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 30 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 27 21
Rank change year-on-year +11 -6 -6
Contract jobs citing Linux 94 31 31
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 13.43% 6.95% 8.09%
As % of the Operating Systems category 67.63% 37.80% 59.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 19 8
10th Percentile £400 £444 £293
25th Percentile £450 £522 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £580 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.48% -3.33% +17.07%
75th Percentile £538 £622 £613
90th Percentile £643 £640 £665
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £595 £575
% change year-on-year -15.97% +3.48% +4.55%

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 139 82 52
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 19.86% 18.39% 13.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 51 24
10th Percentile £323 £209 £190
25th Percentile £384 £405 £217
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.18% -1.90% +5.00%
75th Percentile £538 £589 £631
90th Percentile £617 £625 £688
Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £453 £450
% change year-on-year -0.55% +0.56% +15.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 2
10th Percentile - £16.28 £18.65
25th Percentile - £17.86 £18.88
Median hourly rate £25.15 £21.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.76% +7.69% +32.20%
75th Percentile - £21.50 £19.88
90th Percentile - - £19.95
Yorkshire median hourly rate £26.33 £17.50 £20.66
% change year-on-year +50.43% -15.27% -0.60%

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 30 October 2025.

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 30 October 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 +8 93 £525 -9.48% 6
Doncaster - 1 - - 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 3 (3.19%) Apache
1 3 (3.19%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (3.19%) Apache Spark
1 3 (3.19%) TPMS
2 2 (2.13%) CICS
2 2 (2.13%) Tomcat
2 2 (2.13%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.06%) Confluence
3 1 (1.06%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.06%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 36 (38.30%) AWS
1 36 (38.30%) GCP
2 31 (32.98%) Serverless
3 7 (7.45%) GitHub
4 6 (6.38%) AWS KMS
5 4 (4.26%) Azure
6 3 (3.19%) OpenShift
7 2 (2.13%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.06%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.06%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.06%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 1 (1.06%) IaaS
8 1 (1.06%) PaaS
8 1 (1.06%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (14.89%) Firewall
2 7 (7.45%) TCP/IP
3 5 (5.32%) DNS
4 4 (4.26%) NAS
4 4 (4.26%) SAN
5 3 (3.19%) SNMP
5 3 (3.19%) SSH
5 3 (3.19%) SSL
6 2 (2.13%) Network Security
7 1 (1.06%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (1.06%) DHCP
7 1 (1.06%) FCoE
7 1 (1.06%) Fibre Channel
7 1 (1.06%) Internet
7 1 (1.06%) iSCSI
7 1 (1.06%) LAN
7 1 (1.06%) Multicast
7 1 (1.06%) VLAN
7 1 (1.06%) VPN
7 1 (1.06%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (35.11%) NoSQL
2 16 (17.02%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (13.83%) Oracle Database
4 11 (11.70%) SQL Server
5 3 (3.19%) Apache Hive
5 3 (3.19%) Hadoop
5 3 (3.19%) HBase
6 2 (2.13%) MySQL
7 1 (1.06%) BigQuery
7 1 (1.06%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.06%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 48 (51.06%) Jenkins
2 34 (36.17%) GitLab
3 23 (24.47%) Liquibase
4 20 (21.28%) Git
5 7 (7.45%) Postman
6 4 (4.26%) JIRA
7 2 (2.13%) Bitbucket
7 2 (2.13%) Jaeger
7 2 (2.13%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (1.06%) Gradle
8 1 (1.06%) Maven
General
1 46 (48.94%) Social Skills
2 45 (47.87%) Finance
3 31 (32.98%) Banking
4 25 (26.60%) Financial Institution
5 3 (3.19%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.19%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (2.13%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.13%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.06%) Back Office
7 1 (1.06%) Front Office
7 1 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (21.28%) Senior
2 16 (17.02%) Cloud Engineer
2 16 (17.02%) DevOps Engineer
3 15 (15.96%) Linux Engineer
3 15 (15.96%) Software Engineer
4 14 (14.89%) GCP Engineer
5 10 (10.64%) Senior Software Engineer
6 9 (9.57%) Automation Engineer
6 9 (9.57%) AWS Engineer
7 8 (8.51%) AWS Software Engineer
8 7 (7.45%) Cloud Software Engineer
9 6 (6.38%) Senior Linux Engineer
10 5 (5.32%) DBA
10 5 (5.32%) Developer
10 5 (5.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (5.32%) Oracle DBA
10 5 (5.32%) Senior DevOps
10 5 (5.32%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 5 (5.32%) Senior Technical Engineer
10 5 (5.32%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (35.11%) Elastic Stack
2 32 (34.04%) REST
3 31 (32.98%) RESTful
4 10 (10.64%) FastAPI
5 6 (6.38%) Middleware
6 3 (3.19%) Spark Streaming
7 2 (2.13%) LDAP
7 2 (2.13%) OpenTelemetry
7 2 (2.13%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 30 (31.91%) Public Cloud
2 29 (30.85%) Distributed Systems
3 24 (25.53%) Cloud Native
4 8 (8.51%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (5.32%) Data Centre
5 5 (5.32%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (3.19%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.13%) Clustering
7 2 (2.13%) Derivative
7 2 (2.13%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (2.13%) Mainframe
7 2 (2.13%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.13%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.13%) Replication
8 1 (1.06%) Fat Client
8 1 (1.06%) IBM Mainframe
8 1 (1.06%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (1.06%) Private Cloud
8 1 (1.06%) Thin Client
8 1 (1.06%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (17.02%) Windows
2 12 (12.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (7.45%) Unix
4 5 (5.32%) Solaris
5 4 (4.26%) Windows Server
6 3 (3.19%) AIX
6 3 (3.19%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 2 (2.13%) CentOS
7 2 (2.13%) Ubuntu
7 2 (2.13%) VMS
7 2 (2.13%) zOS
8 1 (1.06%) MVS
8 1 (1.06%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (1.06%) SUSE
8 1 (1.06%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (62.77%) DevOps
2 51 (54.26%) Agile
3 47 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 36 (38.30%) Containerisation
5 33 (35.11%) Root Cause Analysis
6 32 (34.04%) Infrastructure as Code
7 31 (32.98%) Cryptography
7 31 (32.98%) Microservices
8 30 (31.91%) Computer Science
9 29 (30.85%) Data Security
10 28 (29.79%) Continuous Integration
10 28 (29.79%) Cybersecurity
10 28 (29.79%) High Availability
11 27 (28.72%) Continuous Delivery
11 27 (28.72%) Non-Functional Testing
12 24 (25.53%) Infrastructure Automation
13 23 (24.47%) Cost Optimisation
13 23 (24.47%) Software Engineering
14 20 (21.28%) Change Management
15 19 (20.21%) Data Encryption
Programming Languages
1 60 (63.83%) Python
2 31 (32.98%) Go
3 18 (19.15%) Shell Script
4 14 (14.89%) Java
5 8 (8.51%) Bash
5 8 (8.51%) SQL
6 5 (5.32%) PowerShell
7 3 (3.19%) Groovy
8 1 (1.06%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 30 (31.91%) Computer Science Degree
1 30 (31.91%) Degree
2 28 (29.79%) Master's Degree
3 11 (11.70%) AWS Certification
4 8 (8.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (3.19%) AWS Certified Developer
5 3 (3.19%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 3 (3.19%) FFIEC
5 3 (3.19%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.19%) GDPR
1 3 (3.19%) GLBA
1 3 (3.19%) NIST
1 3 (3.19%) PCI DSS
2 2 (2.13%) SLA
System Software
1 32 (34.04%) Docker
2 14 (14.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (11.70%) Oracle RAC
4 7 (7.45%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 6 (6.38%) Active Directory
6 5 (5.32%) KVM
6 5 (5.32%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (4.26%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (4.26%) VMware NSX
7 4 (4.26%) vSphere
8 3 (3.19%) HDFS
9 2 (2.13%) Hyper-V
10 1 (1.06%) Ceph
10 1 (1.06%) NFS
10 1 (1.06%) QEMU
10 1 (1.06%) SRDF
10 1 (1.06%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (1.06%) Xen
Systems Management
1 68 (72.34%) Ansible
2 40 (42.55%) Kubernetes
3 37 (39.36%) Terraform
4 35 (37.23%) Grafana
4 35 (37.23%) Prometheus
5 12 (12.77%) Puppet
6 11 (11.70%) Data Guard
7 10 (10.64%) yum
8 4 (4.26%) vCenter Server
9 3 (3.19%) EMC NetWorker
9 3 (3.19%) Hadoop YARN
9 3 (3.19%) vRealize
10 2 (2.13%) Packer
11 1 (1.06%) Argo
11 1 (1.06%) Control-M
11 1 (1.06%) Istio
11 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Clustering
11 1 (1.06%) Progress Chef
11 1 (1.06%) SCCM
11 1 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 36 (38.30%) Splunk
2 19 (20.21%) Google
3 16 (17.02%) Oracle
4 15 (15.96%) VMware
5 11 (11.70%) Microsoft
6 7 (7.45%) MuleSoft
6 7 (7.45%) Red Hat
7 6 (6.38%) F5
8 4 (4.26%) Citrix
8 4 (4.26%) EMC
8 4 (4.26%) Zscaler
9 3 (3.19%) Cisco
9 3 (3.19%) NetApp
10 2 (2.13%) AppDynamics
10 2 (2.13%) Calypso
10 2 (2.13%) Thales
11 1 (1.06%) IBM
11 1 (1.06%) Palo Alto
11 1 (1.06%) Sybase
11 1 (1.06%) xMatters