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 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 20 16 4
Rank change year-on-year -4 -12 +17
Contract jobs citing Linux 115 28 66
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 11.73% 9.89% 16.06%
As % of the Operating Systems category 70.55% 41.79% 52.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 19 40
10th Percentile £366 £442 £398
25th Percentile £432 £491 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £435
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +32.18% -17.14%
75th Percentile £538 £611 £538
90th Percentile £696 £676 £588
Yorkshire median daily rate £494 £575 £463
% change year-on-year -14.17% +24.32% -15.91%
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 - £41.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year - +82.22% -20.43%

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 163 67 125
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 16.63% 23.67% 30.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 47 79
10th Percentile £333 £209 £190
25th Percentile £404 £387 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £430
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +22.09% -14.00%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £534
90th Percentile £688 £650 £588
Yorkshire median daily rate £425 £450 £378
% change year-on-year -5.56% +19.21% -11.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 5
10th Percentile - - £16.60
25th Percentile - £15.22 £21.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £16.19 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +55.34% -28.04% +48.81%
75th Percentile - £17.16 £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.06 £17.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year +26.03% -22.22% +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 4 March 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 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
Sheffield -3 108 £500 -14.16% 12
Doncaster - 1 - - 1
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 10 (8.70%) TPMS
2 2 (1.74%) Confluence
3 1 (0.87%) nginx
3 1 (0.87%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 39 (33.91%) AWS
1 39 (33.91%) GCP
2 28 (24.35%) OpenShift
3 21 (18.26%) Serverless
4 17 (14.78%) Azure
5 12 (10.43%) GitHub
6 8 (6.96%) AWS KMS
7 3 (2.61%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (2.61%) Entra ID
7 3 (2.61%) IaaS
7 3 (2.61%) PaaS
7 3 (2.61%) SaaS
8 2 (1.74%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (1.74%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.87%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 18 (15.65%) Firewall
2 10 (8.70%) SAN
2 10 (8.70%) SNMP
2 10 (8.70%) SSH
2 10 (8.70%) SSL
3 9 (7.83%) DNS
4 5 (4.35%) TCP/IP
5 3 (2.61%) DHCP
5 3 (2.61%) VPN
6 2 (1.74%) iSCSI
6 2 (1.74%) NAS
7 1 (0.87%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.87%) VLAN
7 1 (0.87%) VSAN
7 1 (0.87%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (18.26%) NoSQL
2 19 (16.52%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (2.61%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.74%) MySQL
4 2 (1.74%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.87%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.87%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.87%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 42 (36.52%) Jenkins
2 30 (26.09%) GitLab
3 15 (13.04%) Liquibase
4 10 (8.70%) JIRA
5 8 (6.96%) Git
5 8 (6.96%) Jaeger
6 2 (1.74%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.74%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.87%) Gradle
7 1 (0.87%) Maven
7 1 (0.87%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 56 (48.70%) Social Skills
2 51 (44.35%) Finance
3 34 (29.57%) Banking
4 24 (20.87%) Financial Institution
5 18 (15.65%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (4.35%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.61%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.74%) Law
8 2 (1.74%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.74%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.87%) Advertising
9 1 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.87%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 20 (17.39%) Senior
2 17 (14.78%) Cloud Engineer
3 16 (13.91%) GCP Engineer
4 14 (12.17%) DevOps Engineer
5 13 (11.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 13 (11.30%) Software Engineer
6 12 (10.43%) Lead
7 10 (8.70%) Administrator
7 10 (8.70%) Cryptography Engineer
7 10 (8.70%) Senior Software Engineer
8 8 (6.96%) AWS Engineer
8 8 (6.96%) Cloud Software Engineer
8 8 (6.96%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 7 (6.09%) Senior DevOps
9 7 (6.09%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 6 (5.22%) AWS Software Engineer
10 6 (5.22%) GCP Software Engineer
10 6 (5.22%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 6 (5.22%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
11 5 (4.35%) GCP DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (26.09%) Elastic Stack
2 26 (22.61%) REST
3 22 (19.13%) RESTful
4 11 (9.57%) OpenTelemetry
5 10 (8.70%) Kafka
6 9 (7.83%) YAML
7 8 (6.96%) Middleware
7 8 (6.96%) Spring Boot
8 3 (2.61%) Redfish
9 2 (1.74%) LDAP
9 2 (1.74%) Spring
10 1 (0.87%) FastAPI
10 1 (0.87%) Flask
10 1 (0.87%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 32 (27.83%) Distributed Systems
2 24 (20.87%) Public Cloud
3 19 (16.52%) Cloud Native
4 14 (12.17%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (6.09%) Management Information System
6 5 (4.35%) Data Centre
6 5 (4.35%) FlexPod
6 5 (4.35%) Onboarding
6 5 (4.35%) Product Ownership
7 4 (3.48%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.74%) Derivative
8 2 (1.74%) EMC VMAX
8 2 (1.74%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.74%) Replication
8 2 (1.74%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.87%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.87%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.87%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 38 (33.04%) Windows
2 21 (18.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (7.83%) CentOS
3 9 (7.83%) Ubuntu
4 7 (6.09%) Unix
5 6 (5.22%) VMS
6 5 (4.35%) CoreOS
6 5 (4.35%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (59.13%) CI/CD
2 67 (58.26%) DevOps
3 37 (32.17%) Containerisation
3 37 (32.17%) Cybersecurity
4 36 (31.30%) Infrastructure as Code
5 35 (30.43%) Root Cause Analysis
6 32 (27.83%) Microservices
7 31 (26.96%) Cryptography
8 30 (26.09%) Computer Science
9 28 (24.35%) Observability
10 27 (23.48%) Data Security
11 26 (22.61%) Infrastructure Automation
12 25 (21.74%) Agile
13 23 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
14 22 (19.13%) High Availability
15 21 (18.26%) Continuous Delivery
15 21 (18.26%) Continuous Integration
16 19 (16.52%) Non-Functional Testing
17 18 (15.65%) Software Engineering
18 17 (14.78%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 61 (53.04%) Python
2 26 (22.61%) Go
3 20 (17.39%) SQL
4 16 (13.91%) Java
5 15 (13.04%) Bash
6 9 (7.83%) PowerShell
6 9 (7.83%) Ruby
7 8 (6.96%) Perl
7 8 (6.96%) Rust
7 8 (6.96%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.74%) Groovy
9 1 (0.87%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 30 (26.09%) Degree
2 21 (18.26%) Master's Degree
3 20 (17.39%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (8.70%) FFIEC
5 9 (7.83%) RHCE
6 7 (6.09%) Security Cleared
7 6 (5.22%) OCP
7 6 (5.22%) Oracle Certification
8 5 (4.35%) AWS Certification
9 3 (2.61%) AWS Certified Developer
9 3 (2.61%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (1.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (1.74%) SC Cleared
11 1 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.87%) CISM
11 1 (0.87%) CISSP
11 1 (0.87%) RHCSA
11 1 (0.87%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.70%) GDPR
1 10 (8.70%) GLBA
1 10 (8.70%) NIST
1 10 (8.70%) PCI DSS
2 5 (4.35%) SLA
System Software
1 39 (33.91%) Docker
2 15 (13.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (11.30%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (6.96%) vSphere
5 7 (6.09%) KVM
6 6 (5.22%) NFS
7 5 (4.35%) Firmware
8 4 (3.48%) Hyper-V
9 3 (2.61%) Active Directory
10 2 (1.74%) SRDF
10 2 (1.74%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.87%) Ceph
11 1 (0.87%) QEMU
11 1 (0.87%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 74 (64.35%) Ansible
2 64 (55.65%) Kubernetes
3 47 (40.87%) Terraform
4 45 (39.13%) Grafana
5 42 (36.52%) Prometheus
6 12 (10.43%) Puppet
7 8 (6.96%) Kiali
8 5 (4.35%) EMC NetWorker
8 5 (4.35%) SnapMirror
9 3 (2.61%) Dell DRAC
9 3 (2.61%) Progress Chef
9 3 (2.61%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (1.74%) Argo
10 2 (1.74%) Packer
10 2 (1.74%) vCenter Server
11 1 (0.87%) NetBackup
11 1 (0.87%) Podman
11 1 (0.87%) PowerCLI
11 1 (0.87%) vRealize
11 1 (0.87%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 47 (40.87%) Splunk
2 19 (16.52%) Red Hat
3 18 (15.65%) Google
4 17 (14.78%) VMware
5 10 (8.70%) Thales
6 7 (6.09%) NetApp
7 6 (5.22%) Oracle
8 4 (3.48%) AppDynamics
9 3 (2.61%) Cisco
9 3 (2.61%) Dell
9 3 (2.61%) Microsoft
9 3 (2.61%) ServiceNow
10 2 (1.74%) Broadcom
10 2 (1.74%) Calypso
10 2 (1.74%) CrowdStrike
10 2 (1.74%) EMC
10 2 (1.74%) HP
10 2 (1.74%) TOWER Software
11 1 (0.87%) BiZZdesign
11 1 (0.87%) Databricks