Linux Scripter Contracts

Linux Scripter
UK

The median Linux Scripter daily rate in the UK is £650 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 560 685 854
Rank change year-on-year +125 +169 -155
Contract jobs requiring a Linux Scripter 10 5 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.024% 0.009% 0.010%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.025% 0.009% 0.011%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 7
10th Percentile - - £535
25th Percentile - - £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - £620
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.62%
75th Percentile - - £700
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £650 - -

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 39,467 53,505 83,509
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.80% 94.60% 95.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,700 37,347 58,712
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.31% +3.43% +8.25%
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% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,724 1,494 2,029
10th Percentile £12.83 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.44%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.95 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.16 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.11% +110.78% +5.26%

Linux Scripter
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Scripter in the UK

Linux Scripter
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Linux Scripter in the UK

Linux Scripter
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux Scripter in the UK

Linux Scripter
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux Scripter within the UK 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
Work from Home +130 9 £650 -
UK excluding London +64 9 £650 -
Scotland +50 9 £650 -
London +92 1 - -
England +92 1 - -

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

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

1 10 (100.00%) Linux
2 7 (70.00%) OO
2 7 (70.00%) Unix
2 7 (70.00%) Python
3 6 (60.00%) Perl
4 4 (40.00%) Platform Engineering
5 3 (30.00%) Design Patterns
5 3 (30.00%) Software Engineering
5 3 (30.00%) DevOps
5 3 (30.00%) Algorithms
5 3 (30.00%) Scala
5 3 (30.00%) Java
6 2 (20.00%) Computer Science
6 2 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
7 1 (10.00%) Podman
7 1 (10.00%) CI/CD
7 1 (10.00%) Storage Management
7 1 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (10.00%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
7 1 (10.00%) Oracle Database
7 1 (10.00%) OpenShift
7 1 (10.00%) Ansible
7 1 (10.00%) Artifactory
7 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
7 1 (10.00%) Release Management
7 1 (10.00%) Groovy
7 1 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (10.00%) Git

Linux Scripter 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 1 (10.00%) Apache
1 1 (10.00%) JBoss
1 1 (10.00%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) AWS
1 1 (10.00%) Azure
1 1 (10.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Ant
1 1 (10.00%) Artifactory
1 1 (10.00%) Git
1 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
1 1 (10.00%) Maven
1 1 (10.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
1 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Banking
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (10.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) Linux
2 7 (70.00%) Unix
3 1 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) OO
2 4 (40.00%) Platform Engineering
3 3 (30.00%) Design Patterns
3 3 (30.00%) DevOps
3 3 (30.00%) Software Engineering
4 2 (20.00%) Computer Science
5 1 (10.00%) CI/CD
5 1 (10.00%) Configuration Management
5 1 (10.00%) Load Balancing
5 1 (10.00%) Release Management
5 1 (10.00%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) Python
2 6 (60.00%) Perl
3 3 (30.00%) Java
3 3 (30.00%) Scala
4 1 (10.00%) Bash
4 1 (10.00%) Groovy
4 1 (10.00%) PL/SQL
4 1 (10.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Ansible
1 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (10.00%) Podman
1 1 (10.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle