Ubuntu Contracts in England

Ubuntu Linux
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Ubuntu skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Ubuntu over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 460 508 629
Rank change year-on-year +48 +121 -69
Contract jobs citing Ubuntu 82 131 165
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.22% 0.27% 0.23%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.62% 1.69% 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 102 116
10th Percentile £375 £428 £325
25th Percentile £442 £488 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £565 £534
Median % change year-on-year -9.42% +5.85% -6.77%
75th Percentile £550 £697 £656
90th Percentile £599 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £513 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -6.82% +4.76% +9.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
Median hourly rate - £72.50 £16.47
Median % change year-on-year - +340.19% +13.59%
UK median hourly rate - £72.50 £16.47
% change year-on-year - +340.19% +13.59%

All Operating Systems
England

Ubuntu is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 5,069 7,744 10,885
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.73% 16.22% 15.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,437 5,457 7,522
10th Percentile £185 £195 £175
25th Percentile £300 £330 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £505 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.94% +1.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £625
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £470 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -6.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 374 358 503
10th Percentile £12.75 £13.29 £13.00
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.86 £15.69
Median hourly rate £22.50 £42.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.06% +97.67% +22.86%
75th Percentile £62.38 £65.00 £50.39
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £42.50 £21.89
% change year-on-year -47.06% +94.15% +25.09%

Ubuntu
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Ubuntu in England

Ubuntu
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Ubuntu in England

Ubuntu
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ubuntu in England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Ubuntu in England

Ubuntu
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Ubuntu in England

Ubuntu
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 Ubuntu within the England region over the 6 months to 2 June 2024. 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 +7 30 £511 -7.09% 14
Midlands +43 23 £550 -12.00% 7
West Midlands +30 17 £550 -24.14% 5
London +47 12 £500 -16.67% 20
South West +5 7 £500 -9.09% 5
North of England +26 6 £425 -15.00% 6
East Midlands +11 6 £550 -12.00% 2
East of England +6 4 £440 +10.00% 6
North West +13 3 £325 -7.14% 4
Yorkshire +20 2 £425 -41.38% 2
North East +11 1 £550 -24.14%
Ubuntu
UK

Ubuntu
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 (4.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (3.66%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.44%) IIS
3 2 (2.44%) WordPress
4 1 (1.22%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 16 (19.51%) AWS
2 14 (17.07%) Azure
3 10 (12.20%) AWS CloudFormation
4 6 (7.32%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (3.66%) IaaS
6 2 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.44%) OneDrive
6 2 (2.44%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.22%) Amazon Cognito
7 1 (1.22%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.22%) Amazon Kinesis
7 1 (1.22%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.22%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
7 1 (1.22%) Azure Stack
7 1 (1.22%) CloudFront
7 1 (1.22%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.22%) GitHub
7 1 (1.22%) Route 53
7 1 (1.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 24 (29.27%) SAN
2 18 (21.95%) TCP/IP
3 15 (18.29%) DNS
4 11 (13.41%) DHCP
5 7 (8.54%) LAN
5 7 (8.54%) WAN
6 6 (7.32%) Fibre Channel
6 6 (7.32%) NAS
7 4 (4.88%) Firewall
7 4 (4.88%) Remote Desktop
8 2 (2.44%) iSCSI
8 2 (2.44%) VPN
8 2 (2.44%) Wireless
9 1 (1.22%) HTTP
9 1 (1.22%) HTTPS
9 1 (1.22%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (1.22%) IPsec
9 1 (1.22%) SNMP
9 1 (1.22%) SSH
9 1 (1.22%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (19.51%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (8.54%) SQL Server
3 5 (6.10%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (4.88%) MySQL
5 1 (1.22%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 4 (4.88%) GitLab
2 2 (2.44%) Git
2 2 (2.44%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.22%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.22%) Gerrit
3 1 (1.22%) Gradle
3 1 (1.22%) Liquibase
3 1 (1.22%) SonarQube
3 1 (1.22%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 13 (15.85%) Social Skills
2 5 (6.10%) Public Sector
3 4 (4.88%) Manufacturing
4 3 (3.66%) Front Office
4 3 (3.66%) Retail
5 2 (2.44%) Finance
5 2 (2.44%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.22%) Banking
6 1 (1.22%) Electronics
6 1 (1.22%) Fire and Rescue
6 1 (1.22%) Military
6 1 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.22%) Police
Job Titles
1 16 (19.51%) Developer
1 16 (19.51%) Python Developer
2 11 (13.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 10 (12.20%) SIEM Engineer
4 9 (10.98%) Applications Engineer
5 8 (9.76%) Linux Engineer
6 6 (7.32%) Administrator
6 6 (7.32%) Senior
7 5 (6.10%) Analyst
7 5 (6.10%) Analyst Developer
7 5 (6.10%) Developer Analyst
7 5 (6.10%) Linux Specialist
7 5 (6.10%) Linux Support
7 5 (6.10%) Programmer
7 5 (6.10%) Python Programmer
7 5 (6.10%) Security Analyst
8 4 (4.88%) Network Engineer
8 4 (4.88%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (4.88%) Server Administrator
8 4 (4.88%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (13.41%) Elastic Stack
2 9 (10.98%) ADO
3 3 (3.66%) .NET
4 2 (2.44%) Keycloak
4 2 (2.44%) LAMP
5 1 (1.22%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (1.22%) jQuery
5 1 (1.22%) JSON
5 1 (1.22%) LDAP
5 1 (1.22%) Node.js
5 1 (1.22%) RESTful
5 1 (1.22%) SOAP
5 1 (1.22%) Spring
5 1 (1.22%) Spring Boot
5 1 (1.22%) Swagger
5 1 (1.22%) Web Services
5 1 (1.22%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 12 (14.63%) Linux Command Line
2 10 (12.20%) PKI
3 4 (4.88%) Fat Client
3 4 (4.88%) Thin Client
4 3 (3.66%) Data Centre
4 3 (3.66%) EPoS
4 3 (3.66%) Tandem
5 2 (2.44%) Replication
6 1 (1.22%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.22%) Clustering
6 1 (1.22%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.22%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.22%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.22%) STB
Operating Systems
1 82 (100.00%) Linux
2 33 (40.24%) Windows
3 21 (25.61%) Debian
4 14 (17.07%) Windows Server
5 10 (12.20%) CentOS
6 9 (10.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (7.32%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (4.88%) Rocky
8 4 (4.88%) Unix
9 3 (3.66%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (2.44%) Solaris
10 2 (2.44%) VMS
11 1 (1.22%) Mac OS
11 1 (1.22%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (23.17%) ITIL
2 17 (20.73%) Configuration Management
3 14 (17.07%) Data Modelling
4 13 (15.85%) Agile
4 13 (15.85%) Data Engineering
4 13 (15.85%) Prototyping
4 13 (15.85%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 12 (14.63%) Infrastructure as Code
5 12 (14.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 11 (13.41%) RBAC
6 11 (13.41%) SIEM
7 10 (12.20%) Application Packaging
7 10 (12.20%) Customer Service
7 10 (12.20%) Infrastructure Monitoring
7 10 (12.20%) Matrix Organization
8 9 (10.98%) Patch Management
8 9 (10.98%) Software Engineering
8 9 (10.98%) Visualisation
9 8 (9.76%) Data Pipeline
9 8 (9.76%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 20 (24.39%) Python
2 19 (23.17%) Bash
3 14 (17.07%) PowerShell
4 8 (9.76%) R
5 3 (3.66%) VB.NET
6 2 (2.44%) C++
6 2 (2.44%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.22%) Java
Qualifications
1 29 (35.37%) Security Cleared
2 23 (28.05%) SC Cleared
3 16 (19.51%) DV Cleared
4 5 (6.10%) Degree
5 3 (3.66%) ITIL Certification
5 3 (3.66%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.22%) CEH
6 1 (1.22%) CISSP
6 1 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.22%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (1.22%) Linux+ Certification
6 1 (1.22%) LPIC
6 1 (1.22%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.66%) ISO 9001
1 3 (3.66%) ISO/IEC 20000
1 3 (3.66%) SLA
System Software
1 38 (46.34%) Active Directory
2 10 (12.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (10.98%) iptables
3 9 (10.98%) vSphere
4 8 (9.76%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (6.10%) Docker
6 4 (4.88%) Hyper-V
6 4 (4.88%) VMware NSX
6 4 (4.88%) VMware Server
7 3 (3.66%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (1.22%) KVM
8 1 (1.22%) NFS
8 1 (1.22%) Xen
Systems Management
1 17 (20.73%) Ansible
2 12 (14.63%) Kibana
3 10 (12.20%) logstash
4 8 (9.76%) vCenter Server
5 7 (8.54%) WSUS
6 6 (7.32%) Kubernetes
6 6 (7.32%) Red Hat Satellite
6 6 (7.32%) Terraform
7 5 (6.10%) Nessus
8 4 (4.88%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (4.88%) ZABBIX
9 3 (3.66%) Grafana
9 3 (3.66%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (2.44%) Progress Chef
10 2 (2.44%) Prometheus
10 2 (2.44%) Puppet
10 2 (2.44%) SCCM
10 2 (2.44%) WhatsUp Gold
11 1 (1.22%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 34 (41.46%) Red Hat
2 31 (37.80%) VMware
3 30 (36.59%) Microsoft
4 6 (7.32%) Veeam
5 4 (4.88%) Oracle
6 2 (2.44%) Aruba
6 2 (2.44%) Palo Alto
6 2 (2.44%) ProCurve
6 2 (2.44%) Qualys
6 2 (2.44%) SolarWinds
6 2 (2.44%) Splunk
6 2 (2.44%) Synology
6 2 (2.44%) Zerto
7 1 (1.22%) ArcSight
7 1 (1.22%) Cisco
7 1 (1.22%) Remedy