Linux Contracts in the Midlands

Linux
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for Linux skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Linux over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 33 29 32
Rank change year-on-year -4 +3 +9
Contract jobs citing Linux 125 216 278
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 4.55% 6.33% 5.54%
As % of the Operating Systems category 29.48% 34.12% 27.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 142 184
10th Percentile £325 £413 £275
25th Percentile £410 £480 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £540 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +13.68% +18.75%
75th Percentile £583 £634 £540
90th Percentile £750 £699 £634
England median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 2
10th Percentile - £12.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £67.50 £14.38 £15.88
Median hourly rate £70.00 £18.00 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +288.89% +5.88% -66.00%
75th Percentile £72.50 £36.13 £18.38
90th Percentile - £46.70 £18.90
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% +25.00%

All Operating Systems
Midlands

Linux is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 424 633 1,004
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 15.45% 18.56% 19.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 273 431 669
10th Percentile £146 £158 £140
25th Percentile £200 £250 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £463 £375
Median % change year-on-year -18.92% +23.33% +4.17%
75th Percentile £538 £554 £500
90th Percentile £605 £688 £577
England median daily rate £463 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -9.76% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 38 72
10th Percentile £12.98 £11.80 £12.58
25th Percentile £14.27 £14.64 £14.77
Median hourly rate £18.00 £17.61 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.21% +3.59% +6.25%
75th Percentile £23.75 £19.98 £22.38
90th Percentile - £30.61 £24.45
England median hourly rate £22.00 £38.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year -42.86% +75.00% +23.80%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Linux in the Midlands

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Linux in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Linux in the Midlands

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in the Midlands over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in the Midlands

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Linux in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Linux in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 3 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Midlands -15 80 £550 +1.85% 61
East Midlands +30 44 £529 +17.57% 58
Linux
England

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (4.00%) JBoss
2 4 (3.20%) CMS
3 3 (2.40%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.40%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.60%) IIS
4 2 (1.60%) WordPress
5 1 (0.80%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.80%) Confluence
5 1 (0.80%) nginx
5 1 (0.80%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 2 (1.60%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 2 (1.60%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
1 2 (1.60%) RMDS
2 1 (0.80%) MFGPRO
2 1 (0.80%) Sage 50
2 1 (0.80%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 15 (12.00%) Azure
2 14 (11.20%) AWS
3 6 (4.80%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (4.80%) OpenShift
4 4 (3.20%) Azure Sentinel
5 3 (2.40%) Amazon S3
5 3 (2.40%) Entra ID
6 2 (1.60%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (1.60%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (1.60%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (1.60%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (1.60%) OneDrive
6 2 (1.60%) Serverless
7 1 (0.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (0.80%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (0.80%) AWS CloudTrail
7 1 (0.80%) Azure AKS
7 1 (0.80%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.80%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 21 (16.80%) SAN
2 17 (13.60%) Firewall
3 16 (12.80%) DNS
4 14 (11.20%) Fibre Channel
4 14 (11.20%) Intrusion Detection
4 14 (11.20%) Network Security
4 14 (11.20%) WAN
5 13 (10.40%) TCP/IP
6 10 (8.00%) DHCP
7 9 (7.20%) LAN
8 5 (4.00%) SD-WAN
8 5 (4.00%) VPN
9 4 (3.20%) Remote Desktop
9 4 (3.20%) Wireless
10 2 (1.60%) iSCSI
10 2 (1.60%) NAS
11 1 (0.80%) InfiniBand
11 1 (0.80%) LTE
11 1 (0.80%) Multicast
11 1 (0.80%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (13.60%) Elasticsearch
2 13 (10.40%) Big Data
3 9 (7.20%) Relational Database
4 7 (5.60%) RDBMS
5 5 (4.00%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.60%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.80%) Apache Hive
7 1 (0.80%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.80%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (0.80%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.80%) InterSystems Cache
7 1 (0.80%) MySQL
7 1 (0.80%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.80%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.80%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (5.60%) Git
2 6 (4.80%) Jenkins
2 6 (4.80%) JIRA
2 6 (4.80%) TeamCity
3 5 (4.00%) Bitbucket Server
3 5 (4.00%) CA Release Automation
3 5 (4.00%) SonarQube
3 5 (4.00%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.80%) Ant
4 1 (0.80%) GitLab
4 1 (0.80%) Gradle
4 1 (0.80%) IDA Disassembler
4 1 (0.80%) JUnit
4 1 (0.80%) Maven
General
1 19 (15.20%) Social Skills
2 18 (14.40%) Analytical Skills
2 18 (14.40%) Public Sector
3 11 (8.80%) Legal
4 8 (6.40%) Finance
5 4 (3.20%) Manufacturing
6 3 (2.40%) Banking
7 2 (1.60%) Automotive
7 2 (1.60%) Games
7 2 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.60%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.80%) Fire and Rescue
8 1 (0.80%) Law
8 1 (0.80%) Military
8 1 (0.80%) Police
Job Titles
1 18 (14.40%) Analyst
2 15 (12.00%) SOC Analyst
3 12 (9.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 12 (9.60%) SIEM Engineer
4 11 (8.80%) Senior
4 11 (8.80%) Support Engineer
5 10 (8.00%) Administrator
6 8 (6.40%) Developer
7 6 (4.80%) Architect
7 6 (4.80%) Principal Engineer
7 6 (4.80%) Systems Administrator
8 5 (4.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
8 5 (4.00%) Backup Engineer
8 5 (4.00%) Cloud Engineer
8 5 (4.00%) DevOps Engineer
8 5 (4.00%) Lead
8 5 (4.00%) Linux Engineer
8 5 (4.00%) Python Developer
8 5 (4.00%) Storage Engineer
8 5 (4.00%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (12.80%) Elastic Stack
2 13 (10.40%) Apache NiFi
3 5 (4.00%) Spring Boot
4 2 (1.60%) .NET
4 2 (1.60%) LAMP
4 2 (1.60%) Middleware
4 2 (1.60%) Spring
5 1 (0.80%) ASP.NET
5 1 (0.80%) ASP.NET Core
5 1 (0.80%) ASP.NET Web Forms
5 1 (0.80%) EDI
5 1 (0.80%) Guice
5 1 (0.80%) Kafka
5 1 (0.80%) OLE
5 1 (0.80%) OpenMP
5 1 (0.80%) React
5 1 (0.80%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 17 (13.60%) Linux Command Line
2 13 (10.40%) Cyber Defence
2 13 (10.40%) Distributed Applications
3 10 (8.00%) Management Information System
4 7 (5.60%) Security Operations Centre
5 6 (4.80%) HP Storage
6 5 (4.00%) Algorithms
7 4 (3.20%) Cyberattack
7 4 (3.20%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (3.20%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 4 (3.20%) PKI
7 4 (3.20%) Public Cloud
8 3 (2.40%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (2.40%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.60%) Clustering
9 2 (1.60%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 2 (1.60%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.60%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (1.60%) Replication
10 1 (0.80%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 79 (63.20%) Windows
2 27 (21.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 25 (20.00%) Ubuntu
4 24 (19.20%) Unix
5 14 (11.20%) Android
6 13 (10.40%) Apple iOS
6 13 (10.40%) Windows Server
7 12 (9.60%) Mac OS X
8 10 (8.00%) AIX
9 9 (7.20%) Solaris
10 6 (4.80%) Debian
11 5 (4.00%) CentOS
12 4 (3.20%) Windows Server 2019
13 3 (2.40%) Windows Server 2016
14 2 (1.60%) VMS
14 2 (1.60%) Windows Server 2012
15 1 (0.80%) Embedded Linux
15 1 (0.80%) SUSE
15 1 (0.80%) Windows Server 2008
15 1 (0.80%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (38.40%) Cybersecurity
2 44 (35.20%) SIEM
3 20 (16.00%) Data Pipeline
4 18 (14.40%) Data Engineering
5 16 (12.80%) Security Operations
5 16 (12.80%) Visualisation
6 15 (12.00%) ITIL
6 15 (12.00%) Security Architecture
7 13 (10.40%) Actionable Insight
7 13 (10.40%) Data Management
7 13 (10.40%) Information Security
7 13 (10.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 13 (10.40%) Infrastructure Monitoring
7 13 (10.40%) Kalman Filter
7 13 (10.40%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (10.40%) Vulnerability Management
8 12 (9.60%) Analytics
8 12 (9.60%) Incident Management
8 12 (9.60%) Malware Reverse Engineering
8 12 (9.60%) MITRE ATT&CK
Programming Languages
1 17 (13.60%) Python
2 11 (8.80%) Bash
2 11 (8.80%) PowerShell
3 10 (8.00%) SQL
4 9 (7.20%) Java
5 8 (6.40%) R
6 7 (5.60%) C#
6 7 (5.60%) Perl
7 5 (4.00%) Shell Script
8 4 (3.20%) C++
9 3 (2.40%) C
10 2 (1.60%) Embedded C
10 2 (1.60%) Embedded C++
10 2 (1.60%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.80%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.80%) Scala
11 1 (0.80%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.80%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 72 (57.60%) Security Cleared
2 40 (32.00%) SC Cleared
3 33 (26.40%) DV Cleared
4 2 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.60%) Degree
5 1 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.80%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (0.80%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (14.40%) NIST
2 17 (13.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 14 (11.20%) GDPR
4 13 (10.40%) Actionable Recommendations
5 11 (8.80%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 11 (8.80%) HIPAA
6 5 (4.00%) ISO 9000
7 2 (1.60%) AUTOSAR
7 2 (1.60%) QA
8 1 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.80%) SLA
System Software
1 27 (21.60%) Active Directory
2 12 (9.60%) Docker
2 12 (9.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (7.20%) iptables
3 9 (7.20%) VMware ESXi
3 9 (7.20%) VMware NSX
4 7 (5.60%) vSphere
5 6 (4.80%) Hyper-V
6 4 (3.20%) VMware Server
7 1 (0.80%) Embedded Firmware
7 1 (0.80%) Firmware
7 1 (0.80%) KVM
7 1 (0.80%) Lustre
7 1 (0.80%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.80%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.80%) Snort
7 1 (0.80%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 17 (13.60%) Kibana
2 11 (8.80%) Kubernetes
2 11 (8.80%) logstash
3 9 (7.20%) EMC NetWorker
3 9 (7.20%) SCCM
3 9 (7.20%) vCenter Server
4 7 (5.60%) NetBackup
5 6 (4.80%) HP Data Protector
5 6 (4.80%) Progress Chef
6 5 (4.00%) Ansible
7 4 (3.20%) Terraform
8 3 (2.40%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (1.60%) Red Hat Satellite
10 1 (0.80%) Argo
10 1 (0.80%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.80%) Istio
10 1 (0.80%) linkerd
10 1 (0.80%) PowerBroker
10 1 (0.80%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.80%) SELinux
Vendors
1 30 (24.00%) Red Hat
2 22 (17.60%) VMware
3 20 (16.00%) Microsoft
4 15 (12.00%) Cisco
5 11 (8.80%) Splunk
6 10 (8.00%) EMC
7 9 (7.20%) HP
8 8 (6.40%) Brocade
8 8 (6.40%) Oracle
8 8 (6.40%) Veeam
9 6 (4.80%) Symantec
10 5 (4.00%) AppDynamics
11 4 (3.20%) Darktrace
11 4 (3.20%) FireEye
11 4 (3.20%) LogRhythm
12 3 (2.40%) Aruba
12 3 (2.40%) Fujitsu
12 3 (2.40%) Sage
13 2 (1.60%) Bloomberg
13 2 (1.60%) ProCurve