Linux Contract Job Trends in Worcestershire

Linux
West Midlands > Worcestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Worcestershire requiring Linux skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 15 13
Rank change year-on-year -6 -2 +5
Contract jobs citing Linux 13 1 5
As % of all contract jobs in Worcestershire 8.90% 1.54% 6.02%
As % of the Operating Systems category 39.39% 11.11% 18.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 1 5
10th Percentile - - £452
25th Percentile £563 - £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £700 £588
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +19.15% -9.62%
75th Percentile £625 - £655
90th Percentile £645 - £658
West Midlands median daily rate £525 £550 £498
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.55% -7.53%

All Operating Systems
Worcestershire

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 Worcestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 33 9 27
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Worcestershire 22.60% 13.85% 32.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 4 19
10th Percentile £525 £127 £154
25th Percentile £563 £129 £169
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £138 £200
Median % change year-on-year +318.18% -31.25% -57.89%
75th Percentile £623 £284 £463
90th Percentile £700 £534 £616
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £426 £400
% change year-on-year +11.63% +6.38% -19.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 7
10th Percentile - £16.74 £16.54
25th Percentile £17.14 £19.03 £17.13
Median hourly rate £18.23 £21.59 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -15.59% +21.84% +10.96%
75th Percentile £21.41 £23.21 -
90th Percentile £45.10 £23.79 £18.33
West Midlands median hourly rate £21.46 £21.59 £17.72
% change year-on-year -0.60% +21.84% +7.39%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Worcestershire

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

Linux job vacancy trend in Worcestershire

Linux
Daily Rate Trend in Worcestershire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Worcestershire citing Linux.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Worcestershire citing Linux

Linux
Hourly Rate Trend in Worcestershire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Worcestershire citing Linux.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Worcestershire citing Linux

Linux
Contract Job Locations in Worcestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the Worcestershire region over the 6 months to 14 December 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
Worcester -9 4 £600 -14.29% 7
Malvern -20 3 £600 -14.29%
Linux
West Midlands

Linux
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Worcestershire 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (38.46%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 10 (76.92%) Azure
2 7 (53.85%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (46.15%) AWS
4 5 (38.46%) Amazon EKS
4 5 (38.46%) AWS CloudFormation
4 5 (38.46%) Azure AKS
4 5 (38.46%) Datadog
4 5 (38.46%) GCP
4 5 (38.46%) GitHub
4 5 (38.46%) GitHub Actions
4 5 (38.46%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 5 (38.46%) npm
4 5 (38.46%) OpenShift
4 5 (38.46%) Pulumi
5 2 (15.38%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) DNS
1 1 (7.69%) Firewall
1 1 (7.69%) Multicast
1 1 (7.69%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 5 (38.46%) Artifactory
1 5 (38.46%) Bitbucket
1 5 (38.46%) CircleCI
1 5 (38.46%) Cypress.io
1 5 (38.46%) Git
1 5 (38.46%) GitLab
1 5 (38.46%) Gradle
1 5 (38.46%) Jenkins
1 5 (38.46%) JUnit
1 5 (38.46%) Maven
1 5 (38.46%) Postman
1 5 (38.46%) Selenium
1 5 (38.46%) Snyk
1 5 (38.46%) SonarQube
1 5 (38.46%) Sonatype Nexus
1 5 (38.46%) webpack
General
1 4 (30.77%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Application Integration Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Applications Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Integration Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Security Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) SIEM Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) SOC Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Architect
4 1 (7.69%) FPGA Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Server Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Server Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (53.85%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (38.46%) JSON
2 5 (38.46%) REST
2 5 (38.46%) YAML
3 1 (7.69%) NumPy
3 1 (7.69%) SciPy
3 1 (7.69%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Private Cloud
2 4 (30.77%) Client/Server
3 1 (7.69%) FPGA
3 1 (7.69%) MicroBlaze
3 1 (7.69%) RISC-V
3 1 (7.69%) Verilog
3 1 (7.69%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 5 (38.46%) Windows
2 4 (30.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (30.77%) Windows Server
3 1 (7.69%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (7.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) DevOps
2 6 (46.15%) Agile
2 6 (46.15%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (38.46%) CI/CD
3 5 (38.46%) Configuration Management
3 5 (38.46%) Containerisation
3 5 (38.46%) Continuous Delivery
3 5 (38.46%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (38.46%) DevSecOps
3 5 (38.46%) Scrum
3 5 (38.46%) SDLC
3 5 (38.46%) Software Delivery
3 5 (38.46%) Software Engineering
3 5 (38.46%) Task Automation
3 5 (38.46%) Test Automation
4 4 (30.77%) SIEM
5 3 (23.08%) Application Packaging
5 3 (23.08%) Reverse Engineering
5 3 (23.08%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 2 (15.38%) Case Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (53.85%) Python
2 3 (23.08%) Bash
2 3 (23.08%) PowerShell
2 3 (23.08%) VBScript
3 1 (7.69%) C
3 1 (7.69%) C++
3 1 (7.69%) Go
3 1 (7.69%) MATLAB
3 1 (7.69%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 13 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 12 (92.31%) DV Cleared
3 3 (23.08%) SC Cleared
4 1 (7.69%) Degree
System Software
1 5 (38.46%) Docker
2 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.69%) Terminal Services
2 1 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (38.46%) Ansible
1 5 (38.46%) Grafana
1 5 (38.46%) Kubernetes
1 5 (38.46%) Podman
1 5 (38.46%) Progress Chef
1 5 (38.46%) Prometheus
1 5 (38.46%) Puppet
1 5 (38.46%) Terraform
2 2 (15.38%) Kibana
2 2 (15.38%) logstash
3 1 (7.69%) Nessus
3 1 (7.69%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) Splunk
2 4 (30.77%) VMware
3 2 (15.38%) ArcSight
4 1 (7.69%) Cisco
4 1 (7.69%) Dell
4 1 (7.69%) Red Hat
4 1 (7.69%) SolarWinds
4 1 (7.69%) Veeam