Linux Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Linux
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Linux skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 36 44
Rank change year-on-year +12 +8 -3
Contract jobs citing Linux 63 24 24
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 7.28% 4.36% 3.20%
As % of the Operating Systems category 58.33% 36.36% 32.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 9 16
10th Percentile £413 £340 £308
25th Percentile £468 £380 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £615 £438
Median % change year-on-year -14.63% +40.57% -20.45%
75th Percentile £606 £689 £577
90th Percentile £865 £695 £913
West Midlands median daily rate £525 £537 £438
% change year-on-year -2.23% +22.74% -18.98%

All Operating Systems
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 108 66 74
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 12.49% 11.98% 9.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 43 55
10th Percentile £141 £174 £189
25th Percentile £241 £190 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £325 £400
Median % change year-on-year +46.15% -18.75% +23.08%
75th Percentile £538 £599 £469
90th Percentile £619 £700 £560
West Midlands median daily rate £445 £435 £400
% change year-on-year +2.39% +8.65% -19.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - £12.15 -
25th Percentile - £13.21 £13.89
Median hourly rate £16.09 £14.98 £14.59
Median % change year-on-year +7.45% +2.64% -8.73%
75th Percentile - £16.74 £15.30
90th Percentile - £17.80 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £19.84 £18.13 £22.50
% change year-on-year +9.45% -19.42% +32.86%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Linux relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Linux job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Linux
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Linux.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Linux

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in Birmingham over the 6 months to 27 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in Birmingham

Linux
Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Linux.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Linux

Linux
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (9.52%) Confluence
2 2 (3.17%) nginx
2 2 (3.17%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.59%) Apache
3 1 (1.59%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (3.17%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (1.59%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 21 (33.33%) AWS
2 15 (23.81%) GCP
3 14 (22.22%) Serverless
4 11 (17.46%) AWS KMS
5 10 (15.87%) Azure
6 7 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 7 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
6 7 (11.11%) Amazon S3
7 6 (9.52%) Route 53
8 4 (6.35%) Amazon SQS
9 3 (4.76%) Amazon ELB
9 3 (4.76%) GitHub
9 3 (4.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (3.17%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (3.17%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (3.17%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (3.17%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (3.17%) Microsoft 365
11 1 (1.59%) Amazon Glacier
11 1 (1.59%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (11.11%) SMTP
2 4 (6.35%) DKIM
2 4 (6.35%) DMARC
2 4 (6.35%) Firewall
3 3 (4.76%) DNS
3 3 (4.76%) FTP
3 3 (4.76%) HTTP
3 3 (4.76%) SSH
4 2 (3.17%) IMAP
4 2 (3.17%) OpenLDAP
4 2 (3.17%) Wireless
5 1 (1.59%) NAS
5 1 (1.59%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (23.81%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (22.22%) Elasticsearch
2 14 (22.22%) NoSQL
3 7 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (9.52%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (6.35%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.59%) SAP HANA
6 1 (1.59%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 24 (38.10%) Jenkins
2 15 (23.81%) GitLab
3 11 (17.46%) Liquibase
4 9 (14.29%) Git
5 8 (12.70%) JIRA
6 4 (6.35%) DbUnit
6 4 (6.35%) jMock
6 4 (6.35%) JUnit
6 4 (6.35%) Maven
6 4 (6.35%) Mockito
6 4 (6.35%) SonarQube
7 3 (4.76%) Vagrant
8 2 (3.17%) Bitbucket Server
8 2 (3.17%) CircleCI
General
1 38 (60.32%) Social Skills
2 15 (23.81%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (20.63%) Finance
4 12 (19.05%) Public Sector
5 11 (17.46%) Banking
6 10 (15.87%) Financial Institution
7 2 (3.17%) Manufacturing
7 2 (3.17%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (3.17%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (3.17%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.59%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 14 (22.22%) Site Engineer
1 14 (22.22%) Site Reliability Engineer
1 14 (22.22%) Splunk Engineer
2 12 (19.05%) Cloud Engineer
3 10 (15.87%) GCP Engineer
3 10 (15.87%) Software Engineer
4 9 (14.29%) Architect
4 9 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
5 8 (12.70%) DevOps Engineer
5 8 (12.70%) Senior
5 8 (12.70%) Senior Software Engineer
6 7 (11.11%) Cloud Software Engineer
7 6 (9.52%) Developer
8 5 (7.94%) Analyst
8 5 (7.94%) AWS DevOps
8 5 (7.94%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 5 (7.94%) AWS Software Engineer
8 5 (7.94%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 5 (7.94%) Senior DevOps
8 5 (7.94%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (49.21%) Elastic Stack
2 19 (30.16%) REST
3 16 (25.40%) RESTful
4 6 (9.52%) LDAP
4 6 (9.52%) Spring
5 4 (6.35%) ActiveMQ
5 4 (6.35%) AngularJS
5 4 (6.35%) Hibernate
5 4 (6.35%) JPA
5 4 (6.35%) Node.js
5 4 (6.35%) PowerMock
5 4 (6.35%) SOAP
5 4 (6.35%) Spring Batch
5 4 (6.35%) Spring Boot
5 4 (6.35%) Spring Cloud
5 4 (6.35%) Spring Integration
5 4 (6.35%) Web Services
6 3 (4.76%) Flash
6 3 (4.76%) Middleware
7 2 (3.17%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 16 (25.40%) Distributed Systems
2 15 (23.81%) Public Cloud
3 14 (22.22%) Management Information System
4 11 (17.46%) Cloud Native
5 7 (11.11%) Replication
6 3 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (4.76%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (4.76%) SCADA
7 2 (3.17%) Derivative
7 2 (3.17%) Onboarding
7 2 (3.17%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.59%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.59%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 19 (30.16%) Unix
2 17 (26.98%) Windows
3 9 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (9.52%) Ubuntu
5 4 (6.35%) CentOS
6 3 (4.76%) Amazon Linux
6 3 (4.76%) VMS
7 2 (3.17%) Debian
7 2 (3.17%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (1.59%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (66.67%) DevOps
2 36 (57.14%) Containerisation
3 28 (44.44%) CI/CD
3 28 (44.44%) Computer Science
4 25 (39.68%) Change Management
5 21 (33.33%) Agile
6 19 (30.16%) Problem-Solving
7 18 (28.57%) Microservices
8 17 (26.98%) Validation
9 16 (25.40%) Infrastructure as Code
10 15 (23.81%) Dashboard Development
10 15 (23.81%) Incident Response
10 15 (23.81%) Migration
10 15 (23.81%) Observability
10 15 (23.81%) Root Cause Analysis
11 14 (22.22%) Cryptography
11 14 (22.22%) Data Modelling
11 14 (22.22%) High Availability
11 14 (22.22%) Knowledge Transfer
11 14 (22.22%) Performance Metrics
Programming Languages
1 47 (74.60%) Python
2 19 (30.16%) Bash
3 17 (26.98%) Go
4 14 (22.22%) SQL
5 11 (17.46%) PowerShell
6 7 (11.11%) Java
7 3 (4.76%) Groovy
8 2 (3.17%) C++
8 2 (3.17%) JavaScript
9 1 (1.59%) Bicep
9 1 (1.59%) Perl
Qualifications
1 30 (47.62%) Degree
2 28 (44.44%) Computer Science Degree
3 20 (31.75%) Security Cleared
4 17 (26.98%) SC Cleared
5 12 (19.05%) Master's Degree
6 6 (9.52%) AWS Certification
7 4 (6.35%) Azure Certification
7 4 (6.35%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (3.17%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (3.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (3.17%) DV Cleared
9 1 (1.59%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (6.35%) NIST
2 2 (3.17%) QA
System Software
1 37 (58.73%) Docker
2 10 (15.87%) Postfix
3 3 (4.76%) DFS Replication
3 3 (4.76%) GPFS
3 3 (4.76%) NFS
4 2 (3.17%) Dovecot
4 2 (3.17%) Embedded Firmware
4 2 (3.17%) Firmware
4 2 (3.17%) Squid
5 1 (1.59%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 33 (52.38%) Kubernetes
2 32 (50.79%) Ansible
3 24 (38.10%) Grafana
4 21 (33.33%) Terraform
5 18 (28.57%) Prometheus
6 14 (22.22%) Kibana
6 14 (22.22%) Puppet
7 2 (3.17%) Argo
7 2 (3.17%) Nessus
7 2 (3.17%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 36 (57.14%) Splunk
2 7 (11.11%) Google
3 6 (9.52%) Jaspersoft
3 6 (9.52%) ServiceNow
4 4 (6.35%) Atlassian
4 4 (6.35%) Microsoft
4 4 (6.35%) Oracle
5 3 (4.76%) CyberArk
5 3 (4.76%) IBM
6 2 (3.17%) Calypso
6 2 (3.17%) Foundry
7 1 (1.59%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.59%) Remedy
7 1 (1.59%) SAP