Linux Contracts in South Yorkshire

Linux
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South 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 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 24 20 14
Rank change year-on-year -4 -6 +5
Contract jobs citing Linux 32 31 72
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 7.17% 8.12% 11.13%
As % of the Operating Systems category 39.51% 59.62% 54.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 8 60
10th Percentile £448 £293 £300
25th Percentile £523 £422 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 £600 £513
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% +17.07% +51.85%
75th Percentile £623 £613 £616
90th Percentile £639 £665 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £598 £575 £550
% change year-on-year +3.91% +4.55% +22.22%

All Operating Systems
South 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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 81 52 133
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 18.16% 13.61% 20.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 24 104
10th Percentile £209 £190 £188
25th Percentile £421 £217 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% +5.00% +124.72%
75th Percentile £599 £631 £591
90th Percentile £626 £688 £675
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £450 £388
% change year-on-year +5.56% +16.13% +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 4
10th Percentile £16.28 £18.65 £10.77
25th Percentile £17.86 £18.88 £11.56
Median hourly rate £21.00 £19.50 £14.75
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +32.20% +0.48%
75th Percentile £21.50 £19.88 £18.13
90th Percentile - £19.95 £19.72
Yorkshire median hourly rate £17.50 £20.71 £20.78
% change year-on-year -15.48% -0.36% +19.87%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in South Yorkshire

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Linux in South Yorkshire

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in South Yorkshire

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux in South Yorkshire

Linux
Contract Job Locations in South 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 South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 31 October 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
Sheffield +3 32 £581 -3.13% 7
Linux
Yorkshire

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South 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 8 (25.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (15.63%) MS Visio
2 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (25.00%) Kong
2 4 (12.50%) OCI
3 3 (9.38%) AWS
3 3 (9.38%) GitHub
4 2 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (6.25%) Azure
4 2 (6.25%) GCP
5 1 (3.13%) Amazon S3
5 1 (3.13%) Azure AKS
5 1 (3.13%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.13%) Azure Functions
5 1 (3.13%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (3.13%) Azure Storage
5 1 (3.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (3.13%) Entra ID
5 1 (3.13%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.13%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (25.00%) Firewall
2 4 (12.50%) SAN
3 3 (9.38%) TCP/IP
4 1 (3.13%) DHCP
4 1 (3.13%) DNS
4 1 (3.13%) NAS
4 1 (3.13%) Network Security
4 1 (3.13%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.50%) Oracle Database
2 3 (9.38%) SQL Server
3 2 (6.25%) Big Data
4 1 (3.13%) Data Lake
4 1 (3.13%) MongoDB
4 1 (3.13%) MySQL
4 1 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.13%) Power BI
4 1 (3.13%) RDBMS
4 1 (3.13%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 15 (46.88%) Jenkins
2 9 (28.13%) JIRA
3 8 (25.00%) Git
4 5 (15.63%) Jaeger
4 5 (15.63%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (12.50%) Cucumber
5 4 (12.50%) Newman
5 4 (12.50%) Postman
5 4 (12.50%) SonarQube
5 4 (12.50%) Vagrant
6 2 (6.25%) Maven
7 1 (3.13%) GitLab
7 1 (3.13%) JUnit
General
1 9 (28.13%) Banking
1 9 (28.13%) Social Skills
2 5 (15.63%) Finance
3 2 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.13%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (34.38%) DevOps Engineer
2 10 (31.25%) Platform Engineer
3 5 (15.63%) Architect
4 4 (12.50%) Senior
5 3 (9.38%) Administrator
5 3 (9.38%) Automation Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Senior DevOps
5 3 (9.38%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Senior Platform Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Systems Administrator
5 3 (9.38%) Technical Architect
5 3 (9.38%) Unix Administrator
5 3 (9.38%) Unix Systems Administrator
6 2 (6.25%) Developer
6 2 (6.25%) Infrastructure Architect
7 1 (3.13%) Consultant
7 1 (3.13%) Principal Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Python Developer
7 1 (3.13%) Storage Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Unix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (21.88%) YAML
2 5 (15.63%) FastAPI
2 5 (15.63%) JSON
2 5 (15.63%) Kafka
2 5 (15.63%) OpenTelemetry
3 2 (6.25%) CSS
3 2 (6.25%) HTML
4 1 (3.13%) AngularJS
4 1 (3.13%) CSS3
4 1 (3.13%) Flask
4 1 (3.13%) HTML5
4 1 (3.13%) Middleware
4 1 (3.13%) Node.js
4 1 (3.13%) OAuth
4 1 (3.13%) OAuth2
4 1 (3.13%) React
4 1 (3.13%) REST
4 1 (3.13%) Spring
4 1 (3.13%) Spring Batch
4 1 (3.13%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.50%) Public Cloud
2 2 (6.25%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.13%) Clustering
3 1 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.13%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (3.13%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (3.13%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 13 (40.63%) Unix
2 10 (31.25%) Windows
3 6 (18.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (12.50%) VMS
5 3 (9.38%) AIX
5 3 (9.38%) Solaris
6 1 (3.13%) Android
6 1 (3.13%) Apple iOS
6 1 (3.13%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (3.13%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (46.88%) DevOps
2 13 (40.63%) CI/CD
3 12 (37.50%) Cybersecurity
4 8 (25.00%) Configuration Management
5 7 (21.88%) Observability
6 6 (18.75%) Agile
6 6 (18.75%) Infrastructure Automation
6 6 (18.75%) Platform Engineering
7 5 (15.63%) Open Source
7 5 (15.63%) Test Automation
8 4 (12.50%) API Development
8 4 (12.50%) Business Development
8 4 (12.50%) Conflict Resolution
8 4 (12.50%) Dashboard Development
8 4 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
8 4 (12.50%) Mentoring
8 4 (12.50%) Microservices
8 4 (12.50%) Migration
8 4 (12.50%) Process Improvement
8 4 (12.50%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (50.00%) Python
2 10 (31.25%) SQL
3 8 (25.00%) Shell Script
4 6 (18.75%) Bash
5 4 (12.50%) C
5 4 (12.50%) Groovy
5 4 (12.50%) PHP
5 4 (12.50%) PL/SQL
5 4 (12.50%) Rust
6 3 (9.38%) Korn
6 3 (9.38%) Perl
7 2 (6.25%) Java
8 1 (3.13%) C#
8 1 (3.13%) JavaScript
8 1 (3.13%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (3.13%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (3.13%) CCNA
1 1 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (3.13%) Degree
1 1 (3.13%) MCSE
1 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Certified Master
1 1 (3.13%) SC Cleared
1 1 (3.13%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 13 (40.63%) Docker
2 6 (18.75%) Active Directory
3 4 (12.50%) VirtualBox
3 4 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (9.38%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 3 (9.38%) Veritas Volume Manager
5 1 (3.13%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 18 (56.25%) Ansible
2 14 (43.75%) Kubernetes
3 10 (31.25%) Puppet
4 7 (21.88%) Progress Chef
4 7 (21.88%) Terraform
5 6 (18.75%) Prometheus
6 5 (15.63%) Kiali
7 4 (12.50%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 3 (9.38%) NetBackup
9 1 (3.13%) Grafana
9 1 (3.13%) SCCM
Vendors
1 10 (31.25%) Splunk
2 9 (28.13%) Veritas
3 6 (18.75%) AppDynamics
4 5 (15.63%) VMware
5 4 (12.50%) EMC
5 4 (12.50%) Google
5 4 (12.50%) Oracle
6 3 (9.38%) Hitachi
6 3 (9.38%) MuleSoft
7 2 (6.25%) Red Hat
8 1 (3.13%) Databricks
8 1 (3.13%) Microsoft
8 1 (3.13%) NetApp
8 1 (3.13%) OpenText