Ubuntu Contracts in England

Ubuntu Linux
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Ubuntu skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Ubuntu over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 440 525 579
Rank change year-on-year +85 +54 -32
Contract jobs citing Ubuntu 95 138 201
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.26% 0.27% 0.28%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.88% 1.67% 1.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 111 130
10th Percentile £425 £400 £301
25th Percentile £506 £475 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year - +3.77% +0.95%
75th Percentile - £672 £650
90th Percentile £615 £750 £751
UK median daily rate £540 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -1.82% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 6
10th Percentile - £17.72 £55.19
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.10 -
Median hourly rate £21.00 £18.74 £69.05
Median % change year-on-year +12.09% -72.87% +376.21%
75th Percentile £21.50 £19.37 -
90th Percentile - £19.75 £93.03
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £18.74 £69.05
% change year-on-year +12.09% -72.87% +376.21%

All Operating Systems
England

Ubuntu 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 England with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 5,045 8,260 11,221
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.65% 16.34% 15.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,433 5,890 7,674
10th Percentile £181 £190 £170
25th Percentile £285 £325 £318
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.76% +2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £625
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £470 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -6.93% +1.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 367 390 559
10th Percentile £12.75 £14.00 £13.25
25th Percentile £14.95 £17.73 £15.50
Median hourly rate £22.00 £37.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.33% +74.42% +19.44%
75th Percentile £59.50 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £38.75 £22.28
% change year-on-year -43.23% +73.92% +23.78%

Ubuntu
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Ubuntu as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Ubuntu in England

Ubuntu
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Ubuntu in England.

Daily rate trend for Ubuntu in England

Ubuntu
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ubuntu in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Ubuntu in England

Ubuntu
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Ubuntu in England.

Hourly rate trend for Ubuntu in England

Ubuntu
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ubuntu within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
South East +33 41 £523 -5.00% 16
Midlands +40 22 £550 -5.58% 9
London +53 19 £551 -8.13% 14
West Midlands +41 14 £550 -21.43% 4
East Midlands +21 7 £550 -21.43% 5
North of England +29 5 £425 - 10
South West +19 4 £775 +40.91% 10
East of England +14 4 £440 +10.00% 9
Yorkshire +19 2 £425 -41.38%
North West +12 2 £425 +21.43% 9
North East +19 1 £550 -24.14% 1
Ubuntu
UK

Ubuntu
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 8 (8.42%) nginx
2 7 (7.37%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (6.32%) Apache
4 5 (5.26%) OpenStack
5 4 (4.21%) SharePoint
6 3 (3.16%) IIS
6 3 (3.16%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 3 (3.16%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 23 (24.21%) AWS
2 21 (22.11%) Azure
3 10 (10.53%) AWS CloudFormation
4 9 (9.47%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (5.26%) IaaS
5 5 (5.26%) PaaS
6 4 (4.21%) Amazon Kinesis
6 4 (4.21%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (3.16%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (3.16%) Amazon S3
7 3 (3.16%) Entra ID
7 3 (3.16%) OneDrive
7 3 (3.16%) Route 53
7 3 (3.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (2.11%) GitHub
8 2 (2.11%) OpenShift
9 1 (1.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (1.05%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
9 1 (1.05%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (1.05%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 32 (33.68%) SAN
2 24 (25.26%) TCP/IP
3 12 (12.63%) DNS
4 11 (11.58%) Firewall
5 9 (9.47%) WAN
6 8 (8.42%) DHCP
6 8 (8.42%) Wireless
7 7 (7.37%) LAN
7 7 (7.37%) NAS
8 6 (6.32%) VPN
9 4 (4.21%) Fibre Channel
10 3 (3.16%) Cisco IOS
10 3 (3.16%) iSCSI
10 3 (3.16%) WLAN
11 2 (2.11%) Cisco ASA
11 2 (2.11%) Wi-Fi
12 1 (1.05%) Intrusion Detection
12 1 (1.05%) NFC
12 1 (1.05%) PPP
12 1 (1.05%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (16.84%) Elasticsearch
2 11 (11.58%) SQL Server
3 10 (10.53%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (7.37%) MySQL
5 5 (5.26%) Couchbase
5 5 (5.26%) NoSQL
6 3 (3.16%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.05%) Neo4j
7 1 (1.05%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (10.53%) Git
2 4 (4.21%) GitLab
3 3 (3.16%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.11%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.05%) Eclipse
5 1 (1.05%) Gerrit
5 1 (1.05%) GoogleTest
5 1 (1.05%) Gradle
5 1 (1.05%) JIRA
5 1 (1.05%) Liquibase
5 1 (1.05%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (1.05%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.05%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (1.05%) TestRail
5 1 (1.05%) Valgrind
5 1 (1.05%) Visual Studio
General
1 13 (13.68%) Social Skills
2 7 (7.37%) Telecoms
3 6 (6.32%) Public Sector
4 5 (5.26%) Manufacturing
5 3 (3.16%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.16%) Front Office
5 3 (3.16%) Retail
6 2 (2.11%) Finance
6 2 (2.11%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.05%) Banking
7 1 (1.05%) Electronics
7 1 (1.05%) Fire and Rescue
7 1 (1.05%) Legal
7 1 (1.05%) Military
7 1 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.05%) Police
Job Titles
1 26 (27.37%) Developer
2 24 (25.26%) Python Developer
3 12 (12.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 10 (10.53%) SIEM Engineer
5 9 (9.47%) Applications Engineer
5 9 (9.47%) Linux Engineer
5 9 (9.47%) Senior
6 5 (5.26%) Analyst
6 5 (5.26%) Analyst Developer
6 5 (5.26%) Developer Analyst
6 5 (5.26%) Network Engineer
6 5 (5.26%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (5.26%) Programmer
6 5 (5.26%) Python Programmer
6 5 (5.26%) Security Analyst
7 4 (4.21%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 4 (4.21%) Backend Developer
7 4 (4.21%) Senior Developer
7 4 (4.21%) Senior Python Developer
7 4 (4.21%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (16.84%) Elastic Stack
2 9 (9.47%) ADO
3 5 (5.26%) LAPP Stack
4 4 (4.21%) .NET
5 3 (3.16%) EDI
5 3 (3.16%) LAMP
6 2 (2.11%) jQuery
6 2 (2.11%) JSON
6 2 (2.11%) Keycloak
6 2 (2.11%) Web Services
7 1 (1.05%) Apache NiFi
7 1 (1.05%) CSS
7 1 (1.05%) Django
7 1 (1.05%) Node.js
7 1 (1.05%) REST
7 1 (1.05%) RESTful
7 1 (1.05%) SOAP
7 1 (1.05%) Spring Boot
7 1 (1.05%) Swagger
7 1 (1.05%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (15.79%) Linux Command Line
2 7 (7.37%) PKI
3 5 (5.26%) Public Cloud
4 4 (4.21%) Data Centre
4 4 (4.21%) Fat Client
4 4 (4.21%) Thin Client
5 3 (3.16%) CCTV
5 3 (3.16%) EPoS
5 3 (3.16%) Replication
5 3 (3.16%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (3.16%) Tandem
6 1 (1.05%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.05%) Clustering
6 1 (1.05%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.05%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.05%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (1.05%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.05%) Smartcard
6 1 (1.05%) STB
Operating Systems
1 95 (100.00%) Linux
2 39 (41.05%) Windows
3 28 (29.47%) Debian
4 16 (16.84%) Windows Server
5 14 (14.74%) CentOS
6 10 (10.53%) Windows Server 2019
7 9 (9.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 8 (8.42%) VMS
9 5 (5.26%) Windows Server 2012
10 4 (4.21%) Android
10 4 (4.21%) Unix
10 4 (4.21%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (3.16%) Mac OS
11 3 (3.16%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (2.11%) Solaris
13 1 (1.05%) Apple iOS
13 1 (1.05%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (30.53%) ITIL
2 27 (28.42%) Configuration Management
3 23 (24.21%) Agile
4 21 (22.11%) Data Modelling
5 18 (18.95%) Customer Service
5 18 (18.95%) Data Engineering
5 18 (18.95%) Prototyping
5 18 (18.95%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 15 (15.79%) Infrastructure as Code
6 15 (15.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 15 (15.79%) Matrix Organization
7 13 (13.68%) CI/CD
7 13 (13.68%) SIEM
8 11 (11.58%) DevOps
8 11 (11.58%) RBAC
9 10 (10.53%) Infrastructure Monitoring
9 10 (10.53%) Migration
9 10 (10.53%) Software Engineering
10 9 (9.47%) Visualisation
11 8 (8.42%) Application Packaging
Programming Languages
1 34 (35.79%) Python
2 17 (17.89%) Bash
3 13 (13.68%) PowerShell
4 8 (8.42%) R
4 8 (8.42%) SQL
5 5 (5.26%) Go
6 3 (3.16%) C++
6 3 (3.16%) VB.NET
7 2 (2.11%) Java
7 2 (2.11%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.11%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.05%) C#
8 1 (1.05%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 37 (38.95%) Security Cleared
2 31 (32.63%) SC Cleared
3 21 (22.11%) DV Cleared
4 9 (9.47%) Degree
5 3 (3.16%) ITIL Certification
5 3 (3.16%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.05%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.05%) CEH
7 1 (1.05%) CISSP
7 1 (1.05%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (1.05%) Linux+ Certification
7 1 (1.05%) LPIC
7 1 (1.05%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.05%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.16%) ISO 9001
1 3 (3.16%) ISO/IEC 20000
1 3 (3.16%) SLA
2 1 (1.05%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.05%) NCSC
2 1 (1.05%) QA
2 1 (1.05%) WCAG
System Software
1 41 (43.16%) Active Directory
2 9 (9.47%) iptables
2 9 (9.47%) Virtual Machines
2 9 (9.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (8.42%) vSphere
4 6 (6.32%) Docker
4 6 (6.32%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (4.21%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.05%) KVM
6 1 (1.05%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (1.05%) VMware NSX
6 1 (1.05%) VMware Server
6 1 (1.05%) Xen
Systems Management
1 26 (27.37%) Ansible
2 15 (15.79%) Terraform
3 12 (12.63%) Kibana
4 10 (10.53%) logstash
5 9 (9.47%) ZABBIX
6 8 (8.42%) Grafana
7 7 (7.37%) Prometheus
7 7 (7.37%) WSUS
8 6 (6.32%) Kubernetes
8 6 (6.32%) Microsoft Intune
8 6 (6.32%) Red Hat Satellite
8 6 (6.32%) SCCM
9 5 (5.26%) Nessus
9 5 (5.26%) Puppet
9 5 (5.26%) vCenter Server
10 4 (4.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (3.16%) Packer
11 3 (3.16%) PaperCut
12 2 (2.11%) FortiGate
12 2 (2.11%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 40 (42.11%) Red Hat
1 40 (42.11%) VMware
2 37 (38.95%) Microsoft
3 10 (10.53%) Veeam
4 6 (6.32%) Aruba
5 5 (5.26%) Cisco
5 5 (5.26%) Oracle
5 5 (5.26%) Palo Alto
6 3 (3.16%) HP
6 3 (3.16%) Nimble Storage
6 3 (3.16%) ProCurve
6 3 (3.16%) Sage
6 3 (3.16%) Synology
6 3 (3.16%) WatchGuard
6 3 (3.16%) Zerto
7 2 (2.11%) Qualys
7 2 (2.11%) Remedy
7 2 (2.11%) SolarWinds
7 2 (2.11%) Splunk
8 1 (1.05%) ArcSight