Senior Linux Engineer Contracts in Yorkshire

Senior Linux Engineer
England > Yorkshire

The median Senior Linux Engineer daily rate in Yorkshire is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 8 June 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Linux Engineer 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.36% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.38% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £425 - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - -
75th Percentile £588 - -
90th Percentile £625 - -
England median daily rate £500 £475 £520
% change year-on-year +5.26% -8.65% -45.26%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Yorkshire. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Yorkshire with a recognized job title 1,045 1,550 2,076
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.23% 90.38% 95.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 659 961 1,401
10th Percentile £254 £250 £225
25th Percentile £369 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -9.52% +9.38%
75th Percentile £548 £575 £613
90th Percentile £613 £650 £700
England median daily rate £514 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.10% -4.55% +3.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 76 30
10th Percentile £14.86 £11.30 £12.00
25th Percentile £17.87 £12.53 £16.75
Median hourly rate £21.24 £17.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.37% -16.67% +13.51%
75th Percentile £22.14 £25.83 £43.38
90th Percentile £29.21 £53.75 £56.78
England median hourly rate £29.57 £38.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -23.21% -14.44% +88.21%

Senior Linux Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Job postings that featured Senior Linux Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Linux Engineer in Yorkshire

Senior Linux Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Linux Engineer in Yorkshire

Senior Linux Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Linux Engineer in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 8 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Linux Engineer in Yorkshire

Senior Linux Engineer
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 Senior Linux Engineer within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 8 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 - 4 £525 - 2
Senior Linux Engineer
England

Senior Linux Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 8 June 2025, Senior Linux Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Yorkshire region featuring Senior Linux Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Linux
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
1 4 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (75.00%) Postman
2 3 (75.00%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
2 3 (75.00%) MuleSoft
2 3 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (75.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (75.00%) Ansible
2 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Git
2 3 (75.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 3 (75.00%) Puppet
2 3 (75.00%) VMware
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) Data Management
2 3 (75.00%) Unix
2 3 (75.00%) AIX
2 3 (75.00%) Solaris
2 3 (75.00%) Python
2 3 (75.00%) TCP/IP
2 3 (75.00%) Red Hat
2 3 (75.00%) Configuration Management
2 3 (75.00%) Firewall
3 2 (50.00%) Problem Management
3 2 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
4 1 (25.00%) Task Automation
4 1 (25.00%) Security Hardening
4 1 (25.00%) API Integration
4 1 (25.00%) Data Migration

Senior Linux Engineer Skill Set
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:

Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) Firewall
1 3 (75.00%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Git
1 3 (75.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (75.00%) Postman
General
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
1 4 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (75.00%) AIX
2 3 (75.00%) Solaris
2 3 (75.00%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
2 3 (75.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) Configuration Management
1 3 (75.00%) Data Management
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Problem Management
2 2 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
3 1 (25.00%) API Integration
3 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (25.00%) Data Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Process Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Security Hardening
3 1 (25.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
1 3 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Ansible
1 3 (75.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) MuleSoft
1 3 (75.00%) Red Hat
1 3 (75.00%) VMware