Linux Contract Job Trends in Herefordshire

Linux
West Midlands > Herefordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Herefordshire requiring Linux skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 6 4
Rank change year-on-year -14 -2 -
Contract jobs citing Linux 8 11 7
As % of all contract jobs in Herefordshire 12.12% 20.75% 29.17%
As % of the Operating Systems category 66.67% 91.67% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 5
10th Percentile £515 - -
25th Percentile £525 £513 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £575 £550 £688
90th Percentile £595 £655 -
West Midlands median daily rate £515 £570 £480
% change year-on-year -9.65% +18.75% -10.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £50.00
West Midlands median hourly rate £65.00 - £35.00

All Operating Systems
Herefordshire

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 Herefordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 12 12 7
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Herefordshire 18.18% 22.64% 29.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 5 5
10th Percentile £440 - -
25th Percentile £525 £513 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +205.56%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £688
90th Percentile £628 £655 -
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £463 £375
% change year-on-year +2.70% +23.33% -24.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
Median hourly rate £21.46 £32.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.97% -35.00% -
West Midlands median hourly rate £19.84 £21.59 £19.25
% change year-on-year -8.09% +12.16% +16.67%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Herefordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Linux relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Herefordshire.

Linux job vacancy trend in Herefordshire

Linux
Daily Rate Trend in Herefordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Herefordshire citing Linux.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Herefordshire citing Linux

Linux
Hourly Rate Trend in Herefordshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Herefordshire citing Linux.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Herefordshire citing Linux

Linux
Contract Job Locations in Herefordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the Herefordshire region over the 6 months to 23 November 2025. 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
Hereford -1 6 £550 +4.76% 5
Linux
West Midlands

Linux
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Herefordshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (87.50%) AWS
2 6 (75.00%) Amazon EC2
2 6 (75.00%) Amazon S3
2 6 (75.00%) OpenShift
3 3 (37.50%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (37.50%) Azure
3 3 (37.50%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (75.00%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (37.50%) InfluxDB
2 3 (37.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (75.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (12.50%) GitLab
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Site Engineer
1 6 (75.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Integration Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Senior
2 1 (12.50%) Senior DevOps
2 1 (12.50%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) RabbitMQ
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) CI/CD
1 7 (87.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 6 (75.00%) Configuration Management
3 5 (62.50%) Containerisation
4 3 (37.50%) Observability
4 3 (37.50%) Service Management
4 3 (37.50%) Software Engineering
4 3 (37.50%) Task Automation
5 1 (12.50%) DevOps
5 1 (12.50%) Domain Models
5 1 (12.50%) Event-Driven
5 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (12.50%) ITIL
5 1 (12.50%) Mobile Device Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) Shell Script
1 6 (75.00%) SQL
2 4 (50.00%) Python
3 3 (37.50%) Go
3 3 (37.50%) Java
Qualifications
1 7 (87.50%) Security Cleared
2 6 (75.00%) DV Cleared
3 4 (50.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (87.50%) Kubernetes
1 7 (87.50%) Terraform
2 6 (75.00%) Ansible
2 6 (75.00%) Grafana
2 6 (75.00%) Progress Chef
2 6 (75.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (12.50%) Docker Swarm
3 1 (12.50%) Podman
3 1 (12.50%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft