Linux Contracts in the West Midlands

Linux
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 37 24 26
Rank change year-on-year -13 +2 +15
Contract jobs citing Linux 77 186 232
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 4.00% 7.82% 6.53%
As % of the Operating Systems category 31.56% 45.04% 35.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 125 152
10th Percentile £394 £449 £276
25th Percentile £413 £503 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £460
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% +17.39% +15.00%
75th Percentile £624 £625 £540
90th Percentile £838 £700 £625
England median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile - £20.88 £15.50
25th Percentile £67.50 £25.94 £15.88
Median hourly rate £70.00 £35.25 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +98.58% +107.35% -66.00%
75th Percentile £72.50 £44.94 £18.38
90th Percentile - £50.23 £18.90
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% +20.00%

All Operating Systems
West 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 West Midlands with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 244 413 653
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 12.68% 17.35% 18.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 277 449
10th Percentile £185 £171 £150
25th Percentile £251 £350 £203
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £505 £405
Median % change year-on-year -15.84% +24.69% +11.72%
75th Percentile £550 £560 £519
90th Percentile £698 £694 £600
England median daily rate £463 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -9.76% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 9 36
10th Percentile £14.83 £14.71 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £15.25 £13.84
Median hourly rate £22.50 £16.94 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year +32.86% +2.64% -
75th Percentile £23.75 £18.50 £20.00
90th Percentile £48.13 £25.75 £23.00
England median hourly rate £22.00 £37.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -41.33% +74.42% +19.44%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in the West Midlands

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Linux in the West Midlands

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in the West Midlands

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux in the West Midlands

Linux
Contract Job Locations in the West 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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Birmingham -14 29 £438 -27.08% 25
Herefordshire +6 25 £550 -15.38% 9
Worcestershire +6 8 £550 -15.38% 13
Solihull -17 3 £175 -62.37% 2
Coventry +9 2 £500 -28.57% 1
Warwickshire -1 2 £513 -21.15% 1
Staffordshire +6 1 - - 8
Dudley -2 1 £425 +51.79% 1
Shropshire -15 1 - - 4
Linux
England

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West 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 4 (5.19%) CMS
2 3 (3.90%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.60%) IIS
3 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.60%) WordPress
4 1 (1.30%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.30%) Confluence
4 1 (1.30%) OpenEdge
Business Applications
1 1 (1.30%) MFGPRO
1 1 (1.30%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
1 1 (1.30%) RMDS
1 1 (1.30%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 10 (12.99%) Azure
2 5 (6.49%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (5.19%) AWS
4 3 (3.90%) Amazon S3
4 3 (3.90%) Entra ID
5 2 (2.60%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (2.60%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (2.60%) OneDrive
6 1 (1.30%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (1.30%) Azure AKS
6 1 (1.30%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.30%) GCP
6 1 (1.30%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 15 (19.48%) Firewall
2 14 (18.18%) Intrusion Detection
2 14 (18.18%) Network Security
3 13 (16.88%) DNS
4 9 (11.69%) WAN
5 7 (9.09%) DHCP
5 7 (9.09%) TCP/IP
6 5 (6.49%) SD-WAN
7 4 (5.19%) LAN
7 4 (5.19%) SAN
7 4 (5.19%) VPN
7 4 (5.19%) Wireless
8 3 (3.90%) Fibre Channel
9 2 (2.60%) Bluetooth
9 2 (2.60%) iSCSI
9 2 (2.60%) NAS
10 1 (1.30%) Remote Desktop
10 1 (1.30%) tcpdump
10 1 (1.30%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (16.88%) Big Data
2 12 (15.58%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (3.90%) Relational Database
3 3 (3.90%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.30%) Apache Hive
4 1 (1.30%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.30%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.30%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.30%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.30%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (2.60%) Git
2 1 (1.30%) Ant
2 1 (1.30%) Gradle
2 1 (1.30%) IDA Disassembler
2 1 (1.30%) JIRA
2 1 (1.30%) JUnit
2 1 (1.30%) Maven
2 1 (1.30%) TeamCity
General
1 17 (22.08%) Analytical Skills
2 12 (15.58%) Public Sector
3 11 (14.29%) Social Skills
4 10 (12.99%) Legal
5 6 (7.79%) Finance
6 2 (2.60%) Games
6 2 (2.60%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.30%) Banking
7 1 (1.30%) Fire and Rescue
7 1 (1.30%) Law
7 1 (1.30%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.30%) Military
7 1 (1.30%) Police
7 1 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (18.18%) Analyst
1 14 (18.18%) SOC Analyst
2 12 (15.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 12 (15.58%) SIEM Engineer
3 7 (9.09%) Senior
4 6 (7.79%) Principal Engineer
5 5 (6.49%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 5 (6.49%) WAN Engineer
6 4 (5.19%) 2nd Line Support
6 4 (5.19%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 4 (5.19%) Security Engineer
6 4 (5.19%) Support Engineer
7 3 (3.90%) Architect
7 3 (3.90%) Consultant
7 3 (3.90%) Cybersecurity Engineer
7 3 (3.90%) Developer
7 3 (3.90%) Linux Engineer
7 3 (3.90%) Network Engineer
7 3 (3.90%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (2.60%) Elasticsearch Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (16.88%) Apache NiFi
2 11 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (2.60%) .NET
3 2 (2.60%) LAMP
3 2 (2.60%) Middleware
3 2 (2.60%) Spring
3 2 (2.60%) Yocto
4 1 (1.30%) ASP.NET
4 1 (1.30%) ASP.NET Core
4 1 (1.30%) ASP.NET Web Forms
4 1 (1.30%) Guice
4 1 (1.30%) Kafka
4 1 (1.30%) OLE
4 1 (1.30%) React
Miscellaneous
1 15 (19.48%) Linux Command Line
2 13 (16.88%) Cyber Defence
2 13 (16.88%) Distributed Applications
3 10 (12.99%) Management Information System
4 7 (9.09%) Security Operations Centre
5 5 (6.49%) Algorithms
6 4 (5.19%) Cyberattack
7 3 (3.90%) Data Structures
7 3 (3.90%) Public Cloud
8 2 (2.60%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 2 (2.60%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (2.60%) Device Driver
8 2 (2.60%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (2.60%) Replication
9 1 (1.30%) Client/Server
9 1 (1.30%) Data Centre
9 1 (1.30%) Mobile App
9 1 (1.30%) PKI
9 1 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (1.30%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 53 (68.83%) Windows
2 23 (29.87%) Unix
3 14 (18.18%) Ubuntu
4 13 (16.88%) Android
4 13 (16.88%) Apple iOS
5 11 (14.29%) Mac OS X
6 9 (11.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (10.39%) Windows Server
8 3 (3.90%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (3.90%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (2.60%) CentOS
9 2 (2.60%) Embedded Linux
9 2 (2.60%) VMS
10 1 (1.30%) Debian
10 1 (1.30%) HPUX
10 1 (1.30%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (1.30%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (55.84%) SIEM
2 40 (51.95%) Cybersecurity
3 20 (25.97%) Data Pipeline
4 16 (20.78%) Visualisation
5 15 (19.48%) Security Architecture
5 15 (19.48%) Security Operations
6 13 (16.88%) Actionable Insight
6 13 (16.88%) Data Engineering
6 13 (16.88%) Data Management
6 13 (16.88%) Information Security
6 13 (16.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 13 (16.88%) Infrastructure Monitoring
6 13 (16.88%) Kalman Filter
7 12 (15.58%) Risk Management
7 12 (15.58%) Vulnerability Management
8 11 (14.29%) Analytics
8 11 (14.29%) Incident Management
8 11 (14.29%) Malware Reverse Engineering
8 11 (14.29%) MITRE ATT&CK
8 11 (14.29%) Reverse Engineering
Programming Languages
1 9 (11.69%) Java
2 8 (10.39%) R
3 7 (9.09%) C#
4 6 (7.79%) Python
5 4 (5.19%) Bash
5 4 (5.19%) PowerShell
6 3 (3.90%) C++
7 2 (2.60%) Perl
7 2 (2.60%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.30%) C
8 1 (1.30%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.30%) Scala
8 1 (1.30%) SQL
8 1 (1.30%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.30%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 45 (58.44%) Security Cleared
2 20 (25.97%) DV Cleared
3 18 (23.38%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.60%) Degree
5 1 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.30%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (22.08%) NIST
2 13 (16.88%) Actionable Recommendations
3 11 (14.29%) GDPR
3 11 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (12.99%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 10 (12.99%) HIPAA
5 5 (6.49%) ISO 9000
6 2 (2.60%) QA
7 1 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 16 (20.78%) Active Directory
2 9 (11.69%) iptables
3 8 (10.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (7.79%) VMware ESXi
4 6 (7.79%) VMware NSX
5 3 (3.90%) vSphere
6 2 (2.60%) Docker
6 2 (2.60%) Embedded Firmware
6 2 (2.60%) Firmware
6 2 (2.60%) Hyper-V
7 1 (1.30%) Snort
7 1 (1.30%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (1.30%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 12 (15.58%) Kibana
2 11 (14.29%) logstash
3 9 (11.69%) SCCM
4 6 (7.79%) vCenter Server
5 3 (3.90%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (2.60%) Kubernetes
7 1 (1.30%) Argo
7 1 (1.30%) Istio
7 1 (1.30%) linkerd
7 1 (1.30%) NetBackup
7 1 (1.30%) Proxmox
7 1 (1.30%) SELinux
7 1 (1.30%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (16.88%) Red Hat
2 10 (12.99%) VMware
3 8 (10.39%) Microsoft
4 7 (9.09%) Veeam
5 6 (7.79%) Splunk
6 5 (6.49%) Cisco
7 4 (5.19%) Darktrace
7 4 (5.19%) FireEye
7 4 (5.19%) LogRhythm
8 3 (3.90%) Fujitsu
9 2 (2.60%) Aruba
9 2 (2.60%) Databricks
9 2 (2.60%) HP
9 2 (2.60%) NVIDIA
9 2 (2.60%) Palo Alto
9 2 (2.60%) ProCurve
9 2 (2.60%) Sage
9 2 (2.60%) Synology
9 2 (2.60%) Zerto
10 1 (1.30%) Nimble Storage