Debian Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Debian Linux
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Debian skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 - 105
Rank change year-on-year - - +31
Contract jobs citing Debian 4 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.25% - 0.23%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.56% - 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 4
10th Percentile £502 - £389
25th Percentile £617 - £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £681 - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +17.65%
75th Percentile - - £584
90th Percentile - - £646
England median daily rate £555 £475 £530
% change year-on-year +16.84% -10.38% -3.64%

All Operating Systems
East of England

Debian 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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 256 184 289
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 15.85% 16.31% 16.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 68 184
10th Percentile £163 £210 £150
25th Percentile £205 £224 £259
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £356 £425
Median % change year-on-year -1.75% -16.18% +9.68%
75th Percentile £488 £451 £571
90th Percentile £575 £556 £709
England median daily rate £450 £470 £475
% change year-on-year -4.26% -1.05% -7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 19 40
10th Percentile £14.00 £44.16 £13.29
25th Percentile £19.57 £54.33 £14.00
Median hourly rate £35.00 £65.00 £14.16
Median % change year-on-year -46.15% +359.04% -35.64%
75th Percentile £65.00 - £28.96
90th Percentile £67.00 £69.75 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £54.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -53.43% +66.15% +30.00%

Debian
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Debian relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Debian job vacancy trend in the East of England

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Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Debian.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Debian

Debian
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Debian in the East of England over the 6 months to 27 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Debian in the East of England

Debian
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Debian.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Debian

Debian
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Debian within the East of England region over the 6 months to 27 December 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
Hertfordshire - 4 £681 - 5
Debian
England

Debian
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Git
General
1 3 (75.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (25.00%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Automation Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Linux Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Automation Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Linux Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Hardware Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Acoustics
1 3 (75.00%) Derivative
2 1 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
1 4 (100.00%) Ubuntu
2 3 (75.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (75.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Ansible
1 4 (100.00%) Podman
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) NVIDIA
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat