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 6 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 30 22
Rank change year-on-year -24 -8 +6
Contract jobs citing Linux 18 27 37
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 1.95% 4.95% 5.48%
As % of the Operating Systems category 33.33% 36.99% 44.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 20 20
10th Percentile £408 £355 £372
25th Percentile £423 £463 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £638
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% -25.49% -5.56%
75th Percentile £488 £500 £750
90th Percentile £764 £508 £763
West Midlands median daily rate £470 £495 £550
% change year-on-year -5.05% -10.00% +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 54 73 83
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 5.86% 13.39% 12.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 56 50
10th Percentile £190 £110 £190
25th Percentile £231 £158 £301
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £300 £423
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% -28.99% +5.63%
75th Percentile £488 £488 £636
90th Percentile £638 £500 £750
West Midlands median daily rate £465 £448 £450
% change year-on-year +3.91% -0.56% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - £16.50
25th Percentile - - £17.25
Median hourly rate £16.09 £18.51 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.07% -2.58% +7.04%
75th Percentile - - £21.63
90th Percentile - - £22.90
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 6 August 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 (11.11%) Apache
1 2 (11.11%) CloudStack
1 2 (11.11%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 9 (50.00%) AWS
2 7 (38.89%) Azure
3 4 (22.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 4 (22.22%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (22.22%) Amazon S3
3 4 (22.22%) Amazon SQS
3 4 (22.22%) AWS KMS
3 4 (22.22%) Route 53
4 3 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (16.67%) OpenShift
5 2 (11.11%) GitHub
5 2 (11.11%) IaaS
6 1 (5.56%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 1 (5.56%) Datadog
6 1 (5.56%) GCP
6 1 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (5.56%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 4 (22.22%) NAS
1 4 (22.22%) SAN
2 2 (11.11%) Firewall
2 2 (11.11%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (22.22%) Amazon Aurora
1 4 (22.22%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (22.22%) DynamoDB
1 4 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (16.67%) SAP HANA
3 1 (5.56%) MongoDB
3 1 (5.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 5 (27.78%) Git
2 5 (27.78%) Mockito
3 4 (22.22%) DbUnit
3 4 (22.22%) jMock
3 4 (22.22%) JUnit
3 4 (22.22%) Maven
3 4 (22.22%) SonarQube
4 2 (11.11%) Bitbucket Server
4 2 (11.11%) GitLab
4 2 (11.11%) JIRA
5 1 (5.56%) Liquibase
General
1 4 (22.22%) Public Sector
2 2 (11.11%) Banking
2 2 (11.11%) Finance
2 2 (11.11%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Electronics
3 1 (5.56%) Investment Banking
3 1 (5.56%) Legal
Job Titles
1 5 (27.78%) Developer
1 5 (27.78%) Java Developer
2 3 (16.67%) Consultant
2 3 (16.67%) SAP Basis Consultant
2 3 (16.67%) SAP Consultant
3 2 (11.11%) Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Data Centre Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared Java Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Senior
4 1 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Cloud Software Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Investment Banking Systems Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (5.56%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Splunk Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Unix Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (27.78%) ActiveMQ
1 5 (27.78%) REST
2 4 (22.22%) AngularJS
2 4 (22.22%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (22.22%) Hibernate
2 4 (22.22%) JPA
2 4 (22.22%) Node.js
2 4 (22.22%) PowerMock
2 4 (22.22%) SOAP
2 4 (22.22%) Spring
2 4 (22.22%) Spring Batch
2 4 (22.22%) Spring Boot
2 4 (22.22%) Spring Cloud
2 4 (22.22%) Spring Integration
2 4 (22.22%) Web Services
3 3 (16.67%) RESTful
3 3 (16.67%) SAP Basis
4 2 (11.11%) Bootstrap
5 1 (5.56%) JAX-RS
5 1 (5.56%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 5 (27.78%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (22.22%) Data Centre
2 4 (22.22%) Replication
3 3 (16.67%) Public Cloud
4 2 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (5.56%) Cloud Native
5 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (5.56%) IoT
5 1 (5.56%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (5.56%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (22.22%) Unix
1 4 (22.22%) Windows
2 3 (16.67%) Windows Server
3 2 (11.11%) Ubuntu
4 1 (5.56%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (5.56%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) DevOps
2 8 (44.44%) Agile
3 7 (38.89%) CI/CD
3 7 (38.89%) Containerisation
4 6 (33.33%) Business Continuity
5 5 (27.78%) Microservices
5 5 (27.78%) Project Delivery
5 5 (27.78%) TDD
6 4 (22.22%) BPMN
6 4 (22.22%) ITIL
6 4 (22.22%) Performance Tuning
6 4 (22.22%) Root Cause Analysis
6 4 (22.22%) Scrum
7 3 (16.67%) BCP
7 3 (16.67%) BDD
7 3 (16.67%) Capacity Planning
7 3 (16.67%) Data Protection
7 3 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
7 3 (16.67%) Migration
7 3 (16.67%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (33.33%) Java
2 3 (16.67%) SQL
3 2 (11.11%) Go
3 2 (11.11%) Python
4 1 (5.56%) Bash
4 1 (5.56%) C
4 1 (5.56%) C++
4 1 (5.56%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.56%) Kotlin
4 1 (5.56%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (27.78%) Security Cleared
2 4 (22.22%) AWS Certification
2 4 (22.22%) Azure Certification
2 4 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 2 (11.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (11.11%) CCNP
3 2 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (11.11%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (5.56%) DV Cleared
4 1 (5.56%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 6 (33.33%) Docker
2 5 (27.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (22.22%) Postfix
4 3 (16.67%) vSphere
5 1 (5.56%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (5.56%) Firmware
5 1 (5.56%) GPFS
5 1 (5.56%) KVM
5 1 (5.56%) NFS
5 1 (5.56%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (5.56%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 8 (44.44%) Grafana
2 5 (27.78%) Kubernetes
3 4 (22.22%) Prometheus
4 3 (16.67%) Ansible
4 3 (16.67%) Terraform
5 2 (11.11%) Check_MK
6 1 (5.56%) Progress Chef
6 1 (5.56%) Puppet
6 1 (5.56%) vRealize
Vendors
1 5 (27.78%) VMware
2 4 (22.22%) Atlassian
2 4 (22.22%) Jaspersoft
3 3 (16.67%) Cisco
3 3 (16.67%) SAP
3 3 (16.67%) Splunk
4 2 (11.11%) Commvault
4 2 (11.11%) Fortinet
4 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
4 2 (11.11%) Veeam
5 1 (5.56%) Google
5 1 (5.56%) IBM
5 1 (5.56%) Oracle
5 1 (5.56%) Red Hat
5 1 (5.56%) Remedy
5 1 (5.56%) ServiceNow