Linux Engineer Contracts in South Yorkshire

Linux Engineer
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The median Linux Engineer daily rate in South Yorkshire is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 25 June 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 58 -
Rank change year-on-year +5 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 8 2 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 1.69% 0.41% -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.86% 0.46% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 0
10th Percentile £420 £233 -
25th Percentile £450 £233 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £238 -
Median % change year-on-year +121.05% - -
75th Percentile £538 £243 -
90th Percentile £605 £244 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £525 £613 £548
% change year-on-year -14.29% +11.87% +21.67%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in South Yorkshire. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in South Yorkshire with a recognized job title 430 433 461
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.91% 88.55% 91.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 289 259 318
10th Percentile £268 £235 £247
25th Percentile £380 £409 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £474 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.20% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £545 £580 £672
90th Percentile £628 £616 £743
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £493 £525
% change year-on-year -3.55% -6.19% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 16 4
10th Percentile - £10.90 £12.95
25th Percentile £18.10 £12.26 £15.88
Median hourly rate £18.35 £13.23 £18.86
Median % change year-on-year +38.72% -29.85% -0.74%
75th Percentile £18.50 £21.63 £22.56
90th Percentile £18.51 £22.88 £22.68
Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.24 £17.50 £20.50
% change year-on-year +21.37% -14.63% +10.81%

Linux Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Job postings that featured Linux Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Linux Engineer in South Yorkshire

Linux Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Linux Engineer in South Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for Linux Engineer in South Yorkshire

Linux Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux Engineer in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 25 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Linux Engineer in South Yorkshire

Linux Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Linux Engineer in South Yorkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Linux Engineer in South Yorkshire

Linux Engineer
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux Engineer within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 25 June 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
Sheffield +10 8 £525 +121.05% 7
Linux Engineer
Yorkshire

Linux Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 25 June 2025, Linux Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the South Yorkshire region featuring Linux Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) Linux
2 6 (75.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (50.00%) Python
3 4 (50.00%) Red Hat
3 4 (50.00%) Finance
3 4 (50.00%) Agile
3 4 (50.00%) Ansible
4 3 (37.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (37.50%) Postman
4 3 (37.50%) DevOps
4 3 (37.50%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
4 3 (37.50%) MuleSoft
4 3 (37.50%) Data Management
4 3 (37.50%) VMware
4 3 (37.50%) Configuration Management
4 3 (37.50%) Firewall
4 3 (37.50%) TCP/IP
4 3 (37.50%) Unix
4 3 (37.50%) AIX
4 3 (37.50%) Solaris
4 3 (37.50%) Puppet
4 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
4 3 (37.50%) Git
4 3 (37.50%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 2 (25.00%) Bash
5 2 (25.00%) Problem Management
5 2 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
5 2 (25.00%) Zscaler
6 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills

Linux Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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:

Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) Firewall
1 3 (37.50%) TCP/IP
2 1 (12.50%) Internet
2 1 (12.50%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Git
1 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
1 3 (37.50%) Postman
General
1 4 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Linux
2 6 (75.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (37.50%) AIX
3 3 (37.50%) Solaris
3 3 (37.50%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
3 3 (37.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Agile
2 3 (37.50%) Configuration Management
2 3 (37.50%) Data Management
2 3 (37.50%) DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) Problem Management
3 2 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
4 1 (12.50%) API Integration
4 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (12.50%) Data Migration
4 1 (12.50%) Data Protection
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Management
4 1 (12.50%) Network Optimisation
4 1 (12.50%) Performance Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (12.50%) Process Improvement
4 1 (12.50%) Roadmaps
4 1 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (12.50%) Security Hardening
4 1 (12.50%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) Bash
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Veritas Cluster Server
1 3 (37.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Ansible
2 3 (37.50%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 3 (37.50%) MuleSoft
2 3 (37.50%) VMware
3 2 (25.00%) Zscaler