Ubuntu Contracts in Edinburgh

Ubuntu Linux
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 60 67 99
Rank change year-on-year +7 +32 +30
Contract jobs citing Ubuntu 7 5 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.12% 0.61% 1.00%
As % of the Operating Systems category 8.54% 5.81% 6.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 10
10th Percentile £173 £435 £393
25th Percentile £188 £465 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £190 £510 £494
Median % change year-on-year -62.75% +3.24% -
75th Percentile £195 £520 £521
90th Percentile £414 £532 £532
Scotland median daily rate £190 £513 £501
% change year-on-year -62.93% +2.40% -4.67%

All Operating Systems
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 82 86 209
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 13.12% 10.55% 16.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 54 152
10th Percentile £170 £202 £160
25th Percentile £197 £340 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £500 £454
Median % change year-on-year -4.20% +10.19% +4.61%
75th Percentile £557 £625 £538
90th Percentile £675 £731 £622
Scotland median daily rate £465 £500 £479
% change year-on-year -7.10% +4.38% +6.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 9 4
10th Percentile £20.02 £18.22 -
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.27 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.88 £26.00 £35.11
Median % change year-on-year -12.02% -25.95% +75.55%
75th Percentile £23.53 £60.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £26.59 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £22.00 £52.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -58.10% - +162.50%

Ubuntu
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Ubuntu as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Ubuntu in Edinburgh

Ubuntu
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Ubuntu in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Ubuntu in Edinburgh

Ubuntu
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ubuntu in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Ubuntu in Edinburgh

Ubuntu
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon S3
2 2 (28.57%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (28.57%) AWS CodeBuild
2 2 (28.57%) AWS CodeDeploy
2 2 (28.57%) AWS CodePipeline
2 2 (28.57%) AWS Fargate
2 2 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (28.57%) OpenShift
2 2 (28.57%) Route 53
2 2 (28.57%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (14.29%) InfluxDB
2 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Artifactory
1 2 (28.57%) Git
1 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (71.43%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Deployment Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) AWS Platform Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) IT Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Virtualisation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) AWS CDK
2 1 (14.29%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Linux
2 4 (57.14%) Windows
3 2 (28.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Agile
2 4 (57.14%) Asset Management
2 4 (57.14%) Kanban
2 4 (57.14%) Logistics
3 3 (42.86%) Inventory Management
4 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
4 2 (28.57%) Customer Service
4 2 (28.57%) ITIL
4 2 (28.57%) ITSM
4 2 (28.57%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (28.57%) Scrum
4 2 (28.57%) Service Management
4 2 (28.57%) Visualisation
5 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
5 1 (14.29%) Human-Centred Design
5 1 (14.29%) Inclusive Design
5 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (14.29%) Software Delivery
5 1 (14.29%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Bash
1 2 (28.57%) Groovy
1 2 (28.57%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft Intune
1 4 (57.14%) SCCM
2 2 (28.57%) Ansible
2 2 (28.57%) Grafana
2 2 (28.57%) Kibana
2 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) HP
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Imperva
2 1 (14.29%) NVIDIA
2 1 (14.29%) VMware