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 26 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 18 15
Rank change year-on-year -10 -3 +12
Contract jobs citing Linux 95 51 60
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 7.98% 10.60% 12.17%
As % of the Operating Systems category 57.93% 49.51% 56.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 33 38
10th Percentile £358 £400 £402
25th Percentile £366 £488 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £538 £479
Median % change year-on-year -11.63% +12.33% -20.25%
75th Percentile £537 £610 £538
90th Percentile £688 £766 £580
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £538 £514
% change year-on-year -6.98% +4.57% -9.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £21.25
Median hourly rate - - £22.50
75th Percentile - - £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate - - £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 164 103 107
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 13.77% 21.41% 21.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 61 66
10th Percentile £358 £150 £193
25th Percentile £366 £374 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £462
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +13.76% -7.70%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £536
90th Percentile £675 £700 £588
Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £463 £423
% change year-on-year -2.81% +9.59% -6.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 5
10th Percentile - - £16.30
25th Percentile - £18.10 £20.50
Median hourly rate - £18.21 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year - -17.25% +41.94%
75th Percentile - £18.41 -
90th Percentile - £18.47 £23.05
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.81 £18.21 £17.50
% change year-on-year +25.27% +4.03% -10.87%

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 26 June 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 26 June 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 -18 83 £500 -6.98% 6
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 6 (6.32%) Confluence
2 4 (4.21%) TPMS
3 3 (3.16%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.05%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 23 (24.21%) OpenShift
2 17 (17.89%) AWS
3 16 (16.84%) GCP
4 14 (14.74%) Azure
5 12 (12.63%) GitHub
6 3 (3.16%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (2.11%) IaaS
8 1 (1.05%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.05%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.05%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (1.05%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (1.05%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (1.05%) Datadog
8 1 (1.05%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.05%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.05%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 20 (21.05%) SAN
2 9 (9.47%) Firewall
3 4 (4.21%) iSCSI
3 4 (4.21%) SNMP
3 4 (4.21%) SSH
3 4 (4.21%) SSL
4 3 (3.16%) NAS
5 2 (2.11%) DNS
6 1 (1.05%) BIG-IP
6 1 (1.05%) DHCP
6 1 (1.05%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 1 (1.05%) HTTP
6 1 (1.05%) Kerberos
6 1 (1.05%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.26%) NoSQL
2 4 (4.21%) Oracle Database
3 3 (3.16%) BusinessObjects
4 2 (2.11%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.05%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.05%) InfluxDB
5 1 (1.05%) MySQL
5 1 (1.05%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (1.05%) Qlik Sense
5 1 (1.05%) QlikView
5 1 (1.05%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.05%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.05%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 20 (21.05%) Jenkins
2 17 (17.89%) JIRA
3 7 (7.37%) GitLab
4 5 (5.26%) Jaeger
5 3 (3.16%) Git
5 3 (3.16%) Liquibase
6 2 (2.11%) Bitbucket
General
1 37 (38.95%) Social Skills
2 21 (22.11%) Finance
3 15 (15.79%) Banking
4 10 (10.53%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (4.21%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (4.21%) Financial Institution
6 3 (3.16%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.05%) Advertising
7 1 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.05%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.05%) Law
7 1 (1.05%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (12.63%) Data Centre Engineer
2 10 (10.53%) DevOps Engineer
3 8 (8.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 8 (8.42%) Lead
4 7 (7.37%) Senior
5 6 (6.32%) Platform Engineer
6 5 (5.26%) Developer
6 5 (5.26%) ICT Engineer
6 5 (5.26%) Storage Manager
7 4 (4.21%) Applications Tester
7 4 (4.21%) Consultant
7 4 (4.21%) Cryptography Engineer
7 4 (4.21%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 4 (4.21%) IT Engineer
7 4 (4.21%) NetApp Engineer
7 4 (4.21%) Tester
7 4 (4.21%) Web Applications Tester
7 4 (4.21%) Web Tester
8 3 (3.16%) IT Support
8 3 (3.16%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (10.53%) Redfish
2 9 (9.47%) YAML
3 7 (7.37%) OpenTelemetry
4 5 (5.26%) Elastic Stack
4 5 (5.26%) Kafka
4 5 (5.26%) RabbitMQ
5 4 (4.21%) Middleware
5 4 (4.21%) REST
5 4 (4.21%) Spring Boot
6 3 (3.16%) LDAP
6 3 (3.16%) RESTful
7 2 (2.11%) HTML
7 2 (2.11%) OpenID
8 1 (1.05%) FastAPI
8 1 (1.05%) Flask
8 1 (1.05%) Keycloak
8 1 (1.05%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 14 (14.74%) Data Centre
2 8 (8.42%) Cloud Native
2 8 (8.42%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (7.37%) Data Protection Act
3 7 (7.37%) Enterprise Storage
3 7 (7.37%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (6.32%) Linux Command Line
4 6 (6.32%) PKI
5 5 (5.26%) FlexPod
5 5 (5.26%) Replication
6 4 (4.21%) EMC VMAX
7 3 (3.16%) Clustering
7 3 (3.16%) Management Information System
7 3 (3.16%) Public Cloud
8 2 (2.11%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (2.11%) Product Ownership
9 1 (1.05%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (1.05%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 42 (44.21%) Windows
2 20 (21.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (8.42%) Windows Server
4 7 (7.37%) CoreOS
4 7 (7.37%) Unix
5 6 (6.32%) VMS
6 5 (5.26%) CentOS
6 5 (5.26%) Data ONTAP
6 5 (5.26%) Ubuntu
6 5 (5.26%) zOS
7 3 (3.16%) AIX
7 3 (3.16%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 36 (37.89%) DevOps
3 18 (18.95%) Migration
4 16 (16.84%) Capacity Planning
4 16 (16.84%) Continuous Improvement
4 16 (16.84%) Test Automation
5 15 (15.79%) Data Protection
6 14 (14.74%) Containerisation
6 14 (14.74%) Infrastructure as Code
6 14 (14.74%) Observability
7 13 (13.68%) Agile
7 13 (13.68%) Task Automation
8 12 (12.63%) Problem-Solving
8 12 (12.63%) Runbook
9 11 (11.58%) Infrastructure Automation
10 10 (10.53%) Data Centre Operations
10 10 (10.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 10 (10.53%) Infrastructure Management
10 10 (10.53%) Inventory Management
10 10 (10.53%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 45 (47.37%) Python
2 16 (16.84%) PowerShell
2 16 (16.84%) SQL
3 11 (11.58%) Bash
4 10 (10.53%) Java
5 9 (9.47%) Shell Script
6 7 (7.37%) Go
6 7 (7.37%) Perl
7 6 (6.32%) Ruby
8 5 (5.26%) JavaScript
8 5 (5.26%) JCL
9 4 (4.21%) Kotlin
9 4 (4.21%) Rust
10 2 (2.11%) REXX
11 1 (1.05%) VB
Qualifications
1 7 (7.37%) Degree
1 7 (7.37%) RHCE
2 6 (6.32%) OCP
2 6 (6.32%) Oracle Certification
3 4 (4.21%) FFIEC
3 4 (4.21%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.21%) Security Cleared
4 3 (3.16%) Microsoft Certified Professional
4 3 (3.16%) Network+ Certification
5 2 (2.11%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.11%) Master's Degree
5 2 (2.11%) RHCA
6 1 (1.05%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.05%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (1.05%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.05%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.05%) CISSP
6 1 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.05%) RHCSA
6 1 (1.05%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.26%) PCI DSS
2 4 (4.21%) GDPR
2 4 (4.21%) GLBA
2 4 (4.21%) NIST
3 1 (1.05%) HIPAA
3 1 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.05%) SOC 2
System Software
1 26 (27.37%) VMware Infrastructure
2 20 (21.05%) Docker
3 14 (14.74%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (12.63%) Firmware
5 11 (11.58%) KVM
5 11 (11.58%) NFS
6 7 (7.37%) Hyper-V
6 7 (7.37%) vSphere
7 5 (5.26%) Time Sharing Option
8 2 (2.11%) Active Directory
8 2 (2.11%) SRDF
9 1 (1.05%) Ceph
9 1 (1.05%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (1.05%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 44 (46.32%) Ansible
2 31 (32.63%) Kubernetes
3 18 (18.95%) Terraform
4 16 (16.84%) Prometheus
5 15 (15.79%) Grafana
6 10 (10.53%) Dell DRAC
7 7 (7.37%) Puppet
8 5 (5.26%) SnapMirror
8 5 (5.26%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 4 (4.21%) Kiali
10 3 (3.16%) Argo
11 2 (2.11%) NetBackup
11 2 (2.11%) Progress Chef
12 1 (1.05%) EMC NetWorker
12 1 (1.05%) Packer
12 1 (1.05%) PowerCLI
12 1 (1.05%) vCenter Server
12 1 (1.05%) vRealize
12 1 (1.05%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 26 (27.37%) VMware
2 18 (18.95%) Red Hat
3 14 (14.74%) Splunk
4 9 (9.47%) Broadcom
4 9 (9.47%) Dell
5 8 (8.42%) Google
6 6 (6.32%) Microsoft
6 6 (6.32%) NetApp
7 5 (5.26%) Brocade
7 5 (5.26%) IBM
7 5 (5.26%) Oracle
8 4 (4.21%) Cisco
8 4 (4.21%) HP
8 4 (4.21%) Juniper
8 4 (4.21%) Thales
9 3 (3.16%) Commvault
9 3 (3.16%) Pure Storage
9 3 (3.16%) SAP
10 2 (2.11%) TOWER Software
11 1 (1.05%) Databricks