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

 6 months to
25 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 32 31
Rank change year-on-year -26 -1 -1
Contract jobs citing Linux 24 21 29
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 2.56% 4.03% 3.78%
As % of the Operating Systems category 38.71% 29.17% 37.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 16 16
10th Percentile £405 £463 £308
25th Percentile £413 £491 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £481
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% +3.90% -28.70%
75th Percentile £603 £658 £750
90th Percentile £619 £691 £875
West Midlands median daily rate £471 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -5.85% -9.09% -

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 62 72 78
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 6.61% 13.82% 10.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 55 51
10th Percentile £165 £109 £190
25th Percentile £250 £155 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £400 £350
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +14.29% -17.65%
75th Percentile £507 £500 £538
90th Percentile £619 £689 £656
West Midlands median daily rate £459 £400 £438
% change year-on-year +14.63% -8.57% -2.78%
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% +0.06%
75th Percentile - - £20.56
90th Percentile - - £22.48
West Midlands median hourly rate £63.14 £17.83 £22.50
% change year-on-year +254.04% -20.74% +16.88%

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 June 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 (12.50%) Apache
1 3 (12.50%) Confluence
2 2 (8.33%) CloudStack
3 1 (4.17%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 9 (37.50%) AWS
2 8 (33.33%) Azure
3 4 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 4 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (16.67%) Amazon S3
3 4 (16.67%) Amazon SQS
3 4 (16.67%) AWS KMS
3 4 (16.67%) Route 53
4 3 (12.50%) IaaS
5 2 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (8.33%) OpenShift
6 1 (4.17%) GCP
6 1 (4.17%) GitHub
6 1 (4.17%) PaaS
6 1 (4.17%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.67%) NAS
1 4 (16.67%) SAN
2 2 (8.33%) Firewall
2 2 (8.33%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.83%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (16.67%) Amazon Aurora
2 4 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (16.67%) DynamoDB
3 3 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (12.50%) SAP HANA
4 1 (4.17%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (20.83%) Git
1 5 (20.83%) Jenkins
2 4 (16.67%) DbUnit
2 4 (16.67%) jMock
2 4 (16.67%) JUnit
2 4 (16.67%) Maven
2 4 (16.67%) Mockito
2 4 (16.67%) SonarQube
3 3 (12.50%) JIRA
4 2 (8.33%) Bitbucket Server
5 1 (4.17%) GitLab
5 1 (4.17%) Liquibase
General
1 5 (20.83%) Public Sector
1 5 (20.83%) Social Skills
2 4 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.33%) Banking
3 2 (8.33%) Finance
4 1 (4.17%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (16.67%) Analyst
1 4 (16.67%) Developer
1 4 (16.67%) Java Developer
2 3 (12.50%) Architect
2 3 (12.50%) Consultant
2 3 (12.50%) SAP Basis Consultant
2 3 (12.50%) SAP Consultant
2 3 (12.50%) Site Engineer
2 3 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 3 (12.50%) Splunk Engineer
2 3 (12.50%) Storage Analyst
3 2 (8.33%) CyberArk Architect
3 2 (8.33%) Data Centre Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 1 (4.17%) Cloud Software Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Data Centre Analyst
4 1 (4.17%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (20.83%) REST
3 4 (16.67%) ActiveMQ
3 4 (16.67%) AngularJS
3 4 (16.67%) Hibernate
3 4 (16.67%) JPA
3 4 (16.67%) Node.js
3 4 (16.67%) PowerMock
3 4 (16.67%) SOAP
3 4 (16.67%) Spring
3 4 (16.67%) Spring Batch
3 4 (16.67%) Spring Boot
3 4 (16.67%) Spring Cloud
3 4 (16.67%) Spring Integration
3 4 (16.67%) Web Services
4 3 (12.50%) Flash
4 3 (12.50%) RESTful
4 3 (12.50%) SAP Basis
5 2 (8.33%) Bootstrap
5 2 (8.33%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 6 (25.00%) Replication
2 4 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 4 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (12.50%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (12.50%) Management Information System
3 3 (12.50%) Public Cloud
4 2 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (4.17%) Cloud Native
5 1 (4.17%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 9 (37.50%) Unix
2 8 (33.33%) Windows
3 3 (12.50%) Windows Server
4 2 (8.33%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (58.33%) DevOps
2 10 (41.67%) Containerisation
3 8 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 7 (29.17%) Agile
4 7 (29.17%) Migration
5 6 (25.00%) Observability
6 5 (20.83%) Business Continuity
6 5 (20.83%) Project Delivery
7 4 (16.67%) BPMN
7 4 (16.67%) Change Management
7 4 (16.67%) Dashboard Development
7 4 (16.67%) ITIL
7 4 (16.67%) Microservices
7 4 (16.67%) Scrum
7 4 (16.67%) TDD
7 4 (16.67%) Validation
8 3 (12.50%) Data Ingestion
8 3 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 3 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 6 (25.00%) Python
2 5 (20.83%) Java
2 5 (20.83%) SQL
3 4 (16.67%) Bash
4 3 (12.50%) PowerShell
5 1 (4.17%) Bicep
5 1 (4.17%) Go
5 1 (4.17%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.17%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 8 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 8 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 4 (16.67%) AWS Certification
2 4 (16.67%) Azure Certification
3 3 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (12.50%) Degree
4 2 (8.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (8.33%) CCNP
4 2 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (8.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (4.17%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (8.33%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (37.50%) Docker
2 5 (20.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (16.67%) Postfix
4 3 (12.50%) GPFS
4 3 (12.50%) NFS
4 3 (12.50%) vSphere
5 1 (4.17%) KVM
5 1 (4.17%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (4.17%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 9 (37.50%) Kubernetes
2 7 (29.17%) Grafana
3 5 (20.83%) Ansible
4 3 (12.50%) Kibana
4 3 (12.50%) Prometheus
4 3 (12.50%) Puppet
4 3 (12.50%) Terraform
5 2 (8.33%) Check_MK
6 1 (4.17%) vRealize
Vendors
1 5 (20.83%) Splunk
1 5 (20.83%) VMware
2 4 (16.67%) Atlassian
2 4 (16.67%) Jaspersoft
2 4 (16.67%) Oracle
3 3 (12.50%) Cisco
3 3 (12.50%) IBM
3 3 (12.50%) SAP
3 3 (12.50%) ServiceNow
4 2 (8.33%) Commvault
4 2 (8.33%) CyberArk
4 2 (8.33%) Fortinet
4 2 (8.33%) Microsoft
4 2 (8.33%) Veeam
5 1 (4.17%) Dynatrace
5 1 (4.17%) Google
5 1 (4.17%) Red Hat
5 1 (4.17%) Remedy
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