Linux Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Linux Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Linux Engineer daily rate in Work from Home is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 17 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
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 294 370 498
Rank change year-on-year +76 +128 -88
Contract jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 49 96 131
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.33% 0.39% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.35% 0.41% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 77 94
10th Percentile £425 £418 £377
25th Percentile £463 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £540 £511
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +5.62% +16.86%
75th Percentile £622 £600 £575
90th Percentile £645 £713 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £570 £525
% change year-on-year -7.89% +8.57% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £23.25
25th Percentile - - £33.75
Median hourly rate - - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £56.88
90th Percentile - - £58.75
UK median hourly rate £60.00 - £60.00
% change year-on-year - - +27.66%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,835 23,454 42,149
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.54% 95.29% 95.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,295 16,589 30,493
10th Percentile £325 £363 £356
25th Percentile £425 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +9.38%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.82% +2.90% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 559 534 593
10th Percentile £14.27 £17.50 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.61 £25.71 £19.00
Median hourly rate £44.00 £52.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.19% +50.00% +45.83%
75th Percentile £64.14 £67.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £79.76 £68.65
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Linux Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Linux Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Linux Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Linux Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Linux Engineer.

Linux Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Linux Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Linux Engineer over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Linux Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Linux Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Linux Engineer.

Linux Engineer hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Linux Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 17 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Linux Engineer in the job title.

1 49 (100.00%) Linux
2 30 (61.22%) Python
3 15 (30.61%) Ansible
4 14 (28.57%) Kubernetes
4 14 (28.57%) Perl
5 12 (24.49%) Red Hat
6 11 (22.45%) OO
6 11 (22.45%) Software Engineering
7 10 (20.41%) Unix
7 10 (20.41%) Linux Command Line
8 9 (18.37%) Platform Engineering
8 9 (18.37%) CI/CD
8 9 (18.37%) Agile
8 9 (18.37%) Finance
8 9 (18.37%) VMware
8 9 (18.37%) Docker
9 8 (16.33%) Jenkins
9 8 (16.33%) Scrum
10 7 (14.29%) DevOps
10 7 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 7 (14.29%) Git
11 6 (12.24%) Grafana
11 6 (12.24%) Prometheus
11 6 (12.24%) Observability
11 6 (12.24%) Computer Science
11 6 (12.24%) VMware Infrastructure
11 6 (12.24%) Artifactory
11 6 (12.24%) Continuous Improvement
11 6 (12.24%) Oracle
11 6 (12.24%) C++

Linux Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (6.12%) Confluence
2 1 (2.04%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 5 (10.20%) Azure
1 5 (10.20%) OpenShift
2 4 (8.16%) AWS
2 4 (8.16%) IaaS
3 3 (6.12%) WhatsApp
4 1 (2.04%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (2.04%) Amazon S3
4 1 (2.04%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (2.04%) AWS Step Functions
4 1 (2.04%) Sentry
4 1 (2.04%) Serverless
4 1 (2.04%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.16%) SAN
2 3 (6.12%) Firewall
2 3 (6.12%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.04%) DHCP
3 1 (2.04%) DNS
3 1 (2.04%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.16%) Big Data
2 3 (6.12%) Oracle Database
3 1 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.04%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.04%) RDBMS
3 1 (2.04%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (16.33%) Jenkins
2 7 (14.29%) Git
3 6 (12.24%) Artifactory
4 4 (8.16%) GitLab
4 4 (8.16%) JIRA
5 3 (6.12%) Bitbucket
5 3 (6.12%) Gradle
6 1 (2.04%) Subversion
General
1 9 (18.37%) Finance
2 4 (8.16%) Social Skills
3 3 (6.12%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.08%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (4.08%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.04%) Dutch Language
5 1 (2.04%) Front Office
5 1 (2.04%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (10.20%) YAML
2 3 (6.12%) RESTful
2 3 (6.12%) SOAP
2 3 (6.12%) Spring
2 3 (6.12%) Spring Boot
2 3 (6.12%) XML
3 2 (4.08%) Kafka
4 1 (2.04%) eBPF
4 1 (2.04%) Spark Streaming
4 1 (2.04%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (20.41%) Linux Command Line
2 4 (8.16%) Data Centre
3 2 (4.08%) Hedge funds
4 1 (2.04%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.04%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (2.04%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 49 (100.00%) Linux
2 10 (20.41%) Unix
3 7 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (10.20%) Windows
5 4 (8.16%) Embedded Linux
5 4 (8.16%) Solaris
5 4 (8.16%) Ubuntu
5 4 (8.16%) VMS
6 2 (4.08%) CentOS
6 2 (4.08%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (22.45%) OO
1 11 (22.45%) Software Engineering
2 9 (18.37%) Agile
2 9 (18.37%) CI/CD
2 9 (18.37%) Platform Engineering
3 8 (16.33%) Scrum
4 7 (14.29%) DevOps
5 6 (12.24%) Computer Science
5 6 (12.24%) Continuous Improvement
5 6 (12.24%) Observability
6 5 (10.20%) High Availability
6 5 (10.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 5 (10.20%) Kanban
6 5 (10.20%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (10.20%) Test Automation
7 4 (8.16%) Continuous Integration
7 4 (8.16%) Migration
7 4 (8.16%) Open Source
7 4 (8.16%) Runbook
7 4 (8.16%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 30 (61.22%) Python
2 14 (28.57%) Perl
3 6 (12.24%) C++
4 5 (10.20%) Bash
5 4 (8.16%) C#
5 4 (8.16%) Java
5 4 (8.16%) PowerShell
6 3 (6.12%) Shell Script
6 3 (6.12%) SQL
7 2 (4.08%) C
8 1 (2.04%) Go
8 1 (2.04%) Scala
Qualifications
1 5 (10.20%) Degree
2 3 (6.12%) SC Cleared
2 3 (6.12%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.04%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.04%) GDPR
1 1 (2.04%) QA
System Software
1 9 (18.37%) Docker
2 6 (12.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (10.20%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (6.12%) VirtualBox
4 3 (6.12%) vSphere
5 2 (4.08%) Ceph
5 2 (4.08%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 2 (4.08%) VMware NSX
6 1 (2.04%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 15 (30.61%) Ansible
2 14 (28.57%) Kubernetes
3 6 (12.24%) Grafana
3 6 (12.24%) Prometheus
4 3 (6.12%) Dell DRAC
4 3 (6.12%) Red Hat Satellite
4 3 (6.12%) Terraform
5 2 (4.08%) Pacemaker
5 2 (4.08%) Podman
5 2 (4.08%) SELinux
6 1 (2.04%) Cilium
6 1 (2.04%) Nagios
Vendors
1 12 (24.49%) Red Hat
2 9 (18.37%) VMware
3 6 (12.24%) Oracle
4 3 (6.12%) BMC
4 3 (6.12%) SolarWinds
5 2 (4.08%) Sun
6 1 (2.04%) Splunk
6 1 (2.04%) Symantec
6 1 (2.04%) Veritas