Linux Contracts in South Yorkshire

Linux
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Linux skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Linux over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 12 25
Rank change year-on-year -4 +13 -6
Contract jobs citing Linux 59 63 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 11.30% 12.83% 5.70%
As % of the Operating Systems category 52.68% 54.78% 45.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 39 21
10th Percentile £397 £402 £450
25th Percentile £475 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £485 £600
Median % change year-on-year +8.25% -19.17% +17.65%
75th Percentile £600 £539 £688
90th Percentile £726 £580 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £525 £514 £554
% change year-on-year +2.14% -7.18% +8.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £22.50 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate - £37.50 £18.50
% change year-on-year - +102.70% -21.39%

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 112 115 62
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 21.46% 23.42% 12.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 68 45
10th Percentile £150 £196 £179
25th Percentile £392 £350 £219
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £471 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.46% -5.80% +9.59%
75th Percentile £600 £538 £600
90th Percentile £670 £588 £695
Yorkshire median daily rate £463 £425 £475
% change year-on-year +8.94% -10.53% +26.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 3
10th Percentile - £17.00 £12.30
25th Percentile £18.10 £20.50 £14.25
Median hourly rate £18.21 £21.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.33% +13.16% -
75th Percentile £18.41 £22.00 £21.00
90th Percentile £18.47 £22.88 £21.90
Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.21 £17.50 £19.89
% change year-on-year +4.03% -11.99% +8.96%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Job postings citing Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Linux in South Yorkshire

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Linux in South Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for Linux in South Yorkshire

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in South Yorkshire

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Linux in South Yorkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Linux in South Yorkshire

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 5 July 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 -5 53 £525 +5.11% 41
Linux
Yorkshire

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.69%) Apache
1 1 (1.69%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (1.69%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (5.08%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (5.08%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 16 (27.12%) AWS
2 11 (18.64%) GCP
3 5 (8.47%) Azure
4 4 (6.78%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 4 (6.78%) Collibra
4 4 (6.78%) GitHub
5 2 (3.39%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (13.56%) Firewall
2 7 (11.86%) TCP/IP
3 5 (8.47%) DNS
3 5 (8.47%) NAS
4 4 (6.78%) SAN
5 2 (3.39%) HTTP
5 2 (3.39%) HTTPS
5 2 (3.39%) Kerberos
5 2 (3.39%) Network Security
6 1 (1.69%) DHCP
6 1 (1.69%) Internet
6 1 (1.69%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.08%) BigQuery
2 2 (3.39%) Hazelcast
2 2 (3.39%) NoSQL
2 2 (3.39%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.69%) Big Data
3 1 (1.69%) Delta Lake
3 1 (1.69%) Hadoop
3 1 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.69%) RDBMS
3 1 (1.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 19 (32.20%) Jenkins
2 13 (22.03%) GitLab
3 11 (18.64%) Git
4 7 (11.86%) Postman
5 3 (5.08%) Jaeger
6 2 (3.39%) Liquibase
General
1 16 (27.12%) Finance
2 12 (20.34%) Social Skills
3 11 (18.64%) Banking
4 4 (6.78%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (6.78%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (3.39%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.69%) Back Office
6 1 (1.69%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 13 (22.03%) Linux Engineer
2 12 (20.34%) DevOps Engineer
3 11 (18.64%) Senior
4 9 (15.25%) Architect
5 6 (10.17%) Senior Linux Engineer
6 5 (8.47%) Senior Technical Engineer
6 5 (8.47%) Technical Engineer
7 4 (6.78%) Consultant
7 4 (6.78%) Data Architect
7 4 (6.78%) Lead
8 3 (5.08%) Automation Engineer
9 2 (3.39%) Administrator
9 2 (3.39%) DevOps Automation Engineer
9 2 (3.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 2 (3.39%) LDAP Engineer
9 2 (3.39%) Lead DevOps
9 2 (3.39%) Lead DevOps Engineer
9 2 (3.39%) Senior DevOps
9 2 (3.39%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 2 (3.39%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (13.56%) Middleware
2 4 (6.78%) OpenTelemetry
3 3 (5.08%) RESTful
4 2 (3.39%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (3.39%) gRPC
4 2 (3.39%) JWT
4 2 (3.39%) Kafka
4 2 (3.39%) LDAP
4 2 (3.39%) REST
4 2 (3.39%) SAML
5 1 (1.69%) LAPP Stack
5 1 (1.69%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 8 (13.56%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (8.47%) Cloud Native
3 4 (6.78%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (3.39%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.39%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.39%) Public Cloud
4 2 (3.39%) Replication
5 1 (1.69%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.69%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (1.69%) Fat Client
5 1 (1.69%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.69%) Robotics
5 1 (1.69%) Thin Client
5 1 (1.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 18 (30.51%) Windows
2 17 (28.81%) Unix
3 15 (25.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (10.17%) Windows Server
5 4 (6.78%) AIX
5 4 (6.78%) Solaris
6 3 (5.08%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 1 (1.69%) CentOS
7 1 (1.69%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (1.69%) SUSE
7 1 (1.69%) Ubuntu
7 1 (1.69%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (37.29%) DevOps
2 19 (32.20%) Agile
2 19 (32.20%) CI/CD
3 16 (27.12%) Microservices
4 13 (22.03%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (15.25%) Containerisation
5 9 (15.25%) Data Protection
5 9 (15.25%) Infrastructure Automation
6 8 (13.56%) Configuration Management
7 7 (11.86%) Cybersecurity
7 7 (11.86%) Migration
7 7 (11.86%) Platform Engineering
7 7 (11.86%) The Twelve-Factor App
8 5 (8.47%) Data Management
8 5 (8.47%) Deployment Automation
8 5 (8.47%) High Availability
9 4 (6.78%) Computer Science
9 4 (6.78%) Data Governance
9 4 (6.78%) Monte Carlo Method
9 4 (6.78%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 27 (45.76%) Python
2 8 (13.56%) Bash
2 8 (13.56%) Shell Script
3 7 (11.86%) JavaScript
4 5 (8.47%) PowerShell
5 4 (6.78%) Groovy
5 4 (6.78%) Java
6 3 (5.08%) SQL
7 2 (3.39%) ActionScript
7 2 (3.39%) ActionScript 2.0
7 2 (3.39%) Go
8 1 (1.69%) Korn
8 1 (1.69%) Perl
Qualifications
1 4 (6.78%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (6.78%) Degree
2 2 (3.39%) AWS Certification
2 2 (3.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (3.39%) IBM Certification
2 2 (3.39%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.69%) Accessibility
1 1 (1.69%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (22.03%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (15.25%) Docker
3 7 (11.86%) Active Directory
3 7 (11.86%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 5 (8.47%) vSphere
5 4 (6.78%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (6.78%) VMware NSX
6 3 (5.08%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (1.69%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 1 (1.69%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 23 (38.98%) Kubernetes
2 21 (35.59%) Ansible
3 10 (16.95%) Puppet
3 10 (16.95%) Terraform
4 9 (15.25%) Grafana
5 6 (10.17%) Prometheus
6 5 (8.47%) Control-M
7 4 (6.78%) vCenter Server
7 4 (6.78%) vRealize
8 3 (5.08%) Istio
8 3 (5.08%) Kiali
9 2 (3.39%) Progress Chef
10 1 (1.69%) Data Guard
10 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Clustering
10 1 (1.69%) Nagios
10 1 (1.69%) NetApp OnCommand
10 1 (1.69%) NetBackup
10 1 (1.69%) SCCM
10 1 (1.69%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 13 (22.03%) VMware
2 12 (20.34%) Red Hat
3 10 (16.95%) Splunk
4 7 (11.86%) Microsoft
4 7 (11.86%) MuleSoft
5 4 (6.78%) Veritas
5 4 (6.78%) Zscaler
6 3 (5.08%) AppDynamics
6 3 (5.08%) Citrix
6 3 (5.08%) Commvault
6 3 (5.08%) Google
6 3 (5.08%) IBM
6 3 (5.08%) Oracle
6 3 (5.08%) xMatters
7 2 (3.39%) ForgeRock
7 2 (3.39%) IBM Sterling
8 1 (1.69%) Databricks
8 1 (1.69%) NetApp