Linux Infrastructure Engineer Contracts

Linux Infrastructure Engineer
UK

The median Linux Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in the UK is £340 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 June 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 554 659 812
Rank change year-on-year +105 +153 -104
Contract jobs requiring a Linux Infrastructure Engineer 25 25 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.058% 0.044% 0.033%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.062% 0.047% 0.035%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 16 25
10th Percentile - £325 -
25th Percentile - £440 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £340 £540 £450
Median % change year-on-year -37.04% +20.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £422 £597 £575
90th Percentile £600 £628 £595
UK excluding London median daily rate £340 £575 £450
% change year-on-year -40.87% +27.78% -16.67%

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 40,001 53,325 83,708
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.83% 94.58% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,880 37,256 59,003
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +9.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,851 1,473 1,957
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +14.34%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.41
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.45 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Linux Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Linux Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Linux Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Linux Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux Infrastructure Engineer over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Linux Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Linux Infrastructure Engineer
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux Infrastructure Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 2 June 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
UK excluding London +48 19 £340 -40.87% 6
Scotland +54 15 £340 - 1
England +84 10 £475 -12.04% 6
Work from Home +114 7 £600 +34.08% 2
London +103 6 £415 +3.63%
South West +9 2 £600 - 1
North of England +25 1 - - 1
Midlands +24 1 - - 1
West Midlands +15 1 - -
North West +13 1 - - 1
Wales - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 2 June 2024, Linux Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 25 (100.00%) Linux
2 20 (80.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 16 (64.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 16 (64.00%) Red Hat
4 13 (52.00%) SC Cleared
4 13 (52.00%) Security Cleared
5 10 (40.00%) Social Skills
6 8 (32.00%) High Availability
7 7 (28.00%) Python
8 6 (24.00%) RHCE
8 6 (24.00%) Solaris
8 6 (24.00%) SLA
8 6 (24.00%) Clustering
8 6 (24.00%) Compliance Management
8 6 (24.00%) Customer Service
8 6 (24.00%) KVM
9 5 (20.00%) Kubernetes
9 5 (20.00%) Docker
9 5 (20.00%) Azure
9 5 (20.00%) AWS
9 5 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
10 4 (16.00%) DNS
10 4 (16.00%) Perl
11 3 (12.00%) PHP
11 3 (12.00%) Unix
11 3 (12.00%) Windows
11 3 (12.00%) Apache
11 3 (12.00%) Tomcat
11 3 (12.00%) SMTP
11 3 (12.00%) Load Balancing

Linux Infrastructure 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 3 (12.00%) Apache
1 3 (12.00%) Tomcat
2 2 (8.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 5 (20.00%) AWS
1 5 (20.00%) Azure
2 3 (12.00%) Amazon ECS
2 3 (12.00%) Cloudflare
2 3 (12.00%) Entra ID
2 3 (12.00%) IaaS
3 2 (8.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.00%) DNS
2 3 (12.00%) SMTP
3 2 (8.00%) Fibre Channel
3 2 (8.00%) iSCSI
3 2 (8.00%) SAN
4 1 (4.00%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.00%) DB2
Development Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Git
1 1 (4.00%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (12.00%) Finance
3 2 (8.00%) Banking
4 1 (4.00%) Investment Banking
4 1 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.00%) Flash
1 2 (8.00%) POSIX
2 1 (4.00%) Redfish
Miscellaneous
1 6 (24.00%) Clustering
2 2 (8.00%) Client/Server
2 2 (8.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (8.00%) NVMe
3 1 (4.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 25 (100.00%) Linux
2 16 (64.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (24.00%) Solaris
4 3 (12.00%) Unix
4 3 (12.00%) Windows
5 2 (8.00%) CentOS
5 2 (8.00%) Data ONTAP
5 2 (8.00%) Debian
5 2 (8.00%) Ubuntu
5 2 (8.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (80.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (32.00%) High Availability
3 6 (24.00%) Compliance Management
3 6 (24.00%) Customer Service
4 5 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
5 3 (12.00%) DevOps
5 3 (12.00%) Load Balancing
5 3 (12.00%) Migration
6 2 (8.00%) Agile
6 2 (8.00%) Capacity Management
6 2 (8.00%) Computer Science
6 2 (8.00%) Customer Requirements
6 2 (8.00%) Observability
6 2 (8.00%) OO
6 2 (8.00%) Preventative Maintenance
6 2 (8.00%) Problem Management
6 2 (8.00%) SDLC
6 2 (8.00%) Server Management
6 2 (8.00%) Service Management
6 2 (8.00%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (28.00%) Python
2 4 (16.00%) Perl
3 3 (12.00%) PHP
3 3 (12.00%) PowerShell
4 2 (8.00%) Java
4 2 (8.00%) SQL
5 1 (4.00%) C
Qualifications
1 13 (52.00%) SC Cleared
1 13 (52.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (24.00%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (24.00%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (24.00%) KVM
2 5 (20.00%) Docker
3 3 (12.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (8.00%) GPFS
4 2 (8.00%) NFS
Systems Management
1 5 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (12.00%) Ansible
2 3 (12.00%) Puppet
2 3 (12.00%) Terraform
3 2 (8.00%) Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors
1 16 (64.00%) Red Hat
2 3 (12.00%) F5
2 3 (12.00%) VMware
3 2 (8.00%) Brocade
3 2 (8.00%) EMC
3 2 (8.00%) Google
3 2 (8.00%) IBM
3 2 (8.00%) NetApp
3 2 (8.00%) Sybase
3 2 (8.00%) Veritas
4 1 (4.00%) Dell
4 1 (4.00%) HP