Linux Contracts in West Yorkshire

Linux
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire with a requirement for Linux skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Linux over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 36 38 44
Rank change year-on-year +2 +6 -15
Contract jobs citing Linux 40 72 75
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 4.04% 4.53% 4.02%
As % of the Operating Systems category 27.97% 38.92% 26.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 55 60
10th Percentile £425 £450 £411
25th Percentile £456 £500 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £558 £539
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +3.48% +6.68%
75th Percentile £619 £700 £650
90th Percentile £649 £723 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £550 £510
% change year-on-year -9.09% +7.84% +7.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 2
10th Percentile - £12.90 £18.62
25th Percentile - £14.25 £19.56
Median hourly rate - £17.00 £23.54
Median % change year-on-year - -27.77% +72.80%
75th Percentile - £20.63 £29.94
90th Percentile - £22.50 £32.32
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.50 £17.00 £23.54
% change year-on-year +32.35% -27.77% -9.48%

All Operating Systems
West Yorkshire

Linux is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 143 185 283
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 14.46% 11.63% 15.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 132 217
10th Percentile £172 £196 £163
25th Percentile £300 £310 £204
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% +17.65% -3.41%
75th Percentile £519 £618 £538
90th Percentile £619 £700 £643
Yorkshire median daily rate £412 £475 £400
% change year-on-year -13.28% +18.75% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 7 16
10th Percentile - £12.70 £13.30
25th Percentile £13.87 £13.16 £15.69
Median hourly rate £14.52 £17.00 £17.57
Median % change year-on-year -14.59% -3.24% +24.17%
75th Percentile £15.95 £20.74 £18.70
90th Percentile £17.34 £46.25 £19.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £20.14 £18.55 £17.50
% change year-on-year +8.53% +6.01% -

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 10 May 2024.

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 10 May 2024. 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 +2 39 £500 -9.09% 25
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 1 (2.50%) Apache
1 1 (2.50%) Apache Spark
1 1 (2.50%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 13 (32.50%) AWS
2 6 (15.00%) Azure
3 5 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (10.00%) Amazon ELB
4 4 (10.00%) Amazon S3
4 4 (10.00%) AWS KMS
4 4 (10.00%) GitHub
4 4 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
4 4 (10.00%) Route 53
4 4 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (5.00%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (2.50%) Akamai
6 1 (2.50%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (2.50%) Azure AKS
6 1 (2.50%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (12.50%) LAN
1 5 (12.50%) WAN
2 4 (10.00%) Firewall
2 4 (10.00%) SAN
2 4 (10.00%) Wireless
3 2 (5.00%) IPv4
3 2 (5.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (17.50%) Ingres
2 5 (12.50%) Big Data
2 5 (12.50%) SQL Server
3 4 (10.00%) MySQL
3 4 (10.00%) Relational Database
4 3 (7.50%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.50%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (22.50%) GitLab
1 9 (22.50%) Jenkins
2 4 (10.00%) AppScan
2 4 (10.00%) Burp Suite
2 4 (10.00%) SonarQube
3 2 (5.00%) Mockito
4 1 (2.50%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.50%) Maven
General
1 6 (15.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (12.50%) Finance
3 3 (7.50%) Legal
4 2 (5.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (17.50%) DBA
2 6 (15.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (15.00%) Site Engineer
2 6 (15.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 5 (12.50%) Ingres DBA
3 5 (12.50%) Linux Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) Data Centre Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) Data Migration Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) Migration Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Architect
5 3 (7.50%) Penetration Tester
5 3 (7.50%) Tester
6 2 (5.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Administrator
6 2 (5.00%) Developer
6 2 (5.00%) Lead
6 2 (5.00%) Linux Specialist
6 2 (5.00%) Software Developer
7 1 (2.50%) Lead DevOps
7 1 (2.50%) Ubuntu Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
1 4 (10.00%) Kafka
2 2 (5.00%) ActiveMQ
2 2 (5.00%) JAX-RS
2 2 (5.00%) XML
2 2 (5.00%) XSLT
3 1 (2.50%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (2.50%) J2EE
3 1 (2.50%) OAuth
3 1 (2.50%) Spring
3 1 (2.50%) Spring Boot
3 1 (2.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.50%) Public Cloud
2 4 (10.00%) Data Centre
2 4 (10.00%) Mobile App
2 4 (10.00%) Operational Technology
3 2 (5.00%) EPoS
4 1 (2.50%) Credit Risk
4 1 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 13 (32.50%) Windows
2 7 (17.50%) Unix
3 6 (15.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (12.50%) CentOS
4 5 (12.50%) Windows Server
5 4 (10.00%) VMS
6 2 (5.00%) Debian
6 2 (5.00%) Mac OS X
6 2 (5.00%) Ubuntu
6 2 (5.00%) zOS
7 1 (2.50%) Fedora
7 1 (2.50%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (35.00%) DevOps
2 7 (17.50%) CI/CD
2 7 (17.50%) Infrastructure as Code
2 7 (17.50%) Knowledge Transfer
2 7 (17.50%) Migration
2 7 (17.50%) Root Cause Analysis
3 6 (15.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 5 (12.50%) Configuration Management
4 5 (12.50%) Containerisation
4 5 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
5 4 (10.00%) Agile
5 4 (10.00%) Application Security
5 4 (10.00%) Change Control
5 4 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (10.00%) Ethical Hacking
5 4 (10.00%) Offensive Security
5 4 (10.00%) OWASP
5 4 (10.00%) Penetration Testing
5 4 (10.00%) Project Management
5 4 (10.00%) Red Team
Programming Languages
1 15 (37.50%) Python
2 8 (20.00%) Bash
3 5 (12.50%) Java
3 5 (12.50%) PowerShell
4 4 (10.00%) C++
4 4 (10.00%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (30.00%) SC Cleared
1 12 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (10.00%) CEH
2 4 (10.00%) CREST Certified
2 4 (10.00%) GIAC
2 4 (10.00%) GPEN
2 4 (10.00%) OSCP
3 3 (7.50%) Degree
4 1 (2.50%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.50%) CCNA
4 1 (2.50%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.00%) NIST
1 4 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 7 (17.50%) Docker
2 6 (15.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (32.50%) Terraform
2 11 (27.50%) Kubernetes
3 9 (22.50%) Puppet
4 5 (12.50%) Ansible
4 5 (12.50%) Graylog
4 5 (12.50%) Progress Chef
4 5 (12.50%) Prometheus
5 4 (10.00%) Grafana
5 4 (10.00%) HP Fortify
5 4 (10.00%) Nessus
5 4 (10.00%) Packer
5 4 (10.00%) Rancher
5 4 (10.00%) WebInspect
6 1 (2.50%) HAProxy
6 1 (2.50%) Proxmox
6 1 (2.50%) Rsyslog
6 1 (2.50%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (2.50%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 4 (10.00%) Checkmarx
1 4 (10.00%) Splunk
1 4 (10.00%) Veracode
2 2 (5.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.00%) Oracle
3 1 (2.50%) Cisco
3 1 (2.50%) ForgeRock
3 1 (2.50%) VMware
3 1 (2.50%) Zscaler