Linux Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Linux Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Linux Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 June 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
10 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 293 334 353
Rank change year-on-year +41 +19 +23
Contract jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 108 103 159
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.51% 0.45% 0.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.55% 0.48% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 70 101
10th Percentile £340 £336 £363
25th Percentile £361 £443 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £528 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.95% +11.05% +18.75%
75th Percentile £566 £625 £555
90th Percentile £619 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £572 £525
% change year-on-year -12.59% +8.95% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 17
10th Percentile £52.50 - £56.50
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £60.00 - £60.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £60.75 - -
UK median hourly rate £60.00 - £60.00
% change year-on-year - - +27.66%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 19,645 21,400 29,059
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.46% 94.21% 95.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,729 14,864 20,433
10th Percentile £213 £225 £206
25th Percentile £363 £388 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £591 £600 £575
90th Percentile £682 £688 £656
UK median daily rate £525 £539 £525
% change year-on-year -2.64% +2.71% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,508 1,094 1,379
10th Percentile £12.63 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.91 £18.08 £15.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +7.99%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £46.88
90th Percentile £74.11 £75.50 £61.77
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

Linux Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Linux Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Linux Engineer in the UK excluding London

Linux Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Linux Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Linux Engineer in the UK excluding London

Linux Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 10 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux Engineer in the UK excluding London

Linux Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Linux Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Linux Engineer in the UK excluding London

Linux Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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
South East +29 33 £475 -13.64% 9
Scotland +44 25 £340 -24.44% 1
East of England +18 20 £550 -8.33% 6
North of England +26 16 £450 +5.88% 10
South West +5 9 £600 +9.09% 2
North West +7 8 £450 +28.57% 8
Yorkshire +15 7 £613 +11.87% 2
Midlands +7 5 £500 -5.66% 3
West Midlands +8 3 £450 -23.08%
East Midlands +10 2 £500 +12.36% 3
North East +12 1 £431 -17.90%
Wales +9 1 - - 1
Linux Engineer
UK

Linux Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region featuring Linux Engineer in the job title.

1 108 (100.00%) Linux
2 45 (41.67%) Red Hat
2 45 (41.67%) Security Cleared
3 35 (32.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 35 (32.41%) Python
4 32 (29.63%) SC Cleared
5 28 (25.93%) Ansible
5 28 (25.93%) Unix
5 28 (25.93%) VMware
6 24 (22.22%) Kubernetes
7 22 (20.37%) Solaris
8 19 (17.59%) Windows
8 19 (17.59%) Software Engineering
8 19 (17.59%) VMware Infrastructure
8 19 (17.59%) Bash
9 17 (15.74%) High Availability
9 17 (15.74%) Social Skills
10 15 (13.89%) Git
10 15 (13.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 15 (13.89%) Platform Engineering
11 14 (12.96%) C++
12 13 (12.04%) Perl
12 13 (12.04%) Linux Command Line
13 12 (11.11%) Containerisation
13 12 (11.11%) Clustering
13 12 (11.11%) Agile
13 12 (11.11%) AWS
14 11 (10.19%) vSphere
14 11 (10.19%) Oracle
14 11 (10.19%) ITIL

Linux Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (2.78%) Confluence
2 2 (1.85%) Apache
2 2 (1.85%) nginx
3 1 (0.93%) JBoss
3 1 (0.93%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (6.48%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (0.93%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.93%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 12 (11.11%) AWS
2 9 (8.33%) Azure
3 5 (4.63%) IaaS
4 3 (2.78%) OpenShift
5 2 (1.85%) Datadog
6 1 (0.93%) Entra ID
6 1 (0.93%) GitHub
6 1 (0.93%) Nutanix
6 1 (0.93%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 9 (8.33%) Firewall
2 7 (6.48%) SAN
3 5 (4.63%) DNS
3 5 (4.63%) VPN
4 3 (2.78%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.85%) Software-Defined Radio
6 1 (0.93%) AMQP
6 1 (0.93%) DHCP
6 1 (0.93%) DMZ
6 1 (0.93%) LTE
6 1 (0.93%) Modbus
6 1 (0.93%) MQTT
6 1 (0.93%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (7.41%) MongoDB
3 6 (5.56%) RDBMS
3 6 (5.56%) Relational Database
4 5 (4.63%) MySQL
5 4 (3.70%) Big Data
6 2 (1.85%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.85%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.93%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.93%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (13.89%) Git
2 8 (7.41%) Jenkins
3 7 (6.48%) GitLab
4 4 (3.70%) Artifactory
5 3 (2.78%) Bitbucket
5 3 (2.78%) JIRA
6 2 (1.85%) Subversion
7 1 (0.93%) Eclipse
General
1 17 (15.74%) Social Skills
2 7 (6.48%) Finance
2 7 (6.48%) Public Sector
3 3 (2.78%) Banking
4 2 (1.85%) Aerospace
4 2 (1.85%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (0.93%) Advertising
5 1 (0.93%) Aviation
5 1 (0.93%) Electronics
5 1 (0.93%) Investment Banking
5 1 (0.93%) Law
5 1 (0.93%) Legal
5 1 (0.93%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.70%) XML
2 3 (2.78%) RESTful
2 3 (2.78%) SOAP
3 2 (1.85%) REST
3 2 (1.85%) YAML
4 1 (0.93%) Anaconda
4 1 (0.93%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (0.93%) CSS
4 1 (0.93%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.93%) HTML
4 1 (0.93%) IBM Integration Bus
4 1 (0.93%) JSON
4 1 (0.93%) Middleware
4 1 (0.93%) Redfish
4 1 (0.93%) Web Services
4 1 (0.93%) XSLT
4 1 (0.93%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 13 (12.04%) Linux Command Line
2 12 (11.11%) Clustering
3 4 (3.70%) Data Centre
3 4 (3.70%) Virtual Team
4 3 (2.78%) Smart Meter
5 2 (1.85%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.93%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (0.93%) IoT
6 1 (0.93%) PKI
6 1 (0.93%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.93%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 108 (100.00%) Linux
2 35 (32.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 28 (25.93%) Unix
4 22 (20.37%) Solaris
5 19 (17.59%) Windows
6 11 (10.19%) VMS
7 10 (9.26%) Windows Server
8 7 (6.48%) CentOS
9 6 (5.56%) Ubuntu
10 5 (4.63%) Debian
11 4 (3.70%) Embedded Linux
12 3 (2.78%) SUSE
13 1 (0.93%) AIX
13 1 (0.93%) Fedora
13 1 (0.93%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (17.59%) Software Engineering
2 17 (15.74%) High Availability
3 15 (13.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 15 (13.89%) Platform Engineering
4 12 (11.11%) Agile
4 12 (11.11%) Containerisation
5 11 (10.19%) ITIL
5 11 (10.19%) Runbook
6 10 (9.26%) Change Management
6 10 (9.26%) Project Delivery
6 10 (9.26%) Scrum
7 9 (8.33%) CI/CD
7 9 (8.33%) OO
7 9 (8.33%) Visualisation
8 8 (7.41%) Customer Service
8 8 (7.41%) Data Analysis
8 8 (7.41%) Multithreading
9 7 (6.48%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (6.48%) Mathematics
9 7 (6.48%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 35 (32.41%) Python
2 19 (17.59%) Bash
3 14 (12.96%) C++
4 13 (12.04%) Perl
5 10 (9.26%) C
6 8 (7.41%) Shell Script
7 7 (6.48%) MATLAB
8 6 (5.56%) SQL
9 4 (3.70%) PowerShell
10 3 (2.78%) C#
11 2 (1.85%) JavaScript
12 1 (0.93%) Java
12 1 (0.93%) R
Qualifications
1 45 (41.67%) Security Cleared
2 32 (29.63%) SC Cleared
3 9 (8.33%) Degree
4 8 (7.41%) DV Cleared
5 7 (6.48%) RHCE
6 3 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.93%) Linux+ Certification
7 1 (0.93%) LPIC
7 1 (0.93%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.56%) SLA
2 2 (1.85%) GDPR
3 1 (0.93%) QA
System Software
1 19 (17.59%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (10.19%) vSphere
3 8 (7.41%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (6.48%) Active Directory
4 7 (6.48%) Hyper-V
4 7 (6.48%) KVM
4 7 (6.48%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (4.63%) Docker
5 5 (4.63%) VMware Workstation
6 3 (2.78%) VirtualBox
6 3 (2.78%) VMware NSX
7 2 (1.85%) Ceph
7 2 (1.85%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 1 (0.93%) Firmware
8 1 (0.93%) iptables
8 1 (0.93%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.93%) Xen
Systems Management
1 28 (25.93%) Ansible
2 24 (22.22%) Kubernetes
3 10 (9.26%) Red Hat Satellite
4 8 (7.41%) SELinux
5 7 (6.48%) Packer
5 7 (6.48%) vRealize
6 6 (5.56%) Rancher
6 6 (5.56%) SCOM
6 6 (5.56%) Tivoli Identity Manager
7 5 (4.63%) Grafana
8 4 (3.70%) Prometheus
8 4 (3.70%) yum
9 3 (2.78%) Dell DRAC
9 3 (2.78%) Terraform
10 2 (1.85%) Pacemaker
10 2 (1.85%) Podman
10 2 (1.85%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.93%) HAProxy
11 1 (0.93%) logstash
11 1 (0.93%) Rsyslog
Vendors
1 45 (41.67%) Red Hat
2 28 (25.93%) VMware
3 11 (10.19%) Oracle
4 8 (7.41%) Dell
4 8 (7.41%) Veritas
5 7 (6.48%) HP
5 7 (6.48%) IBM
6 5 (4.63%) Arqiva
6 5 (4.63%) SolarWinds
7 3 (2.78%) BMC
8 2 (1.85%) Sun
9 1 (0.93%) Microsoft
9 1 (0.93%) Splunk
9 1 (0.93%) Symantec
9 1 (0.93%) Temenos
9 1 (0.93%) Twitter