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 2 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 18 3
Rank change year-on-year -5 -15 +15
Contract jobs citing Linux 116 35 74
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 11.57% 10.00% 17.37%
As % of the Operating Systems category 69.46% 47.95% 52.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 22 45
10th Percentile £358 £450 £403
25th Percentile £408 £498 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £438
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +31.43% -16.67%
75th Percentile £538 £623 £538
90th Percentile £688 £780 £588
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £550 £493
% change year-on-year -13.64% +11.68% -10.45%
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 167 73 141
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 16.65% 20.86% 33.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 45 87
10th Percentile £316 £163 £195
25th Percentile £371 £374 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £538 £430
Median % change year-on-year -7.91% +25.00% -14.00%
75th Percentile £538 £623 £530
90th Percentile £688 £690 £588
Yorkshire median daily rate £425 £455 £405
% change year-on-year -6.59% +12.35% -4.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 6
10th Percentile - £16.08 £17.38
25th Percentile - £17.38 £21.25
Median hourly rate - £18.21 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year - -19.09% +104.55%
75th Percentile - £18.36 £23.75
90th Percentile - £18.45 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.06 £18.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year +22.53% -18.18% +13.49%

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 2 April 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 2 April 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 -4 107 £500 -16.67% 9
Doncaster - 1 - - 2
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 9 (7.76%) TPMS
2 2 (1.72%) Confluence
3 1 (0.86%) nginx
3 1 (0.86%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 34 (29.31%) GCP
2 33 (28.45%) AWS
3 30 (25.86%) OpenShift
4 17 (14.66%) Azure
5 16 (13.79%) Serverless
6 11 (9.48%) GitHub
7 8 (6.90%) AWS KMS
8 5 (4.31%) IaaS
9 3 (2.59%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (2.59%) Entra ID
9 3 (2.59%) PaaS
9 3 (2.59%) SaaS
10 2 (1.72%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (0.86%) Amazon EC2
11 1 (0.86%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 18 (15.52%) Firewall
2 15 (12.93%) SAN
3 9 (7.76%) DNS
3 9 (7.76%) SNMP
3 9 (7.76%) SSH
3 9 (7.76%) SSL
4 5 (4.31%) TCP/IP
5 4 (3.45%) iSCSI
6 3 (2.59%) DHCP
6 3 (2.59%) NAS
6 3 (2.59%) VPN
7 1 (0.86%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.86%) VLAN
7 1 (0.86%) VSAN
7 1 (0.86%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (16.38%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (13.79%) NoSQL
3 3 (2.59%) MongoDB
3 3 (2.59%) MySQL
3 3 (2.59%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.86%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.86%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.86%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 36 (31.03%) Jenkins
2 25 (21.55%) GitLab
3 11 (9.48%) JIRA
4 10 (8.62%) Liquibase
5 8 (6.90%) Git
5 8 (6.90%) Jaeger
6 2 (1.72%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.86%) Bitbucket
General
1 55 (47.41%) Social Skills
2 44 (37.93%) Finance
3 29 (25.00%) Banking
4 19 (16.38%) Financial Institution
5 17 (14.66%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (4.31%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.59%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.72%) Law
8 2 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.72%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.86%) Advertising
9 1 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.86%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 15 (12.93%) Senior
2 14 (12.07%) Cloud Engineer
2 14 (12.07%) GCP Engineer
3 12 (10.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 12 (10.34%) Lead
4 10 (8.62%) DevOps Engineer
5 9 (7.76%) Administrator
5 9 (7.76%) Cryptography Engineer
6 8 (6.90%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 8 (6.90%) Software Engineer
7 7 (6.03%) AWS Engineer
7 7 (6.03%) Data Centre Engineer
8 6 (5.17%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
9 5 (4.31%) AWS Software Engineer
9 5 (4.31%) Cloud Software Engineer
9 5 (4.31%) Platform Engineer
9 5 (4.31%) Senior Software Engineer
10 4 (3.45%) NetApp Engineer
10 4 (3.45%) Senior DevOps
10 4 (3.45%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (20.69%) Elastic Stack
2 20 (17.24%) REST
3 17 (14.66%) RESTful
4 10 (8.62%) Kafka
4 10 (8.62%) OpenTelemetry
5 9 (7.76%) YAML
6 8 (6.90%) Middleware
6 8 (6.90%) Spring Boot
7 5 (4.31%) Redfish
8 2 (1.72%) LDAP
8 2 (1.72%) Spring
9 1 (0.86%) FastAPI
9 1 (0.86%) Flask
9 1 (0.86%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 27 (23.28%) Distributed Systems
2 19 (16.38%) Public Cloud
3 14 (12.07%) Cloud Native
4 13 (11.21%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (6.03%) Data Centre
5 7 (6.03%) Management Information System
6 5 (4.31%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (4.31%) FlexPod
6 5 (4.31%) Onboarding
6 5 (4.31%) Product Ownership
7 4 (3.45%) EMC VMAX
8 3 (2.59%) Enterprise Cloud
8 3 (2.59%) Enterprise Storage
8 3 (2.59%) Replication
9 2 (1.72%) Derivative
9 2 (1.72%) Security Posture
10 1 (0.86%) Distributed Computing
10 1 (0.86%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.86%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.86%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 41 (35.34%) Windows
2 23 (19.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (7.76%) CentOS
3 9 (7.76%) Ubuntu
4 7 (6.03%) Unix
5 6 (5.17%) VMS
6 5 (4.31%) CoreOS
6 5 (4.31%) Data ONTAP
7 2 (1.72%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (56.03%) CI/CD
2 63 (54.31%) DevOps
3 34 (29.31%) Infrastructure as Code
4 32 (27.59%) Containerisation
5 31 (26.72%) Cybersecurity
6 30 (25.86%) Root Cause Analysis
7 27 (23.28%) Microservices
8 26 (22.41%) Observability
9 25 (21.55%) Computer Science
9 25 (21.55%) Cryptography
9 25 (21.55%) Problem-Solving
10 23 (19.83%) Infrastructure Automation
11 21 (18.10%) Agile
11 21 (18.10%) Data Security
12 20 (17.24%) Continuous Improvement
13 19 (16.38%) Migration
14 18 (15.52%) Task Automation
15 17 (14.66%) Stakeholder Management
16 16 (13.79%) Continuous Integration
16 16 (13.79%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 61 (52.59%) Python
2 21 (18.10%) Go
3 17 (14.66%) SQL
4 15 (12.93%) Bash
5 14 (12.07%) Java
6 9 (7.76%) PowerShell
6 9 (7.76%) Ruby
7 8 (6.90%) Perl
7 8 (6.90%) Rust
8 7 (6.03%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.72%) JCL
10 1 (0.86%) Groovy
10 1 (0.86%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 25 (21.55%) Degree
2 16 (13.79%) Master's Degree
3 15 (12.93%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (7.76%) FFIEC
4 9 (7.76%) RHCE
5 7 (6.03%) Security Cleared
6 6 (5.17%) OCP
6 6 (5.17%) Oracle Certification
7 3 (2.59%) SC Cleared
8 2 (1.72%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.72%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (1.72%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.86%) CISM
9 1 (0.86%) CISSP
9 1 (0.86%) RHCSA
9 1 (0.86%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.76%) GDPR
1 9 (7.76%) GLBA
1 9 (7.76%) NIST
1 9 (7.76%) PCI DSS
2 5 (4.31%) SLA
System Software
1 31 (26.72%) Docker
2 17 (14.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (10.34%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (6.90%) NFS
4 8 (6.90%) vSphere
5 7 (6.03%) Firmware
6 6 (5.17%) KVM
7 4 (3.45%) Hyper-V
8 3 (2.59%) Active Directory
9 2 (1.72%) SRDF
9 2 (1.72%) Time Sharing Option
9 2 (1.72%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.86%) Ceph
10 1 (0.86%) QEMU
10 1 (0.86%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 71 (61.21%) Ansible
2 57 (49.14%) Kubernetes
3 42 (36.21%) Terraform
4 39 (33.62%) Grafana
5 35 (30.17%) Prometheus
6 11 (9.48%) Puppet
7 8 (6.90%) Kiali
8 6 (5.17%) EMC NetWorker
9 5 (4.31%) Dell DRAC
9 5 (4.31%) SnapMirror
10 3 (2.59%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (1.72%) Argo
11 2 (1.72%) NetBackup
11 2 (1.72%) Progress Chef
11 2 (1.72%) Tivoli Storage Manager
11 2 (1.72%) vCenter Server
12 1 (0.86%) Packer
12 1 (0.86%) PowerCLI
12 1 (0.86%) vRealize
12 1 (0.86%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 40 (34.48%) Splunk
2 19 (16.38%) Red Hat
2 19 (16.38%) VMware
3 14 (12.07%) Google
4 9 (7.76%) Thales
5 7 (6.03%) Dell
5 7 (6.03%) NetApp
5 7 (6.03%) Oracle
6 6 (5.17%) Broadcom
7 5 (4.31%) Cisco
8 4 (3.45%) HP
8 4 (3.45%) Microsoft
9 3 (2.59%) AppDynamics
9 3 (2.59%) EMC
9 3 (2.59%) Pure Storage
9 3 (2.59%) ServiceNow
10 2 (1.72%) Calypso
10 2 (1.72%) Commvault
10 2 (1.72%) CrowdStrike
10 2 (1.72%) IBM