Ubuntu Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Ubuntu Linux
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Ubuntu skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Ubuntu 9 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 1.33% - -
As % of the Operating Systems category 7.96% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £475 - -

All Operating Systems
Birmingham

Ubuntu falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring operating system skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 113 117 92
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 16.74% 16.25% 11.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 72 64
10th Percentile £151 £190 £177
25th Percentile £263 £250 £220
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £388
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% +9.68% +3.33%
75th Percentile £525 £575 £456
90th Percentile £574 £724 £600
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £450 £375
% change year-on-year - +20.00% -23.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Median hourly rate - £16.97 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year - -0.18% +34.28%
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.23 £22.50 £18.50
% change year-on-year -19.00% +21.62% +12.12%

Ubuntu
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Ubuntu relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Ubuntu job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Ubuntu
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Ubuntu.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Ubuntu

Ubuntu
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 9 (100.00%) Confluence
1 9 (100.00%) nginx
Applications
1 9 (100.00%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 9 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 9 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 9 (100.00%) Amazon ELB
1 9 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 9 (100.00%) AWS
1 9 (100.00%) AWS KMS
1 9 (100.00%) Azure
1 9 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 9 (100.00%) Route 53
1 9 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (100.00%) DNS
1 9 (100.00%) Firewall
1 9 (100.00%) FTP
1 9 (100.00%) HTTP
1 9 (100.00%) IMAP
1 9 (100.00%) OpenLDAP
1 9 (100.00%) SMTP
1 9 (100.00%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (100.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 9 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 9 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (100.00%) Git
1 9 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 9 (100.00%) JIRA
1 9 (100.00%) Vagrant
General
1 9 (100.00%) Presentation Skills
1 9 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 9 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (100.00%) AWS Engineer
1 9 (100.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
1 9 (100.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 9 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
2 8 (88.89%) AWS DevOps
2 8 (88.89%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 8 (88.89%) DevOps Engineer
2 8 (88.89%) DevOps Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (100.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 9 (100.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 9 (100.00%) Amazon Linux
1 9 (100.00%) Linux
1 9 (100.00%) VMS
1 9 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Change Management
1 9 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 9 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 9 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 9 (100.00%) DevOps
1 9 (100.00%) Patch Management
1 9 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 9 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) Groovy
1 9 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 9 (100.00%) Python
1 9 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 9 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 9 (100.00%) Degree
1 9 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 9 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 9 (100.00%) DFS Replication
1 9 (100.00%) Docker
1 9 (100.00%) Dovecot
1 9 (100.00%) Postfix
1 9 (100.00%) Squid
Systems Management
1 9 (100.00%) Grafana
1 9 (100.00%) Nessus
1 9 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 9 (100.00%) Proxmox
1 9 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) Jaspersoft
1 9 (100.00%) ServiceNow