linkerd Contract Job Trends in the South East

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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 4 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 181 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing linkerd 8 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.16% - -
As % of the Systems Management category 1.15% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile £356 - -
25th Percentile £402 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £433 - -
75th Percentile £457 - -
90th Percentile £497 - -
England median daily rate £480 £725 -
% change year-on-year -33.79% - -

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 695 402 689
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 13.84% 13.15% 12.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 512 288 478
10th Percentile £255 £296 £205
25th Percentile £380 £400 £276
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £563 £613 £575
90th Percentile £660 £675 £638
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -7.06% +2.48% -9.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 2 30
10th Percentile £19.00 £12.80 £22.66
25th Percentile £23.50 £13.99 £30.00
Median hourly rate £48.11 £15.99 £47.95
Median % change year-on-year +200.97% -66.66% -20.08%
75th Percentile £67.50 £17.98 £68.63
90th Percentile £81.40 £19.17 £76.53
England median hourly rate £53.25 £26.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +100.94% -33.75% -25.02%

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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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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing linkerd in the South East over the 6 months to 4 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for linkerd in the South East

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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 4 March 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
Hampshire - 8 £433 -
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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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (25.00%) Apache Pulsar
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) AWS
1 8 (100.00%) Azure
2 6 (75.00%) GitHub
2 6 (75.00%) GitHub Actions
2 6 (75.00%) OpenShift
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (25.00%) Apigee
3 2 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (25.00%) AWS KMS
3 2 (25.00%) Azure AKS
3 2 (25.00%) Azure API Management
3 2 (25.00%) GCP
3 2 (25.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 2 (25.00%) Kong
3 2 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (75.00%) PostgreSQL
1 6 (75.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (75.00%) GitLab
General
1 2 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Project Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Delivery Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Delivery Project Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Delivery Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Project Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (100.00%) Kafka
2 6 (75.00%) Keycloak
3 2 (25.00%) OAuth
3 2 (25.00%) OAuth2
3 2 (25.00%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (12.50%) Chip and PIN
2 1 (12.50%) EMV
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 8 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 8 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 8 (100.00%) Observability
2 7 (87.50%) Platform Engineering
3 6 (75.00%) DevOps
3 6 (75.00%) GitOps
4 5 (62.50%) DevSecOps
4 5 (62.50%) SBOM
5 2 (25.00%) Auto-Scaling
5 2 (25.00%) Cloud Security
5 2 (25.00%) Cost Optimisation
5 2 (25.00%) Data Encryption
5 2 (25.00%) Decision-Making
5 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (25.00%) Low Latency
5 2 (25.00%) Microservices
5 2 (25.00%) Network Virtualisation
5 2 (25.00%) Re-Platforming
5 2 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) Bash
1 6 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 7 (87.50%) Security Cleared
2 6 (75.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Certification
3 1 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (12.50%) Degree
3 1 (12.50%) PMI Certification
3 1 (12.50%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (62.50%) NCSC
2 2 (25.00%) PCI DSS
3 1 (12.50%) ISO 20022
3 1 (12.50%) ISO 8583
Systems Management
1 8 (100.00%) Grafana
1 8 (100.00%) Istio
1 8 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 8 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 8 (100.00%) Terraform
2 6 (75.00%) Ansible
2 6 (75.00%) Argo
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) Splunk
2 6 (75.00%) Red Hat
2 6 (75.00%) VMware