Linux Contracts in the UK excluding London

Linux
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 4 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 25 22 27
Rank change year-on-year -3 +5 +3
Contract jobs citing Linux 1,255 1,699 2,083
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.04% 7.48% 6.77%
As % of the Operating Systems category 38.04% 39.37% 35.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 811 1,134 1,311
10th Percentile £340 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% +2.44% +13.89%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £625
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 130 114
10th Percentile £39.60 £21.61 £25.25
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.25 £47.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year - +13.04% +12.20%
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.25 £65.00
90th Percentile - £78.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £55.23
% change year-on-year - +17.70% +10.45%

All Operating Systems
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 3,299 4,315 5,848
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.88% 18.99% 19.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,188 2,963 3,872
10th Percentile £175 £165 £150
25th Percentile £275 £250 £208
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £465 £425
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +9.41% +6.25%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £540
90th Percentile £673 £676 £638
UK median daily rate £470 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -6.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 328 305 435
10th Percentile £12.25 £13.29 £12.52
25th Percentile £14.64 £17.50 £15.04
Median hourly rate £22.79 £38.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.81% +92.50% +21.21%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £42.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year -47.06% +93.18% +25.71%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Linux in the UK excluding London

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Linux in the UK excluding London

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 4 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in the UK excluding London

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux in the UK excluding London

Linux
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Linux in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 4 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Linux in the UK excluding London

Linux
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 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 4 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 0 429 £535 +1.90% 228
South West -7 234 £570 +3.64% 178
North of England -8 189 £500 -5.21% 148
Scotland -8 148 £511 -2.62% 79
Midlands +10 143 £550 +1.85% 113
East of England -2 115 £550 +15.79% 128
Yorkshire +12 109 £500 -9.09% 47
West Midlands 0 97 £550 - 62
North West -48 67 £450 -14.29% 91
East Midlands +21 45 £500 +4.17% 51
Wales +3 27 £551 +4.86% 12
North East -2 13 £575 +6.98% 10
Northern Ireland -14 4 - - 6
Linux
UK

Linux
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 86 (6.85%) Confluence
2 44 (3.51%) Microsoft Exchange
3 27 (2.15%) Apache
4 18 (1.43%) CMS
5 15 (1.20%) nginx
6 13 (1.04%) IIS
7 9 (0.72%) NetWeaver
8 8 (0.64%) SharePoint
8 8 (0.64%) Tomcat
9 7 (0.56%) JBoss
10 6 (0.48%) OpenStack
11 5 (0.40%) Apache Spark
12 4 (0.32%) Apache Solr
12 4 (0.32%) Jupyter
13 3 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
13 3 (0.24%) SAS
14 2 (0.16%) IBM Domino
14 2 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
14 2 (0.16%) Traefik
14 2 (0.16%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (0.80%) Simulink
2 8 (0.64%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.080%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.080%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.080%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 9 (0.72%) SAP IBP
2 6 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
3 5 (0.40%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.080%) Magento
5 1 (0.080%) MFGPRO
5 1 (0.080%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.080%) Sage 50
5 1 (0.080%) SAP BRIM
5 1 (0.080%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.080%) SAP PSCD
5 1 (0.080%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 225 (17.93%) Azure
2 191 (15.22%) AWS
3 62 (4.94%) Microsoft 365
4 61 (4.86%) GitHub
5 60 (4.78%) OpenShift
6 38 (3.03%) GCP
7 36 (2.87%) Azure DevOps
8 34 (2.71%) Amazon EC2
8 34 (2.71%) Amazon S3
8 34 (2.71%) AWS CloudFormation
9 30 (2.39%) Entra ID
10 25 (1.99%) Serverless
11 24 (1.91%) Azure Monitor
12 22 (1.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 22 (1.75%) Azure Storage
13 21 (1.67%) PaaS
14 19 (1.51%) AWS Lambda
15 17 (1.35%) OCI
16 15 (1.20%) IaaS
17 12 (0.96%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 125 (9.96%) Firewall
2 102 (8.13%) SAN
3 98 (7.81%) DNS
4 72 (5.74%) TCP/IP
5 69 (5.50%) DHCP
6 53 (4.22%) WAN
7 39 (3.11%) VPN
8 37 (2.95%) LAN
9 33 (2.63%) Network Security
10 32 (2.55%) Wireless
11 28 (2.23%) SSL
12 27 (2.15%) VLAN
13 25 (1.99%) Fibre Channel
14 22 (1.75%) VSAN
15 21 (1.67%) Intrusion Detection
15 21 (1.67%) SNMP
16 19 (1.51%) Ethernet
16 19 (1.51%) Software-Defined Radio
17 17 (1.35%) HTTP
17 17 (1.35%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (4.54%) MySQL
2 50 (3.98%) SQL Server
3 46 (3.67%) Elasticsearch
4 44 (3.51%) Relational Database
5 36 (2.87%) PostgreSQL
6 33 (2.63%) MongoDB
7 29 (2.31%) Big Data
8 22 (1.75%) Oracle Database
9 19 (1.51%) Amazon RDS
9 19 (1.51%) RDBMS
10 13 (1.04%) InfluxDB
11 12 (0.96%) SAP HANA
12 11 (0.88%) Power BI
13 10 (0.80%) MariaDB
14 9 (0.72%) Oracle Reports
14 9 (0.72%) SAP BW
15 8 (0.64%) DB2
15 8 (0.64%) NoSQL
16 7 (0.56%) Ingres
17 6 (0.48%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 127 (10.12%) JIRA
2 122 (9.72%) Jenkins
3 114 (9.08%) Git
4 85 (6.77%) GitLab
5 60 (4.78%) Bitbucket
6 31 (2.47%) Eclipse
7 29 (2.31%) GoogleTest
8 24 (1.91%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 23 (1.83%) Robot Framework
10 20 (1.59%) Visual Studio
11 18 (1.43%) Artifactory
11 18 (1.43%) Selenium
12 14 (1.12%) Gradle
12 14 (1.12%) Maven
13 13 (1.04%) SonarQube
14 11 (0.88%) Cypress.io
14 11 (0.88%) Subversion
15 9 (0.72%) Burp Suite
15 9 (0.72%) Postman
16 7 (0.56%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 268 (21.35%) Social Skills
2 118 (9.40%) Analytical Skills
3 114 (9.08%) Public Sector
4 82 (6.53%) Finance
5 44 (3.51%) Aerospace
6 40 (3.19%) Telecoms
7 28 (2.23%) Banking
8 27 (2.15%) Legal
9 23 (1.83%) Electronics
10 19 (1.51%) Presentation Skills
11 16 (1.27%) Manufacturing
11 16 (1.27%) Military
12 11 (0.88%) Automotive
13 10 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
13 10 (0.80%) Marketing
14 8 (0.64%) Financial Institution
15 7 (0.56%) Front Office
15 7 (0.56%) Multimedia
16 6 (0.48%) Billing
17 5 (0.40%) Retail
Job Titles
1 130 (10.36%) Software Engineer
2 129 (10.28%) Developer
3 121 (9.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 110 (8.76%) Linux Engineer
5 89 (7.09%) DevOps Engineer
6 85 (6.77%) Senior
7 65 (5.18%) Analyst
8 64 (5.10%) Architect
9 58 (4.62%) Support Engineer
10 48 (3.82%) C++ Software Engineer
10 48 (3.82%) Storage Engineer
11 44 (3.51%) Administrator
12 43 (3.43%) Embedded Engineer
13 40 (3.19%) Embedded Software Engineer
14 33 (2.63%) Network Engineer
14 33 (2.63%) VMware Engineer
15 32 (2.55%) Consultant
15 32 (2.55%) Platform Engineer
16 30 (2.39%) DBA
16 30 (2.39%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (4.06%) Elastic Stack
2 44 (3.51%) YAML
3 42 (3.35%) .NET
4 39 (3.11%) Web Services
5 34 (2.71%) Kafka
6 32 (2.55%) REST
7 28 (2.23%) Middleware
8 27 (2.15%) .NET Core
8 27 (2.15%) Apache NiFi
9 26 (2.07%) HTML
10 23 (1.83%) CSS
11 22 (1.75%) Node.js
12 20 (1.59%) ARM Templates
12 20 (1.59%) JSON
13 19 (1.51%) React
14 17 (1.35%) Flash
14 17 (1.35%) RabbitMQ
15 16 (1.27%) XML
16 14 (1.12%) Qt
16 14 (1.12%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 85 (6.77%) Linux Command Line
2 83 (6.61%) Data Centre
3 77 (6.14%) PKI
4 40 (3.19%) Public Cloud
4 40 (3.19%) Replication
5 39 (3.11%) Management Information System
6 35 (2.79%) Self-Motivation
7 26 (2.07%) Client/Server
8 25 (1.99%) Security Operations Centre
9 24 (1.91%) Product Ownership
10 23 (1.83%) ARM Cortex
10 23 (1.83%) Clustering
11 20 (1.59%) Cyberattack
12 19 (1.51%) Cyber Defence
12 19 (1.51%) Data Protection Act
13 18 (1.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 16 (1.27%) Cloud Native
14 16 (1.27%) Data Structures
14 16 (1.27%) Distributed Applications
15 14 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 519 (41.35%) Windows
2 207 (16.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 180 (14.34%) Unix
4 153 (12.19%) Windows Server
5 75 (5.98%) Ubuntu
6 54 (4.30%) Windows Server 2016
7 52 (4.14%) Windows Server 2019
8 39 (3.11%) Solaris
9 33 (2.63%) CentOS
10 32 (2.55%) AIX
11 30 (2.39%) zOS
12 29 (2.31%) Debian
13 25 (1.99%) Windows Server 2012
14 23 (1.83%) FreeRTOS
15 20 (1.59%) Apple iOS
15 20 (1.59%) Windows 10
16 19 (1.51%) Embedded Linux
16 19 (1.51%) VMS
17 18 (1.43%) Android
18 15 (1.20%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 286 (22.79%) Agile
2 228 (18.17%) DevOps
3 207 (16.49%) CI/CD
4 189 (15.06%) Software Engineering
5 162 (12.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 142 (11.31%) Problem-Solving
7 134 (10.68%) Infrastructure as Code
8 117 (9.32%) Configuration Management
9 113 (9.00%) ITIL
10 111 (8.84%) Cybersecurity
11 95 (7.57%) Scrum
12 89 (7.09%) Continuous Integration
13 88 (7.01%) Migration
14 75 (5.98%) OO
15 74 (5.90%) Analytics
15 74 (5.90%) SIEM
16 71 (5.66%) Performance Tuning
17 67 (5.34%) Containerisation
18 66 (5.26%) Task Automation
19 65 (5.18%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 302 (24.06%) Python
2 173 (13.78%) PowerShell
3 125 (9.96%) C++
4 124 (9.88%) Bash
5 114 (9.08%) Java
6 105 (8.37%) C
7 82 (6.53%) SQL
8 71 (5.66%) C#
9 70 (5.58%) JavaScript
10 67 (5.34%) Shell Script
11 42 (3.35%) Perl
11 42 (3.35%) VBScript
12 31 (2.47%) Embedded C
13 25 (1.99%) Go
14 22 (1.75%) PHP
15 21 (1.67%) Bicep
16 20 (1.59%) VB
17 18 (1.43%) JCL
18 16 (1.27%) Ruby
19 15 (1.20%) REXX
Qualifications
1 574 (45.74%) Security Cleared
2 343 (27.33%) SC Cleared
3 223 (17.77%) DV Cleared
4 139 (11.08%) Degree
5 29 (2.31%) Cisco Certification
6 27 (2.15%) CCNA
6 27 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
7 21 (1.67%) Master's Degree
8 20 (1.59%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 18 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
10 16 (1.27%) CCNP
11 14 (1.12%) MCSE
11 14 (1.12%) RHCE
12 9 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
12 9 (0.72%) OSCP
13 8 (0.64%) HND
13 8 (0.64%) SAP Certification
14 7 (0.56%) CEH
14 7 (0.56%) GIAC
14 7 (0.56%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (3.35%) QA
2 39 (3.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 35 (2.79%) NIST
4 29 (2.31%) GDPR
5 20 (1.59%) MISRA
6 18 (1.43%) SLA
7 16 (1.27%) Actionable Recommendations
8 15 (1.20%) HIPAA
9 13 (1.04%) ISO 9001
10 10 (0.80%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 10 (0.80%) ISO 9000
10 10 (0.80%) PCI DSS
11 7 (0.56%) Disclosure Scotland
12 5 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 5 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 5 (0.40%) MISRA C
13 4 (0.32%) Data Quality
13 4 (0.32%) NCSC
14 3 (0.24%) JTAG
15 2 (0.16%) AUTOSAR
System Software
1 181 (14.42%) VMware Infrastructure
2 169 (13.47%) Active Directory
3 115 (9.16%) Docker
4 73 (5.82%) VMware ESXi
5 64 (5.10%) vSphere
6 61 (4.86%) Hyper-V
7 60 (4.78%) VMware NSX
8 56 (4.46%) Virtual Machines
9 31 (2.47%) Firmware
10 25 (1.99%) NFS
11 20 (1.59%) Virtual Desktop
12 19 (1.51%) KVM
13 18 (1.43%) Time Sharing Option
14 10 (0.80%) Oracle RAC
15 9 (0.72%) iptables
16 6 (0.48%) VirtualBox
17 5 (0.40%) Apache ZooKeeper
17 5 (0.40%) VMware Workstation
18 4 (0.32%) Slurm Workload Manager
18 4 (0.32%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 241 (19.20%) Ansible
2 172 (13.71%) Kubernetes
3 134 (10.68%) Terraform
4 71 (5.66%) SCCM
5 55 (4.38%) Grafana
6 53 (4.22%) Puppet
7 49 (3.90%) Prometheus
8 47 (3.75%) SCOM
9 46 (3.67%) NetBackup
10 45 (3.59%) WSUS
11 39 (3.11%) Microsoft Intune
11 39 (3.11%) vCenter Server
12 35 (2.79%) Progress Chef
13 31 (2.47%) Red Hat Satellite
14 28 (2.23%) Kibana
15 27 (2.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 27 (2.15%) PowerCLI
16 23 (1.83%) EMC NetWorker
17 19 (1.51%) Packer
18 18 (1.43%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 275 (21.91%) VMware
2 211 (16.81%) Microsoft
3 180 (14.34%) Red Hat
4 106 (8.45%) Oracle
5 75 (5.98%) IBM
6 69 (5.50%) Dell
7 67 (5.34%) Atlassian
7 67 (5.34%) Splunk
8 62 (4.94%) Cisco
9 53 (4.22%) HP
10 46 (3.67%) Google
11 44 (3.51%) Brocade
12 34 (2.71%) Veeam
13 33 (2.63%) EMC
13 33 (2.63%) Veritas
14 29 (2.31%) Symantec
15 23 (1.83%) Lauterbach
15 23 (1.83%) Palo Alto
16 22 (1.75%) SAP
17 21 (1.67%) NetApp