Linux Contracts in Leeds

Linux
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 29 40 49
Rank change year-on-year +11 +9 -19
Contract jobs citing Linux 38 55 67
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 4.82% 4.15% 4.25%
As % of the Operating Systems category 32.20% 41.67% 34.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 44 50
10th Percentile £424 £416 £424
25th Percentile £456 £472 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £536 £530
Median % change year-on-year -6.76% +1.18% +0.95%
75th Percentile £619 £641 £600
90th Percentile £639 £726 £689
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £549 £530
% change year-on-year -8.88% +3.54% +0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
10th Percentile - £21.60 £18.62
25th Percentile - £22.87 £19.56
Median hourly rate - £28.28 £23.54
Median % change year-on-year - +20.15% +72.80%
75th Percentile - £36.24 £29.94
90th Percentile - £39.03 £32.32
West Yorkshire median hourly rate - £28.28 £23.54
% change year-on-year - +20.15% +72.80%

All Operating Systems
Leeds

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 Leeds with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 118 132 193
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 14.96% 9.97% 12.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 94 150
10th Percentile £258 £187 £162
25th Percentile £313 £282 £230
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +17.65% -5.56%
75th Percentile £569 £597 £548
90th Percentile £629 £684 £650
West Yorkshire median daily rate £400 £465 £425
% change year-on-year -13.98% +9.41% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 4
10th Percentile - £22.44 £16.00
25th Percentile £13.87 £24.98 £17.13
Median hourly rate £16.07 £35.06 £18.25
Median % change year-on-year -54.16% +92.08% +35.19%
75th Percentile £19.19 £60.45 £22.92
90th Percentile £20.86 £72.18 £29.52
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £15.17 £19.61 £17.57
% change year-on-year -22.64% +11.61% +21.17%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Leeds

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Daily rate trend for Linux in Leeds

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in Leeds over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in Leeds

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux in Leeds

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 1 (2.63%) Apache
1 1 (2.63%) Apache Spark
1 1 (2.63%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 12 (31.58%) AWS
2 6 (15.79%) Azure
3 5 (13.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (10.53%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (10.53%) Amazon ELB
4 4 (10.53%) Amazon S3
4 4 (10.53%) AWS KMS
4 4 (10.53%) GitHub
4 4 (10.53%) GitHub Actions
4 4 (10.53%) Route 53
4 4 (10.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (2.63%) Akamai
6 1 (2.63%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (2.63%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.63%) Azure AKS
6 1 (2.63%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (13.16%) LAN
1 5 (13.16%) WAN
2 4 (10.53%) SAN
3 3 (7.89%) Firewall
3 3 (7.89%) Wireless
4 2 (5.26%) VPN
5 1 (2.63%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (18.42%) Ingres
2 5 (13.16%) Big Data
2 5 (13.16%) SQL Server
3 4 (10.53%) MySQL
3 4 (10.53%) Relational Database
4 3 (7.89%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.63%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (23.68%) GitLab
1 9 (23.68%) Jenkins
2 4 (10.53%) AppScan
2 4 (10.53%) Burp Suite
2 4 (10.53%) SonarQube
3 2 (5.26%) Mockito
4 1 (2.63%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.63%) Maven
General
1 5 (13.16%) Finance
1 5 (13.16%) Social Skills
2 2 (5.26%) Legal
2 2 (5.26%) Public Sector
2 2 (5.26%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (18.42%) DBA
2 6 (15.79%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (13.16%) Ingres DBA
3 5 (13.16%) Linux Engineer
3 5 (13.16%) Site Engineer
3 5 (13.16%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 4 (10.53%) Data Centre Engineer
4 4 (10.53%) Data Migration Engineer
4 4 (10.53%) Migration Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Architect
5 3 (7.89%) Penetration Tester
5 3 (7.89%) Tester
6 2 (5.26%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Administrator
6 2 (5.26%) Developer
6 2 (5.26%) Lead
6 2 (5.26%) Linux Specialist
6 2 (5.26%) Software Developer
7 1 (2.63%) Lead DevOps
7 1 (2.63%) Ubuntu Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.53%) Elastic Stack
1 4 (10.53%) Kafka
2 2 (5.26%) ActiveMQ
2 2 (5.26%) JAX-RS
2 2 (5.26%) XML
2 2 (5.26%) XSLT
3 1 (2.63%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (2.63%) J2EE
3 1 (2.63%) OAuth
3 1 (2.63%) Spring
3 1 (2.63%) Spring Boot
3 1 (2.63%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.16%) Public Cloud
2 4 (10.53%) Data Centre
3 3 (7.89%) Mobile App
3 3 (7.89%) Operational Technology
4 2 (5.26%) EPoS
5 1 (2.63%) Credit Risk
5 1 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (31.58%) Windows
2 7 (18.42%) Unix
3 6 (15.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (13.16%) CentOS
4 5 (13.16%) Windows Server
5 4 (10.53%) VMS
6 2 (5.26%) Debian
6 2 (5.26%) Mac OS X
6 2 (5.26%) Ubuntu
6 2 (5.26%) zOS
7 1 (2.63%) Fedora
7 1 (2.63%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (34.21%) DevOps
2 7 (18.42%) Knowledge Transfer
2 7 (18.42%) Migration
2 7 (18.42%) Root Cause Analysis
3 6 (15.79%) CI/CD
3 6 (15.79%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (13.16%) Configuration Management
4 5 (13.16%) Containerisation
4 5 (13.16%) Continuous Integration
4 5 (13.16%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 4 (10.53%) Agile
5 4 (10.53%) Change Control
5 4 (10.53%) OWASP
5 4 (10.53%) Project Management
6 3 (7.89%) Application Security
6 3 (7.89%) Computer Science
6 3 (7.89%) Cybersecurity
6 3 (7.89%) Ethical Hacking
6 3 (7.89%) Offensive Security
6 3 (7.89%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 14 (36.84%) Python
2 7 (18.42%) Bash
3 5 (13.16%) Java
3 5 (13.16%) PowerShell
4 3 (7.89%) C++
4 3 (7.89%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.63%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (28.95%) SC Cleared
1 11 (28.95%) Security Cleared
2 3 (7.89%) CEH
2 3 (7.89%) CREST Certified
2 3 (7.89%) Degree
2 3 (7.89%) GIAC
2 3 (7.89%) GPEN
2 3 (7.89%) OSCP
3 1 (2.63%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.63%) CCNA
3 1 (2.63%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.53%) QA
2 3 (7.89%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (15.79%) Docker
2 5 (13.16%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (31.58%) Terraform
2 11 (28.95%) Kubernetes
3 9 (23.68%) Puppet
4 5 (13.16%) Ansible
4 5 (13.16%) Graylog
4 5 (13.16%) Progress Chef
4 5 (13.16%) Prometheus
5 4 (10.53%) Grafana
5 4 (10.53%) HP Fortify
5 4 (10.53%) Nessus
5 4 (10.53%) Packer
5 4 (10.53%) Rancher
5 4 (10.53%) WebInspect
6 1 (2.63%) HAProxy
6 1 (2.63%) Proxmox
6 1 (2.63%) Rsyslog
6 1 (2.63%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (2.63%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 4 (10.53%) Checkmarx
1 4 (10.53%) Splunk
1 4 (10.53%) Veracode
2 2 (5.26%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.26%) Oracle
3 1 (2.63%) Cisco
3 1 (2.63%) ForgeRock
3 1 (2.63%) VMware
3 1 (2.63%) Zscaler