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 22 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 20 45
Rank change year-on-year +6 +25 +10
Contract jobs citing Linux 75 58 28
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 10.67% 8.02% 3.55%
As % of the Operating Systems category 63.03% 48.74% 29.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 33 13
10th Percentile £401 £387 £295
25th Percentile £463 £426 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.45% - -
75th Percentile £545 £675 £725
90th Percentile £629 £765 £750
West Midlands median daily rate £515 £570 £480
% change year-on-year -9.65% +18.75% -10.78%

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 119 119 94
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 16.93% 16.46% 11.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 76 67
10th Percentile £183 £190 £179
25th Percentile £300 £212 £220
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £400 £400
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% - +16.79%
75th Percentile £537 £575 £469
90th Percentile £610 £719 £600
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £456 £375
% change year-on-year +4.11% +21.67% -24.24%
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 £19.84 £21.59 £19.25
% change year-on-year -8.09% +12.16% +16.67%

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 22 November 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 (29.33%) Confluence
2 9 (12.00%) nginx
3 6 (8.00%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (8.00%) Apache Spark
4 4 (5.33%) Apache
5 2 (2.67%) OpenStack
Applications
1 9 (12.00%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 38 (50.67%) AWS
2 28 (37.33%) AWS KMS
3 26 (34.67%) Amazon S3
4 25 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 24 (32.00%) Amazon EC2
6 21 (28.00%) Amazon ELB
6 21 (28.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 16 (21.33%) GCP
8 14 (18.67%) Serverless
9 13 (17.33%) Azure
10 12 (16.00%) Amazon Glacier
10 12 (16.00%) Route 53
11 9 (12.00%) Amazon ECS
11 9 (12.00%) GitHub
11 9 (12.00%) Microsoft 365
12 7 (9.33%) GitHub Actions
13 3 (4.00%) Amazon SQS
14 1 (1.33%) Azure Sentinel
14 1 (1.33%) IaaS
14 1 (1.33%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 25 (33.33%) SMTP
2 23 (30.67%) DNS
2 23 (30.67%) Firewall
2 23 (30.67%) SSH
3 21 (28.00%) FTP
3 21 (28.00%) HTTP
4 9 (12.00%) IMAP
4 9 (12.00%) OpenLDAP
5 4 (5.33%) DKIM
5 4 (5.33%) DMARC
5 4 (5.33%) TCP/IP
6 1 (1.33%) Internet
6 1 (1.33%) SSL
6 1 (1.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (32.00%) Amazon RDS
2 23 (30.67%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (21.33%) NoSQL
4 12 (16.00%) Amazon Aurora
5 6 (8.00%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (8.00%) Hadoop
6 4 (5.33%) Apache Hive
6 4 (5.33%) HBase
7 3 (4.00%) DynamoDB
8 2 (2.67%) Big Data
8 2 (2.67%) Delta Lake
8 2 (2.67%) Oracle Database
8 2 (2.67%) Oracle Database 12c
8 2 (2.67%) Parquet
9 1 (1.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 46 (61.33%) Jenkins
2 28 (37.33%) Git
3 25 (33.33%) JIRA
4 21 (28.00%) Vagrant
5 16 (21.33%) GitLab
6 10 (13.33%) Liquibase
7 6 (8.00%) SonarQube
8 3 (4.00%) Bitbucket Server
8 3 (4.00%) DbUnit
8 3 (4.00%) jMock
8 3 (4.00%) JUnit
8 3 (4.00%) Maven
8 3 (4.00%) Mockito
8 3 (4.00%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (2.67%) CircleCI
9 2 (2.67%) Jaeger
9 2 (2.67%) MLflow
9 2 (2.67%) Poetry
9 2 (2.67%) PyCharm
9 2 (2.67%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 37 (49.33%) Social Skills
2 31 (41.33%) Public Sector
3 15 (20.00%) Finance
4 10 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (13.33%) Financial Institution
5 9 (12.00%) Banking
5 9 (12.00%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (5.33%) Telecoms
7 3 (4.00%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.67%) Electronics
8 2 (2.67%) Marketing
8 2 (2.67%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (32.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 22 (29.33%) AWS Engineer
3 17 (22.67%) AWS DevOps
3 17 (22.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 16 (21.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 16 (21.33%) Platform Engineer
5 12 (16.00%) Cloud Engineer
6 9 (12.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 9 (12.00%) Developer
6 9 (12.00%) GCP Engineer
6 9 (12.00%) Software Engineer
7 8 (10.67%) DevOps Platform Engineer
8 7 (9.33%) Senior
8 7 (9.33%) Senior Software Engineer
9 6 (8.00%) Cloud Software Engineer
9 6 (8.00%) Site Engineer
9 6 (8.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 6 (8.00%) Splunk Engineer
10 5 (6.67%) AWS Software Engineer
11 4 (5.33%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
2 17 (22.67%) REST
2 17 (22.67%) RESTful
3 13 (17.33%) LDAP
4 5 (6.67%) Spring
5 4 (5.33%) Spark Streaming
6 3 (4.00%) ActiveMQ
6 3 (4.00%) AngularJS
6 3 (4.00%) Bootstrap
6 3 (4.00%) Flask
6 3 (4.00%) Hibernate
6 3 (4.00%) JPA
6 3 (4.00%) NumPy
6 3 (4.00%) Pandas
6 3 (4.00%) SOAP
6 3 (4.00%) Spring Batch
6 3 (4.00%) Spring Boot
6 3 (4.00%) Spring Cloud
6 3 (4.00%) Spring Integration
6 3 (4.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 21 (28.00%) Replication
2 15 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
2 15 (20.00%) Public Cloud
3 10 (13.33%) Cloud Native
4 7 (9.33%) Management Information System
5 3 (4.00%) Data Centre
5 3 (4.00%) SCADA
6 2 (2.67%) Derivative
6 2 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.67%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.67%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.33%) Cyberattack
7 1 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.33%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 31 (41.33%) Windows
2 21 (28.00%) Amazon Linux
2 21 (28.00%) VMS
3 13 (17.33%) Ubuntu
4 9 (12.00%) Unix
5 6 (8.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (5.33%) CentOS
7 3 (4.00%) Mac OS X
8 1 (1.33%) Debian
8 1 (1.33%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (1.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (70.67%) DevOps
2 37 (49.33%) CI/CD
3 35 (46.67%) Change Management
4 31 (41.33%) Containerisation
5 24 (32.00%) Cloud Security
5 24 (32.00%) Configuration Management
6 21 (28.00%) Agile
6 21 (28.00%) Patch Management
6 21 (28.00%) Platform Engineering
7 20 (26.67%) Computer Science
8 17 (22.67%) High Availability
8 17 (22.67%) Microservices
9 16 (21.33%) Problem-Solving
10 15 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
11 14 (18.67%) Cryptography
11 14 (18.67%) Root Cause Analysis
12 12 (16.00%) Continuous Integration
12 12 (16.00%) SIEM
12 12 (16.00%) Software Engineering
13 11 (14.67%) Data Security
Programming Languages
1 61 (81.33%) Python
2 26 (34.67%) PowerShell
3 25 (33.33%) SQL
4 24 (32.00%) Groovy
5 18 (24.00%) Go
6 17 (22.67%) Java
7 16 (21.33%) Bash
8 12 (16.00%) Perl
9 7 (9.33%) Shell Script
10 3 (4.00%) JavaScript
11 2 (2.67%) PL/SQL
12 1 (1.33%) Bicep
12 1 (1.33%) C++
Qualifications
1 36 (48.00%) Security Cleared
2 34 (45.33%) SC Cleared
3 30 (40.00%) Degree
4 20 (26.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (16.00%) AWS Certification
5 12 (16.00%) Master's Degree
6 9 (12.00%) Azure Certification
7 5 (6.67%) DV Cleared
8 2 (2.67%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (2.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (2.67%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (2.67%) OCP
8 2 (2.67%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (1.33%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (2.67%) NIST
1 2 (2.67%) QA
2 1 (1.33%) SLA
System Software
1 49 (65.33%) Docker
2 21 (28.00%) DFS Replication
3 16 (21.33%) Postfix
4 12 (16.00%) Active Directory
5 9 (12.00%) Dovecot
5 9 (12.00%) Squid
6 4 (5.33%) HDFS
7 2 (2.67%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (1.33%) Embedded Firmware
8 1 (1.33%) Firmware
8 1 (1.33%) Snort
Systems Management
1 43 (57.33%) Grafana
2 41 (54.67%) Prometheus
3 38 (50.67%) Terraform
4 27 (36.00%) Ansible
5 26 (34.67%) Kubernetes
6 9 (12.00%) Nessus
6 9 (12.00%) Proxmox
6 9 (12.00%) Puppet
7 6 (8.00%) Kibana
8 4 (5.33%) Argo
8 4 (5.33%) Hadoop YARN
9 2 (2.67%) Data Guard
9 2 (2.67%) Istio
9 2 (2.67%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 2 (2.67%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 23 (30.67%) Splunk
2 22 (29.33%) ServiceNow
3 12 (16.00%) Jaspersoft
4 7 (9.33%) Microsoft
5 6 (8.00%) Google
6 3 (4.00%) Atlassian
6 3 (4.00%) Red Hat
7 2 (2.67%) Calypso
7 2 (2.67%) Cloudera
7 2 (2.67%) Foundry
7 2 (2.67%) Oracle
7 2 (2.67%) SAP
8 1 (1.33%) Commvault
8 1 (1.33%) CyberArk
8 1 (1.33%) Veeam
8 1 (1.33%) VMware