Linux Contracts in Birmingham

Linux
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham requiring Linux skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Linux over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 35 32
Rank change year-on-year +4 -3 +19
Contract jobs citing Linux 23 30 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 4.29% 3.88% 5.29%
As % of the Operating Systems category 30.67% 38.46% 45.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 16 19
10th Percentile - £308 £377
25th Percentile £463 £400 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £688
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -25.45% +30.95%
75th Percentile £640 £750 £731
90th Percentile £690 £875 £738
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +11.11%
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 - £70.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +250.00% +29.03%

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 75 78 106
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 13.99% 10.08% 11.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 49 58
10th Percentile £111 £190 £192
25th Percentile £161 £200 £296
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £350 £400
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -12.50% -5.88%
75th Percentile £500 £538 £623
90th Percentile £689 £675 £731
West Midlands median daily rate £401 £444 £430
% change year-on-year -9.62% +3.14% +1.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 4
10th Percentile - £14.52 £15.54
25th Percentile - £15.47 £15.98
Median hourly rate £18.51 £17.50 £17.49
Median % change year-on-year +5.77% +0.06% +9.31%
75th Percentile - £20.56 £27.50
90th Percentile - £22.48 £43.25
West Midlands median hourly rate £17.83 £22.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -20.74% +12.50% +21.58%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Linux in Birmingham.

Daily rate trend for Linux in Birmingham

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in Birmingham over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in Birmingham

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Linux in Birmingham.

Hourly rate trend for Linux in Birmingham

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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 8 (34.78%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 13 (56.52%) AWS
2 11 (47.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 10 (43.48%) Amazon EC2
3 10 (43.48%) Amazon S3
3 10 (43.48%) AWS KMS
4 6 (26.09%) Amazon ELB
4 6 (26.09%) Amazon Glacier
4 6 (26.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 4 (17.39%) Amazon SQS
5 4 (17.39%) Route 53
6 3 (13.04%) GitHub
7 2 (8.70%) Azure
8 1 (4.35%) IaaS
8 1 (4.35%) OpenShift
8 1 (4.35%) PaaS
8 1 (4.35%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 8 (34.78%) DNS
1 8 (34.78%) Firewall
2 7 (30.43%) HTTP
3 6 (26.09%) FTP
3 6 (26.09%) SMTP
3 6 (26.09%) SSH
4 1 (4.35%) DHCP
4 1 (4.35%) OpenLDAP
4 1 (4.35%) SAN
4 1 (4.35%) SSL
4 1 (4.35%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (43.48%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (21.74%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (17.39%) Amazon Aurora
3 4 (17.39%) DynamoDB
4 2 (8.70%) Oracle Database
4 2 (8.70%) Oracle Database 12c
5 1 (4.35%) MongoDB
5 1 (4.35%) Relational Database
5 1 (4.35%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 13 (56.52%) Jenkins
2 11 (47.83%) Git
3 9 (39.13%) JIRA
4 6 (26.09%) Maven
4 6 (26.09%) Vagrant
5 5 (21.74%) JUnit
5 5 (21.74%) Mockito
5 5 (21.74%) MSI
6 4 (17.39%) Bitbucket Server
6 4 (17.39%) DbUnit
6 4 (17.39%) jMock
6 4 (17.39%) SonarQube
7 1 (4.35%) Ant
7 1 (4.35%) Cucumber
7 1 (4.35%) Gradle
7 1 (4.35%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 15 (65.22%) Public Sector
2 6 (26.09%) Social Skills
3 5 (21.74%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (13.04%) Finance
5 2 (8.70%) Electronics
5 2 (8.70%) Manufacturing
5 2 (8.70%) Marketing
5 2 (8.70%) Telecoms
6 1 (4.35%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 7 (30.43%) Developer
1 7 (30.43%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (21.74%) Java Developer
3 3 (13.04%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Administrator
4 2 (8.70%) Automation Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Automation Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) DBA
4 2 (8.70%) DV Cleared DBA
4 2 (8.70%) Oracle DBA
4 2 (8.70%) Python Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Python Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) SC Cleared DBA
5 1 (4.35%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (4.35%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (21.74%) RESTful
1 5 (21.74%) Software Packaging
1 5 (21.74%) Spring
2 4 (17.39%) ActiveMQ
2 4 (17.39%) AngularJS
2 4 (17.39%) Bootstrap
2 4 (17.39%) Hibernate
2 4 (17.39%) JPA
2 4 (17.39%) PowerMock
2 4 (17.39%) REST
2 4 (17.39%) SOAP
2 4 (17.39%) Spring Batch
2 4 (17.39%) Spring Boot
2 4 (17.39%) Spring Cloud
2 4 (17.39%) Spring Integration
2 4 (17.39%) Web Services
3 2 (8.70%) YAML
4 1 (4.35%) .NET
4 1 (4.35%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (4.35%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (26.09%) Replication
2 4 (17.39%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (8.70%) SCADA
4 1 (4.35%) Algorithms
4 1 (4.35%) Data Structures
4 1 (4.35%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 14 (60.87%) Windows
2 6 (26.09%) Amazon Linux
2 6 (26.09%) VMS
3 2 (8.70%) Unix
4 1 (4.35%) CentOS
4 1 (4.35%) Debian
4 1 (4.35%) Ubuntu
4 1 (4.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (52.17%) DevOps
2 8 (34.78%) Agile
3 7 (30.43%) Cloud Security
3 7 (30.43%) Patch Management
4 6 (26.09%) Change Management
4 6 (26.09%) Configuration Management
4 6 (26.09%) Containerisation
4 6 (26.09%) Platform Engineering
5 5 (21.74%) Software Delivery
5 5 (21.74%) Software Deployment
5 5 (21.74%) Software Distribution
5 5 (21.74%) TDD
6 4 (17.39%) BDD
6 4 (17.39%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (17.39%) Kanban
6 4 (17.39%) Microservices
6 4 (17.39%) Open Source
6 4 (17.39%) Scrum
7 3 (13.04%) High Availability
8 2 (8.70%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 16 (69.57%) Python
2 13 (56.52%) PowerShell
3 11 (47.83%) Java
4 8 (34.78%) SQL
5 7 (30.43%) Bash
6 6 (26.09%) Groovy
6 6 (26.09%) Perl
7 4 (17.39%) Shell Script
8 2 (8.70%) PL/SQL
9 1 (4.35%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 19 (82.61%) Security Cleared
2 17 (73.91%) SC Cleared
3 3 (13.04%) DV Cleared
4 2 (8.70%) OCP
4 2 (8.70%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (4.35%) AWS Certification
5 1 (4.35%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 1 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (4.35%) Degree
System Software
1 12 (52.17%) Docker
2 6 (26.09%) Active Directory
2 6 (26.09%) DFS Replication
3 4 (17.39%) Postfix
4 2 (8.70%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 11 (47.83%) Grafana
1 11 (47.83%) Prometheus
2 7 (30.43%) Ansible
2 7 (30.43%) Terraform
3 2 (8.70%) Data Guard
3 2 (8.70%) Kubernetes
3 2 (8.70%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 2 (8.70%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (4.35%) Nessus
4 1 (4.35%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (30.43%) ServiceNow
2 5 (21.74%) Tanium
3 4 (17.39%) Atlassian
3 4 (17.39%) Jaspersoft
4 2 (8.70%) Oracle
4 2 (8.70%) SAP
5 1 (4.35%) Commvault
5 1 (4.35%) Foundry
5 1 (4.35%) Red Hat
5 1 (4.35%) Sophos
5 1 (4.35%) Sybase
5 1 (4.35%) Veeam
5 1 (4.35%) VMware