Linux Contracts in South Yorkshire

Linux
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Linux skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Linux over the 6 months leading up to 2 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 10 22
Rank change year-on-year -4 +12 +1
Contract jobs citing Linux 45 63 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 11.06% 13.29% 6.82%
As % of the Operating Systems category 49.45% 45.65% 50.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 42 27
10th Percentile £400 £403 £480
25th Percentile £497 £415 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £435 £550
Median % change year-on-year +32.18% -20.91% +7.84%
75th Percentile £630 £530 £675
90th Percentile £780 £563 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £538 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +7.50% -9.09% +7.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £22.50 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate - £22.50 £18.50
% change year-on-year - +21.62% -21.39%

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 91 138 69
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 22.36% 29.11% 13.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 91 52
10th Percentile £150 £200 £163
25th Percentile £374 £403 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £430 £500
Median % change year-on-year +22.09% -14.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £521 £563
90th Percentile £704 £588 £686
Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £423 £450
% change year-on-year +6.51% -6.11% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 2
10th Percentile - £16.60 £11.65
25th Percentile £18.10 £21.25 £12.63
Median hourly rate £18.21 £22.00 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.25% +41.94% -15.07%
75th Percentile £18.41 £23.75 £19.63
90th Percentile £18.47 - £21.35
Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.21 £17.50 £19.64
% change year-on-year +4.03% -10.87% +6.14%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Job postings citing Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Linux in South Yorkshire

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Linux in South Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for Linux in South Yorkshire

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 2 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in South Yorkshire

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Linux in South Yorkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Linux in South Yorkshire

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 2 June 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 -3 39 £538 +12.33% 137
Linux
Yorkshire

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.22%) Apache
1 1 (2.22%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (2.22%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (6.67%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 14 (31.11%) AWS
2 9 (20.00%) GCP
3 5 (11.11%) Azure
4 4 (8.89%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 4 (8.89%) Collibra
4 4 (8.89%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 5 (11.11%) DNS
1 5 (11.11%) Firewall
1 5 (11.11%) NAS
2 4 (8.89%) SAN
2 4 (8.89%) TCP/IP
3 2 (4.44%) HTTP
3 2 (4.44%) HTTPS
3 2 (4.44%) Kerberos
3 2 (4.44%) Network Security
4 1 (2.22%) DHCP
4 1 (2.22%) Internet
4 1 (2.22%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.67%) BigQuery
2 2 (4.44%) Hazelcast
2 2 (4.44%) Oracle Database
3 1 (2.22%) Big Data
3 1 (2.22%) Delta Lake
3 1 (2.22%) Hadoop
3 1 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.22%) RDBMS
3 1 (2.22%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (28.89%) Jenkins
2 11 (24.44%) GitLab
3 10 (22.22%) Git
4 4 (8.89%) Postman
5 3 (6.67%) Jaeger
General
1 10 (22.22%) Finance
1 10 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 7 (15.56%) Banking
3 4 (8.89%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (8.89%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.22%) Back Office
4 1 (2.22%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 10 (22.22%) DevOps Engineer
2 9 (20.00%) Architect
3 6 (13.33%) Linux Engineer
3 6 (13.33%) Senior
4 4 (8.89%) Consultant
4 4 (8.89%) Data Architect
4 4 (8.89%) Lead
5 3 (6.67%) Senior Linux Engineer
5 3 (6.67%) Senior Technical Engineer
5 3 (6.67%) Technical Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Administrator
6 2 (4.44%) Automation Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) LDAP Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Lead DevOps
6 2 (4.44%) Lead DevOps Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Senior DevOps
6 2 (4.44%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Systems Architect
6 2 (4.44%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (17.78%) Middleware
2 4 (8.89%) OpenTelemetry
3 2 (4.44%) gRPC
3 2 (4.44%) JWT
3 2 (4.44%) Kafka
3 2 (4.44%) LDAP
3 2 (4.44%) SAML
4 1 (2.22%) LAPP Stack
4 1 (2.22%) PySpark
4 1 (2.22%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.33%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (8.89%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (6.67%) Cloud Native
4 2 (4.44%) Management Information System
4 2 (4.44%) Replication
5 1 (2.22%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (2.22%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (2.22%) Fat Client
5 1 (2.22%) Mainframe
5 1 (2.22%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.22%) Robotics
5 1 (2.22%) Thin Client
5 1 (2.22%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (35.56%) Windows
2 15 (33.33%) Unix
3 9 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (11.11%) Windows Server
5 4 (8.89%) AIX
5 4 (8.89%) Solaris
6 3 (6.67%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 1 (2.22%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (37.78%) Agile
1 17 (37.78%) CI/CD
1 17 (37.78%) DevOps
2 14 (31.11%) Microservices
3 12 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (15.56%) Containerisation
4 7 (15.56%) Data Protection
4 7 (15.56%) Platform Engineering
4 7 (15.56%) The Twelve-Factor App
5 6 (13.33%) Configuration Management
5 6 (13.33%) Infrastructure Automation
5 6 (13.33%) Migration
6 5 (11.11%) Deployment Automation
7 4 (8.89%) Data Governance
7 4 (8.89%) Data Management
7 4 (8.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 4 (8.89%) Kanban
7 4 (8.89%) Monte Carlo Method
7 4 (8.89%) Observability
7 4 (8.89%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 21 (46.67%) Python
2 8 (17.78%) Shell Script
3 7 (15.56%) JavaScript
4 5 (11.11%) Bash
5 4 (8.89%) Groovy
5 4 (8.89%) PowerShell
6 3 (6.67%) Java
6 3 (6.67%) SQL
7 2 (4.44%) ActionScript
7 2 (4.44%) ActionScript 2.0
8 1 (2.22%) Korn
8 1 (2.22%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (4.44%) Degree
1 2 (4.44%) IBM Certification
2 1 (2.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.22%) Accessibility
1 1 (2.22%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (15.56%) Active Directory
2 7 (15.56%) Docker
3 5 (11.11%) vSphere
4 4 (8.89%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 4 (8.89%) VMware NSX
5 3 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (2.22%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (2.22%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 21 (46.67%) Kubernetes
2 14 (31.11%) Ansible
3 8 (17.78%) Terraform
4 7 (15.56%) Grafana
4 7 (15.56%) Puppet
5 5 (11.11%) Control-M
6 4 (8.89%) Prometheus
6 4 (8.89%) vCenter Server
6 4 (8.89%) vRealize
7 3 (6.67%) Istio
7 3 (6.67%) Kiali
8 2 (4.44%) Progress Chef
9 1 (2.22%) Data Guard
9 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Clustering
9 1 (2.22%) Nagios
9 1 (2.22%) NetApp OnCommand
9 1 (2.22%) NetBackup
9 1 (2.22%) SCCM
9 1 (2.22%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 10 (22.22%) Red Hat
2 9 (20.00%) VMware
3 8 (17.78%) Splunk
4 4 (8.89%) Microsoft
4 4 (8.89%) MuleSoft
4 4 (8.89%) Veritas
4 4 (8.89%) Zscaler
5 3 (6.67%) AppDynamics
5 3 (6.67%) Commvault
5 3 (6.67%) IBM
5 3 (6.67%) xMatters
6 2 (4.44%) ForgeRock
6 2 (4.44%) IBM Sterling
6 2 (4.44%) Oracle
7 1 (2.22%) Databricks
7 1 (2.22%) Google
7 1 (2.22%) NetApp