Ubuntu Contract Job Trends in Hertfordshire

Ubuntu Linux
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hertfordshire requiring Ubuntu skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 - 69
Rank change year-on-year - - -7
Contract jobs citing Ubuntu 3 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 0.37% - 0.12%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.44% - 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £510 - -
25th Percentile £638 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £850 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £850 £428 £440
% change year-on-year +98.83% -2.84% +10.00%

All Operating Systems
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 123 115 142
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 15.07% 32.76% 16.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 65 95
10th Percentile £193 £244 £274
25th Percentile £325 £450 £339
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.63% -2.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £626 £575 £575
90th Percentile £675 - £665
East of England median daily rate £350 £430 £458
% change year-on-year -18.60% -6.01% +7.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 27 24
10th Percentile £48.84 £16.95 £55.75
25th Percentile £61.25 £21.60 £60.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% -7.14%
75th Percentile £67.50 £65.00 -
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.20 -
East of England median hourly rate £50.67 £39.32 £60.00
% change year-on-year +28.87% -34.47% +207.53%

Ubuntu
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Ubuntu job vacancy trend in Hertfordshire

Ubuntu
Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Ubuntu

Ubuntu
Daily Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ubuntu in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 26 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Ubuntu in Hertfordshire

Ubuntu
Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Ubuntu

Ubuntu
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 Ubuntu within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 26 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
Welwyn Garden City - 2 £850 - 1
Stevenage - 1 £450 -
Ubuntu
East of England

Ubuntu
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Azure AKS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) MySQL
1 2 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (66.67%) Redis
1 2 (66.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
General
1 2 (66.67%) Retail
2 1 (33.33%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Python Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
1 2 (66.67%) Senior DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Administrator
2 1 (33.33%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Celery
1 2 (66.67%) Django
1 2 (66.67%) JWT
1 2 (66.67%) OAuth
1 2 (66.67%) React
1 2 (66.67%) REST
1 2 (66.67%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Native
1 2 (66.67%) Security Posture
2 1 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (33.33%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 3 (100.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) AI
2 2 (66.67%) API Design
2 2 (66.67%) Application Security
2 2 (66.67%) Code Quality
2 2 (66.67%) Data Validation
2 2 (66.67%) Deployment Automation
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Front End Development
2 2 (66.67%) Generative AI
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) Security Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Static Application Security Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
2 1 (33.33%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
2 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (66.67%) Terraform
3 1 (33.33%) Podman