Linux Contract Job Trends in Doncaster

Linux
South Yorkshire > Doncaster

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Doncaster requiring Linux skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 - 2
Rank change year-on-year - - +1
Contract jobs citing Linux 1 0 7
As % of all contract jobs in Doncaster 11.11% - 30.43%
As % of the Operating Systems category 100.00% - 63.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £300
Median % change year-on-year - - -27.71%
South Yorkshire median daily rate £525 £580 £600
% change year-on-year -9.48% -3.33% +17.07%

All Operating Systems
Doncaster

Linux falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring operating system skills in Doncaster.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1 5 11
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Doncaster 11.11% 21.74% 47.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 5 3
10th Percentile - £158 £196
25th Percentile - £160 £204
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £220 £238
Median % change year-on-year - -7.37% -17.39%
75th Percentile - £235 £278
90th Percentile - £394 £291
South Yorkshire median daily rate £478 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -7.18% -1.90% +5.00%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Doncaster

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Linux relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Doncaster.

Linux job vacancy trend in Doncaster

Linux
Daily Rate Trend in Doncaster

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Doncaster citing Linux.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Doncaster citing Linux

Linux
Hourly Rate Trend in Doncaster

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Doncaster citing Linux.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Doncaster citing Linux

Linux
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Doncaster by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) VXLAN
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) Private Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) CentOS
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Ceph
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) KVM
1 1 (100.00%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform