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 23 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 30 35
Rank change year-on-year -30 +5 -3
Contract jobs citing Linux 19 25 30
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 2.05% 4.59% 4.05%
As % of the Operating Systems category 34.55% 35.21% 37.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 19 14
10th Percentile £400 £394 £317
25th Percentile £413 £463 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% -7.32% -24.77%
75th Percentile £488 £500 £708
90th Percentile £750 £632 £750
West Midlands median daily rate £470 £475 £550
% change year-on-year -1.05% -13.64% +1.85%

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 55 71 79
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 5.94% 13.03% 10.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 54 44
10th Percentile £190 £108 £190
25th Percentile £250 £153 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £290 £384
Median % change year-on-year +42.24% -24.43% -4.06%
75th Percentile £488 £488 £538
90th Percentile £624 £500 £634
West Midlands median daily rate £459 £410 £450
% change year-on-year +11.95% -8.89% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 4
10th Percentile - - £14.52
25th Percentile - - £15.47
Median hourly rate £16.09 £18.51 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.07% +5.77% +2.94%
75th Percentile - - £20.56
90th Percentile - - £22.48
West Midlands median hourly rate £63.14 £17.83 £19.00
% change year-on-year +254.04% -6.14% -5.00%

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 23 July 2026.

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 2 (10.53%) Apache
1 2 (10.53%) CloudStack
1 2 (10.53%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 9 (47.37%) AWS
2 7 (36.84%) Azure
3 4 (21.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 4 (21.05%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (21.05%) Amazon S3
3 4 (21.05%) Amazon SQS
3 4 (21.05%) AWS KMS
3 4 (21.05%) Route 53
4 3 (15.79%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (15.79%) OpenShift
5 2 (10.53%) GitHub
5 2 (10.53%) IaaS
6 1 (5.26%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 1 (5.26%) Datadog
6 1 (5.26%) GCP
6 1 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (5.26%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 4 (21.05%) NAS
1 4 (21.05%) SAN
2 2 (10.53%) Firewall
2 2 (10.53%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (21.05%) Amazon Aurora
1 4 (21.05%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (21.05%) DynamoDB
1 4 (21.05%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (15.79%) SAP HANA
3 1 (5.26%) MongoDB
3 1 (5.26%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (31.58%) Jenkins
2 5 (26.32%) Git
2 5 (26.32%) Mockito
3 4 (21.05%) DbUnit
3 4 (21.05%) jMock
3 4 (21.05%) JUnit
3 4 (21.05%) Maven
3 4 (21.05%) SonarQube
4 2 (10.53%) Bitbucket Server
4 2 (10.53%) GitLab
4 2 (10.53%) JIRA
5 1 (5.26%) Liquibase
General
1 4 (21.05%) Public Sector
2 2 (10.53%) Banking
2 2 (10.53%) Finance
2 2 (10.53%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Electronics
3 1 (5.26%) Investment Banking
3 1 (5.26%) Legal
Job Titles
1 5 (26.32%) Developer
1 5 (26.32%) Java Developer
2 3 (15.79%) Analyst
2 3 (15.79%) Consultant
2 3 (15.79%) SAP Basis Consultant
2 3 (15.79%) SAP Consultant
3 2 (10.53%) Data Centre Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) SC Cleared Java Developer
3 2 (10.53%) Senior
3 2 (10.53%) Storage Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Investment Banking Systems Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (5.26%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Splunk Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Unix Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (26.32%) ActiveMQ
1 5 (26.32%) REST
2 4 (21.05%) AngularJS
2 4 (21.05%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (21.05%) Hibernate
2 4 (21.05%) JPA
2 4 (21.05%) Node.js
2 4 (21.05%) PowerMock
2 4 (21.05%) SOAP
2 4 (21.05%) Spring
2 4 (21.05%) Spring Batch
2 4 (21.05%) Spring Boot
2 4 (21.05%) Spring Cloud
2 4 (21.05%) Spring Integration
2 4 (21.05%) Web Services
3 3 (15.79%) RESTful
3 3 (15.79%) SAP Basis
4 2 (10.53%) Bootstrap
4 2 (10.53%) Flash
5 1 (5.26%) JAX-RS
Miscellaneous
1 5 (26.32%) Distributed Systems
1 5 (26.32%) Replication
2 4 (21.05%) Data Centre
3 3 (15.79%) Public Cloud
4 2 (10.53%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (10.53%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (10.53%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (5.26%) Cloud Native
5 1 (5.26%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (5.26%) IoT
5 1 (5.26%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (26.32%) Unix
2 4 (21.05%) Windows
3 3 (15.79%) Windows Server
4 2 (10.53%) Ubuntu
5 1 (5.26%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (5.26%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (47.37%) DevOps
2 8 (42.11%) Agile
3 7 (36.84%) CI/CD
3 7 (36.84%) Containerisation
4 6 (31.58%) Business Continuity
5 5 (26.32%) Microservices
5 5 (26.32%) Project Delivery
5 5 (26.32%) TDD
6 4 (21.05%) BPMN
6 4 (21.05%) ITIL
6 4 (21.05%) Performance Tuning
6 4 (21.05%) Root Cause Analysis
6 4 (21.05%) Scrum
7 3 (15.79%) BCP
7 3 (15.79%) BDD
7 3 (15.79%) Capacity Planning
7 3 (15.79%) Data Protection
7 3 (15.79%) Disaster Recovery
7 3 (15.79%) Migration
7 3 (15.79%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (31.58%) Java
2 3 (15.79%) SQL
3 2 (10.53%) Go
3 2 (10.53%) Python
4 1 (5.26%) Bash
4 1 (5.26%) C
4 1 (5.26%) C++
4 1 (5.26%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.26%) Kotlin
4 1 (5.26%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (26.32%) Security Cleared
2 4 (21.05%) AWS Certification
2 4 (21.05%) Azure Certification
2 4 (21.05%) SC Cleared
3 2 (10.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (10.53%) CCNP
3 2 (10.53%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (10.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (5.26%) DV Cleared
4 1 (5.26%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 6 (31.58%) Docker
2 5 (26.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (21.05%) Postfix
4 3 (15.79%) vSphere
5 2 (10.53%) GPFS
5 2 (10.53%) NFS
6 1 (5.26%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (5.26%) Firmware
6 1 (5.26%) KVM
6 1 (5.26%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (5.26%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 8 (42.11%) Grafana
2 5 (26.32%) Kubernetes
3 4 (21.05%) Prometheus
4 3 (15.79%) Ansible
4 3 (15.79%) Terraform
5 2 (10.53%) Check_MK
6 1 (5.26%) Progress Chef
6 1 (5.26%) Puppet
6 1 (5.26%) vRealize
Vendors
1 5 (26.32%) VMware
2 4 (21.05%) Atlassian
2 4 (21.05%) Jaspersoft
3 3 (15.79%) Cisco
3 3 (15.79%) SAP
3 3 (15.79%) Splunk
4 2 (10.53%) Commvault
4 2 (10.53%) Fortinet
4 2 (10.53%) IBM
4 2 (10.53%) Microsoft
4 2 (10.53%) Oracle
4 2 (10.53%) ServiceNow
4 2 (10.53%) Veeam
5 1 (5.26%) Google
5 1 (5.26%) Red Hat
5 1 (5.26%) Remedy