Linux Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Linux
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Linux skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 17 30
Rank change year-on-year -23 +13 0
Contract jobs citing Linux 68 74 28
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 6.14% 11.46% 6.15%
As % of the Operating Systems category 51.52% 59.20% 35.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 50 18
10th Percentile £358 £398 £453
25th Percentile £360 £450 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £580
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -9.48% -3.33%
75th Percentile £545 £555 £622
90th Percentile £622 £656 £641
Yorkshire median daily rate £508 £501 £598
% change year-on-year +1.40% -16.23% +3.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £25.84 - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.84 - £52.50
% change year-on-year - - +183.78%

All Operating Systems
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 132 125 78
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 11.91% 19.35% 17.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 78 51
10th Percentile £200 £150 £210
25th Percentile £358 £358 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £469 £515
Median % change year-on-year +6.61% -8.93% +8.42%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £588
90th Percentile £675 £617 £625
Yorkshire median daily rate £425 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £18.10 £20.50
Median hourly rate £25.84 £18.21 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +41.94% -15.33% +13.16%
75th Percentile - £18.41 £22.00
90th Percentile - £18.47 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £19.00 £18.51 £17.50
% change year-on-year +2.67% +5.74% -12.50%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Linux job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Linux
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Linux.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Linux

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 11 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in South Yorkshire

Linux
Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Linux.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Linux

Linux
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 within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 11 September 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
Sheffield -29 61 £509 -2.16% 10
Linux
Yorkshire

Linux
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 4 (5.88%) Confluence
2 3 (4.41%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (4.41%) WebSphere
3 2 (2.94%) Apache
3 2 (2.94%) nginx
4 1 (1.47%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 15 (22.06%) GCP
2 14 (20.59%) Azure
3 13 (19.12%) AWS
4 10 (14.71%) GitHub
5 7 (10.29%) OpenShift
6 6 (8.82%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (4.41%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (4.41%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (4.41%) Datadog
7 3 (4.41%) Entra ID
7 3 (4.41%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (2.94%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (2.94%) Azure Databricks
8 2 (2.94%) Azure Functions
8 2 (2.94%) Azure Storage
8 2 (2.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (2.94%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 2 (2.94%) IaaS
8 2 (2.94%) npm
8 2 (2.94%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (10.29%) Firewall
1 7 (10.29%) SAN
2 3 (4.41%) DNS
3 2 (2.94%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.47%) BGP
4 1 (1.47%) BIG-IP
4 1 (1.47%) Calico
4 1 (1.47%) DHCP
4 1 (1.47%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 1 (1.47%) HTTP
4 1 (1.47%) iSCSI
4 1 (1.47%) NaaS
4 1 (1.47%) SNMP
4 1 (1.47%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.88%) NoSQL
1 4 (5.88%) Oracle Database
2 3 (4.41%) BusinessObjects
2 3 (4.41%) Data Lake
2 3 (4.41%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (2.94%) Big Data
3 2 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.47%) InfluxDB
4 1 (1.47%) MySQL
4 1 (1.47%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (1.47%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.47%) Power BI
4 1 (1.47%) Qlik Sense
4 1 (1.47%) QlikView
4 1 (1.47%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.47%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.47%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (14.71%) JIRA
2 9 (13.24%) Jenkins
3 7 (10.29%) Git
4 2 (2.94%) Bitbucket
4 2 (2.94%) GitLab
4 2 (2.94%) Maven
4 2 (2.94%) SonarQube
4 2 (2.94%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (1.47%) Jaeger
General
1 19 (27.94%) Social Skills
2 11 (16.18%) Finance
3 8 (11.76%) Banking
4 5 (7.35%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (5.88%) Law
6 3 (4.41%) Corporate Banking
6 3 (4.41%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.47%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.47%) Legal
7 1 (1.47%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (10.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (8.82%) Data Centre Engineer
2 6 (8.82%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (8.82%) Lead
2 6 (8.82%) Platform Engineer
2 6 (8.82%) Support Engineer
3 5 (7.35%) Developer
3 5 (7.35%) ICT Engineer
3 5 (7.35%) Storage Manager
4 4 (5.88%) Applications Tester
4 4 (5.88%) IT Engineer
4 4 (5.88%) Kubernetes Engineer
4 4 (5.88%) Senior
4 4 (5.88%) Tester
4 4 (5.88%) Web Applications Tester
4 4 (5.88%) Web Tester
5 3 (4.41%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (4.41%) Cloud Engineer
5 3 (4.41%) GCP Engineer
5 3 (4.41%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (33.82%) Terraform
2 6 (8.82%) Redfish
3 5 (7.35%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (5.88%) Kafka
5 3 (4.41%) Jakarta EE
5 3 (4.41%) YAML
6 2 (2.94%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (2.94%) HTML
6 2 (2.94%) Web Services
7 1 (1.47%) ARM Templates
7 1 (1.47%) Keycloak
7 1 (1.47%) LDAP
7 1 (1.47%) Loki
7 1 (1.47%) OpenID
7 1 (1.47%) OpenTelemetry
7 1 (1.47%) RESTful
7 1 (1.47%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 11 (16.18%) Cloud Native
1 11 (16.18%) Linux Command Line
2 10 (14.71%) Data Centre
3 9 (13.24%) PKI
4 7 (10.29%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (7.35%) Enterprise Storage
6 4 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (4.41%) Clustering
7 3 (4.41%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (4.41%) Public Cloud
7 3 (4.41%) Replication
8 2 (2.94%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (2.94%) Mainframe
9 1 (1.47%) EMC VMAX
9 1 (1.47%) Private Cloud
9 1 (1.47%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 25 (36.76%) Windows
2 11 (16.18%) Unix
3 8 (11.76%) Windows Server
4 6 (8.82%) zOS
5 4 (5.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (4.41%) AIX
6 3 (4.41%) Solaris
6 3 (4.41%) VMS
7 2 (2.94%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (42.65%) CI/CD
2 22 (32.35%) Infrastructure as Code
3 21 (30.88%) DevOps
4 15 (22.06%) Continuous Improvement
5 14 (20.59%) Agile
5 14 (20.59%) Observability
5 14 (20.59%) Runbook
6 13 (19.12%) Disaster Recovery
6 13 (19.12%) Platform Engineering
7 12 (17.65%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 11 (16.18%) Incident Management
8 11 (16.18%) Test Automation
9 9 (13.24%) High Availability
9 9 (13.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 8 (11.76%) Capacity Planning
10 8 (11.76%) Cybersecurity
10 8 (11.76%) Load Balancing
10 8 (11.76%) Problem Management
10 8 (11.76%) Root Cause Analysis
11 7 (10.29%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 32 (47.06%) Python
2 21 (30.88%) PowerShell
3 19 (27.94%) Bash
4 17 (25.00%) SQL
5 13 (19.12%) Java
6 7 (10.29%) Shell Script
7 5 (7.35%) JCL
8 4 (5.88%) JavaScript
8 4 (5.88%) Kotlin
8 4 (5.88%) Kusto Query Language
9 3 (4.41%) Go
10 2 (2.94%) C#
10 2 (2.94%) Groovy
10 2 (2.94%) Perl
10 2 (2.94%) REXX
11 1 (1.47%) Bicep
11 1 (1.47%) VB
Qualifications
1 4 (5.88%) Microsoft Certified Professional
2 3 (4.41%) Network+ Certification
3 2 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (2.94%) Degree
3 2 (2.94%) RHCA
3 2 (2.94%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.94%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.47%) A+ Certification
4 1 (1.47%) CCNA
4 1 (1.47%) CEH
4 1 (1.47%) CISA
4 1 (1.47%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.47%) CISM
4 1 (1.47%) CISSP
4 1 (1.47%) CRISC
4 1 (1.47%) ECDL
4 1 (1.47%) MCSE
4 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.47%) RHCE
4 1 (1.47%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.47%) HIPAA
2 1 (1.47%) NIST
2 1 (1.47%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.47%) SOC 2
System Software
1 13 (19.12%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (17.65%) Docker
3 7 (10.29%) KVM
3 7 (10.29%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (8.82%) Firmware
5 5 (7.35%) Active Directory
5 5 (7.35%) Hyper-V
5 5 (7.35%) NFS
5 5 (7.35%) Time Sharing Option
6 1 (1.47%) Ceph
6 1 (1.47%) NDS
6 1 (1.47%) NetIQ eDirectory
6 1 (1.47%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 26 (38.24%) Kubernetes
2 23 (33.82%) Ansible
3 10 (14.71%) Grafana
3 10 (14.71%) Prometheus
4 6 (8.82%) Dell DRAC
5 5 (7.35%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 4 (5.88%) Istio
7 2 (2.94%) Argo
8 1 (1.47%) Cilium
8 1 (1.47%) EMC NetWorker
8 1 (1.47%) Packer
8 1 (1.47%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 13 (19.12%) VMware
2 10 (14.71%) Microsoft
3 8 (11.76%) Oracle
4 7 (10.29%) Dell
5 6 (8.82%) Broadcom
5 6 (8.82%) Google
5 6 (8.82%) IBM
5 6 (8.82%) Splunk
6 5 (7.35%) AppDynamics
6 5 (7.35%) Brocade
6 5 (7.35%) Juniper
7 4 (5.88%) Red Hat
8 3 (4.41%) Databricks
8 3 (4.41%) SAP
9 2 (2.94%) Checkmarx
9 2 (2.94%) Cisco
10 1 (1.47%) Commvault
10 1 (1.47%) Dynatrace
10 1 (1.47%) EMC
10 1 (1.47%) HP