Kali Linux Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Kali Linux
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Kali Linux skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Kali Linux 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.041% - -
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.30% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
England median daily rate £425 - £773
% change year-on-year - - +47.24%

All Operating Systems
West Midlands

Kali 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 the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 328 248 229
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 13.58% 15.99% 12.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 228 154 160
10th Percentile £163 £188 £170
25th Percentile £263 £222 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £448 £443 £400
Median % change year-on-year +1.23% +10.63% -19.19%
75th Percentile £550 £583 £503
90th Percentile £618 £700 £638
England median daily rate £450 £475 £470
% change year-on-year -5.26% +1.06% -8.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 12 15
10th Percentile - £15.22 £17.01
25th Percentile £17.14 £17.40 £17.72
Median hourly rate £21.46 £18.57 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.59% -17.49% +29.85%
75th Percentile £29.25 £22.89 £23.75
90th Percentile £69.99 £24.05 £39.50
England median hourly rate £23.50 £51.50 £25.25
% change year-on-year -54.37% +103.96% -1.79%

Kali Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Kali Linux job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Kali Linux
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Kali Linux.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Kali Linux

Kali Linux
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kali Linux within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 28 January 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
Coventry - 1 £550 - 1
Kali Linux
England

Kali Linux
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ELB
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Macie
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudTrail
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (100.00%) CloudFront
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) Route 53
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Anycast
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) DMVPN
1 1 (100.00%) IPsec
1 1 (100.00%) MPLS
1 1 (100.00%) NGFW
1 1 (100.00%) OSPF
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) AppScan
1 1 (100.00%) Burp Suite
1 1 (100.00%) Metasploit
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Operational Technology
1 1 (100.00%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security Management
1 1 (100.00%) Interactive Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 1 (100.00%) Network Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Assessment
1 1 (100.00%) Secrets Management
1 1 (100.00%) Security Management
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Lisp
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) COBIT
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (100.00%) Nessus
1 1 (100.00%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) BeyondTrust
1 1 (100.00%) CyberArk
1 1 (100.00%) LogRhythm
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk
1 1 (100.00%) Tenable
1 1 (100.00%) Veracode