Linux Contracts in the South West

Linux
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 22 14 20
Rank change year-on-year -8 +6 -1
Contract jobs citing Linux 232 304 301
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 7.13% 8.94% 8.20%
As % of the Operating Systems category 42.34% 44.97% 41.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 199 151
10th Percentile £463 £425 £390
25th Percentile £508 £463 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% +13.51%
75th Percentile £688 £650 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £674
England median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 58 44
10th Percentile £48.00 £51.25 £45.61
25th Percentile £65.00 £60.91 £53.44
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.61 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.70% +0.93% +30.00%
75th Percentile - £75.50 -
90th Percentile - £78.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +18.18% +10.00%

All Operating Systems
South West

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 South West with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 548 676 719
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 16.84% 19.87% 19.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 380 474 438
10th Percentile £175 £189 £154
25th Percentile £350 £291 £214
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £445
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +12.36% +11.25%
75th Percentile £588 £621 £550
90th Percentile £688 £700 £638
England median daily rate £475 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -5.94% +1.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 78 69
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.20 £15.85
25th Percentile £40.00 £52.68 £20.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.25 £52.56
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% +24.16% +176.17%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.95 £65.00
90th Percentile - £78.00 £65.75
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 South West

Job postings citing Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Linux in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Linux in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Linux in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in the South West over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Linux in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for Linux in the South West

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Hourly rate histogram for Linux in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the South West 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
Wiltshire -9 76 £584 +11.14% 38
Bristol +8 71 £500 -9.09% 51
Gloucestershire -9 47 £600 +9.09% 47
Dorset +2 15 £731 +4.46% 8
Devon +3 12 £550 -18.52% 8
Somerset -15 6 £475 +5.56% 20
Cornwall - 1 £396 - 4
Linux
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 35 (15.09%) Confluence
2 7 (3.02%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (2.59%) Apache
4 5 (2.16%) nginx
5 4 (1.72%) Apache Solr
6 2 (0.86%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (1.29%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.43%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.43%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (0.86%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.43%) Magento
2 1 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 36 (15.52%) Azure
2 34 (14.66%) AWS
3 27 (11.64%) OpenShift
4 20 (8.62%) GitHub
5 9 (3.88%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (3.45%) GCP
6 8 (3.45%) PaaS
6 8 (3.45%) Serverless
7 7 (3.02%) Amazon EC2
7 7 (3.02%) Amazon S3
7 7 (3.02%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (2.16%) Amazon Cognito
9 2 (0.86%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (0.86%) IaaS
9 2 (0.86%) Slack
10 1 (0.43%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.43%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (0.43%) Google Analytics
10 1 (0.43%) Google Tag Manager
10 1 (0.43%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (7.76%) Firewall
2 16 (6.90%) TCP/IP
2 16 (6.90%) VSAN
3 11 (4.74%) Network Security
4 10 (4.31%) SAN
5 9 (3.88%) LAN
5 9 (3.88%) WAN
6 8 (3.45%) DNS
7 7 (3.02%) VPN
8 6 (2.59%) AMQP
8 6 (2.59%) FTP
9 5 (2.16%) Ethernet
9 5 (2.16%) HTTP
10 4 (1.72%) 4G
10 4 (1.72%) 5G
10 4 (1.72%) HTTPS
10 4 (1.72%) IPsec
10 4 (1.72%) VoIP
10 4 (1.72%) Wi-Fi
11 3 (1.29%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.02%) Amazon RDS
1 7 (3.02%) Elasticsearch
1 7 (3.02%) InfluxDB
1 7 (3.02%) MySQL
1 7 (3.02%) Relational Database
2 5 (2.16%) Triplestore
3 4 (1.72%) Big Data
3 4 (1.72%) Couchbase
3 4 (1.72%) NoSQL
4 2 (0.86%) Hadoop
4 2 (0.86%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.43%) DB2
5 1 (0.43%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.43%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 53 (22.84%) Jenkins
2 52 (22.41%) JIRA
3 33 (14.22%) Bitbucket
4 23 (9.91%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 19 (8.19%) Git
6 12 (5.17%) GoogleTest
7 9 (3.88%) GitLab
8 5 (2.16%) Eclipse
8 5 (2.16%) Visual Studio
9 3 (1.29%) Burp Suite
9 3 (1.29%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.86%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.86%) Rational DOORS
10 2 (0.86%) Visual Studio Code
11 1 (0.43%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.43%) JMeter
11 1 (0.43%) Robot Framework
11 1 (0.43%) Selenium
General
1 63 (27.16%) Social Skills
2 29 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (11.21%) Aerospace
4 15 (6.47%) Public Sector
5 8 (3.45%) Finance
5 8 (3.45%) Legal
6 7 (3.02%) Military
7 6 (2.59%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (1.72%) Electronics
8 4 (1.72%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.72%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.29%) Banking
9 3 (1.29%) Marketing
10 2 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.43%) Automotive
11 1 (0.43%) Billing
11 1 (0.43%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.43%) Law
11 1 (0.43%) Public Speaking
11 1 (0.43%) Retail
Job Titles
1 53 (22.84%) Software Engineer
2 27 (11.64%) DevOps Engineer
3 25 (10.78%) Developer
3 25 (10.78%) Embedded Engineer
4 24 (10.34%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 19 (8.19%) VMware Engineer
6 17 (7.33%) Architect
7 13 (5.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 13 (5.60%) Java Engineer
7 13 (5.60%) Java Software Engineer
8 12 (5.17%) C++ Software Engineer
8 12 (5.17%) Senior
9 10 (4.31%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 9 (3.88%) Linux Engineer
11 7 (3.02%) Platform Engineer
12 6 (2.59%) Integration Engineer
12 6 (2.59%) Network Engineer
12 6 (2.59%) Site Engineer
13 5 (2.16%) C# Software Engineer
13 5 (2.16%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (13.36%) .NET
2 25 (10.78%) .NET Core
3 14 (6.03%) Qt
4 13 (5.60%) YAML
5 10 (4.31%) RabbitMQ
5 10 (4.31%) REST
6 9 (3.88%) Elastic Stack
7 8 (3.45%) Kafka
8 7 (3.02%) Apache NiFi
8 7 (3.02%) Node.js
9 6 (2.59%) CSS
9 6 (2.59%) HTML
9 6 (2.59%) Web Services
10 5 (2.16%) .NET Framework
10 5 (2.16%) Apache Jena
10 5 (2.16%) GraphQL
10 5 (2.16%) Middleware
10 5 (2.16%) PostGIS
11 4 (1.72%) LEMP Stack
11 4 (1.72%) React
Miscellaneous
1 23 (9.91%) ARM Cortex
1 23 (9.91%) Linux Command Line
1 23 (9.91%) PKI
2 17 (7.33%) Data Centre
3 14 (6.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 9 (3.88%) Public Cloud
5 7 (3.02%) Cloud Native
5 7 (3.02%) SCADA
6 6 (2.59%) Replication
6 6 (2.59%) Security Posture
7 4 (1.72%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.72%) Product Ownership
7 4 (1.72%) Security Operations Centre
8 3 (1.29%) Cyber Defence
8 3 (1.29%) Video Conferencing
9 2 (0.86%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (0.86%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (0.86%) Enterprise Storage
9 2 (0.86%) Hackathon
10 1 (0.43%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 64 (27.59%) Windows
2 29 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 23 (9.91%) FreeRTOS
4 18 (7.76%) Windows Server
5 7 (3.02%) CentOS
5 7 (3.02%) Ubuntu
5 7 (3.02%) Unix
6 4 (1.72%) Rocky
7 3 (1.29%) Kali Linux
7 3 (1.29%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.86%) SUSE
8 2 (0.86%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.43%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.43%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.43%) RTLinux
9 1 (0.43%) Solaris
9 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.43%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (34.48%) CI/CD
2 72 (31.03%) Configuration Management
3 67 (28.88%) DevOps
4 61 (26.29%) Software Engineering
5 50 (21.55%) Agile
6 46 (19.83%) Infrastructure as Code
7 38 (16.38%) Infrastructure Automation
8 31 (13.36%) Problem-Solving
9 30 (12.93%) Task Automation
10 27 (11.64%) Continuous Integration
11 25 (10.78%) OO
12 23 (9.91%) Deployment Automation
12 23 (9.91%) OOP
13 19 (8.19%) Containerisation
13 19 (8.19%) ITIL
14 17 (7.33%) Validation
15 16 (6.90%) Converged Infrastructure
16 15 (6.47%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 15 (6.47%) Service Management
17 13 (5.60%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 75 (32.33%) Python
2 59 (25.43%) PowerShell
3 44 (18.97%) C
4 36 (15.52%) Java
5 26 (11.21%) C++
6 25 (10.78%) Bash
7 23 (9.91%) Embedded C
8 17 (7.33%) JavaScript
9 12 (5.17%) SQL
10 11 (4.74%) Go
11 9 (3.88%) C#
12 7 (3.02%) Shell Script
13 5 (2.16%) PHP
13 5 (2.16%) SPARQL
14 2 (0.86%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.86%) Perl
14 2 (0.86%) Ruby
14 2 (0.86%) Search Processing Language
14 2 (0.86%) TypeScript
15 1 (0.43%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 159 (68.53%) Security Cleared
2 93 (40.09%) SC Cleared
3 60 (25.86%) DV Cleared
4 18 (7.76%) Degree
5 5 (2.16%) Master's Degree
6 4 (1.72%) HND
7 3 (1.29%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.29%) OSCP
8 2 (0.86%) MCSE
9 1 (0.43%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.43%) CEH
9 1 (0.43%) CREST Certified
9 1 (0.43%) GIAC
9 1 (0.43%) PhD
9 1 (0.43%) RHCE
9 1 (0.43%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.03%) MISRA
2 9 (3.88%) QA
3 8 (3.45%) NIST
4 6 (2.59%) GDPR
5 4 (1.72%) HIPAA
5 4 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.29%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.29%) SLA
7 2 (0.86%) JTAG
8 1 (0.43%) Def Stans
System Software
1 44 (18.97%) Docker
2 37 (15.95%) VMware NSX
3 33 (14.22%) VMware ESXi
4 29 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
5 22 (9.48%) vSphere
6 9 (3.88%) Active Directory
6 9 (3.88%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (1.29%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.43%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 1 (0.43%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 75 (32.33%) Ansible
2 50 (21.55%) Terraform
3 40 (17.24%) Kubernetes
4 27 (11.64%) PowerCLI
5 17 (7.33%) Progress Chef
5 17 (7.33%) Puppet
6 14 (6.03%) Grafana
6 14 (6.03%) Prometheus
7 9 (3.88%) Salt
7 9 (3.88%) vCenter Server
8 6 (2.59%) Docker Swarm
9 4 (1.72%) OPNET
10 3 (1.29%) Kibana
11 2 (0.86%) Argo
11 2 (0.86%) Kustomize
11 2 (0.86%) logstash
11 2 (0.86%) Rancher
11 2 (0.86%) SCCM
11 2 (0.86%) VxRail
11 2 (0.86%) WSUS
Vendors
1 54 (23.28%) VMware
2 36 (15.52%) Atlassian
3 32 (13.79%) Red Hat
4 30 (12.93%) Microsoft
5 24 (10.34%) Dell
5 24 (10.34%) IBM
6 23 (9.91%) Google
6 23 (9.91%) Lauterbach
7 22 (9.48%) HP
8 10 (4.31%) Cisco
9 8 (3.45%) SaltStack
9 8 (3.45%) Veeam
10 6 (2.59%) CheckPoint
10 6 (2.59%) Palo Alto
11 5 (2.16%) Splunk
12 4 (1.72%) CyberArk
12 4 (1.72%) SAP
13 2 (0.86%) Oracle
13 2 (0.86%) Sparx
14 1 (0.43%) Databricks