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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 479 503 636
Rank change year-on-year +24 +133 +97
Contract jobs citing Debian 7 38 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.029% 0.10% 0.074%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.20% 0.75% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 33 32
10th Percentile £350 £465 £458
25th Percentile £425 £506 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -
75th Percentile - £550 £575
90th Percentile - £556 £749
UK median daily rate £550 £533 £550
% change year-on-year +3.29% -3.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £39.25 - -
Median hourly rate £44.50 - -
75th Percentile £49.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
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 3,432 5,085 8,239
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.06% 13.69% 16.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,329 3,469 5,859
10th Percentile £200 £181 £193
25th Percentile £313 £288 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £513
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -9.76% +2.50%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £638
90th Percentile £700 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £475 £468 £504
% change year-on-year +1.50% -7.14% +0.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 153 373 386
10th Percentile £15.23 £12.75 £13.98
25th Percentile £17.44 £15.50 £17.73
Median hourly rate £24.00 £22.00 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -42.11% +76.74%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £22.00 £39.00
% change year-on-year +9.09% -43.59% +73.33%

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 2 May 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
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 2 May 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
Midlands +17 4 £550 - 7
London +44 3 £300 -34.78% 17
West Midlands +16 2 - - 3
East Midlands +11 2 £550 - 3
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 2 (28.57%) Confluence
2 1 (14.29%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) SAN
2 2 (28.57%) DHCP
2 2 (28.57%) DNS
2 2 (28.57%) Firewall
2 2 (28.57%) HTTP
2 2 (28.57%) OpenLDAP
2 2 (28.57%) SSL
2 2 (28.57%) TCP/IP
2 2 (28.57%) VLAN
3 1 (14.29%) BIG-IP
3 1 (14.29%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (14.29%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Couchbase
1 1 (14.29%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
1 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Git
2 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 2 (28.57%) JIRA
2 2 (28.57%) Maven
2 2 (28.57%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (14.29%) Banking
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Developer
1 2 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Python Developer
1 2 (28.57%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Applications Support
2 1 (14.29%) FIX Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) FIX Support Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Linux Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Linux DevOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Linux Support
2 1 (14.29%) Linux/Unix DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) Site Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Support Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) LDAP
1 2 (28.57%) YAML
2 1 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (14.29%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (14.29%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Equities
1 1 (14.29%) Eurex
1 1 (14.29%) Fixed Income
1 1 (14.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (14.29%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Linux
1 7 (100.00%) Ubuntu
2 3 (42.86%) CentOS
2 3 (42.86%) Windows
3 1 (14.29%) Fedora
3 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (14.29%) Solaris
3 1 (14.29%) SUSE
3 1 (14.29%) Windows 10
3 1 (14.29%) Windows 8
3 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
3 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Agile
2 2 (28.57%) Asset Management
2 2 (28.57%) Capacity Management
2 2 (28.57%) Configuration Management
2 2 (28.57%) Data Engineering
2 2 (28.57%) Data Modelling
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) ITIL
2 2 (28.57%) Log Aggregation
2 2 (28.57%) Matrix Organization
2 2 (28.57%) Patch Management
2 2 (28.57%) Prototyping
2 2 (28.57%) Server Management
2 2 (28.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 2 (28.57%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
3 1 (14.29%) Client Onboarding
3 1 (14.29%) Customer Experience
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) Bash
2 2 (28.57%) Go
2 2 (28.57%) Shell Script
2 2 (28.57%) SQL
3 1 (14.29%) Perl
3 1 (14.29%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) DV Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
2 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 1 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Ansible
1 2 (28.57%) Nessus
1 2 (28.57%) Prometheus
1 2 (28.57%) Puppet
1 2 (28.57%) Terraform
1 2 (28.57%) ZABBIX
2 1 (14.29%) Grafana
2 1 (14.29%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Red Hat
1 4 (57.14%) VMware
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) Sophos
3 1 (14.29%) Bloomberg
3 1 (14.29%) CQG
3 1 (14.29%) F5
3 1 (14.29%) ION Trading
3 1 (14.29%) Patsystems
3 1 (14.29%) Reuters
3 1 (14.29%) Splunk
3 1 (14.29%) Trayport