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 19 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 19 15
Rank change year-on-year -8 -4 +11
Contract jobs citing Linux 102 51 58
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 8.61% 11.04% 12.18%
As % of the Operating Systems category 59.65% 50.00% 55.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 33 36
10th Percentile £358 £400 £401
25th Percentile £366 £488 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £463
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +16.22% -22.92%
75th Percentile £537 £610 £532
90th Percentile £688 £766 £564
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £538 £507
% change year-on-year -6.98% +6.02% -8.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £21.25
Median hourly rate - - £22.50
75th Percentile - - £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate - - £22.50
% change year-on-year - - +21.62%

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 171 102 105
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 14.43% 22.08% 22.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 61 64
10th Percentile £358 £150 £190
25th Percentile £367 £400 £303
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £449
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +16.93% -10.20%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £530
90th Percentile £679 £700 £588
Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £450 £400
% change year-on-year - +12.50% -11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 6
10th Percentile - - £17.00
25th Percentile - £18.10 £20.69
Median hourly rate - £18.21 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year - -17.25% +41.94%
75th Percentile - £18.41 £23.31
90th Percentile - £18.47 £23.75
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.81 £18.21 £17.50
% change year-on-year +25.27% +4.03% -9.72%

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 19 June 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 19 June 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 -11 90 £500 -6.98% 5
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 (5.88%) Confluence
2 5 (4.90%) TPMS
3 3 (2.94%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.98%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 23 (22.55%) OpenShift
2 19 (18.63%) AWS
3 18 (17.65%) GCP
4 16 (15.69%) Azure
5 14 (13.73%) GitHub
6 3 (2.94%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (1.96%) IaaS
8 1 (0.98%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (0.98%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.98%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (0.98%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (0.98%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.98%) Datadog
8 1 (0.98%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.98%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (0.98%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 20 (19.61%) SAN
2 12 (11.76%) Firewall
3 5 (4.90%) SNMP
3 5 (4.90%) SSH
3 5 (4.90%) SSL
4 4 (3.92%) DNS
4 4 (3.92%) iSCSI
5 3 (2.94%) NAS
5 3 (2.94%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.98%) BIG-IP
6 1 (0.98%) DHCP
6 1 (0.98%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 1 (0.98%) HTTP
6 1 (0.98%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.90%) NoSQL
2 4 (3.92%) Oracle Database
2 4 (3.92%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (2.94%) BusinessObjects
4 2 (1.96%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.98%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.98%) InfluxDB
5 1 (0.98%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.98%) MySQL
5 1 (0.98%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.98%) Qlik Sense
5 1 (0.98%) QlikView
5 1 (0.98%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.98%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 22 (21.57%) Jenkins
2 17 (16.67%) JIRA
3 9 (8.82%) GitLab
4 6 (5.88%) Jaeger
5 5 (4.90%) Git
6 3 (2.94%) Liquibase
7 2 (1.96%) Bitbucket
General
1 43 (42.16%) Social Skills
2 23 (22.55%) Finance
3 17 (16.67%) Banking
4 14 (13.73%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (4.90%) Financial Institution
6 4 (3.92%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.96%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.98%) Advertising
9 1 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.98%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.98%) Law
Job Titles
1 12 (11.76%) Data Centre Engineer
1 12 (11.76%) Lead
2 10 (9.80%) DevOps Engineer
3 9 (8.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 8 (7.84%) Senior
5 6 (5.88%) Platform Engineer
6 5 (4.90%) Cryptography Engineer
6 5 (4.90%) Developer
6 5 (4.90%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 5 (4.90%) ICT Engineer
6 5 (4.90%) Storage Manager
7 4 (3.92%) Applications Tester
7 4 (3.92%) Consultant
7 4 (3.92%) IT Engineer
7 4 (3.92%) NetApp Engineer
7 4 (3.92%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
7 4 (3.92%) Tester
7 4 (3.92%) Web Applications Tester
7 4 (3.92%) Web Tester
8 3 (2.94%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (11.76%) YAML
2 10 (9.80%) Redfish
3 8 (7.84%) OpenTelemetry
4 6 (5.88%) Kafka
5 5 (4.90%) Elastic Stack
5 5 (4.90%) Middleware
5 5 (4.90%) RabbitMQ
5 5 (4.90%) Spring Boot
6 4 (3.92%) REST
7 3 (2.94%) LDAP
7 3 (2.94%) RESTful
8 2 (1.96%) HTML
8 2 (1.96%) OpenID
9 1 (0.98%) FastAPI
9 1 (0.98%) Flask
9 1 (0.98%) Keycloak
9 1 (0.98%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 14 (13.73%) Data Centre
2 9 (8.82%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (7.84%) Cloud Native
4 7 (6.86%) Data Protection Act
4 7 (6.86%) Enterprise Storage
4 7 (6.86%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (5.88%) Linux Command Line
5 6 (5.88%) PKI
6 5 (4.90%) FlexPod
6 5 (4.90%) Replication
7 4 (3.92%) EMC VMAX
7 4 (3.92%) Management Information System
8 3 (2.94%) Clustering
8 3 (2.94%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.96%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (1.96%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.96%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.98%) Distributed Computing
10 1 (0.98%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 45 (44.12%) Windows
2 23 (22.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (8.82%) Unix
4 8 (7.84%) CentOS
4 8 (7.84%) Ubuntu
4 8 (7.84%) Windows Server
5 7 (6.86%) CoreOS
6 6 (5.88%) VMS
7 5 (4.90%) Data ONTAP
7 5 (4.90%) zOS
8 3 (2.94%) AIX
8 3 (2.94%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (43.14%) CI/CD
2 42 (41.18%) DevOps
3 20 (19.61%) Continuous Improvement
4 18 (17.65%) Migration
4 18 (17.65%) Observability
5 17 (16.67%) Data Protection
6 16 (15.69%) Capacity Planning
6 16 (15.69%) Test Automation
7 15 (14.71%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (13.73%) Containerisation
8 14 (13.73%) Infrastructure as Code
8 14 (13.73%) Runbook
9 13 (12.75%) Agile
9 13 (12.75%) Task Automation
10 12 (11.76%) Infrastructure Automation
11 11 (10.78%) Disaster Recovery
11 11 (10.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 11 (10.78%) ITSM
11 11 (10.78%) Microservices
11 11 (10.78%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 48 (47.06%) Python
2 19 (18.63%) SQL
3 16 (15.69%) PowerShell
4 13 (12.75%) Java
5 11 (10.78%) Bash
6 10 (9.80%) Perl
7 9 (8.82%) Ruby
7 9 (8.82%) Shell Script
8 7 (6.86%) Go
9 5 (4.90%) JavaScript
9 5 (4.90%) JCL
9 5 (4.90%) Rust
10 4 (3.92%) Kotlin
11 2 (1.96%) REXX
12 1 (0.98%) VB
Qualifications
1 10 (9.80%) RHCE
2 8 (7.84%) Degree
3 6 (5.88%) OCP
3 6 (5.88%) Oracle Certification
4 5 (4.90%) FFIEC
4 5 (4.90%) Security Cleared
5 4 (3.92%) SC Cleared
6 3 (2.94%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 3 (2.94%) Network+ Certification
7 2 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.96%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.96%) RHCA
8 1 (0.98%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.98%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.98%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.98%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.98%) CISSP
8 1 (0.98%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.98%) RHCSA
8 1 (0.98%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.88%) PCI DSS
2 5 (4.90%) GDPR
2 5 (4.90%) GLBA
2 5 (4.90%) NIST
3 2 (1.96%) SLA
4 1 (0.98%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.98%) SOC 2
System Software
1 26 (25.49%) VMware Infrastructure
2 23 (22.55%) Docker
3 14 (13.73%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (11.76%) Firmware
5 11 (10.78%) KVM
5 11 (10.78%) NFS
6 7 (6.86%) Hyper-V
6 7 (6.86%) vSphere
7 5 (4.90%) Time Sharing Option
8 2 (1.96%) Active Directory
8 2 (1.96%) SRDF
9 1 (0.98%) Ceph
9 1 (0.98%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.98%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 49 (48.04%) Ansible
2 34 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 18 (17.65%) Grafana
3 18 (17.65%) Terraform
4 17 (16.67%) Prometheus
5 10 (9.80%) Dell DRAC
5 10 (9.80%) Puppet
6 5 (4.90%) Kiali
6 5 (4.90%) SnapMirror
6 5 (4.90%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 3 (2.94%) Argo
8 2 (1.96%) NetBackup
8 2 (1.96%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.98%) EMC NetWorker
9 1 (0.98%) Packer
9 1 (0.98%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.98%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.98%) vRealize
9 1 (0.98%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 26 (25.49%) VMware
2 21 (20.59%) Red Hat
3 18 (17.65%) Splunk
4 9 (8.82%) Broadcom
4 9 (8.82%) Dell
5 8 (7.84%) Google
6 7 (6.86%) Oracle
7 6 (5.88%) Microsoft
7 6 (5.88%) NetApp
8 5 (4.90%) Brocade
8 5 (4.90%) IBM
8 5 (4.90%) Thales
9 4 (3.92%) Cisco
9 4 (3.92%) HP
9 4 (3.92%) Juniper
10 3 (2.94%) Commvault
10 3 (2.94%) Pure Storage
10 3 (2.94%) SAP
11 2 (1.96%) AppDynamics
11 2 (1.96%) TOWER Software