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 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 17 43
Rank change year-on-year +2 +26 +8
Contract jobs citing Linux 65 64 33
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 10.08% 8.89% 4.08%
As % of the Operating Systems category 60.75% 54.70% 32.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 35 13
10th Percentile £401 £381 £335
25th Percentile £463 £426 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £538 £669 £731
90th Percentile £627 £764 £750
West Midlands median daily rate £511 £575 £480
% change year-on-year -11.13% +19.79% -9.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate - - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £65.00 - £50.00

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 107 117 101
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 16.59% 16.25% 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 68 68
10th Percentile £124 £190 £180
25th Percentile £200 £250 £226
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £426 £388
Median % change year-on-year +11.63% +9.81% +3.33%
75th Percentile £505 £593 £456
90th Percentile £563 £733 £607
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £450 £375
% change year-on-year +5.56% +20.00% -22.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 2
10th Percentile - £12.35 £20.43
25th Percentile - £13.72 £25.56
Median hourly rate - £16.00 £34.75
Median % change year-on-year - -53.96% +104.80%
75th Percentile - £19.88 £44.56
90th Percentile - £22.20 £50.08
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.23 £21.59 £26.00
% change year-on-year -15.59% -16.96% +58.05%

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 16 October 2025.

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 22 (33.85%) Confluence
2 9 (13.85%) nginx
3 6 (9.23%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (9.23%) Apache Spark
4 4 (6.15%) Apache
Applications
1 9 (13.85%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.54%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 37 (56.92%) AWS
2 28 (43.08%) AWS KMS
3 26 (40.00%) Amazon S3
4 25 (38.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 24 (36.92%) Amazon EC2
6 21 (32.31%) Amazon ELB
6 21 (32.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 15 (23.08%) GCP
8 13 (20.00%) Azure
8 13 (20.00%) Serverless
9 12 (18.46%) Amazon Glacier
9 12 (18.46%) Route 53
10 9 (13.85%) Amazon ECS
10 9 (13.85%) Microsoft 365
11 8 (12.31%) GitHub
12 5 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
13 3 (4.62%) Amazon SQS
14 1 (1.54%) Azure Sentinel
14 1 (1.54%) IaaS
14 1 (1.54%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (35.38%) DNS
1 23 (35.38%) Firewall
1 23 (35.38%) SSH
2 21 (32.31%) FTP
2 21 (32.31%) HTTP
2 21 (32.31%) SMTP
3 9 (13.85%) IMAP
3 9 (13.85%) OpenLDAP
4 4 (6.15%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.54%) Internet
5 1 (1.54%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (36.92%) Amazon RDS
2 23 (35.38%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (23.08%) NoSQL
4 12 (18.46%) Amazon Aurora
5 6 (9.23%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (9.23%) Hadoop
6 4 (6.15%) Apache Hive
6 4 (6.15%) HBase
7 3 (4.62%) DynamoDB
8 2 (3.08%) Big Data
8 2 (3.08%) Delta Lake
8 2 (3.08%) Oracle Database
8 2 (3.08%) Oracle Database 12c
8 2 (3.08%) Parquet
9 1 (1.54%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 44 (67.69%) Jenkins
2 28 (43.08%) Git
3 23 (35.38%) JIRA
4 21 (32.31%) Vagrant
5 13 (20.00%) GitLab
6 9 (13.85%) Liquibase
7 6 (9.23%) SonarQube
8 3 (4.62%) Bitbucket Server
8 3 (4.62%) DbUnit
8 3 (4.62%) jMock
8 3 (4.62%) JUnit
8 3 (4.62%) Maven
8 3 (4.62%) Mockito
8 3 (4.62%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (3.08%) Jaeger
9 2 (3.08%) MLflow
9 2 (3.08%) Poetry
9 2 (3.08%) PyCharm
9 2 (3.08%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 32 (49.23%) Social Skills
2 31 (47.69%) Public Sector
3 14 (21.54%) Finance
4 10 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (13.85%) Financial Institution
5 9 (13.85%) Presentation Skills
6 8 (12.31%) Banking
7 2 (3.08%) Electronics
7 2 (3.08%) Manufacturing
7 2 (3.08%) Marketing
7 2 (3.08%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (3.08%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (35.38%) DevOps Engineer
2 21 (32.31%) AWS Engineer
3 16 (24.62%) AWS DevOps
3 16 (24.62%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 16 (24.62%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 16 (24.62%) Platform Engineer
4 11 (16.92%) Cloud Engineer
5 10 (15.38%) Developer
6 9 (13.85%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 9 (13.85%) GCP Engineer
7 8 (12.31%) DevOps Platform Engineer
7 8 (12.31%) Software Engineer
8 6 (9.23%) Senior
8 6 (9.23%) Senior Software Engineer
8 6 (9.23%) Site Engineer
8 6 (9.23%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 6 (9.23%) Splunk Engineer
9 5 (7.69%) Cloud Software Engineer
10 4 (6.15%) AWS Software Engineer
10 4 (6.15%) GCP Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (33.85%) Elastic Stack
2 16 (24.62%) REST
2 16 (24.62%) RESTful
3 9 (13.85%) LDAP
4 5 (7.69%) Spring
5 4 (6.15%) Spark Streaming
6 3 (4.62%) ActiveMQ
6 3 (4.62%) AngularJS
6 3 (4.62%) Bootstrap
6 3 (4.62%) Flask
6 3 (4.62%) Hibernate
6 3 (4.62%) JPA
6 3 (4.62%) NumPy
6 3 (4.62%) Pandas
6 3 (4.62%) PowerMock
6 3 (4.62%) SOAP
6 3 (4.62%) Spring Batch
6 3 (4.62%) Spring Boot
6 3 (4.62%) Spring Cloud
6 3 (4.62%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 21 (32.31%) Replication
2 14 (21.54%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (21.54%) Public Cloud
3 9 (13.85%) Cloud Native
4 7 (10.77%) Management Information System
5 3 (4.62%) Data Centre
6 2 (3.08%) Derivative
6 2 (3.08%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (3.08%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.54%) Cyberattack
7 1 (1.54%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.54%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 26 (40.00%) Windows
2 21 (32.31%) Amazon Linux
2 21 (32.31%) VMS
3 9 (13.85%) Ubuntu
3 9 (13.85%) Unix
4 3 (4.62%) Mac OS X
5 1 (1.54%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (75.38%) DevOps
2 34 (52.31%) Change Management
2 34 (52.31%) CI/CD
3 28 (43.08%) Containerisation
4 24 (36.92%) Cloud Security
4 24 (36.92%) Configuration Management
5 21 (32.31%) Patch Management
5 21 (32.31%) Platform Engineering
6 19 (29.23%) Agile
6 19 (29.23%) Computer Science
7 14 (21.54%) Infrastructure as Code
7 14 (21.54%) Microservices
8 13 (20.00%) Cryptography
8 13 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
8 13 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
9 12 (18.46%) High Availability
10 11 (16.92%) Continuous Integration
10 11 (16.92%) Performance Tuning
11 10 (15.38%) Cybersecurity
11 10 (15.38%) Data Security
Programming Languages
1 51 (78.46%) Python
2 24 (36.92%) Groovy
2 24 (36.92%) SQL
3 23 (35.38%) PowerShell
4 17 (26.15%) Java
5 15 (23.08%) Go
6 12 (18.46%) Bash
6 12 (18.46%) Perl
7 8 (12.31%) Shell Script
8 2 (3.08%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.54%) Bicep
9 1 (1.54%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 32 (49.23%) Security Cleared
2 30 (46.15%) SC Cleared
3 29 (44.62%) Degree
4 19 (29.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (16.92%) AWS Certification
5 11 (16.92%) Master's Degree
6 9 (13.85%) Azure Certification
7 5 (7.69%) DV Cleared
8 2 (3.08%) OCP
8 2 (3.08%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (1.54%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (1.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (1.54%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.54%) NIST
1 1 (1.54%) SLA
System Software
1 46 (70.77%) Docker
2 21 (32.31%) DFS Replication
3 12 (18.46%) Active Directory
3 12 (18.46%) Postfix
4 9 (13.85%) Dovecot
4 9 (13.85%) Squid
5 4 (6.15%) HDFS
6 2 (3.08%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (1.54%) Snort
Systems Management
1 40 (61.54%) Grafana
1 40 (61.54%) Prometheus
2 35 (53.85%) Terraform
3 25 (38.46%) Ansible
4 23 (35.38%) Kubernetes
5 9 (13.85%) Nessus
5 9 (13.85%) Proxmox
5 9 (13.85%) Puppet
6 6 (9.23%) Kibana
7 4 (6.15%) Hadoop YARN
8 2 (3.08%) Argo
8 2 (3.08%) Data Guard
8 2 (3.08%) Istio
8 2 (3.08%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 2 (3.08%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 22 (33.85%) ServiceNow
2 20 (30.77%) Splunk
3 12 (18.46%) Jaspersoft
4 7 (10.77%) Microsoft
5 6 (9.23%) Google
6 3 (4.62%) Atlassian
6 3 (4.62%) Red Hat
7 2 (3.08%) Calypso
7 2 (3.08%) Cloudera
7 2 (3.08%) Oracle
7 2 (3.08%) SAP
8 1 (1.54%) Commvault
8 1 (1.54%) Veeam
8 1 (1.54%) VMware