Ubuntu Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Ubuntu Linux
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring Ubuntu skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 66 84
Rank change year-on-year -15 +18 +36
Contract jobs citing Ubuntu 6 16 8
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 0.48% 1.58% 0.60%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.47% 6.93% 2.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 15 5
10th Percentile £468 £500 £478
25th Percentile £499 £538 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +15.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile - £675 £517
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £475 £575 £524
% change year-on-year -17.39% +9.84% -4.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £104.50 - £20.50
Median hourly rate £109.00 - £21.00
75th Percentile £113.50 - £21.50
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £109.00 - £21.00
% change year-on-year - - -65.00%

All Operating Systems
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 243 231 298
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 19.44% 22.87% 22.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 145 131
10th Percentile £200 £263 £181
25th Percentile £418 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.31% -3.24% -1.37%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £637
90th Percentile £650 £675 £655
South East median daily rate £435 £435 £410
% change year-on-year - +6.10% -13.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 17 34
10th Percentile £16.60 £57.55 £16.62
25th Percentile £18.87 £62.50 £27.00
Median hourly rate £23.50 £70.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -66.43% +21.74% +87.30%
75th Percentile £25.15 - £69.69
90th Percentile £48.75 £75.00 £75.60
South East median hourly rate £20.00 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -68.00% +13.64% +193.33%

Ubuntu
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Ubuntu job vacancy trend in Hampshire

Ubuntu
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Ubuntu

Ubuntu
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ubuntu in Hampshire over the 6 months to 29 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Ubuntu in Hampshire

Ubuntu
Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Ubuntu

Ubuntu
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ubuntu within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 29 November 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
Southampton - 4 £550 -
Fleet - 1 £447 -
Ubuntu
South East

Ubuntu
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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:

Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) AWS
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
1 2 (33.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) Firewall
2 2 (33.33%) DHCP
2 2 (33.33%) DNS
2 2 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 2 (33.33%) VSAN
3 1 (16.67%) HTTPS
3 1 (16.67%) SSL
General
1 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Linux Specialist
2 2 (33.33%) Technical Specialist
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Linux/Unix DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) System Design Authority
3 1 (16.67%) Ubuntu Engineer
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
2 4 (66.67%) CentOS
3 2 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (33.33%) Unix
3 2 (33.33%) Windows
3 2 (33.33%) Windows Server
3 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2016
3 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 2 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (33.33%) Network Management
2 2 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (33.33%) Security Management
2 2 (33.33%) Task Automation
2 2 (33.33%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 1 (16.67%) API Design
3 1 (16.67%) API Integration
3 1 (16.67%) Converged Infrastructure
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) OCR
3 1 (16.67%) Patch Management
3 1 (16.67%) Secure Coding
3 1 (16.67%) Software Architecture
3 1 (16.67%) Target Operating Model
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Bash
1 2 (33.33%) Perl
1 2 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) RHCE
1 2 (33.33%) RHCSA
1 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Docker
2 2 (33.33%) KVM
2 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (33.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 3 (50.00%) Ansible
3 2 (33.33%) Progress Chef
3 2 (33.33%) Puppet
3 2 (33.33%) SCOM
3 2 (33.33%) VxRail
4 1 (16.67%) Rsyslog
4 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Red Hat
2 4 (66.67%) VMware
3 1 (16.67%) Dell
3 1 (16.67%) EMC