Linux Contracts in Shropshire

Linux
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Shropshire 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 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 26 13
Rank change year-on-year +2 -13 +6
Contract jobs citing Linux 7 4 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Shropshire 5.30% 2.80% 30.53%
As % of the Operating Systems category 41.18% 12.90% 60.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 35
10th Percentile - £298 £431
25th Percentile £455 £299 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £300 £540
Median % change year-on-year +53.33% -44.44% +6.93%
75th Percentile £519 - -
90th Percentile £539 - £546
West Midlands median daily rate £537 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -2.36% +1.85% +17.07%

All Operating Systems
Shropshire

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 Shropshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 17 31 66
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 12.88% 21.68% 50.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 23 53
10th Percentile £210 £185 £413
25th Percentile £287 £260 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £340 £540
Median % change year-on-year +35.29% -37.04% +9.53%
75th Percentile £476 £419 -
90th Percentile £534 £529 £557
West Midlands median daily rate £330 £400 £475
% change year-on-year -17.50% -15.79% +16.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £14.00 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.13 £22.50 £17.72
% change year-on-year -19.42% +26.98% +7.39%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Shropshire

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

Daily rate trend for Linux in Shropshire

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux in Shropshire

Linux
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the Shropshire region over the 6 months to 15 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
Telford 0 6 £460 +53.33% 6
Linux
West Midlands

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Shropshire 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 (57.14%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (42.86%) Azure
Development Applications
1 7 (100.00%) GitLab
2 4 (57.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 4 (57.14%) Bitbucket
2 4 (57.14%) JIRA
General
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Data Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Operations Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Unix
2 3 (42.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Data Transformation
2 3 (42.86%) Agile
2 3 (42.86%) Cost Optimisation
2 3 (42.86%) Cost Reduction
2 3 (42.86%) DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (42.86%) Process Improvement
2 3 (42.86%) Software Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Transformation
3 1 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) PL/SQL
1 4 (57.14%) Shell Script
1 4 (57.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Ansible
1 3 (42.86%) Opsview
1 3 (42.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Atlassian
1 4 (57.14%) IBM
2 3 (42.86%) PagerDuty