linkerd Contract Job Trends in the South East

linkerd
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring linkerd skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 178 - 199
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing linkerd 1 0 12
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.025% - 0.23%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.17% - 1.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 12
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £416 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £433 - £600
75th Percentile £449 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £438 £750 £600
% change year-on-year -41.67% +25.00% -11.11%

All Systems Management Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 586 598 720
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 14.81% 14.56% 13.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 396 448 485
10th Percentile £255 £262 £205
25th Percentile £375 £393 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% -6.98% +4.88%
75th Percentile £565 £613 £625
90th Percentile £616 £675 £699
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -5.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 7 29
10th Percentile £18.87 £18.15 £24.00
25th Percentile £19.00 £26.13 £30.00
Median hourly rate £25.00 £34.00 £49.73
Median % change year-on-year -26.47% -31.63% +10.51%
75th Percentile £55.00 £37.37 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.65 £44.00 £76.53
England median hourly rate £34.00 £37.50 £49.00
% change year-on-year -9.33% -23.47% +96.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing linkerd relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

linkerd job vacancy trend in the South East

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Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing linkerd.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing linkerd

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing linkerd within the South East region over the 6 months to 13 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
Hampshire - 1 £433 - 1
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England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) Keycloak
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) GitOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) SBOM
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Argo
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Istio
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk
1 1 (100.00%) VMware