Ubuntu Contracts in England

Ubuntu Linux
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Ubuntu skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Ubuntu over the 6 months leading up to 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 415 453 519
Rank change year-on-year +38 +66 +75
Contract jobs citing Ubuntu 52 89 121
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.22% 0.24% 0.25%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.55% 1.79% 1.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 63 98
10th Percentile £414 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £519 £550 £700
90th Percentile £550 £598 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £522 £550
% change year-on-year -4.21% -5.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 0 2
10th Percentile £62.00 - £17.72
25th Percentile - - £18.10
Median hourly rate £68.00 - £18.74
75th Percentile - - £19.37
90th Percentile - - £19.75
UK median hourly rate £68.00 - £18.74
% change year-on-year - - -72.87%

All Operating Systems
England

Ubuntu 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 3,364 4,984 7,773
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.02% 13.71% 16.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,287 3,408 5,483
10th Percentile £200 £185 £193
25th Percentile £313 £300 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £470 £513
Median % change year-on-year -0.74% -8.29% +2.50%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £644
90th Percentile £700 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £465 £465 £500
% change year-on-year - -7.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 150 363 369
10th Percentile £15.12 £12.75 £13.82
25th Percentile £17.44 £15.21 £17.72
Median hourly rate £21.28 £22.15 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.93% -42.47% +77.91%
75th Percentile £58.73 £61.60 £64.50
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £22.15 £39.60
% change year-on-year -0.68% -44.07% +76.00%

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 22 May 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Ubuntu in England over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 22 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
South West +42 15 £500 - 27
London +34 11 £500 -2.44% 47
South East +26 9 £500 -2.15% 37
East of England +30 8 £430 -2.27% 18
Midlands -4 7 £525 -4.55% 10
East Midlands +3 5 £525 -4.55%
North of England +15 3 £401 -5.76% 20
North West +11 2 - - 17
West Midlands -3 2 - - 8
Yorkshire +8 1 £401 -5.76% 3
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 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (5.77%) OpenStack
3 2 (3.85%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Fidessa
1 1 (1.92%) iTrent
1 1 (1.92%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 19 (36.54%) Azure
2 15 (28.85%) AWS
3 8 (15.38%) GitHub
4 6 (11.54%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (5.77%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (5.77%) Entra ID
6 2 (3.85%) GCP
6 2 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (3.85%) OpenShift
6 2 (3.85%) SaaS
7 1 (1.92%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (26.92%) SAN
2 9 (17.31%) DNS
2 9 (17.31%) TCP/IP
3 6 (11.54%) NAS
4 5 (9.62%) DHCP
4 5 (9.62%) Firewall
4 5 (9.62%) LAN
4 5 (9.62%) WAN
5 4 (7.69%) iSCSI
6 3 (5.77%) VLAN
7 2 (3.85%) HTTP
7 2 (3.85%) OpenLDAP
7 2 (3.85%) SSH
7 2 (3.85%) SSL
7 2 (3.85%) VPN
8 1 (1.92%) Broadband
8 1 (1.92%) NFC
8 1 (1.92%) PPP
8 1 (1.92%) VSAN
8 1 (1.92%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (11.54%) Big Data
2 3 (5.77%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (3.85%) MariaDB
3 2 (3.85%) MySQL
3 2 (3.85%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.92%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.92%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 9 (17.31%) Jenkins
2 8 (15.38%) Git
3 6 (11.54%) JIRA
4 3 (5.77%) GitLab
4 3 (5.77%) TeamCity
5 2 (3.85%) Maven
5 2 (3.85%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.92%) Eclipse
6 1 (1.92%) Valgrind
General
1 8 (15.38%) Finance
2 3 (5.77%) Social Skills
3 2 (3.85%) Law
4 1 (1.92%) Banking
4 1 (1.92%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 15 (28.85%) Linux Engineer
2 11 (21.15%) Product Engineer
2 11 (21.15%) Products Support Engineer
2 11 (21.15%) Software Support Engineer
2 11 (21.15%) Support Engineer
3 9 (17.31%) Linux Support
4 8 (15.38%) Administrator
4 8 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 8 (15.38%) Linux Support Engineer
5 7 (13.46%) Platform Engineer
5 7 (13.46%) Systems Administrator
6 6 (11.54%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 5 (9.62%) Senior
8 4 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
8 4 (7.69%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 4 (7.69%) DevOps Administrator
8 4 (7.69%) Linux Administrator
9 3 (5.77%) DevOps Engineer
9 3 (5.77%) Principal Engineer
9 3 (5.77%) Principal Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (23.08%) Middleware
2 6 (11.54%) LDAP
3 2 (3.85%) YAML
4 1 (1.92%) FIX Protocol
4 1 (1.92%) JSON
4 1 (1.92%) Kafka
4 1 (1.92%) REST
4 1 (1.92%) Web Services
4 1 (1.92%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.62%) Data Centre
1 5 (9.62%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (7.69%) Distributed Computing
2 4 (7.69%) Enterprise Storage
2 4 (7.69%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (3.85%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.92%) Equities
4 1 (1.92%) Eurex
4 1 (1.92%) Fixed Income
4 1 (1.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.92%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 52 (100.00%) Linux
2 22 (42.31%) Windows
3 18 (34.62%) CentOS
3 18 (34.62%) Windows Server
4 6 (11.54%) Debian
5 5 (9.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (7.69%) Solaris
6 4 (7.69%) SUSE
6 4 (7.69%) Unix
6 4 (7.69%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (3.85%) AIX
7 2 (3.85%) HPUX
8 1 (1.92%) Fedora
8 1 (1.92%) Rocky
8 1 (1.92%) Windows 10
8 1 (1.92%) Windows 8
8 1 (1.92%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (1.92%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (28.85%) DevOps
2 14 (26.92%) Software Engineering
3 13 (25.00%) Configuration Management
4 10 (19.23%) High Availability
5 9 (17.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 8 (15.38%) Platform Engineering
7 7 (13.46%) Containerisation
7 7 (13.46%) Customer-Centricity
7 7 (13.46%) ITIL
8 6 (11.54%) Agile
8 6 (11.54%) Continuous Delivery
8 6 (11.54%) Customer-Centric Approach
8 6 (11.54%) Open Source
8 6 (11.54%) Problem Management
8 6 (11.54%) Server Building
8 6 (11.54%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 5 (9.62%) Infrastructure Management
10 4 (7.69%) Incident Management
10 4 (7.69%) Patch Management
10 4 (7.69%) Resource Management
Programming Languages
1 24 (46.15%) Python
2 21 (40.38%) Shell Script
3 14 (26.92%) C++
3 14 (26.92%) JavaScript
4 13 (25.00%) Ada
4 13 (25.00%) C
5 9 (17.31%) PowerShell
6 7 (13.46%) Bash
7 5 (9.62%) Perl
8 3 (5.77%) SQL
9 1 (1.92%) C#
9 1 (1.92%) Go
9 1 (1.92%) Java
9 1 (1.92%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.92%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 13 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (21.15%) SC Cleared
3 4 (7.69%) DV Cleared
4 3 (5.77%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.69%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.92%) NIST
2 1 (1.92%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (21.15%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (17.31%) Active Directory
3 5 (9.62%) Docker
4 4 (7.69%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (7.69%) vSphere
5 3 (5.77%) Hyper-V
5 3 (5.77%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (3.85%) KVM
7 1 (1.92%) Firmware
7 1 (1.92%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 22 (42.31%) Ansible
2 11 (21.15%) Terraform
3 7 (13.46%) Kubernetes
3 7 (13.46%) Puppet
4 6 (11.54%) Nessus
4 6 (11.54%) vCenter Server
5 4 (7.69%) Progress Chef
6 2 (3.85%) Failover Clustering
6 2 (3.85%) Red Hat Satellite
6 2 (3.85%) ZABBIX
7 1 (1.92%) FortiGate
7 1 (1.92%) Graylog
7 1 (1.92%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 1 (1.92%) Packer
7 1 (1.92%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.92%) Rundeck
7 1 (1.92%) SCCM
7 1 (1.92%) VxRail
7 1 (1.92%) WSUS
Vendors
1 31 (59.62%) Red Hat
2 20 (38.46%) VMware
3 16 (30.77%) Microsoft
4 6 (11.54%) Databricks
5 4 (7.69%) NetApp
5 4 (7.69%) ServiceNow
6 3 (5.77%) Citrix
7 2 (3.85%) Cisco
7 2 (3.85%) Sophos
8 1 (1.92%) Bloomberg
8 1 (1.92%) CQG
8 1 (1.92%) Dell
8 1 (1.92%) ION Trading
8 1 (1.92%) Oracle
8 1 (1.92%) Patsystems
8 1 (1.92%) Reuters
8 1 (1.92%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.92%) Trayport