Ubuntu Contract Job Trends in Croydon

Ubuntu Linux
South London > Croydon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Croydon requiring Ubuntu skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 - 34
Rank change year-on-year - - +16
Contract jobs citing Ubuntu 10 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in Croydon 10.99% - 1.80%
As % of the Operating Systems category 58.82% - 10.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £523
25th Percentile - - £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £575
Median % change year-on-year - - +21.05%
75th Percentile - - £594
90th Percentile - - £598
South London median daily rate £475 - £575
% change year-on-year - - +21.05%

All Operating Systems
Croydon

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 Croydon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 17 2 30
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon 18.68% 1.77% 17.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 27
10th Percentile £373 £470 £388
25th Percentile £498 £481 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £583 £507 £563
Median % change year-on-year +15.15% -9.96% -6.25%
75th Percentile £683 £525 £638
90th Percentile £717 £533 £675
South London median daily rate £425 £325 £463
% change year-on-year +30.77% -29.73% -19.57%

Ubuntu
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

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

Ubuntu job vacancy trend in Croydon

Ubuntu
Daily Rate Trend in Croydon

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing Ubuntu

Ubuntu
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Croydon 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 10 (100.00%) Confluence
1 10 (100.00%) nginx
Applications
1 10 (100.00%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 10 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 10 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 10 (100.00%) Amazon ELB
1 10 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 10 (100.00%) AWS
1 10 (100.00%) AWS KMS
1 10 (100.00%) Azure
1 10 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 10 (100.00%) Route 53
1 10 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (100.00%) DNS
1 10 (100.00%) Firewall
1 10 (100.00%) FTP
1 10 (100.00%) HTTP
1 10 (100.00%) IMAP
1 10 (100.00%) OpenLDAP
1 10 (100.00%) SMTP
1 10 (100.00%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (100.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 10 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 10 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (100.00%) Git
1 10 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 10 (100.00%) JIRA
1 10 (100.00%) Vagrant
General
1 10 (100.00%) Presentation Skills
1 10 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 9 (90.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (100.00%) AWS Engineer
1 10 (100.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
1 10 (100.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 10 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
2 8 (80.00%) AWS DevOps
2 8 (80.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 8 (80.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 8 (80.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (100.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 10 (100.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) Amazon Linux
1 10 (100.00%) Linux
1 10 (100.00%) VMS
1 10 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Change Management
1 10 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 10 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 10 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 10 (100.00%) DevOps
1 10 (100.00%) Patch Management
1 10 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 10 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (10.00%) Agile
2 1 (10.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (10.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (10.00%) Servant Leadership
2 1 (10.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) Groovy
1 10 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 10 (100.00%) Python
1 10 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 10 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 10 (100.00%) Degree
2 9 (90.00%) SC Cleared
2 9 (90.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 10 (100.00%) DFS Replication
1 10 (100.00%) Docker
1 10 (100.00%) Dovecot
1 10 (100.00%) Postfix
1 10 (100.00%) Squid
Systems Management
1 10 (100.00%) Grafana
1 10 (100.00%) Nessus
1 10 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 10 (100.00%) Proxmox
1 10 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) Jaspersoft
1 10 (100.00%) ServiceNow