Ubuntu Contracts in the West Midlands

Ubuntu Linux
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 96 135 171
Rank change year-on-year +39 +36 -47
Contract jobs citing Ubuntu 17 3 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.88% 0.13% 0.028%
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.91% 0.75% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 3 1
10th Percentile £300 £506 -
25th Percentile £459 £579 £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £700 £300
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +133.33% -
75th Percentile - £738 £313
90th Percentile £955 £760 -
England median daily rate £545 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -0.91% +4.76% -4.55%

All Operating Systems
West Midlands

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 West Midlands with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 246 400 651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 12.71% 16.98% 18.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 269 443
10th Percentile £185 £168 £150
25th Percentile £255 £350 £203
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £505 £405
Median % change year-on-year -18.32% +24.69% +11.88%
75th Percentile £544 £558 £525
90th Percentile £690 £694 £600
England median daily rate £463 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -9.76% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 9 37
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.71 £11.05
25th Percentile £18.50 £15.25 £13.87
Median hourly rate £22.50 £16.94 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year +32.86% +2.64% -1.49%
75th Percentile £23.75 £18.50 £20.00
90th Percentile £43.25 £25.75 £23.75
England median hourly rate £22.00 £38.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year -42.86% +75.00% +23.80%

Ubuntu
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Ubuntu in the West Midlands

Ubuntu
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Ubuntu in the West Midlands

Ubuntu
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ubuntu in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Ubuntu in the West Midlands

Ubuntu
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 Ubuntu within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 3 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
Herefordshire - 10 £550 -
Shropshire - 4 £300 - 1
Birmingham - 2 £1,000 - 1
Staffordshire - 1 - -
Ubuntu
England

Ubuntu
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 2 (11.76%) IIS
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (11.76%) SharePoint
1 2 (11.76%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 2 (11.76%) Azure
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (11.76%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 6 (35.29%) DNS
1 6 (35.29%) Fibre Channel
1 6 (35.29%) SAN
2 4 (23.53%) DHCP
2 4 (23.53%) LAN
2 4 (23.53%) Remote Desktop
2 4 (23.53%) WAN
3 2 (11.76%) Firewall
3 2 (11.76%) iSCSI
3 2 (11.76%) NAS
3 2 (11.76%) VPN
3 2 (11.76%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (58.82%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (11.76%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.88%) Finance
3 1 (5.88%) Fire and Rescue
3 1 (5.88%) Military
3 1 (5.88%) Police
Job Titles
1 10 (58.82%) SIEM Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) Administrator
2 4 (23.53%) Server Administrator
2 4 (23.53%) VMWare Administrator
3 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Network Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Linux Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Audit Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Elasticsearch Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Ubuntu Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (58.82%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (11.76%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 12 (70.59%) Linux Command Line
2 4 (23.53%) PKI
3 2 (11.76%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 17 (100.00%) Linux
2 15 (88.24%) Windows
3 6 (35.29%) Windows Server
4 5 (29.41%) CentOS
5 4 (23.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (11.76%) VMS
6 2 (11.76%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (11.76%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (5.88%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (58.82%) Infrastructure Monitoring
1 10 (58.82%) SIEM
2 9 (52.94%) Visualisation
3 8 (47.06%) Data Pipeline
3 8 (47.06%) DataOps
3 8 (47.06%) RBAC
4 4 (23.53%) Change Control
4 4 (23.53%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (23.53%) Load Balancing
4 4 (23.53%) Patch Management
4 4 (23.53%) Task Automation
4 4 (23.53%) Virtual Infrastructure
5 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (5.88%) Data Visualisation
6 1 (5.88%) Mentoring
6 1 (5.88%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (47.06%) R
2 6 (35.29%) PowerShell
3 4 (23.53%) Bash
Qualifications
1 6 (35.29%) Security Cleared
2 4 (23.53%) DV Cleared
2 4 (23.53%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.88%) CTC Cleared
System Software
1 14 (82.35%) Active Directory
2 9 (52.94%) iptables
3 6 (35.29%) vSphere
4 4 (23.53%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (23.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (23.53%) VMware NSX
4 4 (23.53%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 10 (58.82%) Kibana
1 10 (58.82%) logstash
2 4 (23.53%) vCenter Server
3 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (11.76%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (35.29%) Microsoft
1 6 (35.29%) VMware
2 2 (11.76%) Aruba
2 2 (11.76%) Palo Alto
2 2 (11.76%) ProCurve
2 2 (11.76%) Synology
2 2 (11.76%) Veeam
2 2 (11.76%) Zerto
3 1 (5.88%) Red Hat