Ubuntu Contracts in the North West

Ubuntu Linux
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 135 156 172
Rank change year-on-year +21 +16 -32
Contract jobs citing Ubuntu 3 5 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.11% 0.16% 0.17%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.90% 0.99% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 7
10th Percentile £234 £250 £141
25th Percentile £266 £325 £144
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £350 £150
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +133.33% -
75th Percentile £378 £513 £289
90th Percentile £406 £625 £440
England median daily rate £538 £560 £530
% change year-on-year -4.02% +5.66% -3.64%

All Operating Systems
North West

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 the North West with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 332 506 777
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 12.39% 16.28% 19.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 211 343 540
10th Percentile £170 £173 £158
25th Percentile £278 £313 £228
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% +5.56% +20.81%
75th Percentile £585 £575 £588
90th Percentile £825 £650 £650
England median daily rate £470 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -8.29% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 47 43
10th Percentile - £15.53 £14.30
25th Percentile £10.95 £20.62 £16.24
Median hourly rate £16.00 £29.30 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.39% +46.50% +20.37%
75th Percentile £18.94 £43.75 £50.01
90th Percentile £46.08 £49.52 £77.00
England median hourly rate £22.00 £37.50 £22.14
% change year-on-year -41.33% +69.38% +24.59%

Ubuntu
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Ubuntu as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Ubuntu in the North West

Ubuntu
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Ubuntu in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Ubuntu in the North West

Ubuntu
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ubuntu in the North West over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Ubuntu in the North West

Ubuntu
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ubuntu within the North West region over the 6 months to 10 May 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
Manchester +21 2 £325 -45.83% 7
Cheshire +10 1 - - 4
Ubuntu
England

Ubuntu
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) HTTP
1 1 (33.33%) HTTPS
1 1 (33.33%) IPsec
1 1 (33.33%) LAN
1 1 (33.33%) SNMP
1 1 (33.33%) SSH
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 1 (33.33%) WAN
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Audit Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) IT Support
1 1 (33.33%) IT Support Technician
1 1 (33.33%) IT Technician
1 1 (33.33%) Linux Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Linux Specialist
1 1 (33.33%) Network Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Support Technician
1 1 (33.33%) Ubuntu Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Ubuntu Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) EPoS
1 1 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Debian
2 2 (66.67%) Windows
3 1 (33.33%) CentOS
3 1 (33.33%) Mac OS
3 1 (33.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) E-Commerce
1 1 (33.33%) Logistics
1 1 (33.33%) Migration
1 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (33.33%) NFS
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Jamf Pro
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat