Debian Contracts in England

Debian Linux
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Debian skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Debian over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 476 527 605
Rank change year-on-year +51 +78 +134
Contract jobs citing Debian 16 18 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.060% 0.048% 0.094%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.43% 0.35% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 14 36
10th Percentile £485 £425 £463
25th Percentile £513 £468 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £530 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.94% +0.95% -12.50%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £575
90th Percentile £573 £559 £744
UK median daily rate £535 £511 £525
% change year-on-year +4.70% -2.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £40.63 - -
25th Percentile £42.69 - £47.50
Median hourly rate £50.25 - £50.00
75th Percentile £56.69 - £52.50
90th Percentile £58.08 - -
UK median hourly rate £50.25 - £50.00

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 3,689 5,205 7,715
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.91% 13.97% 16.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,469 3,431 5,405
10th Percentile £200 £193 £193
25th Percentile £313 £313 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.53% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £588 £638
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £465 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -2.16% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 200 396 366
10th Percentile £15.31 £12.75 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.41 £16.18 £18.41
Median hourly rate £20.38 £25.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.50% -41.18% +93.18%
75th Percentile £45.19 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £66.55 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £22.78 £25.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -8.88% -41.18% +88.89%

Debian
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Debian as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Debian in England

Debian
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Debian in England.

Daily rate trend for Debian in England

Debian
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Debian in England over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Debian in England

Debian
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Debian in England.

Hourly rate trend for Debian in England

Debian
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Debian in England over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

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 5 July 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
London +48 5 £563 +14.21% 70
South East +31 5 £532 -2.21% 5
Midlands +11 4 £550 - 1
West Midlands +8 2 - - 1
East Midlands +5 2 £550 -
Debian
UK

Debian
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (25.00%) Confluence
2 3 (18.75%) Apache
3 2 (12.50%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 5 (31.25%) AWS
2 2 (12.50%) Azure
2 2 (12.50%) Entra ID
2 2 (12.50%) IaaS
2 2 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (12.50%) PaaS
2 2 (12.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (56.25%) SAN
2 6 (37.50%) TCP/IP
3 2 (12.50%) DHCP
3 2 (12.50%) DNS
3 2 (12.50%) Firewall
3 2 (12.50%) HTTP
3 2 (12.50%) NGFW
3 2 (12.50%) OpenLDAP
3 2 (12.50%) SSL
3 2 (12.50%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) MariaDB
1 3 (18.75%) MySQL
2 2 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 5 (31.25%) Git
1 5 (31.25%) Jenkins
2 4 (25.00%) JIRA
3 3 (18.75%) Vagrant
4 2 (12.50%) Bitbucket
4 2 (12.50%) Maven
4 2 (12.50%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (12.50%) Finance
1 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
1 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (43.75%) Developer
2 6 (37.50%) Python Developer
2 6 (37.50%) Senior
3 4 (25.00%) Senior Developer
4 3 (18.75%) Administrator
4 3 (18.75%) Linux Administrator
4 3 (18.75%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 3 (18.75%) Senior Python Developer
4 3 (18.75%) Systems Administrator
5 2 (12.50%) Architect
5 2 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Linux Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Linux DevOps Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Linux/Unix DevOps
6 1 (6.25%) Senior Software Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) LAMP
2 2 (12.50%) Kafka
2 2 (12.50%) LDAP
2 2 (12.50%) YAML
2 2 (12.50%) Zend Framework
3 1 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 16 (100.00%) Linux
2 14 (87.50%) Ubuntu
3 12 (75.00%) Windows
4 5 (31.25%) CentOS
4 5 (31.25%) Windows Server
4 5 (31.25%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (18.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (6.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (68.75%) Agile
2 7 (43.75%) Configuration Management
2 7 (43.75%) Data Modelling
3 6 (37.50%) Data Engineering
3 6 (37.50%) ITIL
4 5 (31.25%) DevOps
5 4 (25.00%) Prototyping
5 4 (25.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 2 (12.50%) Capacity Management
6 2 (12.50%) Customer Service
6 2 (12.50%) Deployment Automation
6 2 (12.50%) Log Aggregation
6 2 (12.50%) Matrix Organization
6 2 (12.50%) Observability
6 2 (12.50%) Patch Management
6 2 (12.50%) Security Hardening
6 2 (12.50%) Server Building
6 2 (12.50%) Server Management
6 2 (12.50%) Server Patching
6 2 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 14 (87.50%) Python
2 4 (25.00%) Bash
3 2 (12.50%) Go
3 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 2 (12.50%) Perl
3 2 (12.50%) PHP
3 2 (12.50%) Ruby
3 2 (12.50%) Shell Script
4 1 (6.25%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 5 (31.25%) SC Cleared
3 4 (25.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) QA
System Software
1 5 (31.25%) Docker
2 2 (12.50%) VirtualBox
2 2 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (31.25%) Ansible
1 5 (31.25%) Puppet
2 3 (18.75%) Progress Chef
3 2 (12.50%) Icinga
3 2 (12.50%) Kubernetes
3 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (12.50%) Nagios
3 2 (12.50%) Nessus
3 2 (12.50%) Prometheus
3 2 (12.50%) Salt
3 2 (12.50%) Terraform
4 1 (6.25%) Grafana
4 1 (6.25%) Graphite
4 1 (6.25%) Kibana
4 1 (6.25%) logstash
Vendors
1 11 (68.75%) VMware
2 7 (43.75%) Microsoft
2 7 (43.75%) Red Hat
3 3 (18.75%) Rackspace
4 2 (12.50%) New Relic
4 2 (12.50%) Sophos
4 2 (12.50%) Zend
5 1 (6.25%) Remedy