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 26 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 19 31
Rank change year-on-year -26 +12 -2
Contract jobs citing Linux 68 69 29
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 5.91% 10.99% 6.33%
As % of the Operating Systems category 50.00% 60.00% 34.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 47 18
10th Percentile £358 £400 £453
25th Percentile £382 £450 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £515 £580
Median % change year-on-year -5.05% -11.21% -3.33%
75th Percentile £556 £553 £622
90th Percentile £637 £636 £641
Yorkshire median daily rate £518 £500 £587
% change year-on-year +3.50% -14.82% +2.09%
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 136 115 85
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 11.83% 18.31% 18.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 75 54
10th Percentile £200 £150 £209
25th Percentile £362 £351 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £587
90th Percentile £675 £612 £624
Yorkshire median daily rate £447 £450 £480
% change year-on-year -0.78% -6.25% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £20.50
Median hourly rate £25.84 £25.15 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.74% +16.98% +10.26%
75th Percentile - - £22.00
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £19.00 £21.30 £17.50
% change year-on-year -10.80% +21.71% -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 26 September 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 26 September 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 -29 62 £500 -2.91% 19
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 (5.88%) Confluence
2 3 (4.41%) IBM Transformation Extender
2 3 (4.41%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (4.41%) WebSphere
3 2 (2.94%) Apache
3 2 (2.94%) nginx
4 1 (1.47%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 19 (27.94%) GCP
2 17 (25.00%) Azure
3 16 (23.53%) AWS
4 10 (14.71%) GitHub
5 6 (8.82%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (8.82%) OpenShift
6 3 (4.41%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (4.41%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (4.41%) Datadog
6 3 (4.41%) Entra ID
6 3 (4.41%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (4.41%) Serverless
7 2 (2.94%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (2.94%) Azure Databricks
7 2 (2.94%) Azure Functions
7 2 (2.94%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (2.94%) Azure Storage
7 2 (2.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (2.94%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 2 (2.94%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 7 (10.29%) Firewall
2 5 (7.35%) SAN
3 3 (4.41%) DNS
4 2 (2.94%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.47%) BGP
5 1 (1.47%) BIG-IP
5 1 (1.47%) Calico
5 1 (1.47%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (1.47%) DHCP
5 1 (1.47%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 1 (1.47%) HTTP
5 1 (1.47%) NaaS
5 1 (1.47%) Network Security
5 1 (1.47%) SNMP
5 1 (1.47%) TACACS
5 1 (1.47%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.35%) NoSQL
2 3 (4.41%) BusinessObjects
2 3 (4.41%) Data Lake
2 3 (4.41%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (4.41%) Oracle Database
3 2 (2.94%) Big Data
3 2 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.94%) RDBMS
3 2 (2.94%) Relational Database
3 2 (2.94%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.47%) InfluxDB
4 1 (1.47%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (1.47%) Power BI
4 1 (1.47%) Qlik Sense
4 1 (1.47%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 10 (14.71%) Jenkins
2 9 (13.24%) JIRA
3 7 (10.29%) Git
4 3 (4.41%) GitLab
5 2 (2.94%) Bitbucket
5 2 (2.94%) Maven
5 2 (2.94%) SonarQube
5 2 (2.94%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.47%) Jaeger
6 1 (1.47%) Liquibase
General
1 18 (26.47%) Finance
2 17 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 10 (14.71%) Banking
4 5 (7.35%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (5.88%) Law
6 3 (4.41%) Corporate Banking
6 3 (4.41%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.47%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.47%) Legal
7 1 (1.47%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (10.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (8.82%) Support Engineer
3 5 (7.35%) Data Centre Engineer
3 5 (7.35%) Developer
3 5 (7.35%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (7.35%) ICT Engineer
3 5 (7.35%) Lead
3 5 (7.35%) Platform Engineer
4 4 (5.88%) Applications Tester
4 4 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
4 4 (5.88%) Kubernetes Engineer
4 4 (5.88%) Senior
4 4 (5.88%) Tester
4 4 (5.88%) Web Applications Tester
4 4 (5.88%) Web Tester
5 3 (4.41%) Consultant
5 3 (4.41%) Delivery Manager
5 3 (4.41%) IT Support Engineer
5 3 (4.41%) Java Developer
5 3 (4.41%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (36.76%) Terraform
2 5 (7.35%) RabbitMQ
2 5 (7.35%) Redfish
3 4 (5.88%) Kafka
4 3 (4.41%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (4.41%) Jakarta EE
4 3 (4.41%) Middleware
4 3 (4.41%) YAML
5 2 (2.94%) HTML
5 2 (2.94%) RESTful
5 2 (2.94%) Web Services
6 1 (1.47%) 802.1X
6 1 (1.47%) ARM Templates
6 1 (1.47%) Keycloak
6 1 (1.47%) LDAP
6 1 (1.47%) Loki
6 1 (1.47%) OpenID
6 1 (1.47%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (1.47%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 13 (19.12%) Cloud Native
2 11 (16.18%) Data Centre
2 11 (16.18%) Linux Command Line
3 9 (13.24%) PKI
4 7 (10.29%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (8.82%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (7.35%) Mainframe
7 4 (5.88%) Clustering
7 4 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (5.88%) Enterprise Storage
7 4 (5.88%) Public Cloud
7 4 (5.88%) Replication
8 3 (4.41%) Onboarding
9 2 (2.94%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (2.94%) Product Ownership
10 1 (1.47%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 28 (41.18%) Windows
2 13 (19.12%) Unix
3 10 (14.71%) Windows Server
4 4 (5.88%) zOS
5 3 (4.41%) AIX
5 3 (4.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (4.41%) Solaris
5 3 (4.41%) VMS
6 2 (2.94%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (45.59%) CI/CD
2 26 (38.24%) Infrastructure as Code
3 20 (29.41%) DevOps
4 17 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 17 (25.00%) Observability
5 16 (23.53%) Continuous Improvement
6 15 (22.06%) Cybersecurity
7 14 (20.59%) Agile
7 14 (20.59%) Incident Management
7 14 (20.59%) Platform Engineering
8 13 (19.12%) Runbook
9 12 (17.65%) High Availability
9 12 (17.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 12 (17.65%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 12 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
10 10 (14.71%) Capacity Planning
10 10 (14.71%) Deployment Automation
10 10 (14.71%) Test Automation
11 9 (13.24%) Migration
11 9 (13.24%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 31 (45.59%) Python
2 21 (30.88%) PowerShell
3 19 (27.94%) Bash
4 18 (26.47%) SQL
5 13 (19.12%) Java
6 7 (10.29%) Shell Script
7 4 (5.88%) Go
7 4 (5.88%) JavaScript
7 4 (5.88%) Kotlin
7 4 (5.88%) Kusto Query Language
8 3 (4.41%) JCL
9 2 (2.94%) C#
9 2 (2.94%) Groovy
9 2 (2.94%) Perl
9 2 (2.94%) REXX
10 1 (1.47%) Bicep
10 1 (1.47%) VB
Qualifications
1 4 (5.88%) Degree
1 4 (5.88%) Microsoft Certified Professional
2 3 (4.41%) Network+ Certification
3 2 (2.94%) AWS Certification
3 2 (2.94%) Azure Certification
3 2 (2.94%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (2.94%) CISSP
3 2 (2.94%) PMI Certification
3 2 (2.94%) PMP
3 2 (2.94%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
3 2 (2.94%) RHCA
4 1 (1.47%) A+ Certification
4 1 (1.47%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (1.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (1.47%) CRISC
4 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.47%) RHCE
4 1 (1.47%) SANS
4 1 (1.47%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.47%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.94%) GRC
1 2 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.47%) HIPAA
2 1 (1.47%) NIST
2 1 (1.47%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.47%) SOC 2
System Software
1 15 (22.06%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (17.65%) Docker
3 7 (10.29%) Hyper-V
3 7 (10.29%) KVM
3 7 (10.29%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (7.35%) Active Directory
4 5 (7.35%) Firmware
5 3 (4.41%) NFS
5 3 (4.41%) Time Sharing Option
6 2 (2.94%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (2.94%) vSphere
7 1 (1.47%) Ceph
7 1 (1.47%) NDS
7 1 (1.47%) NetIQ eDirectory
Systems Management
1 27 (39.71%) Kubernetes
2 20 (29.41%) Ansible
3 12 (17.65%) Prometheus
4 11 (16.18%) Grafana
5 5 (7.35%) Dell DRAC
6 4 (5.88%) Istio
7 3 (4.41%) Tivoli
7 3 (4.41%) Tivoli Monitoring
7 3 (4.41%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 2 (2.94%) Argo
9 1 (1.47%) Cilium
9 1 (1.47%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 15 (22.06%) VMware
2 9 (13.24%) Microsoft
3 8 (11.76%) Oracle
3 8 (11.76%) Splunk
4 7 (10.29%) IBM
5 6 (8.82%) Google
6 5 (7.35%) AppDynamics
6 5 (7.35%) Juniper
7 4 (5.88%) Dell
7 4 (5.88%) Red Hat
8 3 (4.41%) Broadcom
8 3 (4.41%) Brocade
8 3 (4.41%) Databricks
8 3 (4.41%) SAP
9 2 (2.94%) Checkmarx
9 2 (2.94%) Cisco
9 2 (2.94%) Dynatrace
10 1 (1.47%) Commvault
10 1 (1.47%) Infoblox
10 1 (1.47%) Veeam