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

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 26 53
Rank change year-on-year +4 +27 -9
Contract jobs citing Linux 68 34 20
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 8.11% 5.81% 2.59%
As % of the Operating Systems category 61.82% 43.59% 27.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 15 13
10th Percentile £413 £364 £335
25th Percentile £468 £417 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £575 £438
Median % change year-on-year -8.26% +31.43% -20.45%
75th Percentile £618 £668 £581
90th Percentile £814 £692 £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 110 78 72
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 13.13% 13.33% 9.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 50 54
10th Percentile £143 £186 £188
25th Percentile £316 £207 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £340 £400
Median % change year-on-year +39.71% -15.00% +23.08%
75th Percentile £545 £629 £469
90th Percentile £619 £700 £564
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £425 £400
% change year-on-year +5.88% +6.25% -19.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £13.89
Median hourly rate - £11.44 £14.59
Median % change year-on-year - -21.59% -5.81%
75th Percentile - - £15.30
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £21.46 £18.13 £22.50
% change year-on-year +18.37% -19.42% +32.86%

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 17 February 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 8 (11.76%) Confluence
2 5 (7.35%) Apache
3 4 (5.88%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (5.88%) Apache Spark
4 3 (4.41%) nginx
5 2 (2.94%) OpenStack
6 1 (1.47%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (4.41%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (1.47%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 22 (32.35%) AWS
2 15 (22.06%) GCP
3 14 (20.59%) Serverless
4 12 (17.65%) AWS KMS
5 10 (14.71%) Azure
6 8 (11.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 8 (11.76%) Amazon EC2
6 8 (11.76%) Amazon S3
7 6 (8.82%) Route 53
8 5 (7.35%) Amazon ELB
8 5 (7.35%) GitHub
8 5 (7.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 4 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (4.41%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (4.41%) Amazon SQS
10 3 (4.41%) Microsoft 365
11 2 (2.94%) Amazon Glacier
11 2 (2.94%) Azure Sentinel
12 1 (1.47%) Azure DevOps
12 1 (1.47%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (13.24%) SMTP
2 6 (8.82%) Firewall
3 5 (7.35%) DNS
3 5 (7.35%) FTP
3 5 (7.35%) HTTP
3 5 (7.35%) SSH
4 4 (5.88%) DKIM
4 4 (5.88%) DMARC
5 3 (4.41%) IMAP
5 3 (4.41%) OpenLDAP
6 2 (2.94%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (22.06%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (20.59%) Elasticsearch
2 14 (20.59%) NoSQL
3 8 (11.76%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (8.82%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (5.88%) Apache Hive
5 4 (5.88%) Hadoop
5 4 (5.88%) HBase
6 3 (4.41%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 27 (39.71%) Jenkins
2 17 (25.00%) GitLab
3 11 (16.18%) Liquibase
4 10 (14.71%) Git
4 10 (14.71%) JIRA
5 5 (7.35%) Vagrant
6 3 (4.41%) DbUnit
6 3 (4.41%) jMock
6 3 (4.41%) JUnit
6 3 (4.41%) Maven
6 3 (4.41%) Mockito
6 3 (4.41%) SonarQube
7 2 (2.94%) CircleCI
7 2 (2.94%) Jaeger
8 1 (1.47%) Bitbucket Server
General
1 41 (60.29%) Social Skills
2 16 (23.53%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (19.12%) Finance
3 13 (19.12%) Public Sector
4 10 (14.71%) Banking
4 10 (14.71%) Financial Institution
5 3 (4.41%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.94%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (2.94%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (20.59%) Site Engineer
1 14 (20.59%) Site Reliability Engineer
1 14 (20.59%) Splunk Engineer
2 12 (17.65%) Cloud Engineer
3 11 (16.18%) AWS Engineer
4 10 (14.71%) DevOps Engineer
4 10 (14.71%) GCP Engineer
4 10 (14.71%) Software Engineer
5 9 (13.24%) Architect
6 8 (11.76%) Developer
6 8 (11.76%) Senior
6 8 (11.76%) Senior Software Engineer
7 7 (10.29%) AWS DevOps
7 7 (10.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 7 (10.29%) Cloud Software Engineer
8 5 (7.35%) AWS Software Engineer
8 5 (7.35%) Platform Engineer
8 5 (7.35%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 5 (7.35%) Senior DevOps
8 5 (7.35%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (45.59%) Elastic Stack
2 18 (26.47%) REST
3 15 (22.06%) RESTful
4 7 (10.29%) LDAP
5 5 (7.35%) Spring
6 4 (5.88%) Spark Streaming
7 3 (4.41%) ActiveMQ
7 3 (4.41%) AngularJS
7 3 (4.41%) Flash
7 3 (4.41%) Hibernate
7 3 (4.41%) JPA
7 3 (4.41%) Middleware
7 3 (4.41%) Node.js
7 3 (4.41%) PowerMock
7 3 (4.41%) SOAP
7 3 (4.41%) Spring Batch
7 3 (4.41%) Spring Boot
7 3 (4.41%) Spring Cloud
7 3 (4.41%) Spring Integration
7 3 (4.41%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 15 (22.06%) Distributed Systems
1 15 (22.06%) Public Cloud
2 14 (20.59%) Management Information System
3 11 (16.18%) Cloud Native
4 8 (11.76%) Replication
5 3 (4.41%) Data Centre
5 3 (4.41%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (4.41%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (4.41%) SCADA
6 2 (2.94%) Derivative
6 2 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.94%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.94%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.47%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.47%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 18 (26.47%) Unix
1 18 (26.47%) Windows
2 9 (13.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (10.29%) Ubuntu
4 5 (7.35%) Amazon Linux
4 5 (7.35%) VMS
5 4 (5.88%) CentOS
6 2 (2.94%) Debian
6 2 (2.94%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (1.47%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (66.18%) DevOps
2 37 (54.41%) Containerisation
3 33 (48.53%) CI/CD
4 28 (41.18%) Computer Science
5 27 (39.71%) Change Management
6 20 (29.41%) Agile
6 20 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
7 17 (25.00%) Microservices
7 17 (25.00%) Observability
8 16 (23.53%) Infrastructure as Code
8 16 (23.53%) Validation
9 15 (22.06%) Dashboard Development
9 15 (22.06%) Data Ingestion
9 15 (22.06%) Incident Response
9 15 (22.06%) Migration
10 14 (20.59%) Cryptography
10 14 (20.59%) Knowledge Transfer
10 14 (20.59%) Performance Metrics
10 14 (20.59%) Proactive Monitoring
10 14 (20.59%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 54 (79.41%) Python
2 20 (29.41%) Bash
3 19 (27.94%) Go
4 14 (20.59%) SQL
5 13 (19.12%) PowerShell
6 7 (10.29%) Java
7 5 (7.35%) Groovy
8 4 (5.88%) Shell Script
9 2 (2.94%) C++
9 2 (2.94%) JavaScript
9 2 (2.94%) Perl
10 1 (1.47%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 31 (45.59%) Degree
2 28 (41.18%) Computer Science Degree
3 21 (30.88%) Security Cleared
4 18 (26.47%) SC Cleared
5 12 (17.65%) Master's Degree
6 7 (10.29%) AWS Certification
7 5 (7.35%) Azure Certification
8 4 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (2.94%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (2.94%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (2.94%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (5.88%) NIST
2 2 (2.94%) QA
System Software
1 40 (58.82%) Docker
2 10 (14.71%) Postfix
3 5 (7.35%) DFS Replication
4 4 (5.88%) HDFS
5 3 (4.41%) Dovecot
5 3 (4.41%) GPFS
5 3 (4.41%) NFS
5 3 (4.41%) Squid
6 2 (2.94%) Active Directory
6 2 (2.94%) Embedded Firmware
6 2 (2.94%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 35 (51.47%) Ansible
2 33 (48.53%) Kubernetes
3 27 (39.71%) Grafana
4 23 (33.82%) Terraform
5 22 (32.35%) Prometheus
6 17 (25.00%) Puppet
7 14 (20.59%) Kibana
8 4 (5.88%) Hadoop YARN
9 3 (4.41%) Nessus
9 3 (4.41%) Proxmox
10 2 (2.94%) Argo
Vendors
1 35 (51.47%) Splunk
2 8 (11.76%) ServiceNow
3 7 (10.29%) Google
4 6 (8.82%) Jaspersoft
4 6 (8.82%) Microsoft
5 4 (5.88%) Oracle
6 3 (4.41%) Atlassian
6 3 (4.41%) CyberArk
6 3 (4.41%) IBM
7 2 (2.94%) Calypso
7 2 (2.94%) Foundry
8 1 (1.47%) Dynatrace
8 1 (1.47%) VMware