Linux Contracts in South Yorkshire

Linux
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 19 21
Rank change year-on-year +12 +2 +4
Contract jobs citing Linux 66 40 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 14.47% 7.53% 8.04%
As % of the Operating Systems category 47.48% 50.63% 36.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 30 33
10th Percentile £403 £495 £429
25th Percentile £416 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £525 £510
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +2.94% +20.00%
75th Percentile £530 £675 £650
90th Percentile £564 £700 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £525 £510
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.94% +7.37%
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 - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.50 - £23.54
% change year-on-year - - -9.48%

All Operating Systems
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 139 79 112
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 30.48% 14.88% 21.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 59 87
10th Percentile £199 £160 £130
25th Percentile £403 £246 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -14.00% +11.11% +28.57%
75th Percentile £521 £575 £515
90th Percentile £588 £678 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £415 £440 £375
% change year-on-year -5.68% +17.33% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 8
10th Percentile £18.15 £11.65 £11.61
25th Percentile £21.25 £12.63 £12.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £15.50 £17.43
Median % change year-on-year +45.16% -11.07% -18.93%
75th Percentile £23.75 £19.63 £20.29
90th Percentile - £21.35 £22.99
Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.35 £19.39 £17.50
% change year-on-year +10.15% +10.77% -

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in South Yorkshire

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Linux in South Yorkshire

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in South Yorkshire

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux in South Yorkshire

Linux
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
Sheffield +14 53 £485 -9.77% 8
Barnsley - 12 £415 -
Linux
Yorkshire

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 5 (7.58%) nginx
2 3 (4.55%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (4.55%) Jupyter
3 1 (1.52%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 18 (27.27%) GitHub
2 11 (16.67%) AWS
2 11 (16.67%) GCP
3 8 (12.12%) Azure
4 5 (7.58%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 3 (4.55%) CloudBees
6 2 (3.03%) Anthos
6 2 (3.03%) Datadog
7 1 (1.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.52%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.52%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (1.52%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.52%) PaaS
7 1 (1.52%) Serverless
7 1 (1.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 15 (22.73%) VLAN
2 6 (9.09%) SSL
3 3 (4.55%) Firewall
4 2 (3.03%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (3.03%) VPN
5 1 (1.52%) LAN
5 1 (1.52%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (16.67%) MongoDB
2 3 (4.55%) Apache Cassandra
2 3 (4.55%) ClickHouse
2 3 (4.55%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.52%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.52%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 20 (30.30%) Jenkins
2 4 (6.06%) GitLab
3 2 (3.03%) Git
4 1 (1.52%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.52%) JIRA
4 1 (1.52%) Postman
4 1 (1.52%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 27 (40.91%) Social Skills
2 22 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (10.61%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.52%) Banking
4 1 (1.52%) Finance
Job Titles
1 16 (24.24%) Storage Manager
2 9 (13.64%) Storage Engineer
3 7 (10.61%) Data Protection Engineer
4 6 (9.09%) Data Engineer
4 6 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
5 5 (7.58%) Lead
6 4 (6.06%) Database Specialist
6 4 (6.06%) DBA
6 4 (6.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (6.06%) MongoDB DBA
7 3 (4.55%) Data Storage Engineer
7 3 (4.55%) NetBackup Engineer
8 2 (3.03%) Backup Engineer
8 2 (3.03%) Build Engineer
8 2 (3.03%) Consultant
8 2 (3.03%) Linux Engineer
8 2 (3.03%) Linux Support
8 2 (3.03%) NetBackup Support
8 2 (3.03%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 2 (3.03%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (24.24%) YAML
2 9 (13.64%) Kafka
3 6 (9.09%) ActiveMQ
4 3 (4.55%) Apache Beam
4 3 (4.55%) Keycloak
5 2 (3.03%) Redfish
6 1 (1.52%) JSON
6 1 (1.52%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 22 (33.33%) Replication
2 18 (27.27%) Data Centre
3 2 (3.03%) Clustering
4 1 (1.52%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.52%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 27 (40.91%) Windows
2 18 (27.27%) zOS
3 10 (15.15%) Unix
4 3 (4.55%) CentOS
5 2 (3.03%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (34.85%) Agile
1 23 (34.85%) Change Management
2 18 (27.27%) Storage Management
3 17 (25.76%) Problem Management
4 15 (22.73%) CI/CD
4 15 (22.73%) DevOps
4 15 (22.73%) Service Delivery
5 14 (21.21%) Data Protection
5 14 (21.21%) Project Management
6 13 (19.70%) Cost Management
6 13 (19.70%) Software Testing
6 13 (19.70%) Stakeholder Management
7 9 (13.64%) Capacity Planning
7 9 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (12.12%) ITIL
8 8 (12.12%) Performance Tuning
8 8 (12.12%) Roadmaps
8 8 (12.12%) Task Automation
9 6 (9.09%) Disaster Recovery
9 6 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 29 (43.94%) Python
2 18 (27.27%) JCL
3 15 (22.73%) REXX
4 11 (16.67%) Bash
5 4 (6.06%) Go
6 3 (4.55%) Groovy
6 3 (4.55%) Java
6 3 (4.55%) JavaScript
6 3 (4.55%) Ruby
6 3 (4.55%) Scala
6 3 (4.55%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (6.06%) Security Cleared
2 3 (4.55%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 18 (27.27%) NFS
1 18 (27.27%) Time Sharing Option
2 6 (9.09%) Docker
3 4 (6.06%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (4.55%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (3.03%) Active Directory
5 2 (3.03%) VMware Workstation
6 1 (1.52%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 40 (60.61%) Ansible
2 18 (27.27%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 17 (25.76%) NetBackup
4 16 (24.24%) Puppet
5 8 (12.12%) Terraform
6 5 (7.58%) Grafana
7 3 (4.55%) Kubernetes
8 2 (3.03%) Istio
8 2 (3.03%) Kiali
8 2 (3.03%) Prometheus
9 1 (1.52%) Data Guard
9 1 (1.52%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (36.36%) IBM
2 18 (27.27%) Broadcom
2 18 (27.27%) Brocade
2 18 (27.27%) CA
2 18 (27.27%) Dell
3 16 (24.24%) Veritas
4 9 (13.64%) VMware
5 6 (9.09%) Oracle
5 6 (9.09%) ServiceNow
5 6 (9.09%) Solace
6 3 (4.55%) Splunk
7 2 (3.03%) Symantec
8 1 (1.52%) EMC
8 1 (1.52%) Microsoft
8 1 (1.52%) NetApp