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 22 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 556 459 511
Rank change year-on-year -97 +52 +101
Contract jobs citing Debian 22 8 31
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.053% 0.033% 0.085%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.55% 0.24% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 4 27
10th Percentile £425 £524 £443
25th Percentile £525 £541 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £610 £569 £550
90th Percentile £681 £603 £556
UK median daily rate £575 £550 £530
% change year-on-year +4.55% +3.77% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £33.13 - -
25th Percentile £37.06 £39.25 -
Median hourly rate £44.75 £44.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +0.56% - -
75th Percentile £53.06 £49.75 -
90th Percentile £57.38 - -
UK median hourly rate £44.75 £44.50 -
% change year-on-year +0.56% - -

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 3,996 3,363 4,984
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.68% 14.02% 13.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,610 2,286 3,408
10th Percentile £185 £200 £185
25th Percentile £313 £313 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £466 £470
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% -0.90% -8.29%
75th Percentile £570 £588 £588
90th Percentile £658 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £456 £465 £465
% change year-on-year -1.89% - -7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 269 150 363
10th Percentile £15.99 £15.12 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.33 £17.44 £15.21
Median hourly rate £41.94 £21.28 £22.15
Median % change year-on-year +97.09% -3.93% -42.47%
75th Percentile £67.25 £58.73 £61.60
90th Percentile £74.00 £68.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £41.71 £22.00 £22.15
% change year-on-year +89.59% -0.68% -44.07%

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 22 May 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Debian in England over the 6 months to 22 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Debian in England

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 22 May 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
South East - 9 £583 - 11
East of England - 5 £681 -
South West - 4 - - 1
London -60 2 £500 -11.11% 3
West Midlands -56 1 £400 -
Midlands -70 1 £400 -27.27% 3
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 6 (27.27%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 12 (54.55%) AWS
2 9 (40.91%) Azure
3 4 (18.18%) GitHub
4 1 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.64%) SAN
1 3 (13.64%) TCP/IP
2 1 (4.55%) VLAN
2 1 (4.55%) VPN
2 1 (4.55%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.09%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 10 (45.45%) Git
2 4 (18.18%) GitLab
General
1 3 (13.64%) Telecoms
2 2 (9.09%) Aerospace
3 1 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Manufacturing
3 1 (4.55%) Retail
3 1 (4.55%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (36.36%) Linux Engineer
2 7 (31.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (27.27%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (18.18%) Citrix Engineer
4 4 (18.18%) Citrix Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (18.18%) Open Source Engineer
4 4 (18.18%) Senior
4 4 (18.18%) Software Engineer
4 4 (18.18%) VMware Engineer
4 4 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (13.64%) Automation Engineer
5 3 (13.64%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) Administrator
6 2 (9.09%) Senior Automation Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) Senior Linux Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) Systems Administrator
7 1 (4.55%) EPoS Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Firmware Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Platform Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (9.09%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 5 (22.73%) PKI
2 4 (18.18%) Product Ownership
2 4 (18.18%) Public Cloud
3 3 (13.64%) Acoustics
3 3 (13.64%) Derivative
4 2 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (9.09%) Private Cloud
5 1 (4.55%) Data Centre
5 1 (4.55%) Device Driver
5 1 (4.55%) EPoS
5 1 (4.55%) Lidar
5 1 (4.55%) Robotics
5 1 (4.55%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 22 (100.00%) Linux
2 16 (72.73%) Ubuntu
3 7 (31.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (31.82%) Windows
4 4 (18.18%) Rocky
4 4 (18.18%) VMS
5 1 (4.55%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (4.55%) Windows 10
5 1 (4.55%) Windows Server
5 1 (4.55%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (40.91%) Containerisation
2 7 (31.82%) Agile
2 7 (31.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (31.82%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (27.27%) Configuration Management
4 5 (22.73%) Identity Access Management
4 5 (22.73%) Software Engineering
5 4 (18.18%) CI/CD
5 4 (18.18%) Collaborative Working
5 4 (18.18%) Computer Science
5 4 (18.18%) Open Source
5 4 (18.18%) Performance Optimisation
5 4 (18.18%) Requirements Gathering
5 4 (18.18%) Technical Leadership
6 3 (13.64%) DevOps
6 3 (13.64%) ITIL
6 3 (13.64%) Observability
7 2 (9.09%) Incident Management
7 2 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 2 (9.09%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 9 (40.91%) Python
2 6 (27.27%) Go
3 4 (18.18%) JavaScript
4 2 (9.09%) Bash
4 2 (9.09%) PowerShell
4 2 (9.09%) Ruby
4 2 (9.09%) Shell Script
5 1 (4.55%) C++
5 1 (4.55%) Ladder Logic
5 1 (4.55%) Scala
5 1 (4.55%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 7 (31.82%) DV Cleared
1 7 (31.82%) SC Cleared
1 7 (31.82%) Security Cleared
2 4 (18.18%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (18.18%) Degree
3 2 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) QA
System Software
1 6 (27.27%) QEMU
2 5 (22.73%) Docker
2 5 (22.73%) VMware NSX
3 1 (4.55%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (4.55%) Firmware
3 1 (4.55%) KVM
Systems Management
1 8 (36.36%) Ansible
2 5 (22.73%) Podman
3 4 (18.18%) Kubernetes
4 3 (13.64%) Grafana
4 3 (13.64%) Prometheus
5 2 (9.09%) Kibana
5 2 (9.09%) logstash
5 2 (9.09%) Terraform
6 1 (4.55%) Consul
6 1 (4.55%) Dell DRAC
Vendors
1 8 (36.36%) VMware
2 5 (22.73%) Citrix
3 4 (18.18%) Red Hat
4 3 (13.64%) NVIDIA
5 1 (4.55%) Cisco
5 1 (4.55%) Dell
5 1 (4.55%) Meraki
5 1 (4.55%) Microsoft