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 24 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 19 46
Rank change year-on-year +4 +27 +9
Contract jobs citing Linux 72 58 22
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 9.82% 8.38% 3.08%
As % of the Operating Systems category 63.72% 55.24% 25.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 33 13
10th Percentile £400 £387 £295
25th Percentile £463 £426 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +22.22% -21.74%
75th Percentile £548 £675 £600
90th Percentile £633 £765 £750
West Midlands median daily rate £525 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -4.55% +15.79% -11.71%

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 113 105 87
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 15.42% 15.17% 12.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 67 63
10th Percentile £173 £190 £185
25th Percentile £241 £213 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £400 £400
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% - +25.00%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £520
90th Percentile £609 £735 £600
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £425 £400
% change year-on-year +11.76% +6.25% -19.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £11.44 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year - -32.71% +17.50%
West Midlands median hourly rate £21.46 £18.13 £17.72
% change year-on-year +18.37% +2.31% +7.85%

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 24 December 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 17 (23.61%) Confluence
2 9 (12.50%) nginx
3 6 (8.33%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (8.33%) Apache Spark
4 4 (5.56%) Apache
5 2 (2.78%) OpenStack
Applications
1 9 (12.50%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.39%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 30 (41.67%) AWS
2 21 (29.17%) AWS KMS
3 19 (26.39%) Amazon S3
4 17 (23.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 17 (23.61%) Amazon EC2
4 17 (23.61%) Amazon ELB
4 17 (23.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 16 (22.22%) GCP
6 14 (19.44%) Serverless
7 13 (18.06%) Azure
8 9 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
8 9 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
8 9 (12.50%) Route 53
9 8 (11.11%) Amazon Glacier
10 7 (9.72%) GitHub
10 7 (9.72%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (4.17%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 21 (29.17%) SMTP
2 19 (26.39%) SSH
3 18 (25.00%) DNS
3 18 (25.00%) Firewall
4 17 (23.61%) FTP
4 17 (23.61%) HTTP
5 9 (12.50%) IMAP
5 9 (12.50%) OpenLDAP
6 4 (5.56%) DKIM
6 4 (5.56%) DMARC
6 4 (5.56%) TCP/IP
7 2 (2.78%) Wireless
8 1 (1.39%) Internet
8 1 (1.39%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (26.39%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (23.61%) Amazon RDS
3 16 (22.22%) NoSQL
4 11 (15.28%) Elasticsearch
5 9 (12.50%) Amazon Aurora
6 6 (8.33%) Hadoop
7 4 (5.56%) Apache Hive
7 4 (5.56%) HBase
8 2 (2.78%) Big Data
8 2 (2.78%) Delta Lake
8 2 (2.78%) Parquet
9 1 (1.39%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 38 (52.78%) Jenkins
2 21 (29.17%) Git
3 19 (26.39%) JIRA
4 17 (23.61%) Vagrant
5 16 (22.22%) GitLab
6 10 (13.89%) Liquibase
7 3 (4.17%) SonarQube
7 3 (4.17%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (2.78%) CircleCI
8 2 (2.78%) Jaeger
8 2 (2.78%) MLflow
8 2 (2.78%) Poetry
8 2 (2.78%) PyCharm
8 2 (2.78%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 43 (59.72%) Social Skills
2 21 (29.17%) Public Sector
3 13 (18.06%) Finance
4 12 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (13.89%) Financial Institution
6 9 (12.50%) Banking
6 9 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.78%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.78%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (30.56%) AWS Engineer
2 20 (27.78%) DevOps Engineer
3 17 (23.61%) AWS DevOps
3 17 (23.61%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 16 (22.22%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 16 (22.22%) Platform Engineer
5 11 (15.28%) Cloud Engineer
5 11 (15.28%) Site Engineer
5 11 (15.28%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 11 (15.28%) Splunk Engineer
6 9 (12.50%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 9 (12.50%) GCP Engineer
6 9 (12.50%) Software Engineer
7 8 (11.11%) DevOps Platform Engineer
8 7 (9.72%) Senior
8 7 (9.72%) Senior Software Engineer
9 6 (8.33%) Architect
9 6 (8.33%) Cloud Software Engineer
10 5 (6.94%) AWS Software Engineer
10 5 (6.94%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (40.28%) Elastic Stack
2 14 (19.44%) REST
2 14 (19.44%) RESTful
3 13 (18.06%) LDAP
4 4 (5.56%) Spark Streaming
5 3 (4.17%) Flask
5 3 (4.17%) NumPy
5 3 (4.17%) Pandas
6 2 (2.78%) Apache Avro
6 2 (2.78%) Kafka
6 2 (2.78%) OpenTelemetry
6 2 (2.78%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (2.78%) Spring
7 1 (1.39%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 17 (23.61%) Replication
2 14 (19.44%) Public Cloud
3 12 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (16.67%) Management Information System
4 10 (13.89%) Cloud Native
5 3 (4.17%) Data Centre
5 3 (4.17%) SCADA
6 2 (2.78%) Derivative
6 2 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.78%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.78%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.39%) Cyberattack
7 1 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.39%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.39%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 28 (38.89%) Windows
2 17 (23.61%) Amazon Linux
2 17 (23.61%) VMS
3 13 (18.06%) Ubuntu
4 12 (16.67%) Unix
5 9 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (5.56%) CentOS
7 3 (4.17%) Mac OS X
8 2 (2.78%) Debian
8 2 (2.78%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (69.44%) DevOps
2 36 (50.00%) Change Management
2 36 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 31 (43.06%) Containerisation
4 25 (34.72%) Computer Science
5 20 (27.78%) Configuration Management
6 19 (26.39%) Cloud Security
6 19 (26.39%) Problem-Solving
7 17 (23.61%) Patch Management
7 17 (23.61%) Platform Engineering
8 16 (22.22%) Agile
9 15 (20.83%) SIEM
10 14 (19.44%) Cryptography
10 14 (19.44%) High Availability
10 14 (19.44%) Infrastructure as Code
10 14 (19.44%) Microservices
10 14 (19.44%) Root Cause Analysis
11 13 (18.06%) Observability
11 13 (18.06%) Validation
12 12 (16.67%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 63 (87.50%) Python
2 22 (30.56%) PowerShell
3 20 (27.78%) Groovy
4 19 (26.39%) Bash
4 19 (26.39%) SQL
5 18 (25.00%) Go
6 10 (13.89%) Java
7 8 (11.11%) Perl
8 6 (8.33%) Shell Script
9 3 (4.17%) JavaScript
10 2 (2.78%) C++
Qualifications
1 35 (48.61%) Degree
2 27 (37.50%) Security Cleared
3 25 (34.72%) Computer Science Degree
4 24 (33.33%) SC Cleared
5 12 (16.67%) Master's Degree
6 11 (15.28%) AWS Certification
7 9 (12.50%) Azure Certification
8 2 (2.78%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (2.78%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (2.78%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (2.78%) NIST
1 2 (2.78%) QA
2 1 (1.39%) SLA
System Software
1 46 (63.89%) Docker
2 17 (23.61%) DFS Replication
3 13 (18.06%) Postfix
4 9 (12.50%) Dovecot
4 9 (12.50%) Squid
5 8 (11.11%) Active Directory
6 4 (5.56%) HDFS
7 2 (2.78%) Embedded Firmware
7 2 (2.78%) Firmware
8 1 (1.39%) Snort
Systems Management
1 35 (48.61%) Grafana
2 33 (45.83%) Prometheus
2 33 (45.83%) Terraform
3 31 (43.06%) Ansible
4 29 (40.28%) Kubernetes
5 14 (19.44%) Puppet
6 11 (15.28%) Kibana
7 9 (12.50%) Nessus
7 9 (12.50%) Proxmox
8 4 (5.56%) Argo
8 4 (5.56%) Hadoop YARN
9 2 (2.78%) Istio
Vendors
1 31 (43.06%) Splunk
2 17 (23.61%) ServiceNow
3 9 (12.50%) Jaspersoft
3 9 (12.50%) Microsoft
4 6 (8.33%) Google
5 2 (2.78%) Calypso
5 2 (2.78%) Cloudera
5 2 (2.78%) Foundry
5 2 (2.78%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.39%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.39%) VMware