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 4 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 15 12
Rank change year-on-year -15 -3 +14
Contract jobs citing Linux 90 58 63
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 7.63% 11.28% 12.78%
As % of the Operating Systems category 56.25% 52.25% 54.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 38 39
10th Percentile £358 £395 £402
25th Percentile £366 £469 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £423 £531 £485
Median % change year-on-year -20.47% +9.54% -19.17%
75th Percentile £537 £600 £539
90th Percentile £688 £732 £580
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £525 £514
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.14% -7.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £21.25
Median hourly rate - - £22.50
75th Percentile - - £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate - - £37.50
% change year-on-year - - +102.70%

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 160 111 115
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 13.56% 21.60% 23.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 66 68
10th Percentile £341 £150 £196
25th Percentile £366 £388 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £471
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +11.46% -5.80%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £538
90th Percentile £675 £675 £588
Yorkshire median daily rate £425 £462 £425
% change year-on-year -7.91% +8.59% -8.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 6
10th Percentile - - £17.00
25th Percentile - £18.10 £20.50
Median hourly rate - £18.21 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year - -15.33% +38.71%
75th Percentile - £18.41 £22.00
90th Percentile - £18.47 £22.88
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.80 £18.21 £17.50
% change year-on-year +25.24% +4.03% -12.25%

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 4 July 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 4 July 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 -14 78 £500 -4.76% 9
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 6 (6.67%) Confluence
2 3 (3.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (3.33%) TPMS
3 1 (1.11%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 23 (25.56%) OpenShift
2 17 (18.89%) AWS
3 16 (17.78%) GCP
4 14 (15.56%) Azure
5 12 (13.33%) GitHub
6 3 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (2.22%) IaaS
8 1 (1.11%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.11%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.11%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (1.11%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (1.11%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (1.11%) Datadog
8 1 (1.11%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.11%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.11%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 20 (22.22%) SAN
2 8 (8.89%) Firewall
3 4 (4.44%) iSCSI
4 3 (3.33%) NAS
4 3 (3.33%) SNMP
4 3 (3.33%) SSH
4 3 (3.33%) SSL
5 2 (2.22%) DNS
6 1 (1.11%) BIG-IP
6 1 (1.11%) DHCP
6 1 (1.11%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 1 (1.11%) HTTP
6 1 (1.11%) Kerberos
6 1 (1.11%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.56%) NoSQL
2 4 (4.44%) Oracle Database
3 3 (3.33%) BusinessObjects
4 2 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.11%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.11%) InfluxDB
5 1 (1.11%) MySQL
5 1 (1.11%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (1.11%) Qlik Sense
5 1 (1.11%) QlikView
5 1 (1.11%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.11%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 20 (22.22%) Jenkins
2 17 (18.89%) JIRA
3 7 (7.78%) GitLab
4 4 (4.44%) Jaeger
5 3 (3.33%) Git
5 3 (3.33%) Liquibase
6 2 (2.22%) Bitbucket
General
1 33 (36.67%) Social Skills
2 19 (21.11%) Finance
3 15 (16.67%) Banking
4 6 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (4.44%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.33%) Financial Institution
6 3 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.11%) Advertising
7 1 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.11%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.11%) Law
7 1 (1.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (13.33%) Data Centre Engineer
2 10 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
3 7 (7.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (6.67%) Platform Engineer
4 6 (6.67%) Senior
5 5 (5.56%) Developer
5 5 (5.56%) ICT Engineer
5 5 (5.56%) Lead
5 5 (5.56%) Storage Manager
6 4 (4.44%) Applications Tester
6 4 (4.44%) Consultant
6 4 (4.44%) IT Engineer
6 4 (4.44%) NetApp Engineer
6 4 (4.44%) Tester
6 4 (4.44%) Web Applications Tester
6 4 (4.44%) Web Tester
7 3 (3.33%) Cloud Engineer
7 3 (3.33%) Cryptography Engineer
7 3 (3.33%) Senior DevOps
7 3 (3.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (11.11%) Redfish
2 6 (6.67%) OpenTelemetry
2 6 (6.67%) YAML
3 5 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (5.56%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (4.44%) Kafka
4 4 (4.44%) REST
5 3 (3.33%) LDAP
5 3 (3.33%) Middleware
5 3 (3.33%) RESTful
5 3 (3.33%) Spring Boot
6 2 (2.22%) HTML
6 2 (2.22%) OpenID
7 1 (1.11%) FastAPI
7 1 (1.11%) Flask
7 1 (1.11%) Keycloak
7 1 (1.11%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 14 (15.56%) Data Centre
2 8 (8.89%) Cloud Native
3 7 (7.78%) Data Protection Act
3 7 (7.78%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (7.78%) Enterprise Storage
3 7 (7.78%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (6.67%) Linux Command Line
4 6 (6.67%) PKI
5 5 (5.56%) FlexPod
5 5 (5.56%) Replication
6 4 (4.44%) EMC VMAX
7 3 (3.33%) Clustering
7 3 (3.33%) Public Cloud
8 2 (2.22%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (2.22%) Management Information System
8 2 (2.22%) Product Ownership
9 1 (1.11%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (1.11%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 41 (45.56%) Windows
2 17 (18.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (8.89%) Windows Server
4 7 (7.78%) CoreOS
4 7 (7.78%) Unix
5 6 (6.67%) VMS
6 5 (5.56%) Data ONTAP
6 5 (5.56%) zOS
7 3 (3.33%) AIX
7 3 (3.33%) Solaris
8 2 (2.22%) CentOS
8 2 (2.22%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (37.78%) CI/CD
2 32 (35.56%) DevOps
3 18 (20.00%) Migration
4 16 (17.78%) Capacity Planning
4 16 (17.78%) Test Automation
5 15 (16.67%) Data Protection
6 14 (15.56%) Containerisation
6 14 (15.56%) Infrastructure as Code
7 13 (14.44%) Agile
7 13 (14.44%) Continuous Improvement
7 13 (14.44%) Task Automation
8 12 (13.33%) Observability
8 12 (13.33%) Runbook
9 10 (11.11%) Asset Management
9 10 (11.11%) Data Centre Operations
9 10 (11.11%) Infrastructure Automation
9 10 (11.11%) Infrastructure Management
9 10 (11.11%) Inventory Management
10 9 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
10 9 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 42 (46.67%) Python
2 16 (17.78%) PowerShell
3 15 (16.67%) SQL
4 11 (12.22%) Bash
5 9 (10.00%) Java
5 9 (10.00%) Shell Script
6 7 (7.78%) Go
7 5 (5.56%) JavaScript
7 5 (5.56%) JCL
8 4 (4.44%) Kotlin
8 4 (4.44%) Perl
9 3 (3.33%) Ruby
9 3 (3.33%) Rust
10 2 (2.22%) REXX
11 1 (1.11%) VB
Qualifications
1 6 (6.67%) Degree
1 6 (6.67%) OCP
1 6 (6.67%) Oracle Certification
2 4 (4.44%) RHCE
2 4 (4.44%) SC Cleared
2 4 (4.44%) Security Cleared
3 3 (3.33%) FFIEC
3 3 (3.33%) Microsoft Certified Professional
3 3 (3.33%) Network+ Certification
4 2 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.22%) Master's Degree
4 2 (2.22%) RHCA
5 1 (1.11%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.11%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (1.11%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (1.11%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.11%) CISM
5 1 (1.11%) CISSP
5 1 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.11%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.44%) PCI DSS
2 3 (3.33%) GDPR
2 3 (3.33%) GLBA
2 3 (3.33%) NIST
3 1 (1.11%) HIPAA
3 1 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.11%) SOC 2
System Software
1 26 (28.89%) VMware Infrastructure
2 19 (21.11%) Docker
3 14 (15.56%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (13.33%) Firmware
5 11 (12.22%) KVM
5 11 (12.22%) NFS
6 7 (7.78%) Hyper-V
6 7 (7.78%) vSphere
7 5 (5.56%) Time Sharing Option
8 2 (2.22%) Active Directory
8 2 (2.22%) SRDF
9 1 (1.11%) Ceph
9 1 (1.11%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (1.11%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 41 (45.56%) Ansible
2 30 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 18 (20.00%) Terraform
4 15 (16.67%) Prometheus
5 14 (15.56%) Grafana
6 10 (11.11%) Dell DRAC
7 5 (5.56%) SnapMirror
7 5 (5.56%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 4 (4.44%) Puppet
9 3 (3.33%) Argo
9 3 (3.33%) Kiali
10 2 (2.22%) NetBackup
10 2 (2.22%) Progress Chef
11 1 (1.11%) EMC NetWorker
11 1 (1.11%) Packer
11 1 (1.11%) PowerCLI
11 1 (1.11%) vCenter Server
11 1 (1.11%) vRealize
11 1 (1.11%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 26 (28.89%) VMware
2 15 (16.67%) Red Hat
3 12 (13.33%) Splunk
4 9 (10.00%) Broadcom
4 9 (10.00%) Dell
5 8 (8.89%) Google
6 6 (6.67%) Microsoft
6 6 (6.67%) NetApp
7 5 (5.56%) Brocade
7 5 (5.56%) IBM
7 5 (5.56%) Oracle
8 4 (4.44%) Cisco
8 4 (4.44%) HP
8 4 (4.44%) Juniper
9 3 (3.33%) Commvault
9 3 (3.33%) Pure Storage
9 3 (3.33%) SAP
9 3 (3.33%) Thales
10 2 (2.22%) TOWER Software
11 1 (1.11%) Databricks