Linux Contracts in Solihull

Linux
West Midlands > Solihull

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Solihull 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 4 27 10
Rank change year-on-year +23 -17 0
Contract jobs citing Linux 8 3 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Solihull 23.53% 2.40% 10.17%
As % of the Operating Systems category 66.67% 30.00% 35.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £163 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £175 £465
Median % change year-on-year +185.71% -62.37% -
75th Percentile - £188 £473
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £537 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -2.36% +1.85% +17.39%

All Operating Systems
Solihull

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 Solihull.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 12 10 17
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Solihull 35.29% 8.00% 28.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 8 3
10th Percentile £395 £140 £272
25th Percentile £424 £158 £341
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £200 £465
Median % change year-on-year +140.00% -56.99% +58.30%
75th Percentile £519 £238 £499
90th Percentile £553 £299 £515
West Midlands median daily rate £400 £425 £505
% change year-on-year -5.88% -15.84% +24.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £13.62
25th Percentile - - £14.30
Median hourly rate - - £15.44
75th Percentile - - £16.58
90th Percentile - - £17.26
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.13 £22.50 £16.94
% change year-on-year -19.42% +32.86% +2.64%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Solihull

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Solihull

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Solihull

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

Daily rate trend for Linux in Solihull

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Solihull

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux in Solihull

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Solihull 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 (12.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) AWS
2 3 (37.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 3 (37.50%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (37.50%) Amazon S3
2 3 (37.50%) Amazon SQS
2 3 (37.50%) AWS KMS
2 3 (37.50%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 5 (62.50%) SAN
2 4 (50.00%) LAN
2 4 (50.00%) NAS
3 1 (12.50%) DHCP
3 1 (12.50%) DNS
3 1 (12.50%) Firewall
3 1 (12.50%) HTTP
3 1 (12.50%) OpenLDAP
3 1 (12.50%) SSL
3 1 (12.50%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Amazon Aurora
1 3 (37.50%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (37.50%) DynamoDB
1 3 (37.50%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Git
1 4 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 4 (50.00%) Maven
2 3 (37.50%) Bitbucket Server
2 3 (37.50%) DbUnit
2 3 (37.50%) jMock
2 3 (37.50%) JUnit
2 3 (37.50%) Mockito
2 3 (37.50%) SonarQube
3 1 (12.50%) JIRA
3 1 (12.50%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (50.00%) Manufacturing
2 3 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 5 (62.50%) Linux Engineer
1 5 (62.50%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (50.00%) Storage Engineer
2 4 (50.00%) Windows Engineer
2 4 (50.00%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (37.50%) Developer
3 3 (37.50%) Java Developer
4 1 (12.50%) AWS Developer
4 1 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Lead
4 1 (12.50%) Lead Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Lead Java Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Linux DevOps Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Linux/Unix DevOps
4 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) ActiveMQ
1 3 (37.50%) AngularJS
1 3 (37.50%) Bootstrap
1 3 (37.50%) Hibernate
1 3 (37.50%) JPA
1 3 (37.50%) PowerMock
1 3 (37.50%) REST
1 3 (37.50%) RESTful
1 3 (37.50%) SOAP
1 3 (37.50%) Spring
1 3 (37.50%) Spring Batch
1 3 (37.50%) Spring Boot
1 3 (37.50%) Spring Cloud
1 3 (37.50%) Spring Integration
1 3 (37.50%) Web Services
2 1 (12.50%) LDAP
2 1 (12.50%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 3 (37.50%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Windows
2 4 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (12.50%) CentOS
3 1 (12.50%) Debian
3 1 (12.50%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (50.00%) Agile
2 4 (50.00%) DevOps
2 4 (50.00%) Storage Management
3 3 (37.50%) BDD
3 3 (37.50%) Containerisation
3 3 (37.50%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (37.50%) Decision-Making
3 3 (37.50%) Kanban
3 3 (37.50%) Microservices
3 3 (37.50%) Open Source
3 3 (37.50%) Risk Management
3 3 (37.50%) Scrum
3 3 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (37.50%) TDD
4 1 (12.50%) Asset Management
4 1 (12.50%) Capacity Management
4 1 (12.50%) Log Aggregation
4 1 (12.50%) Patch Management
4 1 (12.50%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Java
1 3 (37.50%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Docker
1 4 (50.00%) Virtual Servers
1 4 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (37.50%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Grafana
1 3 (37.50%) Prometheus
2 1 (12.50%) Nessus
2 1 (12.50%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) VMware
2 4 (50.00%) Dell
3 3 (37.50%) Atlassian
3 3 (37.50%) Jaspersoft
4 1 (12.50%) Sophos