Linux Contracts in the Midlands

Linux
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 25 34 38
Rank change year-on-year +9 +4 +9
Contract jobs citing Linux 144 170 267
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 5.16% 5.23% 5.31%
As % of the Operating Systems category 32.14% 31.66% 26.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 98 175
10th Percentile £325 £359 £290
25th Percentile £425 £451 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £495
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% +9.09% +22.98%
75th Percentile £587 £675 £548
90th Percentile £725 £731 £674
England median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 1
10th Percentile - £13.13 -
25th Percentile £67.50 £15.94 £15.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £35.25 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year +98.58% +127.42% -
75th Percentile £72.50 £57.81 £15.75
90th Percentile - £65.13 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £55.23
% change year-on-year - +17.70% +10.45%

All Operating Systems
Midlands

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 the Midlands with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 448 537 1,000
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 16.05% 16.53% 19.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 286 353 664
10th Percentile £150 £160 £133
25th Percentile £200 £228 £198
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £440 £388
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +13.55% +7.04%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £500
90th Percentile £658 £694 £583
England median daily rate £475 £508 £500
% change year-on-year -6.40% +1.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 30 66
10th Percentile £13.20 £11.80 £12.38
25th Percentile £14.27 £13.16 £14.53
Median hourly rate £19.00 £16.82 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.98% -1.07% +13.33%
75th Percentile £23.75 £23.56 £21.82
90th Percentile £24.67 £40.25 £23.88
England median hourly rate £22.50 £42.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -47.06% +97.67% +22.86%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in the Midlands

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Linux in the Midlands

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in the Midlands

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
West Midlands +2 98 £550 - 62
East Midlands +21 45 £503 +4.69% 48
Linux
England

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 5 (3.47%) CMS
1 5 (3.47%) JBoss
2 4 (2.78%) Apache
3 3 (2.08%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.39%) IIS
4 2 (1.39%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.39%) WordPress
5 1 (0.69%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.69%) Confluence
5 1 (0.69%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 2 (1.39%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (0.69%) MFGPRO
1 1 (0.69%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 13 (9.03%) Azure
2 11 (7.64%) AWS
3 6 (4.17%) OpenShift
4 5 (3.47%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (2.78%) Azure Sentinel
6 3 (2.08%) Amazon S3
6 3 (2.08%) Entra ID
7 2 (1.39%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (1.39%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (1.39%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (1.39%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (1.39%) OneDrive
7 2 (1.39%) Serverless
8 1 (0.69%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.69%) Azure AKS
8 1 (0.69%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.69%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 18 (12.50%) SAN
2 17 (11.81%) Intrusion Detection
3 16 (11.11%) DNS
3 16 (11.11%) Network Security
4 14 (9.72%) Fibre Channel
4 14 (9.72%) Firewall
5 12 (8.33%) TCP/IP
5 12 (8.33%) WAN
6 10 (6.94%) DHCP
7 7 (4.86%) LAN
8 5 (3.47%) SD-WAN
9 4 (2.78%) Remote Desktop
10 3 (2.08%) VPN
11 2 (1.39%) iSCSI
11 2 (1.39%) NAS
11 2 (1.39%) Wireless
12 1 (0.69%) InfiniBand
12 1 (0.69%) LTE
12 1 (0.69%) tcpdump
12 1 (0.69%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (13.19%) Elasticsearch
2 16 (11.11%) Big Data
3 9 (6.25%) Relational Database
4 8 (5.56%) SQL Server
5 7 (4.86%) RDBMS
6 2 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.69%) Apache Hive
7 1 (0.69%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.69%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (0.69%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.69%) InterSystems Cache
7 1 (0.69%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.69%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 18 (12.50%) Git
2 7 (4.86%) GitLab
3 6 (4.17%) Jenkins
3 6 (4.17%) JIRA
3 6 (4.17%) TeamCity
4 5 (3.47%) Bitbucket Server
4 5 (3.47%) CA Release Automation
4 5 (3.47%) SonarQube
4 5 (3.47%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.69%) Ant
5 1 (0.69%) Gradle
5 1 (0.69%) IDA Disassembler
5 1 (0.69%) JUnit
5 1 (0.69%) Maven
General
1 24 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 21 (14.58%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (11.11%) Social Skills
4 11 (7.64%) Legal
5 6 (4.17%) Finance
6 3 (2.08%) Automotive
6 3 (2.08%) Banking
6 3 (2.08%) Games
6 3 (2.08%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.69%) Fire and Rescue
8 1 (0.69%) Military
8 1 (0.69%) Police
8 1 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (13.19%) Analyst
2 16 (11.11%) SOC Analyst
3 15 (10.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 12 (8.33%) SIEM Engineer
5 11 (7.64%) Architect
5 11 (7.64%) Support Engineer
6 10 (6.94%) Administrator
6 10 (6.94%) Senior
7 8 (5.56%) Systems Administrator
8 6 (4.17%) Developer
8 6 (4.17%) DevOps Engineer
8 6 (4.17%) Linux Systems Administrator
8 6 (4.17%) Principal Engineer
9 5 (3.47%) 2nd Line Engineer
9 5 (3.47%) Cloud Engineer
9 5 (3.47%) Linux Engineer
9 5 (3.47%) Storage Engineer
9 5 (3.47%) WAN Engineer
10 4 (2.78%) IT Engineer
10 4 (2.78%) VMWare Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (11.11%) Apache NiFi
1 16 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
2 11 (7.64%) YAML
3 5 (3.47%) Spring Boot
4 2 (1.39%) LAMP
4 2 (1.39%) Middleware
4 2 (1.39%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (1.39%) Spring
5 1 (0.69%) .NET
5 1 (0.69%) Guice
5 1 (0.69%) Kafka
5 1 (0.69%) OLE
5 1 (0.69%) OpenMP
Miscellaneous
1 19 (13.19%) Linux Command Line
2 16 (11.11%) Cyber Defence
2 16 (11.11%) Distributed Applications
3 12 (8.33%) Management Information System
4 9 (6.25%) Security Operations Centre
5 7 (4.86%) SCADA
6 6 (4.17%) HP Storage
7 5 (3.47%) Algorithms
7 5 (3.47%) Cyberattack
8 4 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (2.78%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 4 (2.78%) PKI
8 4 (2.78%) Public Cloud
9 3 (2.08%) Cyber Threat
9 3 (2.08%) Data Structures
10 2 (1.39%) Clustering
10 2 (1.39%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 2 (1.39%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (1.39%) Grid Computing
10 2 (1.39%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 92 (63.89%) Windows
2 45 (31.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 27 (18.75%) Unix
4 23 (15.97%) Ubuntu
5 16 (11.11%) Android
5 16 (11.11%) Apple iOS
6 15 (10.42%) Windows Server
7 12 (8.33%) Mac OS X
8 10 (6.94%) AIX
9 9 (6.25%) Solaris
10 5 (3.47%) CentOS
10 5 (3.47%) Debian
11 2 (1.39%) VMS
11 2 (1.39%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (1.39%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.69%) HPUX
12 1 (0.69%) SUSE
12 1 (0.69%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (34.72%) Cybersecurity
2 46 (31.94%) SIEM
3 26 (18.06%) Infrastructure as Code
4 24 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
5 21 (14.58%) Security Operations
6 20 (13.89%) Data Engineering
7 19 (13.19%) DevOps
8 18 (12.50%) Security Architecture
9 17 (11.81%) Information Security
10 16 (11.11%) Actionable Insight
10 16 (11.11%) Data Management
10 16 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 16 (11.11%) Kalman Filter
10 16 (11.11%) Visualisation
11 15 (10.42%) Configuration Management
11 15 (10.42%) Virtual Infrastructure
12 14 (9.72%) Analytics
13 13 (9.03%) Infrastructure Monitoring
13 13 (9.03%) Validation
13 13 (9.03%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 24 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 15 (10.42%) Python
3 10 (6.94%) Bash
4 9 (6.25%) Java
5 8 (5.56%) R
6 7 (4.86%) Perl
6 7 (4.86%) SQL
7 6 (4.17%) C#
7 6 (4.17%) Shell Script
8 3 (2.08%) C
8 3 (2.08%) C++
9 2 (1.39%) Embedded C
9 2 (1.39%) Embedded C++
9 2 (1.39%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.69%) Scala
Qualifications
1 92 (63.89%) Security Cleared
2 54 (37.50%) SC Cleared
3 36 (25.00%) DV Cleared
4 2 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.39%) Degree
4 2 (1.39%) RHCE
5 1 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.69%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (0.69%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (12.50%) NIST
2 17 (11.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (11.11%) Actionable Recommendations
4 14 (9.72%) GDPR
5 11 (7.64%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 11 (7.64%) HIPAA
6 5 (3.47%) ISO 9000
7 2 (1.39%) AUTOSAR
7 2 (1.39%) QA
8 1 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.69%) SLA
System Software
1 27 (18.75%) Active Directory
2 23 (15.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (8.33%) Docker
4 11 (7.64%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (6.25%) iptables
5 9 (6.25%) VMware ESXi
5 9 (6.25%) VMware NSX
6 7 (4.86%) Hyper-V
7 6 (4.17%) vSphere
8 4 (2.78%) VMware Server
9 2 (1.39%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 1 (0.69%) KVM
10 1 (0.69%) Lustre
10 1 (0.69%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.69%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.69%) Snort
10 1 (0.69%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 19 (13.19%) Ansible
2 17 (11.81%) Kibana
2 17 (11.81%) Progress Chef
3 14 (9.72%) Terraform
4 12 (8.33%) SCCM
5 11 (7.64%) logstash
5 11 (7.64%) Puppet
5 11 (7.64%) Salt
6 9 (6.25%) EMC NetWorker
6 9 (6.25%) Kubernetes
6 9 (6.25%) vCenter Server
7 6 (4.17%) HP Data Protector
7 6 (4.17%) NetBackup
7 6 (4.17%) Red Hat Satellite
8 4 (2.78%) SCOM
8 4 (2.78%) SCSM
9 2 (1.39%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.69%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.69%) Oracle RMAN
10 1 (0.69%) SELinux
Vendors
1 52 (36.11%) Red Hat
2 31 (21.53%) VMware
3 24 (16.67%) Microsoft
4 13 (9.03%) Cisco
5 12 (8.33%) Splunk
6 10 (6.94%) EMC
7 9 (6.25%) SaltStack
8 8 (5.56%) Brocade
9 7 (4.86%) HP
9 7 (4.86%) Veeam
10 6 (4.17%) Oracle
10 6 (4.17%) Symantec
11 5 (3.47%) AppDynamics
11 5 (3.47%) Darktrace
11 5 (3.47%) FireEye
11 5 (3.47%) LogRhythm
12 3 (2.08%) Fujitsu
13 2 (1.39%) Aruba
13 2 (1.39%) ProCurve
13 2 (1.39%) Sage