Linux Engineer Contracts in the North of England

Linux Engineer
England > North of England

The median Linux Engineer daily rate in the North of England is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 164 190 208
Rank change year-on-year +26 +18 -24
Contract jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 16 19 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.33% 0.35% 0.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 0.37% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 14 22
10th Percentile £294 £311 £363
25th Percentile £400 £325 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -10.53% +26.67%
75th Percentile £619 £563 £568
90th Percentile - £632 £650
England median daily rate £525 £575 £548
% change year-on-year -8.70% +5.02% +9.50%
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 - - -
England median hourly rate £60.00 - £60.00
% change year-on-year - - +73.91%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North of England. 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 North of England with a recognized job title 4,500 5,202 6,871
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.82% 95.33% 96.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,727 3,644 5,017
10th Percentile £263 £264 £206
25th Percentile £388 £406 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £569
90th Percentile £668 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 458 163 268
10th Percentile £11.12 £14.05 £11.28
25th Percentile £13.23 £17.60 £14.82
Median hourly rate £23.48 £27.20 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.69% +36.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £47.88 £43.75 £33.96
90th Percentile £67.25 £58.90 £63.00
England median hourly rate £38.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -14.44% +87.50% +14.01%

Linux Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Engineer in the North of England

Linux Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Linux Engineer in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Linux Engineer in the North of England

Linux Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 10 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux Engineer in the North of England

Linux Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Linux Engineer in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Linux Engineer in the North of England

Linux Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux Engineer within the North of England region over the 6 months to 10 June 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
North West +7 8 £450 +28.57% 8
Yorkshire +15 7 £613 +11.87% 2
North East +12 1 £431 -17.90%
Linux Engineer
England

Linux Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 10 June 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 job ads across the North of England region featuring Linux Engineer in the job title.

1 16 (100.00%) Linux
2 5 (31.25%) Windows
2 5 (31.25%) SAN
2 5 (31.25%) Finance
2 5 (31.25%) Windows Server
3 4 (25.00%) Data Centre
3 4 (25.00%) Big Data
3 4 (25.00%) Migration
3 4 (25.00%) VMS
4 3 (18.75%) PowerShell
4 3 (18.75%) AWS
4 3 (18.75%) Red Hat
5 2 (12.50%) Python
5 2 (12.50%) Active Directory
5 2 (12.50%) Firewall
5 2 (12.50%) VMware
5 2 (12.50%) VMware Workstation
5 2 (12.50%) Clustering
5 2 (12.50%) VPN
5 2 (12.50%) Apache
5 2 (12.50%) ITIL
5 2 (12.50%) SQL
5 2 (12.50%) High Availability
5 2 (12.50%) Bash
5 2 (12.50%) CentOS
5 2 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (12.50%) Release Management
5 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
5 2 (12.50%) nginx

Linux Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 2 (12.50%) Apache
1 2 (12.50%) nginx
2 1 (6.25%) JBoss
2 1 (6.25%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 3 (18.75%) AWS
2 1 (6.25%) Azure
2 1 (6.25%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (31.25%) SAN
2 2 (12.50%) Firewall
2 2 (12.50%) VPN
3 1 (6.25%) AMQP
3 1 (6.25%) DMZ
3 1 (6.25%) DNS
3 1 (6.25%) Modbus
3 1 (6.25%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) Big Data
2 1 (6.25%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (6.25%) MongoDB
2 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (6.25%) RDBMS
2 1 (6.25%) Relational Database
2 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.25%) Tableau
General
1 5 (31.25%) Finance
2 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Banking
3 1 (6.25%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) Apache NiFi
1 1 (6.25%) IBM Integration Bus
1 1 (6.25%) JSON
1 1 (6.25%) Middleware
1 1 (6.25%) Web Services
1 1 (6.25%) XML
1 1 (6.25%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (12.50%) Clustering
3 1 (6.25%) IoT
3 1 (6.25%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 16 (100.00%) Linux
2 5 (31.25%) Windows
2 5 (31.25%) Windows Server
3 4 (25.00%) VMS
4 2 (12.50%) CentOS
4 2 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (6.25%) Debian
5 1 (6.25%) Fedora
5 1 (6.25%) Rocky
5 1 (6.25%) Ubuntu
5 1 (6.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (25.00%) Migration
2 2 (12.50%) High Availability
2 2 (12.50%) ITIL
2 2 (12.50%) Release Management
3 1 (6.25%) Computer Science
3 1 (6.25%) CRUD
3 1 (6.25%) Data Analysis
3 1 (6.25%) Data Engineering
3 1 (6.25%) Data Visualisation
3 1 (6.25%) Incident Management
3 1 (6.25%) Kalman Filter
3 1 (6.25%) Low Latency
3 1 (6.25%) Performance Management
3 1 (6.25%) Reverse Engineering
3 1 (6.25%) Roadmaps
3 1 (6.25%) Runbook
3 1 (6.25%) Server Building
3 1 (6.25%) Server Management
3 1 (6.25%) Use Case
3 1 (6.25%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (18.75%) PowerShell
2 2 (12.50%) Bash
2 2 (12.50%) Python
2 2 (12.50%) SQL
3 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
3 1 (6.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (6.25%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Active Directory
1 2 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (12.50%) VMware Workstation
2 1 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Grafana
1 1 (6.25%) Graylog
1 1 (6.25%) HAProxy
1 1 (6.25%) Proxmox
1 1 (6.25%) Rsyslog
1 1 (6.25%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Red Hat
2 2 (12.50%) VMware
3 1 (6.25%) IBM
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.25%) Oracle
3 1 (6.25%) Temenos