Linux Contracts in Sheffield

Linux
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield 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 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 22 7 21
Rank change year-on-year -15 +14 -2
Contract jobs citing Linux 28 53 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 8.78% 13.98% 8.37%
As % of the Operating Systems category 45.16% 49.53% 61.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 33 28
10th Percentile £410 £411 £485
25th Percentile £494 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £485 £538
Median % change year-on-year +23.71% -9.77% +2.38%
75th Percentile £712 £538 £675
90th Percentile £780 £583 £700
South Yorkshire median daily rate £575 £438 £525
% change year-on-year +31.43% -16.67% +2.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £22.50 -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate - £22.50 -

All Operating Systems
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 62 107 62
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 19.44% 28.23% 13.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 64 43
10th Percentile £150 £233 £340
25th Percentile £284 £412 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £430 £500
Median % change year-on-year +23.55% -14.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £650 £538 £641
90th Percentile £746 £588 £698
South Yorkshire median daily rate £538 £430 £500
% change year-on-year +25.00% -14.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 2
10th Percentile - - £11.65
25th Percentile £18.10 £21.25 £12.63
Median hourly rate £18.21 £22.50 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.09% +45.16% +5.08%
75th Percentile £18.41 £23.75 £19.63
90th Percentile £18.47 - £21.35
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.21 £22.50 £15.50
% change year-on-year -19.09% +45.16% -11.07%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

Job postings citing Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Sheffield.

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Sheffield

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Linux in Sheffield.

Daily rate trend for Linux in Sheffield

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in Sheffield over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in Sheffield

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Sheffield

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Linux in Sheffield.

Hourly rate trend for Linux in Sheffield

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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 1 (3.57%) Apache
1 1 (3.57%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (3.57%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (10.71%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (10.71%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 8 (28.57%) AWS
1 8 (28.57%) GCP
2 5 (17.86%) Azure
3 4 (14.29%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 4 (14.29%) Collibra
4 2 (7.14%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 5 (17.86%) DNS
1 5 (17.86%) NAS
2 4 (14.29%) SAN
3 2 (7.14%) HTTP
3 2 (7.14%) HTTPS
3 2 (7.14%) Kerberos
4 1 (3.57%) DHCP
4 1 (3.57%) Firewall
4 1 (3.57%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.14%) BigQuery
1 2 (7.14%) Hazelcast
1 2 (7.14%) Oracle Database
2 1 (3.57%) Big Data
2 1 (3.57%) Delta Lake
2 1 (3.57%) Hadoop
2 1 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.57%) RDBMS
2 1 (3.57%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 6 (21.43%) Git
3 5 (17.86%) GitLab
4 2 (7.14%) Jaeger
General
1 9 (32.14%) Social Skills
2 7 (25.00%) Banking
3 5 (17.86%) Finance
4 4 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (3.57%) Back Office
6 1 (3.57%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 9 (32.14%) Architect
2 4 (14.29%) Data Architect
3 3 (10.71%) Consultant
3 3 (10.71%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Administrator
4 2 (7.14%) IT Architect
4 2 (7.14%) LDAP Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Systems Architect
4 2 (7.14%) Technical Architect
5 1 (3.57%) Automation Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Automation Specialist
5 1 (3.57%) Data Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) DevOps Automation Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) ForgeRock Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (3.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Lead
5 1 (3.57%) Oracle DBA
5 1 (3.57%) Unix Administrator
5 1 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (25.00%) Middleware
2 4 (14.29%) OpenTelemetry
3 2 (7.14%) gRPC
3 2 (7.14%) JWT
3 2 (7.14%) Kafka
3 2 (7.14%) LDAP
3 2 (7.14%) SAML
4 1 (3.57%) LAPP Stack
4 1 (3.57%) PySpark
4 1 (3.57%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
1 4 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (7.14%) Cloud Native
2 2 (7.14%) Management Information System
2 2 (7.14%) Replication
3 1 (3.57%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (3.57%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (3.57%) Mainframe
3 1 (3.57%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.57%) Robotics
3 1 (3.57%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (50.00%) Windows
2 11 (39.29%) Unix
3 5 (17.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (17.86%) Windows Server
4 1 (3.57%) AIX
4 1 (3.57%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (39.29%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (32.14%) CI/CD
3 7 (25.00%) Microservices
4 6 (21.43%) Containerisation
4 6 (21.43%) DevOps
4 6 (21.43%) Infrastructure Automation
5 5 (17.86%) Agile
5 5 (17.86%) Data Protection
6 4 (14.29%) Data Governance
6 4 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
6 4 (14.29%) Kanban
6 4 (14.29%) Migration
6 4 (14.29%) Monte Carlo Method
6 4 (14.29%) Observability
6 4 (14.29%) Scrum
7 3 (10.71%) Cybersecurity
7 3 (10.71%) High Availability
7 3 (10.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 2 (7.14%) Computer Science
8 2 (7.14%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 10 (35.71%) Python
2 7 (25.00%) Shell Script
3 4 (14.29%) PowerShell
4 3 (10.71%) Bash
4 3 (10.71%) Groovy
4 3 (10.71%) SQL
5 2 (7.14%) ActionScript
5 2 (7.14%) ActionScript 2.0
5 2 (7.14%) Java
6 1 (3.57%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.57%) Korn
6 1 (3.57%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (7.14%) Degree
1 2 (7.14%) IBM Certification
2 1 (3.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.57%) Accessibility
1 1 (3.57%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 6 (21.43%) Docker
3 5 (17.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (17.86%) vSphere
4 4 (14.29%) VMware NSX
5 3 (10.71%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (3.57%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (3.57%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (3.57%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 14 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 9 (32.14%) Ansible
3 6 (21.43%) Grafana
4 4 (14.29%) Control-M
4 4 (14.29%) Prometheus
4 4 (14.29%) vCenter Server
4 4 (14.29%) vRealize
5 3 (10.71%) Puppet
6 2 (7.14%) Istio
6 2 (7.14%) Kiali
6 2 (7.14%) Progress Chef
6 2 (7.14%) Terraform
7 1 (3.57%) Data Guard
7 1 (3.57%) Nagios
7 1 (3.57%) NetApp OnCommand
7 1 (3.57%) NetBackup
7 1 (3.57%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 7 (25.00%) Splunk
2 6 (21.43%) Red Hat
3 5 (17.86%) VMware
4 4 (14.29%) Veritas
5 3 (10.71%) Commvault
5 3 (10.71%) IBM
6 2 (7.14%) AppDynamics
6 2 (7.14%) ForgeRock
6 2 (7.14%) IBM Sterling
6 2 (7.14%) Microsoft
6 2 (7.14%) Oracle
6 2 (7.14%) xMatters
7 1 (3.57%) Databricks
7 1 (3.57%) Google
7 1 (3.57%) NetApp