linkerd Contracts in the UK excluding London

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UK > UK excluding London

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

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 329 396 418
Rank change year-on-year +67 +22 +73
Contract jobs citing linkerd 10 3 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.078% 0.014% 0.12%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.53% 0.13% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 1 27
10th Percentile £615 - -
25th Percentile £703 - £581
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £738 £450 £600
Median % change year-on-year +63.89% -25.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £750 - £650
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £725 £450 £650
% change year-on-year +61.11% -30.77% -

All Systems Management Skills
UK excluding London

linkerd falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,890 2,355 3,619
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.77% 11.35% 15.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,322 1,705 2,653
10th Percentile £235 £211 £275
25th Percentile £393 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £620
90th Percentile £660 £652 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £563
% change year-on-year +1.94% -8.44% -0.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 79 136
10th Percentile £14.86 £14.00 £15.50
25th Percentile £18.59 £17.00 £20.17
Median hourly rate £25.34 £38.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.18% -9.41% +112.50%
75th Percentile £43.69 £51.88 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.35 £70.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £30.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -11.83% -47.83% +155.56%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing linkerd as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for linkerd in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing linkerd in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for linkerd in the UK excluding London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing linkerd in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for linkerd in the UK excluding London

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Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing linkerd within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 May 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
North of England +30 9 £750 - 4
Yorkshire - 6 £725 -
North East - 2 £750 -
North West +13 1 £750 - 4
Scotland - 1 £500 - 1
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 8 (80.00%) nginx
2 7 (70.00%) Traefik
3 1 (10.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) AWS
1 10 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 10 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 9 (90.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 9 (90.00%) Amazon ECS
2 9 (90.00%) AWS Fargate
2 9 (90.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (10.00%) Azure
3 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) CloudFront
3 1 (10.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 9 (90.00%) DNS
1 9 (90.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (90.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 9 (90.00%) GitLab
1 9 (90.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (20.00%) Military
1 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (80.00%) Senior
1 8 (80.00%) Senior DevOps
2 7 (70.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (50.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Lead
4 1 (10.00%) Lead DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (90.00%) cloud-init
1 9 (90.00%) Kafka
1 9 (90.00%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 9 (90.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 9 (90.00%) CentOS
1 9 (90.00%) Linux
1 9 (90.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 9 (90.00%) Unix
2 1 (10.00%) Mac OS
2 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 10 (100.00%) DevOps
1 10 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 9 (90.00%) Cloud Security
2 9 (90.00%) Continuous Integration
2 9 (90.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 9 (90.00%) Identity Management
2 9 (90.00%) Observability
2 9 (90.00%) Secrets Management
2 9 (90.00%) Static Application Security Testing
3 7 (70.00%) Mobile Device Management
4 2 (20.00%) Agile
4 2 (20.00%) Service Delivery
5 1 (10.00%) Containerisation
5 1 (10.00%) Fintech
5 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (10.00%) Network Load Balancing
5 1 (10.00%) SIEM
5 1 (10.00%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) Bash
1 10 (100.00%) Go
1 10 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (100.00%) AWS Certification
2 8 (80.00%) Security Cleared
3 7 (70.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (90.00%) NCSC
2 1 (10.00%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 10 (100.00%) Terraform
2 9 (90.00%) Consul
2 9 (90.00%) Grafana
2 9 (90.00%) Istio
2 9 (90.00%) Jamf Pro
2 9 (90.00%) Packer
2 9 (90.00%) Prometheus
2 9 (90.00%) Rancher
2 9 (90.00%) ZABBIX
3 8 (80.00%) HAProxy
4 1 (10.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (10.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 9 (90.00%) Okta
1 9 (90.00%) Splunk
2 7 (70.00%) Apple
2 7 (70.00%) ESET
3 1 (10.00%) Dynatrace
3 1 (10.00%) ForgeRock