Ubuntu Contract Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Ubuntu Linux
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire requiring Ubuntu skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Ubuntu 7 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Gloucestershire 2.06% - -
As % of the Operating Systems category 11.86% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £340 - -
75th Percentile £483 - -
90th Percentile £568 - -
South West median daily rate £538 £500 £488
% change year-on-year +7.50% +2.56% -11.36%

All Operating Systems
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 59 61 92
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 17.40% 24.60% 19.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 45 63
10th Percentile £156 £191 £208
25th Percentile £205 £225 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -39.58% +9.09% +3.77%
75th Percentile £538 £625 £625
90th Percentile £613 £775 £688
South West median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 8
10th Percentile £27.25 - -
25th Percentile £28.75 - £14.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £70.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -53.57% +300.00% -77.56%
75th Percentile £36.25 - £33.25
90th Percentile £37.75 - £70.00
South West median hourly rate £41.00 £18.87 £68.75
% change year-on-year +117.28% -72.55% +4.96%

Ubuntu
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Ubuntu relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire.

Ubuntu job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

Ubuntu
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Ubuntu.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Ubuntu

Ubuntu
Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ubuntu in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 13 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Ubuntu in Gloucestershire

Ubuntu
Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Ubuntu.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Ubuntu

Ubuntu
Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ubuntu within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 13 June 2026. 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
Cheltenham - 4 - - 2
Cirencester - 2 £340 -
Gloucester - 1 £600 - 1
Ubuntu
South West

Ubuntu
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 4 (57.14%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) AWS
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
1 4 (57.14%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) DNS
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Git
1 4 (57.14%) GitLab
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Open Source Engineer
1 4 (57.14%) Software Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Linux Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Linux
1 7 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (57.14%) Debian
2 4 (57.14%) Rocky
3 3 (42.86%) CentOS
4 2 (28.57%) Windows
4 2 (28.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (57.14%) Agile
2 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 4 (57.14%) Computer Science
2 4 (57.14%) Containerisation
2 4 (57.14%) Open Source
2 4 (57.14%) Performance Optimisation
2 4 (57.14%) Requirements Gathering
2 4 (57.14%) Software Engineering
2 4 (57.14%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (28.57%) High Availability
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (28.57%) Knowledge Transfer
3 2 (28.57%) Migration
3 2 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (28.57%) Server Migrations
4 1 (14.29%) Configuration Management
4 1 (14.29%) DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Python
2 4 (57.14%) Go
2 4 (57.14%) JavaScript
3 1 (14.29%) Bash
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (57.14%) Degree
2 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Docker
2 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Kubernetes