linkerd Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

linkerd
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 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 296 - 439
Rank change year-on-year - - +177
Contract jobs citing linkerd 8 0 38
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.081% - 0.15%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.52% - 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 36
10th Percentile £698 - £581
25th Percentile £731 - £595
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 - £600
Median % change year-on-year - - -11.11%
75th Percentile - - £650
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £725 £450 £650
% change year-on-year +61.11% -30.77% -

All Systems Management Skills
Work from Home

linkerd falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,534 1,647 4,293
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 15.49% 10.73% 16.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,114 1,220 3,179
10th Percentile £386 £356 £400
25th Percentile £440 £450 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.47% -3.64% -2.22%
75th Percentile £626 £631 £675
90th Percentile £788 £700 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £563
% change year-on-year +1.90% -8.41% -0.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 23 73
10th Percentile £16.10 £21.73 £26.55
25th Percentile £25.50 £38.58 £55.00
Median hourly rate £40.88 £47.50 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.95% -28.03% +65.00%
75th Percentile £64.69 £58.13 £77.50
90th Percentile £71.38 £67.25 £87.50
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £30.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -11.83% -47.83% +155.56%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing linkerd as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

linkerd trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing linkerd.

linkerd daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 5 (62.50%) nginx
1 5 (62.50%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) AWS
1 8 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 7 (87.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 7 (87.50%) Amazon ECS
2 7 (87.50%) AWS Fargate
2 7 (87.50%) Entra ID
2 7 (87.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (12.50%) Azure
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (12.50%) Datadog
3 1 (12.50%) GCP
3 1 (12.50%) GitHub
3 1 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (12.50%) OpenShift
3 1 (12.50%) Pulumi
3 1 (12.50%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (87.50%) DNS
1 7 (87.50%) TCP/IP
2 1 (12.50%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (87.50%) MongoDB
2 1 (12.50%) MySQL
2 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
2 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (100.00%) GitLab
1 8 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) Senior
1 7 (87.50%) Senior DevOps
2 5 (62.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (50.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Lead
4 1 (12.50%) Lead DevOps
4 1 (12.50%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (87.50%) cloud-init
1 7 (87.50%) Kafka
1 7 (87.50%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 7 (87.50%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 7 (87.50%) CentOS
1 7 (87.50%) Linux
1 7 (87.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 7 (87.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 8 (100.00%) DevOps
1 8 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 8 (100.00%) Observability
2 7 (87.50%) Cloud Security
2 7 (87.50%) Continuous Integration
2 7 (87.50%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 7 (87.50%) Identity Management
2 7 (87.50%) Secrets Management
2 7 (87.50%) Static Application Security Testing
3 5 (62.50%) Mobile Device Management
4 2 (25.00%) Service Delivery
5 1 (12.50%) Agile
5 1 (12.50%) Coaching
5 1 (12.50%) High Availability
5 1 (12.50%) Incident Management
5 1 (12.50%) Mentoring
5 1 (12.50%) Process Improvement
5 1 (12.50%) Software Engineering
5 1 (12.50%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Bash
1 8 (100.00%) Go
1 8 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (87.50%) AWS Certification
2 6 (75.00%) Security Cleared
3 5 (62.50%) SC Cleared
4 1 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (87.50%) NCSC
2 1 (12.50%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (100.00%) Consul
1 8 (100.00%) Grafana
1 8 (100.00%) Istio
1 8 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 8 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 8 (100.00%) Terraform
2 7 (87.50%) Jamf Pro
2 7 (87.50%) Packer
2 7 (87.50%) Rancher
2 7 (87.50%) ZABBIX
3 5 (62.50%) HAProxy
4 1 (12.50%) Argo
Vendors
1 7 (87.50%) Okta
1 7 (87.50%) Splunk
2 5 (62.50%) Apple
2 5 (62.50%) ESET
3 1 (12.50%) New Relic
3 1 (12.50%) Red Hat