Senior Linux Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Senior Linux Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior Linux Engineer daily rate in Work from Home is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 337 452 616
Rank change year-on-year +115 +164 -125
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Linux Engineer 4 3 3
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.027% 0.012% 0.007%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.029% 0.013% 0.007%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 2
10th Percentile - £435 £435
25th Percentile £463 £454 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +17.65%
75th Percentile £506 £538 £550
90th Percentile £518 £553 £565
UK median daily rate £488 £525 £750
% change year-on-year -7.14% -30.00% +37.61%

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 13,766 23,608 42,537
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.49% 95.27% 95.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,304 16,691 30,789
10th Percentile £325 £363 £356
25th Percentile £425 £450 £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 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +8.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 559 541 595
10th Percentile £14.23 £17.50 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.59 £25.71 £19.45
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +50.00% +45.83%
75th Percentile £63.75 £67.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £79.19 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Senior Linux Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Senior Linux Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Senior 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 Senior Linux Engineer.

Senior Linux Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 20 May 2024, Senior 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 Senior Linux Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Python
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
1 4 (100.00%) Bash
1 4 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 2 (50.00%) Remediation Plan
2 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (50.00%) SOLID
2 2 (50.00%) Red Hat Satellite
2 2 (50.00%) High Availability
2 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (50.00%) OpenShift
2 2 (50.00%) Ansible
2 2 (50.00%) Runbook
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (50.00%) Product Roadmap
2 2 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 2 (50.00%) Clean Code
2 2 (50.00%) Storyboarding
2 2 (50.00%) Customer Service
2 2 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (50.00%) Ubuntu
2 2 (50.00%) Kanban
2 2 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (50.00%) Git
2 2 (50.00%) Unit Testing
2 2 (50.00%) SolarWinds
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) UML

Senior 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) OpenShift
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Git
1 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (50.00%) Solaris
2 2 (50.00%) Ubuntu
2 2 (50.00%) Windows
3 1 (25.00%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (50.00%) Clean Code
2 2 (50.00%) Customer Service
2 2 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 2 (50.00%) High Availability
2 2 (50.00%) OO
2 2 (50.00%) OOD
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Product Roadmap
2 2 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 2 (50.00%) Remediation Plan
2 2 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (50.00%) Runbook
2 2 (50.00%) Scrum
2 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) SOLID
2 2 (50.00%) Storyboarding
2 2 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (50.00%) UML
2 2 (50.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Bash
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) C#
2 2 (50.00%) C++
2 2 (50.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Master's Degree
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Ansible
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (50.00%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (50.00%) SolarWinds
1 2 (50.00%) VMware