Linux Contracts in Leeds

Linux
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds requiring Linux skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Linux over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 28 46
Rank change year-on-year +19 +18 +2
Contract jobs citing Linux 65 38 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 13.98% 4.76% 3.91%
As % of the Operating Systems category 58.04% 32.48% 39.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 30 43
10th Percentile £374 £424 £430
25th Percentile £513 £456 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £548
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -8.68% +3.30%
75th Percentile £747 £619 £644
90th Percentile £780 £639 £730
West Yorkshire median daily rate £550 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £40.50 - -
Median hourly rate £41.00 - -
75th Percentile £41.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £41.00 - -

All Operating Systems
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 112 117 133
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 24.09% 14.64% 10.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 89 95
10th Percentile £209 £258 £190
25th Percentile £350 £313 £308
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -10.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £575 £569 £594
90th Percentile £765 £628 £683
West Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £400 £470
% change year-on-year +12.50% -14.89% +10.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £40.50 - -
Median hourly rate £41.00 £13.87 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +195.60% -82.66% +338.36%
75th Percentile £41.50 £16.07 -
90th Percentile - £17.39 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £41.00 £14.52 £15.44
% change year-on-year +182.37% -5.96% -12.12%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Leeds

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Daily rate trend for Linux in Leeds

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Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in Leeds over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in Leeds

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux in Leeds

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 16 (24.62%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 8 (12.31%) Confluence
3 5 (7.69%) nginx
3 5 (7.69%) Traefik
4 3 (4.62%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 19 (29.23%) AWS
2 12 (18.46%) AWS CloudFormation
3 8 (12.31%) Entra ID
4 7 (10.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 7 (10.77%) Amazon ECS
4 7 (10.77%) AWS Fargate
4 7 (10.77%) Slack
5 6 (9.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 5 (7.69%) Azure
6 5 (7.69%) Cloud Computing
6 5 (7.69%) Collibra
7 4 (6.15%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 4 (6.15%) GCP
8 2 (3.08%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (3.08%) npm
9 1 (1.54%) AWS CodePipeline
9 1 (1.54%) AWS Step Functions
9 1 (1.54%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.54%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (1.54%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 24 (36.92%) DNS
2 7 (10.77%) HTTP
2 7 (10.77%) TCP/IP
3 2 (3.08%) IMAP
3 2 (3.08%) Network Security
3 2 (3.08%) POP3
3 2 (3.08%) SMTP
4 1 (1.54%) Firewall
4 1 (1.54%) LAN
4 1 (1.54%) VLAN
4 1 (1.54%) VPN
4 1 (1.54%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (30.77%) Oracle Database
2 17 (26.15%) MongoDB
3 12 (18.46%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (16.92%) MySQL
5 10 (15.38%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (1.54%) Big Data
6 1 (1.54%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.54%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (21.54%) GitLab
1 14 (21.54%) Jenkins
2 12 (18.46%) Git
3 11 (16.92%) JIRA
4 8 (12.31%) Cucumber
4 8 (12.31%) Jasmine
4 8 (12.31%) JUnit
5 2 (3.08%) webpack
6 1 (1.54%) Selenium
General
1 19 (29.23%) Social Skills
2 15 (23.08%) Public Sector
3 6 (9.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (7.69%) Banking
4 5 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (4.62%) Finance
5 3 (4.62%) Law
5 3 (4.62%) Telecoms
6 2 (3.08%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.08%) Military
7 1 (1.54%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 19 (29.23%) Senior
2 12 (18.46%) Developer
2 12 (18.46%) DevOps Engineer
2 12 (18.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 10 (15.38%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 9 (13.85%) Engineering Specialist
4 9 (13.85%) Java Developer
4 9 (13.85%) Senior Developer
4 9 (13.85%) Senior DevOps
5 8 (12.31%) Senior Java Developer
6 7 (10.77%) Architect
6 7 (10.77%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 5 (7.69%) IT Engineer
7 5 (7.69%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (6.15%) Data Architect
8 4 (6.15%) Linux Engineer
8 4 (6.15%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (6.15%) Network Engineer
8 4 (6.15%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (4.62%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (16.92%) cloud-init
1 11 (16.92%) Spring Boot
2 10 (15.38%) RESTful
2 10 (15.38%) Spring
3 9 (13.85%) Spring Security
4 8 (12.31%) Spring Batch
5 7 (10.77%) Kafka
5 7 (10.77%) Swagger
6 6 (9.23%) Keycloak
6 6 (9.23%) OpenAPI
7 5 (7.69%) OpenTelemetry
8 3 (4.62%) pytest
9 2 (3.08%) AngularJS
9 2 (3.08%) CSS
9 2 (3.08%) Flask
9 2 (3.08%) HTML
9 2 (3.08%) REST
9 2 (3.08%) Web Services
10 1 (1.54%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 18 (27.69%) Linux Command Line
2 6 (9.23%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 6 (9.23%) PKI
3 3 (4.62%) Driving Licence
4 2 (3.08%) Data Centre
4 2 (3.08%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (3.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (3.08%) Mainframe
4 2 (3.08%) Replication
5 1 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 32 (49.23%) Windows
2 29 (44.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 22 (33.85%) Windows Server
4 14 (21.54%) Unix
5 13 (20.00%) CentOS
6 2 (3.08%) HPUX
6 2 (3.08%) Solaris
7 1 (1.54%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (1.54%) Mac OS
7 1 (1.54%) Ubuntu
7 1 (1.54%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (1.54%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (50.77%) Microservices
2 23 (35.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 22 (33.85%) Agile
3 22 (33.85%) CI/CD
4 18 (27.69%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (26.15%) DevOps
5 17 (26.15%) Security Management
6 16 (24.62%) Continuous Integration
6 16 (24.62%) SOA
7 15 (23.08%) Server Management
8 12 (18.46%) Containerisation
8 12 (18.46%) Infrastructure as Code
9 11 (16.92%) Observability
9 11 (16.92%) TDD
10 10 (15.38%) BDD
10 10 (15.38%) Mentoring
10 10 (15.38%) Migration
10 10 (15.38%) Software Engineering
10 10 (15.38%) Technical Leadership
10 10 (15.38%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 46 (70.77%) Bash
2 31 (47.69%) SQL
3 19 (29.23%) PowerShell
4 18 (27.69%) PL/SQL
5 17 (26.15%) Perl
6 16 (24.62%) Python
7 12 (18.46%) Go
8 11 (16.92%) Java
9 2 (3.08%) JavaScript
10 1 (1.54%) Groovy
10 1 (1.54%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.54%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 39 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 35 (53.85%) SC Cleared
3 20 (30.77%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (9.23%) AWS Certification
5 2 (3.08%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.23%) NCSC
2 3 (4.62%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.54%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.54%) QA
System Software
1 24 (36.92%) Active Directory
2 11 (16.92%) Docker
3 2 (3.08%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (3.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (3.08%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 26 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 14 (21.54%) Terraform
3 12 (18.46%) Grafana
3 12 (18.46%) Packer
4 11 (16.92%) Prometheus
5 6 (9.23%) Consul
5 6 (9.23%) Istio
5 6 (9.23%) Jamf Pro
5 6 (9.23%) linkerd
5 6 (9.23%) Rancher
5 6 (9.23%) ZABBIX
6 5 (7.69%) HAProxy
7 3 (4.62%) Ansible
8 1 (1.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (1.54%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.54%) vCenter Server
8 1 (1.54%) vRealize
Vendors
1 21 (32.31%) Cisco
2 20 (30.77%) Oracle
3 13 (20.00%) Splunk
4 6 (9.23%) Okta
5 5 (7.69%) Apple
5 5 (7.69%) ESET
6 4 (6.15%) Red Hat
7 3 (4.62%) Microsoft
8 2 (3.08%) IBM
8 2 (3.08%) Sun
8 2 (3.08%) Unisys
8 2 (3.08%) Veeam
8 2 (3.08%) VMware
9 1 (1.54%) Databricks
9 1 (1.54%) Google
9 1 (1.54%) HP