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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 16 21
Rank change year-on-year +1 +5 -6
Contract jobs citing Linux 96 32 33
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 12.63% 8.27% 8.27%
As % of the Operating Systems category 69.57% 38.55% 61.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 20 8
10th Percentile £395 £448 £293
25th Percentile £450 £523 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £581 £588
Median % change year-on-year -10.11% -1.06% +6.82%
75th Percentile £538 £623 £600
90th Percentile £694 £639 £615
Yorkshire median daily rate £495 £615 £500
% change year-on-year -19.51% +23.00% -9.09%
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 - £46.75 £22.50
% change year-on-year - +107.78% -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 138 83 54
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 18.16% 21.45% 13.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 49 24
10th Percentile £325 £209 £186
25th Percentile £384 £422 £223
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £533 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.69% +1.52% +1.94%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £606
90th Percentile £626 £650 £688
Yorkshire median daily rate £440 £453 £425
% change year-on-year -2.76% +6.47% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 4
10th Percentile - £16.28 £18.95
25th Percentile - £17.86 £19.63
Median hourly rate £25.15 £21.00 £21.25
Median % change year-on-year +19.76% -1.18% +44.07%
75th Percentile - £21.50 £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.15 £19.25 £21.31
% change year-on-year +30.65% -9.67% -0.88%

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 December 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 4 December 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 -3 94 £523 -10.11% 13
Doncaster - 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 6 (6.25%) TPMS
2 3 (3.13%) Apache
2 3 (3.13%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (3.13%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.08%) CICS
3 2 (2.08%) Tomcat
3 2 (2.08%) WebSphere
4 1 (1.04%) Confluence
4 1 (1.04%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.04%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 39 (40.63%) AWS
2 38 (39.58%) GCP
3 31 (32.29%) Serverless
4 9 (9.38%) OpenShift
5 7 (7.29%) Azure
6 6 (6.25%) AWS KMS
7 5 (5.21%) GitHub
8 3 (3.13%) Entra ID
8 3 (3.13%) IaaS
8 3 (3.13%) PaaS
8 3 (3.13%) SaaS
9 2 (2.08%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (1.04%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (1.04%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (1.04%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 13 (13.54%) Firewall
2 7 (7.29%) DNS
3 6 (6.25%) SNMP
3 6 (6.25%) SSH
3 6 (6.25%) SSL
4 4 (4.17%) NAS
4 4 (4.17%) SAN
5 3 (3.13%) DHCP
5 3 (3.13%) TCP/IP
5 3 (3.13%) VPN
6 1 (1.04%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (1.04%) FCoE
6 1 (1.04%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (1.04%) iSCSI
6 1 (1.04%) LAN
6 1 (1.04%) Multicast
6 1 (1.04%) VLAN
6 1 (1.04%) VSAN
6 1 (1.04%) VXLAN
6 1 (1.04%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (34.38%) NoSQL
2 16 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (12.50%) Oracle Database
4 11 (11.46%) SQL Server
5 3 (3.13%) Apache Hive
5 3 (3.13%) Hadoop
5 3 (3.13%) HBase
6 2 (2.08%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 44 (45.83%) Jenkins
2 35 (36.46%) GitLab
3 23 (23.96%) Liquibase
4 16 (16.67%) Git
5 4 (4.17%) JIRA
6 3 (3.13%) Postman
7 2 (2.08%) Bitbucket
7 2 (2.08%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (1.04%) Gradle
8 1 (1.04%) Jaeger
8 1 (1.04%) Maven
General
1 47 (48.96%) Social Skills
2 44 (45.83%) Finance
3 32 (33.33%) Banking
4 25 (26.04%) Financial Institution
5 6 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.08%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.08%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (17.71%) Senior
2 16 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
2 16 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 15 (15.63%) Software Engineer
4 14 (14.58%) GCP Engineer
5 10 (10.42%) Linux Engineer
5 10 (10.42%) Senior Software Engineer
6 9 (9.38%) Automation Engineer
6 9 (9.38%) AWS Engineer
7 8 (8.33%) AWS Software Engineer
8 7 (7.29%) Administrator
8 7 (7.29%) Cloud Software Engineer
9 6 (6.25%) Cryptography Engineer
9 6 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (5.21%) GCP Software Engineer
10 5 (5.21%) Python Engineer
10 5 (5.21%) Senior DevOps
10 5 (5.21%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 4 (4.17%) Oracle DBA
11 4 (4.17%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (37.50%) Elastic Stack
2 32 (33.33%) REST
3 31 (32.29%) RESTful
4 10 (10.42%) FastAPI
5 5 (5.21%) Middleware
6 3 (3.13%) Spark Streaming
7 2 (2.08%) LDAP
7 2 (2.08%) OpenTelemetry
7 2 (2.08%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 30 (31.25%) Public Cloud
2 29 (30.21%) Distributed Systems
3 24 (25.00%) Cloud Native
4 8 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (5.21%) Data Centre
7 3 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (2.08%) Clustering
8 2 (2.08%) Derivative
8 2 (2.08%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (2.08%) Mainframe
8 2 (2.08%) Management Information System
8 2 (2.08%) Onboarding
8 2 (2.08%) Product Ownership
8 2 (2.08%) Replication
9 1 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (1.04%) IBM Mainframe
9 1 (1.04%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (1.04%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 22 (22.92%) Windows
2 8 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (4.17%) Windows Server
4 3 (3.13%) Unix
4 3 (3.13%) VMS
5 2 (2.08%) CentOS
5 2 (2.08%) Solaris
5 2 (2.08%) Ubuntu
5 2 (2.08%) zOS
6 1 (1.04%) MVS
6 1 (1.04%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (1.04%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (60.42%) DevOps
2 50 (52.08%) CI/CD
3 45 (46.88%) Agile
4 37 (38.54%) Containerisation
4 37 (38.54%) Infrastructure as Code
4 37 (38.54%) Root Cause Analysis
5 34 (35.42%) Cryptography
6 32 (33.33%) Data Security
6 32 (33.33%) Microservices
7 30 (31.25%) Computer Science
7 30 (31.25%) Cybersecurity
8 29 (30.21%) High Availability
9 28 (29.17%) Continuous Integration
10 27 (28.13%) Continuous Delivery
10 27 (28.13%) Non-Functional Testing
11 25 (26.04%) Infrastructure Automation
12 23 (23.96%) Cost Optimisation
12 23 (23.96%) Problem-Solving
12 23 (23.96%) Software Engineering
13 20 (20.83%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 59 (61.46%) Python
2 31 (32.29%) Go
3 17 (17.71%) Shell Script
4 13 (13.54%) Java
5 10 (10.42%) Bash
6 7 (7.29%) PowerShell
6 7 (7.29%) SQL
7 2 (2.08%) Groovy
8 1 (1.04%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 30 (31.25%) Computer Science Degree
1 30 (31.25%) Degree
2 28 (29.17%) Master's Degree
3 11 (11.46%) AWS Certification
4 8 (8.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 6 (6.25%) FFIEC
6 3 (3.13%) AWS Certified Developer
6 3 (3.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 3 (3.13%) Security Cleared
7 1 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.25%) GDPR
1 6 (6.25%) GLBA
1 6 (6.25%) NIST
1 6 (6.25%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.04%) SLA
System Software
1 31 (32.29%) Docker
2 11 (11.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (10.42%) Oracle RAC
4 8 (8.33%) Active Directory
5 5 (5.21%) KVM
5 5 (5.21%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (5.21%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (4.17%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 4 (4.17%) VMware NSX
6 4 (4.17%) vSphere
7 3 (3.13%) HDFS
7 3 (3.13%) Hyper-V
8 1 (1.04%) Ceph
8 1 (1.04%) NFS
8 1 (1.04%) QEMU
8 1 (1.04%) SRDF
8 1 (1.04%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (1.04%) Xen
Systems Management
1 69 (71.88%) Ansible
2 45 (46.88%) Kubernetes
3 44 (45.83%) Terraform
4 38 (39.58%) Prometheus
5 37 (38.54%) Grafana
6 10 (10.42%) Data Guard
6 10 (10.42%) yum
7 9 (9.38%) Puppet
8 5 (5.21%) EMC NetWorker
9 4 (4.17%) vCenter Server
10 3 (3.13%) Hadoop YARN
10 3 (3.13%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (3.13%) vRealize
11 2 (2.08%) Packer
12 1 (1.04%) Argo
12 1 (1.04%) Podman
12 1 (1.04%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 38 (39.58%) Splunk
2 19 (19.79%) Google
3 15 (15.63%) Oracle
4 12 (12.50%) VMware
5 10 (10.42%) Microsoft
6 6 (6.25%) F5
7 5 (5.21%) Thales
8 4 (4.17%) Citrix
8 4 (4.17%) EMC
9 3 (3.13%) Cisco
9 3 (3.13%) MuleSoft
9 3 (3.13%) NetApp
9 3 (3.13%) Red Hat
10 2 (2.08%) Calypso
11 1 (1.04%) AppDynamics
11 1 (1.04%) Dell
11 1 (1.04%) IBM
11 1 (1.04%) Palo Alto
11 1 (1.04%) Pure Storage
11 1 (1.04%) Sybase