Linux Contracts in West Yorkshire

Linux
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 39 51
Rank change year-on-year +27 +12 0
Contract jobs citing Linux 65 39 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 11.86% 3.90% 3.49%
As % of the Operating Systems category 54.17% 27.27% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 31 45
10th Percentile £374 £425 £435
25th Percentile £513 £456 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +3.77%
75th Percentile £747 £619 £650
90th Percentile £780 £650 £745
Yorkshire median daily rate £550 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% +2.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £40.50 - -
Median hourly rate £41.00 - -
75th Percentile £41.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £41.00 £22.50 -
% change year-on-year +82.22% - -

All Operating Systems
West 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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 120 143 171
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 21.90% 14.31% 10.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 110 126
10th Percentile £185 £178 £190
25th Percentile £313 £300 £269
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £470
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -14.89% +10.59%
75th Percentile £575 £522 £575
90th Percentile £750 £619 £660
Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £415 £440
% change year-on-year +8.43% -5.68% +17.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £40.50 £13.87 £13.16
Median hourly rate £41.00 £14.52 £15.44
Median % change year-on-year +182.37% -5.96% -12.12%
75th Percentile £41.50 £15.95 £33.29
90th Percentile - £17.34 £61.32
Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.21 £22.00 £19.39
% change year-on-year -17.25% +13.49% +10.77%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in West Yorkshire

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Linux in West Yorkshire

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in West Yorkshire

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux in West Yorkshire

Linux
Contract Job Locations in West 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 West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 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
Leeds +19 65 £550 +10.00% 27
Linux
Yorkshire

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West 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 16 (24.62%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 8 (12.31%) Confluence
3 5 (7.69%) nginx
3 5 (7.69%) Traefik
4 3 (4.62%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 19 (29.23%) AWS
2 12 (18.46%) AWS CloudFormation
3 8 (12.31%) Entra ID
4 7 (10.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 7 (10.77%) Amazon ECS
4 7 (10.77%) AWS Fargate
4 7 (10.77%) Slack
5 6 (9.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 5 (7.69%) Azure
6 5 (7.69%) Cloud Computing
6 5 (7.69%) Collibra
7 4 (6.15%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 4 (6.15%) GCP
8 2 (3.08%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (3.08%) npm
9 1 (1.54%) AWS CodePipeline
9 1 (1.54%) AWS Step Functions
9 1 (1.54%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.54%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (1.54%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 24 (36.92%) DNS
2 7 (10.77%) HTTP
2 7 (10.77%) TCP/IP
3 2 (3.08%) IMAP
3 2 (3.08%) Network Security
3 2 (3.08%) POP3
3 2 (3.08%) SMTP
4 1 (1.54%) Firewall
4 1 (1.54%) LAN
4 1 (1.54%) VLAN
4 1 (1.54%) VPN
4 1 (1.54%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (30.77%) Oracle Database
2 17 (26.15%) MongoDB
3 12 (18.46%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (16.92%) MySQL
5 10 (15.38%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (1.54%) Big Data
6 1 (1.54%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.54%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (21.54%) GitLab
1 14 (21.54%) Jenkins
2 12 (18.46%) Git
3 11 (16.92%) JIRA
4 8 (12.31%) Cucumber
4 8 (12.31%) Jasmine
4 8 (12.31%) JUnit
5 2 (3.08%) webpack
6 1 (1.54%) Selenium
General
1 19 (29.23%) Social Skills
2 15 (23.08%) Public Sector
3 6 (9.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (7.69%) Banking
4 5 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (4.62%) Finance
5 3 (4.62%) Law
5 3 (4.62%) Telecoms
6 2 (3.08%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.08%) Military
7 1 (1.54%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 19 (29.23%) Senior
2 12 (18.46%) Developer
2 12 (18.46%) DevOps Engineer
2 12 (18.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 10 (15.38%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 9 (13.85%) Engineering Specialist
4 9 (13.85%) Java Developer
4 9 (13.85%) Senior Developer
4 9 (13.85%) Senior DevOps
5 8 (12.31%) Senior Java Developer
6 7 (10.77%) Architect
6 7 (10.77%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 5 (7.69%) IT Engineer
7 5 (7.69%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (6.15%) Data Architect
8 4 (6.15%) Linux Engineer
8 4 (6.15%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (6.15%) Network Engineer
8 4 (6.15%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (4.62%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (16.92%) cloud-init
1 11 (16.92%) Spring Boot
2 10 (15.38%) RESTful
2 10 (15.38%) Spring
3 9 (13.85%) Spring Security
4 8 (12.31%) Spring Batch
5 7 (10.77%) Kafka
5 7 (10.77%) Swagger
6 6 (9.23%) Keycloak
6 6 (9.23%) OpenAPI
7 5 (7.69%) OpenTelemetry
8 3 (4.62%) pytest
9 2 (3.08%) AngularJS
9 2 (3.08%) CSS
9 2 (3.08%) Flask
9 2 (3.08%) HTML
9 2 (3.08%) REST
9 2 (3.08%) Web Services
10 1 (1.54%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 18 (27.69%) Linux Command Line
2 6 (9.23%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 6 (9.23%) PKI
3 3 (4.62%) Driving Licence
4 2 (3.08%) Data Centre
4 2 (3.08%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (3.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (3.08%) Mainframe
4 2 (3.08%) Replication
5 1 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 32 (49.23%) Windows
2 29 (44.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 22 (33.85%) Windows Server
4 14 (21.54%) Unix
5 13 (20.00%) CentOS
6 2 (3.08%) HPUX
6 2 (3.08%) Solaris
7 1 (1.54%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (1.54%) Mac OS
7 1 (1.54%) Ubuntu
7 1 (1.54%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (1.54%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (50.77%) Microservices
2 23 (35.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 22 (33.85%) Agile
3 22 (33.85%) CI/CD
4 18 (27.69%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (26.15%) DevOps
5 17 (26.15%) Security Management
6 16 (24.62%) Continuous Integration
6 16 (24.62%) SOA
7 15 (23.08%) Server Management
8 12 (18.46%) Containerisation
8 12 (18.46%) Infrastructure as Code
9 11 (16.92%) Observability
9 11 (16.92%) TDD
10 10 (15.38%) BDD
10 10 (15.38%) Mentoring
10 10 (15.38%) Migration
10 10 (15.38%) Software Engineering
10 10 (15.38%) Technical Leadership
10 10 (15.38%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 46 (70.77%) Bash
2 31 (47.69%) SQL
3 19 (29.23%) PowerShell
4 18 (27.69%) PL/SQL
5 17 (26.15%) Perl
6 16 (24.62%) Python
7 12 (18.46%) Go
8 11 (16.92%) Java
9 2 (3.08%) JavaScript
10 1 (1.54%) Groovy
10 1 (1.54%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.54%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 39 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 35 (53.85%) SC Cleared
3 20 (30.77%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (9.23%) AWS Certification
5 2 (3.08%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.23%) NCSC
2 3 (4.62%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.54%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.54%) QA
System Software
1 24 (36.92%) Active Directory
2 11 (16.92%) Docker
3 2 (3.08%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (3.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (3.08%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 26 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 14 (21.54%) Terraform
3 12 (18.46%) Grafana
3 12 (18.46%) Packer
4 11 (16.92%) Prometheus
5 6 (9.23%) Consul
5 6 (9.23%) Istio
5 6 (9.23%) Jamf Pro
5 6 (9.23%) linkerd
5 6 (9.23%) Rancher
5 6 (9.23%) ZABBIX
6 5 (7.69%) HAProxy
7 3 (4.62%) Ansible
8 1 (1.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (1.54%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.54%) vCenter Server
8 1 (1.54%) vRealize
Vendors
1 21 (32.31%) Cisco
2 20 (30.77%) Oracle
3 13 (20.00%) Splunk
4 6 (9.23%) Okta
5 5 (7.69%) Apple
5 5 (7.69%) ESET
6 4 (6.15%) Red Hat
7 3 (4.62%) Microsoft
8 2 (3.08%) IBM
8 2 (3.08%) Sun
8 2 (3.08%) Unisys
8 2 (3.08%) Veeam
8 2 (3.08%) VMware
9 1 (1.54%) Databricks
9 1 (1.54%) Google
9 1 (1.54%) HP