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 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 26 32
Rank change year-on-year -9 +6 +2
Contract jobs citing Linux 24 24 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Warwickshire 4.85% 6.22% 4.74%
As % of the Operating Systems category 39.34% 44.44% 43.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 15 9
10th Percentile £425 £562 £458
25th Percentile £463 £576 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £585 £725
Median % change year-on-year -14.53% -19.31% +45.00%
75th Percentile £539 £654 £750
90th Percentile £581 £681 -
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -9.09% +1.85% +8.00%
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 - - £20.00

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 61 54 44
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Warwickshire 12.32% 13.99% 10.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 32 26
10th Percentile £220 £327 £189
25th Percentile £400 £503 £327
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £584 £510
Median % change year-on-year -17.74% +14.41% +36.00%
75th Percentile £538 £643 £738
90th Percentile £584 £675 £750
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £450 £400
% change year-on-year - +12.50% -11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 2
10th Percentile £16.11 - £17.75
25th Percentile £17.59 £18.50 £18.13
Median hourly rate £20.13 £19.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.92% - -10.59%
75th Percentile £22.59 £20.75 £19.63
90th Percentile £24.04 £21.50 £19.85
West Midlands median hourly rate £21.59 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +13.61% -5.00% +21.58%

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 14 August 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 14 August 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 -3 20 £500 -14.53% 2
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) SAP GRC
1 1 (4.17%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (20.83%) SaaS
2 1 (4.17%) AWS
2 1 (4.17%) Azure
2 1 (4.17%) GCP
2 1 (4.17%) IaaS
2 1 (4.17%) PaaS
2 1 (4.17%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 5 (20.83%) DKIM
1 5 (20.83%) DMARC
1 5 (20.83%) DNS
1 5 (20.83%) Internet
1 5 (20.83%) SMTP
2 4 (16.67%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.67%) Oracle Database
2 1 (4.17%) SAP HANA
2 1 (4.17%) SQL Server
General
1 17 (70.83%) Social Skills
2 6 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (20.83%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Finance
4 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (25.00%) Administrator
2 4 (16.67%) Systems Administrator
2 4 (16.67%) Unix Administrator
2 4 (16.67%) Unix Systems Administrator
3 3 (12.50%) Architect
3 3 (12.50%) Linux Administrator
3 3 (12.50%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) CyberArk Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Linux Support
4 2 (8.33%) Linux Support Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Support Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Unix Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Unix Linux Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Unix Support
4 2 (8.33%) Unix Support Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) AIX Systems Administrator
5 1 (4.17%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Splunk Administrator
5 1 (4.17%) Unix Linux Systems Administrator
5 1 (4.17%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.17%) SAP Basis
1 1 (4.17%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.33%) CSOC
Operating Systems
1 15 (62.50%) Unix
2 11 (45.83%) Windows
3 7 (29.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (25.00%) AIX
5 3 (12.50%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (33.33%) SIEM
3 7 (29.17%) Cloud Security
3 7 (29.17%) Unit Testing
4 6 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
4 6 (25.00%) Regulatory Compliance
4 6 (25.00%) SOAR
4 6 (25.00%) Task Automation
4 6 (25.00%) Validation
5 5 (20.83%) ITIL
6 4 (16.67%) Storage Management
7 2 (8.33%) Event Correlation
7 2 (8.33%) ITSM
7 2 (8.33%) Service Management
8 1 (4.17%) Agile
8 1 (4.17%) Artificial Intelligence
8 1 (4.17%) Disaster Recovery
8 1 (4.17%) Migration
8 1 (4.17%) Project Management
8 1 (4.17%) SAP Security
Programming Languages
1 8 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 8 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (4.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (41.67%) SC Cleared
1 10 (41.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.67%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (20.83%) Dovecot
2 5 (20.83%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 4 (16.67%) Tivoli
1 4 (16.67%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 11 (45.83%) VMware
2 7 (29.17%) BeyondTrust
2 7 (29.17%) CyberArk
2 7 (29.17%) Red Hat
3 5 (20.83%) Broadcom
4 4 (16.67%) IBM
4 4 (16.67%) Oracle
4 4 (16.67%) Splunk
5 2 (8.33%) Cisco
5 2 (8.33%) F5
5 2 (8.33%) FireEye
5 2 (8.33%) Fortinet
5 2 (8.33%) Palo Alto
5 2 (8.33%) ServiceNow
5 2 (8.33%) SolarWinds
5 2 (8.33%) Tanium
6 1 (4.17%) Adobe
6 1 (4.17%) Concur
6 1 (4.17%) Google
6 1 (4.17%) Microsoft