Linux Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Linux
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring Linux skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 17 24
Rank change year-on-year 0 +7 -7
Contract jobs citing Linux 95 26 28
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 13.48% 8.36% 7.24%
As % of the Operating Systems category 71.43% 34.67% 40.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 17 9
10th Percentile £403 £481 £425
25th Percentile £450 £525 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £580 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.78% +0.87% +4.55%
75th Percentile £538 £623 £600
90th Percentile £691 £630 £610
South Yorkshire median daily rate £518 £580 £433
% change year-on-year -10.78% +34.10% -21.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £21.25
Median hourly rate - - £22.50
75th Percentile - - £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
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 133 75 69
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 18.87% 24.12% 17.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 46 38
10th Percentile £325 £209 £189
25th Percentile £393 £430 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £527 £450
Median % change year-on-year -9.78% +17.00% -15.09%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £588
90th Percentile £626 £644 £661
South Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £520 £430
% change year-on-year -8.65% +20.93% -17.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 4
10th Percentile - £15.75 £18.95
25th Percentile - £16.54 £19.63
Median hourly rate £25.15 £18.60 £21.25
Median % change year-on-year +35.25% -12.49% +51.79%
75th Percentile - £20.42 £23.75
90th Percentile - £21.07 -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.15 £18.60 £21.25
% change year-on-year +35.25% -12.49% +51.79%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Linux job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Linux
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Linux.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Linux

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in Sheffield over the 6 months to 15 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in Sheffield

Linux
Hourly Rate Trend in Sheffield

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Linux.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Linux

Linux
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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 6 (6.32%) TPMS
2 3 (3.16%) Apache
2 3 (3.16%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (3.16%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.11%) CICS
3 2 (2.11%) Tomcat
3 2 (2.11%) WebSphere
4 1 (1.05%) Confluence
4 1 (1.05%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 38 (40.00%) AWS
2 37 (38.95%) GCP
3 31 (32.63%) Serverless
4 12 (12.63%) OpenShift
5 6 (6.32%) AWS KMS
5 6 (6.32%) Azure
6 5 (5.26%) GitHub
7 3 (3.16%) Entra ID
7 3 (3.16%) IaaS
7 3 (3.16%) PaaS
7 3 (3.16%) SaaS
8 2 (2.11%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (1.05%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (1.05%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.05%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 11 (11.58%) Firewall
2 7 (7.37%) DNS
3 6 (6.32%) SNMP
3 6 (6.32%) SSH
3 6 (6.32%) SSL
4 4 (4.21%) NAS
4 4 (4.21%) SAN
5 3 (3.16%) DHCP
5 3 (3.16%) VPN
6 1 (1.05%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (1.05%) FCoE
6 1 (1.05%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (1.05%) iSCSI
6 1 (1.05%) LAN
6 1 (1.05%) Multicast
6 1 (1.05%) VSAN
6 1 (1.05%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (34.74%) NoSQL
2 16 (16.84%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (12.63%) Oracle Database
4 11 (11.58%) SQL Server
5 3 (3.16%) Apache Hive
5 3 (3.16%) Hadoop
5 3 (3.16%) HBase
6 2 (2.11%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 41 (43.16%) Jenkins
2 35 (36.84%) GitLab
3 23 (24.21%) Liquibase
4 15 (15.79%) Git
5 4 (4.21%) JIRA
6 3 (3.16%) Jaeger
7 2 (2.11%) Bitbucket
7 2 (2.11%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (1.05%) Gradle
8 1 (1.05%) Maven
General
1 50 (52.63%) Social Skills
2 44 (46.32%) Finance
3 30 (31.58%) Banking
4 27 (28.42%) Financial Institution
5 6 (6.32%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (3.16%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.16%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.11%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.11%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (17.89%) Senior
2 16 (16.84%) Cloud Engineer
2 16 (16.84%) DevOps Engineer
3 15 (15.79%) Software Engineer
4 14 (14.74%) GCP Engineer
5 10 (10.53%) Senior Software Engineer
6 9 (9.47%) Administrator
6 9 (9.47%) AWS Engineer
7 8 (8.42%) Automation Engineer
7 8 (8.42%) AWS Software Engineer
7 8 (8.42%) Linux Engineer
8 7 (7.37%) Cloud Software Engineer
9 6 (6.32%) Cryptography Engineer
10 5 (5.26%) GCP Software Engineer
10 5 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (5.26%) Python Engineer
10 5 (5.26%) Senior DevOps
10 5 (5.26%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 4 (4.21%) DBA
11 4 (4.21%) Oracle DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (40.00%) Elastic Stack
2 32 (33.68%) REST
3 31 (32.63%) RESTful
4 10 (10.53%) FastAPI
5 7 (7.37%) Middleware
6 4 (4.21%) OpenTelemetry
7 3 (3.16%) Spark Streaming
8 2 (2.11%) Kafka
8 2 (2.11%) LDAP
8 2 (2.11%) Spring
8 2 (2.11%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 31 (32.63%) Distributed Systems
2 29 (30.53%) Public Cloud
3 24 (25.26%) Cloud Native
4 7 (7.37%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (5.26%) Data Centre
6 4 (4.21%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (4.21%) Management Information System
7 3 (3.16%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (3.16%) Product Ownership
8 2 (2.11%) Clustering
8 2 (2.11%) Derivative
8 2 (2.11%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (2.11%) Mainframe
8 2 (2.11%) Onboarding
8 2 (2.11%) Replication
9 1 (1.05%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (1.05%) IBM Mainframe
9 1 (1.05%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (1.05%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 22 (23.16%) Windows
2 3 (3.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (3.16%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.11%) Solaris
3 2 (2.11%) VMS
3 2 (2.11%) zOS
4 1 (1.05%) MVS
4 1 (1.05%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (61.05%) DevOps
2 54 (56.84%) CI/CD
3 44 (46.32%) Agile
4 38 (40.00%) Root Cause Analysis
5 37 (38.95%) Containerisation
5 37 (38.95%) Infrastructure as Code
6 35 (36.84%) Microservices
7 34 (35.79%) Cryptography
8 32 (33.68%) Computer Science
8 32 (33.68%) Cybersecurity
8 32 (33.68%) Data Security
9 28 (29.47%) Continuous Integration
9 28 (29.47%) High Availability
10 27 (28.42%) Continuous Delivery
10 27 (28.42%) Non-Functional Testing
11 25 (26.32%) Infrastructure Automation
12 24 (25.26%) Problem-Solving
13 23 (24.21%) Cost Optimisation
13 23 (24.21%) Software Engineering
14 20 (21.05%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 56 (58.95%) Python
2 31 (32.63%) Go
3 17 (17.89%) Shell Script
4 15 (15.79%) Java
5 9 (9.47%) SQL
6 7 (7.37%) Bash
6 7 (7.37%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.11%) Groovy
7 2 (2.11%) Rust
8 1 (1.05%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 32 (33.68%) Degree
2 30 (31.58%) Computer Science Degree
3 28 (29.47%) Master's Degree
4 11 (11.58%) AWS Certification
5 8 (8.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 6 (6.32%) FFIEC
7 4 (4.21%) Security Cleared
8 3 (3.16%) AWS Certified Developer
8 3 (3.16%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.32%) GDPR
1 6 (6.32%) GLBA
1 6 (6.32%) NIST
1 6 (6.32%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.05%) SLA
System Software
1 32 (33.68%) Docker
2 10 (10.53%) Oracle RAC
3 8 (8.42%) Active Directory
4 7 (7.37%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (5.26%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (4.21%) KVM
6 4 (4.21%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (4.21%) VMware NSX
6 4 (4.21%) vSphere
7 3 (3.16%) HDFS
8 2 (2.11%) Hyper-V
9 1 (1.05%) NFS
9 1 (1.05%) SRDF
9 1 (1.05%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 1 (1.05%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (1.05%) Xen
Systems Management
1 67 (70.53%) Ansible
2 49 (51.58%) Kubernetes
3 46 (48.42%) Terraform
4 42 (44.21%) Prometheus
5 41 (43.16%) Grafana
6 10 (10.53%) Data Guard
6 10 (10.53%) yum
7 6 (6.32%) Puppet
8 5 (5.26%) EMC NetWorker
9 4 (4.21%) vCenter Server
10 3 (3.16%) Hadoop YARN
10 3 (3.16%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (3.16%) vRealize
11 2 (2.11%) Kiali
11 2 (2.11%) Packer
12 1 (1.05%) Argo
12 1 (1.05%) Podman
12 1 (1.05%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 40 (42.11%) Splunk
2 19 (20.00%) Google
3 14 (14.74%) Oracle
4 10 (10.53%) VMware
5 9 (9.47%) Microsoft
6 6 (6.32%) F5
7 5 (5.26%) Thales
8 4 (4.21%) Citrix
8 4 (4.21%) EMC
9 3 (3.16%) Cisco
9 3 (3.16%) NetApp
10 2 (2.11%) Calypso
11 1 (1.05%) AppDynamics
11 1 (1.05%) CrowdStrike
11 1 (1.05%) Dell
11 1 (1.05%) IBM
11 1 (1.05%) Palo Alto
11 1 (1.05%) Pure Storage
11 1 (1.05%) Red Hat
11 1 (1.05%) Sybase