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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 43 33
Rank change year-on-year 0 -10 -4
Contract jobs citing Linux 34 9 31
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 3.69% 1.75% 4.22%
As % of the Operating Systems category 47.89% 16.36% 42.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 6 18
10th Percentile £400 £541 £315
25th Percentile £413 £607 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £688 £481
Median % change year-on-year -32.80% +43.01% -23.91%
75th Percentile £594 £693 £750
90th Percentile £619 £697 £878
West Midlands median daily rate £480 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -8.57% -4.55% +1.85%

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 71 55 73
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 7.71% 10.68% 9.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 42 49
10th Percentile £171 £106 £190
25th Percentile £250 £150 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £263 £400
Median % change year-on-year +61.90% -34.38% -5.88%
75th Percentile £490 £500 £521
90th Percentile £597 £693 £750
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £375 £423
% change year-on-year +20.00% -11.24% -11.05%
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 £18.13 £22.50
% change year-on-year +248.23% -19.42% +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 21 May 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 (8.82%) Apache
1 3 (8.82%) Confluence
2 2 (5.88%) CloudStack
3 1 (2.94%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 10 (29.41%) Azure
2 9 (26.47%) AWS
3 4 (11.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 4 (11.76%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (11.76%) Amazon S3
3 4 (11.76%) Amazon SQS
3 4 (11.76%) AWS KMS
3 4 (11.76%) Route 53
4 3 (8.82%) IaaS
5 2 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (5.88%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (5.88%) OpenShift
6 1 (2.94%) GCP
6 1 (2.94%) GitHub
6 1 (2.94%) PaaS
6 1 (2.94%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.76%) NAS
1 4 (11.76%) SAN
2 2 (5.88%) Firewall
2 2 (5.88%) Structured Cabling
3 1 (2.94%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (23.53%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (14.71%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (11.76%) Amazon Aurora
3 4 (11.76%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (11.76%) DynamoDB
4 3 (8.82%) SAP HANA
5 1 (2.94%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (14.71%) Git
1 5 (14.71%) Jenkins
2 4 (11.76%) DbUnit
2 4 (11.76%) jMock
2 4 (11.76%) JUnit
2 4 (11.76%) Maven
2 4 (11.76%) Mockito
2 4 (11.76%) SonarQube
3 3 (8.82%) JIRA
4 2 (5.88%) Bitbucket Server
5 1 (2.94%) GitLab
5 1 (2.94%) Liquibase
General
1 11 (32.35%) Social Skills
2 9 (26.47%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (17.65%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.88%) Banking
4 2 (5.88%) Finance
5 1 (2.94%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.94%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 8 (23.53%) Site Engineer
1 8 (23.53%) Site Reliability Engineer
1 8 (23.53%) Splunk Engineer
2 6 (17.65%) Architect
3 5 (14.71%) Analyst
4 4 (11.76%) Developer
4 4 (11.76%) Java Developer
4 4 (11.76%) Storage Analyst
5 3 (8.82%) Consultant
5 3 (8.82%) SAP Basis Consultant
5 3 (8.82%) SAP Consultant
6 2 (5.88%) CyberArk Architect
6 2 (5.88%) Data Centre Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 2 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 1 (2.94%) DevSecOps Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) Investment Banking Systems Analyst
7 1 (2.94%) Tableau Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (32.35%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (14.71%) REST
3 4 (11.76%) ActiveMQ
3 4 (11.76%) AngularJS
3 4 (11.76%) Flash
3 4 (11.76%) Hibernate
3 4 (11.76%) JPA
3 4 (11.76%) Node.js
3 4 (11.76%) PowerMock
3 4 (11.76%) SOAP
3 4 (11.76%) Spring
3 4 (11.76%) Spring Batch
3 4 (11.76%) Spring Boot
3 4 (11.76%) Spring Cloud
3 4 (11.76%) Spring Integration
3 4 (11.76%) Web Services
4 3 (8.82%) RESTful
4 3 (8.82%) SAP Basis
5 2 (5.88%) Bootstrap
5 2 (5.88%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 8 (23.53%) Management Information System
2 7 (20.59%) Replication
3 4 (11.76%) Data Centre
3 4 (11.76%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (11.76%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (8.82%) Public Cloud
5 2 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (2.94%) Cloud Native
6 1 (2.94%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 15 (44.12%) Unix
2 11 (32.35%) Windows
3 3 (8.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (8.82%) Windows Server
4 2 (5.88%) Ubuntu
5 1 (2.94%) Debian
5 1 (2.94%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (55.88%) DevOps
2 15 (44.12%) Containerisation
3 12 (35.29%) Migration
4 11 (32.35%) Observability
5 10 (29.41%) Validation
6 9 (26.47%) Change Management
6 9 (26.47%) Dashboard Development
7 8 (23.53%) CI/CD
7 8 (23.53%) Computer Science
7 8 (23.53%) Data Ingestion
7 8 (23.53%) Data Modelling
7 8 (23.53%) Incident Response
7 8 (23.53%) Knowledge Transfer
7 8 (23.53%) Performance Metrics
7 8 (23.53%) Proactive Monitoring
7 8 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (23.53%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 7 (20.59%) Agile
9 5 (14.71%) Business Continuity
9 5 (14.71%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 14 (41.18%) Python
2 9 (26.47%) Bash
3 5 (14.71%) Java
3 5 (14.71%) PowerShell
3 5 (14.71%) SQL
4 1 (2.94%) Bicep
4 1 (2.94%) C++
4 1 (2.94%) Go
4 1 (2.94%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.94%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 10 (29.41%) Security Cleared
2 9 (26.47%) SC Cleared
3 8 (23.53%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (23.53%) Degree
4 4 (11.76%) AWS Certification
4 4 (11.76%) Azure Certification
5 3 (8.82%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (5.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (5.88%) CCNP
6 2 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (5.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (2.94%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (5.88%) NIST
System Software
1 14 (41.18%) Docker
2 5 (14.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (11.76%) GPFS
3 4 (11.76%) NFS
3 4 (11.76%) Postfix
4 3 (8.82%) vSphere
5 1 (2.94%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (2.94%) Firmware
5 1 (2.94%) KVM
5 1 (2.94%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (2.94%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 14 (41.18%) Kubernetes
2 10 (29.41%) Ansible
3 8 (23.53%) Kibana
3 8 (23.53%) Puppet
4 7 (20.59%) Grafana
5 3 (8.82%) Prometheus
5 3 (8.82%) Terraform
6 2 (5.88%) Check_MK
7 1 (2.94%) vRealize
Vendors
1 13 (38.24%) Splunk
2 5 (14.71%) Oracle
2 5 (14.71%) VMware
3 4 (11.76%) Atlassian
3 4 (11.76%) IBM
3 4 (11.76%) Jaspersoft
3 4 (11.76%) Microsoft
3 4 (11.76%) ServiceNow
4 3 (8.82%) Cisco
4 3 (8.82%) SAP
5 2 (5.88%) Commvault
5 2 (5.88%) CyberArk
5 2 (5.88%) Fortinet
5 2 (5.88%) Veeam
6 1 (2.94%) Dynatrace
6 1 (2.94%) Google
6 1 (2.94%) Red Hat
6 1 (2.94%) Remedy