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

6 months to
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 20 44
Rank change year-on-year +4 +24 +9
Contract jobs citing Linux 71 58 27
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 9.71% 8.01% 3.56%
As % of the Operating Systems category 63.39% 49.57% 29.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 33 15
10th Percentile £400 £387 £303
25th Percentile £463 £426 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £546 £675 £738
90th Percentile £633 £765 £780
West Midlands median daily rate £520 £550 £488
% change year-on-year -5.45% +12.82% -9.39%

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 112 117 93
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 15.32% 16.16% 12.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 73 68
10th Percentile £175 £190 £180
25th Percentile £250 £213 £273
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £409 £400
Median % change year-on-year +16.14% +2.25% +23.08%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £521
90th Percentile £618 £723 £607
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £435 £400
% change year-on-year +9.20% +8.75% -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 £19.84 £21.59 £20.00
% change year-on-year -8.09% +7.95% +21.21%

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 9 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 20 (28.17%) Confluence
2 9 (12.68%) nginx
3 6 (8.45%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (8.45%) Apache Spark
4 4 (5.63%) Apache
5 2 (2.82%) OpenStack
Applications
1 9 (12.68%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.41%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 32 (45.07%) AWS
2 23 (32.39%) AWS KMS
3 21 (29.58%) Amazon S3
4 19 (26.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 19 (26.76%) Amazon EC2
4 19 (26.76%) Amazon ELB
4 19 (26.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 16 (22.54%) GCP
6 14 (19.72%) Serverless
7 12 (16.90%) Azure
8 10 (14.08%) Amazon Glacier
9 9 (12.68%) Amazon ECS
9 9 (12.68%) Microsoft 365
9 9 (12.68%) Route 53
10 8 (11.27%) GitHub
11 7 (9.86%) GitHub Actions
12 1 (1.41%) Azure Sentinel
12 1 (1.41%) IaaS
12 1 (1.41%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (32.39%) SMTP
2 21 (29.58%) SSH
3 20 (28.17%) DNS
3 20 (28.17%) Firewall
4 19 (26.76%) FTP
4 19 (26.76%) HTTP
5 9 (12.68%) IMAP
5 9 (12.68%) OpenLDAP
6 4 (5.63%) DKIM
6 4 (5.63%) DMARC
6 4 (5.63%) TCP/IP
7 2 (2.82%) Wireless
8 1 (1.41%) Internet
8 1 (1.41%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (28.17%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (26.76%) Amazon RDS
3 16 (22.54%) NoSQL
4 9 (12.68%) Amazon Aurora
5 8 (11.27%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (8.45%) Hadoop
7 4 (5.63%) Apache Hive
7 4 (5.63%) HBase
8 2 (2.82%) Big Data
8 2 (2.82%) Delta Lake
8 2 (2.82%) Oracle Database
8 2 (2.82%) Oracle Database 12c
8 2 (2.82%) Parquet
9 1 (1.41%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 40 (56.34%) Jenkins
2 23 (32.39%) Git
3 22 (30.99%) JIRA
4 19 (26.76%) Vagrant
5 16 (22.54%) GitLab
6 10 (14.08%) Liquibase
7 3 (4.23%) SonarQube
7 3 (4.23%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (2.82%) CircleCI
8 2 (2.82%) Jaeger
8 2 (2.82%) MLflow
8 2 (2.82%) Poetry
8 2 (2.82%) PyCharm
8 2 (2.82%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 39 (54.93%) Social Skills
2 25 (35.21%) Public Sector
3 15 (21.13%) Finance
4 12 (16.90%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (14.08%) Financial Institution
6 9 (12.68%) Banking
6 9 (12.68%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (5.63%) Manufacturing
7 4 (5.63%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.82%) Electronics
8 2 (2.82%) Marketing
8 2 (2.82%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (30.99%) AWS Engineer
1 22 (30.99%) DevOps Engineer
2 17 (23.94%) AWS DevOps
2 17 (23.94%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 16 (22.54%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 16 (22.54%) Platform Engineer
4 11 (15.49%) Cloud Engineer
5 9 (12.68%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 9 (12.68%) GCP Engineer
5 9 (12.68%) Software Engineer
6 8 (11.27%) DevOps Platform Engineer
6 8 (11.27%) Site Engineer
6 8 (11.27%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 8 (11.27%) Splunk Engineer
7 7 (9.86%) Senior
7 7 (9.86%) Senior Software Engineer
8 6 (8.45%) Cloud Software Engineer
9 5 (7.04%) AWS Software Engineer
9 5 (7.04%) Developer
10 4 (5.63%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (36.62%) Elastic Stack
2 14 (19.72%) REST
2 14 (19.72%) RESTful
3 13 (18.31%) LDAP
4 4 (5.63%) Spark Streaming
5 3 (4.23%) Flask
5 3 (4.23%) NumPy
5 3 (4.23%) Pandas
6 2 (2.82%) Apache Avro
6 2 (2.82%) Kafka
6 2 (2.82%) OpenTelemetry
6 2 (2.82%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (2.82%) Spring
7 1 (1.41%) .NET
7 1 (1.41%) Middleware
7 1 (1.41%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (26.76%) Replication
2 14 (19.72%) Public Cloud
3 12 (16.90%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (14.08%) Cloud Native
5 9 (12.68%) Management Information System
6 3 (4.23%) Data Centre
6 3 (4.23%) SCADA
7 2 (2.82%) Derivative
7 2 (2.82%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.82%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.82%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.41%) Cyberattack
8 1 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.41%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (1.41%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 28 (39.44%) Windows
2 19 (26.76%) Amazon Linux
2 19 (26.76%) VMS
3 13 (18.31%) Ubuntu
4 11 (15.49%) Unix
5 6 (8.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (5.63%) CentOS
7 3 (4.23%) Mac OS X
8 2 (2.82%) Debian
8 2 (2.82%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (70.42%) DevOps
2 36 (50.70%) CI/CD
3 35 (49.30%) Change Management
4 29 (40.85%) Containerisation
5 22 (30.99%) Computer Science
5 22 (30.99%) Configuration Management
6 21 (29.58%) Cloud Security
7 19 (26.76%) Patch Management
7 19 (26.76%) Platform Engineering
8 18 (25.35%) Problem-Solving
9 17 (23.94%) Agile
10 16 (22.54%) High Availability
11 15 (21.13%) Infrastructure as Code
12 14 (19.72%) Cryptography
12 14 (19.72%) Microservices
12 14 (19.72%) Root Cause Analysis
13 12 (16.90%) SIEM
13 12 (16.90%) Software Engineering
14 11 (15.49%) Cybersecurity
14 11 (15.49%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 60 (84.51%) Python
2 23 (32.39%) PowerShell
3 22 (30.99%) Groovy
3 22 (30.99%) SQL
4 18 (25.35%) Go
5 17 (23.94%) Bash
6 12 (16.90%) Java
7 10 (14.08%) Perl
8 6 (8.45%) Shell Script
9 3 (4.23%) JavaScript
10 2 (2.82%) C++
10 2 (2.82%) PL/SQL
11 1 (1.41%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 32 (45.07%) Degree
2 30 (42.25%) Security Cleared
3 28 (39.44%) SC Cleared
4 22 (30.99%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (16.90%) Master's Degree
6 11 (15.49%) AWS Certification
7 9 (12.68%) Azure Certification
8 4 (5.63%) DV Cleared
9 2 (2.82%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (2.82%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (2.82%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (2.82%) OCP
9 2 (2.82%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (2.82%) NIST
1 2 (2.82%) QA
2 1 (1.41%) SLA
System Software
1 46 (64.79%) Docker
2 19 (26.76%) DFS Replication
3 13 (18.31%) Postfix
4 10 (14.08%) Active Directory
5 9 (12.68%) Dovecot
5 9 (12.68%) Squid
6 4 (5.63%) HDFS
7 2 (2.82%) Embedded Firmware
7 2 (2.82%) Firmware
7 2 (2.82%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (1.41%) Snort
Systems Management
1 37 (52.11%) Grafana
2 36 (50.70%) Terraform
3 35 (49.30%) Prometheus
4 28 (39.44%) Ansible
5 27 (38.03%) Kubernetes
6 11 (15.49%) Puppet
7 9 (12.68%) Nessus
7 9 (12.68%) Proxmox
8 8 (11.27%) Kibana
9 4 (5.63%) Argo
9 4 (5.63%) Hadoop YARN
10 2 (2.82%) Data Guard
10 2 (2.82%) Istio
10 2 (2.82%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 2 (2.82%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 25 (35.21%) Splunk
2 19 (26.76%) ServiceNow
3 9 (12.68%) Jaspersoft
4 7 (9.86%) Microsoft
5 6 (8.45%) Google
6 2 (2.82%) Calypso
6 2 (2.82%) Cloudera
6 2 (2.82%) Foundry
6 2 (2.82%) Oracle
6 2 (2.82%) Red Hat
6 2 (2.82%) SAP
7 1 (1.41%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.41%) VMware