PetaLinux Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Xilinx PetaLinux Tools
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring PetaLinux skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 177 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing PetaLinux 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.025% - -
As % of the Development Applications category 0.16% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
England median daily rate - £463 -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72.50 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 - -
75th Percentile £77.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £75.00 - -

All Development Application Skills
Midlands

PetaLinux falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 612 238 249
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 15.60% 12.79% 9.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 440 160 177
10th Percentile £327 £313 £260
25th Percentile £402 £404 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £475 £440
Median % change year-on-year -1.16% +7.95% -12.00%
75th Percentile £533 £531 £536
90th Percentile £581 £638 £605
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -7.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 11
10th Percentile £22.71 £22.01 £10.50
25th Percentile £25.00 £27.71 £32.75
Median hourly rate £63.50 £37.85 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +67.77% -32.71% +14.21%
75th Percentile £68.00 £48.61 £58.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £54.70 -
England median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +8.00% - +1.63%

PetaLinux
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

PetaLinux job vacancy trend in the Midlands

PetaLinux
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 PetaLinux within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 25 March 2026. 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 - 1 - - 1
PetaLinux
England

PetaLinux
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Confluence
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (100.00%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) FPGA
1 1 (100.00%) Verilog
1 1 (100.00%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded Software Development
1 1 (100.00%) FPGA Design
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C
1 1 (100.00%) C++
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SystemVerilog
1 1 (100.00%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Xilinx