Linux Contracts in Birmingham

Linux
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham 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 25 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 37 24
Rank change year-on-year -8 -13 +22
Contract jobs citing Linux 8 28 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 1.50% 3.67% 6.48%
As % of the Operating Systems category 14.04% 38.89% 51.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 18 26
10th Percentile £622 £315 £376
25th Percentile £681 £406 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £689 £438 £575
Median % change year-on-year +57.49% -23.91% +21.05%
75th Percentile £694 £750 £727
90th Percentile £698 £878 £731
West Midlands median daily rate £537 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -2.36% +1.85% +17.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate - - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate - £70.00 £35.25
% change year-on-year - +98.58% +107.35%

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 57 72 115
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 10.69% 9.44% 12.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 52 59
10th Percentile £139 £190 £185
25th Percentile £160 £250 £304
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £230 £394 £400
Median % change year-on-year -41.59% -1.56% -5.88%
75th Percentile £463 £486 £600
90th Percentile £691 £733 £731
West Midlands median daily rate £375 £425 £510
% change year-on-year -11.76% -16.67% +27.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 4
10th Percentile - £14.35 £15.54
25th Percentile - £15.04 £15.98
Median hourly rate £18.51 £16.80 £17.49
Median % change year-on-year +10.21% -3.97% +4.42%
75th Percentile - £18.45 £27.50
90th Percentile - £19.08 £43.25
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.13 £22.50 £17.72
% change year-on-year -19.42% +26.98% +7.39%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Birmingham

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for Linux in Birmingham

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux in Birmingham

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 1 (12.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon S3
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (12.50%) AWS KMS
2 1 (12.50%) Route 53
2 1 (12.50%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) DHCP
1 1 (12.50%) DNS
1 1 (12.50%) Firewall
1 1 (12.50%) HTTP
1 1 (12.50%) OpenLDAP
1 1 (12.50%) SAN
1 1 (12.50%) SSL
1 1 (12.50%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (12.50%) DynamoDB
1 1 (12.50%) MongoDB
1 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
1 1 (12.50%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 5 (62.50%) MSI
2 3 (37.50%) Maven
3 2 (25.00%) Git
3 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (25.00%) JUnit
3 2 (25.00%) Mockito
4 1 (12.50%) Ant
4 1 (12.50%) Bitbucket Server
4 1 (12.50%) Cucumber
4 1 (12.50%) DbUnit
4 1 (12.50%) Gradle
4 1 (12.50%) JIRA
4 1 (12.50%) jMock
4 1 (12.50%) SonarQube
4 1 (12.50%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 6 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (12.50%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Developer
1 2 (25.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Lead
2 1 (12.50%) Lead Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (62.50%) Software Packaging
2 2 (25.00%) RESTful
2 2 (25.00%) Spring
3 1 (12.50%) ActiveMQ
3 1 (12.50%) AngularJS
3 1 (12.50%) Bootstrap
3 1 (12.50%) Hibernate
3 1 (12.50%) J2EE
3 1 (12.50%) JPA
3 1 (12.50%) LDAP
3 1 (12.50%) PowerMock
3 1 (12.50%) REST
3 1 (12.50%) SOAP
3 1 (12.50%) Spring Batch
3 1 (12.50%) Spring Boot
3 1 (12.50%) Spring Cloud
3 1 (12.50%) Spring Integration
3 1 (12.50%) Web Services
3 1 (12.50%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) SCADA
2 1 (12.50%) Algorithms
2 1 (12.50%) Data Structures
2 1 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 6 (75.00%) Windows
2 1 (12.50%) CentOS
2 1 (12.50%) Debian
2 1 (12.50%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Software Delivery
1 5 (62.50%) Software Deployment
1 5 (62.50%) Software Distribution
2 2 (25.00%) Agile
2 2 (25.00%) DevOps
2 2 (25.00%) Risk Management
2 2 (25.00%) TDD
3 1 (12.50%) Asset Management
3 1 (12.50%) BDD
3 1 (12.50%) Capacity Management
3 1 (12.50%) Computer Science
3 1 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (12.50%) Data Extraction
3 1 (12.50%) Data Visualisation
3 1 (12.50%) Kanban
3 1 (12.50%) Open Source
3 1 (12.50%) Scrum
3 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (12.50%) Visualisation
3 1 (12.50%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) Python
2 5 (62.50%) Bash
2 5 (62.50%) PowerShell
3 2 (25.00%) Java
3 2 (25.00%) Shell Script
3 2 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (12.50%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Docker
2 1 (12.50%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 5 (62.50%) Ansible
2 1 (12.50%) Grafana
2 1 (12.50%) Nessus
2 1 (12.50%) Prometheus
2 1 (12.50%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Tanium
2 1 (12.50%) Atlassian
2 1 (12.50%) Foundry
2 1 (12.50%) Jaspersoft
2 1 (12.50%) Sophos
2 1 (12.50%) Sybase
2 1 (12.50%) VMware