Linux Server Engineer Contracts

Linux Server Engineer
UK

The median Linux Server Engineer daily rate in the UK is £600 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 571 697 845
Rank change year-on-year +126 +148 -145
Contract jobs requiring a Linux Server Engineer 19 6 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.044% 0.010% 0.017%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.047% 0.011% 0.018%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 4 10
10th Percentile £408 - £383
25th Percentile £491 £538 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £539 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.32% +19.78% -
75th Percentile £650 £540 £475
90th Percentile - - £503
UK excluding London median daily rate £415 - £450

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 Server Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Server Engineer in the UK

Linux Server Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Linux Server Engineer in the UK

Linux Server Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Linux Server Engineer in the UK

Linux Server Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux Server Engineer in the UK

Linux Server Engineer
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux Server 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 +136 14 £600 +11.52%
London +104 12 £600 +11.52%
UK excluding London +59 6 £415 -
Scotland - 4 £340 -
North East - 2 £423 -
North of England - 2 £423 -
Work from Home +123 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 3 May 2024, Linux Server 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 Server Engineer in the job title.

1 19 (100.00%) Linux
2 14 (73.68%) Jenkins
3 13 (68.42%) Security Cleared
4 12 (63.16%) Data Centre
4 12 (63.16%) DV Cleared
4 12 (63.16%) CI/CD
5 11 (57.89%) Progress Chef
5 11 (57.89%) Puppet
5 11 (57.89%) HTTP
5 11 (57.89%) TCP/IP
5 11 (57.89%) SSL
6 6 (31.58%) Python
7 5 (26.32%) Finance
7 5 (26.32%) Manufacturing
8 4 (21.05%) Agile
9 3 (15.79%) Electronics
9 3 (15.79%) Telecoms
9 3 (15.79%) Programme Management
9 3 (15.79%) Marketing
9 3 (15.79%) Digital Marketing
9 3 (15.79%) Business Intelligence
9 3 (15.79%) Perl
9 3 (15.79%) SAP
9 3 (15.79%) DevOps
9 3 (15.79%) Snowflake
9 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 3 (15.79%) Public Sector
10 2 (10.53%) Server Building
10 2 (10.53%) Server Management
10 2 (10.53%) Apache NiFi

Linux Server 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (15.79%) Snowflake
2 1 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (5.26%) Amazon S3
2 1 (5.26%) AWS
2 1 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (5.26%) AWS Step Functions
2 1 (5.26%) IaaS
2 1 (5.26%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 11 (57.89%) HTTP
1 11 (57.89%) SSL
1 11 (57.89%) TCP/IP
2 2 (10.53%) AMQP
2 2 (10.53%) DHCP
2 2 (10.53%) DMZ
2 2 (10.53%) DNS
2 2 (10.53%) Firewall
2 2 (10.53%) Modbus
2 2 (10.53%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) Tableau
2 1 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.26%) RDBMS
2 1 (5.26%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (73.68%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.26%) Git
2 1 (5.26%) JIRA
General
1 5 (26.32%) Finance
1 5 (26.32%) Manufacturing
2 3 (15.79%) Electronics
2 3 (15.79%) Marketing
2 3 (15.79%) Public Sector
2 3 (15.79%) Telecoms
3 2 (10.53%) Banking
4 1 (5.26%) Dutch Language
4 1 (5.26%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.53%) Apache NiFi
1 2 (10.53%) JSON
1 2 (10.53%) Web Services
1 2 (10.53%) XML
1 2 (10.53%) XSLT
2 1 (5.26%) Redfish
Miscellaneous
1 12 (63.16%) Data Centre
2 2 (10.53%) IoT
2 2 (10.53%) Management Information System
2 2 (10.53%) PKI
3 1 (5.26%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.26%) Clustering
3 1 (5.26%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (5.26%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 19 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (10.53%) Windows
2 2 (10.53%) Windows Server
3 1 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (5.26%) Solaris
3 1 (5.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (63.16%) CI/CD
2 4 (21.05%) Agile
3 3 (15.79%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (15.79%) DevOps
3 3 (15.79%) Digital Marketing
3 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (15.79%) Programme Management
4 2 (10.53%) CRUD
4 2 (10.53%) Data Analysis
4 2 (10.53%) Data Engineering
4 2 (10.53%) Data Visualisation
4 2 (10.53%) Performance Management
4 2 (10.53%) Reverse Engineering
4 2 (10.53%) Security Management
4 2 (10.53%) Server Building
4 2 (10.53%) Server Management
4 2 (10.53%) Use Case
4 2 (10.53%) Visualisation
5 1 (5.26%) High Availability
5 1 (5.26%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (31.58%) Python
2 3 (15.79%) Perl
3 2 (10.53%) JavaScript
3 2 (10.53%) PowerShell
3 2 (10.53%) SQL
4 1 (5.26%) C
4 1 (5.26%) Go
Qualifications
1 13 (68.42%) Security Cleared
2 12 (63.16%) DV Cleared
3 1 (5.26%) Degree
3 1 (5.26%) RHCE
3 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (10.53%) Docker
2 1 (5.26%) KVM
Systems Management
1 11 (57.89%) Progress Chef
1 11 (57.89%) Puppet
2 2 (10.53%) Grafana
3 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes
3 1 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (15.79%) SAP
2 2 (10.53%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.26%) HP
3 1 (5.26%) Red Hat