Linux Contracts with Work from Home Options

Linux
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Linux skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Linux over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 40 29 38
Rank change year-on-year -11 +9 -9
Contract jobs citing Linux 677 1,645 2,557
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 4.50% 6.57% 5.83%
As % of the Operating Systems category 43.40% 47.97% 47.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 430 1,134 1,749
10th Percentile £325 £413 £400
25th Percentile £425 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% +2.78% +11.11%
75th Percentile £622 £675 £638
90th Percentile £710 £759 £700
UK median daily rate £550 £585 £575
% change year-on-year -5.98% +1.74% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 55 47
10th Percentile £46.39 £46.75 £42.60
25th Percentile £55.00 £51.25 £47.50
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year - +8.70% +12.75%
75th Percentile £71.25 £73.75 £65.54
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £77.10
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% +25.65%

All Operating Systems
Work from Home

Linux is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,560 3,429 5,346
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.37% 13.68% 12.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,096 2,415 3,769
10th Percentile £225 £245 £298
25th Percentile £350 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% +4.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £631 £606
90th Percentile £685 £725 £677
UK median daily rate £468 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -7.43% +1.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 102 160
10th Percentile £12.80 £19.00 £14.95
25th Percentile £14.27 £35.88 £19.63
Median hourly rate £17.69 £55.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -67.84% +22.22% +21.62%
75th Percentile £65.00 £69.00 £60.54
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £68.62
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £38.50 £23.00
% change year-on-year -42.86% +67.39% +29.50%

Linux
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Linux trend for jobs with a WFH option

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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.

Linux daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Linux over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Linux daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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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.

Linux hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Linux
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Linux over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Linux hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Linux
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 46 (6.79%) Confluence
2 36 (5.32%) nginx
3 25 (3.69%) Microsoft Exchange
4 23 (3.40%) OpenStack
5 15 (2.22%) Apache
6 11 (1.62%) NetWeaver
7 8 (1.18%) JBoss
8 6 (0.89%) Apache Spark
8 6 (0.89%) IIS
8 6 (0.89%) Tomcat
9 5 (0.74%) Apache Solr
9 5 (0.74%) WebLogic
10 4 (0.59%) Luigi
10 4 (0.59%) Oracle Self-Service HR
11 3 (0.44%) Cloud Foundry
11 3 (0.44%) SharePoint
12 2 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 2 (0.30%) Oracle HTTP Server
12 2 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 2 (0.30%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (1.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.15%) Weka
Business Applications
1 11 (1.62%) SAP IBP
2 4 (0.59%) Loan IQ
3 3 (0.44%) Temenos T24
4 2 (0.30%) BusinessWorks
4 2 (0.30%) Endur
4 2 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.30%) Shopify
4 2 (0.30%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.15%) BASE24
5 1 (0.15%) MFGPRO
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.15%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 187 (27.62%) AWS
2 165 (24.37%) Azure
3 48 (7.09%) GitHub
4 33 (4.87%) AWS CloudFormation
4 33 (4.87%) PaaS
5 32 (4.73%) GCP
5 32 (4.73%) IaaS
5 32 (4.73%) OpenShift
6 31 (4.58%) Amazon EC2
6 31 (4.58%) Serverless
7 25 (3.69%) AWS Lambda
7 25 (3.69%) Entra ID
8 24 (3.55%) Microsoft 365
9 23 (3.40%) Amazon S3
10 21 (3.10%) SaaS
11 20 (2.95%) Azure Monitor
11 20 (2.95%) Azure Storage
12 17 (2.51%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
13 16 (2.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 15 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 75 (11.08%) Firewall
2 54 (7.98%) TCP/IP
3 53 (7.83%) DNS
4 37 (5.47%) SAN
5 35 (5.17%) DHCP
6 18 (2.66%) SSL
7 16 (2.36%) VPN
8 14 (2.07%) LAN
8 14 (2.07%) Network Security
8 14 (2.07%) VLAN
9 11 (1.62%) HTTP
9 11 (1.62%) WAN
10 9 (1.33%) Intrusion Detection
11 8 (1.18%) NAS
12 7 (1.03%) 4G
12 7 (1.03%) FTP
12 7 (1.03%) Kerberos
12 7 (1.03%) Wireshark
13 6 (0.89%) SNMP
13 6 (0.89%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (5.32%) MySQL
2 34 (5.02%) SQL Server
3 29 (4.28%) PostgreSQL
4 26 (3.84%) MongoDB
5 24 (3.55%) Amazon RDS
5 24 (3.55%) Oracle Database
6 23 (3.40%) Relational Database
7 16 (2.36%) Elasticsearch
8 13 (1.92%) NoSQL
9 12 (1.77%) Hadoop
9 12 (1.77%) RDBMS
9 12 (1.77%) SAP HANA
10 11 (1.62%) SAP BW
11 9 (1.33%) Big Data
11 9 (1.33%) MariaDB
12 7 (1.03%) Couchbase
12 7 (1.03%) DB2
12 7 (1.03%) Oracle Reports
13 6 (0.89%) Apache Hive
13 6 (0.89%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 73 (10.78%) Jenkins
2 69 (10.19%) Git
3 60 (8.86%) JIRA
4 42 (6.20%) GitLab
5 21 (3.10%) Bitbucket
6 17 (2.51%) Artifactory
7 14 (2.07%) TeamCity
8 8 (1.18%) Sonatype Nexus
9 7 (1.03%) Cypress.io
9 7 (1.03%) Selenium
10 6 (0.89%) Maven
10 6 (0.89%) Visual Studio
11 5 (0.74%) Postman
11 5 (0.74%) SonarQube
12 4 (0.59%) Burp Suite
12 4 (0.59%) Cucumber
12 4 (0.59%) Gradle
12 4 (0.59%) IDA Disassembler
12 4 (0.59%) Mockito
12 4 (0.59%) Terragrunt
General
1 183 (27.03%) Social Skills
2 117 (17.28%) Finance
3 70 (10.34%) Public Sector
4 56 (8.27%) Analytical Skills
5 29 (4.28%) Telecoms
6 27 (3.99%) Banking
7 18 (2.66%) Manufacturing
8 17 (2.51%) Presentation Skills
9 14 (2.07%) Marketing
10 12 (1.77%) Investment Banking
11 10 (1.48%) Electronics
11 10 (1.48%) Influencing Skills
12 9 (1.33%) Front Office
13 7 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (0.89%) Financial Institution
14 6 (0.89%) Legal
15 5 (0.74%) Aerospace
15 5 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 3 (0.44%) Documentation Skills
16 3 (0.44%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 108 (15.95%) Developer
2 78 (11.52%) DevOps Engineer
2 78 (11.52%) Senior
3 48 (7.09%) Linux Engineer
4 39 (5.76%) Architect
5 38 (5.61%) Consultant
6 36 (5.32%) Python Engineer
7 30 (4.43%) AWS Engineer
8 29 (4.28%) Administrator
8 29 (4.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 26 (3.84%) DBA
10 22 (3.25%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 22 (3.25%) Support Engineer
11 21 (3.10%) AWS DevOps
12 20 (2.95%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 20 (2.95%) Python Developer
12 20 (2.95%) Software Engineer
13 19 (2.81%) Full Stack Developer
13 19 (2.81%) Site Engineer
14 18 (2.66%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (6.06%) Kafka
2 34 (5.02%) HTML
3 32 (4.73%) CSS
4 29 (4.28%) Middleware
4 29 (4.28%) YAML
5 27 (3.99%) Web Services
6 26 (3.84%) Elastic Stack
7 23 (3.40%) Laravel
7 23 (3.40%) REST
8 21 (3.10%) .NET
8 21 (3.10%) RabbitMQ
9 20 (2.95%) LDAP
10 19 (2.81%) RESTful
10 19 (2.81%) Sass
11 17 (2.51%) ARM Templates
11 17 (2.51%) JSON
12 14 (2.07%) Spring
13 13 (1.92%) WebSockets
14 11 (1.62%) React
14 11 (1.62%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 39 (5.76%) Data Centre
2 35 (5.17%) PKI
3 30 (4.43%) Replication
4 27 (3.99%) Linux Command Line
5 26 (3.84%) Distributed Systems
5 26 (3.84%) Public Cloud
6 24 (3.55%) Management Information System
6 24 (3.55%) Self-Motivation
7 20 (2.95%) Algorithms
8 17 (2.51%) Cloud Native
9 14 (2.07%) Data Structures
9 14 (2.07%) Product Ownership
10 13 (1.92%) Clustering
11 11 (1.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 11 (1.62%) Onboarding
12 8 (1.18%) Cyber Threat
12 8 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
12 8 (1.18%) Virtual Team
13 7 (1.03%) Embedded Systems
14 6 (0.89%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 231 (34.12%) Windows
2 136 (20.09%) Unix
3 75 (11.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 64 (9.45%) Windows Server
5 49 (7.24%) Ubuntu
6 24 (3.55%) CentOS
7 22 (3.25%) Solaris
8 19 (2.81%) Windows Server 2016
8 19 (2.81%) zOS
9 18 (2.66%) Debian
9 18 (2.66%) Windows Server 2019
10 15 (2.22%) Oracle Linux
10 15 (2.22%) VMS
11 14 (2.07%) AIX
12 9 (1.33%) Apple iOS
13 8 (1.18%) Android
13 8 (1.18%) Embedded Linux
14 4 (0.59%) Mac OS
14 4 (0.59%) Mac OS X
14 4 (0.59%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 187 (27.62%) DevOps
2 169 (24.96%) Agile
3 145 (21.42%) CI/CD
4 97 (14.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 96 (14.18%) Problem-Solving
6 63 (9.31%) ITIL
7 62 (9.16%) Test Automation
8 60 (8.86%) Migration
9 57 (8.42%) Microservices
10 53 (7.83%) Software Engineering
11 52 (7.68%) Continuous Integration
12 48 (7.09%) Disaster Recovery
13 45 (6.65%) Analytics
14 44 (6.50%) Configuration Management
15 43 (6.35%) Performance Tuning
16 42 (6.20%) Containerisation
17 41 (6.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 40 (5.91%) OO
19 39 (5.76%) High Availability
20 37 (5.47%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 209 (30.87%) Python
2 89 (13.15%) Bash
3 79 (11.67%) Java
4 75 (11.08%) SQL
5 64 (9.45%) PowerShell
6 61 (9.01%) JavaScript
7 45 (6.65%) Perl
8 44 (6.50%) C#
9 43 (6.35%) C++
10 42 (6.20%) Shell Script
11 31 (4.58%) PHP
12 25 (3.69%) Go
13 23 (3.40%) C
14 21 (3.10%) Bicep
15 17 (2.51%) VB
16 16 (2.36%) VBScript
17 14 (2.07%) JCL
18 12 (1.77%) REXX
19 11 (1.62%) TypeScript
20 10 (1.48%) Scala
Qualifications
1 179 (26.44%) Security Cleared
2 127 (18.76%) SC Cleared
3 74 (10.93%) Degree
4 68 (10.04%) DV Cleared
5 19 (2.81%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (2.36%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 8 (1.18%) ISTQB
7 8 (1.18%) SAP Certification
8 6 (0.89%) AWS Certification
8 6 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (0.89%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.59%) CEH
10 4 (0.59%) CISSP
10 4 (0.59%) Numerate Degree
10 4 (0.59%) OSCP
11 3 (0.44%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (0.44%) CREST Certified
11 3 (0.44%) CTC Cleared
11 3 (0.44%) GPEN
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (4.87%) QA
2 19 (2.81%) GDPR
3 14 (2.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (1.92%) NIST
5 12 (1.77%) Accessibility
6 10 (1.48%) SLA
7 7 (1.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 5 (0.74%) HIPAA
9 3 (0.44%) Disclosure Scotland
10 2 (0.30%) Data Quality
10 2 (0.30%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 2 (0.30%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.15%) Def Stans
11 1 (0.15%) ISO 8583
11 1 (0.15%) ISO 9000
11 1 (0.15%) MiFID
11 1 (0.15%) NCSC
11 1 (0.15%) WCAG
System Software
1 95 (14.03%) Active Directory
2 90 (13.29%) Docker
3 53 (7.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 45 (6.65%) Virtual Machines
5 21 (3.10%) NFS
6 18 (2.66%) Virtual Desktop
7 15 (2.22%) Firmware
7 15 (2.22%) VMware NSX
8 14 (2.07%) Time Sharing Option
9 13 (1.92%) VMware ESXi
10 12 (1.77%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 12 (1.77%) vSphere
11 8 (1.18%) Hyper-V
12 7 (1.03%) HDFS
12 7 (1.03%) Oracle RAC
13 5 (0.74%) KVM
13 5 (0.74%) Snort
14 3 (0.44%) FreeRADIUS
14 3 (0.44%) VirtualBox
15 2 (0.30%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 143 (21.12%) Kubernetes
2 137 (20.24%) Ansible
3 99 (14.62%) Terraform
4 48 (7.09%) Grafana
5 39 (5.76%) Prometheus
6 36 (5.32%) Puppet
7 25 (3.69%) SCCM
8 20 (2.95%) Progress Chef
8 20 (2.95%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 19 (2.81%) Kibana
9 19 (2.81%) WSUS
10 18 (2.66%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 18 (2.66%) SCOM
11 17 (2.51%) Consul
12 16 (2.36%) Microsoft Intune
13 12 (1.77%) Data Guard
14 11 (1.62%) EMC NetWorker
14 11 (1.62%) Nagios
15 10 (1.48%) Red Hat Satellite
16 9 (1.33%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 129 (19.05%) Microsoft
2 88 (13.00%) VMware
3 75 (11.08%) Oracle
4 72 (10.64%) Red Hat
5 43 (6.35%) Dell
6 40 (5.91%) IBM
7 35 (5.17%) Splunk
8 29 (4.28%) SAP
9 23 (3.40%) Atlassian
10 22 (3.25%) Cisco
11 21 (3.10%) Qualys
12 20 (2.95%) Google
13 19 (2.81%) Brocade
13 19 (2.81%) HP
14 16 (2.36%) CyberArk
14 16 (2.36%) ServiceNow
15 14 (2.07%) Broadcom
15 14 (2.07%) CA
15 14 (2.07%) Isilon
15 14 (2.07%) SaltStack