Ubuntu Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Ubuntu Linux
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 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 40 - 46
Rank change year-on-year - - +12
Contract jobs citing Ubuntu 4 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 1.10% - 0.81%
As % of the Operating Systems category 11.11% - 5.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £538 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £570
Median % change year-on-year - - +34.12%
75th Percentile £613 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £575 £463 £463
% change year-on-year +24.32% - +8.82%

All Operating Systems
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 36 34 76
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 9.94% 9.07% 15.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 12 35
10th Percentile £163 £237 £132
25th Percentile £185 £344 £178
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% -10.53% +18.75%
75th Percentile £448 £519 £575
90th Percentile £613 £598 £683
East of England median daily rate £373 £425 £455
% change year-on-year -12.35% -6.59% +35.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 28
10th Percentile - £48.25 £13.29
25th Percentile £13.00 £49.38 £13.82
Median hourly rate £22.75 £57.50 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -60.43% +296.55% -14.71%
75th Percentile £39.28 £63.75 £22.94
90th Percentile £49.22 - £77.50
East of England median hourly rate £42.50 £65.00 £18.50
% change year-on-year -34.62% +251.35% -42.86%

Ubuntu
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Ubuntu job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

Ubuntu
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Ubuntu

Ubuntu
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Ubuntu.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Ubuntu

Ubuntu
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ubuntu within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 7 November 2025. 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
Cambridge - 4 £575 - 4
Ubuntu
East of England

Ubuntu
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 3 (75.00%) OpenStack
2 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) DNS
1 4 (100.00%) SAN
2 3 (75.00%) iSCSI
3 1 (25.00%) DHCP
3 1 (25.00%) Firewall
3 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) GitLab
1 3 (75.00%) JIRA
1 3 (75.00%) TeamCity
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Administrator
1 3 (75.00%) Linux Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Data Centre
1 3 (75.00%) Enterprise Storage
1 3 (75.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) CentOS
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Computer Science
1 3 (75.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (75.00%) ITSM
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
1 3 (75.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (100.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
2 3 (75.00%) ServiceNow