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 25 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 24 37
Rank change year-on-year +10 +13 +18
Contract jobs citing Linux 74 58 27
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 10.48% 7.98% 3.51%
As % of the Operating Systems category 63.79% 48.74% 29.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 33 13
10th Percentile £400 £387 £295
25th Percentile £463 £426 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £545 £675 £725
90th Percentile £630 £765 £750
West Midlands median daily rate £515 £550 £480
% change year-on-year -6.36% +14.58% -10.78%

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 116 119 91
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 16.43% 16.37% 11.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 75 65
10th Percentile £181 £190 £178
25th Percentile £300 £211 £220
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £400 £400
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% - +16.79%
75th Percentile £537 £575 £463
90th Percentile £612 £720 £600
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £449 £375
% change year-on-year +5.79% +19.73% -24.24%
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 £19.25
% change year-on-year -8.09% +12.16% +17.16%

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 25 November 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 22 (29.73%) Confluence
2 9 (12.16%) nginx
3 6 (8.11%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (8.11%) Apache Spark
4 4 (5.41%) Apache
5 2 (2.70%) OpenStack
Applications
1 9 (12.16%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.35%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 36 (48.65%) AWS
2 27 (36.49%) AWS KMS
3 25 (33.78%) Amazon S3
4 23 (31.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 23 (31.08%) Amazon EC2
5 21 (28.38%) Amazon ELB
5 21 (28.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 16 (21.62%) GCP
7 14 (18.92%) Serverless
8 12 (16.22%) Amazon Glacier
8 12 (16.22%) Azure
9 11 (14.86%) Route 53
10 9 (12.16%) Amazon ECS
10 9 (12.16%) GitHub
10 9 (12.16%) Microsoft 365
11 7 (9.46%) GitHub Actions
12 2 (2.70%) Amazon SQS
13 1 (1.35%) Azure Sentinel
13 1 (1.35%) IaaS
13 1 (1.35%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 25 (33.78%) SMTP
2 23 (31.08%) SSH
3 22 (29.73%) DNS
3 22 (29.73%) Firewall
4 21 (28.38%) FTP
4 21 (28.38%) HTTP
5 9 (12.16%) IMAP
5 9 (12.16%) OpenLDAP
6 4 (5.41%) DKIM
6 4 (5.41%) DMARC
6 4 (5.41%) TCP/IP
7 2 (2.70%) Wireless
8 1 (1.35%) Internet
8 1 (1.35%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (31.08%) Amazon RDS
2 22 (29.73%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (21.62%) NoSQL
4 11 (14.86%) Amazon Aurora
5 6 (8.11%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (8.11%) Hadoop
6 4 (5.41%) Apache Hive
6 4 (5.41%) HBase
7 2 (2.70%) Big Data
7 2 (2.70%) Delta Lake
7 2 (2.70%) DynamoDB
7 2 (2.70%) Oracle Database
7 2 (2.70%) Oracle Database 12c
7 2 (2.70%) Parquet
8 1 (1.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 45 (60.81%) Jenkins
2 27 (36.49%) Git
3 24 (32.43%) JIRA
4 21 (28.38%) Vagrant
5 16 (21.62%) GitLab
6 10 (13.51%) Liquibase
7 5 (6.76%) SonarQube
8 3 (4.05%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (2.70%) Bitbucket Server
9 2 (2.70%) CircleCI
9 2 (2.70%) DbUnit
9 2 (2.70%) Jaeger
9 2 (2.70%) jMock
9 2 (2.70%) JUnit
9 2 (2.70%) Maven
9 2 (2.70%) MLflow
9 2 (2.70%) Mockito
9 2 (2.70%) Poetry
9 2 (2.70%) PyCharm
9 2 (2.70%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 37 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 29 (39.19%) Public Sector
3 15 (20.27%) Finance
4 10 (13.51%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (13.51%) Financial Institution
5 9 (12.16%) Banking
5 9 (12.16%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (5.41%) Manufacturing
6 4 (5.41%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.70%) Electronics
7 2 (2.70%) Marketing
7 2 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (32.43%) DevOps Engineer
2 22 (29.73%) AWS Engineer
3 17 (22.97%) AWS DevOps
3 17 (22.97%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 16 (21.62%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 16 (21.62%) Platform Engineer
5 11 (14.86%) Cloud Engineer
6 9 (12.16%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 9 (12.16%) GCP Engineer
6 9 (12.16%) Software Engineer
7 8 (10.81%) Developer
7 8 (10.81%) DevOps Platform Engineer
8 7 (9.46%) Senior
8 7 (9.46%) Senior Software Engineer
9 6 (8.11%) Cloud Software Engineer
9 6 (8.11%) Site Engineer
9 6 (8.11%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 6 (8.11%) Splunk Engineer
10 5 (6.76%) AWS Software Engineer
11 4 (5.41%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (32.43%) Elastic Stack
2 16 (21.62%) REST
2 16 (21.62%) RESTful
3 13 (17.57%) LDAP
4 4 (5.41%) Spark Streaming
4 4 (5.41%) Spring
5 3 (4.05%) Flask
5 3 (4.05%) NumPy
5 3 (4.05%) Pandas
6 2 (2.70%) ActiveMQ
6 2 (2.70%) AngularJS
6 2 (2.70%) Apache Avro
6 2 (2.70%) Bootstrap
6 2 (2.70%) Kafka
6 2 (2.70%) PowerMock
6 2 (2.70%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (2.70%) Spring Batch
6 2 (2.70%) Spring Boot
6 2 (2.70%) Spring Cloud
6 2 (2.70%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 21 (28.38%) Replication
2 14 (18.92%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (18.92%) Public Cloud
3 10 (13.51%) Cloud Native
4 7 (9.46%) Management Information System
5 3 (4.05%) Data Centre
5 3 (4.05%) SCADA
6 2 (2.70%) Derivative
6 2 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.70%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.70%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.35%) Cyberattack
7 1 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.35%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.35%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 30 (40.54%) Windows
2 21 (28.38%) Amazon Linux
2 21 (28.38%) VMS
3 13 (17.57%) Ubuntu
4 9 (12.16%) Unix
5 6 (8.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (5.41%) CentOS
7 3 (4.05%) Mac OS X
8 2 (2.70%) Debian
8 2 (2.70%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (70.27%) DevOps
2 37 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 35 (47.30%) Change Management
4 29 (39.19%) Containerisation
5 24 (32.43%) Configuration Management
6 23 (31.08%) Cloud Security
7 21 (28.38%) Patch Management
7 21 (28.38%) Platform Engineering
8 20 (27.03%) Agile
8 20 (27.03%) Computer Science
9 16 (21.62%) High Availability
9 16 (21.62%) Microservices
9 16 (21.62%) Problem-Solving
10 15 (20.27%) Infrastructure as Code
11 14 (18.92%) Cryptography
11 14 (18.92%) Root Cause Analysis
12 12 (16.22%) SIEM
12 12 (16.22%) Software Engineering
13 11 (14.86%) Cybersecurity
13 11 (14.86%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 61 (82.43%) Python
2 25 (33.78%) PowerShell
3 24 (32.43%) Groovy
3 24 (32.43%) SQL
4 18 (24.32%) Go
5 16 (21.62%) Java
6 15 (20.27%) Bash
7 12 (16.22%) Perl
8 7 (9.46%) Shell Script
9 3 (4.05%) JavaScript
10 2 (2.70%) C++
10 2 (2.70%) PL/SQL
11 1 (1.35%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 34 (45.95%) Security Cleared
2 32 (43.24%) SC Cleared
3 30 (40.54%) Degree
4 20 (27.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (16.22%) Master's Degree
6 11 (14.86%) AWS Certification
7 9 (12.16%) Azure Certification
8 4 (5.41%) DV Cleared
9 2 (2.70%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (2.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (2.70%) OCP
9 2 (2.70%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (2.70%) NIST
1 2 (2.70%) QA
2 1 (1.35%) SLA
System Software
1 48 (64.86%) Docker
2 21 (28.38%) DFS Replication
3 15 (20.27%) Postfix
4 12 (16.22%) Active Directory
5 9 (12.16%) Dovecot
5 9 (12.16%) Squid
6 4 (5.41%) HDFS
7 2 (2.70%) Embedded Firmware
7 2 (2.70%) Firmware
7 2 (2.70%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (1.35%) Snort
Systems Management
1 41 (55.41%) Grafana
2 39 (52.70%) Prometheus
3 38 (51.35%) Terraform
4 27 (36.49%) Ansible
5 25 (33.78%) Kubernetes
6 9 (12.16%) Nessus
6 9 (12.16%) Proxmox
6 9 (12.16%) Puppet
7 6 (8.11%) Kibana
8 4 (5.41%) Argo
8 4 (5.41%) Hadoop YARN
9 2 (2.70%) Data Guard
9 2 (2.70%) Istio
9 2 (2.70%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 2 (2.70%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 23 (31.08%) Splunk
2 21 (28.38%) ServiceNow
3 11 (14.86%) Jaspersoft
4 7 (9.46%) Microsoft
5 6 (8.11%) Google
6 2 (2.70%) Atlassian
6 2 (2.70%) Calypso
6 2 (2.70%) Cloudera
6 2 (2.70%) Foundry
6 2 (2.70%) Oracle
6 2 (2.70%) Red Hat
6 2 (2.70%) SAP
7 1 (1.35%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.35%) VMware