Linux Contracts in the Midlands

Linux
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 36 29
Rank change year-on-year -7 -7 +4
Contract jobs citing Linux 73 122 225
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 3.81% 4.43% 6.54%
As % of the Operating Systems category 28.85% 29.12% 35.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 77 147
10th Percentile £331 £356 £417
25th Percentile £448 £425 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +1.85% +13.68%
75th Percentile £551 £585 £625
90th Percentile £686 £750 £693
England median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 3
10th Percentile - - £12.50
25th Percentile - £67.50 £14.38
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year - +288.89% +5.88%
75th Percentile - £72.50 £36.13
90th Percentile - - £46.70
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +8.33%

All Operating Systems
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 253 419 641
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 13.22% 15.20% 18.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 177 268 433
10th Percentile £150 £145 £158
25th Percentile £200 £190 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £391 £377 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -20.74% +26.67%
75th Percentile £500 £538 £558
90th Percentile £578 £612 £688
England median daily rate £475 £463 £513
% change year-on-year +2.70% -9.76% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 42 38
10th Percentile £15.16 £12.86 £11.80
25th Percentile £16.31 £14.27 £14.64
Median hourly rate £18.13 £18.50 £17.61
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.05% +3.59%
75th Percentile £19.63 £23.75 £19.98
90th Percentile £24.21 - £30.61
England median hourly rate £24.18 £22.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year +9.91% -42.11% +76.74%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 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
West Midlands -4 55 £537 -2.36% 100
East Midlands -10 18 £455 -14.04% 51
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 6 (8.22%) Confluence
2 2 (2.74%) JBoss
3 1 (1.37%) Apache
3 1 (1.37%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (2.74%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 23 (31.51%) AWS
2 16 (21.92%) Azure
3 5 (6.85%) Amazon S3
4 4 (5.48%) Cloud Computing
4 4 (5.48%) Entra ID
5 3 (4.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (4.11%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (4.11%) Amazon SQS
5 3 (4.11%) AWS KMS
5 3 (4.11%) GCP
5 3 (4.11%) Power Platform
5 3 (4.11%) Route 53
6 2 (2.74%) Amazon EMR
6 2 (2.74%) Amazon Kinesis
6 2 (2.74%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (2.74%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.74%) OpenShift
6 2 (2.74%) Serverless
7 1 (1.37%) Azure Stack
7 1 (1.37%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 12 (16.44%) SAN
2 8 (10.96%) Firewall
3 4 (5.48%) LAN
3 4 (5.48%) NAS
4 3 (4.11%) DHCP
4 3 (4.11%) DNS
4 3 (4.11%) Network Security
5 2 (2.74%) HTTP
5 2 (2.74%) OpenLDAP
5 2 (2.74%) SSL
5 2 (2.74%) TCP/IP
5 2 (2.74%) VLAN
6 1 (1.37%) Ethernet
6 1 (1.37%) Modbus
6 1 (1.37%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (9.59%) Oracle Database
2 4 (5.48%) Relational Database
3 3 (4.11%) Amazon Aurora
3 3 (4.11%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (4.11%) DynamoDB
3 3 (4.11%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (4.11%) Power BI
4 2 (2.74%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (2.74%) Big Data
4 2 (2.74%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.74%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (2.74%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.74%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.74%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.37%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.37%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 12 (16.44%) Git
2 11 (15.07%) Jenkins
3 9 (12.33%) JIRA
4 7 (9.59%) GitLab
5 6 (8.22%) Maven
5 6 (8.22%) MSI
6 5 (6.85%) Bitbucket
6 5 (6.85%) Bitbucket Server
6 5 (6.85%) SonarQube
7 4 (5.48%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (5.48%) JUnit
7 4 (5.48%) Mockito
7 4 (5.48%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (4.11%) DbUnit
8 3 (4.11%) jMock
8 3 (4.11%) Oracle Forms
9 2 (2.74%) CA Release Automation
9 2 (2.74%) Eclipse
9 2 (2.74%) NetBeans
9 2 (2.74%) TeamCity
General
1 22 (30.14%) Social Skills
2 11 (15.07%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (9.59%) Manufacturing
4 6 (8.22%) Finance
5 5 (6.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (6.85%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (5.48%) Public Sector
7 3 (4.11%) Legal
8 2 (2.74%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.37%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.37%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (12.33%) Administrator
1 9 (12.33%) Linux Engineer
2 7 (9.59%) Developer
3 6 (8.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (8.22%) Lead
4 5 (6.85%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (5.48%) Cloud Engineer
5 4 (5.48%) Data Engineer
5 4 (5.48%) Java Developer
5 4 (5.48%) Linux Administrator
5 4 (5.48%) Storage Engineer
5 4 (5.48%) Systems Administrator
5 4 (5.48%) Unix Administrator
5 4 (5.48%) Unix Systems Administrator
5 4 (5.48%) Windows Engineer
5 4 (5.48%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (4.11%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (4.11%) Information Assurance Manager
6 3 (4.11%) Information Manager
6 3 (4.11%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (8.22%) Software Packaging
2 5 (6.85%) LDAP
2 5 (6.85%) Spring
2 5 (6.85%) Spring Boot
3 4 (5.48%) RESTful
4 3 (4.11%) ActiveMQ
4 3 (4.11%) AngularJS
4 3 (4.11%) Bootstrap
4 3 (4.11%) Hibernate
4 3 (4.11%) JPA
4 3 (4.11%) PowerMock
4 3 (4.11%) REST
4 3 (4.11%) SOAP
4 3 (4.11%) Spring Batch
4 3 (4.11%) Spring Cloud
4 3 (4.11%) Spring Integration
4 3 (4.11%) Web Services
5 2 (2.74%) .NET
5 2 (2.74%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (2.74%) POSIX
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.96%) CSOC
2 7 (9.59%) Data Centre
3 6 (8.22%) Management Information System
4 5 (6.85%) Onboarding
5 4 (5.48%) SCADA
5 4 (5.48%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (4.11%) Algorithms
6 3 (4.11%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (4.11%) Industry 4.0
6 3 (4.11%) Security Posture
7 2 (2.74%) Cloud Native
7 2 (2.74%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.37%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (1.37%) IoT
8 1 (1.37%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 38 (52.05%) Windows
2 15 (20.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 13 (17.81%) Unix
4 8 (10.96%) VMS
4 8 (10.96%) Windows Server
5 7 (9.59%) Ubuntu
6 6 (8.22%) AIX
7 4 (5.48%) Debian
8 3 (4.11%) CentOS
9 2 (2.74%) Rocky
10 1 (1.37%) Android
10 1 (1.37%) Mac OS
10 1 (1.37%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (21.92%) Agile
2 15 (20.55%) DevOps
3 14 (19.18%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (13.70%) ITIL
5 9 (12.33%) Containerisation
5 9 (12.33%) SIEM
6 8 (10.96%) Event Correlation
6 8 (10.96%) Software Delivery
6 8 (10.96%) Storage Management
7 7 (9.59%) Continuous Integration
7 7 (9.59%) Microservices
7 7 (9.59%) Risk Management
8 6 (8.22%) CI/CD
8 6 (8.22%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (8.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 6 (8.22%) Software Deployment
8 6 (8.22%) Software Distribution
8 6 (8.22%) Software Engineering
9 5 (6.85%) Computer Science
9 5 (6.85%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 22 (30.14%) Python
2 13 (17.81%) SQL
3 11 (15.07%) Shell Script
4 9 (12.33%) PowerShell
5 7 (9.59%) Bash
5 7 (9.59%) Java
6 4 (5.48%) PL/SQL
7 2 (2.74%) C
7 2 (2.74%) C++
7 2 (2.74%) Perl
7 2 (2.74%) Scala
8 1 (1.37%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 33 (45.21%) Security Cleared
2 26 (35.62%) SC Cleared
3 12 (16.44%) Degree
4 5 (6.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (5.48%) AWS Certification
5 4 (5.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (5.48%) DV Cleared
6 3 (4.11%) CISA
6 3 (4.11%) CISM
6 3 (4.11%) CISSP
6 3 (4.11%) GIAC
7 2 (2.74%) RHCE
7 2 (2.74%) RHCSA
8 1 (1.37%) A+ Certification
8 1 (1.37%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.37%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.22%) SLA
2 4 (5.48%) NIST
2 4 (5.48%) NIST 800
2 4 (5.48%) QA
3 3 (4.11%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (2.74%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.74%) GDPR
4 2 (2.74%) MISRA
4 2 (2.74%) MISRA C
4 2 (2.74%) Software Quality Assurance
5 1 (1.37%) IEC 61508
5 1 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.37%) NCSC
System Software
1 14 (19.18%) Docker
2 10 (13.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (8.22%) Active Directory
4 4 (5.48%) Hyper-V
4 4 (5.48%) Virtual Servers
5 3 (4.11%) Postfix
6 1 (1.37%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 13 (17.81%) Ansible
2 9 (12.33%) Kubernetes
3 5 (6.85%) Terraform
4 4 (5.48%) Tivoli
4 4 (5.48%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 3 (4.11%) Grafana
5 3 (4.11%) Opsview
5 3 (4.11%) Prometheus
5 3 (4.11%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (2.74%) Kibana
6 2 (2.74%) Nessus
6 2 (2.74%) Podman
6 2 (2.74%) Progress Chef
6 2 (2.74%) Puppet
6 2 (2.74%) SELinux
7 1 (1.37%) FortiGate
7 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (1.37%) yum
Vendors
1 17 (23.29%) VMware
2 14 (19.18%) Red Hat
3 12 (16.44%) ServiceNow
4 11 (15.07%) Splunk
5 9 (12.33%) Cisco
6 8 (10.96%) F5
6 8 (10.96%) Fortinet
6 8 (10.96%) IBM
6 8 (10.96%) Palo Alto
6 8 (10.96%) SolarWinds
7 7 (9.59%) Atlassian
7 7 (9.59%) Oracle
8 6 (8.22%) Microsoft
8 6 (8.22%) Tanium
9 5 (6.85%) Dell
10 3 (4.11%) CyberArk
10 3 (4.11%) Jaspersoft
10 3 (4.11%) PagerDuty
11 2 (2.74%) AppDynamics
11 2 (2.74%) Databricks