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 15 November 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 47 54
Rank change year-on-year +31 +7 -5
Contract jobs citing Linux 59 27 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 8.25% 3.37% 3.10%
As % of the Operating Systems category 50.00% 28.72% 21.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 12 29
10th Percentile £387 £330 £455
25th Percentile £426 £384 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +22.22%
75th Percentile £675 £731 £625
90th Percentile £765 £750 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £573 £480 £538
% change year-on-year +19.27% -10.78% +13.26%

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 118 94 182
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 16.50% 11.74% 14.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 67 135
10th Percentile £190 £179 £160
25th Percentile £213 £224 £210
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £409 £400 £350
Median % change year-on-year +2.25% +14.29% -
75th Percentile £575 £469 £550
90th Percentile £723 £600 £615
West Midlands median daily rate £463 £375 £495
% change year-on-year +23.33% -24.24% +16.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile £12.42 - £12.13
25th Percentile £13.89 - £12.33
Median hourly rate £16.97 £17.00 £12.66
Median % change year-on-year -0.18% +34.28% -18.32%
75th Percentile £20.67 - £14.99
90th Percentile £22.52 - £16.39
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.50 £18.11 £16.43
% change year-on-year +24.24% +10.23% +2.69%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in Birmingham over the 6 months to 15 November 2024.

Daily rate histogram 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

Linux
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 (1.69%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 12 (20.34%) BlazeMeter
2 5 (8.47%) AWS
2 5 (8.47%) Azure
3 1 (1.69%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (1.69%) Amazon ELB
3 1 (1.69%) Amazon S3
3 1 (1.69%) AWS KMS
3 1 (1.69%) Azure AKS
3 1 (1.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (1.69%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (1.69%) GCP
3 1 (1.69%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (1.69%) Route 53
3 1 (1.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (22.03%) VoIP
2 11 (18.64%) DHCP
2 11 (18.64%) DNS
3 10 (16.95%) RTP
4 9 (15.25%) INAP
5 6 (10.17%) Intelligent Network
6 3 (5.08%) Firewall
6 3 (5.08%) HTTP
7 2 (3.39%) TCP/IP
8 1 (1.69%) 5G
8 1 (1.69%) Asterisk PBX
8 1 (1.69%) LAN
8 1 (1.69%) MPLS
8 1 (1.69%) Network Security
8 1 (1.69%) RTCP
8 1 (1.69%) Softphone
8 1 (1.69%) VLAN
8 1 (1.69%) VPN
8 1 (1.69%) WAN
8 1 (1.69%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (57.63%) MongoDB
2 33 (55.93%) DB2
3 31 (52.54%) Apache Cassandra
4 5 (8.47%) MySQL
5 3 (5.08%) Informix
5 3 (5.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (3.39%) Oracle Database
6 2 (3.39%) SQL Server
6 2 (3.39%) Sybase IQ
7 1 (1.69%) Big Data
7 1 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 34 (57.63%) Git
2 12 (20.34%) JMeter
2 12 (20.34%) Locust
2 12 (20.34%) Robot Framework
2 12 (20.34%) Selenium
2 12 (20.34%) TestCafe
3 3 (5.08%) C++Builder
3 3 (5.08%) GitLab
3 3 (5.08%) JIRA
3 3 (5.08%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (1.69%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.69%) SonarQube
General
1 16 (27.12%) Banking
2 14 (23.73%) Investment Banking
3 12 (20.34%) Finance
3 12 (20.34%) Telecoms
4 3 (5.08%) French Language
4 3 (5.08%) German Language
4 3 (5.08%) Spanish Language
5 2 (3.39%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.39%) Social Skills
6 1 (1.69%) Law
6 1 (1.69%) Legal
Job Titles
1 34 (57.63%) Developer
2 22 (37.29%) Java Developer
3 7 (11.86%) Engineering Specialist
3 7 (11.86%) JavaScript Developer
3 7 (11.86%) QA Specialist
4 5 (8.47%) C++ Developer
5 4 (6.78%) Angular Developer
5 4 (6.78%) Full-Stack Developer
5 4 (6.78%) Lead
5 4 (6.78%) React Developer
5 4 (6.78%) Telecoms Engineer
5 4 (6.78%) Telecoms Test Engineer
5 4 (6.78%) Test Engineer
6 3 (5.08%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 2 (3.39%) Architect
7 2 (3.39%) C# Developer
7 2 (3.39%) DevOps Engineer
8 1 (1.69%) Analyst
8 1 (1.69%) Network Engineer
8 1 (1.69%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (49.15%) React
2 27 (45.76%) AngularJS
2 27 (45.76%) Dropwizard
2 27 (45.76%) Hibernate
2 27 (45.76%) Spring
3 9 (15.25%) LDAP
3 9 (15.25%) Taurus
4 5 (8.47%) .NET
5 3 (5.08%) RESTful
5 3 (5.08%) Web Services
6 1 (1.69%) Django
6 1 (1.69%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (1.69%) Flask
6 1 (1.69%) Pyramid
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.78%) Data Protection Act
1 4 (6.78%) Onboarding
2 3 (5.08%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.69%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (1.69%) HP Storage
3 1 (1.69%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 35 (59.32%) Unix
2 17 (28.81%) Windows
3 11 (18.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (15.25%) CentOS
4 9 (15.25%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.69%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (79.66%) CI/CD
2 31 (52.54%) Continuous Deployment
2 31 (52.54%) Continuous Integration
3 29 (49.15%) OO
3 29 (49.15%) OOD
4 27 (45.76%) Web Development
5 12 (20.34%) Performance Testing
5 12 (20.34%) Test Automation
6 10 (16.95%) Full-Stack Development
7 9 (15.25%) Build Automation
7 9 (15.25%) ITIL
8 4 (6.78%) Agile
8 4 (6.78%) Data Protection
8 4 (6.78%) Microservices
9 3 (5.08%) Continuous Delivery
9 3 (5.08%) DevOps
9 3 (5.08%) ETL
9 3 (5.08%) Robotic Process Automation
9 3 (5.08%) Scrum
10 2 (3.39%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 27 (45.76%) Java
2 20 (33.90%) Python
3 9 (15.25%) JavaScript
4 6 (10.17%) Bash
5 5 (8.47%) C#
5 5 (8.47%) C++
6 2 (3.39%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.69%) C
7 1 (1.69%) Embedded C
7 1 (1.69%) Korn
7 1 (1.69%) Perl
7 1 (1.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (13.56%) Degree
2 6 (10.17%) Security Cleared
3 5 (8.47%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.69%) CISSP
4 1 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.69%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (13.56%) QA
2 1 (1.69%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (1.69%) GDPR
2 1 (1.69%) HIPAA
2 1 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.69%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (3.39%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.69%) Docker
2 1 (1.69%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.69%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (25.42%) Terraform
2 14 (23.73%) Ansible
3 2 (3.39%) Grafana
3 2 (3.39%) Kubernetes
3 2 (3.39%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.69%) Cisco CUCM
4 1 (1.69%) Puppet
4 1 (1.69%) Rancher
Vendors
1 33 (55.93%) Oracle
2 9 (15.25%) Dialogic
2 9 (15.25%) Metaswitch
2 9 (15.25%) Virgin Media
3 3 (5.08%) Cisco
4 2 (3.39%) Microsoft
4 2 (3.39%) Sybase
4 2 (3.39%) VMware
5 1 (1.69%) Aruba
5 1 (1.69%) Avaya
5 1 (1.69%) Black Duck
5 1 (1.69%) Checkmarx
5 1 (1.69%) Dell
5 1 (1.69%) HP
5 1 (1.69%) Progress
5 1 (1.69%) Red Hat