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 9 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 17 4
Rank change year-on-year -3 -13 +16
Contract jobs citing Linux 115 29 73
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 11.81% 9.80% 17.26%
As % of the Operating Systems category 70.55% 42.03% 54.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 20 43
10th Percentile £365 £446 £403
25th Percentile £414 £492 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £433
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +32.95% -17.62%
75th Percentile £538 £623 £538
90th Percentile £688 £780 £588
Yorkshire median daily rate £481 £550 £463
% change year-on-year -12.55% +18.92% -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 69 135
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 16.74% 23.31% 31.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 48 81
10th Percentile £333 £209 £200
25th Percentile £401 £394 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £529 £430
Median % change year-on-year -5.48% +23.02% -14.00%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £530
90th Percentile £688 £658 £588
Yorkshire median daily rate £420 £460 £380
% change year-on-year -8.75% +21.05% -10.59%
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 9 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 9 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 -5 107 £500 -15.43% 11
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 36 (31.30%) AWS
1 36 (31.30%) GCP
2 29 (25.22%) OpenShift
3 18 (15.65%) Serverless
4 17 (14.78%) Azure
5 12 (10.43%) GitHub
6 8 (6.96%) AWS KMS
7 4 (3.48%) IaaS
8 3 (2.61%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (2.61%) Entra ID
8 3 (2.61%) PaaS
8 3 (2.61%) SaaS
9 2 (1.74%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (1.74%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (0.87%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 18 (15.65%) Firewall
2 13 (11.30%) SAN
3 10 (8.70%) SNMP
3 10 (8.70%) SSH
3 10 (8.70%) SSL
4 9 (7.83%) DNS
5 5 (4.35%) TCP/IP
6 3 (2.61%) DHCP
6 3 (2.61%) iSCSI
6 3 (2.61%) NAS
6 3 (2.61%) VPN
7 1 (0.87%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.87%) VLAN
7 1 (0.87%) VSAN
7 1 (0.87%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (16.52%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (15.65%) NoSQL
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 39 (33.91%) Jenkins
2 27 (23.48%) GitLab
3 12 (10.43%) Liquibase
4 11 (9.57%) 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 54 (46.96%) Social Skills
2 48 (41.74%) Finance
3 31 (26.96%) Banking
4 21 (18.26%) 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 17 (14.78%) Senior
2 15 (13.04%) Cloud Engineer
2 15 (13.04%) GCP Engineer
3 13 (11.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 12 (10.43%) DevOps Engineer
4 12 (10.43%) Lead
5 10 (8.70%) Administrator
5 10 (8.70%) Cryptography Engineer
5 10 (8.70%) Software Engineer
6 8 (6.96%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 7 (6.09%) AWS Engineer
7 7 (6.09%) Senior Software Engineer
8 6 (5.22%) Cloud Software Engineer
8 6 (5.22%) Data Centre Engineer
8 6 (5.22%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
9 5 (4.35%) AWS Software Engineer
9 5 (4.35%) GCP Software Engineer
9 5 (4.35%) Senior DevOps
9 5 (4.35%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 4 (3.48%) NetApp Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (23.48%) Elastic Stack
2 23 (20.00%) REST
3 19 (16.52%) 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 4 (3.48%) 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 29 (25.22%) Distributed Systems
2 21 (18.26%) Public Cloud
3 16 (13.91%) Cloud Native
4 14 (12.17%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (6.09%) Management Information System
6 6 (5.22%) Data Centre
7 5 (4.35%) FlexPod
7 5 (4.35%) Onboarding
7 5 (4.35%) Product Ownership
8 4 (3.48%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (2.61%) EMC VMAX
9 3 (2.61%) Replication
10 2 (1.74%) Derivative
10 2 (1.74%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (1.74%) Enterprise Storage
10 2 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.74%) Security Posture
11 1 (0.87%) Distributed Computing
11 1 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
11 1 (0.87%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 40 (34.78%) Windows
2 22 (19.13%) 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 66 (57.39%) CI/CD
2 65 (56.52%) DevOps
3 35 (30.43%) Containerisation
3 35 (30.43%) Infrastructure as Code
4 34 (29.57%) Cybersecurity
5 32 (27.83%) Root Cause Analysis
6 29 (25.22%) Microservices
7 28 (24.35%) Cryptography
7 28 (24.35%) Observability
8 27 (23.48%) Computer Science
9 24 (20.87%) Data Security
10 23 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
10 23 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
11 22 (19.13%) Agile
12 19 (16.52%) High Availability
13 18 (15.65%) Continuous Delivery
13 18 (15.65%) Continuous Improvement
13 18 (15.65%) Continuous Integration
13 18 (15.65%) Migration
14 17 (14.78%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 59 (51.30%) Python
2 23 (20.00%) Go
3 18 (15.65%) SQL
4 15 (13.04%) Bash
4 15 (13.04%) Java
5 9 (7.83%) PowerShell
5 9 (7.83%) Ruby
6 8 (6.96%) Perl
6 8 (6.96%) Rust
6 8 (6.96%) Shell Script
7 2 (1.74%) Groovy
8 1 (0.87%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 27 (23.48%) Degree
2 18 (15.65%) Master's Degree
3 17 (14.78%) 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 3 (2.61%) AWS Certification
9 2 (1.74%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (1.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (1.74%) SC Cleared
10 1 (0.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.87%) CISM
10 1 (0.87%) CISSP
10 1 (0.87%) RHCSA
10 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 36 (31.30%) Docker
2 16 (13.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (11.30%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (6.96%) vSphere
5 7 (6.09%) KVM
6 6 (5.22%) Firmware
6 6 (5.22%) NFS
7 4 (3.48%) Hyper-V
8 3 (2.61%) Active Directory
9 2 (1.74%) SRDF
9 2 (1.74%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.87%) Ceph
10 1 (0.87%) QEMU
10 1 (0.87%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 72 (62.61%) Ansible
2 61 (53.04%) Kubernetes
3 44 (38.26%) Terraform
4 42 (36.52%) Grafana
5 39 (33.91%) Prometheus
6 12 (10.43%) Puppet
7 8 (6.96%) Kiali
8 5 (4.35%) EMC NetWorker
8 5 (4.35%) SnapMirror
9 4 (3.48%) Dell DRAC
10 3 (2.61%) Progress Chef
10 3 (2.61%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (1.74%) Argo
11 2 (1.74%) NetBackup
11 2 (1.74%) Packer
11 2 (1.74%) vCenter Server
12 1 (0.87%) Podman
12 1 (0.87%) PowerCLI
12 1 (0.87%) vRealize
12 1 (0.87%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 44 (38.26%) Splunk
2 19 (16.52%) Red Hat
3 18 (15.65%) VMware
4 16 (13.91%) Google
5 10 (8.70%) Thales
6 7 (6.09%) NetApp
7 6 (5.22%) Oracle
8 4 (3.48%) AppDynamics
8 4 (3.48%) Cisco
8 4 (3.48%) Dell
9 3 (2.61%) Broadcom
9 3 (2.61%) HP
9 3 (2.61%) Microsoft
9 3 (2.61%) ServiceNow
10 2 (1.74%) Calypso
10 2 (1.74%) Commvault
10 2 (1.74%) CrowdStrike
10 2 (1.74%) EMC
10 2 (1.74%) Pure Storage
10 2 (1.74%) TOWER Software