Linux Contracts in the West Midlands

Linux
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 31 33 26
Rank change year-on-year +2 -7 +29
Contract jobs citing Linux 98 130 225
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 5.04% 5.81% 6.30%
As % of the Operating Systems category 36.84% 39.16% 33.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 73 143
10th Percentile £320 £365 £290
25th Percentile £481 £475 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £495
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% +21.47%
75th Percentile £654 £688 £550
90th Percentile £750 £731 £635
England median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile - £20.88 -
25th Percentile £67.50 £25.94 £15.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £35.25 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year +98.58% +127.42% -
75th Percentile £72.50 £44.94 £15.75
90th Percentile - £50.23 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £55.23
% change year-on-year - +17.70% +10.45%

All Operating Systems
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 266 332 665
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 13.68% 14.84% 18.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 209 442
10th Percentile £181 £172 £150
25th Percentile £256 £275 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +5.88% +13.33%
75th Percentile £577 £588 £538
90th Percentile £688 £694 £600
England median daily rate £475 £508 £500
% change year-on-year -6.40% +1.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 9 39
10th Percentile £14.99 £13.16 £11.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £15.25 £13.81
Median hourly rate £22.50 £16.94 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year +32.86% +2.64% +3.13%
75th Percentile £23.75 £18.75 £20.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £32.75 £23.75
England median hourly rate £22.50 £42.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -47.06% +97.67% +22.86%

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

Linux
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 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in the West Midlands

Linux
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 1 June 2024. 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 30 £438 -31.64% 13
Herefordshire +6 28 £550 -15.38% 5
Warwickshire +10 19 £608 -14.74% 15
Worcestershire +5 8 £550 -15.38% 10
Shropshire -18 4 £300 -44.44% 2
Solihull -15 3 £175 -41.67% 2
Staffordshire +7 1 - - 8
Coventry +4 1 £450 +16.13% 3
Dudley 0 1 £425 +51.79% 1
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 5 (5.10%) CMS
2 3 (3.06%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.04%) Apache
3 2 (2.04%) IIS
3 2 (2.04%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.04%) WordPress
4 1 (1.02%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.02%) Confluence
4 1 (1.02%) OpenEdge
Business Applications
1 1 (1.02%) MFGPRO
1 1 (1.02%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 9 (9.18%) Azure
2 5 (5.10%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (3.06%) Amazon S3
3 3 (3.06%) AWS
3 3 (3.06%) Entra ID
4 2 (2.04%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (2.04%) OneDrive
5 1 (1.02%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (1.02%) Azure AKS
5 1 (1.02%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.02%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (1.02%) GCP
5 1 (1.02%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 17 (17.35%) Intrusion Detection
2 16 (16.33%) DNS
2 16 (16.33%) Network Security
3 14 (14.29%) Firewall
4 12 (12.24%) WAN
5 10 (10.20%) DHCP
6 7 (7.14%) LAN
6 7 (7.14%) TCP/IP
7 6 (6.12%) Fibre Channel
7 6 (6.12%) SAN
8 5 (5.10%) SD-WAN
9 4 (4.08%) Remote Desktop
10 3 (3.06%) VPN
11 2 (2.04%) iSCSI
11 2 (2.04%) NAS
11 2 (2.04%) Wireless
12 1 (1.02%) tcpdump
12 1 (1.02%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (16.33%) Big Data
2 12 (12.24%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (3.06%) Relational Database
3 3 (3.06%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.02%) Apache Hive
4 1 (1.02%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.02%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (1.02%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.02%) InterSystems Cache
4 1 (1.02%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.02%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.02%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (13.27%) Git
2 1 (1.02%) Ant
2 1 (1.02%) Gradle
2 1 (1.02%) IDA Disassembler
2 1 (1.02%) JIRA
2 1 (1.02%) JUnit
2 1 (1.02%) Maven
2 1 (1.02%) TeamCity
General
1 20 (20.41%) Analytical Skills
2 16 (16.33%) Public Sector
3 12 (12.24%) Social Skills
4 11 (11.22%) Legal
5 5 (5.10%) Finance
6 3 (3.06%) Games
7 2 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.02%) Banking
8 1 (1.02%) Fire and Rescue
8 1 (1.02%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.02%) Military
8 1 (1.02%) Police
8 1 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (16.33%) Analyst
1 16 (16.33%) SOC Analyst
2 12 (12.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 12 (12.24%) SIEM Engineer
3 10 (10.20%) Architect
4 6 (6.12%) Principal Engineer
5 5 (5.10%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 5 (5.10%) Administrator
5 5 (5.10%) Senior
5 5 (5.10%) WAN Engineer
6 4 (4.08%) 2nd Line Support
6 4 (4.08%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 4 (4.08%) Security Engineer
6 4 (4.08%) Server Administrator
6 4 (4.08%) Support Engineer
6 4 (4.08%) VMWare Administrator
7 3 (3.06%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (3.06%) DevOps Specialist
7 3 (3.06%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (3.06%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (16.33%) Apache NiFi
2 11 (11.22%) Elastic Stack
2 11 (11.22%) YAML
3 2 (2.04%) LAMP
3 2 (2.04%) Middleware
3 2 (2.04%) Spring
4 1 (1.02%) .NET
4 1 (1.02%) Guice
4 1 (1.02%) Kafka
4 1 (1.02%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 16 (16.33%) Cyber Defence
1 16 (16.33%) Distributed Applications
2 15 (15.31%) Linux Command Line
3 12 (12.24%) Management Information System
4 9 (9.18%) Security Operations Centre
5 7 (7.14%) SCADA
6 5 (5.10%) Algorithms
6 5 (5.10%) Cyberattack
7 4 (4.08%) PKI
8 3 (3.06%) Data Structures
8 3 (3.06%) Public Cloud
9 2 (2.04%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 2 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (2.04%) Replication
10 1 (1.02%) Client/Server
10 1 (1.02%) Mobile App
10 1 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (1.02%) Video Conferencing
10 1 (1.02%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 69 (70.41%) Windows
2 29 (29.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 26 (26.53%) Unix
4 17 (17.35%) Ubuntu
5 16 (16.33%) Android
5 16 (16.33%) Apple iOS
6 12 (12.24%) Mac OS X
7 11 (11.22%) Windows Server
8 5 (5.10%) CentOS
9 2 (2.04%) VMS
9 2 (2.04%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (2.04%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (1.02%) Debian
10 1 (1.02%) HPUX
10 1 (1.02%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (47.96%) Cybersecurity
2 46 (46.94%) SIEM
3 24 (24.49%) Data Pipeline
3 24 (24.49%) Infrastructure as Code
4 21 (21.43%) Security Operations
5 18 (18.37%) Security Architecture
6 16 (16.33%) Actionable Insight
6 16 (16.33%) Data Engineering
6 16 (16.33%) Data Management
6 16 (16.33%) Information Security
6 16 (16.33%) Kalman Filter
6 16 (16.33%) Visualisation
7 15 (15.31%) Virtual Infrastructure
8 14 (14.29%) Analytics
9 13 (13.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 13 (13.27%) Infrastructure Monitoring
9 13 (13.27%) Vulnerability Management
10 12 (12.24%) Malware Reverse Engineering
10 12 (12.24%) MITRE ATT&CK
10 12 (12.24%) Reverse Engineering
Programming Languages
1 18 (18.37%) PowerShell
2 9 (9.18%) Java
3 8 (8.16%) R
4 6 (6.12%) C#
5 5 (5.10%) Bash
5 5 (5.10%) Python
6 2 (2.04%) Perl
7 1 (1.02%) C
7 1 (1.02%) C++
7 1 (1.02%) Scala
7 1 (1.02%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.02%) SQL
Qualifications
1 67 (68.37%) Security Cleared
2 34 (34.69%) SC Cleared
3 25 (25.51%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.04%) Degree
5 1 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.02%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (18.37%) NIST
2 16 (16.33%) Actionable Recommendations
3 12 (12.24%) GDPR
3 12 (12.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (11.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 11 (11.22%) HIPAA
5 5 (5.10%) ISO 9000
6 2 (2.04%) QA
7 1 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 21 (21.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 19 (19.39%) Active Directory
3 11 (11.22%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (9.18%) iptables
4 9 (9.18%) VMware ESXi
4 9 (9.18%) VMware NSX
5 6 (6.12%) vSphere
6 4 (4.08%) VMware Server
7 2 (2.04%) Hyper-V
8 1 (1.02%) Docker
8 1 (1.02%) Snort
8 1 (1.02%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 12 (12.24%) Kibana
1 12 (12.24%) Terraform
2 11 (11.22%) Ansible
2 11 (11.22%) logstash
2 11 (11.22%) Progress Chef
2 11 (11.22%) Puppet
2 11 (11.22%) Salt
3 9 (9.18%) vCenter Server
4 8 (8.16%) SCCM
5 2 (2.04%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.02%) Argo
6 1 (1.02%) Istio
6 1 (1.02%) Kubernetes
6 1 (1.02%) linkerd
6 1 (1.02%) Proxmox
6 1 (1.02%) SELinux
Vendors
1 34 (34.69%) Red Hat
2 23 (23.47%) VMware
3 10 (10.20%) Microsoft
4 9 (9.18%) SaltStack
5 7 (7.14%) Splunk
5 7 (7.14%) Veeam
6 5 (5.10%) Cisco
6 5 (5.10%) Darktrace
6 5 (5.10%) FireEye
6 5 (5.10%) LogRhythm
7 3 (3.06%) Fujitsu
8 2 (2.04%) Aruba
8 2 (2.04%) Databricks
8 2 (2.04%) NVIDIA
8 2 (2.04%) Palo Alto
8 2 (2.04%) ProCurve
8 2 (2.04%) Sage
8 2 (2.04%) Synology
8 2 (2.04%) Zerto
9 1 (1.02%) F5