Linux Support Engineer Contracts

Linux Support Engineer
UK

The median Linux Support Engineer daily rate in the UK is £340 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 11 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
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 576 669 832
Rank change year-on-year +93 +163 -129
Contract jobs requiring a Linux Support Engineer 14 30 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.033% 0.052% 0.014%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.035% 0.055% 0.014%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 24 3
10th Percentile - £539 £309
25th Percentile £235 £594 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £340 £675 £438
Median % change year-on-year -49.63% +54.29% +0.57%
75th Percentile - £703 £597
90th Percentile - £713 £681
UK excluding London median daily rate £290 - £363
% change year-on-year - - -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate - - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £52.50

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 39,895 54,705 83,445
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.63% 95.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,959 38,196 58,620
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £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 2,673 1,532 2,041
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.43 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.73% +112.16% +5.26%

Linux Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Support Engineer in the UK

Linux Support Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Linux Support Engineer in the UK

Linux Support Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux Support Engineer over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux Support Engineer in the UK

Linux Support Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux Support Engineer in the UK

Linux Support Engineer
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux Support Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 11 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
UK excluding London +59 11 £290 - 6
England +88 8 £240 -64.44% 4
Scotland - 5 £340 - 2
East of England - 3 £240 -
London +79 2 - -
Yorkshire - 2 £238 -
North of England - 2 £238 -
Work from Home +109 1 £350 -48.15% 2
South East +17 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 11 May 2024, Linux Support 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 Support Engineer in the job title.

1 14 (100.00%) Linux
2 10 (71.43%) High Availability
2 10 (71.43%) Clustering
3 8 (57.14%) Windows
4 7 (50.00%) Active Directory
4 7 (50.00%) Red Hat
4 7 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (50.00%) Windows Server
5 6 (42.86%) SC Cleared
5 6 (42.86%) Security Cleared
5 6 (42.86%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (42.86%) VMware
6 5 (35.71%) VMware Workstation
6 5 (35.71%) VPN
6 5 (35.71%) ITIL
6 5 (35.71%) Release Management
6 5 (35.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
7 4 (28.57%) Customer Service
7 4 (28.57%) Compliance Management
7 4 (28.57%) KVM
7 4 (28.57%) Solaris
7 4 (28.57%) SLA
7 4 (28.57%) RHCE
8 3 (21.43%) DNS
8 3 (21.43%) Python
8 3 (21.43%) Bash
9 2 (14.29%) CSS
9 2 (14.29%) tcsh
9 2 (14.29%) Entra ID

Linux Support 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 1 (7.14%) Apache
1 1 (7.14%) IIS
1 1 (7.14%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 2 (14.29%) Azure
1 2 (14.29%) Entra ID
2 1 (7.14%) AWS
2 1 (7.14%) GitHub
2 1 (7.14%) IaaS
2 1 (7.14%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 5 (35.71%) VPN
2 3 (21.43%) DNS
3 1 (7.14%) H.323
3 1 (7.14%) HTTP
3 1 (7.14%) Network Security
3 1 (7.14%) SAN
3 1 (7.14%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) MongoDB
1 1 (7.14%) MySQL
1 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (7.14%) RDBMS
1 1 (7.14%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Git
1 1 (7.14%) GitLab
General
1 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Telecoms
3 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Electronics
3 1 (7.14%) Finance
3 1 (7.14%) Legal
3 1 (7.14%) Manufacturing
3 1 (7.14%) Marketing
3 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 10 (71.43%) Clustering
2 1 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (7.14%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (7.14%) IVR
2 1 (7.14%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
2 1 (7.14%) Replication
2 1 (7.14%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 14 (100.00%) Linux
2 8 (57.14%) Windows
3 7 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (50.00%) Windows Server
4 4 (28.57%) Solaris
5 1 (7.14%) Unix
5 1 (7.14%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (71.43%) High Availability
2 5 (35.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (35.71%) ITIL
2 5 (35.71%) Release Management
3 4 (28.57%) Compliance Management
3 4 (28.57%) Customer Service
4 2 (14.29%) Capacity Management
4 2 (14.29%) Coaching
4 2 (14.29%) Incident Management
4 2 (14.29%) Mentoring
4 2 (14.29%) Migration
4 2 (14.29%) Server Management
5 1 (7.14%) CI/CD
5 1 (7.14%) Cloud Security
5 1 (7.14%) Containerisation
5 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (7.14%) Proactive Maintenance
5 1 (7.14%) Project Delivery
5 1 (7.14%) Storage Management
5 1 (7.14%) WFM
Programming Languages
1 3 (21.43%) Bash
1 3 (21.43%) Python
2 2 (14.29%) Korn
2 2 (14.29%) PowerShell
2 2 (14.29%) Shell Script
2 2 (14.29%) tcsh
3 1 (7.14%) Java
Qualifications
1 6 (42.86%) SC Cleared
1 6 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 4 (28.57%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (28.57%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 6 (42.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (35.71%) VMware Workstation
4 4 (28.57%) KVM
5 2 (14.29%) NFS
6 1 (7.14%) VMware NSX
6 1 (7.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) systemd
2 1 (7.14%) Ansible
2 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (7.14%) Packer
2 1 (7.14%) Terraform
2 1 (7.14%) vRealize
2 1 (7.14%) VxRail
Vendors
1 7 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 6 (42.86%) VMware
3 1 (7.14%) Arqiva
3 1 (7.14%) Avaya
3 1 (7.14%) Dell
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.14%) Oracle
3 1 (7.14%) SAP
3 1 (7.14%) SolarWinds
3 1 (7.14%) Verint
3 1 (7.14%) Veritas