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 9 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 33 34
Rank change year-on-year -24 +1 0
Contract jobs citing Linux 22 23 30
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 2.34% 4.19% 3.87%
As % of the Operating Systems category 36.07% 30.67% 37.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 18 16
10th Percentile £401 - £308
25th Percentile £413 £463 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% -2.44% -25.45%
75th Percentile £513 £640 £750
90th Percentile £734 £690 £875
West Midlands median daily rate £474 £498 £550
% change year-on-year -4.77% -9.55% -

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 61 75 80
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 6.48% 13.66% 10.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 58 49
10th Percentile £182 £111 £190
25th Percentile £250 £161 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £400 £350
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +14.29% -10.26%
75th Percentile £507 £500 £538
90th Percentile £603 £689 £675
West Midlands median daily rate £459 £401 £439
% change year-on-year +14.52% -8.65% +3.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 4
10th Percentile - - £14.52
25th Percentile - - £15.47
Median hourly rate £16.09 £18.51 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.07% +5.77% +0.06%
75th Percentile - - £20.56
90th Percentile - - £22.48
West Midlands median hourly rate £63.14 £17.83 £22.50
% change year-on-year +254.04% -20.74% +12.50%

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 9 July 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 3 (13.64%) Apache
2 2 (9.09%) CloudStack
2 2 (9.09%) Confluence
3 1 (4.55%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 10 (45.45%) AWS
2 8 (36.36%) Azure
3 4 (18.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 4 (18.18%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (18.18%) Amazon S3
3 4 (18.18%) Amazon SQS
3 4 (18.18%) AWS KMS
3 4 (18.18%) Route 53
4 3 (13.64%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (13.64%) OpenShift
5 2 (9.09%) GitHub
5 2 (9.09%) IaaS
6 1 (4.55%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 1 (4.55%) Datadog
6 1 (4.55%) GCP
6 1 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (4.55%) GitHub Copilot
6 1 (4.55%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (18.18%) NAS
1 4 (18.18%) SAN
2 2 (9.09%) Firewall
2 2 (9.09%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (18.18%) Amazon Aurora
1 4 (18.18%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (18.18%) DynamoDB
1 4 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (13.64%) SAP HANA
3 2 (9.09%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (4.55%) MongoDB
4 1 (4.55%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (27.27%) Jenkins
2 5 (22.73%) Git
2 5 (22.73%) Mockito
3 4 (18.18%) DbUnit
3 4 (18.18%) jMock
3 4 (18.18%) JUnit
3 4 (18.18%) Maven
3 4 (18.18%) SonarQube
4 2 (9.09%) Bitbucket Server
4 2 (9.09%) GitLab
4 2 (9.09%) JIRA
5 1 (4.55%) Liquibase
General
1 4 (18.18%) Public Sector
1 4 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 2 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (9.09%) Banking
2 2 (9.09%) Finance
3 1 (4.55%) Electronics
3 1 (4.55%) Investment Banking
3 1 (4.55%) Legal
Job Titles
1 5 (22.73%) Developer
1 5 (22.73%) Java Developer
2 3 (13.64%) Analyst
2 3 (13.64%) Consultant
2 3 (13.64%) SAP Basis Consultant
2 3 (13.64%) SAP Consultant
2 3 (13.64%) Site Engineer
2 3 (13.64%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Data Centre Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) SC Cleared Java Developer
3 2 (9.09%) Senior
3 2 (9.09%) Splunk Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Storage Analyst
4 1 (4.55%) Banking Analyst
4 1 (4.55%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (4.55%) Infrastructure Manager
4 1 (4.55%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (4.55%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (27.27%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (22.73%) ActiveMQ
2 5 (22.73%) REST
3 4 (18.18%) AngularJS
3 4 (18.18%) Hibernate
3 4 (18.18%) JPA
3 4 (18.18%) Node.js
3 4 (18.18%) PowerMock
3 4 (18.18%) SOAP
3 4 (18.18%) Spring
3 4 (18.18%) Spring Batch
3 4 (18.18%) Spring Boot
3 4 (18.18%) Spring Cloud
3 4 (18.18%) Spring Integration
3 4 (18.18%) Web Services
4 3 (13.64%) RESTful
4 3 (13.64%) SAP Basis
5 2 (9.09%) Bootstrap
5 2 (9.09%) Flash
6 1 (4.55%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 5 (22.73%) Distributed Systems
1 5 (22.73%) Replication
2 4 (18.18%) Data Centre
3 3 (13.64%) Public Cloud
4 2 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (9.09%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (9.09%) Management Information System
5 1 (4.55%) Cloud Native
5 1 (4.55%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (4.55%) IoT
5 1 (4.55%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (36.36%) Unix
2 5 (22.73%) Windows
3 3 (13.64%) Windows Server
4 2 (9.09%) Ubuntu
5 1 (4.55%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (4.55%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (50.00%) DevOps
2 9 (40.91%) Containerisation
3 8 (36.36%) Agile
4 7 (31.82%) CI/CD
5 6 (27.27%) Business Continuity
5 6 (27.27%) Observability
6 5 (22.73%) Microservices
6 5 (22.73%) Migration
6 5 (22.73%) Project Delivery
6 5 (22.73%) TDD
7 4 (18.18%) BPMN
7 4 (18.18%) ITIL
7 4 (18.18%) Performance Tuning
7 4 (18.18%) Root Cause Analysis
7 4 (18.18%) Scrum
8 3 (13.64%) BCP
8 3 (13.64%) Business Continuity Planning
8 3 (13.64%) Change Management
8 3 (13.64%) Disaster Recovery
8 3 (13.64%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 6 (27.27%) Java
2 4 (18.18%) Python
2 4 (18.18%) SQL
3 3 (13.64%) Bash
4 2 (9.09%) Go
5 1 (4.55%) C
5 1 (4.55%) C++
5 1 (4.55%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.55%) Kotlin
5 1 (4.55%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 5 (22.73%) SC Cleared
3 4 (18.18%) AWS Certification
3 4 (18.18%) Azure Certification
4 2 (9.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (9.09%) CCNP
4 2 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (9.09%) Degree
4 2 (9.09%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (4.55%) DV Cleared
5 1 (4.55%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 8 (36.36%) Docker
2 5 (22.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (18.18%) Postfix
4 3 (13.64%) vSphere
5 2 (9.09%) GPFS
5 2 (9.09%) NFS
6 1 (4.55%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (4.55%) Firmware
6 1 (4.55%) KVM
6 1 (4.55%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (4.55%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 8 (36.36%) Grafana
1 8 (36.36%) Kubernetes
2 5 (22.73%) Ansible
3 4 (18.18%) Prometheus
4 3 (13.64%) Puppet
4 3 (13.64%) Terraform
5 2 (9.09%) Check_MK
5 2 (9.09%) Kibana
6 1 (4.55%) Progress Chef
6 1 (4.55%) vRealize
Vendors
1 5 (22.73%) Splunk
1 5 (22.73%) VMware
2 4 (18.18%) Atlassian
2 4 (18.18%) Jaspersoft
3 3 (13.64%) Cisco
3 3 (13.64%) Oracle
3 3 (13.64%) SAP
4 2 (9.09%) Commvault
4 2 (9.09%) Fortinet
4 2 (9.09%) IBM
4 2 (9.09%) Microsoft
4 2 (9.09%) ServiceNow
4 2 (9.09%) Veeam
5 1 (4.55%) Dynatrace
5 1 (4.55%) Google
5 1 (4.55%) Red Hat
5 1 (4.55%) Remedy