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 15 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 15 8
Rank change year-on-year -11 -7 +11
Contract jobs citing Linux 104 38 65
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 9.45% 10.22% 14.29%
As % of the Operating Systems category 64.60% 49.35% 46.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 27 42
10th Percentile £358 £458 £403
25th Percentile £386 £506 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £575 £435
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% +32.18% -19.07%
75th Percentile £537 £630 £530
90th Percentile £688 £780 £563
Yorkshire median daily rate £463 £550 £493
% change year-on-year -15.91% +11.68% -10.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £21.25
Median hourly rate - - £22.50
75th Percentile - - £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate - - £22.50
% change year-on-year - - +21.62%

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 161 77 140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 14.64% 20.70% 30.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 52 91
10th Percentile £358 £150 £200
25th Percentile £386 £343 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £525 £430
Median % change year-on-year -8.19% +22.09% -14.00%
75th Percentile £538 £603 £521
90th Percentile £638 £709 £588
Yorkshire median daily rate £425 £450 £415
% change year-on-year -5.56% +8.43% -11.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 7
10th Percentile - - £18.15
25th Percentile - £18.10 £21.25
Median hourly rate - £18.21 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year - -19.09% +45.16%
75th Percentile - £18.41 £23.75
90th Percentile - £18.47 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.81 £18.21 £20.14
% change year-on-year +25.30% -9.59% +3.87%

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 15 May 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 15 May 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 -7 93 £500 -13.04% 4
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 7 (6.73%) TPMS
2 5 (4.81%) Confluence
3 1 (0.96%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 31 (29.81%) OpenShift
2 22 (21.15%) AWS
3 20 (19.23%) GCP
4 19 (18.27%) Azure
5 13 (12.50%) GitHub
6 3 (2.88%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (1.92%) AWS KMS
7 2 (1.92%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (1.92%) IaaS
8 1 (0.96%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (0.96%) Datadog
8 1 (0.96%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 18 (17.31%) SAN
2 16 (15.38%) Firewall
3 7 (6.73%) SNMP
3 7 (6.73%) SSH
3 7 (6.73%) SSL
4 6 (5.77%) DNS
5 5 (4.81%) TCP/IP
6 4 (3.85%) iSCSI
7 3 (2.88%) NAS
8 1 (0.96%) BIG-IP
8 1 (0.96%) DHCP
8 1 (0.96%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 1 (0.96%) HTTP
8 1 (0.96%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.81%) NoSQL
1 5 (4.81%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (2.88%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.96%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.96%) InfluxDB
3 1 (0.96%) MySQL
3 1 (0.96%) Oracle Database
3 1 (0.96%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (0.96%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 22 (21.15%) Jenkins
2 16 (15.38%) JIRA
3 10 (9.62%) GitLab
4 9 (8.65%) Jaeger
5 6 (5.77%) Git
6 3 (2.88%) Liquibase
7 2 (1.92%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.92%) CircleCI
General
1 45 (43.27%) Social Skills
2 29 (27.88%) Finance
3 18 (17.31%) Banking
4 16 (15.38%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (7.69%) Financial Institution
6 4 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (3.85%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.88%) Law
8 1 (0.96%) Advertising
8 1 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.96%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.96%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 13 (12.50%) Lead
2 12 (11.54%) Senior
3 10 (9.62%) Data Centre Engineer
4 9 (8.65%) DevOps Engineer
4 9 (8.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 8 (7.69%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 7 (6.73%) Cryptography Engineer
7 6 (5.77%) Platform Engineer
7 6 (5.77%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
8 5 (4.81%) Administrator
9 4 (3.85%) Applications Tester
9 4 (3.85%) Developer
9 4 (3.85%) NetApp Engineer
9 4 (3.85%) Storage Manager
9 4 (3.85%) Tester
9 4 (3.85%) Web Applications Tester
9 4 (3.85%) Web Tester
10 3 (2.88%) ICT Engineer
10 3 (2.88%) Senior DevOps
10 3 (2.88%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (10.58%) Kafka
1 11 (10.58%) OpenTelemetry
1 11 (10.58%) YAML
2 9 (8.65%) Elastic Stack
3 8 (7.69%) Middleware
3 8 (7.69%) Redfish
3 8 (7.69%) Spring Boot
4 4 (3.85%) REST
5 3 (2.88%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (2.88%) RESTful
6 2 (1.92%) HTML
6 2 (1.92%) LDAP
7 1 (0.96%) FastAPI
7 1 (0.96%) Flask
7 1 (0.96%) Loki
7 1 (0.96%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 12 (11.54%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (10.58%) Data Centre
3 10 (9.62%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (6.73%) Cloud Native
4 7 (6.73%) Data Protection Act
4 7 (6.73%) Management Information System
5 5 (4.81%) Enterprise Storage
5 5 (4.81%) FlexPod
5 5 (4.81%) Product Ownership
6 4 (3.85%) EMC VMAX
6 4 (3.85%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (2.88%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.88%) PKI
7 3 (2.88%) Public Cloud
7 3 (2.88%) Replication
8 2 (1.92%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.96%) Clustering
9 1 (0.96%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (0.96%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.96%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 42 (40.38%) Windows
2 23 (22.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (7.69%) CentOS
3 8 (7.69%) Ubuntu
4 7 (6.73%) CoreOS
4 7 (6.73%) Unix
4 7 (6.73%) VMS
5 6 (5.77%) Windows Server
6 5 (4.81%) Data ONTAP
7 4 (3.85%) zOS
8 3 (2.88%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (47.12%) CI/CD
2 45 (43.27%) DevOps
3 26 (25.00%) Observability
4 23 (22.12%) Problem-Solving
5 20 (19.23%) Cybersecurity
5 20 (19.23%) Migration
6 19 (18.27%) Task Automation
7 18 (17.31%) Data Protection
8 17 (16.35%) Containerisation
8 17 (16.35%) Infrastructure Automation
8 17 (16.35%) Microservices
9 16 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
9 16 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
10 15 (14.42%) Capacity Planning
11 13 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
11 13 (12.50%) Mentoring
11 13 (12.50%) Roadmaps
11 13 (12.50%) Test Automation
12 12 (11.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 12 (11.54%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 52 (50.00%) Python
2 21 (20.19%) SQL
3 18 (17.31%) Java
4 15 (14.42%) Bash
5 9 (8.65%) Go
5 9 (8.65%) Perl
5 9 (8.65%) PowerShell
5 9 (8.65%) Ruby
6 8 (7.69%) Rust
7 6 (5.77%) Shell Script
8 5 (4.81%) JavaScript
9 4 (3.85%) JCL
9 4 (3.85%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.96%) REXX
Qualifications
1 11 (10.58%) Degree
2 10 (9.62%) RHCE
3 7 (6.73%) FFIEC
4 6 (5.77%) OCP
4 6 (5.77%) Oracle Certification
4 6 (5.77%) Security Cleared
5 3 (2.88%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.92%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.92%) RHCA
7 1 (0.96%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.96%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.96%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.96%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.96%) CISM
7 1 (0.96%) CISSP
7 1 (0.96%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.96%) RHCSA
7 1 (0.96%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.69%) PCI DSS
2 7 (6.73%) GDPR
2 7 (6.73%) GLBA
2 7 (6.73%) NIST
3 4 (3.85%) SLA
4 1 (0.96%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.96%) SOC 2
System Software
1 25 (24.04%) VMware Infrastructure
2 23 (22.12%) Docker
3 14 (13.46%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (9.62%) Firmware
4 10 (9.62%) NFS
5 9 (8.65%) KVM
6 8 (7.69%) Hyper-V
7 7 (6.73%) vSphere
8 4 (3.85%) Time Sharing Option
9 2 (1.92%) SRDF
10 1 (0.96%) Active Directory
10 1 (0.96%) Ceph
10 1 (0.96%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 56 (53.85%) Ansible
2 44 (42.31%) Kubernetes
3 26 (25.00%) Grafana
4 25 (24.04%) Terraform
5 22 (21.15%) Prometheus
6 11 (10.58%) Puppet
7 8 (7.69%) Dell DRAC
7 8 (7.69%) Kiali
8 5 (4.81%) SnapMirror
9 4 (3.85%) Tivoli Storage Manager
10 3 (2.88%) Argo
11 2 (1.92%) NetBackup
11 2 (1.92%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.96%) EMC NetWorker
12 1 (0.96%) Packer
12 1 (0.96%) PowerCLI
12 1 (0.96%) vCenter Server
12 1 (0.96%) vRealize
12 1 (0.96%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 27 (25.96%) VMware
2 24 (23.08%) Splunk
3 21 (20.19%) Red Hat
4 8 (7.69%) Broadcom
4 8 (7.69%) Dell
5 7 (6.73%) Google
5 7 (6.73%) Thales
6 6 (5.77%) NetApp
7 5 (4.81%) Oracle
8 4 (3.85%) Brocade
8 4 (3.85%) Cisco
8 4 (3.85%) HP
8 4 (3.85%) IBM
8 4 (3.85%) Microsoft
9 3 (2.88%) AppDynamics
9 3 (2.88%) Commvault
9 3 (2.88%) Pure Storage
9 3 (2.88%) ServiceNow
10 2 (1.92%) CrowdStrike
10 2 (1.92%) Juniper