Linux Contracts in Yorkshire

Linux
England > Yorkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 22 41 48
Rank change year-on-year +19 +7 -11
Contract jobs citing Linux 110 100 117
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 6.56% 4.36% 4.32%
As % of the Operating Systems category 33.23% 33.00% 25.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 77 89
10th Percentile £409 £420 £388
25th Percentile £425 £475 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £510
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +2.94% +7.37%
75th Percentile £564 £638 £575
90th Percentile £619 £715 £700
England median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 2
10th Percentile - £21.60 £18.62
25th Percentile £21.25 £22.87 £19.56
Median hourly rate £22.50 £28.28 £23.54
Median % change year-on-year -20.43% +20.15% -9.48%
75th Percentile £23.75 £36.24 £29.94
90th Percentile £47.75 £39.03 £32.32
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% +20.00%

All Operating Systems
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 Yorkshire with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 331 303 465
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 19.74% 13.21% 17.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 240 220 352
10th Percentile £163 £153 £133
25th Percentile £275 £200 £170
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £428 £375
Median % change year-on-year -2.92% +14.00% -6.25%
75th Percentile £502 £541 £500
90th Percentile £588 £650 £575
England median daily rate £463 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -9.76% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 11 33
10th Percentile £13.61 £13.16 £12.15
25th Percentile £14.20 £15.33 £14.00
Median hourly rate £21.35 £19.89 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.38% +13.63% -
75th Percentile £23.75 £22.38 £19.38
90th Percentile - £40.90 £23.60
England median hourly rate £22.00 £37.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -41.33% +74.42% +19.44%

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 27 April 2024.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Linux in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram 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 27 April 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
South Yorkshire +11 66 £438 -16.67% 10
West Yorkshire +10 39 £500 -8.88% 27
North Yorkshire +3 4 £525 +50.00% 10
East Yorkshire - 2 £650 - 2
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 6 (5.45%) nginx
2 3 (2.73%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.73%) Jupyter
3 2 (1.82%) Confluence
4 1 (0.91%) Apache
4 1 (0.91%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 24 (21.82%) AWS
2 22 (20.00%) GitHub
3 15 (13.64%) Azure
4 12 (10.91%) GCP
5 6 (5.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 5 (4.55%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (4.55%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 5 (4.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 4 (3.64%) Amazon ELB
7 4 (3.64%) Amazon S3
7 4 (3.64%) AWS KMS
7 4 (3.64%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (3.64%) Route 53
8 3 (2.73%) CloudBees
8 3 (2.73%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (1.82%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (1.82%) Anthos
9 2 (1.82%) Datadog
10 1 (0.91%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (0.91%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (13.64%) VLAN
2 7 (6.36%) Firewall
2 7 (6.36%) LAN
2 7 (6.36%) WAN
3 6 (5.45%) SSL
4 4 (3.64%) SAN
4 4 (3.64%) VPN
4 4 (3.64%) Wireless
5 2 (1.82%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.91%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (12.73%) MongoDB
2 7 (6.36%) Ingres
3 5 (4.55%) Big Data
3 5 (4.55%) SQL Server
4 4 (3.64%) MySQL
4 4 (3.64%) Relational Database
5 3 (2.73%) Apache Cassandra
5 3 (2.73%) ClickHouse
5 3 (2.73%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.91%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.91%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.91%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (0.91%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 29 (26.36%) Jenkins
2 13 (11.82%) GitLab
3 4 (3.64%) AppScan
3 4 (3.64%) Burp Suite
3 4 (3.64%) SonarQube
4 3 (2.73%) Git
5 2 (1.82%) JIRA
5 2 (1.82%) Mockito
6 1 (0.91%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.91%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.91%) Maven
6 1 (0.91%) Postman
6 1 (0.91%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 33 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 22 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (8.18%) Public Sector
4 8 (7.27%) Finance
5 3 (2.73%) Legal
6 2 (1.82%) Retail
7 1 (0.91%) Banking
Job Titles
1 16 (14.55%) Storage Manager
2 13 (11.82%) DevOps Engineer
3 11 (10.00%) DBA
4 9 (8.18%) Linux Engineer
4 9 (8.18%) Storage Engineer
5 7 (6.36%) Data Protection Engineer
5 7 (6.36%) Lead
5 7 (6.36%) Site Engineer
5 7 (6.36%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 6 (5.45%) Data Engineer
6 6 (5.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (4.55%) Ingres DBA
8 4 (3.64%) Data Centre Engineer
8 4 (3.64%) Data Migration Engineer
8 4 (3.64%) Database Specialist
8 4 (3.64%) Migration Engineer
8 4 (3.64%) MongoDB DBA
9 3 (2.73%) Administrator
9 3 (2.73%) Architect
9 3 (2.73%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (14.55%) YAML
2 13 (11.82%) Kafka
3 8 (7.27%) ActiveMQ
4 4 (3.64%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (2.73%) Apache Beam
5 3 (2.73%) Keycloak
6 2 (1.82%) JAX-RS
6 2 (1.82%) Redfish
6 2 (1.82%) XML
6 2 (1.82%) XSLT
7 1 (0.91%) Apache NiFi
7 1 (0.91%) J2EE
7 1 (0.91%) JSON
7 1 (0.91%) OAuth
7 1 (0.91%) Oracle GoldenGate
7 1 (0.91%) Spring
7 1 (0.91%) Spring Boot
7 1 (0.91%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 22 (20.00%) Data Centre
1 22 (20.00%) Replication
2 7 (6.36%) Public Cloud
3 4 (3.64%) Mobile App
3 4 (3.64%) Operational Technology
4 2 (1.82%) Clustering
4 2 (1.82%) EPoS
5 1 (0.91%) Credit Risk
5 1 (0.91%) Device Driver
5 1 (0.91%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 43 (39.09%) Windows
2 20 (18.18%) zOS
3 18 (16.36%) Unix
4 8 (7.27%) CentOS
4 8 (7.27%) Windows Server
5 7 (6.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (3.64%) VMS
7 2 (1.82%) Debian
7 2 (1.82%) Mac OS X
7 2 (1.82%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.91%) Android
8 1 (0.91%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.91%) Fedora
8 1 (0.91%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (26.36%) DevOps
2 28 (25.45%) Agile
3 23 (20.91%) Change Management
3 23 (20.91%) CI/CD
4 18 (16.36%) Project Management
4 18 (16.36%) Storage Management
5 17 (15.45%) Problem Management
6 15 (13.64%) Service Delivery
6 15 (13.64%) Stakeholder Management
7 14 (12.73%) Data Protection
8 13 (11.82%) Cost Management
8 13 (11.82%) Infrastructure as Code
8 13 (11.82%) Software Testing
9 12 (10.91%) Migration
10 10 (9.09%) Containerisation
10 10 (9.09%) Root Cause Analysis
11 9 (8.18%) Capacity Planning
11 9 (8.18%) Continuous Integration
11 9 (8.18%) Problem-Solving
12 8 (7.27%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 45 (40.91%) Python
2 18 (16.36%) Bash
2 18 (16.36%) JCL
3 15 (13.64%) REXX
4 9 (8.18%) Java
5 7 (6.36%) JavaScript
6 5 (4.55%) Go
6 5 (4.55%) PowerShell
7 4 (3.64%) C++
7 4 (3.64%) Ruby
8 3 (2.73%) Groovy
8 3 (2.73%) Scala
8 3 (2.73%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.91%) C
9 1 (0.91%) Perl
9 1 (0.91%) Rust
9 1 (0.91%) SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (14.55%) Security Cleared
2 15 (13.64%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.64%) CEH
3 4 (3.64%) CREST Certified
3 4 (3.64%) Degree
3 4 (3.64%) GIAC
3 4 (3.64%) GPEN
3 4 (3.64%) OSCP
4 2 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.91%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.91%) CCNA
5 1 (0.91%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.91%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.91%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.64%) NIST
1 4 (3.64%) QA
System Software
1 18 (16.36%) NFS
1 18 (16.36%) Time Sharing Option
2 13 (11.82%) Docker
3 8 (7.27%) Active Directory
4 4 (3.64%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (2.73%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 2 (1.82%) VMware Workstation
7 1 (0.91%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.91%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 45 (40.91%) Ansible
2 25 (22.73%) Puppet
3 21 (19.09%) Terraform
4 18 (16.36%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 17 (15.45%) NetBackup
6 15 (13.64%) Kubernetes
7 9 (8.18%) Grafana
8 7 (6.36%) Prometheus
9 5 (4.55%) Graylog
9 5 (4.55%) Progress Chef
10 4 (3.64%) HP Fortify
10 4 (3.64%) Nessus
10 4 (3.64%) Packer
10 4 (3.64%) Rancher
10 4 (3.64%) WebInspect
11 2 (1.82%) Istio
11 2 (1.82%) Kiali
11 2 (1.82%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.91%) HAProxy
12 1 (0.91%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 24 (21.82%) IBM
2 18 (16.36%) Broadcom
2 18 (16.36%) Brocade
2 18 (16.36%) CA
2 18 (16.36%) Dell
3 16 (14.55%) Veritas
4 11 (10.00%) VMware
5 8 (7.27%) Oracle
6 7 (6.36%) Splunk
7 6 (5.45%) ServiceNow
7 6 (5.45%) Solace
8 4 (3.64%) Checkmarx
8 4 (3.64%) Veracode
9 3 (2.73%) Microsoft
10 2 (1.82%) Symantec
11 1 (0.91%) Cisco
11 1 (0.91%) EMC
11 1 (0.91%) ForgeRock
11 1 (0.91%) NetApp
11 1 (0.91%) Red Hat