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 14 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 18 17
Rank change year-on-year -16 -1 +4
Contract jobs citing Linux 77 69 52
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 6.73% 11.06% 11.11%
As % of the Operating Systems category 51.68% 56.10% 51.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 46 36
10th Percentile - £392 £418
25th Percentile £358 £450 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £525 £523
Median % change year-on-year -20.95% +0.48% -7.11%
75th Percentile £527 £600 £580
90th Percentile £630 £711 £624
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £525 £553
% change year-on-year -4.76% -5.06% -2.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £25.84 - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.84 - £52.50
% change year-on-year - - +183.78%

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 149 123 101
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 13.02% 19.71% 21.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 74 64
10th Percentile £200 £150 £203
25th Percentile £358 £358 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £472 £514
Median % change year-on-year +6.04% -8.27% +2.80%
75th Percentile £539 £547 £568
90th Percentile £675 £643 £615
Yorkshire median daily rate £425 £440 £500
% change year-on-year -3.41% -12.00% +9.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £18.10 £20.50
Median hourly rate £25.84 £18.21 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +41.94% -15.33% +13.16%
75th Percentile - £18.41 £22.00
90th Percentile - £18.47 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.81 £18.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year +23.30% +5.71% -12.50%

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 14 August 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 14 August 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 -24 66 £500 -4.76% 8
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 4 (5.19%) Confluence
2 3 (3.90%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.30%) Apache
3 1 (1.30%) nginx
3 1 (1.30%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 17 (22.08%) AWS
1 17 (22.08%) GCP
2 15 (19.48%) Azure
3 14 (18.18%) OpenShift
4 9 (11.69%) GitHub
5 5 (6.49%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (3.90%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (2.60%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (2.60%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (2.60%) Entra ID
7 2 (2.60%) IaaS
8 1 (1.30%) AWS Direct Connect
8 1 (1.30%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (1.30%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 1 (1.30%) Azure Functions
8 1 (1.30%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (1.30%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (1.30%) Azure Storage
8 1 (1.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (1.30%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 16 (20.78%) SAN
2 4 (5.19%) Firewall
2 4 (5.19%) iSCSI
3 3 (3.90%) DNS
4 1 (1.30%) BGP
4 1 (1.30%) BIG-IP
4 1 (1.30%) Calico
4 1 (1.30%) DHCP
4 1 (1.30%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 1 (1.30%) HTTP
4 1 (1.30%) NaaS
4 1 (1.30%) NAS
4 1 (1.30%) SNMP
4 1 (1.30%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.19%) NoSQL
1 4 (5.19%) Oracle Database
2 3 (3.90%) BusinessObjects
3 2 (2.60%) Big Data
3 2 (2.60%) Data Lake
3 2 (2.60%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.30%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.30%) InfluxDB
4 1 (1.30%) MySQL
4 1 (1.30%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (1.30%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.30%) Qlik Sense
4 1 (1.30%) QlikView
4 1 (1.30%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.30%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.30%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (15.58%) JIRA
2 10 (12.99%) Jenkins
3 5 (6.49%) Git
4 3 (3.90%) GitLab
5 2 (2.60%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.30%) Jaeger
6 1 (1.30%) Liquibase
General
1 25 (32.47%) Social Skills
2 13 (16.88%) Banking
3 12 (15.58%) Finance
4 5 (6.49%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (5.19%) Law
6 3 (3.90%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.30%) Advertising
7 1 (1.30%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.30%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.30%) Legal
7 1 (1.30%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.30%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (12.99%) Data Centre Engineer
2 9 (11.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (7.79%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (7.79%) Lead
3 6 (7.79%) Platform Engineer
4 5 (6.49%) Developer
4 5 (6.49%) ICT Engineer
4 5 (6.49%) Senior
4 5 (6.49%) Storage Manager
5 4 (5.19%) Applications Tester
5 4 (5.19%) Cloud Engineer
5 4 (5.19%) Consultant
5 4 (5.19%) IT Engineer
5 4 (5.19%) Kubernetes Engineer
5 4 (5.19%) Support Engineer
5 4 (5.19%) Tester
5 4 (5.19%) Web Applications Tester
5 4 (5.19%) Web Tester
6 3 (3.90%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (3.90%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (12.99%) Redfish
2 5 (6.49%) RabbitMQ
3 3 (3.90%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (3.90%) Kafka
3 3 (3.90%) YAML
4 2 (2.60%) HTML
4 2 (2.60%) LDAP
4 2 (2.60%) OpenID
5 1 (1.30%) Jakarta EE
5 1 (1.30%) Keycloak
5 1 (1.30%) Loki
5 1 (1.30%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (1.30%) REST
5 1 (1.30%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 13 (16.88%) Data Centre
2 10 (12.99%) PKI
3 9 (11.69%) Cloud Native
3 9 (11.69%) Linux Command Line
4 7 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (7.79%) Enterprise Storage
6 5 (6.49%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (5.19%) EMC VMAX
8 3 (3.90%) Clustering
8 3 (3.90%) FlexPod
8 3 (3.90%) Replication
9 2 (2.60%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (2.60%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (2.60%) Product Ownership
9 2 (2.60%) Public Cloud
10 1 (1.30%) Distributed Computing
10 1 (1.30%) Mainframe
10 1 (1.30%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 32 (41.56%) Windows
2 11 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (10.39%) Unix
3 8 (10.39%) Windows Server
4 5 (6.49%) CoreOS
4 5 (6.49%) zOS
5 4 (5.19%) VMS
6 3 (3.90%) AIX
6 3 (3.90%) Data ONTAP
6 3 (3.90%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (41.56%) CI/CD
2 25 (32.47%) DevOps
3 24 (31.17%) Infrastructure as Code
4 16 (20.78%) Runbook
4 16 (20.78%) Test Automation
5 15 (19.48%) Capacity Planning
5 15 (19.48%) Disaster Recovery
6 14 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
6 14 (18.18%) Migration
6 14 (18.18%) Observability
6 14 (18.18%) Platform Engineering
7 12 (15.58%) Agile
8 11 (14.29%) Data Protection
8 11 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 10 (12.99%) Asset Management
9 10 (12.99%) Data Centre Operations
9 10 (12.99%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 10 (12.99%) Infrastructure Management
9 10 (12.99%) Inventory Management
10 9 (11.69%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 35 (45.45%) Python
2 18 (23.38%) PowerShell
3 15 (19.48%) Bash
3 15 (19.48%) SQL
4 9 (11.69%) Java
5 8 (10.39%) Shell Script
6 5 (6.49%) JCL
7 4 (5.19%) Go
7 4 (5.19%) JavaScript
7 4 (5.19%) Kotlin
8 3 (3.90%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (2.60%) C#
9 2 (2.60%) Perl
9 2 (2.60%) REXX
10 1 (1.30%) VB
Qualifications
1 4 (5.19%) Microsoft Certified Professional
1 4 (5.19%) OCP
1 4 (5.19%) Oracle Certification
2 3 (3.90%) Network+ Certification
2 3 (3.90%) SC Cleared
2 3 (3.90%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.60%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (2.60%) Degree
3 2 (2.60%) RHCA
4 1 (1.30%) A+ Certification
4 1 (1.30%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.30%) CCNA
4 1 (1.30%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.30%) ECDL
4 1 (1.30%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.30%) MCSE
4 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.30%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.30%) HIPAA
2 1 (1.30%) NIST
2 1 (1.30%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.30%) SOC 2
System Software
1 21 (27.27%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (15.58%) Docker
3 10 (12.99%) Firmware
4 8 (10.39%) KVM
4 8 (10.39%) NFS
5 7 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (7.79%) Hyper-V
7 5 (6.49%) Time Sharing Option
7 5 (6.49%) vSphere
8 4 (5.19%) Active Directory
9 2 (2.60%) SRDF
10 1 (1.30%) Ceph
10 1 (1.30%) NDS
10 1 (1.30%) NetIQ eDirectory
10 1 (1.30%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (1.30%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 30 (38.96%) Ansible
2 27 (35.06%) Kubernetes
3 24 (31.17%) Terraform
4 11 (14.29%) Prometheus
5 10 (12.99%) Dell DRAC
6 9 (11.69%) Grafana
7 5 (6.49%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 4 (5.19%) Istio
9 3 (3.90%) Argo
9 3 (3.90%) SnapMirror
10 2 (2.60%) Progress Chef
10 2 (2.60%) Puppet
11 1 (1.30%) Cilium
11 1 (1.30%) EMC NetWorker
11 1 (1.30%) NetBackup
11 1 (1.30%) Packer
11 1 (1.30%) PowerCLI
11 1 (1.30%) vCenter Server
11 1 (1.30%) vRealize
11 1 (1.30%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 21 (27.27%) VMware
2 9 (11.69%) Broadcom
2 9 (11.69%) Dell
2 9 (11.69%) Microsoft
3 7 (9.09%) Google
3 7 (9.09%) Red Hat
4 6 (7.79%) Oracle
5 5 (6.49%) Brocade
5 5 (6.49%) Cisco
5 5 (6.49%) IBM
5 5 (6.49%) Juniper
5 5 (6.49%) Splunk
6 4 (5.19%) HP
7 3 (3.90%) NetApp
7 3 (3.90%) SAP
8 2 (2.60%) Commvault
8 2 (2.60%) Databricks
8 2 (2.60%) Pure Storage
8 2 (2.60%) TOWER Software
9 1 (1.30%) Veeam