Linux Contracts in Warwickshire

Linux
West Midlands > Warwickshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Warwickshire 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 18 43 38
Rank change year-on-year +25 -5 -11
Contract jobs citing Linux 25 2 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Warwickshire 8.09% 0.59% 2.02%
As % of the Operating Systems category 50.00% 6.25% 26.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 2 3
10th Percentile £425 £421 £505
25th Percentile £463 £453 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £513 £650
Median % change year-on-year +4.78% -21.15% +44.44%
75th Percentile £551 £578 £681
90th Percentile £638 £614 £685
West Midlands median daily rate £537 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -2.36% +1.85% +17.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £17.50
Median hourly rate - - £18.00
75th Percentile - - £18.50
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate - £70.00 £35.25
% change year-on-year - +98.58% +107.35%

All Operating Systems
Warwickshire

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 Warwickshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 50 32 30
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Warwickshire 16.18% 9.47% 7.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 16 21
10th Percentile £311 £150 £185
25th Percentile £419 £161 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £369 £500
Median % change year-on-year +35.59% -26.25% +33.33%
75th Percentile £551 £475 £688
90th Percentile £638 £638 £738
West Midlands median daily rate £400 £425 £505
% change year-on-year -5.88% -15.84% +24.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 9 1
10th Percentile £18.65 £18.50 -
25th Percentile £18.88 £21.25 £17.50
Median hourly rate £19.50 £22.50 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +25.00% -10.00%
75th Percentile £19.88 £23.75 £18.50
90th Percentile £19.95 - -
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 Warwickshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Warwickshire

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Warwickshire

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

Daily rate trend for Linux in Warwickshire

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in Warwickshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in Warwickshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in Warwickshire

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Warwickshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux in Warwickshire

Linux
Contract Job Locations in Warwickshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the Warwickshire 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
Warwick +15 21 £500 +25.00% 4
Linux
West Midlands

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Warwickshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (20.00%) Azure
2 3 (12.00%) Entra ID
2 3 (12.00%) Power Platform
3 2 (8.00%) AWS
3 2 (8.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (28.00%) Oracle Database
2 3 (12.00%) Power BI
3 2 (8.00%) Relational Database
3 2 (8.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (12.00%) Oracle Forms
2 2 (8.00%) Git
General
1 7 (28.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
3 3 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (12.00%) Finance
3 3 (12.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 9 (36.00%) Administrator
2 5 (20.00%) Lead
3 4 (16.00%) Linux Administrator
3 4 (16.00%) Systems Administrator
3 4 (16.00%) Unix Administrator
3 4 (16.00%) Unix Systems Administrator
4 2 (8.00%) Infrastructure Support
4 2 (8.00%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Linux Support
4 2 (8.00%) Linux Support Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Support Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Unix Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Unix Linux Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Unix Support
4 2 (8.00%) Unix Support Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) AIX Administrator
5 1 (4.00%) AIX Systems Administrator
5 1 (4.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 1 (4.00%) Unix Linux Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.00%) LDAP
2 2 (8.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 8 (32.00%) CSOC
2 3 (12.00%) Data Centre
2 3 (12.00%) Onboarding
2 3 (12.00%) Security Posture
2 3 (12.00%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (8.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 16 (64.00%) Windows
2 9 (36.00%) Unix
3 8 (32.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (32.00%) VMS
4 6 (24.00%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (36.00%) SIEM
2 8 (32.00%) Event Correlation
3 7 (28.00%) ITIL
4 5 (20.00%) ITSM
4 5 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (16.00%) Service Management
5 4 (16.00%) Storage Management
6 3 (12.00%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (12.00%) Cloud Security
6 3 (12.00%) Identity Access Management
6 3 (12.00%) Migration
6 3 (12.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
6 3 (12.00%) RBAC
6 3 (12.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 3 (12.00%) Zero Trust
7 2 (8.00%) CI/CD
7 2 (8.00%) Continuous Deployment
7 2 (8.00%) Software Delivery
7 2 (8.00%) Task Automation
7 2 (8.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (12.00%) Shell Script
1 3 (12.00%) SQL
2 2 (8.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 12 (48.00%) SC Cleared
1 12 (48.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (16.00%) Degree
3 2 (8.00%) AWS Certification
3 2 (8.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.00%) SLA
2 2 (8.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (12.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (12.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (8.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (16.00%) Tivoli
1 4 (16.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 3 (12.00%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (8.00%) Kubernetes
4 1 (4.00%) yum
Vendors
1 11 (44.00%) ServiceNow
2 9 (36.00%) Splunk
3 8 (32.00%) Cisco
3 8 (32.00%) F5
3 8 (32.00%) Fortinet
3 8 (32.00%) Palo Alto
3 8 (32.00%) Red Hat
3 8 (32.00%) SolarWinds
4 7 (28.00%) Oracle
5 6 (24.00%) VMware
6 4 (16.00%) IBM
7 3 (12.00%) CyberArk