Linux Contracts in Yorkshire

Linux
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 16 22 39
Rank change year-on-year +6 +17 +11
Contract jobs citing Linux 99 110 98
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 9.73% 6.51% 4.25%
As % of the Operating Systems category 45.00% 33.23% 32.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 77 77
10th Percentile £374 £409 £440
25th Percentile £506 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% +2.94%
75th Percentile £719 £564 £650
90th Percentile £778 £619 £715
England median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £40.50 £21.25 -
Median hourly rate £41.00 £22.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +82.22% - -
75th Percentile £41.50 £23.75 -
90th Percentile - £47.75 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +8.33%

All Operating Systems
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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 220 331 306
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 21.63% 19.60% 13.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 242 224
10th Percentile £178 £163 £153
25th Percentile £243 £275 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £415 £440
Median % change year-on-year +8.43% -5.68% +17.33%
75th Percentile £575 £505 £550
90th Percentile £725 £588 £650
England median daily rate £475 £463 £513
% change year-on-year +2.70% -9.76% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 13 9
10th Percentile £16.25 £13.57 £12.73
25th Percentile £16.50 £13.87 £13.16
Median hourly rate £18.21 £22.00 £19.39
Median % change year-on-year -17.25% +13.49% +10.77%
75th Percentile £19.75 £23.75 £22.00
90th Percentile £24.12 - £34.00
England median hourly rate £24.18 £22.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year +9.91% -42.11% +76.74%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Yorkshire

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Linux in Yorkshire

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Linux in Yorkshire

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux in Yorkshire

Linux
Contract Job Locations in 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 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
West Yorkshire +27 65 £550 +10.00% 32
South Yorkshire -10 34 £575 +31.43% 16
East Yorkshire +4 2 - - 9
North Yorkshire +7 1 £525 - 13
Linux
England

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 (16.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 9 (9.09%) Confluence
3 5 (5.05%) nginx
3 5 (5.05%) Traefik
4 3 (3.03%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (1.01%) Apache
5 1 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (1.01%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (3.03%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (3.03%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 33 (33.33%) AWS
2 12 (12.12%) AWS CloudFormation
3 11 (11.11%) Azure
3 11 (11.11%) GCP
4 8 (8.08%) Entra ID
5 7 (7.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 7 (7.07%) Amazon ECS
5 7 (7.07%) AWS Fargate
5 7 (7.07%) Slack
6 6 (6.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 5 (5.05%) Cloud Computing
7 5 (5.05%) Collibra
8 4 (4.04%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 3 (3.03%) GitHub
10 2 (2.02%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (2.02%) npm
11 1 (1.01%) AWS CodePipeline
11 1 (1.01%) AWS Step Functions
11 1 (1.01%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (1.01%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 29 (29.29%) DNS
2 9 (9.09%) HTTP
3 7 (7.07%) TCP/IP
4 6 (6.06%) NAS
5 5 (5.05%) SAN
6 4 (4.04%) Firewall
7 2 (2.02%) HTTPS
7 2 (2.02%) IMAP
7 2 (2.02%) Kerberos
7 2 (2.02%) Network Security
7 2 (2.02%) POP3
7 2 (2.02%) SMTP
8 1 (1.01%) DHCP
8 1 (1.01%) LAN
8 1 (1.01%) SD-WAN
8 1 (1.01%) SSH
8 1 (1.01%) VLAN
8 1 (1.01%) VPN
8 1 (1.01%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (22.22%) Oracle Database
2 17 (17.17%) MongoDB
3 13 (13.13%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (11.11%) MySQL
5 10 (10.10%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (2.02%) BigQuery
6 2 (2.02%) Hazelcast
7 1 (1.01%) Big Data
7 1 (1.01%) Delta Lake
7 1 (1.01%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.01%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.01%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.01%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.01%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 25 (25.25%) GitLab
2 21 (21.21%) Jenkins
3 17 (17.17%) Git
4 12 (12.12%) JIRA
5 8 (8.08%) Cucumber
5 8 (8.08%) Jasmine
5 8 (8.08%) JUnit
6 2 (2.02%) Jaeger
6 2 (2.02%) webpack
7 1 (1.01%) Selenium
General
1 32 (32.32%) Social Skills
2 15 (15.15%) Public Sector
3 8 (8.08%) Banking
3 8 (8.08%) Finance
4 6 (6.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (5.05%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.05%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (3.03%) Law
6 3 (3.03%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.02%) Aviation
7 2 (2.02%) Fire and Rescue
7 2 (2.02%) Military
7 2 (2.02%) Police
7 2 (2.02%) Swedish Language
8 1 (1.01%) Back Office
8 1 (1.01%) Front Office
8 1 (1.01%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 21 (21.21%) Senior
2 20 (20.20%) DevOps Engineer
3 13 (13.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 12 (12.12%) Architect
4 12 (12.12%) Developer
5 11 (11.11%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 11 (11.11%) Senior DevOps
6 10 (10.10%) Engineering Specialist
7 9 (9.09%) Java Developer
7 9 (9.09%) Senior Developer
7 9 (9.09%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 8 (8.08%) Senior Java Developer
9 6 (6.06%) Lead
10 5 (5.05%) IT Engineer
10 5 (5.05%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
11 4 (4.04%) Data Architect
11 4 (4.04%) Linux Engineer
11 4 (4.04%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
11 4 (4.04%) Network Engineer
11 4 (4.04%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (11.11%) cloud-init
1 11 (11.11%) RESTful
1 11 (11.11%) Spring Boot
2 10 (10.10%) Spring
3 9 (9.09%) Kafka
3 9 (9.09%) Spring Security
4 8 (8.08%) Spring Batch
5 7 (7.07%) Middleware
5 7 (7.07%) Swagger
6 6 (6.06%) Keycloak
6 6 (6.06%) OpenAPI
7 5 (5.05%) OpenTelemetry
8 3 (3.03%) pytest
9 2 (2.02%) CSS
9 2 (2.02%) gRPC
9 2 (2.02%) HTML
9 2 (2.02%) JWT
9 2 (2.02%) LDAP
9 2 (2.02%) SAML
9 2 (2.02%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 19 (19.19%) Linux Command Line
2 6 (6.06%) Data Protection Act
2 6 (6.06%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 6 (6.06%) Hybrid Cloud
2 6 (6.06%) PKI
3 4 (4.04%) Data Centre
3 4 (4.04%) Replication
4 3 (3.03%) Driving Licence
4 3 (3.03%) Mainframe
4 3 (3.03%) Robotics
5 2 (2.02%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.02%) Enterprise Storage
5 2 (2.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (2.02%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.01%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.01%) EMC VMAX
6 1 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.01%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.01%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 47 (47.47%) Windows
2 34 (34.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 29 (29.29%) Windows Server
4 26 (26.26%) Unix
5 13 (13.13%) CentOS
6 3 (3.03%) Solaris
7 2 (2.02%) HPUX
8 1 (1.01%) AIX
8 1 (1.01%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (1.01%) Mac OS
8 1 (1.01%) Ubuntu
8 1 (1.01%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (1.01%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (43.43%) Microservices
2 37 (37.37%) CI/CD
3 34 (34.34%) Agile
4 30 (30.30%) Problem-Solving
5 28 (28.28%) DevOps
5 28 (28.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 17 (17.17%) Containerisation
6 17 (17.17%) Continuous Integration
6 17 (17.17%) Security Management
7 16 (16.16%) SOA
8 15 (15.15%) Server Management
9 14 (14.14%) Migration
10 13 (13.13%) Infrastructure as Code
11 12 (12.12%) High Availability
11 12 (12.12%) Observability
11 12 (12.12%) Software Engineering
12 11 (11.11%) TDD
13 10 (10.10%) BDD
13 10 (10.10%) Mentoring
13 10 (10.10%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 50 (50.51%) Bash
2 34 (34.34%) SQL
3 32 (32.32%) Python
4 24 (24.24%) PowerShell
5 18 (18.18%) Perl
5 18 (18.18%) PL/SQL
6 13 (13.13%) Java
7 12 (12.12%) Go
8 9 (9.09%) JavaScript
9 7 (7.07%) Shell Script
10 3 (3.03%) Groovy
11 2 (2.02%) ActionScript
11 2 (2.02%) ActionScript 2.0
12 1 (1.01%) Korn
12 1 (1.01%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 40 (40.40%) Security Cleared
2 36 (36.36%) SC Cleared
3 20 (20.20%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (6.06%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.02%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.02%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.02%) Degree
5 2 (2.02%) IBM Certification
6 1 (1.01%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.06%) NCSC
2 4 (4.04%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.02%) QA
4 1 (1.01%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.01%) SLA
System Software
1 31 (31.31%) Active Directory
2 17 (17.17%) Docker
3 8 (8.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (6.06%) VMware NSX
5 5 (5.05%) vSphere
6 3 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (2.02%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 2 (2.02%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (1.01%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 1 (1.01%) Hyper-V
8 1 (1.01%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 41 (41.41%) Kubernetes
2 22 (22.22%) Terraform
3 16 (16.16%) Grafana
4 12 (12.12%) Ansible
4 12 (12.12%) Packer
5 11 (11.11%) Prometheus
6 8 (8.08%) Istio
7 6 (6.06%) Consul
7 6 (6.06%) Jamf Pro
7 6 (6.06%) linkerd
7 6 (6.06%) Rancher
7 6 (6.06%) ZABBIX
8 5 (5.05%) HAProxy
8 5 (5.05%) vCenter Server
8 5 (5.05%) vRealize
9 4 (4.04%) Control-M
9 4 (4.04%) Puppet
10 2 (2.02%) FortiGate
10 2 (2.02%) Kiali
10 2 (2.02%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 23 (23.23%) Oracle
2 21 (21.21%) Cisco
3 17 (17.17%) Splunk
4 10 (10.10%) Red Hat
5 9 (9.09%) VMware
6 6 (6.06%) Okta
7 5 (5.05%) Apple
7 5 (5.05%) ESET
7 5 (5.05%) IBM
7 5 (5.05%) Microsoft
7 5 (5.05%) Veritas
8 3 (3.03%) AppDynamics
8 3 (3.03%) Commvault
9 2 (2.02%) IBM Sterling
9 2 (2.02%) NetApp
9 2 (2.02%) Ribbon
9 2 (2.02%) Sun
9 2 (2.02%) Tenable
9 2 (2.02%) Unisys
9 2 (2.02%) xMatters