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 20 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 508 515 537
Rank change year-on-year +7 +22 +148
Contract jobs citing Debian 11 8 55
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.039% 0.025% 0.13%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.28% 0.18% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 41
10th Percentile £458 £418 £450
25th Percentile £513 £425 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.67% - -12.50%
75th Percentile £551 £538 £550
90th Percentile £586 £563 £561
UK median daily rate £529 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +0.67% - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £53.00 - £47.50
Median hourly rate £56.00 - £50.00
75th Percentile £59.00 - £52.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £56.00 - £50.00
% change year-on-year - - -1.52%

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 3,984 4,489 6,461
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.15% 14.21% 15.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,593 2,766 4,430
10th Percentile £185 £203 £185
25th Percentile £270 £330 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £585 £625
90th Percentile £663 £688 £713
UK median daily rate £450 £475 £495
% change year-on-year -5.26% -4.04% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 301 204 334
10th Percentile £15.22 £16.25 £14.74
25th Percentile £18.13 £22.44 £18.50
Median hourly rate £23.00 £58.00 £44.42
Median % change year-on-year -60.34% +30.56% +77.68%
75th Percentile £43.75 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.00 - £76.53
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £52.50 £41.41
% change year-on-year -54.29% +26.77% +72.55%

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 20 October 2025.

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 20 October 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
South East +14 5 £532 - 4
London +19 4 £563 +7.14% 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 3 (27.27%) Apache
2 2 (18.18%) Confluence
2 2 (18.18%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) AWS
2 2 (18.18%) Azure
2 2 (18.18%) Entra ID
2 2 (18.18%) IaaS
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (18.18%) PaaS
2 2 (18.18%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (45.45%) SAN
2 4 (36.36%) TCP/IP
3 2 (18.18%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) MariaDB
1 3 (27.27%) MySQL
2 1 (9.09%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Git
1 3 (27.27%) Jenkins
1 3 (27.27%) Vagrant
2 2 (18.18%) Bitbucket
2 2 (18.18%) JIRA
General
1 2 (18.18%) Finance
1 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
1 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Developer
1 5 (45.45%) Senior
2 4 (36.36%) Python Developer
2 4 (36.36%) Senior Developer
3 3 (27.27%) Administrator
3 3 (27.27%) Linux Administrator
3 3 (27.27%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 3 (27.27%) Senior Python Developer
3 3 (27.27%) Systems Administrator
4 2 (18.18%) Architect
4 2 (18.18%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (9.09%) Linux Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Senior Software Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Site Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) LAMP
2 2 (18.18%) Zend Framework
3 1 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (9.09%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 11 (100.00%) Linux
2 10 (90.91%) Windows
3 9 (81.82%) Ubuntu
4 5 (45.45%) Windows Server
4 5 (45.45%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (27.27%) CentOS
5 3 (27.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (9.09%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Agile
2 5 (45.45%) Configuration Management
2 5 (45.45%) Data Modelling
3 4 (36.36%) Data Engineering
3 4 (36.36%) ITIL
4 3 (27.27%) DevOps
5 2 (18.18%) B2C
5 2 (18.18%) Build Automation
5 2 (18.18%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (18.18%) Customer Service
5 2 (18.18%) Deployment Automation
5 2 (18.18%) Prototyping
5 2 (18.18%) Security Architecture
5 2 (18.18%) Security Hardening
5 2 (18.18%) Server Building
5 2 (18.18%) Server Patching
5 2 (18.18%) Software Deployment
5 2 (18.18%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 1 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
6 1 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 9 (81.82%) Python
2 4 (36.36%) Bash
3 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
3 2 (18.18%) Perl
3 2 (18.18%) PHP
4 1 (9.09%) Go
4 1 (9.09%) Ruby
4 1 (9.09%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) SC Cleared
1 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 2 (18.18%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) QA
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Docker
2 2 (18.18%) VirtualBox
2 2 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) Ansible
2 3 (27.27%) Progress Chef
2 3 (27.27%) Puppet
3 2 (18.18%) Icinga
3 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
3 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (18.18%) Nagios
3 2 (18.18%) Salt
4 1 (9.09%) Grafana
4 1 (9.09%) Graphite
4 1 (9.09%) Kibana
4 1 (9.09%) logstash
4 1 (9.09%) Prometheus
4 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (63.64%) VMware
2 5 (45.45%) Microsoft
2 5 (45.45%) Red Hat
3 3 (27.27%) Rackspace
4 2 (18.18%) New Relic
4 2 (18.18%) Zend
5 1 (9.09%) Remedy