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

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 21 16
Rank change year-on-year -41 -5 +13
Contract jobs citing Linux 13 45 53
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 1.43% 7.69% 7.51%
As % of the Operating Systems category 23.21% 52.33% 49.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 31 34
10th Percentile £392 £400 £425
25th Percentile £413 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £475 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.58% -17.39% -4.17%
75th Percentile £633 £505 £713
90th Percentile £719 £594 £764
West Midlands median daily rate £470 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -6.00% -9.09% +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 56 86 107
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 6.16% 14.70% 15.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 62 68
10th Percentile £163 £150 £190
25th Percentile £205 £187 £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £288 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year -28.13% -20.00% +32.45%
75th Percentile £456 £488 £648
90th Percentile £638 £545 £750
West Midlands median daily rate £461 £460 £456
% change year-on-year +0.16% +0.82% +14.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £12.81
25th Percentile - - £14.86
Median hourly rate - - £17.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.41%
75th Percentile - - £20.56
90th Percentile - - £22.48
West Midlands median hourly rate £63.14 £24.66 £19.00
% change year-on-year +156.02% +29.79% -5.00%

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 3 September 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 2 (15.38%) Apache
1 2 (15.38%) CloudStack
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 5 (38.46%) AWS
2 4 (30.77%) Azure
3 3 (23.08%) OpenShift
4 2 (15.38%) GitHub
4 2 (15.38%) IaaS
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (7.69%) Datadog
5 1 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (7.69%) GitHub Copilot
5 1 (7.69%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (23.08%) NAS
1 3 (23.08%) SAN
2 2 (15.38%) Firewall
2 2 (15.38%) Structured Cabling
3 1 (7.69%) SD-WAN
3 1 (7.69%) WAN
3 1 (7.69%) Wireless
3 1 (7.69%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) MongoDB
1 1 (7.69%) Oracle Database
1 1 (7.69%) Oracle Exadata
1 1 (7.69%) RDBMS
1 1 (7.69%) Relational Database
1 1 (7.69%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Git
1 2 (15.38%) GitLab
2 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.69%) Mockito
General
1 1 (7.69%) Banking
1 1 (7.69%) Electronics
1 1 (7.69%) Finance
1 1 (7.69%) Investment Banking
1 1 (7.69%) Legal
1 1 (7.69%) Military
1 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (23.08%) Senior
2 2 (15.38%) Analyst
2 2 (15.38%) Data Centre Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Project Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Lead
3 1 (7.69%) Project Manager
3 1 (7.69%) SAP Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Java Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Site Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) SOC Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Storage Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) Elastic Stack
1 3 (23.08%) Terraform
2 1 (7.69%) ActiveMQ
2 1 (7.69%) Django
2 1 (7.69%) Flash
2 1 (7.69%) Flask
2 1 (7.69%) JAX-RS
2 1 (7.69%) JSON
2 1 (7.69%) Kafka
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 1 (7.69%) REST
2 1 (7.69%) RESTful
2 1 (7.69%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Data Centre
1 3 (23.08%) Public Cloud
2 2 (15.38%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (15.38%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (15.38%) Replication
3 1 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (7.69%) IoT
3 1 (7.69%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (7.69%) Management Information System
3 1 (7.69%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Unix
1 3 (23.08%) Windows
1 3 (23.08%) Windows Server
2 2 (15.38%) Ubuntu
3 1 (7.69%) AIX
3 1 (7.69%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (7.69%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (30.77%) Agile
1 4 (30.77%) Business Continuity
1 4 (30.77%) Data Protection
1 4 (30.77%) DevOps
1 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 4 (30.77%) Migration
1 4 (30.77%) Observability
2 3 (23.08%) BCP
2 3 (23.08%) Business Continuity Planning
2 3 (23.08%) Capacity Planning
2 3 (23.08%) CI/CD
2 3 (23.08%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (23.08%) Project Delivery
2 3 (23.08%) Server Management
3 2 (15.38%) High Availability
3 2 (15.38%) Network Design
3 2 (15.38%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (15.38%) Problem Management
3 2 (15.38%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) Java
1 2 (15.38%) Python
2 1 (7.69%) Bash
2 1 (7.69%) C
2 1 (7.69%) C++
2 1 (7.69%) Go
2 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
2 1 (7.69%) Kotlin
2 1 (7.69%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
2 1 (7.69%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 2 (15.38%) AWS Certification
2 2 (15.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (15.38%) Azure Certification
2 2 (15.38%) CCNP
2 2 (15.38%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (15.38%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (7.69%) CISSP
3 1 (7.69%) Degree
3 1 (7.69%) DV Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) GCIH
3 1 (7.69%) SANS
3 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (38.46%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (23.08%) vSphere
3 1 (7.69%) Docker
3 1 (7.69%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (7.69%) Firmware
3 1 (7.69%) GPFS
3 1 (7.69%) KVM
3 1 (7.69%) NFS
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (7.69%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (7.69%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) Kubernetes
2 3 (23.08%) Ansible
2 3 (23.08%) Grafana
2 3 (23.08%) Prometheus
3 2 (15.38%) Check_MK
4 1 (7.69%) Data Guard
4 1 (7.69%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (7.69%) Progress Chef
4 1 (7.69%) Puppet
4 1 (7.69%) vRealize
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) VMware
2 3 (23.08%) Cisco
2 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
3 2 (15.38%) Commvault
3 2 (15.38%) Fortinet
3 2 (15.38%) Oracle
3 2 (15.38%) Splunk
3 2 (15.38%) Veeam
4 1 (7.69%) IBM
4 1 (7.69%) Red Hat
4 1 (7.69%) Remedy
4 1 (7.69%) SAP
4 1 (7.69%) ServiceNow