Linux Contracts in the West Midlands

Linux
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 30 29
Rank change year-on-year -14 -1 +3
Contract jobs citing Linux 68 113 138
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 4.52% 5.47% 6.22%
As % of the Operating Systems category 33.83% 38.70% 41.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 63 79
10th Percentile £424 £336 £275
25th Percentile £455 £513 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £551 £654 £700
90th Percentile £658 £750 £735
England median daily rate £538 £548 £596
% change year-on-year -1.83% -8.10% +1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 3
10th Percentile - - £18.00
25th Percentile - £67.50 £18.75
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year - +250.00% +29.03%
75th Percentile - £72.50 £36.88
90th Percentile - - £47.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +18.18%

All Operating Systems
West Midlands

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 201 292 334
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 13.36% 14.13% 15.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 189 214
10th Percentile £150 £178 £185
25th Percentile £200 £263 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £438 £450
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% -2.78% +5.88%
75th Percentile £500 £575 £575
90th Percentile £601 £675 £700
England median daily rate £465 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -2.21% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 17 13
10th Percentile £15.90 £14.99 £13.58
25th Percentile £16.67 £18.50 £16.23
Median hourly rate £17.83 £22.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.74% +12.50% +21.58%
75th Percentile £23.12 £23.75 £28.75
90th Percentile £24.83 £72.50 -
England median hourly rate £20.00 £24.68 £42.50
% change year-on-year -18.95% -41.94% +88.89%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Linux in the West Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Linux in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Linux in the West Midlands

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in the West Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Linux in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Linux in the West Midlands

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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 Linux within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 3 July 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
Birmingham +6 23 £500 +3.90% 72
Warwickshire -17 14 £475 -18.80% 16
Solihull +16 12 £450 +157.14% 2
Shropshire 0 8 £460 +53.33% 30
Herefordshire -2 5 £563 +2.27% 5
Coventry -2 4 £625 +38.89% 25
Staffordshire +3 1 £495 - 42
Linux
England

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 14 (20.59%) Confluence
2 2 (2.94%) nginx
3 1 (1.47%) Apache
3 1 (1.47%) JBoss
3 1 (1.47%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (2.94%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 32 (47.06%) AWS
2 17 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 16 (23.53%) Amazon EC2
3 16 (23.53%) Amazon S3
3 16 (23.53%) AWS KMS
4 11 (16.18%) Azure
5 10 (14.71%) Route 53
6 9 (13.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 8 (11.76%) Amazon ELB
8 7 (10.29%) Amazon SQS
9 6 (8.82%) Amazon Glacier
10 3 (4.41%) GitHub
11 2 (2.94%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (2.94%) Microsoft 365
12 1 (1.47%) AWS Lambda
12 1 (1.47%) Entra ID
12 1 (1.47%) Power Platform
12 1 (1.47%) Serverless
12 1 (1.47%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 10 (14.71%) DNS
1 10 (14.71%) Firewall
1 10 (14.71%) SAN
2 8 (11.76%) HTTP
2 8 (11.76%) SMTP
3 6 (8.82%) FTP
3 6 (8.82%) SSH
4 5 (7.35%) LAN
5 4 (5.88%) NAS
5 4 (5.88%) OpenLDAP
6 3 (4.41%) DHCP
6 3 (4.41%) VLAN
7 2 (2.94%) IMAP
7 2 (2.94%) SSL
8 1 (1.47%) Ethernet
8 1 (1.47%) iSCSI
8 1 (1.47%) Modbus
8 1 (1.47%) VSAN
8 1 (1.47%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (23.53%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (16.18%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (13.24%) Amazon Aurora
4 7 (10.29%) DynamoDB
4 7 (10.29%) Oracle Database
5 3 (4.41%) Relational Database
5 3 (4.41%) SQL Server
6 2 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (2.94%) DB2
6 2 (2.94%) MongoDB
6 2 (2.94%) Oracle Database 12c
7 1 (1.47%) Power BI
7 1 (1.47%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 21 (30.88%) Jenkins
2 20 (29.41%) Git
3 15 (22.06%) JIRA
4 11 (16.18%) Maven
5 8 (11.76%) JUnit
5 8 (11.76%) Mockito
5 8 (11.76%) Vagrant
6 7 (10.29%) Bitbucket Server
6 7 (10.29%) DbUnit
6 7 (10.29%) GitLab
6 7 (10.29%) jMock
6 7 (10.29%) SonarQube
7 6 (8.82%) MSI
8 3 (4.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 3 (4.41%) Bitbucket
8 3 (4.41%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (1.47%) Ant
9 1 (1.47%) Cucumber
9 1 (1.47%) Gradle
9 1 (1.47%) Oracle Forms
General
1 20 (29.41%) Public Sector
2 18 (26.47%) Social Skills
3 12 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (8.82%) Manufacturing
5 5 (7.35%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (5.88%) Finance
7 2 (2.94%) Electronics
7 2 (2.94%) Marketing
7 2 (2.94%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.47%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 11 (16.18%) DevOps Engineer
2 10 (14.71%) Developer
3 9 (13.24%) Linux Engineer
4 8 (11.76%) Administrator
4 8 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 8 (11.76%) Java Developer
5 6 (8.82%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (8.82%) Platform Engineer
6 5 (7.35%) Windows Engineer
6 5 (7.35%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (5.88%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 4 (5.88%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 4 (5.88%) Storage Engineer
7 4 (5.88%) Support Engineer
7 4 (5.88%) Systems Administrator
7 4 (5.88%) Unix Administrator
7 4 (5.88%) Unix Systems Administrator
8 3 (4.41%) AWS DevOps
8 3 (4.41%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 3 (4.41%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (13.24%) Spring
1 9 (13.24%) Web Services
2 8 (11.76%) REST
2 8 (11.76%) RESTful
2 8 (11.76%) Spring Boot
3 7 (10.29%) ActiveMQ
3 7 (10.29%) AngularJS
3 7 (10.29%) Bootstrap
3 7 (10.29%) Hibernate
3 7 (10.29%) JPA
3 7 (10.29%) PowerMock
3 7 (10.29%) SOAP
3 7 (10.29%) Spring Batch
3 7 (10.29%) Spring Cloud
3 7 (10.29%) Spring Integration
4 6 (8.82%) Software Packaging
5 5 (7.35%) LDAP
6 3 (4.41%) YAML
7 2 (2.94%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (1.47%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.29%) Distributed Systems
1 7 (10.29%) Replication
2 5 (7.35%) Data Centre
3 4 (5.88%) CSOC
3 4 (5.88%) SCADA
4 2 (2.94%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.47%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.47%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.47%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.47%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.47%) PKI
5 1 (1.47%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.47%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 30 (44.12%) Windows
2 15 (22.06%) Unix
3 12 (17.65%) VMS
4 10 (14.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (13.24%) Amazon Linux
6 6 (8.82%) AIX
6 6 (8.82%) Windows Server
7 4 (5.88%) Ubuntu
8 3 (4.41%) Android
9 2 (2.94%) CentOS
9 2 (2.94%) Debian
10 1 (1.47%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (33.82%) DevOps
2 18 (26.47%) Agile
3 14 (20.59%) Containerisation
4 12 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (14.71%) Cloud Security
6 9 (13.24%) Change Management
6 9 (13.24%) Configuration Management
6 9 (13.24%) Microservices
6 9 (13.24%) Platform Engineering
7 8 (11.76%) Continuous Integration
7 8 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 8 (11.76%) ITIL
7 8 (11.76%) Patch Management
7 8 (11.76%) Storage Management
7 8 (11.76%) TDD
8 7 (10.29%) BDD
8 7 (10.29%) Kanban
8 7 (10.29%) Open Source
8 7 (10.29%) Scrum
8 7 (10.29%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 22 (32.35%) Python
1 22 (32.35%) SQL
2 18 (26.47%) PowerShell
3 17 (25.00%) Java
4 9 (13.24%) Shell Script
5 8 (11.76%) Bash
5 8 (11.76%) Groovy
6 6 (8.82%) Perl
7 5 (7.35%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.47%) Bicep
8 1 (1.47%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 39 (57.35%) Security Cleared
2 34 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.88%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.94%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.94%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
4 2 (2.94%) OCP
4 2 (2.94%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.47%) Degree
5 1 (1.47%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.47%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (1.47%) RHCE
5 1 (1.47%) RHCSA
5 1 (1.47%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.88%) SLA
2 1 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.47%) NCSC
2 1 (1.47%) NIST
2 1 (1.47%) NIST 800
2 1 (1.47%) QA
System Software
1 24 (35.29%) Docker
2 9 (13.24%) Active Directory
2 9 (13.24%) Postfix
3 8 (11.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (8.82%) DFS Replication
5 4 (5.88%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (2.94%) Dovecot
6 2 (2.94%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (2.94%) Squid
7 1 (1.47%) Hyper-V
7 1 (1.47%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (1.47%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 16 (23.53%) Grafana
1 16 (23.53%) Prometheus
2 14 (20.59%) Terraform
3 13 (19.12%) Ansible
4 5 (7.35%) Kubernetes
5 4 (5.88%) Nessus
5 4 (5.88%) Tivoli
5 4 (5.88%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 3 (4.41%) Opsview
6 3 (4.41%) Podman
7 2 (2.94%) Data Guard
7 2 (2.94%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 2 (2.94%) Oracle RMAN
7 2 (2.94%) Puppet
8 1 (1.47%) Consul
8 1 (1.47%) PowerCLI
8 1 (1.47%) SELinux
8 1 (1.47%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.47%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 14 (20.59%) ServiceNow
1 14 (20.59%) VMware
2 10 (14.71%) Atlassian
3 9 (13.24%) IBM
3 9 (13.24%) Jaspersoft
3 9 (13.24%) Oracle
4 8 (11.76%) Tanium
5 7 (10.29%) Red Hat
5 7 (10.29%) Splunk
6 4 (5.88%) Cisco
6 4 (5.88%) Dell
6 4 (5.88%) F5
6 4 (5.88%) Fortinet
6 4 (5.88%) Palo Alto
6 4 (5.88%) SolarWinds
7 3 (4.41%) PagerDuty
8 2 (2.94%) Cognos
8 2 (2.94%) SAP
8 2 (2.94%) Sophos
8 2 (2.94%) Veeam