Linux Engineer Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Linux Engineer
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The median Linux Engineer daily rate in Leeds is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 55 61
Rank change year-on-year -18 +6 +26
Contract jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 8 4 5
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.85% 0.86% 0.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.90% 0.88% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 5
10th Percentile £510 - -
25th Percentile £525 £525 £606
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £613
Median % change year-on-year - -10.20% +11.87%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £619
90th Percentile £630 - £660
West Yorkshire median daily rate £550 £550 £613
% change year-on-year - -10.20% +11.87%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Leeds

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Leeds. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Leeds with a recognized job title 889 456 731
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.37% 97.64% 92.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 545 304 459
10th Percentile £331 £263 £313
25th Percentile £419 £375 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -7.11%
75th Percentile £588 £538 £588
90th Percentile £675 £600 £650
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 3 17
10th Percentile - £31.53 £11.49
25th Percentile £14.25 £31.62 £12.25
Median hourly rate £19.17 £33.11 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year -42.10% +145.26% -40.00%
75th Percentile £44.75 £66.51 £18.27
90th Percentile £74.00 £85.74 £48.75
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.66 £22.14 £15.37
% change year-on-year +15.88% +44.09% -28.53%

Linux Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Linux Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

Linux Engineer job vacancy trend in Leeds

Linux Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Linux Engineer job vacancies in Leeds.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Linux Engineer job vacancies in Leeds

Linux Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux Engineer in Leeds over the 6 months to 29 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Linux Engineer in Leeds

Linux Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Linux Engineer job vacancies in Leeds.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Linux Engineer job vacancies in Leeds

Linux Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds

For the 6 months to 29 May 2026, Linux Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Leeds region featuring Linux Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) Linux
1 8 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (62.50%) Performance Tuning
2 5 (62.50%) Red Hat
3 4 (50.00%) Ansible
4 3 (37.50%) Bash
4 3 (37.50%) OpenShift
4 3 (37.50%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (25.00%) Change Management
5 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (25.00%) IBM
5 2 (25.00%) ITIL
5 2 (25.00%) Network Security
5 2 (25.00%) Python
5 2 (25.00%) Runbook
5 2 (25.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 1 (12.50%) Azure
6 1 (12.50%) Azure AKS
6 1 (12.50%) Capacity Planning
6 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
6 1 (12.50%) Configuration Management
6 1 (12.50%) DNS
6 1 (12.50%) Docker
6 1 (12.50%) GitHub
6 1 (12.50%) Identity Management
6 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
6 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
6 1 (12.50%) NFS
6 1 (12.50%) Packer
6 1 (12.50%) Platform Engineering

Linux Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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 3 (37.50%) OpenShift
2 1 (12.50%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) Azure AKS
2 1 (12.50%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) Network Security
2 1 (12.50%) DNS
2 1 (12.50%) VPN
General
1 2 (25.00%) Banking
1 2 (25.00%) Finance
1 2 (25.00%) Legal
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Mainframe
2 1 (12.50%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Linux
1 8 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (25.00%) Change Management
2 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (25.00%) ITIL
2 2 (25.00%) Runbook
2 2 (25.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 1 (12.50%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
3 1 (12.50%) Configuration Management
3 1 (12.50%) Identity Management
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (12.50%) Problem Management
3 1 (12.50%) RBAC
3 1 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (12.50%) Storage Management
3 1 (12.50%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Bash
2 2 (25.00%) Python
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (12.50%) Docker
2 1 (12.50%) NFS
2 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (12.50%) Packer
2 1 (12.50%) Podman
2 1 (12.50%) SELinux
2 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Red Hat
2 2 (25.00%) IBM
3 1 (12.50%) VMware