linkerd Contract Job Trends in the East of England

linkerd
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring linkerd skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing linkerd 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.046% - -
As % of the Systems Management category 0.53% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £345 - -
England median daily rate £648 £625 £450
% change year-on-year +3.60% +38.89% -29.41%

All Systems Management Skills
East of England

linkerd falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 189 162 110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 8.69% 12.84% 6.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 102 79
10th Percentile £163 £226 £211
25th Percentile £404 £428 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £500 £531
Median % change year-on-year -4.75% -5.75% +6.10%
75th Percentile £552 £575 £575
90th Percentile £600 £646 £605
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.97% -2.88% -7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 8 4
10th Percentile £17.73 £53.74 £20.90
25th Percentile £19.74 £61.06 £26.75
Median hourly rate £20.09 £66.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -69.79% +90.00% +40.00%
75th Percentile £31.00 £67.00 £42.00
90th Percentile £55.15 - £45.60
England median hourly rate £65.23 £55.00 £35.08
% change year-on-year +18.59% +56.77% -33.18%

linkerd
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing linkerd within the East of England region over the 6 months to 5 August 2026. 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
Cambridgeshire - 1 £345 -
linkerd
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EventBridge
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Kinesis
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Control Tower
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Fargate
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) CloudFront
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) DynamoDB
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Architect
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Solution Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CDK
1 1 (100.00%) GraphQL
1 1 (100.00%) gRPC
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Design
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) CQRS
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Domain-Driven Design
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) FinOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Secrets Management
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Technology Roadmap
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Trade-off Analysis
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Istio
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform