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 3 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 18 14
Rank change year-on-year -2 -4 +6
Contract jobs citing Linux 102 22 47
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 11.75% 8.27% 10.47%
As % of the Operating Systems category 72.34% 33.33% 47.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 16 20
10th Percentile £398 £473 £271
25th Percentile £462 £514 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £575 £430
Median % change year-on-year -11.30% +33.72% -21.82%
75th Percentile £538 £596 £487
90th Percentile £688 £623 £589
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £579 £459
% change year-on-year -13.61% +26.16% -16.59%
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 141 66 99
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 16.24% 24.81% 22.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 47 56
10th Percentile £350 £209 £186
25th Percentile £415 £411 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £430
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +19.77% -14.00%
75th Percentile £538 £594 £588
90th Percentile £688 £630 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £450 £375
% change year-on-year - +20.00% -5.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 5
10th Percentile - - £16.60
25th Percentile - £15.22 £21.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £16.19 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +55.34% -28.04% +52.54%
75th Percentile - £17.16 £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £23.23 £17.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year +32.71% -20.45% +2.33%

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 3 February 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 3 February 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 -3 99 £520 -7.35% 7
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 11 (10.78%) TPMS
2 3 (2.94%) Apache
2 3 (2.94%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.94%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.98%) Confluence
3 1 (0.98%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 34 (33.33%) AWS
1 34 (33.33%) GCP
2 24 (23.53%) Serverless
3 20 (19.61%) OpenShift
4 10 (9.80%) Azure
5 9 (8.82%) GitHub
6 8 (7.84%) AWS KMS
7 3 (2.94%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (2.94%) Entra ID
7 3 (2.94%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (2.94%) IaaS
7 3 (2.94%) PaaS
7 3 (2.94%) SaaS
8 2 (1.96%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (0.98%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 17 (16.67%) Firewall
2 11 (10.78%) SNMP
2 11 (10.78%) SSH
2 11 (10.78%) SSL
3 8 (7.84%) DNS
4 5 (4.90%) TCP/IP
5 3 (2.94%) DHCP
5 3 (2.94%) VPN
6 2 (1.96%) NAS
6 2 (1.96%) SAN
7 1 (0.98%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.98%) VLAN
7 1 (0.98%) VSAN
7 1 (0.98%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (23.53%) NoSQL
2 18 (17.65%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (2.94%) Apache Hive
3 3 (2.94%) Hadoop
3 3 (2.94%) HBase
3 3 (2.94%) MongoDB
3 3 (2.94%) Oracle Database
4 2 (1.96%) MySQL
5 1 (0.98%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.98%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.98%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 38 (37.25%) Jenkins
2 32 (31.37%) GitLab
3 16 (15.69%) Liquibase
4 9 (8.82%) Jaeger
5 8 (7.84%) Git
6 6 (5.88%) JIRA
7 2 (1.96%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.96%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.98%) Gradle
8 1 (0.98%) Maven
8 1 (0.98%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 55 (53.92%) Social Skills
2 48 (47.06%) Finance
3 27 (26.47%) Banking
3 27 (26.47%) Financial Institution
4 19 (18.63%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (3.92%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.96%) Law
7 2 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.96%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.98%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.98%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 20 (19.61%) Senior
2 15 (14.71%) Cloud Engineer
3 14 (13.73%) GCP Engineer
3 14 (13.73%) Software Engineer
4 12 (11.76%) Lead
5 11 (10.78%) Cryptography Engineer
5 11 (10.78%) DevOps Engineer
5 11 (10.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 10 (9.80%) Administrator
6 10 (9.80%) Senior Software Engineer
7 9 (8.82%) AWS Engineer
8 8 (7.84%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 7 (6.86%) AWS Software Engineer
10 6 (5.88%) Cloud Software Engineer
10 6 (5.88%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
11 5 (4.90%) Senior DevOps
11 5 (4.90%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 4 (3.92%) Developer
12 4 (3.92%) GCP Software Engineer
12 4 (3.92%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (30.39%) Elastic Stack
2 27 (26.47%) REST
3 25 (24.51%) RESTful
4 12 (11.76%) OpenTelemetry
5 10 (9.80%) Kafka
6 9 (8.82%) YAML
7 8 (7.84%) Middleware
7 8 (7.84%) Spring Boot
8 3 (2.94%) Spark Streaming
9 2 (1.96%) Spring
10 1 (0.98%) FastAPI
10 1 (0.98%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 34 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
2 25 (24.51%) Public Cloud
3 19 (18.63%) Cloud Native
4 10 (9.80%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (6.86%) Management Information System
6 5 (4.90%) Onboarding
7 4 (3.92%) Data Centre
7 4 (3.92%) Product Ownership
8 3 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.96%) Derivative
9 2 (1.96%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (1.96%) Replication
9 2 (1.96%) Security Posture
10 1 (0.98%) Enterprise Storage
10 1 (0.98%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.98%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.98%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 31 (30.39%) Windows
2 12 (11.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (8.82%) CentOS
3 9 (8.82%) Ubuntu
4 5 (4.90%) Unix
5 1 (0.98%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 65 (63.73%) DevOps
3 40 (39.22%) Cybersecurity
4 38 (37.25%) Containerisation
4 38 (37.25%) Root Cause Analysis
5 35 (34.31%) Cryptography
5 35 (34.31%) Microservices
6 34 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
7 32 (31.37%) Data Security
8 31 (30.39%) Computer Science
9 29 (28.43%) Agile
10 28 (27.45%) Observability
11 26 (25.49%) Infrastructure Automation
12 25 (24.51%) High Availability
13 23 (22.55%) Problem-Solving
14 22 (21.57%) Continuous Delivery
14 22 (21.57%) Continuous Integration
14 22 (21.57%) Non-Functional Testing
15 18 (17.65%) Cost Optimisation
15 18 (17.65%) Data Encryption
Programming Languages
1 56 (54.90%) Python
2 28 (27.45%) Go
3 18 (17.65%) SQL
4 17 (16.67%) Java
5 14 (13.73%) Bash
6 9 (8.82%) Ruby
6 9 (8.82%) Shell Script
7 8 (7.84%) Perl
7 8 (7.84%) Rust
8 7 (6.86%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.96%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 31 (30.39%) Degree
2 23 (22.55%) Computer Science Degree
2 23 (22.55%) Master's Degree
3 11 (10.78%) FFIEC
4 9 (8.82%) RHCE
5 7 (6.86%) AWS Certification
6 6 (5.88%) Security Cleared
7 4 (3.92%) AWS Certified Developer
7 4 (3.92%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (2.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.98%) RHCSA
9 1 (0.98%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (10.78%) GDPR
1 11 (10.78%) GLBA
1 11 (10.78%) NIST
1 11 (10.78%) PCI DSS
2 5 (4.90%) SLA
System Software
1 40 (39.22%) Docker
2 5 (4.90%) KVM
2 5 (4.90%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (4.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (2.94%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.94%) HDFS
4 2 (1.96%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.98%) Ceph
5 1 (0.98%) Firmware
5 1 (0.98%) NFS
5 1 (0.98%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.98%) QEMU
5 1 (0.98%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.98%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.98%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 65 (63.73%) Ansible
2 55 (53.92%) Kubernetes
3 46 (45.10%) Grafana
4 43 (42.16%) Prometheus
5 42 (41.18%) Terraform
6 13 (12.75%) Puppet
7 8 (7.84%) Kiali
8 5 (4.90%) EMC NetWorker
9 3 (2.94%) Hadoop YARN
9 3 (2.94%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (1.96%) Packer
11 1 (0.98%) Argo
11 1 (0.98%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.98%) NetBackup
11 1 (0.98%) Podman
11 1 (0.98%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.98%) vCenter Server
11 1 (0.98%) yum
Vendors
1 49 (48.04%) Splunk
2 13 (12.75%) Google
2 13 (12.75%) Red Hat
3 10 (9.80%) Thales
4 8 (7.84%) VMware
5 7 (6.86%) Oracle
6 4 (3.92%) AppDynamics
7 3 (2.94%) Microsoft
8 2 (1.96%) Calypso
8 2 (1.96%) CrowdStrike
8 2 (1.96%) EMC
8 2 (1.96%) NetApp
8 2 (1.96%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.98%) Cisco
9 1 (0.98%) Commvault
9 1 (0.98%) Dell
9 1 (0.98%) F5
9 1 (0.98%) Isilon
9 1 (0.98%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.98%) Pure Storage