linkerd Contract Job Trends in London

linkerd
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring linkerd skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 448 372 -
Rank change year-on-year -76 - -
Contract jobs citing linkerd 4 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.020% 0.015% -
As % of the Systems Management category 0.18% 0.11% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £438 -
25th Percentile £623 £467 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £645 £531 -
Median % change year-on-year +21.41% - -
75th Percentile £668 £592 -
90th Percentile - £619 -
England median daily rate £495 £531 £450
% change year-on-year -6.82% +18.06% -30.77%

All Systems Management Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 2,243 1,794 1,998
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.04% 13.29% 12.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,497 1,164 1,375
10th Percentile £319 £325 £325
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% -3.67% -9.17%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £715 £725 £763
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 16 23
10th Percentile £31.18 £24.00 £21.16
25th Percentile £35.56 £26.34 £23.80
Median hourly rate £62.75 £33.75 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +85.93% +25.00% -55.00%
75th Percentile £81.25 £59.81 £63.50
90th Percentile - £64.41 £71.25
England median hourly rate £67.47 £40.00 £39.25
% change year-on-year +68.68% +1.91% -23.41%

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Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

linkerd job vacancy trend in London

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Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing linkerd.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing linkerd

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure API Management
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Event Grid
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Functions
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Service Bus
1 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (25.00%) Serverless
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
2 3 (75.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 3 (75.00%) Security Engineer
3 2 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes Engineer
4 1 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (25.00%) Azure Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) OAuth
1 1 (25.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (25.00%) OpenID
1 1 (25.00%) OpenTelemetry
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Anomaly Detection
2 3 (75.00%) Cloud Security
2 3 (75.00%) DevSecOps
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 3 (75.00%) RBAC
2 3 (75.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 3 (75.00%) Security Monitoring
2 3 (75.00%) SIEM
2 3 (75.00%) Threat Detection
3 2 (50.00%) Observability
4 1 (25.00%) API Management
4 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
4 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (25.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bash
1 1 (25.00%) Go
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (75.00%) CISM
2 3 (75.00%) CISSP
2 3 (75.00%) DV Cleared
2 3 (75.00%) GSEC
2 3 (75.00%) OSCP
3 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Istio
2 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (50.00%) Grafana
3 2 (50.00%) Prometheus
4 1 (25.00%) Argo
4 1 (25.00%) Kustomize