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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 20 27
Rank change year-on-year -1 +7 +27
Contract jobs citing Linux 50 59 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 8.47% 8.31% 4.91%
As % of the Operating Systems category 51.02% 52.68% 39.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 36 14
10th Percentile £400 £381 £340
25th Percentile £463 £426 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% -8.33% +14.29%
75th Percentile £545 £675 £731
90th Percentile £630 £764 £750
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £570 £540
% change year-on-year -12.28% +5.56% +4.65%
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 - - £36.25

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 98 112 107
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 16.61% 15.77% 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 69 66
10th Percentile £120 £190 £188
25th Percentile £162 £250 £291
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £426 £388
Median % change year-on-year -6.10% +9.94% -3.13%
75th Percentile £488 £648 £472
90th Percentile £560 £750 £611
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £450 £400
% change year-on-year +0.11% +12.38% -15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 3
10th Percentile - £12.81 £17.25
25th Percentile - £14.86 £17.63
Median hourly rate - £17.50 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year - -5.41% +8.82%
75th Percentile - £20.56 £36.25
90th Percentile - £22.48 £46.75
West Midlands median hourly rate £25.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +31.58% -5.00% +22.25%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings citing Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for Linux 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 15 September 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 and Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 22 (44.00%) Confluence
2 9 (18.00%) nginx
3 6 (12.00%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (12.00%) Apache Spark
4 4 (8.00%) Apache
Applications
1 9 (18.00%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 30 (60.00%) AWS
2 26 (52.00%) Amazon S3
3 25 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 24 (48.00%) Amazon EC2
4 24 (48.00%) AWS KMS
5 21 (42.00%) Amazon ELB
5 21 (42.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 13 (26.00%) Azure
7 12 (24.00%) Amazon Glacier
7 12 (24.00%) Route 53
8 9 (18.00%) Amazon ECS
8 9 (18.00%) Microsoft 365
9 8 (16.00%) GitHub
10 6 (12.00%) GCP
11 5 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (8.00%) Serverless
13 3 (6.00%) Amazon SQS
14 1 (2.00%) Azure Sentinel
14 1 (2.00%) OpenShift
14 1 (2.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (46.00%) DNS
1 23 (46.00%) SSH
2 22 (44.00%) Firewall
3 21 (42.00%) FTP
3 21 (42.00%) HTTP
3 21 (42.00%) SMTP
4 9 (18.00%) IMAP
4 9 (18.00%) OpenLDAP
5 4 (8.00%) TCP/IP
6 1 (2.00%) Internet
6 1 (2.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (48.00%) Amazon RDS
2 15 (30.00%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (24.00%) Amazon Aurora
4 6 (12.00%) Hadoop
4 6 (12.00%) NoSQL
5 4 (8.00%) Apache Hive
5 4 (8.00%) HBase
6 3 (6.00%) DynamoDB
6 3 (6.00%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (4.00%) Big Data
7 2 (4.00%) Delta Lake
7 2 (4.00%) Oracle Database
7 2 (4.00%) Oracle Database 12c
7 2 (4.00%) Parquet
8 1 (2.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 33 (66.00%) Jenkins
2 26 (52.00%) Git
3 23 (46.00%) JIRA
4 21 (42.00%) Vagrant
5 6 (12.00%) SonarQube
6 4 (8.00%) GitLab
6 4 (8.00%) Liquibase
7 3 (6.00%) Bitbucket Server
7 3 (6.00%) DbUnit
7 3 (6.00%) jMock
7 3 (6.00%) JUnit
7 3 (6.00%) Maven
7 3 (6.00%) Mockito
7 3 (6.00%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (4.00%) Jaeger
8 2 (4.00%) MLflow
8 2 (4.00%) Poetry
8 2 (4.00%) PyCharm
8 2 (4.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 29 (58.00%) Public Sector
2 19 (38.00%) Social Skills
3 9 (18.00%) Presentation Skills
4 7 (14.00%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (10.00%) Finance
6 2 (4.00%) Banking
6 2 (4.00%) Electronics
6 2 (4.00%) Financial Institution
6 2 (4.00%) Manufacturing
6 2 (4.00%) Marketing
6 2 (4.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (44.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 17 (34.00%) AWS Engineer
3 16 (32.00%) AWS DevOps
3 16 (32.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 16 (32.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 16 (32.00%) Platform Engineer
4 9 (18.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 8 (16.00%) Developer
5 8 (16.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
6 4 (8.00%) Senior
6 4 (8.00%) Senior Software Engineer
6 4 (8.00%) Software Engineer
7 3 (6.00%) Cloud Engineer
7 3 (6.00%) Data Engineer
7 3 (6.00%) Hadoop Engineer
7 3 (6.00%) Java Developer
7 3 (6.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 3 (6.00%) Site Engineer
7 3 (6.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 3 (6.00%) Splunk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
2 9 (18.00%) LDAP
3 7 (14.00%) REST
3 7 (14.00%) RESTful
4 4 (8.00%) Spark Streaming
5 3 (6.00%) ActiveMQ
5 3 (6.00%) AngularJS
5 3 (6.00%) Bootstrap
5 3 (6.00%) Flask
5 3 (6.00%) JPA
5 3 (6.00%) NumPy
5 3 (6.00%) Pandas
5 3 (6.00%) PowerMock
5 3 (6.00%) SOAP
5 3 (6.00%) Spring
5 3 (6.00%) Spring Batch
5 3 (6.00%) Spring Boot
5 3 (6.00%) Spring Cloud
5 3 (6.00%) Spring Integration
5 3 (6.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 21 (42.00%) Replication
2 5 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (10.00%) Public Cloud
3 4 (8.00%) Cloud Native
3 4 (8.00%) Management Information System
4 3 (6.00%) Data Centre
5 2 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (2.00%) Cyberattack
6 1 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 25 (50.00%) Windows
2 21 (42.00%) Amazon Linux
2 21 (42.00%) VMS
3 9 (18.00%) Ubuntu
4 6 (12.00%) Unix
5 2 (4.00%) Mac OS X
6 1 (2.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (74.00%) DevOps
2 27 (54.00%) Change Management
3 24 (48.00%) Cloud Security
3 24 (48.00%) Configuration Management
4 23 (46.00%) CI/CD
5 21 (42.00%) Patch Management
5 21 (42.00%) Platform Engineering
6 16 (32.00%) Containerisation
7 11 (22.00%) Performance Tuning
8 10 (20.00%) Agile
8 10 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (14.00%) Computer Science
9 7 (14.00%) Microservices
10 6 (12.00%) Data Engineering
11 5 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
11 5 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
11 5 (10.00%) Data Security
11 5 (10.00%) High Availability
11 5 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
11 5 (10.00%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 39 (78.00%) Python
2 24 (48.00%) Groovy
3 23 (46.00%) PowerShell
4 21 (42.00%) SQL
5 15 (30.00%) Java
6 12 (24.00%) Perl
7 9 (18.00%) Bash
8 8 (16.00%) Shell Script
9 6 (12.00%) Go
10 2 (4.00%) PL/SQL
11 1 (2.00%) Bicep
11 1 (2.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 30 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 30 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 17 (34.00%) Degree
3 11 (22.00%) AWS Certification
4 9 (18.00%) Azure Certification
5 7 (14.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (8.00%) DV Cleared
7 2 (4.00%) Master's Degree
7 2 (4.00%) OCP
7 2 (4.00%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (2.00%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (2.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (2.00%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.00%) SLA
System Software
1 36 (72.00%) Docker
2 21 (42.00%) DFS Replication
3 12 (24.00%) Active Directory
3 12 (24.00%) Postfix
4 9 (18.00%) Dovecot
4 9 (18.00%) Squid
5 4 (8.00%) HDFS
6 2 (4.00%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (2.00%) Snort
Systems Management
1 31 (62.00%) Grafana
1 31 (62.00%) Prometheus
2 26 (52.00%) Terraform
3 12 (24.00%) Ansible
4 11 (22.00%) Kubernetes
5 9 (18.00%) Nessus
5 9 (18.00%) Proxmox
6 6 (12.00%) Puppet
7 4 (8.00%) Hadoop YARN
8 3 (6.00%) Kibana
9 2 (4.00%) Argo
9 2 (4.00%) Data Guard
9 2 (4.00%) Istio
9 2 (4.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 2 (4.00%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 22 (44.00%) ServiceNow
2 12 (24.00%) Jaspersoft
3 7 (14.00%) Microsoft
3 7 (14.00%) Splunk
4 3 (6.00%) Atlassian
4 3 (6.00%) Red Hat
5 2 (4.00%) Cloudera
5 2 (4.00%) Oracle
5 2 (4.00%) SAP
6 1 (2.00%) Commvault
6 1 (2.00%) Google
6 1 (2.00%) Veeam
6 1 (2.00%) VMware