linkerd Contracts

linkerd
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for linkerd skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited linkerd 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 595 653 816
Rank change year-on-year +58 +163 -137
Contract jobs citing linkerd 3 66 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.007% 0.11% 0.037%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.059% 0.69% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 61 26
10th Percentile - £581 -
25th Percentile - £600 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -30.77% - +32.32%
75th Percentile - - £688
90th Percentile - £700 £694
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £600 £630
% change year-on-year -25.00% -4.76% -

All Systems Management Skills
UK

linkerd is in the Systems Management category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,089 9,618 14,243
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.75% 16.08% 16.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,637 6,947 10,288
10th Percentile £256 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £563 £565
Median % change year-on-year -8.44% -0.44% +13.00%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 125 211 185
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.54 £13.87
25th Percentile £17.75 £24.13 £15.75
Median hourly rate £30.00 £57.50 £22.28
Median % change year-on-year -47.83% +158.08% -41.37%
75th Percentile £53.75 £72.50 £47.96
90th Percentile £70.75 £82.50 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.50 £46.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -16.30% +130.00% -10.11%

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Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing linkerd as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for linkerd in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for linkerd in the UK

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Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing linkerd within the UK over the 6 months to 27 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
England +70 3 £450 -30.77%
UK excluding London +39 3 £450 -25.00%
North of England +23 2 - -
North West +6 2 - -
West Midlands - 1 £450 -
Midlands - 1 £450 -

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 2 (66.67%) nginx
1 2 (66.67%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (66.67%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (66.67%) GCP
2 2 (66.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) Azure AKS
3 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
1 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
1 2 (66.67%) GitLab
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) TeamCity
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) cloud-init
2 1 (33.33%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Clustering
1 2 (66.67%) PKI
2 1 (33.33%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) CentOS
2 2 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Cloud Security
2 2 (66.67%) Configuration Management
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Deployment
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (66.67%) Cost Reduction
2 2 (66.67%) Load Balancing
2 2 (66.67%) Strategic Thinking
2 2 (66.67%) Unit Testing
3 1 (33.33%) A/B Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Canary Deployment
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Bash
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) Go
2 2 (66.67%) Ruby
3 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
2 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Istio
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (66.67%) Ansible
2 2 (66.67%) Consul
2 2 (66.67%) Docker Swarm
2 2 (66.67%) Graphite
2 2 (66.67%) HAProxy
2 2 (66.67%) Packer
2 2 (66.67%) Podman
2 2 (66.67%) Prometheus
2 2 (66.67%) Puppet
2 2 (66.67%) ZABBIX
3 1 (33.33%) Argo
3 1 (33.33%) SELinux
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) PagerDuty
1 2 (66.67%) Splunk
1 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) Red Hat