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

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 19 19
Rank change year-on-year -48 0 +12
Contract jobs citing Linux 10 50 58
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 1.09% 8.39% 8.12%
As % of the Operating Systems category 17.24% 51.02% 51.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 33 36
10th Percentile - £400 £381
25th Percentile £413 £463 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -13.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £703 £545 £675
90th Percentile £731 £630 £764
West Midlands median daily rate £470 £500 £570
% change year-on-year -6.00% -12.28% +5.56%

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 58 98 113
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 6.33% 16.44% 15.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 71 70
10th Percentile £163 £120 £190
25th Percentile £203 £162 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £263 £400 £426
Median % change year-on-year -34.38% -6.10% +13.60%
75th Percentile £431 £488 £629
90th Percentile £638 £560 £750
West Midlands median daily rate £459 £448 £449
% change year-on-year +2.57% -0.33% +12.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile - - £12.81
25th Percentile £16.01 - £14.86
Median hourly rate £17.12 - £17.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.41%
75th Percentile £18.23 - £20.56
90th Percentile - - £22.48
West Midlands median hourly rate £63.14 £25.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year +152.54% +31.58% -24.00%

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 17 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 (20.00%) Apache
1 2 (20.00%) CloudStack
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) AWS
1 4 (40.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) GitHub
2 2 (20.00%) IaaS
2 2 (20.00%) OpenShift
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (10.00%) Datadog
3 1 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (10.00%) GitHub Copilot
3 1 (10.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) NAS
1 3 (30.00%) SAN
2 2 (20.00%) Firewall
2 2 (20.00%) Structured Cabling
3 1 (10.00%) SD-WAN
3 1 (10.00%) WAN
3 1 (10.00%) Wireless
3 1 (10.00%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle Exadata
1 1 (10.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Git
1 2 (20.00%) GitLab
2 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (10.00%) Mockito
General
1 1 (10.00%) Banking
1 1 (10.00%) Electronics
1 1 (10.00%) Investment Banking
1 1 (10.00%) Legal
1 1 (10.00%) Military
1 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (30.00%) Senior
2 2 (20.00%) Data Centre Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Project Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Lead
3 1 (10.00%) Project Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Java Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Site Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (20.00%) Terraform
3 1 (10.00%) ActiveMQ
3 1 (10.00%) Django
3 1 (10.00%) Flask
3 1 (10.00%) JAX-RS
3 1 (10.00%) JSON
3 1 (10.00%) Kafka
3 1 (10.00%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 1 (10.00%) REST
3 1 (10.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Data Centre
1 3 (30.00%) Public Cloud
2 2 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (10.00%) IoT
3 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (10.00%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Unix
1 3 (30.00%) Windows
1 3 (30.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (20.00%) Ubuntu
3 1 (10.00%) AIX
3 1 (10.00%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (10.00%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 4 (40.00%) Migration
1 4 (40.00%) Observability
2 3 (30.00%) Agile
2 3 (30.00%) BCP
2 3 (30.00%) Business Continuity
2 3 (30.00%) Business Continuity Planning
2 3 (30.00%) Capacity Planning
2 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (30.00%) Data Protection
2 3 (30.00%) DevOps
2 3 (30.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (30.00%) Server Management
3 2 (20.00%) Data Centre Operations
3 2 (20.00%) High Availability
3 2 (20.00%) Incident Response
3 2 (20.00%) Network Design
3 2 (20.00%) Project Delivery
3 2 (20.00%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) Java
1 2 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (10.00%) Bash
2 1 (10.00%) C
2 1 (10.00%) C++
2 1 (10.00%) Go
2 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (10.00%) Kotlin
2 1 (10.00%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (10.00%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) AWS Certification
2 2 (20.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Azure Certification
2 2 (20.00%) CCNP
2 2 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (20.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (10.00%) CISSP
3 1 (10.00%) Degree
3 1 (10.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) GCIH
3 1 (10.00%) SANS
3 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (20.00%) vSphere
3 1 (10.00%) Docker
3 1 (10.00%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (10.00%) Firmware
3 1 (10.00%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (10.00%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (30.00%) Grafana
2 3 (30.00%) Prometheus
3 2 (20.00%) Ansible
3 2 (20.00%) Check_MK
4 1 (10.00%) Data Guard
4 1 (10.00%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (10.00%) Progress Chef
4 1 (10.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (30.00%) VMware
2 2 (20.00%) Cisco
2 2 (20.00%) Commvault
2 2 (20.00%) Fortinet
2 2 (20.00%) Splunk
2 2 (20.00%) Veeam
3 1 (10.00%) Oracle
3 1 (10.00%) Remedy