Linux Contracts in Sheffield

Linux
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 10 19 18
Rank change year-on-year +9 -1 +1
Contract jobs citing Linux 52 37 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 13.72% 8.43% 9.59%
As % of the Operating Systems category 49.52% 62.71% 45.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 28 33
10th Percentile £411 £485 £325
25th Percentile £425 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £569 £510
Median % change year-on-year -15.87% +11.52% +27.50%
75th Percentile £538 £678 £650
90th Percentile £564 £700 £700
South Yorkshire median daily rate £435 £538 £510
% change year-on-year -19.07% +5.39% +27.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £21.25 - -
Median hourly rate £22.50 - -
75th Percentile £23.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.50 - -

All Operating Systems
Sheffield

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 Sheffield with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 105 59 82
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 27.70% 13.44% 21.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 41 67
10th Percentile £237 £450 £136
25th Percentile £413 £463 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -14.00% +5.26% +18.75%
75th Percentile £536 £675 £575
90th Percentile £588 £700 £688
South Yorkshire median daily rate £430 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -14.00% +11.11% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 3
10th Percentile - £11.65 £13.10
25th Percentile £21.25 £12.63 £14.75
Median hourly rate £22.50 £15.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +45.16% -11.43% -28.98%
75th Percentile £23.75 £19.63 £18.50
90th Percentile - £21.35 £19.10
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.50 £15.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year +45.16% -11.43% -18.60%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Sheffield

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Daily rate trend for Linux in Sheffield

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Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in Sheffield over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in Sheffield

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux in Sheffield

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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 4 (7.69%) nginx
2 3 (5.77%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (5.77%) Jupyter
3 1 (1.92%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 11 (21.15%) GCP
2 10 (19.23%) AWS
3 8 (15.38%) Azure
3 8 (15.38%) GitHub
4 4 (7.69%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 3 (5.77%) CloudBees
6 1 (1.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (1.92%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.92%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (1.92%) Anthos
6 1 (1.92%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.92%) Datadog
6 1 (1.92%) PaaS
6 1 (1.92%) Serverless
6 1 (1.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 15 (28.85%) VLAN
2 6 (11.54%) SSL
3 3 (5.77%) Firewall
4 2 (3.85%) VPN
5 1 (1.92%) LAN
5 1 (1.92%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (1.92%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (21.15%) MongoDB
2 3 (5.77%) Apache Cassandra
2 3 (5.77%) ClickHouse
2 3 (5.77%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.92%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.92%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 11 (21.15%) Jenkins
2 3 (5.77%) GitLab
3 2 (3.85%) Git
4 1 (1.92%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.92%) JIRA
4 1 (1.92%) Postman
4 1 (1.92%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 22 (42.31%) Analytical Skills
2 19 (36.54%) Social Skills
3 7 (13.46%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.92%) Banking
4 1 (1.92%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (17.31%) Storage Engineer
2 7 (13.46%) Data Protection Engineer
3 6 (11.54%) Data Engineer
4 5 (9.62%) Storage Manager
5 4 (7.69%) Database Specialist
5 4 (7.69%) DBA
5 4 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (7.69%) Lead
5 4 (7.69%) MongoDB DBA
6 3 (5.77%) Data Storage Engineer
6 3 (5.77%) NetBackup Engineer
7 2 (3.85%) Backup Engineer
7 2 (3.85%) Build Engineer
7 2 (3.85%) Consultant
7 2 (3.85%) Linux Engineer
7 2 (3.85%) Linux Support Engineer
7 2 (3.85%) NetBackup Support
7 2 (3.85%) Windows Engineer
7 2 (3.85%) Windows Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (17.31%) Kafka
2 7 (13.46%) YAML
3 6 (11.54%) ActiveMQ
4 3 (5.77%) Apache Beam
4 3 (5.77%) Keycloak
5 2 (3.85%) Redfish
6 1 (1.92%) JSON
6 1 (1.92%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 22 (42.31%) Replication
2 10 (19.23%) Data Centre
3 2 (3.85%) Clustering
4 1 (1.92%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.92%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 27 (51.92%) Windows
2 9 (17.31%) Unix
3 6 (11.54%) zOS
4 3 (5.77%) CentOS
5 2 (3.85%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (44.23%) Change Management
2 15 (28.85%) Service Delivery
3 14 (26.92%) CI/CD
3 14 (26.92%) Data Protection
4 13 (25.00%) DevOps
5 11 (21.15%) Agile
6 9 (17.31%) Capacity Planning
6 9 (17.31%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (15.38%) ITIL
7 8 (15.38%) Performance Tuning
7 8 (15.38%) Roadmaps
8 7 (13.46%) Task Automation
9 6 (11.54%) Disaster Recovery
9 6 (11.54%) ITSM
9 6 (11.54%) Performance Metrics
9 6 (11.54%) Problem Management
9 6 (11.54%) Storage Management
10 5 (9.62%) Infrastructure as Code
11 4 (7.69%) Containerisation
11 4 (7.69%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 20 (38.46%) Python
2 10 (19.23%) Bash
3 6 (11.54%) JCL
3 6 (11.54%) REXX
4 4 (7.69%) Go
5 3 (5.77%) Groovy
5 3 (5.77%) Java
5 3 (5.77%) JavaScript
5 3 (5.77%) Ruby
5 3 (5.77%) Scala
6 2 (3.85%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (5.77%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.85%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 6 (11.54%) NFS
1 6 (11.54%) Time Sharing Option
2 5 (9.62%) Docker
3 3 (5.77%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 3 (5.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (3.85%) Active Directory
4 2 (3.85%) VMware Workstation
5 1 (1.92%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 31 (59.62%) Ansible
2 17 (32.69%) NetBackup
3 16 (30.77%) Puppet
4 6 (11.54%) Terraform
4 6 (11.54%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 5 (9.62%) Grafana
6 2 (3.85%) Kubernetes
7 1 (1.92%) Data Guard
7 1 (1.92%) Istio
7 1 (1.92%) Kiali
7 1 (1.92%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 16 (30.77%) Veritas
2 12 (23.08%) IBM
3 8 (15.38%) VMware
4 6 (11.54%) Broadcom
4 6 (11.54%) Brocade
4 6 (11.54%) CA
4 6 (11.54%) Dell
4 6 (11.54%) Oracle
4 6 (11.54%) ServiceNow
4 6 (11.54%) Solace
5 2 (3.85%) Splunk
5 2 (3.85%) Symantec
6 1 (1.92%) EMC
6 1 (1.92%) Microsoft
6 1 (1.92%) NetApp