Linux Contracts in Scotland

Linux
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 24 14 37
Rank change year-on-year -10 +23 -3
Contract jobs citing Linux 143 263 215
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 6.74% 9.81% 6.28%
As % of the Operating Systems category 39.83% 54.23% 42.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 160 149
10th Percentile £324 £400 £398
25th Percentile £350 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £514 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.01% +2.75% +11.11%
75th Percentile £634 £638 £560
90th Percentile £750 £746 £624
UK median daily rate £540 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -6.09% - +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 6 9
10th Percentile £56.00 £49.49 £41.45
25th Percentile £57.50 £53.20 £47.93
Median hourly rate £60.25 £59.79 £54.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.77% +9.71% -18.05%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.06 £57.50
90th Percentile - £67.66 £58.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £55.45
% change year-on-year - +17.22% +10.90%

All Operating Systems
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 359 485 504
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 16.91% 18.09% 14.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 244 331 343
10th Percentile £175 £158 £150
25th Percentile £279 £260 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £470 £450
Median % change year-on-year -14.89% +4.44% +5.88%
75th Percentile £566 £574 £550
90th Percentile £698 £688 £600
UK median daily rate £470 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -6.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 14 26
10th Percentile £18.00 £15.46 £12.18
25th Percentile £18.20 £17.72 £15.53
Median hourly rate £26.00 £35.80 £18.86
Median % change year-on-year -27.36% +89.79% +7.77%
75th Percentile £60.75 £58.96 £49.89
90th Percentile £62.50 £64.76 £56.63
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £45.06 £22.25
% change year-on-year -50.06% +102.49% +27.14%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Scotland

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Linux in Scotland

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in Scotland over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in Scotland

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux in Scotland

Linux
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 9 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
Glasgow -15 69 £450 -19.64% 16
Edinburgh +12 43 £422 -15.55% 34
South Lanarkshire +18 13 £750 - 2
Aberdeen - 4 £625 - 5
Perthshire +11 3 £475 -
Fife +2 3 £420 -
West Lothian +4 2 £650 +62.50% 1
Renfrewshire -2 1 £600 +20.80%
Linux
UK

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 15 (10.49%) Confluence
2 6 (4.20%) IIS
3 5 (3.50%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.70%) Apache
4 1 (0.70%) JBoss
4 1 (0.70%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.70%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.70%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.70%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.70%) WildFly
Applications
1 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 34 (23.78%) AWS
2 17 (11.89%) OpenShift
3 12 (8.39%) Amazon S3
4 11 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
4 11 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
5 10 (6.99%) Serverless
6 9 (6.29%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 9 (6.29%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (5.59%) Azure
8 7 (4.90%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (3.50%) Amazon ECS
9 5 (3.50%) AWS Fargate
10 3 (2.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (2.10%) AWS CodeBuild
10 3 (2.10%) AWS CodeCommit
10 3 (2.10%) AWS CodePipeline
10 3 (2.10%) OCI
10 3 (2.10%) Oracle Service Cloud
11 2 (1.40%) IaaS
11 2 (1.40%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 19 (13.29%) Firewall
2 5 (3.50%) Internet
3 4 (2.80%) LAN
4 3 (2.10%) WAN
5 2 (1.40%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (1.40%) DNS
5 2 (1.40%) Modbus
5 2 (1.40%) Network Security
5 2 (1.40%) SNMP
6 1 (0.70%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (0.70%) DSL
6 1 (0.70%) IPsec
6 1 (0.70%) NAS
6 1 (0.70%) SAN
6 1 (0.70%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.70%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.70%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.70%) VPN
6 1 (0.70%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.70%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.29%) Elasticsearch
1 9 (6.29%) Oracle Database
2 7 (4.90%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (4.20%) InfluxDB
4 5 (3.50%) MariaDB
4 5 (3.50%) MySQL
4 5 (3.50%) Oracle Database 12c
4 5 (3.50%) Oracle Reports
4 5 (3.50%) Oracle8/8i Database
5 4 (2.80%) Metadata
6 3 (2.10%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (2.10%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (2.10%) Informix
6 3 (2.10%) MongoDB
6 3 (2.10%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.40%) NonStop SQL
7 2 (1.40%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.70%) Big Data
8 1 (0.70%) Oracle Database 11g
8 1 (0.70%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 17 (11.89%) JIRA
2 14 (9.79%) Jenkins
3 11 (7.69%) Git
4 9 (6.29%) Artifactory
4 9 (6.29%) Maven
5 8 (5.59%) Gradle
6 6 (4.20%) GitLab
7 5 (3.50%) Cucumber
7 5 (3.50%) Selenium
8 3 (2.10%) Burp Suite
8 3 (2.10%) WebDriver
9 2 (1.40%) Capybara
9 2 (1.40%) CMake
10 1 (0.70%) Bitbucket Server
10 1 (0.70%) Gatling
10 1 (0.70%) JMeter
10 1 (0.70%) JUnit
10 1 (0.70%) Oracle Forms
10 1 (0.70%) Subversion
10 1 (0.70%) Terragrunt
General
1 27 (18.88%) Social Skills
2 20 (13.99%) Public Sector
3 16 (11.19%) Finance
4 7 (4.90%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (4.90%) Banking
5 5 (3.50%) Electronics
5 5 (3.50%) Financial Institution
6 4 (2.80%) Telecoms
7 3 (2.10%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.40%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.70%) Military
Job Titles
1 25 (17.48%) Linux Engineer
2 20 (13.99%) Support Engineer
3 17 (11.89%) Developer
3 17 (11.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 13 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
4 13 (9.09%) Platform Engineer
4 13 (9.09%) Python Engineer
5 12 (8.39%) Java Developer
5 12 (8.39%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
6 11 (7.69%) Infrastructure Support
6 11 (7.69%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 11 (7.69%) Linux Support
6 11 (7.69%) Linux Support Engineer
7 9 (6.29%) Applications Engineer
7 9 (6.29%) JIRA Engineer
7 9 (6.29%) Network Engineer
7 9 (6.29%) Software Engineer
8 8 (5.59%) Embedded Software Engineer
8 8 (5.59%) Java Scala Developer
8 8 (5.59%) Unix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (9.79%) REST
2 10 (6.99%) AWS CDK
2 10 (6.99%) Web Services
3 7 (4.90%) Middleware
4 6 (4.20%) Spring
5 5 (3.50%) Oracle GoldenGate
6 4 (2.80%) AngularJS
7 3 (2.10%) Gherkin
7 3 (2.10%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (2.10%) React
7 3 (2.10%) SOAP
7 3 (2.10%) Yocto
8 2 (1.40%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (1.40%) Java EE
8 2 (1.40%) Kafka
8 2 (1.40%) Pandas
8 2 (1.40%) RESTful
8 2 (1.40%) Spring Boot
8 2 (1.40%) WebKit
8 2 (1.40%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (12.59%) Data Centre
2 11 (7.69%) Linux Command Line
3 8 (5.59%) Cloud Native
4 7 (4.90%) Clustering
5 6 (4.20%) Data Structures
5 6 (4.20%) Product Ownership
6 5 (3.50%) Algorithms
7 4 (2.80%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (2.80%) Device Driver
7 4 (2.80%) IoT
7 4 (2.80%) Operational Technology
7 4 (2.80%) PCIe
7 4 (2.80%) Verilog
7 4 (2.80%) VHDL
8 3 (2.10%) Cyber Defence
8 3 (2.10%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (2.10%) Onboarding
8 3 (2.10%) Tandem
9 2 (1.40%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.40%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 35 (24.48%) Windows
2 29 (20.28%) Unix
3 28 (19.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 12 (8.39%) Windows Server
5 9 (6.29%) Embedded Linux
6 7 (4.90%) Solaris
6 7 (4.90%) Ubuntu
7 6 (4.20%) CentOS
7 6 (4.20%) Debian
7 6 (4.20%) Windows Server 2008
7 6 (4.20%) Windows Server 2012
7 6 (4.20%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (2.80%) VxWorks
9 3 (2.10%) Kali Linux
10 2 (1.40%) Mac OS
10 2 (1.40%) zOS
11 1 (0.70%) AIX
11 1 (0.70%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (27.97%) Agile
2 29 (20.28%) CI/CD
3 25 (17.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 22 (15.38%) Software Engineering
5 21 (14.69%) DevOps
6 18 (12.59%) Migration
7 17 (11.89%) OO
8 15 (10.49%) Infrastructure as Code
9 14 (9.79%) Continuous Integration
9 14 (9.79%) Problem-Solving
10 12 (8.39%) Data Migration
10 12 (8.39%) High Availability
10 12 (8.39%) Service Management
11 11 (7.69%) Containerisation
11 11 (7.69%) Platform Engineering
11 11 (7.69%) Roadmaps
12 10 (6.99%) Analytics
12 10 (6.99%) Workflow
13 9 (6.29%) Observability
13 9 (6.29%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 47 (32.87%) Python
2 24 (16.78%) Java
3 17 (11.89%) Perl
4 16 (11.19%) Bash
5 12 (8.39%) Shell Script
6 11 (7.69%) Groovy
6 11 (7.69%) SQL
7 8 (5.59%) Ruby
7 8 (5.59%) Scala
8 7 (4.90%) C
9 6 (4.20%) Embedded C
9 6 (4.20%) JavaScript
10 4 (2.80%) PowerShell
10 4 (2.80%) TypeScript
11 3 (2.10%) C++
11 3 (2.10%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 34 (23.78%) Security Cleared
2 27 (18.88%) SC Cleared
3 9 (6.29%) Degree
4 6 (4.20%) MCSA
4 6 (4.20%) MCSE
4 6 (4.20%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (4.20%) RHCE
4 6 (4.20%) RHCT
5 3 (2.10%) OSCP
6 2 (1.40%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.40%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.70%) CCNA
7 1 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.59%) Disclosure Scotland
2 6 (4.20%) SLA
3 5 (3.50%) PCI DSS
4 4 (2.80%) MISRA
4 4 (2.80%) MISRA C
4 4 (2.80%) QA
5 2 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 2 (1.40%) NIST
6 1 (0.70%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.70%) NCSC
System Software
1 13 (9.09%) KVM
1 13 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (6.29%) Active Directory
3 7 (4.90%) Docker
4 6 (4.20%) Firmware
4 6 (4.20%) Hyper-V
5 5 (3.50%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.70%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.70%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 23 (16.08%) Ansible
1 23 (16.08%) Kubernetes
2 16 (11.19%) Terraform
3 14 (9.79%) Grafana
4 7 (4.90%) Kibana
5 5 (3.50%) Oracle RMAN
5 5 (3.50%) Prometheus
6 4 (2.80%) Data Guard
7 3 (2.10%) Dell DRAC
7 3 (2.10%) Nagios
7 3 (2.10%) Packer
8 2 (1.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (1.40%) OpenView
8 2 (1.40%) Puppet
8 2 (1.40%) Red Hat Satellite
9 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.70%) Nessus
9 1 (0.70%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.70%) SCCM
9 1 (0.70%) SCOM
Vendors
1 24 (16.78%) Red Hat
2 17 (11.89%) Oracle
3 16 (11.19%) Atlassian
4 14 (9.79%) VMware
5 7 (4.90%) Splunk
6 6 (4.20%) Citrix
6 6 (4.20%) Microsoft
7 4 (2.80%) Intel
8 3 (2.10%) BMC
8 3 (2.10%) Cisco
8 3 (2.10%) Commvault
8 3 (2.10%) F5
8 3 (2.10%) Fortinet
9 2 (1.40%) Databricks
9 2 (1.40%) Qualys
9 2 (1.40%) SolarWinds
10 1 (0.70%) AlienVault
10 1 (0.70%) CyberArk
10 1 (0.70%) Extreme Networks
10 1 (0.70%) Palo Alto