Debian Contract Job Trends in Hertfordshire

Debian Linux
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hertfordshire requiring Debian skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Debian 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 0.59% - -
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.04% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £502 - -
25th Percentile £617 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £681 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £681 - £500
% change year-on-year - - +17.65%

All Operating Systems
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 99 77 120
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 14.67% 19.85% 17.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 17 92
10th Percentile £186 £234 £278
25th Percentile £325 £290 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -15.00% -
75th Percentile £538 £481 £656
90th Percentile £596 £515 £749
East of England median daily rate £350 £356 £425
% change year-on-year -1.75% -16.18% +9.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 12 2
10th Percentile £41.25 £61.63 £18.48
25th Percentile - - £19.56
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £21.75
Median % change year-on-year - +198.85% -66.54%
75th Percentile £67.00 - £23.56
90th Percentile - £68.38 £24.43
East of England median hourly rate £35.00 £65.00 £14.16
% change year-on-year -46.15% +359.04% -35.64%

Debian
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Debian job vacancy trend in Hertfordshire

Debian
Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Debian.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Debian

Debian
Daily Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Debian in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 27 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Debian in Hertfordshire

Debian
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Debian within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 27 December 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
Stevenage - 4 £681 - 3
Debian
East of England

Debian
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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:

Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Git
General
1 3 (75.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (25.00%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Automation Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Linux Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Automation Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Linux Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Hardware Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Acoustics
1 3 (75.00%) Derivative
2 1 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
1 4 (100.00%) Ubuntu
2 3 (75.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (75.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Ansible
1 4 (100.00%) Podman
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) NVIDIA
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat