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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 30 31
Rank change year-on-year +14 +1 -16
Contract jobs citing Linux 71 28 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 11.23% 6.25% 5.71%
As % of the Operating Systems category 58.68% 34.15% 46.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 18 9
10th Percentile £400 £453 £230
25th Percentile £450 £510 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £580 £600
Median % change year-on-year -11.21% -3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £553 £622 £675
90th Percentile £636 £641 £690
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £598 £575
% change year-on-year -16.32% +3.91% +9.52%

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 121 82 56
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 19.15% 18.30% 12.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 53 32
10th Percentile £150 £210 £163
25th Percentile £351 £409 £194
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £606
90th Percentile £612 £624 £688
Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% +16.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 3
10th Percentile - - £12.50
25th Percentile £18.10 £20.50 £14.75
Median hourly rate £18.21 £21.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.33% +13.16% +10.14%
75th Percentile £18.41 £22.00 £19.75
90th Percentile £18.47 - £19.90
Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.51 £17.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year +5.77% -12.50% +6.95%

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
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 18 September 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 18 September 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 +13 71 £515 -11.21% 4
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 3 (4.23%) Apache
1 3 (4.23%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (4.23%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.82%) CICS
2 2 (2.82%) Tomcat
2 2 (2.82%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.41%) Confluence
3 1 (1.41%) TPMS
3 1 (1.41%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 22 (30.99%) GCP
2 21 (29.58%) AWS
3 15 (21.13%) Serverless
4 7 (9.86%) GitHub
5 2 (2.82%) Azure
6 1 (1.41%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 12 (16.90%) Firewall
2 8 (11.27%) NAS
2 8 (11.27%) SAN
3 7 (9.86%) DNS
3 7 (9.86%) TCP/IP
4 2 (2.82%) HTTP
4 2 (2.82%) Kerberos
4 2 (2.82%) Network Security
5 1 (1.41%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (1.41%) FCoE
5 1 (1.41%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (1.41%) Internet
5 1 (1.41%) iSCSI
5 1 (1.41%) LAN
5 1 (1.41%) Multicast
5 1 (1.41%) SNMP
5 1 (1.41%) SSH
5 1 (1.41%) SSL
5 1 (1.41%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (23.94%) NoSQL
2 12 (16.90%) Oracle Database
3 11 (15.49%) SQL Server
4 3 (4.23%) Apache Hive
4 3 (4.23%) BigQuery
4 3 (4.23%) Hadoop
4 3 (4.23%) HBase
5 2 (2.82%) Hazelcast
5 2 (2.82%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.41%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.41%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 34 (47.89%) Jenkins
2 23 (32.39%) GitLab
3 22 (30.99%) Git
4 15 (21.13%) Liquibase
5 7 (9.86%) Postman
6 4 (5.63%) Jaeger
7 2 (2.82%) JIRA
8 1 (1.41%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 34 (47.89%) Social Skills
2 26 (36.62%) Finance
3 17 (23.94%) Banking
4 13 (18.31%) Financial Institution
5 3 (4.23%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.41%) Back Office
6 1 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.41%) Front Office
6 1 (1.41%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 15 (21.13%) Senior
2 14 (19.72%) Linux Engineer
3 13 (18.31%) DevOps Engineer
4 10 (14.08%) Automation Engineer
5 8 (11.27%) Software Engineer
6 6 (8.45%) Senior Linux Engineer
6 6 (8.45%) Senior Software Engineer
7 5 (7.04%) Senior Technical Engineer
7 5 (7.04%) Technical Engineer
8 4 (5.63%) Python Engineer
9 3 (4.23%) AWS Engineer
9 3 (4.23%) AWS Software Engineer
9 3 (4.23%) Cloud Engineer
9 3 (4.23%) Cloud Software Engineer
9 3 (4.23%) DBA
9 3 (4.23%) Hadoop Engineer
9 3 (4.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (4.23%) Migration Specialist
9 3 (4.23%) Oracle DBA
9 3 (4.23%) Server Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (21.13%) Elastic Stack
1 15 (21.13%) RESTful
2 14 (19.72%) REST
3 12 (16.90%) Middleware
4 10 (14.08%) FastAPI
5 4 (5.63%) LDAP
6 3 (4.23%) Spark Streaming
7 2 (2.82%) gRPC
7 2 (2.82%) JWT
7 2 (2.82%) Kafka
7 2 (2.82%) SAML
8 1 (1.41%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 18 (25.35%) Cloud Native
2 13 (18.31%) Distributed Systems
2 13 (18.31%) Public Cloud
3 7 (9.86%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (7.04%) Data Centre
4 5 (7.04%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (5.63%) Management Information System
5 4 (5.63%) Replication
6 2 (2.82%) Clustering
6 2 (2.82%) Mainframe
7 1 (1.41%) Fat Client
7 1 (1.41%) IBM Mainframe
7 1 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.41%) Thin Client
7 1 (1.41%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (19.72%) Windows
2 11 (15.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 10 (14.08%) Unix
4 8 (11.27%) Windows Server
5 5 (7.04%) Solaris
6 3 (4.23%) AIX
6 3 (4.23%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 2 (2.82%) VMS
7 2 (2.82%) zOS
8 1 (1.41%) CentOS
8 1 (1.41%) MVS
8 1 (1.41%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (1.41%) SUSE
8 1 (1.41%) Ubuntu
8 1 (1.41%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (53.52%) Agile
2 37 (52.11%) DevOps
3 28 (39.44%) CI/CD
4 21 (29.58%) Infrastructure Automation
4 21 (29.58%) Problem-Solving
5 20 (28.17%) Containerisation
5 20 (28.17%) Microservices
6 17 (23.94%) Computer Science
6 17 (23.94%) Data Security
7 16 (22.54%) Cybersecurity
8 15 (21.13%) Software Engineering
9 14 (19.72%) Continuous Delivery
9 14 (19.72%) Continuous Integration
9 14 (19.72%) High Availability
9 14 (19.72%) Root Cause Analysis
10 13 (18.31%) Change Management
10 13 (18.31%) Cost Optimisation
10 13 (18.31%) Cryptography
10 13 (18.31%) Infrastructure as Code
10 13 (18.31%) Non-Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 48 (67.61%) Python
2 21 (29.58%) Shell Script
3 16 (22.54%) Go
4 14 (19.72%) Java
5 8 (11.27%) Bash
5 8 (11.27%) PowerShell
6 6 (8.45%) SQL
7 3 (4.23%) Groovy
8 2 (2.82%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 17 (23.94%) Computer Science Degree
1 17 (23.94%) Degree
2 13 (18.31%) Master's Degree
3 10 (14.08%) AWS Certification
4 8 (11.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (2.82%) AWS Certified Developer
5 2 (2.82%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.41%) FFIEC
6 1 (1.41%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.41%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.41%) GDPR
1 1 (1.41%) GLBA
1 1 (1.41%) NIST
1 1 (1.41%) PCI DSS
1 1 (1.41%) SLA
System Software
1 18 (25.35%) Docker
1 18 (25.35%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (15.49%) Oracle RAC
3 9 (12.68%) Active Directory
4 8 (11.27%) vSphere
5 7 (9.86%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 7 (9.86%) VMware NSX
6 6 (8.45%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (7.04%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (4.23%) HDFS
9 2 (2.82%) Hyper-V
9 2 (2.82%) KVM
10 1 (1.41%) NFS
10 1 (1.41%) SRDF
10 1 (1.41%) Xen
Systems Management
1 48 (67.61%) Ansible
2 25 (35.21%) Kubernetes
3 19 (26.76%) Grafana
3 19 (26.76%) Terraform
4 16 (22.54%) Prometheus
5 11 (15.49%) Data Guard
5 11 (15.49%) Puppet
6 10 (14.08%) yum
7 7 (9.86%) vCenter Server
7 7 (9.86%) vRealize
8 3 (4.23%) Control-M
8 3 (4.23%) Hadoop YARN
8 3 (4.23%) Istio
8 3 (4.23%) Kiali
9 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Clustering
9 1 (1.41%) SCCM
9 1 (1.41%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 19 (26.76%) Splunk
1 19 (26.76%) VMware
2 15 (21.13%) Oracle
3 11 (15.49%) Google
4 10 (14.08%) Microsoft
5 7 (9.86%) MuleSoft
5 7 (9.86%) Red Hat
6 5 (7.04%) F5
7 4 (5.63%) Citrix
7 4 (5.63%) Zscaler
8 3 (4.23%) AppDynamics
8 3 (4.23%) xMatters
9 2 (2.82%) Cisco
9 2 (2.82%) EMC
9 2 (2.82%) ForgeRock
9 2 (2.82%) NetApp
10 1 (1.41%) IBM
10 1 (1.41%) Pure Storage
10 1 (1.41%) Sybase