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

6 months to
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 15 51
Rank change year-on-year -1 +36 -4
Contract jobs citing Linux 71 58 16
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 8.99% 9.08% 2.20%
As % of the Operating Systems category 60.68% 56.31% 23.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 35 13
10th Percentile £406 £415 £295
25th Percentile £468 £438 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £438
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +31.43% -20.45%
75th Percentile £606 £691 £750
90th Percentile £633 £764 £965
West Midlands median daily rate £525 £551 £438
% change year-on-year -4.72% +25.94% -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 117 103 68
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 14.81% 16.12% 9.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 71 55
10th Percentile £150 £190 £188
25th Percentile £213 £250 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £426 £400
Median % change year-on-year +11.50% +6.50% +23.08%
75th Percentile £538 £675 £469
90th Percentile £619 £725 £564
West Midlands median daily rate £448 £443 £400
% change year-on-year +1.23% +10.63% -19.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £11.44 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £21.46 £18.57 £22.50
% change year-on-year +15.59% -17.49% +29.85%

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 January 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 12 (16.90%) Confluence
2 7 (9.86%) nginx
3 5 (7.04%) Apache
4 4 (5.63%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (5.63%) Apache Spark
5 2 (2.82%) OpenStack
6 1 (1.41%) WebLogic
Applications
1 7 (9.86%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (1.41%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 24 (33.80%) AWS
2 15 (21.13%) AWS KMS
3 14 (19.72%) GCP
3 14 (19.72%) Serverless
4 12 (16.90%) Azure
5 11 (15.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 11 (15.49%) Amazon EC2
5 11 (15.49%) Amazon ELB
5 11 (15.49%) Amazon S3
5 11 (15.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 7 (9.86%) Amazon ECS
6 7 (9.86%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (9.86%) Route 53
7 5 (7.04%) GitHub
8 4 (5.63%) Amazon Glacier
8 4 (5.63%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (2.82%) Azure Sentinel
10 1 (1.41%) IaaS
10 1 (1.41%) PaaS
10 1 (1.41%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (21.13%) SMTP
2 12 (16.90%) Firewall
3 11 (15.49%) DNS
3 11 (15.49%) FTP
3 11 (15.49%) HTTP
3 11 (15.49%) SSH
4 7 (9.86%) IMAP
4 7 (9.86%) OpenLDAP
5 4 (5.63%) DKIM
5 4 (5.63%) DMARC
6 2 (2.82%) Wireless
7 1 (1.41%) Internet
7 1 (1.41%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (22.54%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (19.72%) Elasticsearch
2 14 (19.72%) NoSQL
3 11 (15.49%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (9.86%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (5.63%) Apache Hive
5 4 (5.63%) Hadoop
5 4 (5.63%) HBase
6 1 (1.41%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 29 (40.85%) Jenkins
2 16 (22.54%) GitLab
3 14 (19.72%) JIRA
4 13 (18.31%) Git
5 11 (15.49%) Vagrant
6 10 (14.08%) Liquibase
7 2 (2.82%) CircleCI
7 2 (2.82%) Jaeger
General
1 44 (61.97%) Social Skills
2 16 (22.54%) Analytical Skills
2 16 (22.54%) Public Sector
3 12 (16.90%) Finance
4 10 (14.08%) Financial Institution
5 9 (12.68%) Banking
6 7 (9.86%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.82%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.82%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.82%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (23.94%) AWS Engineer
2 14 (19.72%) DevOps Engineer
2 14 (19.72%) Site Engineer
2 14 (19.72%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 14 (19.72%) Splunk Engineer
3 12 (16.90%) AWS DevOps
3 12 (16.90%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 11 (15.49%) Cloud Engineer
4 11 (15.49%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 11 (15.49%) Platform Engineer
5 9 (12.68%) Architect
5 9 (12.68%) GCP Engineer
5 9 (12.68%) Software Engineer
6 7 (9.86%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 7 (9.86%) Senior
6 7 (9.86%) Senior Software Engineer
7 6 (8.45%) Cloud Software Engineer
7 6 (8.45%) DevOps Platform Engineer
8 5 (7.04%) AWS Software Engineer
8 5 (7.04%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (42.25%) Elastic Stack
2 14 (19.72%) REST
2 14 (19.72%) RESTful
3 11 (15.49%) LDAP
4 4 (5.63%) Spark Streaming
5 3 (4.23%) Middleware
6 2 (2.82%) Flash
6 2 (2.82%) Kafka
6 2 (2.82%) OpenTelemetry
6 2 (2.82%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (2.82%) Spring
7 1 (1.41%) .NET
7 1 (1.41%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (21.13%) Management Information System
2 14 (19.72%) Public Cloud
3 13 (18.31%) Replication
4 12 (16.90%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (14.08%) Cloud Native
6 3 (4.23%) Data Centre
6 3 (4.23%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (4.23%) SCADA
7 2 (2.82%) Derivative
7 2 (2.82%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.82%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (2.82%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.82%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.41%) Cyberattack
8 1 (1.41%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (1.41%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 25 (35.21%) Windows
2 18 (25.35%) Unix
3 11 (15.49%) Amazon Linux
3 11 (15.49%) Ubuntu
3 11 (15.49%) VMS
4 9 (12.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (5.63%) CentOS
6 2 (2.82%) Debian
6 2 (2.82%) Embedded Linux
6 2 (2.82%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (66.20%) DevOps
2 33 (46.48%) CI/CD
2 33 (46.48%) Containerisation
3 32 (45.07%) Change Management
4 28 (39.44%) Computer Science
5 20 (28.17%) Problem-Solving
6 17 (23.94%) Agile
6 17 (23.94%) Observability
7 16 (22.54%) Validation
8 15 (21.13%) Dashboard Development
8 15 (21.13%) Data Ingestion
8 15 (21.13%) Incident Response
8 15 (21.13%) Infrastructure as Code
8 15 (21.13%) Migration
9 14 (19.72%) Cryptography
9 14 (19.72%) Knowledge Transfer
9 14 (19.72%) Microservices
9 14 (19.72%) Performance Metrics
9 14 (19.72%) Proactive Monitoring
9 14 (19.72%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 59 (83.10%) Python
2 20 (28.17%) Bash
3 19 (26.76%) PowerShell
4 18 (25.35%) Go
5 17 (23.94%) SQL
6 11 (15.49%) Groovy
7 6 (8.45%) Java
8 5 (7.04%) Shell Script
9 4 (5.63%) Perl
10 3 (4.23%) JavaScript
11 2 (2.82%) C++
12 1 (1.41%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 36 (50.70%) Degree
2 28 (39.44%) Computer Science Degree
3 24 (33.80%) Security Cleared
4 21 (29.58%) SC Cleared
5 12 (16.90%) Master's Degree
6 9 (12.68%) AWS Certification
7 7 (9.86%) Azure Certification
8 4 (5.63%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (2.82%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (2.82%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (2.82%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (5.63%) NIST
2 2 (2.82%) QA
3 1 (1.41%) SLA
System Software
1 42 (59.15%) Docker
2 11 (15.49%) DFS Replication
2 11 (15.49%) Postfix
3 7 (9.86%) Dovecot
3 7 (9.86%) Squid
4 4 (5.63%) Active Directory
4 4 (5.63%) HDFS
5 2 (2.82%) Embedded Firmware
5 2 (2.82%) Firmware
5 2 (2.82%) GPFS
5 2 (2.82%) NFS
Systems Management
1 34 (47.89%) Ansible
2 32 (45.07%) Kubernetes
3 29 (40.85%) Grafana
4 28 (39.44%) Terraform
5 27 (38.03%) Prometheus
6 17 (23.94%) Puppet
7 14 (19.72%) Kibana
8 7 (9.86%) Nessus
8 7 (9.86%) Proxmox
9 4 (5.63%) Hadoop YARN
10 2 (2.82%) Argo
Vendors
1 34 (47.89%) Splunk
2 13 (18.31%) ServiceNow
3 7 (9.86%) Jaspersoft
3 7 (9.86%) Microsoft
4 6 (8.45%) Google
5 3 (4.23%) CyberArk
5 3 (4.23%) Oracle
6 2 (2.82%) Calypso
6 2 (2.82%) Foundry
6 2 (2.82%) IBM
7 1 (1.41%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.41%) VMware