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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 19 25
Rank change year-on-year +3 +6 -9
Contract jobs citing Linux 95 32 31
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 12.75% 7.49% 7.91%
As % of the Operating Systems category 67.38% 39.51% 58.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 20 8
10th Percentile £389 £448 £293
25th Percentile £450 £523 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £581 £588
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% -1.06% +6.82%
75th Percentile £538 £623 £600
90th Percentile £688 £639 £615
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £622 £500
% change year-on-year -19.61% +24.40% -9.09%

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 81 53
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 18.93% 18.97% 13.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 49 25
10th Percentile £324 £209 £187
25th Percentile £384 £421 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £515 £475
Median % change year-on-year -6.80% +8.42% -5.00%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £628 £688
Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £453 £445
% change year-on-year -0.55% +1.69% +11.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 2
10th Percentile - £16.28 £18.65
25th Percentile - £17.86 £18.88
Median hourly rate £25.15 £21.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.76% +7.69% +32.20%
75th Percentile - £21.50 £19.88
90th Percentile - - £19.95
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.15 £17.50 £21.01
% change year-on-year +43.71% -16.70% -2.29%

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 November 2025.

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 November 2025. 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 +1 94 £525 -9.68% 7
Doncaster - 1 - - 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 5 (5.26%) TPMS
2 3 (3.16%) Apache
2 3 (3.16%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (3.16%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.11%) CICS
3 2 (2.11%) Tomcat
3 2 (2.11%) WebSphere
4 1 (1.05%) Confluence
4 1 (1.05%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.05%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 36 (37.89%) AWS
2 35 (36.84%) GCP
3 31 (32.63%) Serverless
4 6 (6.32%) AWS KMS
5 5 (5.26%) GitHub
6 4 (4.21%) Azure
7 3 (3.16%) Entra ID
7 3 (3.16%) IaaS
7 3 (3.16%) OpenShift
7 3 (3.16%) PaaS
7 3 (3.16%) SaaS
8 2 (2.11%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (1.05%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.05%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 16 (16.84%) Firewall
2 7 (7.37%) DNS
2 7 (7.37%) TCP/IP
3 5 (5.26%) SNMP
3 5 (5.26%) SSH
3 5 (5.26%) SSL
4 4 (4.21%) NAS
4 4 (4.21%) SAN
5 3 (3.16%) DHCP
5 3 (3.16%) VPN
6 1 (1.05%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (1.05%) FCoE
6 1 (1.05%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (1.05%) iSCSI
6 1 (1.05%) LAN
6 1 (1.05%) Multicast
6 1 (1.05%) VLAN
6 1 (1.05%) VSAN
6 1 (1.05%) VXLAN
6 1 (1.05%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (34.74%) NoSQL
2 16 (16.84%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (12.63%) Oracle Database
4 11 (11.58%) SQL Server
5 3 (3.16%) Apache Hive
5 3 (3.16%) Hadoop
5 3 (3.16%) HBase
6 2 (2.11%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 47 (49.47%) Jenkins
2 34 (35.79%) GitLab
3 23 (24.21%) Liquibase
4 20 (21.05%) Git
5 7 (7.37%) Postman
6 4 (4.21%) JIRA
7 2 (2.11%) Bitbucket
7 2 (2.11%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (1.05%) Gradle
8 1 (1.05%) Jaeger
8 1 (1.05%) Maven
General
1 47 (49.47%) Finance
2 45 (47.37%) Social Skills
3 32 (33.68%) Banking
4 25 (26.32%) Financial Institution
5 5 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (4.21%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.11%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.11%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.11%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (21.05%) Senior
2 16 (16.84%) Cloud Engineer
2 16 (16.84%) DevOps Engineer
3 15 (15.79%) Software Engineer
4 14 (14.74%) GCP Engineer
4 14 (14.74%) Linux Engineer
5 10 (10.53%) Senior Software Engineer
6 9 (9.47%) AWS Engineer
7 8 (8.42%) Automation Engineer
7 8 (8.42%) AWS Software Engineer
8 7 (7.37%) Cloud Software Engineer
9 6 (6.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 6 (6.32%) Senior Linux Engineer
10 5 (5.26%) Administrator
10 5 (5.26%) Cryptography Engineer
10 5 (5.26%) GCP Software Engineer
10 5 (5.26%) Senior DevOps
10 5 (5.26%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 5 (5.26%) Senior Technical Engineer
10 5 (5.26%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (34.74%) Elastic Stack
2 32 (33.68%) REST
3 31 (32.63%) RESTful
4 10 (10.53%) FastAPI
5 5 (5.26%) Middleware
6 3 (3.16%) Spark Streaming
7 2 (2.11%) LDAP
7 2 (2.11%) OpenTelemetry
7 2 (2.11%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 30 (31.58%) Public Cloud
2 29 (30.53%) Distributed Systems
3 23 (24.21%) Cloud Native
4 7 (7.37%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (5.26%) Data Centre
5 5 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (3.16%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.11%) Clustering
7 2 (2.11%) Derivative
7 2 (2.11%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (2.11%) Mainframe
7 2 (2.11%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.11%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.11%) Replication
8 1 (1.05%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.05%) IBM Mainframe
8 1 (1.05%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (1.05%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 23 (24.21%) Windows
2 12 (12.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (6.32%) Unix
4 5 (5.26%) Solaris
5 4 (4.21%) Windows Server
6 3 (3.16%) AIX
6 3 (3.16%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 2 (2.11%) CentOS
7 2 (2.11%) Ubuntu
7 2 (2.11%) VMS
7 2 (2.11%) zOS
8 1 (1.05%) MVS
8 1 (1.05%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (1.05%) SUSE
8 1 (1.05%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (61.05%) DevOps
2 50 (52.63%) Agile
3 45 (47.37%) CI/CD
4 35 (36.84%) Containerisation
4 35 (36.84%) Infrastructure as Code
4 35 (36.84%) Root Cause Analysis
5 33 (34.74%) Cryptography
6 31 (32.63%) Data Security
7 30 (31.58%) Computer Science
7 30 (31.58%) Cybersecurity
7 30 (31.58%) Microservices
8 28 (29.47%) Continuous Integration
8 28 (29.47%) High Availability
9 27 (28.42%) Continuous Delivery
9 27 (28.42%) Non-Functional Testing
10 24 (25.26%) Infrastructure Automation
11 23 (24.21%) Cost Optimisation
11 23 (24.21%) Software Engineering
12 20 (21.05%) Change Management
13 19 (20.00%) Data Encryption
Programming Languages
1 59 (62.11%) Python
2 31 (32.63%) Go
3 17 (17.89%) Shell Script
4 13 (13.68%) Java
5 7 (7.37%) Bash
5 7 (7.37%) PowerShell
5 7 (7.37%) SQL
6 2 (2.11%) Groovy
7 1 (1.05%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 30 (31.58%) Computer Science Degree
1 30 (31.58%) Degree
2 28 (29.47%) Master's Degree
3 11 (11.58%) AWS Certification
4 8 (8.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 5 (5.26%) FFIEC
6 3 (3.16%) AWS Certified Developer
6 3 (3.16%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 3 (3.16%) Security Cleared
7 1 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.26%) GDPR
1 5 (5.26%) GLBA
1 5 (5.26%) NIST
1 5 (5.26%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.05%) SLA
System Software
1 31 (32.63%) Docker
2 14 (14.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (10.53%) Oracle RAC
4 8 (8.42%) Active Directory
5 7 (7.37%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 5 (5.26%) KVM
6 5 (5.26%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (4.21%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (4.21%) VMware NSX
7 4 (4.21%) vSphere
8 3 (3.16%) HDFS
9 2 (2.11%) Hyper-V
10 1 (1.05%) Ceph
10 1 (1.05%) NFS
10 1 (1.05%) QEMU
10 1 (1.05%) SRDF
10 1 (1.05%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (1.05%) Xen
Systems Management
1 68 (71.58%) Ansible
2 39 (41.05%) Kubernetes
2 39 (41.05%) Terraform
3 35 (36.84%) Prometheus
4 34 (35.79%) Grafana
5 12 (12.63%) Puppet
6 10 (10.53%) Data Guard
6 10 (10.53%) yum
7 5 (5.26%) EMC NetWorker
8 4 (4.21%) vCenter Server
9 3 (3.16%) Hadoop YARN
9 3 (3.16%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (3.16%) vRealize
10 2 (2.11%) Packer
11 1 (1.05%) Argo
11 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Clustering
11 1 (1.05%) Podman
11 1 (1.05%) Progress Chef
11 1 (1.05%) SCCM
Vendors
1 37 (38.95%) Splunk
2 19 (20.00%) Google
3 15 (15.79%) Oracle
3 15 (15.79%) VMware
4 10 (10.53%) Microsoft
5 7 (7.37%) MuleSoft
5 7 (7.37%) Red Hat
6 6 (6.32%) F5
7 4 (4.21%) Citrix
7 4 (4.21%) EMC
7 4 (4.21%) Thales
8 3 (3.16%) Cisco
8 3 (3.16%) NetApp
9 2 (2.11%) Calypso
10 1 (1.05%) AppDynamics
10 1 (1.05%) Dell
10 1 (1.05%) IBM
10 1 (1.05%) Palo Alto
10 1 (1.05%) Sybase
10 1 (1.05%) Zscaler