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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 16 14
Rank change year-on-year +4 -2 +3
Contract jobs citing Linux 8 2 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Worcestershire 10.96% 2.33% 4.00%
As % of the Operating Systems category 44.44% 28.57% 17.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 2 3
10th Percentile £563 - £564
25th Percentile £572 £525 £566
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -6.38% -9.62%
75th Percentile £631 £575 £655
90th Percentile £654 - £683
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £575 £540
% change year-on-year -13.04% +6.48% +6.40%

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 18 7 17
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Worcestershire 24.66% 8.14% 22.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 5 16
10th Percentile £382 £141 £163
25th Percentile £525 £158 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £165 £329
Median % change year-on-year +248.48% -49.81% +5.20%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £509
90th Percentile £635 - £597
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £450 £400
% change year-on-year - +12.50% -15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - £24.77 -
25th Percentile - £31.47 £17.75
Median hourly rate £24.66 £45.80 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -46.15% +147.54% +34.55%
75th Percentile - £61.97 £19.25
90th Percentile - £69.79 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £24.83 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +30.68% -5.00% +22.25%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Worcestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux 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 7 September 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 - 4 £600 - 9
Malvern -6 3 £600 +9.09% 1
Linux
West Midlands

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Worcestershire 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 2 (25.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) Azure
2 4 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (25.00%) AWS
3 2 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (25.00%) Azure AKS
3 2 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (25.00%) Datadog
3 2 (25.00%) GCP
3 2 (25.00%) GitHub
3 2 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (25.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 2 (25.00%) npm
3 2 (25.00%) OpenShift
3 2 (25.00%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) DNS
1 1 (12.50%) Firewall
1 1 (12.50%) Multicast
1 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Artifactory
1 2 (25.00%) Bitbucket
1 2 (25.00%) CircleCI
1 2 (25.00%) Cypress.io
1 2 (25.00%) Git
1 2 (25.00%) GitLab
1 2 (25.00%) Gradle
1 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (25.00%) JUnit
1 2 (25.00%) Maven
1 2 (25.00%) Postman
1 2 (25.00%) Selenium
1 2 (25.00%) Snyk
1 2 (25.00%) SonarQube
1 2 (25.00%) Sonatype Nexus
1 2 (25.00%) webpack
General
1 3 (37.50%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Application Integration Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) Applications Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) Integration Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Security Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) SIEM Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) SOC Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Server Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (25.00%) JSON
2 2 (25.00%) REST
2 2 (25.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Client/Server
2 2 (25.00%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Windows
2 3 (37.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (37.50%) Windows Server
3 1 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Agile
1 4 (50.00%) DevOps
1 4 (50.00%) Scrum
1 4 (50.00%) SIEM
2 3 (37.50%) Application Packaging
2 3 (37.50%) Reverse Engineering
3 2 (25.00%) Case Management
3 2 (25.00%) Configuration Management
3 2 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (25.00%) DevSecOps
3 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (25.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 2 (25.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 2 (25.00%) SDLC
3 2 (25.00%) Software Delivery
3 2 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (25.00%) Task Automation
3 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) Python
2 3 (37.50%) Bash
2 3 (37.50%) PowerShell
2 3 (37.50%) VBScript
3 1 (12.50%) Go
Qualifications
1 8 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 8 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Docker
2 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 1 (12.50%) Terminal Services
2 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Ansible
1 2 (25.00%) Grafana
1 2 (25.00%) Kibana
1 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (25.00%) logstash
1 2 (25.00%) Podman
1 2 (25.00%) Progress Chef
1 2 (25.00%) Prometheus
1 2 (25.00%) Puppet
1 2 (25.00%) Terraform
2 1 (12.50%) Nessus
2 1 (12.50%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) VMware
2 2 (25.00%) ArcSight
2 2 (25.00%) Splunk
3 1 (12.50%) Cisco
3 1 (12.50%) Dell
3 1 (12.50%) SolarWinds
3 1 (12.50%) Veeam