Linux Contracts in the North of England

Linux
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 40 31 30
Rank change year-on-year -9 -1 +12
Contract jobs citing Linux 188 302 440
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 3.96% 5.45% 6.15%
As % of the Operating Systems category 27.09% 34.12% 32.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 220 319
10th Percentile £358 £325 £315
25th Percentile £425 £450 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +0.95% +16.67%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £633
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 21 6
10th Percentile £21.25 £15.75 £19.89
25th Percentile £47.25 £19.00 £21.78
Median hourly rate £48.00 £26.50 £25.43
Median % change year-on-year +81.13% +4.23% -32.20%
75th Percentile £60.56 £39.60 £48.79
90th Percentile £66.56 £52.13 £55.85
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +18.18% +10.00%

All Operating Systems
North of England

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 North of England with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 694 885 1,366
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 14.62% 15.96% 19.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 471 612 993
10th Percentile £165 £168 £150
25th Percentile £275 £250 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +11.76% +6.25%
75th Percentile £531 £575 £548
90th Percentile £650 £675 £638
England median daily rate £475 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -5.94% +1.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 64 78
10th Percentile - £13.16 £12.75
25th Percentile £10.95 £16.25 £15.42
Median hourly rate £16.00 £24.25 £18.25
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% +32.88% +14.06%
75th Percentile £19.07 £43.48 £23.69
90th Percentile £48.00 £49.29 £71.50
England median hourly rate £22.50 £42.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -47.06% +97.67% +22.86%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Linux in the North of England

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Linux in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Linux in the North of England

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in the North of England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in the North of England

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Linux in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Linux in the North of England

Linux
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Linux in the North of England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Linux in the North of England

Linux
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the North of England region over the 6 months to 2 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
Yorkshire +14 109 £500 -9.09% 47
North West -41 66 £450 -14.29% 90
North East -3 13 £575 +6.98% 9
Linux
England

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 9 (4.79%) nginx
2 4 (2.13%) OpenStack
3 3 (1.60%) Apache
3 3 (1.60%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.60%) Jupyter
4 2 (1.06%) Confluence
4 2 (1.06%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.06%) Oracle Workflow
4 2 (1.06%) Traefik
4 2 (1.06%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.53%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.53%) JBoss
5 1 (0.53%) NetWeaver
5 1 (0.53%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.53%) SAP IBP
1 1 (0.53%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 52 (27.66%) AWS
2 44 (23.40%) Azure
3 23 (12.23%) GCP
4 22 (11.70%) GitHub
5 13 (6.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 9 (4.79%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (3.72%) Amazon EC2
7 7 (3.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 6 (3.19%) Azure Sentinel
9 5 (2.66%) Amazon S3
9 5 (2.66%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 5 (2.66%) PaaS
9 5 (2.66%) Power Platform
10 4 (2.13%) Amazon ELB
10 4 (2.13%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (2.13%) AWS KMS
10 4 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (2.13%) IaaS
10 4 (2.13%) Mimecast
10 4 (2.13%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 15 (7.98%) VLAN
2 14 (7.45%) LAN
2 14 (7.45%) WAN
3 13 (6.91%) Wireless
4 11 (5.85%) Firewall
4 11 (5.85%) VPN
5 7 (3.72%) Ethernet
5 7 (3.72%) OSPF
5 7 (3.72%) Wireless Security
6 6 (3.19%) SAN
6 6 (3.19%) SSL
7 4 (2.13%) 5G
7 4 (2.13%) Diameter Protocol
7 4 (2.13%) DNS
7 4 (2.13%) LTE
8 3 (1.60%) TCP/IP
9 2 (1.06%) AMQP
9 2 (1.06%) IPv4
9 2 (1.06%) MQTT
9 2 (1.06%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (10.11%) MongoDB
2 13 (6.91%) SQL Server
3 9 (4.79%) MySQL
4 7 (3.72%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (3.72%) Ingres
5 5 (2.66%) Big Data
5 5 (2.66%) DB2
5 5 (2.66%) Power BI
5 5 (2.66%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.60%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (1.60%) BigQuery
6 3 (1.60%) ClickHouse
6 3 (1.60%) Data Hub
6 3 (1.60%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.60%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.60%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.06%) Redis
8 1 (0.53%) Oracle Exadata
8 1 (0.53%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.53%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 33 (17.55%) Jenkins
2 24 (12.77%) GitLab
3 7 (3.72%) Burp Suite
4 5 (2.66%) Git
4 5 (2.66%) SonarQube
5 4 (2.13%) AppScan
5 4 (2.13%) Hudson
5 4 (2.13%) JIRA
6 3 (1.60%) Mockito
7 2 (1.06%) IBM UrbanCode
7 2 (1.06%) Selenium
7 2 (1.06%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (1.06%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.53%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.53%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.53%) Gradle
8 1 (0.53%) Liquibase
8 1 (0.53%) Maven
8 1 (0.53%) Mercurial
8 1 (0.53%) Postman
General
1 58 (30.85%) Social Skills
2 29 (15.43%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (12.77%) Finance
4 13 (6.91%) Public Sector
5 6 (3.19%) Banking
6 4 (2.13%) Aerospace
6 4 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (2.13%) Legal
7 3 (1.60%) Retail
8 2 (1.06%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.53%) Automotive
9 1 (0.53%) Avionics
9 1 (0.53%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.53%) Military
9 1 (0.53%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.53%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 22 (11.70%) DevOps Engineer
2 16 (8.51%) Linux Engineer
2 16 (8.51%) Storage Manager
3 13 (6.91%) Lead
4 12 (6.38%) DBA
5 10 (5.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 10 (5.32%) Storage Engineer
6 8 (4.26%) Developer
6 8 (4.26%) Network Engineer
6 8 (4.26%) Site Engineer
6 8 (4.26%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 7 (3.72%) Architect
7 7 (3.72%) Data Protection Engineer
8 6 (3.19%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 6 (3.19%) Data Engineer
8 6 (3.19%) Software Engineer
9 5 (2.66%) Ingres DBA
9 5 (2.66%) Java Developer
9 5 (2.66%) Penetration Tester
9 5 (2.66%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (9.57%) Kafka
1 18 (9.57%) YAML
2 11 (5.85%) Elastic Stack
3 9 (4.79%) ActiveMQ
4 8 (4.26%) JSON
5 7 (3.72%) Middleware
6 6 (3.19%) Spring
7 5 (2.66%) Apache NiFi
8 4 (2.13%) Keycloak
8 4 (2.13%) Web Services
8 4 (2.13%) XML
8 4 (2.13%) XSLT
9 3 (1.60%) Apache Beam
9 3 (1.60%) JAX-RS
10 2 (1.06%) cloud-init
10 2 (1.06%) Node.js
10 2 (1.06%) pytest
10 2 (1.06%) Spring Boot
11 1 (0.53%) SAP Fiori
11 1 (0.53%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 22 (11.70%) Replication
2 20 (10.64%) Data Centre
3 11 (5.85%) Public Cloud
4 6 (3.19%) Mobile App
4 6 (3.19%) Operational Technology
5 5 (2.66%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (2.13%) Clustering
6 4 (2.13%) Cyberattack
6 4 (2.13%) Data Structures
6 4 (2.13%) PKI
6 4 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.60%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.60%) Cyber Defence
7 3 (1.60%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (1.60%) Data Fabric
7 3 (1.60%) Derivative
7 3 (1.60%) EPoS
7 3 (1.60%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (1.60%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.06%) Insider Threat
Operating Systems
1 74 (39.36%) Windows
2 34 (18.09%) Unix
3 26 (13.83%) zOS
4 14 (7.45%) Windows Server
5 13 (6.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (5.32%) CentOS
7 6 (3.19%) Mac OS
7 6 (3.19%) Ubuntu
8 4 (2.13%) Apple iOS
8 4 (2.13%) Debian
8 4 (2.13%) Oracle Linux
8 4 (2.13%) VMS
9 3 (1.60%) Kali Linux
9 3 (1.60%) Mac OS X
10 2 (1.06%) Alpine Linux
11 1 (0.53%) Android
11 1 (0.53%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.53%) Fedora
11 1 (0.53%) Rocky
11 1 (0.53%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (21.81%) Agile
1 41 (21.81%) DevOps
2 32 (17.02%) CI/CD
3 23 (12.23%) Change Management
4 20 (10.64%) Infrastructure as Code
5 19 (10.11%) Problem-Solving
6 18 (9.57%) Problem Management
6 18 (9.57%) Project Management
6 18 (9.57%) Stakeholder Management
6 18 (9.57%) Storage Management
7 17 (9.04%) Migration
8 16 (8.51%) Continuous Integration
8 16 (8.51%) Data Protection
8 16 (8.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 15 (7.98%) Service Delivery
10 14 (7.45%) Penetration Testing
10 14 (7.45%) Software Testing
11 13 (6.91%) Cost Management
11 13 (6.91%) Disaster Recovery
11 13 (6.91%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 57 (30.32%) Python
2 23 (12.23%) Bash
3 18 (9.57%) JCL
4 17 (9.04%) Java
5 15 (7.98%) REXX
6 13 (6.91%) PowerShell
7 11 (5.85%) JavaScript
8 10 (5.32%) SQL
9 9 (4.79%) C++
10 8 (4.26%) Shell Script
11 6 (3.19%) Go
12 5 (2.66%) Kusto Query Language
12 5 (2.66%) Ruby
13 3 (1.60%) C
13 3 (1.60%) Groovy
13 3 (1.60%) Scala
14 1 (0.53%) Fortran
14 1 (0.53%) Rust
Qualifications
1 36 (19.15%) Security Cleared
2 28 (14.89%) SC Cleared
3 9 (4.79%) OSCP
4 8 (4.26%) CCNA
4 8 (4.26%) Cisco Certification
4 8 (4.26%) Degree
5 6 (3.19%) CEH
5 6 (3.19%) CREST Certified
5 6 (3.19%) GIAC
5 6 (3.19%) GPEN
6 5 (2.66%) CompTIA Security+
6 5 (2.66%) DV Cleared
7 4 (2.13%) CISM
7 4 (2.13%) CISSP
8 3 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.53%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.53%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.53%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.26%) NIST
2 6 (3.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.13%) PCI DSS
3 4 (2.13%) QA
4 3 (1.60%) NCSC
5 2 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.53%) GDPR
6 1 (0.53%) HIPAA
System Software
1 25 (13.30%) Docker
2 19 (10.11%) NFS
3 18 (9.57%) Time Sharing Option
4 14 (7.45%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (6.91%) Active Directory
6 8 (4.26%) Hyper-V
7 3 (1.60%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 3 (1.60%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (1.06%) VMware Workstation
9 1 (0.53%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.53%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 59 (31.38%) Ansible
2 40 (21.28%) Terraform
3 27 (14.36%) Puppet
4 24 (12.77%) Kubernetes
5 20 (10.64%) Prometheus
6 19 (10.11%) Grafana
7 18 (9.57%) NetBackup
7 18 (9.57%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 7 (3.72%) Packer
9 5 (2.66%) Graylog
9 5 (2.66%) Microsoft Intune
9 5 (2.66%) Progress Chef
10 4 (2.13%) HP Fortify
10 4 (2.13%) Istio
10 4 (2.13%) Nessus
10 4 (2.13%) Rancher
10 4 (2.13%) WebInspect
10 4 (2.13%) yum
11 3 (1.60%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (1.60%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 29 (15.43%) IBM
2 24 (12.77%) VMware
3 22 (11.70%) Oracle
4 20 (10.64%) Dell
5 19 (10.11%) Brocade
6 18 (9.57%) Broadcom
6 18 (9.57%) CA
7 16 (8.51%) Veritas
8 14 (7.45%) Microsoft
9 10 (5.32%) Splunk
10 7 (3.72%) PagerDuty
11 6 (3.19%) F5
11 6 (3.19%) ServiceNow
11 6 (3.19%) Solace
12 4 (2.13%) Checkmarx
12 4 (2.13%) Red Hat
12 4 (2.13%) Sophos
12 4 (2.13%) Veracode
13 3 (1.60%) Databricks
14 2 (1.06%) Symantec