Linux Contracts with Work from Home Options

Linux
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 40 30 40
Rank change year-on-year -10 +10 -10
Contract jobs citing Linux 660 1,547 2,581
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 4.53% 6.44% 5.80%
As % of the Operating Systems category 43.08% 47.35% 47.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 431 1,056 1,791
10th Percentile £325 £413 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £561 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.03% +2.05% +10.00%
75th Percentile £623 £675 £650
90th Percentile £703 £775 £713
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 58 42
10th Percentile £41.83 £47.50 £35.85
25th Percentile £51.32 £51.25 £47.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% +6.98% -7.33%
75th Percentile £70.63 £73.13 £65.54
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £75.65
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £55.23
% change year-on-year - +17.70% +10.45%

All Operating Systems
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,532 3,267 5,379
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.52% 13.59% 12.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,074 2,298 3,843
10th Percentile £225 £244 £300
25th Percentile £358 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £510
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +2.94% +9.68%
75th Percentile £589 £638 £618
90th Percentile £679 £731 £688
UK median daily rate £470 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -6.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 106 129
10th Percentile £12.75 £19.00 £14.90
25th Percentile £14.07 £25.71 £20.00
Median hourly rate £16.00 £52.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -69.52% +16.67% +28.57%
75th Percentile £33.59 £67.50 £63.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £42.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year -47.06% +93.18% +25.71%

Linux
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Linux trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Linux.

Linux daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Linux over the 6 months to 4 June 2024.

Linux daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Linux
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Linux.

Linux hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Linux
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Linux over the 6 months to 4 June 2024.

Linux hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 41 (6.21%) Confluence
2 30 (4.55%) nginx
3 29 (4.39%) Microsoft Exchange
4 17 (2.58%) OpenStack
5 11 (1.67%) Apache
5 11 (1.67%) NetWeaver
6 9 (1.36%) JBoss
7 8 (1.21%) IIS
8 6 (0.91%) Apache Solr
9 5 (0.76%) Oracle Self-Service HR
10 4 (0.61%) Luigi
10 4 (0.61%) Tomcat
10 4 (0.61%) WebLogic
11 3 (0.45%) Apache Spark
11 3 (0.45%) Cloud Foundry
11 3 (0.45%) SharePoint
12 2 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 2 (0.30%) CMS
12 2 (0.30%) Exchange Server 2010
12 2 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 7 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 11 (1.67%) SAP IBP
2 3 (0.45%) Temenos T24
3 2 (0.30%) BusinessWorks
3 2 (0.30%) Endur
3 2 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.30%) Shopify
3 2 (0.30%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.15%) BASE24
4 1 (0.15%) MFGPRO
4 1 (0.15%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.15%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 172 (26.06%) AWS
2 157 (23.79%) Azure
3 44 (6.67%) GitHub
4 33 (5.00%) OpenShift
5 32 (4.85%) AWS CloudFormation
5 32 (4.85%) PaaS
6 31 (4.70%) GCP
6 31 (4.70%) Serverless
7 29 (4.39%) Entra ID
7 29 (4.39%) Microsoft 365
8 28 (4.24%) Amazon EC2
9 26 (3.94%) AWS Lambda
10 25 (3.79%) IaaS
11 24 (3.64%) Amazon S3
11 24 (3.64%) Azure Monitor
11 24 (3.64%) Azure Storage
12 19 (2.88%) SaaS
13 14 (2.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 13 (1.97%) Amazon ECS
14 13 (1.97%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 78 (11.82%) Firewall
2 52 (7.88%) DNS
3 44 (6.67%) TCP/IP
4 35 (5.30%) DHCP
5 30 (4.55%) SAN
6 18 (2.73%) SSL
7 16 (2.42%) LAN
8 15 (2.27%) Network Security
9 13 (1.97%) WAN
10 11 (1.67%) VLAN
11 10 (1.52%) VPN
12 9 (1.36%) HTTP
13 8 (1.21%) Intrusion Detection
13 8 (1.21%) SSH
14 7 (1.06%) 4G
14 7 (1.06%) Fibre Channel
14 7 (1.06%) FTP
14 7 (1.06%) Kerberos
14 7 (1.06%) Wireshark
15 6 (0.91%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (5.30%) SQL Server
2 33 (5.00%) MySQL
3 31 (4.70%) PostgreSQL
4 30 (4.55%) MongoDB
5 24 (3.64%) Oracle Database
6 23 (3.48%) Relational Database
7 21 (3.18%) Amazon RDS
8 13 (1.97%) Elasticsearch
8 13 (1.97%) NoSQL
8 13 (1.97%) SAP HANA
9 11 (1.67%) Hadoop
9 11 (1.67%) RDBMS
9 11 (1.67%) SAP BW
10 8 (1.21%) Big Data
10 8 (1.21%) DB2
10 8 (1.21%) MariaDB
11 6 (0.91%) InfluxDB
11 6 (0.91%) Oracle ODI
11 6 (0.91%) Oracle Reports
11 6 (0.91%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 71 (10.76%) Jenkins
2 68 (10.30%) Git
3 54 (8.18%) JIRA
4 40 (6.06%) GitLab
5 22 (3.33%) Bitbucket
6 20 (3.03%) Artifactory
7 14 (2.12%) TeamCity
8 10 (1.52%) Sonatype Nexus
9 8 (1.21%) Maven
10 7 (1.06%) Selenium
11 6 (0.91%) Cypress.io
12 5 (0.76%) SonarQube
12 5 (0.76%) Visual Studio
13 4 (0.61%) Burp Suite
13 4 (0.61%) Cucumber
13 4 (0.61%) Gradle
13 4 (0.61%) IDA Disassembler
13 4 (0.61%) Mockito
13 4 (0.61%) Postman
13 4 (0.61%) Subversion
General
1 190 (28.79%) Social Skills
2 116 (17.58%) Finance
3 67 (10.15%) Public Sector
4 53 (8.03%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (4.55%) Banking
6 23 (3.48%) Telecoms
7 18 (2.73%) Manufacturing
8 14 (2.12%) Presentation Skills
9 13 (1.97%) Marketing
10 12 (1.82%) Front Office
11 11 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
12 10 (1.52%) Electronics
13 8 (1.21%) Investment Banking
14 6 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
15 5 (0.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 5 (0.76%) Legal
15 5 (0.76%) Retail
16 4 (0.61%) Documentation Skills
17 3 (0.45%) French Language
17 3 (0.45%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 87 (13.18%) Developer
2 75 (11.36%) Senior
3 72 (10.91%) DevOps Engineer
4 49 (7.42%) Architect
5 45 (6.82%) Linux Engineer
6 37 (5.61%) Consultant
7 32 (4.85%) Python Engineer
8 29 (4.39%) Administrator
8 29 (4.39%) AWS Engineer
9 28 (4.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 24 (3.64%) Support Engineer
11 23 (3.48%) DBA
12 22 (3.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 21 (3.18%) Active Directory Support
14 20 (3.03%) Applications Engineer
14 20 (3.03%) AWS DevOps
14 20 (3.03%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 20 (3.03%) Azure Engineer
15 19 (2.88%) Platform Engineer
15 19 (2.88%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (6.21%) Kafka
2 32 (4.85%) YAML
3 31 (4.70%) Middleware
4 27 (4.09%) HTML
4 27 (4.09%) REST
5 26 (3.94%) Web Services
6 24 (3.64%) CSS
7 22 (3.33%) RabbitMQ
8 21 (3.18%) ARM Templates
9 20 (3.03%) Elastic Stack
9 20 (3.03%) RESTful
10 19 (2.88%) .NET
10 19 (2.88%) LDAP
11 18 (2.73%) Laravel
12 16 (2.42%) Spring
13 15 (2.27%) JSON
14 14 (2.12%) Sass
15 12 (1.82%) AWS CDK
15 12 (1.82%) SAP Basis
16 11 (1.67%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 42 (6.36%) Data Centre
2 35 (5.30%) PKI
3 31 (4.70%) Replication
4 29 (4.39%) Self-Motivation
5 28 (4.24%) Linux Command Line
6 27 (4.09%) Distributed Systems
7 26 (3.94%) Management Information System
8 23 (3.48%) Algorithms
9 22 (3.33%) Public Cloud
10 18 (2.73%) Cloud Native
11 16 (2.42%) Data Structures
11 16 (2.42%) Product Ownership
12 13 (1.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 13 (1.97%) Onboarding
13 11 (1.67%) Clustering
14 9 (1.36%) Cyber Threat
15 7 (1.06%) Derivative
16 6 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
16 6 (0.91%) Embedded Systems
16 6 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 233 (35.30%) Windows
2 130 (19.70%) Unix
3 74 (11.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 60 (9.09%) Windows Server
5 42 (6.36%) Ubuntu
6 24 (3.64%) Windows Server 2016
7 22 (3.33%) Solaris
7 22 (3.33%) Windows Server 2019
8 20 (3.03%) CentOS
9 19 (2.88%) zOS
10 15 (2.27%) AIX
11 14 (2.12%) VMS
12 13 (1.97%) Oracle Linux
13 12 (1.82%) Debian
14 11 (1.67%) Apple iOS
15 10 (1.52%) Android
16 7 (1.06%) Rocky
17 6 (0.91%) Embedded Linux
18 5 (0.76%) Mac OS
19 4 (0.61%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 181 (27.42%) DevOps
2 158 (23.94%) Agile
3 137 (20.76%) CI/CD
4 98 (14.85%) Infrastructure as Code
4 98 (14.85%) Problem-Solving
5 60 (9.09%) ITIL
5 60 (9.09%) Migration
6 55 (8.33%) Microservices
7 54 (8.18%) Test Automation
8 52 (7.88%) Analytics
9 49 (7.42%) Software Engineering
10 46 (6.97%) Disaster Recovery
11 45 (6.82%) Containerisation
12 44 (6.67%) Continuous Integration
13 42 (6.36%) Performance Tuning
14 40 (6.06%) Configuration Management
14 40 (6.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 39 (5.91%) Computer Science
16 38 (5.76%) OO
17 37 (5.61%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 192 (29.09%) Python
2 76 (11.52%) Bash
2 76 (11.52%) Java
3 70 (10.61%) PowerShell
4 65 (9.85%) SQL
5 48 (7.27%) JavaScript
6 47 (7.12%) Shell Script
7 45 (6.82%) C#
8 40 (6.06%) C++
9 39 (5.91%) Perl
10 26 (3.94%) PHP
11 25 (3.79%) Bicep
11 25 (3.79%) Go
12 22 (3.33%) VB
13 20 (3.03%) C
13 20 (3.03%) VBScript
14 14 (2.12%) JCL
15 12 (1.82%) REXX
16 9 (1.36%) TypeScript
17 7 (1.06%) Scala
Qualifications
1 172 (26.06%) Security Cleared
2 120 (18.18%) SC Cleared
3 79 (11.97%) Degree
4 69 (10.45%) DV Cleared
5 20 (3.03%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 19 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (1.36%) AWS Certification
8 8 (1.21%) SAP Certification
9 7 (1.06%) ISTQB
9 7 (1.06%) Master's Degree
10 6 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (0.76%) GIAC
11 5 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.61%) CEH
12 4 (0.61%) CISSP
12 4 (0.61%) Numerate Degree
12 4 (0.61%) OSCP
13 3 (0.45%) CREST Certified
13 3 (0.45%) GPEN
13 3 (0.45%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (4.85%) QA
2 17 (2.58%) GDPR
3 14 (2.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (1.82%) NIST
5 10 (1.52%) SLA
6 8 (1.21%) Accessibility
7 5 (0.76%) HIPAA
7 5 (0.76%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (0.45%) Data Quality
8 3 (0.45%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.30%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 1 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.15%) Def Stans
10 1 (0.15%) ISO 8583
10 1 (0.15%) ISO 9000
10 1 (0.15%) MISRA
10 1 (0.15%) NCSC
System Software
1 97 (14.70%) Active Directory
2 88 (13.33%) Docker
3 53 (8.03%) VMware Infrastructure
4 45 (6.82%) Virtual Machines
5 22 (3.33%) Virtual Desktop
6 21 (3.18%) NFS
7 15 (2.27%) VMware NSX
8 14 (2.12%) Time Sharing Option
9 13 (1.97%) VMware ESXi
10 12 (1.82%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 12 (1.82%) Firmware
10 12 (1.82%) vSphere
11 8 (1.21%) Oracle RAC
12 7 (1.06%) HDFS
12 7 (1.06%) Hyper-V
13 5 (0.76%) KVM
13 5 (0.76%) Snort
14 4 (0.61%) Virtual Servers
15 3 (0.45%) FreeRADIUS
15 3 (0.45%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 149 (22.58%) Kubernetes
2 134 (20.30%) Ansible
3 92 (13.94%) Terraform
4 46 (6.97%) Grafana
5 36 (5.45%) Prometheus
5 36 (5.45%) Puppet
6 29 (4.39%) SCCM
7 23 (3.48%) SCOM
7 23 (3.48%) WSUS
8 21 (3.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 21 (3.18%) Progress Chef
9 20 (3.03%) Microsoft Intune
10 18 (2.73%) Tivoli Storage Manager
11 17 (2.58%) Consul
12 14 (2.12%) Kibana
13 12 (1.82%) Data Guard
14 9 (1.36%) Dell DRAC
14 9 (1.36%) EMC NetWorker
14 9 (1.36%) NetBackup
15 7 (1.06%) Argo
Vendors
1 126 (19.09%) Microsoft
2 79 (11.97%) VMware
3 78 (11.82%) Oracle
4 77 (11.67%) Red Hat
5 40 (6.06%) Dell
6 33 (5.00%) IBM
6 33 (5.00%) Splunk
7 29 (4.39%) SAP
8 22 (3.33%) Cisco
9 19 (2.88%) Brocade
9 19 (2.88%) Qualys
10 18 (2.73%) Google
11 17 (2.58%) CyberArk
11 17 (2.58%) HP
11 17 (2.58%) SaltStack
12 16 (2.42%) Atlassian
13 15 (2.27%) ServiceNow
14 14 (2.12%) Broadcom
14 14 (2.12%) CA
15 12 (1.82%) Isilon