Ubuntu Contracts in the East Midlands

Ubuntu Linux
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands requiring Ubuntu skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Ubuntu over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 59 81
Rank change year-on-year +8 +22 +16
Contract jobs citing Ubuntu 5 7 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.93% 0.91% 0.38%
As % of the Operating Systems category 7.14% 4.12% 1.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 7 3
10th Percentile - £540 £460
25th Percentile £500 - £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £700
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -21.43% +47.37%
75th Percentile £550 £563 £738
90th Percentile - £580 £760
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +3.77%

All Operating Systems
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 70 170 214
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 13.06% 21.99% 20.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 102 148
10th Percentile £173 £122 £125
25th Percentile £200 £150 £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £391 £325 £350
Median % change year-on-year +20.15% -7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £476 £504 £538
90th Percentile £530 £575 £675
England median daily rate £475 £463 £513
% change year-on-year +2.70% -9.76% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 26 29
10th Percentile £14.29 £12.75 £11.69
25th Percentile £15.09 £14.27 £12.70
Median hourly rate £18.77 £17.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +10.38% -4.06% -4.22%
75th Percentile £23.75 £20.00 £20.00
90th Percentile £24.59 £21.88 £29.23
England median hourly rate £24.18 £22.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year +9.91% -42.11% +76.74%

Ubuntu
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Ubuntu in the East Midlands

Ubuntu
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Ubuntu in the East Midlands

Ubuntu
Contract Job Locations in the East 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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Nottinghamshire - 2 £500 -
Northamptonshire - 1 - -
Ubuntu
England

Ubuntu
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) SAN
1 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (20.00%) DHCP
2 1 (20.00%) DNS
2 1 (20.00%) Firewall
2 1 (20.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Git
1 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) AWS Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Platform Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Python Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Platform Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Linux Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Server Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (60.00%) Windows
2 3 (60.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (40.00%) Debian
4 1 (20.00%) CentOS
4 1 (20.00%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Configuration Management
2 3 (60.00%) Customer-Centricity
3 2 (40.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 2 (40.00%) Customer-Centric Approach
3 2 (40.00%) Data Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Data Modelling
3 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) High Availability
3 2 (40.00%) ITIL
3 2 (40.00%) Matrix Organization
3 2 (40.00%) Open Source
3 2 (40.00%) Platform Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Prototyping
3 2 (40.00%) Server Building
3 2 (40.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (20.00%) Process Improvement
4 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Ansible
2 2 (40.00%) Terraform
3 1 (20.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) Databricks
2 2 (40.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (40.00%) VMware
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco