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 10 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 17 3
Rank change year-on-year -5 -14 +21
Contract jobs citing Linux 103 37 70
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 10.23% 10.45% 16.47%
As % of the Operating Systems category 68.21% 50.00% 49.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 26 44
10th Percentile £358 £451 £404
25th Percentile £401 £503 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £441
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +30.31% -15.95%
75th Percentile £538 £643 £532
90th Percentile £688 £780 £580
Yorkshire median daily rate £464 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -15.64% +10.00% -9.09%
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 151 74 142
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 15.00% 20.90% 33.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 49 90
10th Percentile £355 £152 £199
25th Percentile £380 £400 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £538 £430
Median % change year-on-year -7.44% +25.00% -14.00%
75th Percentile £538 £623 £530
90th Percentile £688 £710 £588
Yorkshire median daily rate £425 £458 £411
% change year-on-year -7.10% +11.19% -0.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 7
10th Percentile - - £18.15
25th Percentile - £18.10 £21.25
Median hourly rate - £18.21 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year - -19.09% +104.55%
75th Percentile - £18.41 £23.75
90th Percentile - £18.47 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.06 £18.21 £21.35
% change year-on-year +21.15% -14.74% +10.15%

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 10 April 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 10 April 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 -6 93 £500 -16.67% 9
Doncaster - 1 - - 2
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 8 (7.77%) TPMS
2 2 (1.94%) Confluence
3 1 (0.97%) nginx
3 1 (0.97%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 30 (29.13%) OpenShift
2 22 (21.36%) AWS
3 21 (20.39%) GCP
4 17 (16.50%) Azure
5 11 (10.68%) GitHub
6 5 (4.85%) IaaS
7 3 (2.91%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (2.91%) Entra ID
7 3 (2.91%) PaaS
7 3 (2.91%) SaaS
7 3 (2.91%) Serverless
8 2 (1.94%) AWS KMS
8 2 (1.94%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.97%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (0.97%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 18 (17.48%) Firewall
2 16 (15.53%) SAN
3 9 (8.74%) DNS
4 8 (7.77%) SNMP
4 8 (7.77%) SSH
4 8 (7.77%) SSL
5 5 (4.85%) TCP/IP
6 4 (3.88%) iSCSI
7 3 (2.91%) DHCP
7 3 (2.91%) NAS
7 3 (2.91%) VPN
8 1 (0.97%) HTTP
8 1 (0.97%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.97%) VLAN
8 1 (0.97%) VSAN
8 1 (0.97%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.83%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (3.88%) NoSQL
3 3 (2.91%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.94%) MySQL
4 2 (1.94%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.97%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.97%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.97%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 21 (20.39%) Jenkins
2 12 (11.65%) GitLab
2 12 (11.65%) JIRA
3 8 (7.77%) Jaeger
4 6 (5.83%) Git
5 4 (3.88%) Liquibase
6 2 (1.94%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.97%) Bitbucket
General
1 43 (41.75%) Social Skills
2 31 (30.10%) Finance
3 19 (18.45%) Banking
4 16 (15.53%) Documentation Skills
5 9 (8.74%) Financial Institution
6 4 (3.88%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.91%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.94%) Law
8 2 (1.94%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.97%) Advertising
9 1 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.97%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.97%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 13 (12.62%) Senior
2 12 (11.65%) Lead
3 11 (10.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 10 (9.71%) DevOps Engineer
5 8 (7.77%) Administrator
5 8 (7.77%) Cryptography Engineer
5 8 (7.77%) Data Centre Engineer
5 8 (7.77%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 6 (5.83%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
7 5 (4.85%) Platform Engineer
8 4 (3.88%) Cloud Engineer
8 4 (3.88%) GCP Engineer
8 4 (3.88%) NetApp Engineer
8 4 (3.88%) Senior DevOps
8 4 (3.88%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 3 (2.91%) Backup Engineer
9 3 (2.91%) Cloud Software Engineer
9 3 (2.91%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 3 (2.91%) Senior Software Engineer
9 3 (2.91%) Storage Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (9.71%) Elastic Stack
1 10 (9.71%) Kafka
1 10 (9.71%) OpenTelemetry
2 9 (8.74%) YAML
3 8 (7.77%) Middleware
3 8 (7.77%) Spring Boot
4 7 (6.80%) REST
5 6 (5.83%) Redfish
6 5 (4.85%) RESTful
7 2 (1.94%) LDAP
8 1 (0.97%) FastAPI
8 1 (0.97%) Flask
8 1 (0.97%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 14 (13.59%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (11.65%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (7.77%) Cloud Native
3 8 (7.77%) Data Centre
4 7 (6.80%) Data Protection Act
4 7 (6.80%) Management Information System
5 6 (5.83%) Public Cloud
6 5 (4.85%) FlexPod
6 5 (4.85%) Product Ownership
7 4 (3.88%) EMC VMAX
8 3 (2.91%) Enterprise Storage
8 3 (2.91%) Onboarding
8 3 (2.91%) Replication
9 2 (1.94%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (1.94%) Security Posture
10 1 (0.97%) Distributed Computing
10 1 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.97%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.97%) PKI
10 1 (0.97%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 42 (40.78%) Windows
2 23 (22.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (8.74%) CentOS
3 9 (8.74%) Ubuntu
4 8 (7.77%) Unix
5 6 (5.83%) VMS
6 5 (4.85%) CoreOS
6 5 (4.85%) Data ONTAP
7 3 (2.91%) zOS
8 1 (0.97%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (48.54%) DevOps
2 49 (47.57%) CI/CD
3 25 (24.27%) Observability
3 25 (24.27%) Problem-Solving
4 23 (22.33%) Cybersecurity
5 22 (21.36%) Infrastructure as Code
6 19 (18.45%) Containerisation
6 19 (18.45%) Continuous Improvement
6 19 (18.45%) Infrastructure Automation
6 19 (18.45%) Migration
7 18 (17.48%) Data Protection
7 18 (17.48%) Task Automation
8 17 (16.50%) Root Cause Analysis
9 16 (15.53%) Disaster Recovery
9 16 (15.53%) Microservices
10 15 (14.56%) Roadmaps
11 14 (13.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 13 (12.62%) Data Security
12 13 (12.62%) Mentoring
12 13 (12.62%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 47 (45.63%) Python
2 16 (15.53%) SQL
3 14 (13.59%) Bash
4 13 (12.62%) Java
5 9 (8.74%) Go
5 9 (8.74%) PowerShell
5 9 (8.74%) Ruby
6 8 (7.77%) Perl
6 8 (7.77%) Rust
7 6 (5.83%) Shell Script
8 3 (2.91%) JCL
9 2 (1.94%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.97%) Groovy
10 1 (0.97%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 13 (12.62%) Degree
2 9 (8.74%) RHCE
3 8 (7.77%) FFIEC
4 6 (5.83%) OCP
4 6 (5.83%) Oracle Certification
4 6 (5.83%) Security Cleared
5 4 (3.88%) Master's Degree
6 3 (2.91%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.91%) SC Cleared
7 2 (1.94%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.94%) AWS Certified Developer
7 2 (1.94%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (1.94%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.97%) CISM
8 1 (0.97%) CISSP
8 1 (0.97%) RHCSA
8 1 (0.97%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.77%) GDPR
1 8 (7.77%) GLBA
1 8 (7.77%) NIST
1 8 (7.77%) PCI DSS
2 5 (4.85%) SLA
System Software
1 22 (21.36%) Docker
2 19 (18.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (11.65%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (8.74%) NFS
5 8 (7.77%) Firmware
5 8 (7.77%) vSphere
6 7 (6.80%) KVM
7 5 (4.85%) Hyper-V
8 3 (2.91%) Active Directory
8 3 (2.91%) Time Sharing Option
9 2 (1.94%) SRDF
9 2 (1.94%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.97%) Ceph
10 1 (0.97%) QEMU
10 1 (0.97%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 57 (55.34%) Ansible
2 43 (41.75%) Kubernetes
3 30 (29.13%) Terraform
4 25 (24.27%) Grafana
5 21 (20.39%) Prometheus
6 11 (10.68%) Puppet
7 8 (7.77%) Kiali
8 6 (5.83%) Dell DRAC
9 5 (4.85%) EMC NetWorker
9 5 (4.85%) SnapMirror
10 3 (2.91%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (2.91%) Tivoli Storage Manager
11 2 (1.94%) Argo
11 2 (1.94%) NetBackup
11 2 (1.94%) Progress Chef
11 2 (1.94%) vCenter Server
12 1 (0.97%) Packer
12 1 (0.97%) Podman
12 1 (0.97%) PowerCLI
12 1 (0.97%) vRealize
Vendors
1 26 (25.24%) Splunk
2 21 (20.39%) VMware
3 20 (19.42%) Red Hat
4 8 (7.77%) Dell
4 8 (7.77%) Google
4 8 (7.77%) Thales
5 7 (6.80%) Broadcom
5 7 (6.80%) NetApp
6 6 (5.83%) Oracle
7 5 (4.85%) Cisco
8 4 (3.88%) HP
9 3 (2.91%) AppDynamics
9 3 (2.91%) Brocade
9 3 (2.91%) IBM
9 3 (2.91%) Microsoft
9 3 (2.91%) Pure Storage
9 3 (2.91%) ServiceNow
10 2 (1.94%) CrowdStrike
10 2 (1.94%) EMC
10 2 (1.94%) TOWER Software