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 22 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 30 29
Rank change year-on-year +4 -1 +3
Contract jobs citing Linux 40 38 62
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 7.26% 4.99% 5.34%
As % of the Operating Systems category 36.36% 38.38% 41.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 30 47
10th Percentile £374 £453 £418
25th Percentile £472 £472 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £558 £548
Median % change year-on-year -1.35% +1.83% -4.78%
75th Percentile £631 £619 £700
90th Percentile £780 £650 £715
West Yorkshire median daily rate £544 £573 £550
% change year-on-year -5.02% +4.09% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
10th Percentile - - £13.35
25th Percentile - £48.75 £15.38
Median hourly rate - £52.50 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year - +183.78% +2.78%
75th Percentile - £56.25 £21.69
90th Percentile - - £22.93
West Yorkshire median hourly rate - £52.50 £18.50
% change year-on-year - +183.78% +2.78%

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 110 99 149
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 19.96% 13.01% 12.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 72 104
10th Percentile £213 £300 £241
25th Percentile £375 £344 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £520
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -8.65% +15.56%
75th Percentile £575 £579 £625
90th Percentile £615 £624 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £463 £500
% change year-on-year -2.70% -7.50% +21.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 7
10th Percentile - - £14.70
25th Percentile - £13.87 £17.75
Median hourly rate - £16.19 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year - -24.03% +16.77%
75th Percentile - £18.27 £21.78
90th Percentile - £41.06 £22.85
West Yorkshire median hourly rate - £15.68 £18.86
% change year-on-year - -16.86% +5.84%

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

Linux
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

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in Leeds over the 6 months to 22 July 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 13 (32.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (7.50%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.50%) WebSphere
3 1 (2.50%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 8 (20.00%) AWS
2 6 (15.00%) Azure
3 5 (12.50%) Collibra
3 5 (12.50%) GCP
4 4 (10.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 2 (5.00%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (5.00%) Entra ID
5 2 (5.00%) npm
6 1 (2.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (2.50%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (2.50%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (2.50%) GitHub
6 1 (2.50%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.50%) IBM Cloud
6 1 (2.50%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (2.50%) OpenShift
6 1 (2.50%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 14 (35.00%) DNS
2 2 (5.00%) Firewall
2 2 (5.00%) HTTP
3 1 (2.50%) LAN
3 1 (2.50%) SSL
3 1 (2.50%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.50%) VLAN
3 1 (2.50%) VPN
3 1 (2.50%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (37.50%) Oracle Database
2 2 (5.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.50%) Big Data
3 1 (2.50%) DynamoDB
3 1 (2.50%) MySQL
3 1 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (10.00%) Git
2 3 (7.50%) Jenkins
3 2 (5.00%) GitLab
3 2 (5.00%) JIRA
3 2 (5.00%) webpack
4 1 (2.50%) Log4j
4 1 (2.50%) Selenium
General
1 15 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 6 (15.00%) Banking
3 5 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
3 5 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (7.50%) Finance
4 3 (7.50%) Law
4 3 (7.50%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 8 (20.00%) Architect
3 7 (17.50%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 6 (15.00%) Engineering Specialist
5 5 (12.50%) Developer
6 4 (10.00%) Data Architect
6 4 (10.00%) IT Engineer
6 4 (10.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (10.00%) Linux Engineer
6 4 (10.00%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (10.00%) Network Engineer
6 4 (10.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (7.50%) Analyst
7 3 (7.50%) IT Analyst
7 3 (7.50%) IT Support
7 3 (7.50%) IT Support Analyst
7 3 (7.50%) Support Analyst
8 2 (5.00%) Desktop Engineer
8 2 (5.00%) Infrastructure Architect
8 2 (5.00%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (12.50%) OpenTelemetry
2 3 (7.50%) pytest
3 2 (5.00%) AngularJS
3 2 (5.00%) CSS
3 2 (5.00%) Flask
3 2 (5.00%) HTML
3 2 (5.00%) React
3 2 (5.00%) REST
3 2 (5.00%) RESTful
3 2 (5.00%) Web Services
4 1 (2.50%) JDBC
4 1 (2.50%) JMS
4 1 (2.50%) JNDI
4 1 (2.50%) Kafka
4 1 (2.50%) Lambda Expressions
4 1 (2.50%) LDAP
4 1 (2.50%) OAuth
4 1 (2.50%) SAML
4 1 (2.50%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 14 (35.00%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (7.50%) Data Centre
2 3 (7.50%) Driving Licence
3 2 (5.00%) Cloud Native
3 2 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (5.00%) Mainframe
3 2 (5.00%) Replication
4 1 (2.50%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 26 (65.00%) Windows
2 17 (42.50%) Windows Server
3 8 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (5.00%) HPUX
4 2 (5.00%) Solaris
5 1 (2.50%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (2.50%) CentOS
5 1 (2.50%) Ubuntu
5 1 (2.50%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (2.50%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (50.00%) Microservices
2 18 (45.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 15 (37.50%) Agile
4 13 (32.50%) Problem-Solving
4 13 (32.50%) Security Management
4 13 (32.50%) SOA
5 11 (27.50%) Server Management
6 9 (22.50%) Migration
7 5 (12.50%) Containerisation
7 5 (12.50%) Data Governance
7 5 (12.50%) Monte Carlo Method
7 5 (12.50%) Observability
7 5 (12.50%) Roadmaps
8 4 (10.00%) CI/CD
8 4 (10.00%) DevOps
8 4 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
8 4 (10.00%) High Availability
8 4 (10.00%) Technology Roadmap
9 3 (7.50%) Data Protection
9 3 (7.50%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 20 (50.00%) Bash
2 16 (40.00%) PowerShell
2 16 (40.00%) SQL
3 14 (35.00%) PL/SQL
4 12 (30.00%) Perl
5 7 (17.50%) Python
6 2 (5.00%) Java
6 2 (5.00%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.50%) C
7 1 (2.50%) C++
7 1 (2.50%) Groovy
7 1 (2.50%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 17 (42.50%) Security Cleared
2 15 (37.50%) Cisco Certification
2 15 (37.50%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.50%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.50%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.50%) QA
System Software
1 19 (47.50%) Active Directory
2 4 (10.00%) Docker
3 3 (7.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (5.00%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (5.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 12 (30.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (12.50%) Grafana
2 5 (12.50%) Prometheus
3 3 (7.50%) Ansible
4 2 (5.00%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (5.00%) Terraform
5 1 (2.50%) NetBackup
5 1 (2.50%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (2.50%) vCenter Server
5 1 (2.50%) vRealize
Vendors
1 16 (40.00%) Cisco
1 16 (40.00%) Oracle
2 6 (15.00%) Red Hat
2 6 (15.00%) Splunk
3 3 (7.50%) IBM
3 3 (7.50%) VMware
4 2 (5.00%) Google
4 2 (5.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (5.00%) Sun
4 2 (5.00%) Unisys
4 2 (5.00%) Veeam
5 1 (2.50%) CyberArk
5 1 (2.50%) Databricks
5 1 (2.50%) Dynatrace
5 1 (2.50%) HP
5 1 (2.50%) TIBCO
5 1 (2.50%) Veritas