Linux Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Linux
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Linux skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 28 41
Rank change year-on-year -15 +13 -9
Contract jobs citing Linux 308 216 195
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 4.39% 6.01% 4.06%
As % of the Operating Systems category 38.94% 38.10% 28.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 147 132
10th Percentile £358 £350 £351
25th Percentile £400 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £520 £513
Median % change year-on-year -7.36% +1.41% -3.30%
75th Percentile £582 £588 £619
90th Percentile £650 £676 £656
England median daily rate £513 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -5.09% -1.82% -7.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 10
10th Percentile £26.34 - £44.43
25th Percentile £41.94 - £48.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £70.00 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.14% +44.33% +83.02%
75th Percentile £50.00 - £61.88
90th Percentile £64.56 - £66.56
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

All Operating Systems
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 791 567 678
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 11.28% 15.78% 14.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 515 371 450
10th Percentile £180 £181 £178
25th Percentile £285 £270 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £436 £400 £425
Median % change year-on-year +9.00% -5.88% -10.53%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £564
90th Percentile £623 £622 £688
England median daily rate £459 £465 £475
% change year-on-year -1.29% -2.11% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 20 81
10th Percentile £16.62 £13.00 -
25th Percentile £17.25 £13.90 £10.95
Median hourly rate £22.81 £17.47 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.57% +9.19% -27.94%
75th Percentile £47.05 £18.87 £20.00
90th Percentile £178.75 £19.75 £48.00
England median hourly rate £30.24 £19.27 £25.00
% change year-on-year +56.93% -22.92% -41.18%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Linux relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Linux job vacancy trend in the North of England

Linux
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Linux.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Linux

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in the North of England

Linux
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Linux.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Linux

Linux
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Linux in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Linux in the North of England

Linux
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 Linux within the North of England region over the 6 months to 1 July 2026. 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 -22 150 £500 -4.76% 33
North West -18 141 £469 +16.67% 79
North East -18 21 £406 -14.92% 21
Linux
England

Linux
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 21 (6.82%) Confluence
2 9 (2.92%) CICS
3 3 (0.97%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.97%) nginx
3 3 (0.97%) TPMS
4 2 (0.65%) Apache
4 2 (0.65%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.65%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (0.65%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.32%) CMS
Applications
1 7 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.65%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.32%) Cloudability
2 1 (0.32%) Odoo
2 1 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.32%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 93 (30.19%) AWS
2 66 (21.43%) Azure
3 43 (13.96%) GCP
4 40 (12.99%) OpenShift
5 25 (8.12%) GitHub
6 18 (5.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 13 (4.22%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 9 (2.92%) Amazon EC2
8 9 (2.92%) Amazon EKS
8 9 (2.92%) Amazon S3
9 8 (2.60%) OCI
10 7 (2.27%) GitHub Actions
10 7 (2.27%) Serverless
11 6 (1.95%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (1.95%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (1.62%) Amazon SQS
12 5 (1.62%) IaaS
12 5 (1.62%) Microsoft 365
13 4 (1.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 4 (1.30%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 44 (14.29%) Firewall
2 25 (8.12%) SAN
3 16 (5.19%) DNS
4 13 (4.22%) Network Security
5 12 (3.90%) TCP/IP
6 9 (2.92%) SSL
6 9 (2.92%) VSAN
7 7 (2.27%) NAS
8 6 (1.95%) 3GPP
8 6 (1.95%) RTP
8 6 (1.95%) VPN
8 6 (1.95%) Wireshark
9 4 (1.30%) iSCSI
9 4 (1.30%) SNMP
10 3 (0.97%) FTP
10 3 (0.97%) SSH
10 3 (0.97%) Wireless
11 2 (0.65%) BIG-IP
11 2 (0.65%) Intrusion Detection
11 2 (0.65%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (6.17%) Oracle Database
2 18 (5.84%) MongoDB
3 14 (4.55%) NoSQL
4 12 (3.90%) SQL Server
5 11 (3.57%) Relational Database
6 10 (3.25%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (3.25%) RDBMS
7 9 (2.92%) DataStage
8 7 (2.27%) Elasticsearch
8 7 (2.27%) Oracle Exadata
9 6 (1.95%) Db2
10 5 (1.62%) DynamoDB
10 5 (1.62%) Sybase ASE
11 4 (1.30%) Oracle Database 12c
12 3 (0.97%) Amazon Aurora
12 3 (0.97%) BusinessObjects
13 2 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
13 2 (0.65%) Apache Cassandra
13 2 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
13 2 (0.65%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 34 (11.04%) JIRA
2 32 (10.39%) Jenkins
3 30 (9.74%) GitLab
4 23 (7.47%) Git
5 13 (4.22%) Mockito
6 6 (1.95%) TeamCity
7 5 (1.62%) Jaeger
8 3 (0.97%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.97%) Cucumber
8 3 (0.97%) Liquibase
8 3 (0.97%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.65%) Burp Suite
9 2 (0.65%) Gatling
9 2 (0.65%) Gradle
9 2 (0.65%) LoadRunner
9 2 (0.65%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.65%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.32%) Hudson
General
1 75 (24.35%) Social Skills
2 69 (22.40%) Finance
3 32 (10.39%) Banking
4 31 (10.06%) Public Sector
5 21 (6.82%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (3.90%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (2.92%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (2.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (2.27%) Legal
10 5 (1.62%) Aviation
10 5 (1.62%) Financial Institution
10 5 (1.62%) Fire and Rescue
10 5 (1.62%) Police
11 4 (1.30%) Military
12 3 (0.97%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.97%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.65%) Advertising
14 1 (0.32%) Law
14 1 (0.32%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 42 (13.64%) Senior
2 35 (11.36%) Developer
3 28 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
4 22 (7.14%) Linux Engineer
5 21 (6.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 21 (6.82%) Java Developer
6 20 (6.49%) Security Engineer
7 17 (5.52%) Consultant
7 17 (5.52%) Software Engineer
8 14 (4.55%) DBA
9 12 (3.90%) Data Centre Engineer
9 12 (3.90%) Platform Engineer
10 11 (3.57%) Analyst
10 11 (3.57%) Cloud Engineer
10 11 (3.57%) Security Consultant
10 11 (3.57%) Senior Developer
11 10 (3.25%) Lead
11 10 (3.25%) Senior Java Developer
12 9 (2.92%) AWS Engineer
12 9 (2.92%) Infrastructure Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (6.17%) Middleware
2 18 (5.84%) Kafka
3 13 (4.22%) JAX-RS
4 12 (3.90%) ActiveMQ
4 12 (3.90%) REST
5 11 (3.57%) LDAP
6 10 (3.25%) Redfish
6 10 (3.25%) YAML
7 9 (2.92%) .NET
8 8 (2.60%) Elastic Stack
8 8 (2.60%) OpenTelemetry
9 7 (2.27%) Oracle GoldenGate
10 6 (1.95%) .NET Core
10 6 (1.95%) RabbitMQ
10 6 (1.95%) Spring Boot
11 5 (1.62%) XML
12 4 (1.30%) Flash
12 4 (1.30%) JSON
12 4 (1.30%) Node.js
13 3 (0.97%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 39 (12.66%) Data Centre
2 32 (10.39%) Cloud Native
3 28 (9.09%) Linux Command Line
4 24 (7.79%) Security Posture
5 16 (5.19%) Mainframe
5 16 (5.19%) Replication
6 15 (4.87%) Management Information System
7 13 (4.22%) Data Protection Act
8 12 (3.90%) Distributed Systems
8 12 (3.90%) Hybrid Cloud
9 11 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
9 11 (3.57%) PKI
9 11 (3.57%) Public Cloud
10 10 (3.25%) Cloud Security Posture
11 9 (2.92%) BYOD
11 9 (2.92%) VSAM
12 7 (2.27%) Enterprise Storage
13 5 (1.62%) FlexPod
13 5 (1.62%) Onboarding
13 5 (1.62%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 110 (35.71%) Windows
2 77 (25.00%) Unix
3 71 (23.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 32 (10.39%) AIX
5 28 (9.09%) Windows Server
6 17 (5.52%) Solaris
7 13 (4.22%) Mac OS X
7 13 (4.22%) Ubuntu
8 12 (3.90%) VMS
9 7 (2.27%) CentOS
9 7 (2.27%) CoreOS
9 7 (2.27%) Oracle Linux
10 5 (1.62%) Data ONTAP
10 5 (1.62%) zOS
11 4 (1.30%) HPUX
11 4 (1.30%) SUSE
12 3 (0.97%) Mac OS
13 2 (0.65%) OpenVMS
14 1 (0.32%) Embedded Linux
14 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (30.19%) CI/CD
2 88 (28.57%) DevOps
3 62 (20.13%) Agile
4 51 (16.56%) Infrastructure as Code
5 48 (15.58%) Migration
6 46 (14.94%) Problem-Solving
7 39 (12.66%) Observability
7 39 (12.66%) Test Automation
8 35 (11.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 35 (11.36%) Roadmaps
9 34 (11.04%) Continuous Improvement
9 34 (11.04%) Microservices
10 33 (10.71%) Change Management
10 33 (10.71%) Performance Tuning
11 31 (10.06%) Cloud Security
11 31 (10.06%) Containerisation
12 30 (9.74%) Infrastructure Automation
12 30 (9.74%) ITIL
13 27 (8.77%) High Availability
14 26 (8.44%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 120 (38.96%) Python
2 67 (21.75%) Bash
3 59 (19.16%) PowerShell
4 51 (16.56%) Java
5 49 (15.91%) SQL
6 17 (5.52%) Shell Script
7 14 (4.55%) JavaScript
8 11 (3.57%) Go
8 11 (3.57%) Rust
9 9 (2.92%) C#
9 9 (2.92%) COBOL
10 8 (2.60%) Perl
10 8 (2.60%) TypeScript
11 6 (1.95%) Ruby
12 5 (1.62%) JCL
13 4 (1.30%) Bicep
13 4 (1.30%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.65%) C++
14 2 (0.65%) REXX
14 2 (0.65%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 46 (14.94%) Security Cleared
2 35 (11.36%) Degree
3 31 (10.06%) CISSP
4 30 (9.74%) SC Cleared
5 18 (5.84%) AWS Certification
6 14 (4.55%) CompTIA Security+
7 13 (4.22%) Azure Certification
8 12 (3.90%) RHCE
9 7 (2.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 7 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
9 7 (2.27%) DV Cleared
9 7 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (1.95%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (1.95%) OCP
10 6 (1.95%) Oracle Certification
11 5 (1.62%) CISM
11 5 (1.62%) MCSA
11 5 (1.62%) MCSE
12 3 (0.97%) CEH
12 3 (0.97%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.92%) HIPAA
2 8 (2.60%) GDPR
2 8 (2.60%) NIST
3 6 (1.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (1.95%) PCI DSS
4 5 (1.62%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 4 (1.30%) GRC
6 3 (0.97%) GLBA
6 3 (0.97%) QA
6 3 (0.97%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (0.97%) SLA
7 1 (0.32%) GxP
7 1 (0.32%) SOC 2
System Software
1 61 (19.81%) Docker
2 48 (15.58%) Virtual Machines
2 48 (15.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (6.82%) KVM
4 19 (6.17%) NFS
4 19 (6.17%) vSphere
5 18 (5.84%) Active Directory
6 15 (4.87%) Hyper-V
7 14 (4.55%) Firmware
8 12 (3.90%) VMware ESXi
9 8 (2.60%) Oracle RAC
10 7 (2.27%) VMware NSX
11 5 (1.62%) Time Sharing Option
12 4 (1.30%) GPFS
13 3 (0.97%) Veritas Volume Manager
14 2 (0.65%) SRDF
15 1 (0.32%) Ceph
15 1 (0.32%) Embedded Firmware
15 1 (0.32%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 1 (0.32%) zsh
Systems Management
1 93 (30.19%) Ansible
2 84 (27.27%) Terraform
3 77 (25.00%) Kubernetes
4 22 (7.14%) Prometheus
5 21 (6.82%) Grafana
6 17 (5.52%) Progress Chef
7 13 (4.22%) Oracle RMAN
8 11 (3.57%) vCenter Server
9 10 (3.25%) Dell DRAC
10 9 (2.92%) Data Guard
10 9 (2.92%) Puppet
11 8 (2.60%) Packer
11 8 (2.60%) Tivoli Storage Manager
12 7 (2.27%) PowerCLI
12 7 (2.27%) vRealize
13 6 (1.95%) IBM BigFix
13 6 (1.95%) Nessus
14 5 (1.62%) CASB
14 5 (1.62%) SnapMirror
15 4 (1.30%) Kiali
Vendors
1 56 (18.18%) VMware
2 49 (15.91%) Red Hat
3 37 (12.01%) Oracle
4 31 (10.06%) IBM
5 28 (9.09%) Microsoft
6 24 (7.79%) Google
7 22 (7.14%) Splunk
8 13 (4.22%) Cisco
9 12 (3.90%) ServiceNow
10 10 (3.25%) CyberArk
11 9 (2.92%) Broadcom
11 9 (2.92%) Dell
12 8 (2.60%) Dynatrace
12 8 (2.60%) HP
13 7 (2.27%) Tenable
14 6 (1.95%) NetApp
14 6 (1.95%) Remedy
15 5 (1.62%) Brocade
15 5 (1.62%) Sybase
15 5 (1.62%) Varonis