linkerd Contracts in the North of England

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England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring linkerd skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited linkerd 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 157 183 208
Rank change year-on-year +26 +25 +7
Contract jobs citing linkerd 9 2 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.27% 0.042% 0.21%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.47% 0.37% 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 10
10th Percentile £698 - £646
25th Percentile £713 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 - £650
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.17%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £688
England median daily rate £725 £450 £650
% change year-on-year +61.11% -30.77% -

All Systems Management Skills
North 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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 612 538 857
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 18.57% 11.28% 14.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 404 379 635
10th Percentile £254 £239 £325
25th Percentile £379 £400 £442
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £480 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.04% -12.73% +4.76%
75th Percentile £564 £580 £638
90th Percentile £650 £645 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £575
% change year-on-year - -8.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 22 52
10th Percentile £45.45 £16.89 £17.53
25th Percentile £51.38 £17.72 £22.34
Median hourly rate £62.50 £22.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +177.78% -40.00% +87.50%
75th Percentile £74.50 £48.75 £50.17
90th Percentile £80.95 £80.38 £65.00
England median hourly rate £27.38 £27.25 £57.50
% change year-on-year +0.46% -52.61% +167.44%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing linkerd as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for linkerd in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing linkerd in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for linkerd in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Yorkshire - 6 £725 -
North East - 2 £750 -
North West +16 1 £750 - 4
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 7 (77.78%) nginx
1 7 (77.78%) Traefik
2 1 (11.11%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 9 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 9 (100.00%) AWS
1 9 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 9 (100.00%) AWS Fargate
1 9 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 9 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (100.00%) DNS
1 9 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (100.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 9 (100.00%) GitLab
1 9 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 2 (22.22%) Military
1 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (88.89%) Senior
1 8 (88.89%) Senior DevOps
2 6 (66.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (55.56%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Lead
4 1 (11.11%) Lead DevOps
4 1 (11.11%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (100.00%) cloud-init
1 9 (100.00%) Kafka
1 9 (100.00%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 9 (100.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 9 (100.00%) CentOS
1 9 (100.00%) Linux
1 9 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 9 (100.00%) Unix
2 1 (11.11%) Mac OS
2 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 9 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 9 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 9 (100.00%) DevOps
1 9 (100.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 9 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 9 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 9 (100.00%) Observability
1 9 (100.00%) Secrets Management
1 9 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
2 7 (77.78%) Mobile Device Management
3 2 (22.22%) Agile
3 2 (22.22%) Service Delivery
4 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (11.11%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) Bash
1 9 (100.00%) Go
1 9 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (100.00%) AWS Certification
2 8 (88.89%) Security Cleared
3 7 (77.78%) SC Cleared
4 1 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (100.00%) NCSC
2 1 (11.11%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (100.00%) Consul
1 9 (100.00%) Grafana
1 9 (100.00%) Istio
1 9 (100.00%) Jamf Pro
1 9 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 9 (100.00%) Packer
1 9 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 9 (100.00%) Rancher
1 9 (100.00%) Terraform
1 9 (100.00%) ZABBIX
2 7 (77.78%) HAProxy
3 1 (11.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) Okta
1 9 (100.00%) Splunk
2 7 (77.78%) Apple
2 7 (77.78%) ESET