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 6 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 23 36
Rank change year-on-year +2 +13 +7
Contract jobs citing Linux 94 107 105
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 8.57% 6.34% 4.85%
As % of the Operating Systems category 42.92% 33.13% 32.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 76 80
10th Percentile £374 £409 £448
25th Percentile £466 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% -9.09% +7.84%
75th Percentile £588 £585 £700
90th Percentile £716 £644 £704
England median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 4
10th Percentile - - £13.35
25th Percentile - £21.25 £15.38
Median hourly rate - £22.50 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year - +21.62% -21.39%
75th Percentile - £43.75 £21.69
90th Percentile - £55.75 £22.93
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +18.18%

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 219 323 321
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 19.96% 19.14% 14.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 232 220
10th Percentile £176 £163 £154
25th Percentile £313 £275 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £423 £450
Median % change year-on-year +6.51% -6.11% +20.00%
75th Percentile £575 £515 £578
90th Percentile £633 £588 £688
England median daily rate £466 £475 £505
% change year-on-year -1.95% -5.94% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 16 13
10th Percentile £16.25 £13.69 £12.23
25th Percentile £16.44 £14.85 £13.16
Median hourly rate £18.21 £17.50 £19.39
Median % change year-on-year +4.03% -9.72% +4.78%
75th Percentile £19.56 £22.00 £22.00
90th Percentile £19.76 £23.75 £22.45
England median hourly rate £20.00 £22.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -11.11% -47.06% +97.67%

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 6 June 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 6 June 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
South Yorkshire -7 48 £556 +28.24% 30
West Yorkshire +16 46 £550 -2.65% 61
East Yorkshire -1 2 - -
North Yorkshire +11 1 £525 -12.50% 19
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 (17.02%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (3.19%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.13%) Confluence
4 1 (1.06%) Apache
4 1 (1.06%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.06%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.06%) WebSphere
4 1 (1.06%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 3 (3.19%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (3.19%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 24 (25.53%) AWS
2 13 (13.83%) GCP
3 12 (12.77%) Azure
4 5 (5.32%) Collibra
4 5 (5.32%) GitHub
5 4 (4.26%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 3 (3.19%) npm
7 2 (2.13%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (2.13%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (1.06%) AWS CodePipeline
8 1 (1.06%) AWS Step Functions
8 1 (1.06%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (1.06%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.06%) IBM Cloud
8 1 (1.06%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.06%) OpenShift
8 1 (1.06%) Serverless
8 1 (1.06%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 23 (24.47%) DNS
2 9 (9.57%) Firewall
3 6 (6.38%) HTTP
3 6 (6.38%) NAS
3 6 (6.38%) TCP/IP
4 5 (5.32%) SAN
5 2 (2.13%) HTTPS
5 2 (2.13%) Kerberos
5 2 (2.13%) Network Security
6 1 (1.06%) DHCP
6 1 (1.06%) Internet
6 1 (1.06%) LAN
6 1 (1.06%) SD-WAN
6 1 (1.06%) SSH
6 1 (1.06%) SSL
6 1 (1.06%) VLAN
6 1 (1.06%) VPN
6 1 (1.06%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (23.40%) Oracle Database
2 3 (3.19%) BigQuery
2 3 (3.19%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.13%) Hazelcast
3 2 (2.13%) MySQL
4 1 (1.06%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (1.06%) Big Data
4 1 (1.06%) Delta Lake
4 1 (1.06%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.06%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.06%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.06%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.06%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.06%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (17.02%) Jenkins
2 15 (15.96%) Git
3 14 (14.89%) GitLab
4 5 (5.32%) JIRA
4 5 (5.32%) Postman
5 3 (3.19%) Jaeger
5 3 (3.19%) webpack
6 1 (1.06%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.06%) Jasmine
6 1 (1.06%) JUnit
6 1 (1.06%) Log4j
6 1 (1.06%) Selenium
General
1 32 (34.04%) Social Skills
2 15 (15.96%) Finance
3 8 (8.51%) Banking
4 7 (7.45%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.32%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (5.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (4.26%) Public Sector
7 3 (3.19%) Law
7 3 (3.19%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.13%) Aviation
8 2 (2.13%) Fire and Rescue
8 2 (2.13%) Police
8 2 (2.13%) Swedish Language
9 1 (1.06%) Back Office
9 1 (1.06%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 14 (14.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 13 (13.83%) Architect
2 13 (13.83%) Linux Engineer
3 11 (11.70%) DevOps Engineer
3 11 (11.70%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 10 (10.64%) Engineering Specialist
4 10 (10.64%) Senior
5 6 (6.38%) Developer
6 5 (5.32%) IT Engineer
6 5 (5.32%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (5.32%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (4.26%) Consultant
7 4 (4.26%) Data Architect
7 4 (4.26%) Lead
7 4 (4.26%) Network Engineer
7 4 (4.26%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (4.26%) Senior Linux Engineer
7 4 (4.26%) Senior Technical Engineer
7 4 (4.26%) Technical Engineer
8 3 (3.19%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (8.51%) Middleware
2 5 (5.32%) OpenTelemetry
2 5 (5.32%) RESTful
3 4 (4.26%) pytest
4 3 (3.19%) AngularJS
4 3 (3.19%) CSS
4 3 (3.19%) Flask
4 3 (3.19%) HTML
4 3 (3.19%) Kafka
4 3 (3.19%) LDAP
4 3 (3.19%) REST
4 3 (3.19%) SAML
4 3 (3.19%) Web Services
5 2 (2.13%) gRPC
5 2 (2.13%) JWT
6 1 (1.06%) Lambda Expressions
6 1 (1.06%) LAPP Stack
6 1 (1.06%) PySpark
6 1 (1.06%) Spring Boot
6 1 (1.06%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 19 (20.21%) Linux Command Line
2 9 (9.57%) Data Protection Act
3 6 (6.38%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (5.32%) Cloud Native
4 5 (5.32%) Data Centre
5 4 (4.26%) Replication
6 3 (3.19%) Driving Licence
6 3 (3.19%) Mainframe
6 3 (3.19%) Robotics
7 2 (2.13%) Enterprise Storage
7 2 (2.13%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.06%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (1.06%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (1.06%) EMC VMAX
8 1 (1.06%) Fat Client
8 1 (1.06%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.06%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.06%) Thin Client
8 1 (1.06%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 48 (51.06%) Windows
2 29 (30.85%) Windows Server
3 20 (21.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 17 (18.09%) Unix
5 6 (6.38%) Solaris
6 4 (4.26%) AIX
7 3 (3.19%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8 2 (2.13%) CentOS
8 2 (2.13%) HPUX
8 2 (2.13%) Ubuntu
9 1 (1.06%) Amazon Linux
9 1 (1.06%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (1.06%) SUSE
9 1 (1.06%) Windows 10
9 1 (1.06%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (1.06%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (39.36%) Agile
1 37 (39.36%) Microservices
2 33 (35.11%) Problem-Solving
3 29 (30.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 23 (24.47%) CI/CD
5 21 (22.34%) DevOps
6 20 (21.28%) Migration
7 17 (18.09%) Security Management
8 16 (17.02%) SOA
9 15 (15.96%) Server Management
10 14 (14.89%) Containerisation
11 10 (10.64%) Data Protection
11 10 (10.64%) Roadmaps
12 8 (8.51%) High Availability
12 8 (8.51%) Technology Roadmap
13 7 (7.45%) Configuration Management
13 7 (7.45%) Platform Engineering
13 7 (7.45%) The Twelve-Factor App
14 6 (6.38%) Deployment Automation
14 6 (6.38%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 34 (36.17%) Bash
2 27 (28.72%) Python
3 24 (25.53%) PowerShell
3 24 (25.53%) SQL
4 18 (19.15%) Perl
4 18 (19.15%) PL/SQL
5 10 (10.64%) JavaScript
6 8 (8.51%) Shell Script
7 4 (4.26%) Groovy
7 4 (4.26%) Java
8 2 (2.13%) ActionScript
8 2 (2.13%) ActionScript 2.0
9 1 (1.06%) Korn
9 1 (1.06%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 23 (24.47%) Security Cleared
2 20 (21.28%) Cisco Certification
3 19 (20.21%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.19%) IBM Certification
5 2 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.13%) Degree
6 1 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.06%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.26%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.13%) QA
3 1 (1.06%) SLA
System Software
1 30 (31.91%) Active Directory
2 13 (13.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (12.77%) Docker
4 6 (6.38%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 6 (6.38%) VMware NSX
5 5 (5.32%) vSphere
6 3 (3.19%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (2.13%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (1.06%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 1 (1.06%) Hyper-V
8 1 (1.06%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 28 (29.79%) Kubernetes
2 18 (19.15%) Ansible
3 10 (10.64%) Grafana
3 10 (10.64%) Terraform
4 9 (9.57%) Puppet
5 5 (5.32%) Control-M
5 5 (5.32%) Prometheus
5 5 (5.32%) vCenter Server
5 5 (5.32%) vRealize
6 3 (3.19%) Istio
6 3 (3.19%) Kiali
7 2 (2.13%) FortiGate
7 2 (2.13%) Progress Chef
7 2 (2.13%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.06%) Data Guard
8 1 (1.06%) Nagios
8 1 (1.06%) NetApp OnCommand
8 1 (1.06%) NetBackup
8 1 (1.06%) SCCM
8 1 (1.06%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 24 (25.53%) Oracle
2 21 (22.34%) Cisco
3 18 (19.15%) Red Hat
4 14 (14.89%) VMware
5 11 (11.70%) Splunk
6 6 (6.38%) IBM
6 6 (6.38%) Microsoft
7 5 (5.32%) MuleSoft
7 5 (5.32%) Veritas
8 4 (4.26%) AppDynamics
8 4 (4.26%) Zscaler
9 3 (3.19%) Commvault
9 3 (3.19%) xMatters
10 2 (2.13%) ForgeRock
10 2 (2.13%) IBM Sterling
10 2 (2.13%) NetApp
10 2 (2.13%) Ribbon
10 2 (2.13%) Sun
10 2 (2.13%) Unisys
10 2 (2.13%) Veeam