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 31 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 16 13
Rank change year-on-year -20 -3 +9
Contract jobs citing Linux 77 72 60
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 6.66% 11.82% 12.37%
As % of the Operating Systems category 51.68% 57.14% 54.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 49 37
10th Percentile - £384 £411
25th Percentile £358 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £423 £525 £514
Median % change year-on-year -19.52% +2.14% -13.43%
75th Percentile £500 £600 £564
90th Percentile £688 £710 £628
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
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 149 126 111
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 12.89% 20.69% 22.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 77 64
10th Percentile £200 £150 £203
25th Percentile £358 £358 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.99% -7.40% -
75th Percentile £546 £556 £564
90th Percentile £675 £650 £600
Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £440 £450
% change year-on-year +2.27% -2.22% -1.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 5
10th Percentile - - £16.30
25th Percentile - £18.10 £20.50
Median hourly rate £25.84 £18.21 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.94% -13.31% +10.53%
75th Percentile - £18.41 £22.00
90th Percentile - £18.47 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.81 £18.35 £17.50
% change year-on-year +24.29% +4.87% -11.99%

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 31 July 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 31 July 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 -26 65 £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 5 (6.49%) Confluence
2 3 (3.90%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.30%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 17 (22.08%) AWS
1 17 (22.08%) OpenShift
2 16 (20.78%) GCP
3 15 (19.48%) Azure
4 11 (14.29%) GitHub
5 3 (3.90%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (2.60%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.60%) IaaS
7 1 (1.30%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.30%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.30%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (1.30%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (1.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (1.30%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.30%) Datadog
7 1 (1.30%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.30%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 18 (23.38%) SAN
2 5 (6.49%) Firewall
3 4 (5.19%) iSCSI
4 3 (3.90%) DNS
5 1 (1.30%) BIG-IP
5 1 (1.30%) DHCP
5 1 (1.30%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 1 (1.30%) HTTP
5 1 (1.30%) NAS
5 1 (1.30%) SNMP
5 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%) Data Lake
3 2 (2.60%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.30%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.30%) InfluxDB
4 1 (1.30%) MySQL
4 1 (1.30%) Oracle Reports
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 17 (22.08%) Jenkins
2 16 (20.78%) JIRA
3 5 (6.49%) GitLab
4 4 (5.19%) Git
5 2 (2.60%) Bitbucket
5 2 (2.60%) Liquibase
6 1 (1.30%) Jaeger
General
1 24 (31.17%) Social Skills
2 15 (19.48%) Banking
3 13 (16.88%) Finance
4 4 (5.19%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.90%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (2.60%) Law
7 1 (1.30%) Advertising
7 1 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.30%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.30%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.30%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (14.29%) Data Centre Engineer
2 7 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (9.09%) Platform Engineer
3 5 (6.49%) Developer
3 5 (6.49%) ICT Engineer
3 5 (6.49%) Storage Manager
4 4 (5.19%) Applications Tester
4 4 (5.19%) Cloud Engineer
4 4 (5.19%) Consultant
4 4 (5.19%) IT Engineer
4 4 (5.19%) Lead
4 4 (5.19%) NetApp Engineer
4 4 (5.19%) Senior
4 4 (5.19%) Site Engineer
4 4 (5.19%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 4 (5.19%) Tester
4 4 (5.19%) Web Applications Tester
4 4 (5.19%) Web Tester
5 3 (3.90%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (12.99%) Redfish
2 5 (6.49%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (5.19%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (5.19%) YAML
4 2 (2.60%) HTML
4 2 (2.60%) Kafka
4 2 (2.60%) LDAP
4 2 (2.60%) OpenID
4 2 (2.60%) OpenTelemetry
4 2 (2.60%) REST
5 1 (1.30%) FastAPI
5 1 (1.30%) Flask
5 1 (1.30%) Keycloak
5 1 (1.30%) Loki
5 1 (1.30%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 13 (16.88%) Data Centre
2 8 (10.39%) Cloud Native
3 7 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (9.09%) Linux Command Line
3 7 (9.09%) PKI
4 6 (7.79%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (7.79%) Enterprise Storage
5 5 (6.49%) FlexPod
6 4 (5.19%) EMC VMAX
7 3 (3.90%) Clustering
7 3 (3.90%) Replication
8 2 (2.60%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (2.60%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (2.60%) Public Cloud
9 1 (1.30%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (1.30%) Mainframe
9 1 (1.30%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 34 (44.16%) Windows
2 13 (16.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (10.39%) Windows Server
4 7 (9.09%) CoreOS
4 7 (9.09%) Unix
5 6 (7.79%) VMS
6 5 (6.49%) Data ONTAP
6 5 (6.49%) zOS
7 3 (3.90%) AIX
7 3 (3.90%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (36.36%) CI/CD
2 24 (31.17%) DevOps
3 16 (20.78%) Infrastructure as Code
3 16 (20.78%) Test Automation
4 15 (19.48%) Capacity Planning
4 15 (19.48%) Migration
5 13 (16.88%) Continuous Improvement
5 13 (16.88%) Task Automation
6 12 (15.58%) Data Protection
6 12 (15.58%) Runbook
7 11 (14.29%) Agile
7 11 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
8 10 (12.99%) Asset Management
8 10 (12.99%) Containerisation
8 10 (12.99%) Data Centre Operations
8 10 (12.99%) Infrastructure Management
8 10 (12.99%) Inventory Management
8 10 (12.99%) Platform Engineering
9 8 (10.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 8 (10.39%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 36 (46.75%) Python
2 15 (19.48%) PowerShell
3 12 (15.58%) SQL
4 9 (11.69%) Bash
4 9 (11.69%) Shell Script
5 6 (7.79%) Java
6 5 (6.49%) Go
6 5 (6.49%) JavaScript
6 5 (6.49%) JCL
7 4 (5.19%) Kotlin
8 2 (2.60%) Perl
8 2 (2.60%) REXX
9 1 (1.30%) Ruby
9 1 (1.30%) VB
Qualifications
1 6 (7.79%) OCP
1 6 (7.79%) Oracle Certification
2 4 (5.19%) Microsoft Certified Professional
3 3 (3.90%) Degree
3 3 (3.90%) Network+ Certification
3 3 (3.90%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.90%) Security Cleared
4 2 (2.60%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.60%) RHCA
5 1 (1.30%) A+ Certification
5 1 (1.30%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.30%) CCNA
5 1 (1.30%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.30%) CISM
5 1 (1.30%) CISSP
5 1 (1.30%) ECDL
5 1 (1.30%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.30%) MCSE
5 1 (1.30%) RHCE
5 1 (1.30%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.30%) HIPAA
1 1 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.30%) PCI DSS
1 1 (1.30%) SOC 2
System Software
1 24 (31.17%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (18.18%) Docker
3 12 (15.58%) Virtual Machines
4 11 (14.29%) Firmware
5 10 (12.99%) NFS
6 9 (11.69%) KVM
7 7 (9.09%) Hyper-V
7 7 (9.09%) vSphere
8 5 (6.49%) Time Sharing Option
9 3 (3.90%) Active Directory
10 2 (2.60%) SRDF
11 1 (1.30%) Ceph
11 1 (1.30%) NDS
11 1 (1.30%) NetIQ eDirectory
11 1 (1.30%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (1.30%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 34 (44.16%) Ansible
2 27 (35.06%) Kubernetes
3 19 (24.68%) Terraform
4 11 (14.29%) Prometheus
5 10 (12.99%) Dell DRAC
5 10 (12.99%) Grafana
6 5 (6.49%) SnapMirror
6 5 (6.49%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 3 (3.90%) Argo
8 2 (2.60%) Progress Chef
8 2 (2.60%) Puppet
9 1 (1.30%) EMC NetWorker
9 1 (1.30%) Istio
9 1 (1.30%) NetBackup
9 1 (1.30%) Packer
9 1 (1.30%) PowerCLI
9 1 (1.30%) vCenter Server
9 1 (1.30%) vRealize
9 1 (1.30%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 24 (31.17%) VMware
2 10 (12.99%) Red Hat
3 9 (11.69%) Broadcom
3 9 (11.69%) Dell
4 8 (10.39%) Google
4 8 (10.39%) Microsoft
5 5 (6.49%) Brocade
5 5 (6.49%) IBM
5 5 (6.49%) NetApp
5 5 (6.49%) Oracle
5 5 (6.49%) Splunk
6 4 (5.19%) Cisco
6 4 (5.19%) HP
6 4 (5.19%) Juniper
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%) BiZZdesign