Linux Contracts in Birmingham

Linux
West Midlands > Birmingham

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham 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 39 25 49
Rank change year-on-year -14 +24 -19
Contract jobs citing Linux 29 58 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 3.79% 6.46% 3.34%
As % of the Operating Systems category 39.73% 50.88% 26.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 25 32
10th Percentile £315 £397 £390
25th Percentile £406 £481 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £600 £469
Median % change year-on-year -27.08% +28.00% +29.31%
75th Percentile £750 £731 £581
90th Percentile £878 - £670
West Midlands median daily rate £550 £540 £460
% change year-on-year +1.85% +17.39% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £52.50 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £70.00 £35.25 £17.00
% change year-on-year +98.58% +107.35% -66.00%

All Operating Systems
Birmingham

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 Birmingham with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 73 114 163
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 9.53% 12.69% 12.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 58 115
10th Percentile £190 £185 £165
25th Percentile £250 £299 £191
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £394 £413 £425
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.94% +21.43%
75th Percentile £486 £613 £531
90th Percentile £733 £731 £625
West Midlands median daily rate £425 £505 £405
% change year-on-year -15.84% +24.69% +11.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 5
10th Percentile £14.35 £15.54 £14.40
25th Percentile £15.04 £15.98 £15.00
Median hourly rate £16.80 £17.49 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.97% +2.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £18.45 £27.50 £20.00
90th Percentile £19.08 £43.25 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.50 £16.94 £16.50
% change year-on-year +32.86% +2.64% -

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Birmingham

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for Linux in Birmingham

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

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

Daily rate histogram for Linux in Birmingham

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux in Birmingham

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 (13.79%) CMS
2 2 (6.90%) IIS
2 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (6.90%) SharePoint
2 2 (6.90%) WordPress
3 1 (3.45%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
1 1 (3.45%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 7 (24.14%) Azure
2 4 (13.79%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (10.34%) Amazon S3
3 3 (10.34%) AWS
4 2 (6.90%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (6.90%) Entra ID
4 2 (6.90%) OneDrive
5 1 (3.45%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (3.45%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 12 (41.38%) Firewall
2 5 (17.24%) WAN
3 4 (13.79%) DNS
4 3 (10.34%) LAN
4 3 (10.34%) VPN
5 2 (6.90%) Fibre Channel
5 2 (6.90%) iSCSI
5 2 (6.90%) NAS
5 2 (6.90%) SAN
5 2 (6.90%) SD-WAN
5 2 (6.90%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.34%) Relational Database
1 3 (10.34%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.45%) Data Lake
2 1 (3.45%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.45%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Git
2 1 (3.45%) Ant
2 1 (3.45%) Gradle
2 1 (3.45%) JUnit
2 1 (3.45%) Maven
General
1 10 (34.48%) Legal
2 7 (24.14%) Social Skills
3 6 (20.69%) Public Sector
4 5 (17.24%) Finance
5 2 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (6.90%) Games
5 2 (6.90%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (3.45%) Banking
6 1 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (48.28%) Analyst
1 14 (48.28%) SOC Analyst
2 3 (10.34%) Architect
2 3 (10.34%) Developer
2 3 (10.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (6.90%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 2 (6.90%) 2nd Line Support
3 2 (6.90%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 2 (6.90%) Azure Architect
3 2 (6.90%) Java Developer
3 2 (6.90%) Network Engineer
3 2 (6.90%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (6.90%) Senior
3 2 (6.90%) Support Engineer
3 2 (6.90%) Technical Architect
3 2 (6.90%) WAN Engineer
4 1 (3.45%) Azure Consultant
4 1 (3.45%) IT Engineer
4 1 (3.45%) Lead
4 1 (3.45%) Market Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.90%) LAMP
1 2 (6.90%) Middleware
1 2 (6.90%) Spring
2 1 (3.45%) .NET
2 1 (3.45%) ASP.NET
2 1 (3.45%) ASP.NET Core
2 1 (3.45%) ASP.NET Web Forms
2 1 (3.45%) Guice
2 1 (3.45%) Kafka
2 1 (3.45%) React
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.79%) Cyberattack
1 4 (13.79%) Security Operations Centre
2 3 (10.34%) Algorithms
2 3 (10.34%) Data Structures
2 3 (10.34%) Public Cloud
3 2 (6.90%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (6.90%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (6.90%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (6.90%) Replication
4 1 (3.45%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 1 (3.45%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.45%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 14 (48.28%) Windows
2 11 (37.93%) Mac OS X
3 3 (10.34%) Unix
4 2 (6.90%) Ubuntu
4 2 (6.90%) VMS
4 2 (6.90%) Windows Server
4 2 (6.90%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (6.90%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (3.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (3.45%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (55.17%) Cybersecurity
2 11 (37.93%) SIEM
2 11 (37.93%) Vulnerability Management
3 10 (34.48%) Computer Forensics
3 10 (34.48%) Incident Management
3 10 (34.48%) Malware Reverse Engineering
3 10 (34.48%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 10 (34.48%) Purple Team
3 10 (34.48%) Reverse Engineering
3 10 (34.48%) Risk Management
3 10 (34.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 10 (34.48%) Threat Analysis
4 6 (20.69%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (17.24%) Incident Response
5 5 (17.24%) Line Management
6 4 (13.79%) Agile
6 4 (13.79%) Security Operations
7 3 (10.34%) Analytics
7 3 (10.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 3 (10.34%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 3 (10.34%) Java
2 2 (6.90%) Perl
2 2 (6.90%) PowerShell
3 1 (3.45%) C
3 1 (3.45%) C#
3 1 (3.45%) C++
3 1 (3.45%) JavaScript
3 1 (3.45%) Python
3 1 (3.45%) Scala
3 1 (3.45%) Shell Script
3 1 (3.45%) SQL
3 1 (3.45%) TypeScript
3 1 (3.45%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 17 (58.62%) Security Cleared
2 11 (37.93%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.90%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (6.90%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (37.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 11 (37.93%) NIST
2 10 (34.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 10 (34.48%) GDPR
2 10 (34.48%) HIPAA
3 2 (6.90%) ISO 9000
3 2 (6.90%) QA
4 1 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 4 (13.79%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.90%) vSphere
3 1 (3.45%) Docker
3 1 (3.45%) Hyper-V
3 1 (3.45%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (6.90%) SCCM
2 1 (3.45%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.45%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 5 (17.24%) Microsoft
1 5 (17.24%) Splunk
2 4 (13.79%) Darktrace
2 4 (13.79%) FireEye
2 4 (13.79%) LogRhythm
3 3 (10.34%) VMware
4 2 (6.90%) Aruba
4 2 (6.90%) Cisco
4 2 (6.90%) Databricks
4 2 (6.90%) Fujitsu
4 2 (6.90%) Palo Alto
4 2 (6.90%) ProCurve
4 2 (6.90%) Sage
4 2 (6.90%) Synology
4 2 (6.90%) Veeam
4 2 (6.90%) Zerto
5 1 (3.45%) Bloomberg
5 1 (3.45%) F5
5 1 (3.45%) Qualys
5 1 (3.45%) Red Hat