Ubuntu Contract Job Trends in Central London

Ubuntu Linux
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Ubuntu skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 - 129
Rank change year-on-year - - +37
Contract jobs citing Ubuntu 9 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.36% - 0.087%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.88% - 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 2
10th Percentile - - £430
25th Percentile £475 - £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -7.32%
75th Percentile £525 - £513
90th Percentile £529 - £520
London median daily rate £500 £463 £400
% change year-on-year +8.11% +15.63% -30.56%

All Operating Systems
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 232 229 311
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 9.30% 11.54% 13.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 161 209
10th Percentile £175 £250 £250
25th Percentile £283 £325 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £496 £523
Median % change year-on-year +0.10% -5.17% +4.14%
75th Percentile £630 £664 £638
90th Percentile £688 £696 £725
London median daily rate £475 £498 £500
% change year-on-year -4.57% -0.45% -7.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 3
10th Percentile £19.30 £20.33 £23.90
25th Percentile £19.38 £22.53 £25.06
Median hourly rate £21.00 £26.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% -3.70% -25.52%
75th Percentile £23.25 £29.13 £28.19
90th Percentile £23.70 £29.80 £28.90
London median hourly rate £21.50 £25.15 £25.00
% change year-on-year -14.51% +0.60% -35.35%

Ubuntu
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Ubuntu job vacancy trend in Central London

Ubuntu
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Ubuntu.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Ubuntu

Ubuntu
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Ubuntu.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Ubuntu

Ubuntu
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 10 September 2026. 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
City of London - 8 £500 - 2
Ubuntu
London

Ubuntu
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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 1 (11.11%) Apache
1 1 (11.11%) nginx
1 1 (11.11%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) AWS
1 1 (11.11%) Azure
1 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) DNS
2 1 (11.11%) NAS
2 1 (11.11%) SAN
2 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
General
1 6 (66.67%) Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (100.00%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) 2nd Line Support
2 1 (11.11%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Linux Support
2 1 (11.11%) Linux Support Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Support Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Windows Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Windows Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (66.67%) Middleware
2 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (11.11%) CentOS
2 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 1 (11.11%) Configuration Management
2 1 (11.11%) Customer Service
2 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (11.11%) Load Balancing
2 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (11.11%) Security Hardening
2 1 (11.11%) Server Hardening
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) Bash
1 1 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
1 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Ansible
1 1 (11.11%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Red Hat
1 1 (11.11%) VMware