Ubuntu Contracts in Scotland

Ubuntu Linux
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 121 154 166
Rank change year-on-year +33 +12 -28
Contract jobs citing Ubuntu 7 14 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.31% 0.49% 0.20%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.97% 2.66% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 11 6
10th Percentile £445 £413 £388
25th Percentile £486 £444 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% -4.67% +8.81%
75th Percentile £527 £522 £538
90th Percentile £536 £529 -
UK median daily rate £540 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -1.82% +4.76% +10.53%

All Operating Systems
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 355 527 524
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 15.88% 18.38% 14.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 229 370 350
10th Percentile £181 £160 £135
25th Percentile £325 £260 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £484 £434
Median % change year-on-year +3.36% +11.53% +8.44%
75th Percentile £626 £600 £538
90th Percentile £740 £746 £600
UK median daily rate £463 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -9.76% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 12 26
10th Percentile £17.36 £17.72 £15.04
25th Percentile £18.27 £20.02 £16.74
Median hourly rate £56.25 £53.75 £19.22
Median % change year-on-year +4.65% +179.73% +9.80%
75th Percentile £60.94 £59.41 £48.97
90th Percentile £62.50 £65.96 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £32.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year -32.31% +47.73% +23.01%

Ubuntu
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Ubuntu in Scotland

Ubuntu
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Ubuntu in Scotland

Ubuntu
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ubuntu within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 19 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
Edinburgh +24 5 £510 +3.24%
Glasgow - 1 £522 -
Ubuntu
UK

Ubuntu
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 (14.29%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 7 (100.00%) AWS
1 7 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 7 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 7 (100.00%) Serverless
2 6 (85.71%) Amazon EC2
2 6 (85.71%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 6 (85.71%) OpenShift
3 5 (71.43%) Amazon ECS
3 5 (71.43%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 1 (14.29%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (85.71%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (42.86%) InfluxDB
2 3 (42.86%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (85.71%) Artifactory
1 6 (85.71%) GitLab
1 6 (85.71%) Jenkins
2 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 4 (57.14%) Public Sector
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Finance
3 1 (14.29%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) AWS Engineer
1 6 (85.71%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 6 (85.71%) Platform Engineer
2 5 (71.43%) AWS DevOps
2 5 (71.43%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 5 (71.43%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Developer
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (100.00%) AWS CDK
2 3 (42.86%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (14.29%) Java EE
3 1 (14.29%) Node.js
3 1 (14.29%) React
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Linux
1 7 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Containerisation
1 6 (85.71%) DevOps
2 5 (71.43%) Agile
2 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
2 5 (71.43%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (71.43%) Software Delivery
3 4 (57.14%) Observability
3 4 (57.14%) Test Automation
4 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (28.57%) Customer-Centricity
4 2 (28.57%) Kanban
4 2 (28.57%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (28.57%) Scrum
5 1 (14.29%) Architecture Roadmap
5 1 (14.29%) Backlog Prioritisation
5 1 (14.29%) Collaborative Culture
5 1 (14.29%) Inclusive Design
5 1 (14.29%) Pair Programming
5 1 (14.29%) Roadmaps
5 1 (14.29%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Bash
1 7 (100.00%) Python
2 5 (71.43%) Groovy
3 1 (14.29%) Java
3 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 1 (14.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 6 (85.71%) Ansible
1 6 (85.71%) Grafana
1 6 (85.71%) Kibana
1 6 (85.71%) Kubernetes
2 3 (42.86%) Terraform