Linux Contracts in Birmingham

Linux
West Midlands > Birmingham

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham with a requirement for Linux skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Linux over the 6 months to 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 32 28 46
Rank change year-on-year -4 +18 +6
Contract jobs citing Linux 30 53 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 4.04% 5.95% 3.74%
As % of the Operating Systems category 41.67% 51.46% 28.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 21 33
10th Percentile £311 £378 £368
25th Percentile £406 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £640 £525
Median % change year-on-year -31.64% +21.90% +10.53%
75th Percentile £750 £731 £625
90th Percentile £850 - £675
West Midlands median daily rate £550 £550 £495
% change year-on-year - +11.11% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £52.50 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £70.00 £35.25 £15.50
% change year-on-year +98.58% +127.42% -

All Operating Systems
Birmingham

Linux is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 72 103 172
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 9.70% 11.56% 13.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 52 117
10th Percentile £190 £196 £173
25th Percentile £238 £331 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £420 £425
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -1.18% +21.43%
75th Percentile £487 £608 £550
90th Percentile £684 £731 £646
West Midlands median daily rate £438 £450 £416
% change year-on-year -2.78% +8.11% +11.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 6
10th Percentile £14.52 £15.54 £13.33
25th Percentile £15.47 £15.98 £14.25
Median hourly rate £17.50 £17.49 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.06% +9.31% -11.11%
75th Percentile £20.56 £27.50 £19.38
90th Percentile £22.48 £43.25 £20.00
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.50 £16.94 £16.50
% change year-on-year +32.86% +2.64% +6.45%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Birmingham

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Linux in Birmingham.

Daily rate trend for Linux in Birmingham

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Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in Birmingham over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in Birmingham

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Linux in Birmingham.

Hourly rate trend for Linux in Birmingham

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 5 (16.67%) CMS
2 2 (6.67%) IIS
2 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (6.67%) SharePoint
2 2 (6.67%) WordPress
3 1 (3.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 7 (23.33%) Azure
2 4 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (10.00%) Amazon S3
4 2 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (6.67%) AWS
4 2 (6.67%) Entra ID
4 2 (6.67%) OneDrive
5 1 (3.33%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (3.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 13 (43.33%) Firewall
2 5 (16.67%) WAN
3 4 (13.33%) DNS
4 3 (10.00%) LAN
4 3 (10.00%) VPN
5 2 (6.67%) Fibre Channel
5 2 (6.67%) iSCSI
5 2 (6.67%) NAS
5 2 (6.67%) SAN
5 2 (6.67%) SD-WAN
5 2 (6.67%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.00%) Relational Database
1 3 (10.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.33%) Data Lake
2 1 (3.33%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (3.33%) InterSystems Cache
2 1 (3.33%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.33%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Git
2 1 (3.33%) Ant
2 1 (3.33%) Gradle
2 1 (3.33%) JUnit
2 1 (3.33%) Maven
General
1 11 (36.67%) Legal
2 7 (23.33%) Public Sector
3 6 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 4 (13.33%) Finance
5 3 (10.00%) Games
6 2 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (3.33%) Banking
7 1 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (53.33%) Analyst
1 16 (53.33%) SOC Analyst
2 3 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (10.00%) Lead
3 2 (6.67%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 2 (6.67%) 2nd Line Support
3 2 (6.67%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 2 (6.67%) Architect
3 2 (6.67%) Azure Architect
3 2 (6.67%) Developer
3 2 (6.67%) Java Developer
3 2 (6.67%) Network Engineer
3 2 (6.67%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (6.67%) Senior
3 2 (6.67%) Support Engineer
3 2 (6.67%) Team Leader
3 2 (6.67%) Technical Architect
3 2 (6.67%) WAN Engineer
4 1 (3.33%) Junior Analyst
4 1 (3.33%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.67%) LAMP
1 2 (6.67%) Middleware
1 2 (6.67%) Spring
2 1 (3.33%) Guice
2 1 (3.33%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.00%) Security Operations Centre
2 5 (16.67%) Cyberattack
3 3 (10.00%) Algorithms
3 3 (10.00%) Data Structures
3 3 (10.00%) Public Cloud
4 2 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (6.67%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (6.67%) Replication
5 1 (3.33%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 1 (3.33%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 15 (50.00%) Windows
2 12 (40.00%) Mac OS X
3 3 (10.00%) Unix
4 2 (6.67%) Ubuntu
4 2 (6.67%) VMS
4 2 (6.67%) Windows Server
4 2 (6.67%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (6.67%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (3.33%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (60.00%) Cybersecurity
2 12 (40.00%) SIEM
2 12 (40.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 11 (36.67%) Computer Forensics
3 11 (36.67%) Malware Reverse Engineering
3 11 (36.67%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 11 (36.67%) Purple Team
3 11 (36.67%) Reverse Engineering
3 11 (36.67%) Risk Management
3 11 (36.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 11 (36.67%) Threat Analysis
4 10 (33.33%) Incident Management
5 7 (23.33%) Stakeholder Management
6 6 (20.00%) Incident Response
6 6 (20.00%) Security Operations
7 5 (16.67%) Line Management
8 4 (13.33%) Agile
9 3 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 2 (6.67%) Data Science
10 2 (6.67%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 3 (10.00%) Java
2 2 (6.67%) Perl
2 2 (6.67%) PowerShell
2 2 (6.67%) Python
3 1 (3.33%) C
3 1 (3.33%) C++
3 1 (3.33%) Scala
3 1 (3.33%) Shell Script
3 1 (3.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (63.33%) Security Cleared
2 13 (43.33%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (6.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 12 (40.00%) NIST
2 11 (36.67%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 11 (36.67%) GDPR
2 11 (36.67%) HIPAA
3 2 (6.67%) ISO 9000
3 2 (6.67%) QA
4 1 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 4 (13.33%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.67%) vSphere
3 1 (3.33%) Hyper-V
3 1 (3.33%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (6.67%) SCCM
2 1 (3.33%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 6 (20.00%) Splunk
2 5 (16.67%) Darktrace
2 5 (16.67%) FireEye
2 5 (16.67%) LogRhythm
2 5 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.67%) Aruba
3 2 (6.67%) Cisco
3 2 (6.67%) Databricks
3 2 (6.67%) Fujitsu
3 2 (6.67%) Palo Alto
3 2 (6.67%) ProCurve
3 2 (6.67%) Sage
3 2 (6.67%) Synology
3 2 (6.67%) Veeam
3 2 (6.67%) VMware
3 2 (6.67%) Zerto
4 1 (3.33%) F5
4 1 (3.33%) Fortinet
4 1 (3.33%) Qualys