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 14 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 37 42
Rank change year-on-year +10 +5 -6
Contract jobs citing Linux 56 16 26
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 6.50% 3.07% 3.41%
As % of the Operating Systems category 57.14% 30.19% 34.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 5 18
10th Percentile £400 £622 £315
25th Percentile £459 £681 £392
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £689 £438
Median % change year-on-year -23.80% +57.49% -27.08%
75th Percentile £594 £694 £708
90th Percentile £619 £698 £878
West Midlands median daily rate £493 £545 £525
% change year-on-year -9.59% +3.81% -2.78%

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 98 53 76
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 11.38% 10.15% 9.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 37 56
10th Percentile £196 £169 £189
25th Percentile £370 £190 £238
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £325 £413
Median % change year-on-year +46.15% -21.21% +17.86%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £470
90th Percentile £618 £696 £666
West Midlands median daily rate £447 £460 £400
% change year-on-year -2.83% +15.00% -19.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £13.89
Median hourly rate £16.09 £18.51 £14.59
Median % change year-on-year -13.07% +26.87% -8.73%
75th Percentile - - £15.30
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.23 £18.32 £22.25
% change year-on-year -0.52% -17.66% +25.56%

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 14 March 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 3 (5.36%) Confluence
2 2 (3.57%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.79%) Apache
3 1 (1.79%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 15 (26.79%) AWS
2 11 (19.64%) GCP
3 10 (17.86%) Serverless
4 8 (14.29%) AWS KMS
4 8 (14.29%) Azure
5 4 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (7.14%) Amazon S3
5 4 (7.14%) Amazon SQS
5 4 (7.14%) Route 53
6 3 (5.36%) GitHub
7 2 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (3.57%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.79%) IaaS
8 1 (1.79%) OpenShift
8 1 (1.79%) PaaS
8 1 (1.79%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.14%) DKIM
1 4 (7.14%) DMARC
1 4 (7.14%) SMTP
2 2 (3.57%) Wireless
3 1 (1.79%) Firewall
3 1 (1.79%) NAS
3 1 (1.79%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (23.21%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (19.64%) Elasticsearch
3 10 (17.86%) NoSQL
4 4 (7.14%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (7.14%) DynamoDB
5 3 (5.36%) SAP HANA
6 1 (1.79%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 19 (33.93%) Jenkins
2 13 (23.21%) GitLab
3 7 (12.50%) Liquibase
4 6 (10.71%) Git
5 5 (8.93%) JIRA
6 4 (7.14%) DbUnit
6 4 (7.14%) jMock
6 4 (7.14%) JUnit
6 4 (7.14%) Maven
6 4 (7.14%) Mockito
6 4 (7.14%) SonarQube
7 2 (3.57%) Bitbucket Server
7 2 (3.57%) CircleCI
General
1 29 (51.79%) Social Skills
2 12 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
2 12 (21.43%) Finance
3 9 (16.07%) Banking
4 8 (14.29%) Financial Institution
4 8 (14.29%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.57%) Manufacturing
5 2 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (3.57%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.79%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (19.64%) Site Engineer
1 11 (19.64%) Site Reliability Engineer
1 11 (19.64%) Splunk Engineer
2 10 (17.86%) Cloud Engineer
3 9 (16.07%) Architect
3 9 (16.07%) GCP Engineer
4 6 (10.71%) Analyst
4 6 (10.71%) Developer
4 6 (10.71%) Software Engineer
5 5 (8.93%) AWS Engineer
5 5 (8.93%) Cloud Software Engineer
6 4 (7.14%) AWS Software Engineer
6 4 (7.14%) GCP Software Engineer
6 4 (7.14%) Java Developer
6 4 (7.14%) Senior
6 4 (7.14%) Senior Software Engineer
6 4 (7.14%) Storage Analyst
7 3 (5.36%) Consultant
7 3 (5.36%) SAP Basis Consultant
7 3 (5.36%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (42.86%) Elastic Stack
2 15 (26.79%) REST
3 12 (21.43%) RESTful
4 6 (10.71%) Spring
5 4 (7.14%) ActiveMQ
5 4 (7.14%) AngularJS
5 4 (7.14%) Flash
5 4 (7.14%) Hibernate
5 4 (7.14%) JPA
5 4 (7.14%) LDAP
5 4 (7.14%) Node.js
5 4 (7.14%) PowerMock
5 4 (7.14%) SOAP
5 4 (7.14%) Spring Batch
5 4 (7.14%) Spring Boot
5 4 (7.14%) Spring Cloud
5 4 (7.14%) Spring Integration
5 4 (7.14%) Web Services
6 3 (5.36%) Middleware
6 3 (5.36%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 14 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (19.64%) Management Information System
2 11 (19.64%) Public Cloud
3 7 (12.50%) Cloud Native
3 7 (12.50%) Replication
4 4 (7.14%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (5.36%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (5.36%) SCADA
6 2 (3.57%) Derivative
6 2 (3.57%) Onboarding
6 2 (3.57%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.79%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.79%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 16 (28.57%) Unix
2 14 (25.00%) Windows
3 9 (16.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (7.14%) CentOS
4 4 (7.14%) Ubuntu
5 2 (3.57%) Debian
5 2 (3.57%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (1.79%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (58.93%) DevOps
2 30 (53.57%) Containerisation
3 22 (39.29%) CI/CD
4 21 (37.50%) Computer Science
5 18 (32.14%) Agile
6 17 (30.36%) Change Management
7 14 (25.00%) Microservices
7 14 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (25.00%) Validation
8 13 (23.21%) Infrastructure as Code
8 13 (23.21%) Root Cause Analysis
9 12 (21.43%) Dashboard Development
9 12 (21.43%) High Availability
9 12 (21.43%) Incident Response
9 12 (21.43%) Migration
9 12 (21.43%) Observability
9 12 (21.43%) SIEM
10 11 (19.64%) Data Modelling
10 11 (19.64%) Knowledge Transfer
10 11 (19.64%) Performance Metrics
Programming Languages
1 37 (66.07%) Python
2 16 (28.57%) Bash
3 13 (23.21%) Go
4 9 (16.07%) SQL
5 8 (14.29%) PowerShell
6 6 (10.71%) Java
7 2 (3.57%) C++
7 2 (3.57%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.79%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 21 (37.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 21 (37.50%) Degree
2 16 (28.57%) Security Cleared
3 13 (23.21%) SC Cleared
4 10 (17.86%) Master's Degree
5 5 (8.93%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (5.36%) AWS Certification
7 2 (3.57%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.79%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (1.79%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (1.79%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.79%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (7.14%) NIST
2 2 (3.57%) QA
System Software
1 27 (48.21%) Docker
2 8 (14.29%) Postfix
3 4 (7.14%) GPFS
3 4 (7.14%) NFS
4 2 (3.57%) Embedded Firmware
4 2 (3.57%) Firmware
4 2 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (1.79%) KVM
5 1 (1.79%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.79%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 26 (46.43%) Ansible
1 26 (46.43%) Kubernetes
2 17 (30.36%) Grafana
3 15 (26.79%) Terraform
4 11 (19.64%) Kibana
4 11 (19.64%) Prometheus
4 11 (19.64%) Puppet
5 2 (3.57%) Argo
6 1 (1.79%) vRealize
Vendors
1 29 (51.79%) Splunk
2 6 (10.71%) Google
3 5 (8.93%) Oracle
4 4 (7.14%) Atlassian
4 4 (7.14%) IBM
4 4 (7.14%) Jaspersoft
4 4 (7.14%) ServiceNow
5 3 (5.36%) CyberArk
5 3 (5.36%) SAP
6 2 (3.57%) Calypso
6 2 (3.57%) Foundry
6 2 (3.57%) Microsoft
6 2 (3.57%) VMware
7 1 (1.79%) Cisco
7 1 (1.79%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.79%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.79%) Remedy