Linux Engineer Contracts

Linux Engineer
UK

The median Linux Engineer daily rate in the UK is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 15 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
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 409 462 563
Rank change year-on-year +53 +101 -49
Contract jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 165 247 302
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.39% 0.43% 0.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.42% 0.46% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 189 209
10th Percentile £340 £413 £380
25th Percentile £427 £475 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £568 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.57% +8.19% +13.02%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £620
90th Percentile £650 £738 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £469
% change year-on-year -4.76% +12.00% +22.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 19
10th Percentile £52.50 - £58.25
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £60.00 - £60.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £60.75 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.00 - £60.00
% change year-on-year - - +73.91%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 39,476 54,050 83,442
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.65% 95.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,679 37,739 58,629
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.35%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,653 1,507 2,053
10th Percentile £12.83 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.45 £15.88
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +87.50% +6.67%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.70 £76.10 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Linux Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Engineer in the UK

Linux Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Linux Engineer in the UK

Linux Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux Engineer over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux Engineer in the UK

Linux Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux Engineer in the UK

Linux Engineer
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 15 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
England +40 133 £525 -8.70% 51
UK excluding London +73 114 £500 -4.76% 36
Work from Home +77 47 £600 +11.11% 24
London +35 47 £550 -8.33% 19
South East +31 33 £488 -11.36% 8
Scotland +61 29 £488 +8.33% 3
East of England +24 19 £550 +4.76% 5
North of England +20 18 £450 -10.00% 5
South West +23 10 £550 - 10
North West +14 9 £425 +21.43% 5
Yorkshire +25 8 £613 +11.87%
Midlands +22 5 £500 +12.36% 4
West Midlands +10 3 £450 -23.08%
East Midlands +14 2 £500 +18.34% 4
Wales +16 1 - - 1
North East +11 1 £431 -17.90%

Linux Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 15 May 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 featuring Linux Engineer in the job title.

1 165 (100.00%) Linux
2 61 (36.97%) Python
3 54 (32.73%) Red Hat
4 47 (28.48%) Security Cleared
5 44 (26.67%) Ansible
6 42 (25.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 42 (25.45%) Unix
7 40 (24.24%) Kubernetes
8 36 (21.82%) VMware
9 33 (20.00%) CI/CD
10 32 (19.39%) Bash
11 31 (18.79%) Windows
12 30 (18.18%) AWS
13 28 (16.97%) Social Skills
14 27 (16.36%) Jenkins
14 27 (16.36%) Perl
15 26 (15.76%) VMware Infrastructure
16 25 (15.15%) Azure
16 25 (15.15%) Finance
17 23 (13.94%) Git
18 22 (13.33%) SC Cleared
18 22 (13.33%) Agile
18 22 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 21 (12.73%) DV Cleared
20 20 (12.12%) Software Engineering
20 20 (12.12%) Linux Command Line
20 20 (12.12%) Puppet
21 19 (11.52%) High Availability
21 19 (11.52%) DevOps
21 19 (11.52%) Windows Server

Linux Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 11 (6.67%) Apache
2 7 (4.24%) Tomcat
3 4 (2.42%) MQSeries
3 4 (2.42%) nginx
3 4 (2.42%) SAS
4 3 (1.82%) Confluence
5 2 (1.21%) JBoss
6 1 (0.61%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.61%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (4.24%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (0.61%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.61%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 30 (18.18%) AWS
2 25 (15.15%) Azure
3 12 (7.27%) OpenShift
4 11 (6.67%) IaaS
5 6 (3.64%) Cloudflare
5 6 (3.64%) Entra ID
5 6 (3.64%) GitHub
6 5 (3.03%) Datadog
7 4 (2.42%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (2.42%) Amazon S3
8 3 (1.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (1.82%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (1.82%) CloudFront
8 3 (1.82%) Route 53
8 3 (1.82%) Serverless
8 3 (1.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 3 (1.82%) WhatsApp
9 2 (1.21%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (1.21%) Fastly
9 2 (1.21%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 18 (10.91%) DNS
1 18 (10.91%) TCP/IP
2 15 (9.09%) HTTP
3 12 (7.27%) Firewall
3 12 (7.27%) SAN
4 11 (6.67%) SSL
5 9 (5.45%) VPN
6 6 (3.64%) SMTP
7 5 (3.03%) Network Security
8 4 (2.42%) Fibre Channel
8 4 (2.42%) FTP
8 4 (2.42%) HTTPS
8 4 (2.42%) IPsec
8 4 (2.42%) iSCSI
8 4 (2.42%) tcpdump
8 4 (2.42%) Wireshark
9 3 (1.82%) DHCP
10 2 (1.21%) NAS
10 2 (1.21%) Software-Defined Radio
11 1 (0.61%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.06%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (4.85%) MongoDB
3 7 (4.24%) RDBMS
3 7 (4.24%) Relational Database
4 6 (3.64%) MySQL
4 6 (3.64%) Oracle Database
5 4 (2.42%) Big Data
5 4 (2.42%) DB2
6 3 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.21%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.61%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.61%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.61%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 27 (16.36%) Jenkins
2 23 (13.94%) Git
3 12 (7.27%) GitLab
4 8 (4.85%) Artifactory
5 6 (3.64%) Bitbucket
6 5 (3.03%) JIRA
7 3 (1.82%) Gradle
8 2 (1.21%) Subversion
9 1 (0.61%) Ant
9 1 (0.61%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.61%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.61%) Maven
9 1 (0.61%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 28 (16.97%) Social Skills
2 25 (15.15%) Finance
3 11 (6.67%) Banking
4 9 (5.45%) Public Sector
5 6 (3.64%) Investment Banking
6 5 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (3.03%) Electronics
6 5 (3.03%) Manufacturing
7 4 (2.42%) Marketing
7 4 (2.42%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.21%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.21%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.21%) German Language
9 2 (1.21%) Italian Language
9 2 (1.21%) Law
9 2 (1.21%) Spanish Language
10 1 (0.61%) Advertising
10 1 (0.61%) Front Office
10 1 (0.61%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.03%) YAML
2 4 (2.42%) Flash
2 4 (2.42%) LDAP
2 4 (2.42%) POSIX
2 4 (2.42%) XML
3 3 (1.82%) CSS
3 3 (1.82%) JSON
3 3 (1.82%) REST
3 3 (1.82%) RESTful
3 3 (1.82%) SOAP
3 3 (1.82%) Spring
3 3 (1.82%) Spring Boot
4 2 (1.21%) Django
4 2 (1.21%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (1.21%) HornetQ
4 2 (1.21%) Kafka
4 2 (1.21%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (1.21%) Redfish
4 2 (1.21%) VCL
4 2 (1.21%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 20 (12.12%) Linux Command Line
2 18 (10.91%) Data Centre
3 10 (6.06%) Clustering
4 5 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (3.03%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.42%) Client/Server
5 4 (2.42%) NVMe
6 3 (1.82%) Smart Meter
6 3 (1.82%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.21%) Embedded Systems
7 2 (1.21%) Hedge funds
7 2 (1.21%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.61%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.61%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.61%) IoT
8 1 (0.61%) PKI
8 1 (0.61%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 165 (100.00%) Linux
2 42 (25.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 42 (25.45%) Unix
3 31 (18.79%) Windows
4 19 (11.52%) Solaris
4 19 (11.52%) Windows Server
5 11 (6.67%) VMS
6 10 (6.06%) Debian
7 8 (4.85%) Ubuntu
8 7 (4.24%) CentOS
9 4 (2.42%) Data ONTAP
9 4 (2.42%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (1.82%) SUSE
11 1 (0.61%) AIX
11 1 (0.61%) Fedora
11 1 (0.61%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 22 (13.33%) Agile
2 22 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 20 (12.12%) Software Engineering
4 19 (11.52%) DevOps
4 19 (11.52%) High Availability
5 17 (10.30%) Platform Engineering
6 14 (8.48%) ITIL
6 14 (8.48%) Migration
7 13 (7.88%) OO
7 13 (7.88%) Scrum
8 12 (7.27%) Computer Science
9 11 (6.67%) Runbook
10 10 (6.06%) Customer Service
10 10 (6.06%) Infrastructure as Code
10 10 (6.06%) Observability
10 10 (6.06%) Project Delivery
11 9 (5.45%) Containerisation
11 9 (5.45%) Problem-Solving
11 9 (5.45%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 61 (36.97%) Python
2 32 (19.39%) Bash
3 27 (16.36%) Perl
4 15 (9.09%) C++
4 15 (9.09%) Shell Script
5 13 (7.88%) PowerShell
6 12 (7.27%) C
6 12 (7.27%) SQL
7 10 (6.06%) Java
8 7 (4.24%) MATLAB
9 4 (2.42%) C#
10 3 (1.82%) Korn
10 3 (1.82%) PHP
11 2 (1.21%) Go
11 2 (1.21%) JavaScript
11 2 (1.21%) tcsh
12 1 (0.61%) Groovy
12 1 (0.61%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.61%) R
12 1 (0.61%) Scala
Qualifications
1 47 (28.48%) Security Cleared
2 22 (13.33%) SC Cleared
3 21 (12.73%) DV Cleared
4 7 (4.24%) Degree
5 5 (3.03%) RHCE
6 3 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.61%) Linux+ Certification
7 1 (0.61%) LPIC
7 1 (0.61%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.42%) SLA
2 2 (1.21%) GDPR
3 1 (0.61%) QA
System Software
1 26 (15.76%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (10.91%) Docker
3 11 (6.67%) vSphere
4 9 (5.45%) Active Directory
4 9 (5.45%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (3.64%) Hyper-V
5 6 (3.64%) NFS
5 6 (3.64%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (3.03%) KVM
6 5 (3.03%) VMware Workstation
7 4 (2.42%) Firmware
7 4 (2.42%) GPFS
7 4 (2.42%) Samba
8 3 (1.82%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (1.82%) VirtualBox
8 3 (1.82%) VMware NSX
9 2 (1.21%) Ceph
9 2 (1.21%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (1.21%) Varnish
9 2 (1.21%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 44 (26.67%) Ansible
2 40 (24.24%) Kubernetes
3 20 (12.12%) Puppet
4 13 (7.88%) Progress Chef
5 11 (6.67%) Terraform
6 10 (6.06%) Red Hat Satellite
7 7 (4.24%) Grafana
7 7 (4.24%) Packer
7 7 (4.24%) vRealize
8 6 (3.64%) Prometheus
9 5 (3.03%) Rancher
9 5 (3.03%) SCOM
9 5 (3.03%) Tivoli Identity Manager
10 4 (2.42%) SELinux
10 4 (2.42%) Veritas Storage Foundation
11 3 (1.82%) HAProxy
11 3 (1.82%) Podman
12 2 (1.21%) Dell DRAC
12 2 (1.21%) Pacemaker
12 2 (1.21%) systemd
Vendors
1 54 (32.73%) Red Hat
2 36 (21.82%) VMware
3 15 (9.09%) Oracle
4 13 (7.88%) Veritas
5 10 (6.06%) IBM
6 7 (4.24%) Dell
6 7 (4.24%) HP
7 6 (3.64%) F5
8 5 (3.03%) Arqiva
8 5 (3.03%) SolarWinds
9 4 (2.42%) Brocade
9 4 (2.42%) CheckPoint
9 4 (2.42%) Cisco
9 4 (2.42%) EMC
9 4 (2.42%) Google
9 4 (2.42%) NetApp
9 4 (2.42%) SAP
9 4 (2.42%) Sybase
10 3 (1.82%) Sun
11 2 (1.21%) BMC