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 20 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 18 17
Rank change year-on-year +3 -1 +1
Contract jobs citing Linux 105 19 46
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 12.37% 6.88% 10.53%
As % of the Operating Systems category 73.94% 27.54% 47.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 14 18
10th Percentile £431 £465 £293
25th Percentile £463 £505 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £574 £430
Median % change year-on-year -8.50% +33.43% -21.82%
75th Percentile £538 £613 £588
90th Percentile £688 £623 £600
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £615 £475
% change year-on-year -18.70% +29.47% -13.64%
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 142 69 96
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 16.73% 25.00% 21.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 49 55
10th Percentile £345 £202 £189
25th Percentile £415 £409 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £430
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +19.77% -14.00%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £588
90th Percentile £688 £640 £600
Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £475 £400
% change year-on-year -5.26% +18.75% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £15.22 £21.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £16.19 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +55.34% -28.04% +60.71%
75th Percentile - £17.16 £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.15 £17.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year +43.71% -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 20 January 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 20 January 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 +4 103 £525 -6.46% 5
Doncaster - 1 - - 4
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 (10.48%) TPMS
2 3 (2.86%) Apache
2 3 (2.86%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.86%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.90%) CICS
3 2 (1.90%) Tomcat
3 2 (1.90%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.95%) Confluence
4 1 (0.95%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.95%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 39 (37.14%) AWS
2 38 (36.19%) GCP
3 26 (24.76%) Serverless
4 13 (12.38%) OpenShift
5 12 (11.43%) Azure
6 9 (8.57%) GitHub
7 8 (7.62%) AWS KMS
8 3 (2.86%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (2.86%) Entra ID
8 3 (2.86%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (2.86%) IaaS
8 3 (2.86%) PaaS
8 3 (2.86%) SaaS
9 2 (1.90%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (0.95%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 18 (17.14%) Firewall
2 11 (10.48%) SNMP
2 11 (10.48%) SSH
2 11 (10.48%) SSL
3 8 (7.62%) DNS
4 4 (3.81%) TCP/IP
5 3 (2.86%) DHCP
5 3 (2.86%) VPN
6 1 (0.95%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (0.95%) FCoE
6 1 (0.95%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (0.95%) iSCSI
6 1 (0.95%) LAN
6 1 (0.95%) Multicast
6 1 (0.95%) NAS
6 1 (0.95%) SAN
6 1 (0.95%) VLAN
6 1 (0.95%) VSAN
6 1 (0.95%) VXLAN
6 1 (0.95%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (26.67%) NoSQL
2 20 (19.05%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (11.43%) Oracle Database
4 11 (10.48%) SQL Server
5 3 (2.86%) Apache Hive
5 3 (2.86%) Hadoop
5 3 (2.86%) HBase
5 3 (2.86%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.90%) MySQL
7 1 (0.95%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.95%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 36 (34.29%) Jenkins
2 31 (29.52%) GitLab
3 18 (17.14%) Liquibase
4 16 (15.24%) Git
5 8 (7.62%) Jaeger
6 6 (5.71%) JIRA
7 2 (1.90%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.90%) CircleCI
7 2 (1.90%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.95%) Gradle
8 1 (0.95%) Maven
General
1 60 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 49 (46.67%) Finance
3 29 (27.62%) Banking
4 28 (26.67%) Financial Institution
5 19 (18.10%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (4.76%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.90%) Law
8 2 (1.90%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.90%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.95%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 20 (19.05%) Senior
2 15 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
3 14 (13.33%) Software Engineer
4 13 (12.38%) GCP Engineer
4 13 (12.38%) Lead
5 12 (11.43%) DevOps Engineer
6 11 (10.48%) Cryptography Engineer
6 11 (10.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 10 (9.52%) Senior Software Engineer
8 9 (8.57%) Administrator
9 8 (7.62%) Automation Engineer
9 8 (7.62%) AWS Engineer
10 7 (6.67%) AWS Software Engineer
10 7 (6.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 6 (5.71%) Cloud Software Engineer
11 6 (5.71%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
12 5 (4.76%) Senior DevOps
12 5 (4.76%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 4 (3.81%) Developer
13 4 (3.81%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (31.43%) Elastic Stack
2 27 (25.71%) REST
3 26 (24.76%) RESTful
4 10 (9.52%) FastAPI
5 9 (8.57%) Kafka
5 9 (8.57%) Middleware
5 9 (8.57%) OpenTelemetry
6 8 (7.62%) YAML
7 7 (6.67%) Spring Boot
8 3 (2.86%) Spark Streaming
9 2 (1.90%) LDAP
9 2 (1.90%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 31 (29.52%) Distributed Systems
2 27 (25.71%) Public Cloud
3 19 (18.10%) Cloud Native
4 9 (8.57%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (6.67%) Management Information System
6 5 (4.76%) Data Centre
6 5 (4.76%) Onboarding
7 4 (3.81%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (2.86%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.90%) Clustering
9 2 (1.90%) Derivative
9 2 (1.90%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (1.90%) Mainframe
9 2 (1.90%) Replication
9 2 (1.90%) Security Posture
10 1 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.95%) IBM Mainframe
10 1 (0.95%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.95%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 28 (26.67%) Windows
2 10 (9.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (8.57%) CentOS
3 9 (8.57%) Ubuntu
4 5 (4.76%) Unix
5 2 (1.90%) Solaris
5 2 (1.90%) zOS
6 1 (0.95%) MVS
6 1 (0.95%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (67.62%) DevOps
2 67 (63.81%) CI/CD
3 41 (39.05%) Cybersecurity
4 39 (37.14%) Agile
5 38 (36.19%) Root Cause Analysis
6 35 (33.33%) Containerisation
6 35 (33.33%) Microservices
7 34 (32.38%) Cryptography
7 34 (32.38%) Infrastructure as Code
8 33 (31.43%) Data Security
9 31 (29.52%) Problem-Solving
10 30 (28.57%) Computer Science
11 26 (24.76%) High Availability
11 26 (24.76%) Infrastructure Automation
12 25 (23.81%) Continuous Integration
12 25 (23.81%) Observability
13 24 (22.86%) Continuous Delivery
13 24 (22.86%) Non-Functional Testing
14 18 (17.14%) Cost Optimisation
14 18 (17.14%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 61 (58.10%) Python
2 28 (26.67%) Go
3 21 (20.00%) Java
4 18 (17.14%) SQL
5 17 (16.19%) Shell Script
6 11 (10.48%) Bash
7 8 (7.62%) Perl
7 8 (7.62%) Ruby
8 7 (6.67%) Rust
9 5 (4.76%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.90%) Groovy
11 1 (0.95%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 30 (28.57%) Degree
2 23 (21.90%) Computer Science Degree
2 23 (21.90%) Master's Degree
3 11 (10.48%) FFIEC
4 8 (7.62%) RHCE
5 6 (5.71%) AWS Certification
5 6 (5.71%) Security Cleared
6 3 (2.86%) AWS Certified Developer
6 3 (2.86%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 3 (2.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (10.48%) GDPR
1 11 (10.48%) GLBA
1 11 (10.48%) NIST
1 11 (10.48%) PCI DSS
2 5 (4.76%) SLA
System Software
1 38 (36.19%) Docker
2 10 (9.52%) Oracle RAC
3 5 (4.76%) Active Directory
3 5 (4.76%) KVM
4 4 (3.81%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (2.86%) HDFS
5 3 (2.86%) Hyper-V
6 2 (1.90%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.95%) Ceph
7 1 (0.95%) NFS
7 1 (0.95%) QEMU
7 1 (0.95%) SRDF
7 1 (0.95%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 1 (0.95%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.95%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.95%) vSphere
7 1 (0.95%) Xen
Systems Management
1 72 (68.57%) Ansible
2 55 (52.38%) Kubernetes
3 45 (42.86%) Grafana
3 45 (42.86%) Terraform
4 42 (40.00%) Prometheus
5 14 (13.33%) Puppet
6 10 (9.52%) Data Guard
6 10 (9.52%) yum
7 7 (6.67%) Kiali
8 5 (4.76%) EMC NetWorker
9 3 (2.86%) Hadoop YARN
9 3 (2.86%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (1.90%) Packer
11 1 (0.95%) Argo
11 1 (0.95%) Podman
11 1 (0.95%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.95%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 49 (46.67%) Splunk
2 18 (17.14%) Oracle
3 14 (13.33%) Google
4 10 (9.52%) Thales
5 9 (8.57%) Red Hat
6 7 (6.67%) VMware
7 5 (4.76%) Microsoft
8 4 (3.81%) AppDynamics
8 4 (3.81%) EMC
9 3 (2.86%) Cisco
9 3 (2.86%) F5
9 3 (2.86%) NetApp
10 2 (1.90%) Calypso
10 2 (1.90%) CrowdStrike
10 2 (1.90%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.95%) Dell
11 1 (0.95%) IBM
11 1 (0.95%) Palo Alto
11 1 (0.95%) Pure Storage
11 1 (0.95%) Sybase