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

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 15 6
Rank change year-on-year -5 -9 +15
Contract jobs citing Linux 113 28 64
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 11.70% 9.69% 15.17%
As % of the Operating Systems category 71.07% 40.58% 52.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 19 39
10th Percentile £366 £442 £348
25th Percentile £450 £491 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £433
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +32.95% -17.62%
75th Percentile £538 £611 £539
90th Percentile £699 £676 £588
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £575 £463
% change year-on-year -13.04% +24.32% -15.91%
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 159 69 122
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 16.46% 23.88% 28.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 47 77
10th Percentile £330 £209 £189
25th Percentile £412 £387 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £430
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +22.09% -14.00%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £538
90th Percentile £688 £650 £588
Yorkshire median daily rate £429 £450 £375
% change year-on-year -4.78% +20.00% -11.76%
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% +48.81%
75th Percentile - £17.16 £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.06 £17.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year +26.03% -22.22% +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 28 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 28 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 -6 107 £500 -14.16% 10
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 10 (8.85%) TPMS
2 2 (1.77%) Confluence
3 1 (0.88%) nginx
3 1 (0.88%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 40 (35.40%) AWS
1 40 (35.40%) GCP
2 26 (23.01%) OpenShift
3 23 (20.35%) Serverless
4 16 (14.16%) Azure
5 12 (10.62%) GitHub
6 8 (7.08%) AWS KMS
7 3 (2.65%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (2.65%) Entra ID
7 3 (2.65%) IaaS
7 3 (2.65%) PaaS
7 3 (2.65%) SaaS
8 2 (1.77%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (1.77%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.88%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 18 (15.93%) Firewall
2 10 (8.85%) SNMP
2 10 (8.85%) SSH
2 10 (8.85%) SSL
3 8 (7.08%) DNS
3 8 (7.08%) SAN
4 5 (4.42%) TCP/IP
5 3 (2.65%) DHCP
5 3 (2.65%) VPN
6 2 (1.77%) iSCSI
6 2 (1.77%) NAS
7 1 (0.88%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.88%) VLAN
7 1 (0.88%) VSAN
7 1 (0.88%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (20.35%) NoSQL
2 19 (16.81%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (2.65%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.77%) MySQL
4 2 (1.77%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.88%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.88%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.88%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 44 (38.94%) Jenkins
2 32 (28.32%) GitLab
3 17 (15.04%) Liquibase
4 9 (7.96%) JIRA
5 8 (7.08%) Git
5 8 (7.08%) Jaeger
6 2 (1.77%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.77%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.88%) Gradle
7 1 (0.88%) Maven
7 1 (0.88%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 56 (49.56%) Social Skills
2 52 (46.02%) Finance
3 34 (30.09%) Banking
4 26 (23.01%) Financial Institution
5 18 (15.93%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (3.54%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.65%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.77%) Law
8 2 (1.77%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.77%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.88%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 21 (18.58%) Senior
2 17 (15.04%) Cloud Engineer
3 16 (14.16%) GCP Engineer
4 15 (13.27%) Software Engineer
5 14 (12.39%) DevOps Engineer
6 12 (10.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 12 (10.62%) Lead
7 11 (9.73%) Senior Software Engineer
8 10 (8.85%) Administrator
8 10 (8.85%) Cryptography Engineer
9 9 (7.96%) AWS Engineer
10 8 (7.08%) Cloud Software Engineer
10 8 (7.08%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 7 (6.19%) AWS Software Engineer
11 7 (6.19%) Senior DevOps
11 7 (6.19%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 6 (5.31%) GCP Software Engineer
12 6 (5.31%) Senior Cloud Engineer
12 6 (5.31%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
13 5 (4.42%) GCP DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (28.32%) Elastic Stack
2 28 (24.78%) REST
3 24 (21.24%) RESTful
4 11 (9.73%) OpenTelemetry
5 10 (8.85%) Kafka
6 9 (7.96%) YAML
7 8 (7.08%) Middleware
7 8 (7.08%) Spring Boot
8 2 (1.77%) Redfish
8 2 (1.77%) Spring
9 1 (0.88%) FastAPI
9 1 (0.88%) Flask
9 1 (0.88%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 33 (29.20%) Distributed Systems
2 26 (23.01%) Public Cloud
3 21 (18.58%) Cloud Native
4 13 (11.50%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (6.19%) Management Information System
6 5 (4.42%) Onboarding
6 5 (4.42%) Product Ownership
7 4 (3.54%) Data Centre
7 4 (3.54%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (3.54%) FlexPod
8 2 (1.77%) Derivative
8 2 (1.77%) EMC VMAX
8 2 (1.77%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.77%) Replication
8 2 (1.77%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.88%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.88%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.88%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 36 (31.86%) Windows
2 19 (16.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (7.96%) CentOS
3 9 (7.96%) Ubuntu
4 7 (6.19%) Unix
5 5 (4.42%) VMS
6 4 (3.54%) CoreOS
6 4 (3.54%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (61.95%) CI/CD
2 69 (61.06%) DevOps
3 39 (34.51%) Containerisation
3 39 (34.51%) Cybersecurity
4 37 (32.74%) Infrastructure as Code
4 37 (32.74%) Root Cause Analysis
5 34 (30.09%) Microservices
6 33 (29.20%) Cryptography
7 31 (27.43%) Computer Science
8 29 (25.66%) Data Security
9 28 (24.78%) Infrastructure Automation
10 27 (23.89%) Agile
10 27 (23.89%) Observability
11 24 (21.24%) High Availability
12 23 (20.35%) Continuous Delivery
12 23 (20.35%) Continuous Integration
12 23 (20.35%) Problem-Solving
13 21 (18.58%) Non-Functional Testing
14 20 (17.70%) Software Engineering
15 19 (16.81%) Cost Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 62 (54.87%) Python
2 28 (24.78%) Go
3 20 (17.70%) SQL
4 16 (14.16%) Java
5 15 (13.27%) Bash
6 9 (7.96%) PowerShell
6 9 (7.96%) Ruby
7 8 (7.08%) Perl
7 8 (7.08%) Rust
8 7 (6.19%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.77%) Groovy
10 1 (0.88%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 31 (27.43%) Degree
2 22 (19.47%) Computer Science Degree
2 22 (19.47%) Master's Degree
3 10 (8.85%) FFIEC
4 9 (7.96%) RHCE
5 6 (5.31%) AWS Certification
5 6 (5.31%) Security Cleared
6 4 (3.54%) AWS Certified Developer
6 4 (3.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 4 (3.54%) OCP
6 4 (3.54%) Oracle Certification
7 2 (1.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.88%) CISM
8 1 (0.88%) CISSP
8 1 (0.88%) RHCSA
8 1 (0.88%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.88%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.85%) GDPR
1 10 (8.85%) GLBA
1 10 (8.85%) NIST
1 10 (8.85%) PCI DSS
2 5 (4.42%) SLA
System Software
1 41 (36.28%) Docker
2 13 (11.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (9.73%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (6.19%) KVM
5 6 (5.31%) vSphere
6 5 (4.42%) NFS
7 4 (3.54%) Firmware
7 4 (3.54%) Hyper-V
8 3 (2.65%) Active Directory
9 2 (1.77%) SRDF
9 2 (1.77%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.88%) Ceph
10 1 (0.88%) QEMU
10 1 (0.88%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 73 (64.60%) Ansible
2 64 (56.64%) Kubernetes
3 47 (41.59%) Terraform
4 46 (40.71%) Grafana
5 43 (38.05%) Prometheus
6 12 (10.62%) Puppet
7 8 (7.08%) Kiali
8 5 (4.42%) EMC NetWorker
9 4 (3.54%) SnapMirror
10 3 (2.65%) Progress Chef
10 3 (2.65%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (1.77%) Dell DRAC
11 2 (1.77%) Packer
12 1 (0.88%) Argo
12 1 (0.88%) NetBackup
12 1 (0.88%) Podman
12 1 (0.88%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 49 (43.36%) Splunk
2 18 (15.93%) Google
2 18 (15.93%) Red Hat
3 15 (13.27%) VMware
4 10 (8.85%) Thales
5 6 (5.31%) NetApp
5 6 (5.31%) Oracle
6 4 (3.54%) AppDynamics
7 3 (2.65%) Cisco
7 3 (2.65%) Dell
7 3 (2.65%) Microsoft
8 2 (1.77%) Broadcom
8 2 (1.77%) Calypso
8 2 (1.77%) CrowdStrike
8 2 (1.77%) EMC
8 2 (1.77%) HP
8 2 (1.77%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.77%) TOWER Software
9 1 (0.88%) BiZZdesign
9 1 (0.88%) Pure Storage