Debian Contract Job Trends in England

Debian Linux
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Debian skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 531 478 505
Rank change year-on-year -53 +27 +152
Contract jobs citing Debian 12 11 59
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.036% 0.042% 0.15%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.29% 0.29% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 4 51
10th Percentile £400 £334 £500
25th Percentile £425 £384 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £425 £538
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% -20.93% -2.27%
75th Percentile £659 £466 £550
90th Percentile £681 £516 £556
UK median daily rate £550 £425 £525
% change year-on-year +29.41% -19.05% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £44.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £44.50 -

All Operating Systems
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 4,179 3,780 5,558
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.70% 14.27% 14.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,803 2,378 3,796
10th Percentile £175 £200 £178
25th Percentile £263 £313 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £475 £466
Median % change year-on-year -6.32% +1.93% -9.07%
75th Percentile £565 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £438 £475 £470
% change year-on-year -7.89% +1.06% -8.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 305 122 359
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.28 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.69 £20.07 £17.48
Median hourly rate £22.58 £49.50 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year -54.39% +96.04% -1.87%
75th Percentile £55.85 £67.25 £62.50
90th Percentile £68.00 £71.23 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £32.50 £25.25
% change year-on-year -26.15% +28.71% -1.79%

Debian
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Debian job vacancy trend in England

Debian
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Debian

Debian
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Debian in England over the 6 months to 1 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Debian in England

Debian
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Debian

Debian
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 1 February 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
East of England - 5 £681 - 3
South East -15 3 £550 -
West Midlands -41 2 £400 -
Midlands -55 2 £400 -27.27% 1
South West - 1 - -
Debian
UK

Debian
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (25.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (8.33%) Azure
2 1 (8.33%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 3 (25.00%) SAN
1 3 (25.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (16.67%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 7 (58.33%) Git
2 1 (8.33%) GitLab
2 1 (8.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (25.00%) Telecoms
2 2 (16.67%) Aerospace
2 2 (16.67%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Linux Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Administrator
2 2 (16.67%) Automation Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Firmware Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Senior
2 2 (16.67%) Senior Automation Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Senior Linux Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Software Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (8.33%) Developer
3 1 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Embedded Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Hardware Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Open Source Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Python Developer
3 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Acoustics
1 3 (25.00%) Derivative
2 2 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (8.33%) FPGA
3 1 (8.33%) PCIe
3 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 12 (100.00%) Linux
2 10 (83.33%) Ubuntu
3 4 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (25.00%) VMS
5 2 (16.67%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (8.33%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 5 (41.67%) Agile
3 4 (33.33%) Configuration Management
4 3 (25.00%) ITIL
4 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (16.67%) Computer Science
5 2 (16.67%) Customer Service
5 2 (16.67%) DevOps
5 2 (16.67%) Incident Management
5 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (16.67%) Problem Management
5 2 (16.67%) Release Management
5 2 (16.67%) Software Engineering
5 2 (16.67%) Validation
6 1 (8.33%) Change Management
6 1 (8.33%) Data Engineering
6 1 (8.33%) Mathematics
6 1 (8.33%) Open Source
6 1 (8.33%) Performance Optimisation
6 1 (8.33%) UML
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) Python
2 3 (25.00%) C++
3 2 (16.67%) Shell Script
4 1 (8.33%) C
4 1 (8.33%) C#
4 1 (8.33%) Embedded C
4 1 (8.33%) Embedded C++
4 1 (8.33%) Go
4 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 4 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 3 (25.00%) DV Cleared
3 2 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (16.67%) Degree
4 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 5 (41.67%) QEMU
2 2 (16.67%) Embedded Firmware
2 2 (16.67%) Firmware
3 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (41.67%) Ansible
1 5 (41.67%) Podman
2 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Red Hat
2 3 (25.00%) NVIDIA
2 3 (25.00%) VMware
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft