Linux Infrastructure Engineer Contracts

Linux Infrastructure Engineer
UK

The median Linux Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in the UK is £415 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 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
18 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 545 663 820
Rank change year-on-year +118 +157 -125
Contract jobs requiring a Linux Infrastructure Engineer 26 24 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.061% 0.042% 0.027%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.066% 0.045% 0.029%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 16 21
10th Percentile - £325 -
25th Percentile £340 £422 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £522 £500
Median % change year-on-year -20.63% +4.45% -
75th Percentile £577 £588 £575
90th Percentile £685 £628 £588
UK excluding London median daily rate £340 £555 £418
% change year-on-year -38.74% +32.93% -22.69%

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 39,507 53,867 83,506
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.79% 94.60% 95.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,718 37,620 58,687
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £544 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.40% +3.52% +9.38%
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 2,672 1,498 2,036
10th Percentile £12.82 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.29 £19.13 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £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 Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Linux Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Linux Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Linux Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux Infrastructure Engineer over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Linux Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Linux Infrastructure Engineer
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux Infrastructure Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 18 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
UK excluding London +59 19 £340 -38.74% 6
Scotland +53 14 £340 - 3
England +99 12 £490 -6.18% 5
Work from Home +114 9 £600 +34.08% 4
London +103 7 £415 +3.63% 2
North of England +30 2 £505 +18.13% 1
South West +7 2 £600 -4.00% 1
West Midlands +23 1 - -
Midlands +21 1 - - 1
North West +18 1 - - 1
Yorkshire +15 1 £505 -
Wales - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 18 May 2024, Linux Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 26 (100.00%) Linux
2 18 (69.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 14 (53.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 12 (46.15%) Python
4 12 (46.15%) Red Hat
5 11 (42.31%) Social Skills
6 9 (34.62%) High Availability
7 8 (30.77%) Docker
7 8 (30.77%) SC Cleared
7 8 (30.77%) Security Cleared
7 8 (30.77%) Infrastructure Automation
7 8 (30.77%) Kubernetes
7 8 (30.77%) Perl
8 7 (26.92%) Finance
8 7 (26.92%) Unix
8 7 (26.92%) Azure
8 7 (26.92%) AWS
9 6 (23.08%) Windows
10 5 (19.23%) Banking
10 5 (19.23%) Clustering
10 5 (19.23%) Solaris
10 5 (19.23%) RHCE
10 5 (19.23%) DNS
10 5 (19.23%) SLA
10 5 (19.23%) Compliance Management
10 5 (19.23%) DevOps
10 5 (19.23%) KVM
10 5 (19.23%) Customer Service
11 4 (15.38%) NVMe
11 4 (15.38%) Ansible

Linux Infrastructure 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 4 (15.38%) SAS
2 3 (11.54%) Apache
2 3 (11.54%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 7 (26.92%) AWS
1 7 (26.92%) Azure
2 4 (15.38%) IaaS
2 4 (15.38%) OpenShift
3 3 (11.54%) Amazon ECS
3 3 (11.54%) Cloudflare
3 3 (11.54%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (19.23%) DNS
2 4 (15.38%) Fibre Channel
2 4 (15.38%) iSCSI
2 4 (15.38%) SAN
3 3 (11.54%) SMTP
4 2 (7.69%) DHCP
5 1 (3.85%) Firewall
5 1 (3.85%) LAN
5 1 (3.85%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (15.38%) DB2
Development Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Git
1 2 (7.69%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (42.31%) Social Skills
2 7 (26.92%) Finance
3 5 (19.23%) Banking
4 3 (11.54%) Investment Banking
5 1 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (15.38%) Flash
1 4 (15.38%) POSIX
2 1 (3.85%) Redfish
Miscellaneous
1 5 (19.23%) Clustering
2 4 (15.38%) Client/Server
2 4 (15.38%) NVMe
3 3 (11.54%) Management Information System
4 2 (7.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 26 (100.00%) Linux
2 14 (53.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (26.92%) Unix
4 6 (23.08%) Windows
5 5 (19.23%) Solaris
6 4 (15.38%) Data ONTAP
6 4 (15.38%) Windows Server
7 2 (7.69%) CentOS
7 2 (7.69%) Debian
7 2 (7.69%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (69.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 9 (34.62%) High Availability
3 8 (30.77%) Infrastructure Automation
4 5 (19.23%) Compliance Management
4 5 (19.23%) Customer Service
4 5 (19.23%) DevOps
5 4 (15.38%) Agile
5 4 (15.38%) Capacity Management
5 4 (15.38%) Computer Science
5 4 (15.38%) Customer Requirements
5 4 (15.38%) Migration
5 4 (15.38%) Observability
5 4 (15.38%) OO
5 4 (15.38%) Preventative Maintenance
5 4 (15.38%) Problem Management
5 4 (15.38%) SDLC
5 4 (15.38%) Storage Management
6 3 (11.54%) Investment Management
6 3 (11.54%) Load Balancing
6 3 (11.54%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (46.15%) Python
2 8 (30.77%) Perl
3 4 (15.38%) Java
3 4 (15.38%) PowerShell
3 4 (15.38%) SQL
4 3 (11.54%) PHP
5 2 (7.69%) C
Qualifications
1 8 (30.77%) SC Cleared
1 8 (30.77%) Security Cleared
2 5 (19.23%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (19.23%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (30.77%) Docker
2 5 (19.23%) KVM
3 4 (15.38%) GPFS
3 4 (15.38%) NFS
4 3 (11.54%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (30.77%) Kubernetes
2 4 (15.38%) Ansible
2 4 (15.38%) Veritas Storage Foundation
3 3 (11.54%) Puppet
3 3 (11.54%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (46.15%) Red Hat
2 4 (15.38%) Brocade
2 4 (15.38%) EMC
2 4 (15.38%) Google
2 4 (15.38%) IBM
2 4 (15.38%) NetApp
2 4 (15.38%) Sybase
2 4 (15.38%) Veritas
2 4 (15.38%) VMware
3 3 (11.54%) F5
4 1 (3.85%) Dell
4 1 (3.85%) HP
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