Linux Contracts in Scotland

Linux
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with 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 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 24 16 37
Rank change year-on-year -8 +21 -3
Contract jobs citing Linux 148 267 194
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 7.04% 9.96% 5.74%
As % of the Operating Systems category 42.29% 52.87% 40.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 167 134
10th Percentile £324 £400 £380
25th Percentile £400 £457 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £655 £660 £560
90th Percentile £750 £750 £612
UK median daily rate £550 £583 £575
% change year-on-year -5.66% +1.39% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 6 7
10th Percentile £56.00 £49.49 £45.46
25th Percentile £57.50 £53.20 £49.35
Median hourly rate £60.25 £59.79 £54.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.77% +9.71% -18.05%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.06 £56.63
90th Percentile - £67.66 £57.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year - +13.04% +15.00%

All Operating Systems
Scotland

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 advertised in Scotland with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 350 505 480
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 16.65% 18.83% 14.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 243 351 321
10th Percentile £178 £160 £150
25th Percentile £305 £252 £228
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -11.68% +5.56% +7.14%
75th Percentile £588 £594 £550
90th Percentile £699 £700 £600
UK median daily rate £465 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -7.05% +0.05% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 13 25
10th Percentile £17.61 £15.14 £12.15
25th Percentile £18.17 £17.72 £15.50
Median hourly rate £39.25 £47.73 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -17.77% +169.36% +1.26%
75th Percentile £60.75 £59.03 £47.25
90th Percentile £62.50 £65.36 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £40.30 £22.50
% change year-on-year -44.16% +79.09% +28.57%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Scotland

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Linux in Scotland

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in Scotland over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in Scotland

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux in Scotland

Linux
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 23 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
Glasgow -11 82 £536 -13.20% 18
Edinburgh +3 35 £495 -1.00% 43
South Lanarkshire +16 13 £750 - 2
Aberdeen - 4 £625 - 3
Perthshire +11 3 £475 -
West Lothian +3 2 £650 +62.50% 1
Fife +2 2 £365 - 1
Renfrewshire 0 1 £600 +20.80%
Linux
UK

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 15 (10.14%) Confluence
2 6 (4.05%) IIS
3 5 (3.38%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (3.38%) SAS
4 1 (0.68%) Apache
4 1 (0.68%) JBoss
4 1 (0.68%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.68%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.68%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.68%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.68%) WildFly
Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 38 (25.68%) AWS
2 21 (14.19%) OpenShift
3 12 (8.11%) Amazon S3
3 12 (8.11%) Azure
4 11 (7.43%) Amazon EC2
4 11 (7.43%) AWS CloudFormation
5 10 (6.76%) AWS Lambda
5 10 (6.76%) Serverless
6 8 (5.41%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 7 (4.73%) Amazon EKS
8 5 (3.38%) Amazon ECS
8 5 (3.38%) AWS Fargate
9 3 (2.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (2.03%) IaaS
9 3 (2.03%) OCI
9 3 (2.03%) Oracle Service Cloud
10 2 (1.35%) AWS CodeBuild
10 2 (1.35%) AWS CodeCommit
10 2 (1.35%) AWS CodePipeline
10 2 (1.35%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 16 (10.81%) Firewall
2 6 (4.05%) SAN
3 5 (3.38%) Fibre Channel
3 5 (3.38%) Internet
3 5 (3.38%) iSCSI
4 3 (2.03%) DHCP
4 3 (2.03%) DNS
4 3 (2.03%) LAN
5 2 (1.35%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (1.35%) Modbus
5 2 (1.35%) NAS
5 2 (1.35%) SNMP
5 2 (1.35%) WAN
6 1 (0.68%) DSL
6 1 (0.68%) Network Security
6 1 (0.68%) Wireshark
6 1 (0.68%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.76%) Oracle Database
2 8 (5.41%) Elasticsearch
2 8 (5.41%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (3.38%) InfluxDB
3 5 (3.38%) MariaDB
3 5 (3.38%) MySQL
3 5 (3.38%) Oracle Database 12c
3 5 (3.38%) Oracle Reports
3 5 (3.38%) Oracle8/8i Database
4 4 (2.70%) DB2
4 4 (2.70%) Metadata
4 4 (2.70%) SQL Server
5 3 (2.03%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.35%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (1.35%) Informix
6 2 (1.35%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.35%) NonStop SQL
6 2 (1.35%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.68%) Oracle Database 11g
7 1 (0.68%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 17 (11.49%) JIRA
2 15 (10.14%) Jenkins
3 12 (8.11%) Git
4 10 (6.76%) Artifactory
5 9 (6.08%) Maven
6 8 (5.41%) Gradle
7 6 (4.05%) GitLab
8 5 (3.38%) Cucumber
8 5 (3.38%) Selenium
9 3 (2.03%) Burp Suite
9 3 (2.03%) WebDriver
10 2 (1.35%) Capybara
10 2 (1.35%) CMake
11 1 (0.68%) Bitbucket Server
11 1 (0.68%) Gatling
11 1 (0.68%) JMeter
11 1 (0.68%) JUnit
11 1 (0.68%) Oracle Forms
11 1 (0.68%) Subversion
11 1 (0.68%) Terragrunt
General
1 35 (23.65%) Social Skills
2 24 (16.22%) Finance
3 21 (14.19%) Public Sector
4 13 (8.78%) Banking
5 8 (5.41%) Financial Institution
6 7 (4.73%) Investment Banking
7 6 (4.05%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (3.38%) Electronics
9 4 (2.70%) Telecoms
10 3 (2.03%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (2.03%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.68%) Military
Job Titles
1 30 (20.27%) Linux Engineer
2 22 (14.86%) Python Engineer
3 18 (12.16%) DevOps Engineer
4 17 (11.49%) Developer
4 17 (11.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 16 (10.81%) Support Engineer
6 14 (9.46%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
7 13 (8.78%) Platform Engineer
8 12 (8.11%) Java Developer
9 11 (7.43%) Java Scala Developer
9 11 (7.43%) Linux Developer
9 11 (7.43%) Scala Developer
10 9 (6.08%) Linux Scripter
10 9 (6.08%) Software Engineer
11 8 (5.41%) Embedded Engineer
11 8 (5.41%) Embedded Software Engineer
11 8 (5.41%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
11 8 (5.41%) Network Engineer
11 8 (5.41%) Unix Engineer
11 8 (5.41%) Unix Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (8.11%) REST
2 10 (6.76%) AWS CDK
3 9 (6.08%) Web Services
4 7 (4.73%) Middleware
5 5 (3.38%) Flash
5 5 (3.38%) Oracle GoldenGate
5 5 (3.38%) POSIX
6 3 (2.03%) Gherkin
6 3 (2.03%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (2.03%) React
6 3 (2.03%) Spring
6 3 (2.03%) Yocto
7 2 (1.35%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (1.35%) Java EE
7 2 (1.35%) Kafka
7 2 (1.35%) RESTful
7 2 (1.35%) Spring Boot
7 2 (1.35%) WebKit
7 2 (1.35%) YAML
8 1 (0.68%) JSTL
Miscellaneous
1 16 (10.81%) Data Centre
2 10 (6.76%) Linux Command Line
3 7 (4.73%) Cloud Native
3 7 (4.73%) Clustering
4 6 (4.05%) Data Structures
4 6 (4.05%) Product Ownership
5 5 (3.38%) Algorithms
5 5 (3.38%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (3.38%) NVMe
6 4 (2.70%) Client/Server
6 4 (2.70%) Device Driver
6 4 (2.70%) IoT
6 4 (2.70%) Operational Technology
6 4 (2.70%) PCIe
6 4 (2.70%) Verilog
6 4 (2.70%) VHDL
7 3 (2.03%) Cyber Defence
7 3 (2.03%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.03%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.03%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 36 (24.32%) Windows
2 33 (22.30%) Unix
3 29 (19.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 17 (11.49%) Windows Server
5 9 (6.08%) Embedded Linux
6 7 (4.73%) Solaris
6 7 (4.73%) Ubuntu
7 6 (4.05%) CentOS
7 6 (4.05%) Debian
7 6 (4.05%) Windows Server 2008
7 6 (4.05%) Windows Server 2012
7 6 (4.05%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (2.70%) Data ONTAP
8 4 (2.70%) VxWorks
9 3 (2.03%) Kali Linux
10 2 (1.35%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (1.35%) zOS
11 1 (0.68%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (29.05%) Agile
2 30 (20.27%) CI/CD
3 28 (18.92%) DevOps
4 25 (16.89%) Software Engineering
5 21 (14.19%) OO
6 20 (13.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 18 (12.16%) High Availability
7 18 (12.16%) Migration
8 16 (10.81%) Infrastructure as Code
9 15 (10.14%) Observability
10 14 (9.46%) Continuous Integration
11 13 (8.78%) Problem-Solving
12 11 (7.43%) Containerisation
12 11 (7.43%) Data Migration
12 11 (7.43%) Platform Engineering
12 11 (7.43%) Roadmaps
12 11 (7.43%) Service Management
13 10 (6.76%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 9 (6.08%) Task Automation
14 9 (6.08%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 58 (39.19%) Python
2 29 (19.59%) Java
3 28 (18.92%) Perl
4 17 (11.49%) Bash
5 13 (8.78%) SQL
6 12 (8.11%) Shell Script
7 11 (7.43%) Groovy
7 11 (7.43%) Scala
8 8 (5.41%) C
8 8 (5.41%) Ruby
9 7 (4.73%) JavaScript
10 6 (4.05%) Embedded C
11 4 (2.70%) PowerShell
11 4 (2.70%) TypeScript
12 3 (2.03%) C++
12 3 (2.03%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 31 (20.95%) Security Cleared
2 24 (16.22%) SC Cleared
3 9 (6.08%) Degree
4 6 (4.05%) MCSA
4 6 (4.05%) MCSE
4 6 (4.05%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (4.05%) RHCE
4 6 (4.05%) RHCT
5 3 (2.03%) OSCP
6 2 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.35%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.73%) Disclosure Scotland
2 6 (4.05%) SLA
3 5 (3.38%) PCI DSS
4 4 (2.70%) MISRA
4 4 (2.70%) MISRA C
5 2 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 2 (1.35%) NIST
5 2 (1.35%) QA
6 1 (0.68%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.68%) NCSC
System Software
1 13 (8.78%) KVM
1 13 (8.78%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (7.43%) Docker
3 9 (6.08%) Active Directory
4 7 (4.73%) Firmware
5 6 (4.05%) Hyper-V
6 5 (3.38%) NFS
6 5 (3.38%) Oracle RAC
7 4 (2.70%) GPFS
8 1 (0.68%) Embedded Firmware
8 1 (0.68%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 29 (19.59%) Kubernetes
2 22 (14.86%) Ansible
3 16 (10.81%) Terraform
4 15 (10.14%) Grafana
5 8 (5.41%) Kibana
6 6 (4.05%) Prometheus
7 5 (3.38%) Oracle RMAN
8 4 (2.70%) Data Guard
8 4 (2.70%) Veritas Storage Foundation
9 3 (2.03%) Dell DRAC
9 3 (2.03%) Nagios
9 3 (2.03%) Packer
9 3 (2.03%) Red Hat Satellite
10 2 (1.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (1.35%) NetBackup
10 2 (1.35%) OpenView
10 2 (1.35%) Puppet
11 1 (0.68%) SCCM
11 1 (0.68%) SCOM
11 1 (0.68%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 21 (14.19%) Red Hat
2 17 (11.49%) Oracle
3 16 (10.81%) Atlassian
4 14 (9.46%) VMware
5 6 (4.05%) Citrix
5 6 (4.05%) Microsoft
5 6 (4.05%) Veritas
6 5 (3.38%) Splunk
7 4 (2.70%) Brocade
7 4 (2.70%) EMC
7 4 (2.70%) Google
7 4 (2.70%) IBM
7 4 (2.70%) Intel
7 4 (2.70%) NetApp
7 4 (2.70%) Sybase
8 3 (2.03%) BMC
8 3 (2.03%) Commvault
8 3 (2.03%) Fortinet
9 2 (1.35%) Cisco
9 2 (1.35%) Qualys