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 12 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 49 48
Rank change year-on-year +13 -1 -32
Contract jobs citing Linux 283 150 197
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 6.23% 3.79% 4.09%
As % of the Operating Systems category 39.25% 28.79% 29.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 206 86 118
10th Percentile £313 £360 £313
25th Percentile £369 £463 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £563 £500
Median % change year-on-year -14.74% +12.60% -7.83%
75th Percentile £550 £638 £599
90th Percentile £680 £725 £663
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -5.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 14
10th Percentile £47.55 £43.10 £16.58
25th Percentile £55.97 £47.00 £19.56
Median hourly rate £70.00 £49.00 £42.04
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% +16.56% -5.91%
75th Percentile £72.13 £56.25 £46.63
90th Percentile £73.41 £63.41 £63.75
England median hourly rate £65.00 £67.26 £62.50
% change year-on-year -3.36% +7.62% -3.85%

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 721 521 672
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 15.88% 13.15% 13.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 514 291 430
10th Percentile £158 £178 £170
25th Percentile £206 £275 £233
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £393 £438 £425
Median % change year-on-year -10.17% +2.94% -5.56%
75th Percentile £525 £565 £550
90th Percentile £618 £638 £625
England median daily rate £450 £475 £488
% change year-on-year -5.26% -2.56% -3.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 38 55
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £16.10
25th Percentile £17.38 £16.06 £17.71
Median hourly rate £19.00 £17.78 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.85% -15.32% +1.06%
75th Percentile £23.75 £24.18 £44.49
90th Percentile £58.78 £44.35 £64.50
England median hourly rate £23.00 £57.50 £39.08
% change year-on-year -60.00% +47.14% +56.31%

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 12 November 2025.

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 12 November 2025.

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 12 November 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 +22 163 £500 -18.70% 44
North West 0 116 £438 -16.67% 91
North East -9 10 £550 +21.15% 18
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 25 (8.83%) JBoss
2 22 (7.77%) Apache
3 19 (6.71%) WebSphere
4 14 (4.95%) WebSphere Application Server
5 11 (3.89%) IIS
6 10 (3.53%) iPlanet
7 9 (3.18%) Tomcat
8 7 (2.47%) Microsoft Exchange
9 6 (2.12%) OpenStack
9 6 (2.12%) SharePoint
10 4 (1.41%) TPMS
11 3 (1.06%) Apache Airflow
11 3 (1.06%) Apache Spark
12 2 (0.71%) CICS
12 2 (0.71%) Confluence
12 2 (0.71%) Mattermost
12 2 (0.71%) Skype for Business
13 1 (0.35%) CMS
13 1 (0.35%) Documentum
13 1 (0.35%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 9 (3.18%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.71%) Kondor
2 1 (0.35%) Finacle
2 1 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.35%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 99 (34.98%) AWS
2 64 (22.61%) GCP
3 40 (14.13%) Azure
4 37 (13.07%) OpenShift
4 37 (13.07%) Serverless
5 23 (8.13%) GitHub
6 17 (6.01%) SaaS
7 16 (5.65%) IaaS
7 16 (5.65%) PaaS
8 14 (4.95%) GitHub Actions
9 10 (3.53%) Entra ID
10 9 (3.18%) Amazon EC2
10 9 (3.18%) Google Workspace
11 6 (2.12%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (2.12%) AWS KMS
11 6 (2.12%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (2.12%) Microsoft 365
12 5 (1.77%) Amazon ECS
12 5 (1.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 4 (1.41%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 68 (24.03%) Firewall
2 22 (7.77%) Network Security
3 15 (5.30%) TCP/IP
4 14 (4.95%) DNS
4 14 (4.95%) SSL
5 10 (3.53%) Kerberos
6 8 (2.83%) SNMP
6 8 (2.83%) WebEx
7 7 (2.47%) SAN
7 7 (2.47%) VLAN
7 7 (2.47%) VPN
8 6 (2.12%) BGP
8 6 (2.12%) Software-Defined Networking
9 5 (1.77%) NAS
10 4 (1.41%) DHCP
10 4 (1.41%) SSH
11 3 (1.06%) HTTP
12 2 (0.71%) HTTPS
12 2 (0.71%) Softphone
12 2 (0.71%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (12.72%) NoSQL
2 26 (9.19%) Oracle Database
3 24 (8.48%) SQL Server
4 23 (8.13%) PostgreSQL
5 22 (7.77%) Relational Database
6 17 (6.01%) MongoDB
7 5 (1.77%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (1.77%) Apache Cassandra
7 5 (1.77%) MySQL
8 4 (1.41%) RDBMS
9 3 (1.06%) Apache Hive
9 3 (1.06%) DynamoDB
9 3 (1.06%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (1.06%) Hadoop
9 3 (1.06%) HBase
10 2 (0.71%) Siebel EIM
11 1 (0.35%) BusinessObjects
11 1 (0.35%) Oracle Database 10g
11 1 (0.35%) Oracle Database 11g
11 1 (0.35%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 94 (33.22%) Jenkins
2 51 (18.02%) Git
3 48 (16.96%) GitLab
4 23 (8.13%) Liquibase
4 23 (8.13%) Sonatype Nexus
5 19 (6.71%) JIRA
6 17 (6.01%) Mockito
7 14 (4.95%) Bitbucket Server
7 14 (4.95%) CA Release Automation
8 10 (3.53%) Maven
9 8 (2.83%) Gradle
10 7 (2.47%) JUnit
10 7 (2.47%) Postman
11 6 (2.12%) Bitbucket
12 5 (1.77%) CircleCI
12 5 (1.77%) SonarQube
13 4 (1.41%) Rational DOORS
13 4 (1.41%) TeamCity
14 2 (0.71%) Artifactory
14 2 (0.71%) Jaeger
General
1 80 (28.27%) Finance
2 78 (27.56%) Social Skills
3 53 (18.73%) Banking
4 27 (9.54%) Financial Institution
4 27 (9.54%) Public Sector
5 25 (8.83%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (2.12%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (2.12%) Legal
7 4 (1.41%) Games
8 2 (0.71%) Back Office
8 2 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (0.71%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.35%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.35%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.35%) Retail
9 1 (0.35%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 49 (17.31%) Developer
1 49 (17.31%) Senior
2 36 (12.72%) Java Developer
3 32 (11.31%) DevOps Engineer
4 29 (10.25%) Platform Engineer
5 25 (8.83%) Linux Engineer
6 23 (8.13%) Software Engineer
7 19 (6.71%) AWS Engineer
7 19 (6.71%) Cloud Engineer
8 16 (5.65%) Lead
8 16 (5.65%) Senior Developer
8 16 (5.65%) Senior Java Developer
9 14 (4.95%) GCP Engineer
10 13 (4.59%) Support Engineer
11 11 (3.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 10 (3.53%) Automation Engineer
12 10 (3.53%) IT Engineer
12 10 (3.53%) IT Support
12 10 (3.53%) IT Support Engineer
12 10 (3.53%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (15.19%) REST
2 42 (14.84%) Elastic Stack
3 33 (11.66%) RESTful
4 22 (7.77%) Kafka
5 17 (6.01%) ActiveMQ
5 17 (6.01%) JAX-RS
5 17 (6.01%) LDAP
6 14 (4.95%) OAuth
7 13 (4.59%) Node.js
7 13 (4.59%) Spring Boot
8 12 (4.24%) SAML
8 12 (4.24%) SOAP
8 12 (4.24%) Spring
9 11 (3.89%) OpenID
10 10 (3.53%) AngularJS
10 10 (3.53%) FastAPI
10 10 (3.53%) Middleware
11 8 (2.83%) XMPP
12 5 (1.77%) Spring Cloud
13 4 (1.41%) React
Miscellaneous
1 32 (11.31%) Cloud Native
2 30 (10.60%) Distributed Systems
2 30 (10.60%) Public Cloud
3 13 (4.59%) Data Centre
4 12 (4.24%) Product Ownership
5 11 (3.89%) Onboarding
6 9 (3.18%) Data Protection Act
7 7 (2.47%) NHS
8 5 (1.77%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (1.77%) Legacy Applications
8 5 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.77%) Private Cloud
9 4 (1.41%) Derivative
9 4 (1.41%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.41%) PKI
9 4 (1.41%) Security Posture
10 3 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.06%) Cloud Security Posture
11 2 (0.71%) Clustering
11 2 (0.71%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 98 (34.63%) Windows
2 65 (22.97%) Unix
3 38 (13.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 31 (10.95%) Windows Server
5 21 (7.42%) Mac OS X
6 5 (1.77%) Solaris
7 3 (1.06%) AIX
7 3 (1.06%) Amazon Linux
7 3 (1.06%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 3 (1.06%) VMS
8 2 (0.71%) Android
8 2 (0.71%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.71%) CentOS
8 2 (0.71%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.71%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.71%) zOS
9 1 (0.35%) MVS
9 1 (0.35%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.35%) SUSE
9 1 (0.35%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (39.22%) DevOps
2 99 (34.98%) CI/CD
3 94 (33.22%) Containerisation
4 83 (29.33%) Agile
5 72 (25.44%) Microservices
6 67 (23.67%) Problem-Solving
7 64 (22.61%) Infrastructure as Code
8 45 (15.90%) Cybersecurity
9 37 (13.07%) High Availability
9 37 (13.07%) Infrastructure Automation
9 37 (13.07%) Observability
9 37 (13.07%) Root Cause Analysis
9 37 (13.07%) Test Automation
10 35 (12.37%) Software Engineering
11 34 (12.01%) Continuous Integration
12 33 (11.66%) Computer Science
13 32 (11.31%) Cryptography
13 32 (11.31%) Platform Engineering
14 30 (10.60%) Data Security
15 28 (9.89%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 142 (50.18%) Python
2 68 (24.03%) Java
3 64 (22.61%) Bash
4 39 (13.78%) PowerShell
5 35 (12.37%) Go
6 34 (12.01%) Shell Script
7 22 (7.77%) SQL
8 18 (6.36%) Perl
9 15 (5.30%) Groovy
10 13 (4.59%) PHP
11 7 (2.47%) C++
12 4 (1.41%) PL/SQL
13 3 (1.06%) C
13 3 (1.06%) Kusto Query Language
13 3 (1.06%) Search Processing Language
14 2 (0.71%) JavaScript
14 2 (0.71%) Ruby
14 2 (0.71%) Rust
15 1 (0.35%) C#
Qualifications
1 57 (20.14%) Security Cleared
2 46 (16.25%) SC Cleared
3 33 (11.66%) Degree
4 30 (10.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 28 (9.89%) Master's Degree
6 21 (7.42%) AWS Certification
7 15 (5.30%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (2.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 8 (2.83%) CCDP
8 8 (2.83%) CCNA
8 8 (2.83%) CCNP
8 8 (2.83%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (1.77%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 4 (1.41%) CISSP
10 4 (1.41%) CompTIA Security+
10 4 (1.41%) FFIEC
10 4 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (1.06%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (1.06%) MCSA
11 3 (1.06%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (1.77%) NIST
2 4 (1.41%) GDPR
2 4 (1.41%) GLBA
2 4 (1.41%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.06%) HIPAA
3 3 (1.06%) SOC 2
4 2 (0.71%) Basel III
4 2 (0.71%) MiFID
5 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.35%) NCSC
5 1 (0.35%) SLA
System Software
1 100 (35.34%) Docker
2 40 (14.13%) Active Directory
3 39 (13.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (4.24%) vSphere
5 10 (3.53%) Oracle RAC
6 8 (2.83%) Tivoli Directory Server
7 7 (2.47%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 5 (1.77%) KVM
8 5 (1.77%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (1.41%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (1.41%) VMware NSX
10 3 (1.06%) HDFS
10 3 (1.06%) Hyper-V
11 2 (0.71%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.71%) VMware ESXi
12 1 (0.35%) Ceph
12 1 (0.35%) NFS
12 1 (0.35%) QEMU
12 1 (0.35%) SRDF
12 1 (0.35%) Xen
Systems Management
1 100 (35.34%) Kubernetes
2 83 (29.33%) Ansible
3 69 (24.38%) Terraform
4 58 (20.49%) Grafana
5 46 (16.25%) Prometheus
6 18 (6.36%) Progress Chef
7 12 (4.24%) Puppet
8 11 (3.89%) CA Single Sign-On
9 10 (3.53%) CA Wily
9 10 (3.53%) Data Guard
9 10 (3.53%) yum
10 9 (3.18%) Single Sign-On
11 8 (2.83%) Tivoli
12 7 (2.47%) NetBackup
12 7 (2.47%) Oracle RMAN
13 5 (1.77%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 5 (1.77%) Packer
13 5 (1.77%) vRealize
14 4 (1.41%) Istio
14 4 (1.41%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 67 (23.67%) Splunk
2 66 (23.32%) Oracle
3 60 (21.20%) Microsoft
4 49 (17.31%) VMware
5 35 (12.37%) Google
6 34 (12.01%) Red Hat
7 27 (9.54%) AppDynamics
8 21 (7.42%) IBM
9 16 (5.65%) Citrix
10 15 (5.30%) Cisco
11 13 (4.59%) F5
12 11 (3.89%) Broadcom
13 10 (3.53%) CyberArk
14 7 (2.47%) MuleSoft
14 7 (2.47%) Veritas
15 5 (1.77%) Cloudera
15 5 (1.77%) Palo Alto
16 4 (1.41%) EMC
16 4 (1.41%) Juniper
16 4 (1.41%) Zscaler