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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 490 523 555
Rank change year-on-year +33 +32 +153
Contract jobs citing Debian 11 10 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.040% 0.031% 0.11%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.29% 0.21% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 8 32
10th Percentile £458 £421 £463
25th Percentile £513 - £501
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £425 £525
Median % change year-on-year +24.35% -19.05% -12.50%
75th Percentile £551 £538 £550
90th Percentile £586 £550 £561
UK median daily rate £529 £425 £524
% change year-on-year +24.35% -18.82% -5.25%
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 3,826 4,686 6,698
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.78% 14.33% 15.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,525 2,996 4,594
10th Percentile £190 £200 £186
25th Percentile £300 £330 £315
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £631
90th Percentile £675 £688 £719
UK median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 246 235 334
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.59 £20.15 £18.85
Median hourly rate £25.15 £57.25 £46.69
Median % change year-on-year -56.07% +22.62% +95.27%
75th Percentile £59.75 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.00 - £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £49.25 £46.69
% change year-on-year -48.93% +5.48% +95.27%

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
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 17 September 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 17 September 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 - 5 £532 - 3
London +27 4 £563 +7.14% 9
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 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%) Change Control
6 1 (9.09%) Statistics
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