +15 3 £450 -15.09%
East Midlands +20 2 £500 +18.34% 4
North East +18 2 £423 -19.43%
Wales +20 1 - -

Linux Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 3 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 featuring Linux Engineer in the job title.

1 167 (100.00%) Linux
2 67 (40.12%) Python
3 55 (32.93%) Red Hat
4 45 (26.95%) Ansible
5 44 (26.35%) Unix
5 44 (26.35%) Security Cleared
5 44 (26.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 37 (22.16%) Windows
6 37 (22.16%) Kubernetes
7 35 (20.96%) Bash
8 34 (20.36%) CI/CD
8 34 (20.36%) VMware
9 33 (19.76%) AWS
10 31 (18.56%) Social Skills
11 30 (17.96%) Perl
12 28 (16.77%) Finance
13 27 (16.17%) Jenkins
14 26 (15.57%) Git
15 25 (14.97%) VMware Infrastructure
16 24 (14.37%) Azure
17 23 (13.77%) Agile
17 23 (13.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 22 (13.17%) Windows Server
18 22 (13.17%) Puppet
19 21 (12.57%) DevOps
19 21 (12.57%) TCP/IP
20 20 (11.98%) Software Engineering
20 20 (11.98%) SC Cleared
20 20 (11.98%) DV Cleared
20 20 (11.98%) Linux Command Line

Linux Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 13 (7.78%) Apache
2 9 (5.39%) Tomcat
3 5 (2.99%) Confluence
4 4 (2.40%) MQSeries
4 4 (2.40%) nginx
4 4 (2.40%) SAS
5 2 (1.20%) IIS
5 2 (1.20%) JBoss
6 1 (0.60%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.60%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (4.19%) Simulink
2 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.60%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 33 (19.76%) AWS
2 24 (14.37%) Azure
3 12 (7.19%) IaaS
3 12 (7.19%) OpenShift
4 8 (4.79%) GitHub
5 6 (3.59%) Cloudflare
5 6 (3.59%) Entra ID
6 5 (2.99%) Datadog
7 4 (2.40%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (2.40%) Amazon S3
8 3 (1.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (1.80%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (1.80%) CloudFront
8 3 (1.80%) Route 53
8 3 (1.80%) SaaS
8 3 (1.80%) Serverless
8 3 (1.80%) Snowflake
8 3 (1.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 3 (1.80%) WhatsApp
9 2 (1.20%) Fastly
Communications & Networking
1 21 (12.57%) TCP/IP
2 18 (10.78%) DNS
2 18 (10.78%) HTTP
3 12 (7.19%) Firewall
3 12 (7.19%) SAN
3 12 (7.19%) SSL
4 9 (5.39%) VPN
5 6 (3.59%) SMTP
6 5 (2.99%) Network Security
7 4 (2.40%) Fibre Channel
7 4 (2.40%) FTP
7 4 (2.40%) HTTPS
7 4 (2.40%) IPsec
7 4 (2.40%) iSCSI
7 4 (2.40%) tcpdump
7 4 (2.40%) Wireshark
8 3 (1.80%) DHCP
9 2 (1.20%) Modbus
9 2 (1.20%) MQTT
9 2 (1.20%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.99%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (4.79%) MongoDB
3 7 (4.19%) RDBMS
3 7 (4.19%) Relational Database
4 6 (3.59%) MySQL
4 6 (3.59%) Oracle Database
5 4 (2.40%) Big Data
5 4 (2.40%) DB2
6 3 (1.80%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.20%) Tableau
8 1 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.60%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.60%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 27 (16.17%) Jenkins
2 26 (15.57%) Git
3 13 (7.78%) GitLab
4 8 (4.79%) Artifactory
4 8 (4.79%) JIRA
5 7 (4.19%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.80%) Gradle
7 2 (1.20%) Eclipse
7 2 (1.20%) Subversion
8 1 (0.60%) Ant
8 1 (0.60%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.60%) GoogleTest
8 1 (0.60%) Maven
8 1 (0.60%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.60%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.60%) TestRail
8 1 (0.60%) Valgrind
8 1 (0.60%) Visual Studio
General
1 31 (18.56%) Social Skills
2 28 (16.77%) Finance
3 13 (7.78%) Banking
4 9 (5.39%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (4.79%) Investment Banking
6 7 (4.19%) Public Sector
7 6 (3.59%) Manufacturing
7 6 (3.59%) Telecoms
8 4 (2.40%) Electronics
8 4 (2.40%) Marketing
9 3 (1.80%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.80%) Legal
9 3 (1.80%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.20%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.20%) Back Office
10 2 (1.20%) German Language
10 2 (1.20%) Italian Language
10 2 (1.20%) Law
10 2 (1.20%) Spanish Language
11 1 (0.60%) Dutch Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.59%) XML
2 5 (2.99%) JSON
2 5 (2.99%) YAML
3 4 (2.40%) Flash
3 4 (2.40%) LDAP
3 4 (2.40%) POSIX
3 4 (2.40%) REST
3 4 (2.40%) Web Services
4 3 (1.80%) CSS
4 3 (1.80%) RESTful
4 3 (1.80%) SOAP
4 3 (1.80%) Spring
4 3 (1.80%) Spring Boot
5 2 (1.20%) Apache NiFi
5 2 (1.20%) Django
5 2 (1.20%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (1.20%) HornetQ
5 2 (1.20%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (1.20%) Redfish
5 2 (1.20%) VCL
Miscellaneous
1 20 (11.98%) Linux Command Line
2 18 (10.78%) Data Centre
3 9 (5.39%) Clustering
4 8 (4.79%) Management Information System
5 5 (2.99%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (2.40%) Client/Server
6 4 (2.40%) NVMe
7 3 (1.80%) Smart Meter
7 3 (1.80%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.20%) Embedded Systems
8 2 (1.20%) IoT
8 2 (1.20%) IVR
8 2 (1.20%) PKI
8 2 (1.20%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.60%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.60%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.60%) Hedge funds
9 1 (0.60%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.60%) Replication
9 1 (0.60%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 167 (100.00%) Linux
2 44 (26.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 44 (26.35%) Unix
3 37 (22.16%) Windows
4 22 (13.17%) Windows Server
5 17 (10.18%) Solaris
6 11 (6.59%) VMS
7 10 (5.99%) Debian
8 9 (5.39%) Ubuntu
9 7 (4.19%) CentOS
10 5 (2.99%) Embedded Linux
11 4 (2.40%) Data ONTAP
12 3 (1.80%) SUSE
13 1 (0.60%) AIX
13 1 (0.60%) Fedora
13 1 (0.60%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (20.36%) CI/CD
2 23 (13.77%) Agile
2 23 (13.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 21 (12.57%) DevOps
4 20 (11.98%) Software Engineering
5 19 (11.38%) High Availability
6 17 (10.18%) Platform Engineering
7 15 (8.98%) ITIL
8 14 (8.38%) Migration
8 14 (8.38%) OO
8 14 (8.38%) Scrum
9 13 (7.78%) Computer Science
10 12 (7.19%) Change Management
10 12 (7.19%) Customer Service
11 11 (6.59%) Runbook
12 10 (5.99%) Infrastructure as Code
12 10 (5.99%) Observability
12 10 (5.99%) Problem-Solving
12 10 (5.99%) Project Delivery
12 10 (5.99%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 67 (40.12%) Python
2 35 (20.96%) Bash
3 30 (17.96%) Perl
4 16 (9.58%) C++
5 15 (8.98%) Shell Script
6 13 (7.78%) C
6 13 (7.78%) PowerShell
6 13 (7.78%) SQL
7 12 (7.19%) Java
8 7 (4.19%) MATLAB
9 5 (2.99%) C#
9 5 (2.99%) JavaScript
9 5 (2.99%) Korn
10 3 (1.80%) PHP
10 3 (1.80%) Ruby
11 2 (1.20%) Go
11 2 (1.20%) tcsh
12 1 (0.60%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.60%) R
12 1 (0.60%) Scala
Qualifications
1 44 (26.35%) Security Cleared
2 20 (11.98%) DV Cleared
2 20 (11.98%) SC Cleared
3 9 (5.39%) Degree
4 4 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (2.40%) RHCE
5 2 (1.20%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.60%) Linux+ Certification
6 1 (0.60%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.80%) SLA
2 2 (1.20%) GDPR
3 1 (0.60%) QA
System Software
1 25 (14.97%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (10.78%) Docker
3 11 (6.59%) vSphere
4 9 (5.39%) Active Directory
4 9 (5.39%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (3.59%) NFS
6 5 (2.99%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (2.99%) VMware Workstation
7 4 (2.40%) GPFS
7 4 (2.40%) Hyper-V
7 4 (2.40%) KVM
7 4 (2.40%) Samba
8 3 (1.80%) Firmware
8 3 (1.80%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (1.80%) VirtualBox
8 3 (1.80%) VMware NSX
9 2 (1.20%) Ceph
9 2 (1.20%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (1.20%) Varnish
9 2 (1.20%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 45 (26.95%) Ansible
2 37 (22.16%) Kubernetes
3 22 (13.17%) Puppet
4 13 (7.78%) Progress Chef
5 11 (6.59%) Red Hat Satellite
5 11 (6.59%) Terraform
6 9 (5.39%) Grafana
7 7 (4.19%) Packer
7 7 (4.19%) vRealize
8 5 (2.99%) Prometheus
9 4 (2.40%) Rancher
9 4 (2.40%) SCOM
9 4 (2.40%) SELinux
9 4 (2.40%) Tivoli Identity Manager
9 4 (2.40%) Veritas Storage Foundation
10 3 (1.80%) HAProxy
10 3 (1.80%) Podman
11 2 (1.20%) Dell DRAC
11 2 (1.20%) Pacemaker
11 2 (1.20%) systemd
Vendors
1 55 (32.93%) Red Hat
2 34 (20.36%) VMware
3 15 (8.98%) Oracle
4 13 (7.78%) Veritas
5 9 (5.39%) IBM
6 6 (3.59%) Dell
6 6 (3.59%) F5
6 6 (3.59%) HP
7 5 (2.99%) Arqiva
7 5 (2.99%) Google
7 5 (2.99%) SolarWinds
7 5 (2.99%) Sun
8 4 (2.40%) BMC
8 4 (2.40%) Brocade
8 4 (2.40%) Cisco
8 4 (2.40%) EMC
8 4 (2.40%) Microsoft
8 4 (2.40%) NetApp
8 4 (2.40%) SAP
8 4 (2.40%) Sybase
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