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

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 15 10
Rank change year-on-year -4 -5 +11
Contract jobs citing Linux 109 25 57
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 11.71% 9.29% 12.50%
As % of the Operating Systems category 71.24% 37.88% 50.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 16 27
10th Percentile £387 £430 £290
25th Percentile £450 £479 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £430
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +33.72% -18.10%
75th Percentile £538 £591 £564
90th Percentile £700 £623 £593
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 153 66 112
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 16.43% 24.54% 24.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 45 64
10th Percentile £347 £209 £186
25th Percentile £413 £356 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £430
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +19.77% -14.00%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £507
90th Percentile £688 £645 £588
Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £450 £370
% change year-on-year - +21.62% -12.17%
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% +60.71%
75th Percentile - £17.16 £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.30 £17.50 £22.25
% change year-on-year +21.71% -21.35% +12.99%

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 21 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 21 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 -1 105 £510 -6.21% 8
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 11 (10.09%) TPMS
2 2 (1.83%) Confluence
3 1 (0.92%) Apache
3 1 (0.92%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.92%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.92%) nginx
3 1 (0.92%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 38 (34.86%) AWS
1 38 (34.86%) GCP
2 24 (22.02%) OpenShift
2 24 (22.02%) Serverless
3 13 (11.93%) Azure
4 12 (11.01%) GitHub
5 8 (7.34%) AWS KMS
6 3 (2.75%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (2.75%) Entra ID
6 3 (2.75%) IaaS
6 3 (2.75%) PaaS
6 3 (2.75%) SaaS
7 2 (1.83%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (1.83%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (0.92%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 18 (16.51%) Firewall
2 11 (10.09%) SNMP
2 11 (10.09%) SSH
2 11 (10.09%) SSL
3 8 (7.34%) DNS
4 5 (4.59%) TCP/IP
5 4 (3.67%) SAN
6 3 (2.75%) DHCP
6 3 (2.75%) VPN
7 2 (1.83%) NAS
8 1 (0.92%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.92%) VLAN
8 1 (0.92%) VSAN
8 1 (0.92%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (22.02%) NoSQL
2 19 (17.43%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (2.75%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.83%) MySQL
4 2 (1.83%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.92%) Apache Hive
5 1 (0.92%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.92%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.92%) HBase
5 1 (0.92%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.92%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 43 (39.45%) Jenkins
2 33 (30.28%) GitLab
3 18 (16.51%) Liquibase
4 9 (8.26%) JIRA
5 8 (7.34%) Git
5 8 (7.34%) Jaeger
6 2 (1.83%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.83%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.92%) Gradle
7 1 (0.92%) Maven
7 1 (0.92%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 55 (50.46%) Social Skills
2 52 (47.71%) Finance
3 31 (28.44%) Banking
4 27 (24.77%) Financial Institution
5 19 (17.43%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (3.67%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.75%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.83%) Law
8 2 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.83%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.92%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 22 (20.18%) Senior
2 17 (15.60%) Cloud Engineer
3 16 (14.68%) GCP Engineer
3 16 (14.68%) Software Engineer
4 14 (12.84%) DevOps Engineer
5 12 (11.01%) Lead
5 12 (11.01%) Senior Software Engineer
6 11 (10.09%) Cryptography Engineer
6 11 (10.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 10 (9.17%) Administrator
8 9 (8.26%) AWS Engineer
9 8 (7.34%) Cloud Software Engineer
9 8 (7.34%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 7 (6.42%) AWS Software Engineer
10 7 (6.42%) Senior DevOps
10 7 (6.42%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 6 (5.50%) GCP Software Engineer
11 6 (5.50%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 6 (5.50%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
12 5 (4.59%) GCP DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (30.28%) Elastic Stack
2 29 (26.61%) REST
3 25 (22.94%) RESTful
4 11 (10.09%) OpenTelemetry
5 10 (9.17%) Kafka
6 9 (8.26%) YAML
7 8 (7.34%) Middleware
7 8 (7.34%) Spring Boot
8 2 (1.83%) Spring
9 1 (0.92%) FastAPI
9 1 (0.92%) Flask
9 1 (0.92%) LDAP
9 1 (0.92%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 34 (31.19%) Distributed Systems
2 27 (24.77%) Public Cloud
3 22 (20.18%) Cloud Native
4 11 (10.09%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (6.42%) Management Information System
6 5 (4.59%) Onboarding
7 4 (3.67%) Product Ownership
8 3 (2.75%) Data Centre
8 3 (2.75%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.83%) Derivative
9 2 (1.83%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (1.83%) FlexPod
9 2 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.83%) Replication
9 2 (1.83%) Security Posture
10 1 (0.92%) Enterprise Storage
10 1 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.92%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.92%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 32 (29.36%) Windows
2 15 (13.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (8.26%) CentOS
3 9 (8.26%) Ubuntu
4 5 (4.59%) Unix
5 3 (2.75%) VMS
6 2 (1.83%) CoreOS
6 2 (1.83%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (64.22%) CI/CD
2 67 (61.47%) DevOps
3 41 (37.61%) Cybersecurity
4 39 (35.78%) Containerisation
5 38 (34.86%) Root Cause Analysis
6 36 (33.03%) Infrastructure as Code
7 35 (32.11%) Cryptography
7 35 (32.11%) Microservices
8 32 (29.36%) Computer Science
8 32 (29.36%) Data Security
9 29 (26.61%) Infrastructure Automation
10 28 (25.69%) Agile
11 27 (24.77%) Observability
12 25 (22.94%) High Availability
13 23 (21.10%) Problem-Solving
14 22 (20.18%) Continuous Delivery
14 22 (20.18%) Continuous Integration
14 22 (20.18%) Non-Functional Testing
15 20 (18.35%) Cost Optimisation
16 19 (17.43%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 61 (55.96%) Python
2 29 (26.61%) Go
3 20 (18.35%) SQL
4 17 (15.60%) Java
5 14 (12.84%) Bash
6 9 (8.26%) Ruby
7 8 (7.34%) Perl
7 8 (7.34%) PowerShell
7 8 (7.34%) Rust
8 6 (5.50%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.83%) Groovy
10 1 (0.92%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 32 (29.36%) Degree
2 23 (21.10%) Computer Science Degree
2 23 (21.10%) Master's Degree
3 11 (10.09%) FFIEC
4 9 (8.26%) RHCE
5 7 (6.42%) AWS Certification
6 6 (5.50%) Security Cleared
7 4 (3.67%) AWS Certified Developer
7 4 (3.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (2.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (1.83%) OCP
9 2 (1.83%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.92%) CISM
10 1 (0.92%) CISSP
10 1 (0.92%) RHCSA
10 1 (0.92%) SC Cleared
10 1 (0.92%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (10.09%) GDPR
1 11 (10.09%) GLBA
1 11 (10.09%) NIST
1 11 (10.09%) PCI DSS
2 5 (4.59%) SLA
System Software
1 41 (37.61%) Docker
2 9 (8.26%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (7.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (5.50%) KVM
5 3 (2.75%) Active Directory
5 3 (2.75%) Hyper-V
5 3 (2.75%) NFS
5 3 (2.75%) vSphere
6 2 (1.83%) Firmware
7 1 (0.92%) Ceph
7 1 (0.92%) HDFS
7 1 (0.92%) QEMU
7 1 (0.92%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.92%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 71 (65.14%) Ansible
2 62 (56.88%) Kubernetes
3 47 (43.12%) Grafana
4 46 (42.20%) Terraform
5 44 (40.37%) Prometheus
6 11 (10.09%) Puppet
7 8 (7.34%) Kiali
8 5 (4.59%) EMC NetWorker
9 3 (2.75%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (1.83%) Packer
10 2 (1.83%) SnapMirror
11 1 (0.92%) Argo
11 1 (0.92%) Hadoop YARN
11 1 (0.92%) NetBackup
11 1 (0.92%) Podman
11 1 (0.92%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.92%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 51 (46.79%) Splunk
2 17 (15.60%) Google
3 16 (14.68%) Red Hat
4 10 (9.17%) Thales
4 10 (9.17%) VMware
5 6 (5.50%) Oracle
6 4 (3.67%) AppDynamics
6 4 (3.67%) NetApp
7 3 (2.75%) Microsoft
8 2 (1.83%) Calypso
8 2 (1.83%) CrowdStrike
8 2 (1.83%) EMC
8 2 (1.83%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.92%) BiZZdesign
9 1 (0.92%) Databricks
9 1 (0.92%) Dell
9 1 (0.92%) F5
9 1 (0.92%) Isilon
9 1 (0.92%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.92%) Pure Storage