Linux Contracts in West Yorkshire

Linux
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West 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 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 39 51 51
Rank change year-on-year +12 0 -21
Contract jobs citing Linux 39 57 73
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 3.90% 3.49% 3.82%
As % of the Operating Systems category 27.27% 33.33% 25.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 45 57
10th Percentile £425 £435 £408
25th Percentile £456 £475 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +3.77% +0.95%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £650 £745 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £525 £510
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.94% +7.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £18.62
25th Percentile - - £19.56
Median hourly rate - - £23.54
75th Percentile - - £29.94
90th Percentile - - £32.32
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.50 - £23.54
% change year-on-year - - -9.48%

All Operating Systems
West 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 West Yorkshire with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 143 171 287
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 14.31% 10.47% 15.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 126 218
10th Percentile £178 £190 £159
25th Percentile £300 £269 £201
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £470 £425
Median % change year-on-year -14.89% +10.59% -3.41%
75th Percentile £522 £575 £500
90th Percentile £619 £660 £604
Yorkshire median daily rate £415 £440 £375
% change year-on-year -5.68% +17.33% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 16
10th Percentile - - £13.30
25th Percentile £13.87 £13.16 £15.19
Median hourly rate £14.52 £15.44 £17.57
Median % change year-on-year -5.96% -12.12% +24.17%
75th Percentile £15.95 £33.29 £18.70
90th Percentile £17.34 £61.32 £19.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.00 £19.39 £17.50
% change year-on-year +13.49% +10.77% -

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in West Yorkshire

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Linux in West Yorkshire

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in West Yorkshire

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux in West Yorkshire

Linux
Contract Job Locations in West 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 West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 30 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
Leeds +18 38 £500 -8.68% 22
Linux
Yorkshire

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West 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 1 (2.56%) Apache
1 1 (2.56%) Apache Spark
1 1 (2.56%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 12 (30.77%) AWS
2 6 (15.38%) Azure
3 5 (12.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (10.26%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (10.26%) Amazon ELB
4 4 (10.26%) Amazon S3
4 4 (10.26%) AWS KMS
4 4 (10.26%) GitHub
4 4 (10.26%) GitHub Actions
4 4 (10.26%) Route 53
4 4 (10.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (5.13%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (5.13%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (2.56%) Akamai
6 1 (2.56%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (2.56%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.56%) Azure AKS
6 1 (2.56%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (12.82%) LAN
1 5 (12.82%) WAN
2 4 (10.26%) SAN
2 4 (10.26%) Wireless
3 3 (7.69%) Firewall
4 2 (5.13%) VPN
5 1 (2.56%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (17.95%) Ingres
2 5 (12.82%) Big Data
2 5 (12.82%) SQL Server
3 4 (10.26%) MySQL
3 4 (10.26%) Relational Database
4 3 (7.69%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.56%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (23.08%) GitLab
1 9 (23.08%) Jenkins
2 4 (10.26%) AppScan
2 4 (10.26%) Burp Suite
2 4 (10.26%) SonarQube
3 2 (5.13%) Mockito
4 1 (2.56%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.56%) Maven
General
1 6 (15.38%) Social Skills
2 5 (12.82%) Finance
3 3 (7.69%) Legal
4 2 (5.13%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.13%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (17.95%) DBA
2 6 (15.38%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (12.82%) Ingres DBA
3 5 (12.82%) Linux Engineer
3 5 (12.82%) Site Engineer
3 5 (12.82%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 4 (10.26%) Data Centre Engineer
4 4 (10.26%) Data Migration Engineer
4 4 (10.26%) Migration Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) Architect
5 3 (7.69%) Penetration Tester
5 3 (7.69%) Tester
6 2 (5.13%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Administrator
6 2 (5.13%) Developer
6 2 (5.13%) Lead
6 2 (5.13%) Linux Specialist
6 2 (5.13%) Software Developer
7 1 (2.56%) Ubuntu Specialist
7 1 (2.56%) VMware Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.26%) Elastic Stack
1 4 (10.26%) Kafka
2 2 (5.13%) ActiveMQ
2 2 (5.13%) JAX-RS
2 2 (5.13%) XML
2 2 (5.13%) XSLT
3 1 (2.56%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (2.56%) J2EE
3 1 (2.56%) OAuth
3 1 (2.56%) Spring
3 1 (2.56%) Spring Boot
3 1 (2.56%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.82%) Public Cloud
2 4 (10.26%) Data Centre
2 4 (10.26%) Mobile App
2 4 (10.26%) Operational Technology
3 2 (5.13%) EPoS
4 1 (2.56%) Credit Risk
4 1 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 13 (33.33%) Windows
2 7 (17.95%) Unix
3 6 (15.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (12.82%) CentOS
4 5 (12.82%) Windows Server
5 4 (10.26%) VMS
6 2 (5.13%) Debian
6 2 (5.13%) Mac OS X
6 2 (5.13%) Ubuntu
6 2 (5.13%) zOS
7 1 (2.56%) Fedora
7 1 (2.56%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (33.33%) DevOps
2 7 (17.95%) Knowledge Transfer
2 7 (17.95%) Migration
2 7 (17.95%) Root Cause Analysis
3 6 (15.38%) CI/CD
3 6 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (12.82%) Configuration Management
4 5 (12.82%) Containerisation
4 5 (12.82%) Continuous Integration
4 5 (12.82%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 4 (10.26%) Agile
5 4 (10.26%) Application Security
5 4 (10.26%) Change Control
5 4 (10.26%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (10.26%) Ethical Hacking
5 4 (10.26%) Offensive Security
5 4 (10.26%) OWASP
5 4 (10.26%) Penetration Testing
5 4 (10.26%) Project Management
5 4 (10.26%) Red Team
Programming Languages
1 15 (38.46%) Python
2 7 (17.95%) Bash
3 5 (12.82%) Java
3 5 (12.82%) PowerShell
4 4 (10.26%) C++
4 4 (10.26%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (30.77%) SC Cleared
1 12 (30.77%) Security Cleared
2 4 (10.26%) CEH
2 4 (10.26%) CREST Certified
2 4 (10.26%) GIAC
2 4 (10.26%) GPEN
2 4 (10.26%) OSCP
3 3 (7.69%) Degree
4 1 (2.56%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.56%) CCNA
4 1 (2.56%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.26%) NIST
1 4 (10.26%) QA
System Software
1 6 (15.38%) Active Directory
1 6 (15.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (30.77%) Terraform
2 11 (28.21%) Kubernetes
3 9 (23.08%) Puppet
4 5 (12.82%) Ansible
4 5 (12.82%) Graylog
4 5 (12.82%) Progress Chef
4 5 (12.82%) Prometheus
5 4 (10.26%) Grafana
5 4 (10.26%) HP Fortify
5 4 (10.26%) Nessus
5 4 (10.26%) Packer
5 4 (10.26%) Rancher
5 4 (10.26%) WebInspect
6 1 (2.56%) HAProxy
6 1 (2.56%) Proxmox
6 1 (2.56%) Rsyslog
6 1 (2.56%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (2.56%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 4 (10.26%) Checkmarx
1 4 (10.26%) Splunk
1 4 (10.26%) Veracode
2 2 (5.13%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.13%) Oracle
3 1 (2.56%) Cisco
3 1 (2.56%) ForgeRock
3 1 (2.56%) VMware
3 1 (2.56%) Zscaler