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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 40 30 39
Rank change year-on-year -10 +9 -9
Contract jobs citing Linux 665 1,544 2,549
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 4.54% 6.41% 5.77%
As % of the Operating Systems category 43.24% 47.32% 47.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 433 1,057 1,761
10th Percentile £326 £413 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £560 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +1.82% +10.00%
75th Percentile £624 £675 £650
90th Percentile £709 £768 £713
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 57 43
10th Percentile £42.97 £47.50 £36.70
25th Percentile £53.79 £51.25 £47.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% +4.55% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70.63 £73.75 £65.54
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £75.30
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year - +13.04% +15.00%

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 1,538 3,263 5,332
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.51% 13.54% 12.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,076 2,298 3,802
10th Percentile £225 £249 £300
25th Percentile £360 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £525 £510
Median % change year-on-year -7.48% +2.94% +9.68%
75th Percentile £591 £638 £613
90th Percentile £681 £730 £688
UK median daily rate £470 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -6.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 106 130
10th Percentile £12.75 £19.00 £14.95
25th Percentile £14.14 £25.71 £20.00
Median hourly rate £16.00 £52.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -69.52% +16.67% +25.00%
75th Percentile £40.70 £67.50 £63.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £72.75
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 1 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 1 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 42 (6.32%) Confluence
2 31 (4.66%) nginx
3 29 (4.36%) Microsoft Exchange
4 17 (2.56%) OpenStack
5 12 (1.80%) Apache
6 11 (1.65%) NetWeaver
7 9 (1.35%) JBoss
8 8 (1.20%) IIS
9 6 (0.90%) Apache Solr
10 5 (0.75%) Oracle Self-Service HR
11 4 (0.60%) Luigi
11 4 (0.60%) Tomcat
11 4 (0.60%) WebLogic
12 3 (0.45%) Apache Spark
12 3 (0.45%) Cloud Foundry
12 3 (0.45%) SharePoint
13 2 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 2 (0.30%) Exchange Server 2010
13 2 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 2 (0.30%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 7 (1.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 11 (1.65%) 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
1 174 (26.17%) AWS
2 159 (23.91%) Azure
3 44 (6.62%) GitHub
4 32 (4.81%) GCP
4 32 (4.81%) OpenShift
4 32 (4.81%) PaaS
5 31 (4.66%) AWS CloudFormation
5 31 (4.66%) Serverless
6 29 (4.36%) Entra ID
6 29 (4.36%) Microsoft 365
7 27 (4.06%) Amazon EC2
8 26 (3.91%) AWS Lambda
8 26 (3.91%) IaaS
9 24 (3.61%) Azure Monitor
9 24 (3.61%) Azure Storage
10 23 (3.46%) Amazon S3
11 19 (2.86%) SaaS
12 14 (2.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 13 (1.95%) Amazon ECS
13 13 (1.95%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 78 (11.73%) Firewall
2 53 (7.97%) DNS
3 45 (6.77%) TCP/IP
4 35 (5.26%) DHCP
5 31 (4.66%) SAN
6 18 (2.71%) SSL
7 16 (2.41%) LAN
8 14 (2.11%) Network Security
9 13 (1.95%) WAN
10 11 (1.65%) VLAN
11 10 (1.50%) VPN
12 9 (1.35%) HTTP
13 8 (1.20%) Intrusion Detection
13 8 (1.20%) SSH
14 7 (1.05%) 4G
14 7 (1.05%) Fibre Channel
14 7 (1.05%) FTP
14 7 (1.05%) Kerberos
14 7 (1.05%) Wireshark
15 6 (0.90%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (5.26%) SQL Server
2 33 (4.96%) MySQL
3 30 (4.51%) PostgreSQL
4 29 (4.36%) MongoDB
5 24 (3.61%) Oracle Database
6 23 (3.46%) Relational Database
7 21 (3.16%) Amazon RDS
8 13 (1.95%) Elasticsearch
8 13 (1.95%) NoSQL
8 13 (1.95%) SAP HANA
9 11 (1.65%) Hadoop
9 11 (1.65%) RDBMS
9 11 (1.65%) SAP BW
10 8 (1.20%) Big Data
10 8 (1.20%) DB2
10 8 (1.20%) MariaDB
11 6 (0.90%) Oracle ODI
11 6 (0.90%) Oracle Reports
11 6 (0.90%) PowerCenter
12 5 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 72 (10.83%) Jenkins
2 70 (10.53%) Git
3 55 (8.27%) JIRA
4 40 (6.02%) GitLab
5 23 (3.46%) Bitbucket
6 20 (3.01%) Artifactory
7 14 (2.11%) TeamCity
8 10 (1.50%) Sonatype Nexus
9 8 (1.20%) Maven
10 7 (1.05%) Selenium
11 6 (0.90%) Cypress.io
12 5 (0.75%) SonarQube
12 5 (0.75%) Visual Studio
13 4 (0.60%) Burp Suite
13 4 (0.60%) Cucumber
13 4 (0.60%) Gradle
13 4 (0.60%) IDA Disassembler
13 4 (0.60%) Mockito
13 4 (0.60%) Postman
13 4 (0.60%) Subversion
General
1 189 (28.42%) Social Skills
2 116 (17.44%) Finance
3 67 (10.08%) Public Sector
4 53 (7.97%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (4.51%) Banking
6 23 (3.46%) Telecoms
7 18 (2.71%) Manufacturing
8 14 (2.11%) Presentation Skills
9 13 (1.95%) Marketing
10 12 (1.80%) Front Office
11 11 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
12 10 (1.50%) Electronics
13 8 (1.20%) Investment Banking
14 6 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
15 5 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 5 (0.75%) Legal
15 5 (0.75%) Retail
16 4 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
17 3 (0.45%) Military
17 3 (0.45%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 90 (13.53%) Developer
2 76 (11.43%) Senior
3 73 (10.98%) DevOps Engineer
4 49 (7.37%) Architect
5 46 (6.92%) Linux Engineer
6 37 (5.56%) Consultant
7 33 (4.96%) Python Engineer
8 29 (4.36%) Administrator
8 29 (4.36%) AWS Engineer
9 28 (4.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 24 (3.61%) Support Engineer
11 23 (3.46%) DBA
12 22 (3.31%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 21 (3.16%) Active Directory Support
13 21 (3.16%) AWS DevOps
14 20 (3.01%) Applications Engineer
14 20 (3.01%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 20 (3.01%) Azure Engineer
15 19 (2.86%) Platform Engineer
15 19 (2.86%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (6.17%) Kafka
2 32 (4.81%) YAML
3 31 (4.66%) Middleware
4 29 (4.36%) HTML
5 27 (4.06%) REST
6 26 (3.91%) CSS
6 26 (3.91%) Web Services
7 22 (3.31%) RabbitMQ
8 21 (3.16%) ARM Templates
8 21 (3.16%) Elastic Stack
9 20 (3.01%) RESTful
10 19 (2.86%) .NET
10 19 (2.86%) Laravel
10 19 (2.86%) LDAP
11 16 (2.41%) Spring
12 15 (2.26%) JSON
12 15 (2.26%) Sass
13 12 (1.80%) SAP Basis
13 12 (1.80%) WebSockets
14 11 (1.65%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 41 (6.17%) Data Centre
2 37 (5.56%) PKI
3 30 (4.51%) Replication
4 28 (4.21%) Linux Command Line
4 28 (4.21%) Self-Motivation
5 27 (4.06%) Distributed Systems
6 25 (3.76%) Management Information System
7 23 (3.46%) Algorithms
8 22 (3.31%) Public Cloud
9 17 (2.56%) Cloud Native
10 16 (2.41%) Data Structures
10 16 (2.41%) Product Ownership
11 13 (1.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 13 (1.95%) Onboarding
12 11 (1.65%) Clustering
13 8 (1.20%) Cyber Threat
14 7 (1.05%) Derivative
15 6 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
15 6 (0.90%) Equities
15 6 (0.90%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 233 (35.04%) Windows
2 132 (19.85%) Unix
3 75 (11.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 60 (9.02%) Windows Server
5 44 (6.62%) Ubuntu
6 24 (3.61%) Windows Server 2016
7 22 (3.31%) Windows Server 2019
8 21 (3.16%) Solaris
9 20 (3.01%) CentOS
10 19 (2.86%) zOS
11 15 (2.26%) AIX
12 14 (2.11%) VMS
13 13 (1.95%) Debian
13 13 (1.95%) Oracle Linux
14 11 (1.65%) Apple iOS
15 10 (1.50%) Android
16 7 (1.05%) Rocky
17 6 (0.90%) Embedded Linux
18 5 (0.75%) Mac OS
19 4 (0.60%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 183 (27.52%) DevOps
2 159 (23.91%) Agile
3 139 (20.90%) CI/CD
4 99 (14.89%) Infrastructure as Code
4 99 (14.89%) Problem-Solving
5 61 (9.17%) ITIL
6 59 (8.87%) Migration
7 56 (8.42%) Microservices
8 55 (8.27%) Test Automation
9 53 (7.97%) Analytics
10 50 (7.52%) Software Engineering
11 46 (6.92%) Disaster Recovery
12 45 (6.77%) Containerisation
13 44 (6.62%) Continuous Integration
14 42 (6.32%) Configuration Management
14 42 (6.32%) Performance Tuning
15 41 (6.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 39 (5.86%) Computer Science
17 38 (5.71%) OO
18 36 (5.41%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 194 (29.17%) Python
2 78 (11.73%) Bash
3 76 (11.43%) Java
4 71 (10.68%) PowerShell
5 64 (9.62%) SQL
6 51 (7.67%) JavaScript
7 46 (6.92%) Shell Script
8 45 (6.77%) C#
9 41 (6.17%) C++
10 38 (5.71%) Perl
11 27 (4.06%) PHP
12 26 (3.91%) Go
13 25 (3.76%) Bicep
14 22 (3.31%) VB
15 20 (3.01%) C
15 20 (3.01%) VBScript
16 14 (2.11%) JCL
17 12 (1.80%) REXX
18 8 (1.20%) TypeScript
19 7 (1.05%) Scala
Qualifications
1 179 (26.92%) Security Cleared
2 126 (18.95%) SC Cleared
3 79 (11.88%) Degree
4 71 (10.68%) DV Cleared
5 20 (3.01%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (3.01%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 9 (1.35%) AWS Certification
7 8 (1.20%) SAP Certification
8 7 (1.05%) ISTQB
8 7 (1.05%) Master's Degree
9 6 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.60%) CEH
11 4 (0.60%) CISSP
11 4 (0.60%) GIAC
11 4 (0.60%) Numerate Degree
11 4 (0.60%) OSCP
12 3 (0.45%) CREST Certified
12 3 (0.45%) GPEN
12 3 (0.45%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (4.81%) QA
2 17 (2.56%) GDPR
3 14 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (1.80%) NIST
5 10 (1.50%) SLA
6 9 (1.35%) Accessibility
7 5 (0.75%) HIPAA
7 5 (0.75%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.75%) 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 98 (14.74%) Active Directory
2 91 (13.68%) Docker
3 54 (8.12%) VMware Infrastructure
4 45 (6.77%) Virtual Machines
5 22 (3.31%) Virtual Desktop
6 21 (3.16%) NFS
7 15 (2.26%) VMware NSX
8 14 (2.11%) Time Sharing Option
9 13 (1.95%) Firmware
9 13 (1.95%) VMware ESXi
10 12 (1.80%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 12 (1.80%) vSphere
11 8 (1.20%) Oracle RAC
12 7 (1.05%) HDFS
12 7 (1.05%) Hyper-V
13 5 (0.75%) KVM
13 5 (0.75%) Snort
14 4 (0.60%) Virtual Servers
15 3 (0.45%) FreeRADIUS
15 3 (0.45%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 151 (22.71%) Kubernetes
2 135 (20.30%) Ansible
3 95 (14.29%) Terraform
4 46 (6.92%) Grafana
5 36 (5.41%) Prometheus
5 36 (5.41%) Puppet
6 29 (4.36%) SCCM
7 23 (3.46%) SCOM
7 23 (3.46%) WSUS
8 21 (3.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 21 (3.16%) Progress Chef
9 20 (3.01%) Microsoft Intune
10 18 (2.71%) Tivoli Storage Manager
11 17 (2.56%) Consul
12 15 (2.26%) Kibana
13 12 (1.80%) Data Guard
14 9 (1.35%) Dell DRAC
14 9 (1.35%) EMC NetWorker
14 9 (1.35%) NetBackup
15 7 (1.05%) Argo
Vendors
1 127 (19.10%) Microsoft
2 82 (12.33%) VMware
3 77 (11.58%) Red Hat
4 75 (11.28%) Oracle
5 40 (6.02%) Dell
6 33 (4.96%) IBM
6 33 (4.96%) Splunk
7 29 (4.36%) SAP
8 22 (3.31%) Cisco
9 19 (2.86%) Brocade
9 19 (2.86%) Google
9 19 (2.86%) Qualys
10 17 (2.56%) Atlassian
10 17 (2.56%) CyberArk
10 17 (2.56%) HP
10 17 (2.56%) SaltStack
11 15 (2.26%) ServiceNow
12 14 (2.11%) Broadcom
12 14 (2.11%) CA
13 12 (1.80%) Isilon