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 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 38 33
Rank change year-on-year +18 -5 +14
Contract jobs citing Linux 51 40 71
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 9.06% 4.12% 4.57%
As % of the Operating Systems category 47.66% 29.20% 37.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 32 53
10th Percentile £374 £425 £450
25th Percentile £494 £456 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £558
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -5.83% +5.19%
75th Percentile £663 £619 £700
90th Percentile £780 £649 £730
Yorkshire median daily rate £550 £493 £550
% change year-on-year +11.68% -10.45% +7.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £13.35
25th Percentile - - £15.38
Median hourly rate - - £18.50
75th Percentile - - £21.69
90th Percentile - - £22.93
Yorkshire median hourly rate - £22.50 £18.50
% change year-on-year - +21.62% -21.39%

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 107 137 187
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 19.01% 14.09% 12.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 103 132
10th Percentile £183 £178 £191
25th Percentile £350 £300 £295
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -20.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £575 £544 £618
90th Percentile £715 £619 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £415 £450
% change year-on-year +8.43% -7.78% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 9
10th Percentile - - £12.93
25th Percentile - £13.87 £13.16
Median hourly rate - £14.52 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year - -18.06% +0.45%
75th Percentile - £15.95 £22.25
90th Percentile - £17.34 £35.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.21 £18.27 £19.64
% change year-on-year -0.36% -6.95% +10.19%

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 21 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 21 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 +14 50 £550 +10.00% 45
Wakefield - 1 £400 - 4
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 (31.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (5.88%) Confluence
2 3 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.96%) nginx
3 1 (1.96%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 14 (27.45%) AWS
2 6 (11.76%) Azure
3 5 (9.80%) AWS CloudFormation
3 5 (9.80%) Collibra
3 5 (9.80%) GCP
4 4 (7.84%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 3 (5.88%) Entra ID
5 3 (5.88%) npm
6 2 (3.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (3.92%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (3.92%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (3.92%) Slack
7 1 (1.96%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (1.96%) AWS CodePipeline
7 1 (1.96%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (1.96%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (1.96%) GitHub
7 1 (1.96%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.96%) Serverless
7 1 (1.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 19 (37.25%) DNS
2 4 (7.84%) HTTP
3 2 (3.92%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.96%) Firewall
4 1 (1.96%) LAN
4 1 (1.96%) VLAN
4 1 (1.96%) VPN
4 1 (1.96%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (39.22%) Oracle Database
2 4 (7.84%) MongoDB
2 4 (7.84%) MySQL
2 4 (7.84%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (5.88%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (1.96%) Big Data
4 1 (1.96%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.96%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (15.69%) GitLab
2 7 (13.73%) Git
2 7 (13.73%) Jenkins
3 6 (11.76%) JIRA
4 3 (5.88%) webpack
5 2 (3.92%) Cucumber
5 2 (3.92%) Jasmine
5 2 (3.92%) JUnit
6 1 (1.96%) Selenium
General
1 17 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 10 (19.61%) Public Sector
3 5 (9.80%) Banking
3 5 (9.80%) Documentation Skills
3 5 (9.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (5.88%) Finance
4 3 (5.88%) Law
4 3 (5.88%) Telecoms
5 2 (3.92%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.96%) Military
Job Titles
1 12 (23.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 10 (19.61%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 9 (17.65%) Engineering Specialist
3 9 (17.65%) Senior
4 8 (15.69%) Architect
5 7 (13.73%) Developer
5 7 (13.73%) DevOps Engineer
6 5 (9.80%) IT Engineer
6 5 (9.80%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (9.80%) Linux Engineer
6 5 (9.80%) Senior DevOps
6 5 (9.80%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 4 (7.84%) Data Architect
7 4 (7.84%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (7.84%) Network Engineer
7 4 (7.84%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (7.84%) Senior Developer
8 3 (5.88%) Analyst
8 3 (5.88%) IT Support
8 3 (5.88%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (9.80%) cloud-init
1 5 (9.80%) OpenTelemetry
1 5 (9.80%) RESTful
2 4 (7.84%) pytest
3 3 (5.88%) AngularJS
3 3 (5.88%) CSS
3 3 (5.88%) Flask
3 3 (5.88%) HTML
3 3 (5.88%) REST
3 3 (5.88%) Spring
3 3 (5.88%) Spring Batch
3 3 (5.88%) Spring Boot
3 3 (5.88%) Spring Security
3 3 (5.88%) Web Services
4 2 (3.92%) OpenAPI
4 2 (3.92%) Swagger
5 1 (1.96%) Kafka
5 1 (1.96%) Keycloak
5 1 (1.96%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 18 (35.29%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (5.88%) Data Centre
2 3 (5.88%) Driving Licence
3 2 (3.92%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (3.92%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 2 (3.92%) Mainframe
3 2 (3.92%) Replication
4 1 (1.96%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.96%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.96%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 32 (62.75%) Windows
2 22 (43.14%) Windows Server
3 16 (31.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (11.76%) CentOS
5 5 (9.80%) Unix
6 2 (3.92%) HPUX
6 2 (3.92%) Solaris
7 1 (1.96%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (1.96%) Mac OS
7 1 (1.96%) Ubuntu
7 1 (1.96%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (1.96%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (54.90%) Microservices
2 23 (45.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 19 (37.25%) Agile
4 17 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 17 (33.33%) Security Management
5 16 (31.37%) SOA
6 15 (29.41%) Server Management
7 12 (23.53%) Migration
8 11 (21.57%) CI/CD
9 9 (17.65%) DevOps
10 8 (15.69%) Containerisation
10 8 (15.69%) Roadmaps
11 7 (13.73%) Technology Roadmap
12 6 (11.76%) Observability
12 6 (11.76%) Test Automation
13 5 (9.80%) Data Governance
13 5 (9.80%) High Availability
13 5 (9.80%) Infrastructure as Code
13 5 (9.80%) Monte Carlo Method
14 4 (7.84%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 33 (64.71%) Bash
2 23 (45.10%) SQL
3 19 (37.25%) PowerShell
4 18 (35.29%) PL/SQL
5 17 (33.33%) Perl
6 10 (19.61%) Python
7 5 (9.80%) Go
8 3 (5.88%) Java
8 3 (5.88%) JavaScript
9 1 (1.96%) Groovy
9 1 (1.96%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.96%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 29 (56.86%) Security Cleared
2 25 (49.02%) SC Cleared
3 20 (39.22%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.96%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.88%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.96%) NCSC
2 1 (1.96%) QA
System Software
1 24 (47.06%) Active Directory
2 6 (11.76%) Docker
3 2 (3.92%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (3.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (3.92%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 14 (27.45%) Kubernetes
2 7 (13.73%) Terraform
3 6 (11.76%) Grafana
4 5 (9.80%) Packer
4 5 (9.80%) Prometheus
5 3 (5.88%) Ansible
6 1 (1.96%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (1.96%) Consul
6 1 (1.96%) HAProxy
6 1 (1.96%) Istio
6 1 (1.96%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (1.96%) linkerd
6 1 (1.96%) Rancher
6 1 (1.96%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.96%) vCenter Server
6 1 (1.96%) vRealize
6 1 (1.96%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 21 (41.18%) Cisco
2 20 (39.22%) Oracle
3 6 (11.76%) Splunk
4 5 (9.80%) Red Hat
5 2 (3.92%) IBM
5 2 (3.92%) Microsoft
5 2 (3.92%) Sun
5 2 (3.92%) Unisys
5 2 (3.92%) Veeam
5 2 (3.92%) VMware
6 1 (1.96%) Apple
6 1 (1.96%) Databricks
6 1 (1.96%) ESET
6 1 (1.96%) Google
6 1 (1.96%) HP
6 1 (1.96%) Okta