Ubuntu Contracts in the UK excluding London

Ubuntu Linux
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 311 373 432
Rank change year-on-year +62 +59 -50
Contract jobs citing Ubuntu 85 74 80
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.41% 0.32% 0.26%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.63% 1.64% 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 54 56
10th Percentile £425 £383 £205
25th Percentile £475 £452 £387
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £517 £489
Median % change year-on-year +1.50% +5.89% +2.84%
75th Percentile £550 £559 £541
90th Percentile £560 £626 £631
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
Median hourly rate - £17.47 £69.05
Median % change year-on-year - -74.70% +376.21%
UK median hourly rate - £18.74 £69.05
% change year-on-year - -72.87% +376.21%

All Operating Systems
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 3,227 4,516 5,850
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.75% 19.25% 19.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,150 3,132 3,814
10th Percentile £175 £163 £150
25th Percentile £258 £250 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +11.76% +6.25%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £538
90th Percentile £675 £676 £638
UK median daily rate £468 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -8.24% +2.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 321 335 454
10th Percentile £12.25 £13.29 £12.60
25th Percentile £14.27 £17.27 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £29.30 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.21% +46.50% +21.21%
75th Percentile £62.00 £60.66 £48.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £72.74 £63.38
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £38.50 £23.00
% change year-on-year -42.86% +67.39% +29.58%

Ubuntu
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Ubuntu as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Ubuntu in the UK excluding London

Ubuntu
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Ubuntu in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Ubuntu in the UK excluding London

Ubuntu
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ubuntu in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Ubuntu in the UK excluding London

Ubuntu
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Ubuntu in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Ubuntu in the UK excluding London

Ubuntu
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ubuntu within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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
South East +32 39 £521 -5.23% 11
Midlands +55 25 £550 -5.58% 10
West Midlands +36 17 £550 -21.43% 4
Scotland +30 7 £513 +3.80%
East Midlands +27 7 £550 -21.43% 6
North of England +27 6 £425 -15.00% 13
South West +12 4 £775 +40.91% 11
East of England +6 4 £440 +10.00% 7
North West +13 3 £325 -7.14% 12
Yorkshire +18 2 £425 -41.38% 1
North East +12 1 £550 -24.14%
Wales - 1 - - 1
Ubuntu
UK

Ubuntu
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 7 (8.24%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (3.53%) nginx
2 3 (3.53%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.35%) IIS
3 2 (2.35%) WordPress
4 1 (1.18%) Apache
4 1 (1.18%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 3 (3.53%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 17 (20.00%) AWS
2 16 (18.82%) AWS CloudFormation
3 10 (11.76%) Azure
4 9 (10.59%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (9.41%) Amazon S3
5 8 (9.41%) OpenShift
5 8 (9.41%) Serverless
6 7 (8.24%) Amazon EC2
6 7 (8.24%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (7.06%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 5 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
8 5 (5.88%) AWS Fargate
9 2 (2.35%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (2.35%) GitHub
9 2 (2.35%) OneDrive
9 2 (2.35%) Route 53
10 1 (1.18%) Amazon Kinesis
10 1 (1.18%) CloudFront
10 1 (1.18%) Entra ID
10 1 (1.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 33 (38.82%) SAN
2 24 (28.24%) TCP/IP
3 15 (17.65%) DNS
4 11 (12.94%) DHCP
5 10 (11.76%) WAN
6 8 (9.41%) LAN
7 6 (7.06%) Fibre Channel
7 6 (7.06%) Firewall
7 6 (7.06%) NAS
8 5 (5.88%) Wireless
9 4 (4.71%) Remote Desktop
10 3 (3.53%) Cisco IOS
10 3 (3.53%) VPN
11 2 (2.35%) iSCSI
12 1 (1.18%) HTTP
12 1 (1.18%) HTTPS
12 1 (1.18%) Network Security
12 1 (1.18%) NFC
12 1 (1.18%) PPP
12 1 (1.18%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (25.88%) Elasticsearch
2 10 (11.76%) SQL Server
3 8 (9.41%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (8.24%) MySQL
5 3 (3.53%) InfluxDB
6 1 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.18%) Neo4j
6 1 (1.18%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (11.76%) GitLab
2 9 (10.59%) Jenkins
3 6 (7.06%) Artifactory
4 5 (5.88%) Git
5 2 (2.35%) Bitbucket
5 2 (2.35%) JIRA
6 1 (1.18%) Eclipse
6 1 (1.18%) Gerrit
6 1 (1.18%) GoogleTest
6 1 (1.18%) Gradle
6 1 (1.18%) Liquibase
6 1 (1.18%) Rational DOORS
6 1 (1.18%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.18%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.18%) TestRail
6 1 (1.18%) Valgrind
6 1 (1.18%) Visual Studio
General
1 16 (18.82%) Social Skills
2 10 (11.76%) Public Sector
3 3 (3.53%) Front Office
3 3 (3.53%) Retail
3 3 (3.53%) Telecoms
4 2 (2.35%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.35%) Finance
4 2 (2.35%) Manufacturing
4 2 (2.35%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.18%) Electronics
5 1 (1.18%) Fire and Rescue
5 1 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (1.18%) Military
5 1 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.18%) Police
Job Titles
1 25 (29.41%) Developer
2 23 (27.06%) Python Developer
3 10 (11.76%) SIEM Engineer
4 9 (10.59%) Applications Engineer
4 9 (10.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 9 (10.59%) Senior
5 7 (8.24%) Linux Engineer
6 6 (7.06%) Administrator
6 6 (7.06%) AWS Engineer
6 6 (7.06%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 6 (7.06%) DevOps Engineer
6 6 (7.06%) Platform Engineer
7 5 (5.88%) Analyst
7 5 (5.88%) Analyst Developer
7 5 (5.88%) AWS DevOps
7 5 (5.88%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 5 (5.88%) Developer Analyst
7 5 (5.88%) Programmer
7 5 (5.88%) Python Programmer
7 5 (5.88%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (12.94%) Elastic Stack
2 8 (9.41%) ADO
3 7 (8.24%) AWS CDK
4 4 (4.71%) .NET
5 3 (3.53%) EDI
5 3 (3.53%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (2.35%) jQuery
6 2 (2.35%) JSON
6 2 (2.35%) Keycloak
6 2 (2.35%) LAMP
6 2 (2.35%) Node.js
6 2 (2.35%) Web Services
7 1 (1.18%) Apache NiFi
7 1 (1.18%) CSS
7 1 (1.18%) React
7 1 (1.18%) Spring
7 1 (1.18%) Spring Boot
7 1 (1.18%) Swagger
7 1 (1.18%) XML
7 1 (1.18%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 14 (16.47%) Linux Command Line
2 10 (11.76%) PKI
3 4 (4.71%) Fat Client
3 4 (4.71%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (4.71%) Thin Client
4 3 (3.53%) CCTV
4 3 (3.53%) EPoS
5 2 (2.35%) Replication
6 1 (1.18%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.18%) Clustering
6 1 (1.18%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.18%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.18%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (1.18%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.18%) Smartcard
6 1 (1.18%) STB
Operating Systems
1 85 (100.00%) Linux
2 34 (40.00%) Windows
3 27 (31.76%) Debian
4 19 (22.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (15.29%) Windows Server
6 9 (10.59%) CentOS
6 9 (10.59%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (4.71%) Android
7 4 (4.71%) Mac OS
8 3 (3.53%) Unix
8 3 (3.53%) Windows Server 2008
8 3 (3.53%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (3.53%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (2.35%) Solaris
9 2 (2.35%) VMS
10 1 (1.18%) Apple iOS
10 1 (1.18%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (1.18%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (30.59%) ITIL
2 25 (29.41%) Agile
3 20 (23.53%) Configuration Management
3 20 (23.53%) Data Modelling
4 17 (20.00%) Data Engineering
4 17 (20.00%) Prototyping
4 17 (20.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 16 (18.82%) Customer Service
6 14 (16.47%) Infrastructure as Code
6 14 (16.47%) Matrix Organization
7 11 (12.94%) RBAC
7 11 (12.94%) SIEM
8 10 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 10 (11.76%) Infrastructure Monitoring
8 10 (11.76%) Software Engineering
9 9 (10.59%) CI/CD
9 9 (10.59%) DevOps
9 9 (10.59%) Patch Management
9 9 (10.59%) Visualisation
10 8 (9.41%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 35 (41.18%) Python
2 19 (22.35%) Bash
3 14 (16.47%) PowerShell
4 8 (9.41%) R
5 5 (5.88%) Groovy
6 3 (3.53%) C++
6 3 (3.53%) Java
6 3 (3.53%) JavaScript
6 3 (3.53%) SQL
6 3 (3.53%) VB.NET
7 2 (2.35%) Shell Script
7 2 (2.35%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.18%) C#
Qualifications
1 34 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 28 (32.94%) SC Cleared
3 20 (23.53%) DV Cleared
4 8 (9.41%) Degree
5 3 (3.53%) ITIL Certification
5 3 (3.53%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.18%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (1.18%) Linux+ Certification
7 1 (1.18%) LPIC
7 1 (1.18%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.18%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.53%) ISO 9001
1 3 (3.53%) ISO/IEC 20000
1 3 (3.53%) SLA
2 2 (2.35%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.18%) QA
3 1 (1.18%) WCAG
System Software
1 39 (45.88%) Active Directory
2 11 (12.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (11.76%) vSphere
4 9 (10.59%) iptables
5 8 (9.41%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (7.06%) Docker
7 4 (4.71%) Hyper-V
7 4 (4.71%) VMware NSX
7 4 (4.71%) VMware Server
8 3 (3.53%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (1.18%) KVM
9 1 (1.18%) NFS
9 1 (1.18%) Xen
Systems Management
1 19 (22.35%) Ansible
2 18 (21.18%) Kibana
3 12 (14.12%) Kubernetes
4 10 (11.76%) logstash
5 8 (9.41%) vCenter Server
6 7 (8.24%) Terraform
6 7 (8.24%) WSUS
7 6 (7.06%) Grafana
7 6 (7.06%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (7.06%) Red Hat Satellite
8 5 (5.88%) Nessus
8 5 (5.88%) SCCM
9 4 (4.71%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (4.71%) ZABBIX
10 3 (3.53%) PaperCut
10 3 (3.53%) Puppet
11 2 (2.35%) Packer
11 2 (2.35%) Prometheus
12 1 (1.18%) Anchore
12 1 (1.18%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 40 (47.06%) VMware
2 36 (42.35%) Red Hat
3 33 (38.82%) Microsoft
4 9 (10.59%) Veeam
5 5 (5.88%) Aruba
5 5 (5.88%) Oracle
6 4 (4.71%) Cisco
7 3 (3.53%) HP
7 3 (3.53%) Nimble Storage
7 3 (3.53%) Sage
7 3 (3.53%) WatchGuard
8 2 (2.35%) Palo Alto
8 2 (2.35%) ProCurve
8 2 (2.35%) Remedy
8 2 (2.35%) SolarWinds
8 2 (2.35%) Splunk
8 2 (2.35%) Synology
8 2 (2.35%) Zerto
9 1 (1.18%) ArcSight
9 1 (1.18%) Qualys