Linux Contracts in Birmingham

Linux
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham requiring Linux skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Linux over the 6 months leading up to 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 32 28
Rank change year-on-year -10 -4 +18
Contract jobs citing Linux 9 30 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 1.74% 4.08% 5.94%
As % of the Operating Systems category 16.36% 41.67% 51.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 18 22
10th Percentile £541 £315 £382
25th Percentile £607 £406 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £688 £481 £633
Median % change year-on-year +43.01% -23.91% +20.48%
75th Percentile £693 £750 £731
90th Percentile £697 £878 -
West Midlands median daily rate £537 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -2.36% +1.85% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate - - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate - £70.00 £35.25
% change year-on-year - +98.58% +107.35%

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 55 72 101
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 10.64% 9.78% 11.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 49 51
10th Percentile £106 £190 £200
25th Percentile £150 £250 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £263 £400 £425
Median % change year-on-year -34.38% -5.88% -
75th Percentile £500 £521 £634
90th Percentile £693 £750 £731
West Midlands median daily rate £375 £423 £475
% change year-on-year -11.24% -11.05% +17.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 4
10th Percentile - £14.52 £15.54
25th Percentile - £15.47 £15.98
Median hourly rate £18.51 £17.50 £17.49
Median % change year-on-year +5.77% +0.06% +2.88%
75th Percentile - £20.56 £27.50
90th Percentile - £22.48 £43.25
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.13 £22.50 £17.33
% change year-on-year -19.42% +29.85% +5.02%

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

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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

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Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in Birmingham over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

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 1 (11.11%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon S3
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (11.11%) AWS KMS
2 1 (11.11%) GitHub
2 1 (11.11%) Route 53
2 1 (11.11%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) DHCP
1 1 (11.11%) DNS
1 1 (11.11%) Firewall
1 1 (11.11%) HTTP
1 1 (11.11%) OpenLDAP
1 1 (11.11%) SAN
1 1 (11.11%) SSL
1 1 (11.11%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (11.11%) DynamoDB
1 1 (11.11%) MongoDB
1 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (11.11%) Relational Database
1 1 (11.11%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 5 (55.56%) MSI
2 3 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 3 (33.33%) Maven
3 2 (22.22%) Git
3 2 (22.22%) JUnit
3 2 (22.22%) Mockito
4 1 (11.11%) Ant
4 1 (11.11%) Bitbucket Server
4 1 (11.11%) Cucumber
4 1 (11.11%) DbUnit
4 1 (11.11%) Gradle
4 1 (11.11%) JIRA
4 1 (11.11%) jMock
4 1 (11.11%) SonarQube
4 1 (11.11%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 6 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
3 1 (11.11%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Java Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Automation Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Lead
3 1 (11.11%) Lead Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Lead Java Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Python Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (55.56%) Software Packaging
2 2 (22.22%) RESTful
2 2 (22.22%) Spring
3 1 (11.11%) ActiveMQ
3 1 (11.11%) AngularJS
3 1 (11.11%) Bootstrap
3 1 (11.11%) Hibernate
3 1 (11.11%) J2EE
3 1 (11.11%) JPA
3 1 (11.11%) LDAP
3 1 (11.11%) PowerMock
3 1 (11.11%) REST
3 1 (11.11%) SOAP
3 1 (11.11%) Spring Batch
3 1 (11.11%) Spring Boot
3 1 (11.11%) Spring Cloud
3 1 (11.11%) Spring Integration
3 1 (11.11%) Web Services
3 1 (11.11%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) SCADA
2 1 (11.11%) Algorithms
2 1 (11.11%) Data Structures
2 1 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 6 (66.67%) Windows
2 1 (11.11%) CentOS
2 1 (11.11%) Debian
2 1 (11.11%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Software Delivery
1 5 (55.56%) Software Deployment
1 5 (55.56%) Software Distribution
2 3 (33.33%) Agile
3 2 (22.22%) DevOps
3 2 (22.22%) Risk Management
3 2 (22.22%) TDD
4 1 (11.11%) Batch Processing
4 1 (11.11%) BDD
4 1 (11.11%) Capacity Management
4 1 (11.11%) CI/CD
4 1 (11.11%) Containerisation
4 1 (11.11%) Data Visualisation
4 1 (11.11%) Decision-Making
4 1 (11.11%) Log Aggregation
4 1 (11.11%) Microservices
4 1 (11.11%) Patch Management
4 1 (11.11%) Performance Metrics
4 1 (11.11%) Server Management
4 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) Python
2 5 (55.56%) Bash
2 5 (55.56%) PowerShell
3 3 (33.33%) Shell Script
4 2 (22.22%) Java
4 2 (22.22%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 4 (44.44%) SC Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (11.11%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Docker
2 1 (11.11%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 6 (66.67%) Ansible
2 1 (11.11%) Grafana
2 1 (11.11%) Nessus
2 1 (11.11%) Prometheus
2 1 (11.11%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Tanium
2 1 (11.11%) Atlassian
2 1 (11.11%) Foundry
2 1 (11.11%) Jaspersoft
2 1 (11.11%) Sophos
2 1 (11.11%) Sybase
2 1 (11.11%) VMware