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 28 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 18 27
Rank change year-on-year -24 +9 +1
Contract jobs citing Linux 71 71 35
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 6.40% 11.27% 7.58%
As % of the Operating Systems category 51.08% 57.72% 41.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 46 22
10th Percentile - £392 £411
25th Percentile £358 £450 £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £525 £555
Median % change year-on-year -21.95% -5.41% -7.50%
75th Percentile £528 £555 £615
90th Percentile £615 £638 £636
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £515 £580
% change year-on-year -2.91% -11.21% +0.87%
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 139 123 84
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 12.53% 19.52% 18.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 73 53
10th Percentile £200 £150 £210
25th Percentile £358 £345 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.78% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £538 £538 £588
90th Percentile £675 £612 £624
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 £22.80 £18.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year +23.24% +5.71% -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 28 August 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 28 August 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 -24 62 £488 -6.25% 12
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 (5.63%) Confluence
2 3 (4.23%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (4.23%) WebSphere
3 2 (2.82%) Apache
3 2 (2.82%) nginx
4 1 (1.41%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 14 (19.72%) AWS
1 14 (19.72%) Azure
1 14 (19.72%) GCP
2 10 (14.08%) GitHub
2 10 (14.08%) OpenShift
3 6 (8.45%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (4.23%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (4.23%) Azure Monitor
4 3 (4.23%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (2.82%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (2.82%) Azure Functions
5 2 (2.82%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (2.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (2.82%) Entra ID
5 2 (2.82%) IaaS
5 2 (2.82%) Serverless
6 1 (1.41%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (1.41%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (1.41%) Azure Storage
6 1 (1.41%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 12 (16.90%) SAN
2 4 (5.63%) Firewall
3 3 (4.23%) DNS
4 2 (2.82%) iSCSI
5 1 (1.41%) BGP
5 1 (1.41%) BIG-IP
5 1 (1.41%) Calico
5 1 (1.41%) DHCP
5 1 (1.41%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 1 (1.41%) HTTP
5 1 (1.41%) NaaS
5 1 (1.41%) NAS
5 1 (1.41%) SNMP
5 1 (1.41%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.63%) NoSQL
1 4 (5.63%) Oracle Database
2 3 (4.23%) BusinessObjects
2 3 (4.23%) Data Lake
2 3 (4.23%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (2.82%) Big Data
3 2 (2.82%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.41%) InfluxDB
4 1 (1.41%) MySQL
4 1 (1.41%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (1.41%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.41%) Power BI
4 1 (1.41%) Qlik Sense
4 1 (1.41%) QlikView
4 1 (1.41%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.41%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.41%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (16.90%) JIRA
2 7 (9.86%) Jenkins
3 5 (7.04%) Git
4 2 (2.82%) Bitbucket
4 2 (2.82%) GitLab
5 1 (1.41%) Jaeger
General
1 21 (29.58%) Social Skills
2 12 (16.90%) Finance
3 10 (14.08%) Banking
4 5 (7.04%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (5.63%) Law
6 3 (4.23%) Corporate Banking
6 3 (4.23%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.41%) Advertising
7 1 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.41%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.41%) Legal
7 1 (1.41%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.41%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (11.27%) Data Centre Engineer
2 7 (9.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (8.45%) Lead
3 6 (8.45%) Platform Engineer
3 6 (8.45%) Support Engineer
4 5 (7.04%) Developer
4 5 (7.04%) ICT Engineer
4 5 (7.04%) Storage Manager
5 4 (5.63%) Applications Tester
5 4 (5.63%) Consultant
5 4 (5.63%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (5.63%) IT Engineer
5 4 (5.63%) Kubernetes Engineer
5 4 (5.63%) Senior
5 4 (5.63%) Tester
5 4 (5.63%) Web Applications Tester
5 4 (5.63%) Web Tester
6 3 (4.23%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (4.23%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (4.23%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (30.99%) Terraform
2 8 (11.27%) Redfish
3 5 (7.04%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (5.63%) Kafka
5 3 (4.23%) Jakarta EE
5 3 (4.23%) YAML
6 2 (2.82%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (2.82%) HTML
6 2 (2.82%) LDAP
6 2 (2.82%) OpenID
7 1 (1.41%) Keycloak
7 1 (1.41%) Loki
7 1 (1.41%) OpenTelemetry
7 1 (1.41%) OpenTofu
7 1 (1.41%) RESTful
7 1 (1.41%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 12 (16.90%) Data Centre
2 10 (14.08%) Linux Command Line
2 10 (14.08%) PKI
3 9 (12.68%) Cloud Native
4 6 (8.45%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (8.45%) Enterprise Storage
5 4 (5.63%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (4.23%) Clustering
6 3 (4.23%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (4.23%) Replication
7 2 (2.82%) EMC VMAX
7 2 (2.82%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (1.41%) FlexPod
8 1 (1.41%) Mainframe
8 1 (1.41%) Private Cloud
8 1 (1.41%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.41%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 28 (39.44%) Windows
2 8 (11.27%) Unix
2 8 (11.27%) Windows Server
3 7 (9.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (7.04%) zOS
5 3 (4.23%) AIX
5 3 (4.23%) CoreOS
5 3 (4.23%) Solaris
6 2 (2.82%) VMS
7 1 (1.41%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (39.44%) CI/CD
2 22 (30.99%) Infrastructure as Code
3 20 (28.17%) DevOps
4 16 (22.54%) Continuous Improvement
4 16 (22.54%) Runbook
5 15 (21.13%) Disaster Recovery
5 15 (21.13%) Observability
6 14 (19.72%) Platform Engineering
7 12 (16.90%) Agile
7 12 (16.90%) Capacity Planning
7 12 (16.90%) Test Automation
8 11 (15.49%) Incident Management
8 11 (15.49%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 10 (14.08%) Migration
10 9 (12.68%) High Availability
10 9 (12.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 9 (12.68%) Load Balancing
11 8 (11.27%) Data Protection
11 8 (11.27%) Inventory Management
11 8 (11.27%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 32 (45.07%) Python
2 20 (28.17%) PowerShell
3 17 (23.94%) Bash
3 17 (23.94%) SQL
4 11 (15.49%) Java
5 6 (8.45%) Shell Script
6 5 (7.04%) JCL
7 4 (5.63%) JavaScript
7 4 (5.63%) Kotlin
7 4 (5.63%) Kusto Query Language
8 3 (4.23%) Go
9 2 (2.82%) C#
9 2 (2.82%) Perl
9 2 (2.82%) REXX
10 1 (1.41%) VB
Qualifications
1 4 (5.63%) Microsoft Certified Professional
2 3 (4.23%) Degree
2 3 (4.23%) Network+ Certification
2 3 (4.23%) SC Cleared
2 3 (4.23%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.82%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (2.82%) OCP
3 2 (2.82%) Oracle Certification
3 2 (2.82%) RHCA
4 1 (1.41%) A+ Certification
4 1 (1.41%) CCNA
4 1 (1.41%) CEH
4 1 (1.41%) CISA
4 1 (1.41%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.41%) CISM
4 1 (1.41%) CISSP
4 1 (1.41%) ECDL
4 1 (1.41%) MCSE
4 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.41%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.41%) HIPAA
2 1 (1.41%) NIST
2 1 (1.41%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.41%) SOC 2
System Software
1 16 (22.54%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (14.08%) Docker
3 8 (11.27%) Firmware
4 7 (9.86%) KVM
5 6 (8.45%) NFS
6 5 (7.04%) Hyper-V
6 5 (7.04%) Time Sharing Option
6 5 (7.04%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (5.63%) Active Directory
8 2 (2.82%) vSphere
9 1 (1.41%) Ceph
9 1 (1.41%) NDS
9 1 (1.41%) NetIQ eDirectory
9 1 (1.41%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 26 (36.62%) Kubernetes
2 24 (33.80%) Ansible
3 11 (15.49%) Prometheus
4 9 (12.68%) Grafana
5 8 (11.27%) Dell DRAC
6 5 (7.04%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 4 (5.63%) Istio
8 3 (4.23%) Argo
9 1 (1.41%) Cilium
9 1 (1.41%) EMC NetWorker
9 1 (1.41%) NetBackup
9 1 (1.41%) Packer
9 1 (1.41%) PowerCLI
9 1 (1.41%) Progress Chef
9 1 (1.41%) SnapMirror
9 1 (1.41%) vCenter Server
9 1 (1.41%) vRealize
9 1 (1.41%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 16 (22.54%) VMware
2 9 (12.68%) Microsoft
3 8 (11.27%) Oracle
4 7 (9.86%) Broadcom
4 7 (9.86%) Dell
5 6 (8.45%) Splunk
6 5 (7.04%) Brocade
6 5 (7.04%) Google
6 5 (7.04%) IBM
6 5 (7.04%) Juniper
6 5 (7.04%) Red Hat
7 3 (4.23%) AppDynamics
7 3 (4.23%) Cisco
7 3 (4.23%) Databricks
7 3 (4.23%) SAP
8 2 (2.82%) Commvault
8 2 (2.82%) HP
8 2 (2.82%) Pure Storage
9 1 (1.41%) EMC
9 1 (1.41%) NetApp