Ubuntu Contract Job Trends in London

Ubuntu Linux
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Ubuntu skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 395 336 374
Rank change year-on-year -59 +38 +75
Contract jobs citing Ubuntu 12 13 24
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.071% 0.10% 0.13%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.83% 0.85% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 4 15
10th Percentile £415 £368 £415
25th Percentile £469 £469 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -2.22% -2.17%
75th Percentile £640 £556 £594
90th Percentile £688 £568 £625
England median daily rate £531 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +6.20% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £44.50 -
England median hourly rate £114.00 £66.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year +72.73% +214.29% +12.09%

All Operating Systems
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,443 1,532 2,227
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.54% 12.05% 12.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 953 1,081 1,583
10th Percentile £205 £250 £196
25th Percentile £360 £375 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £638
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
England median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -13.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 20 70
10th Percentile £20.18 £17.99 £14.48
25th Percentile £21.00 £21.19 £18.93
Median hourly rate £22.27 £24.66 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.71% +12.09% -14.43%
75th Percentile £26.54 £34.25 £33.75
90th Percentile £48.25 £59.20 £60.25
England median hourly rate £23.50 £28.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -16.07% +27.27% -23.88%

Ubuntu
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Ubuntu job vacancy trend in London

Ubuntu
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Ubuntu

Ubuntu
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ubuntu in London over the 6 months to 29 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Ubuntu in London

Ubuntu
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Ubuntu

Ubuntu
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 2 (16.67%) SharePoint
2 1 (8.33%) Apache
2 1 (8.33%) Apache Spark
2 1 (8.33%) Apache Superset
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) Azure
2 4 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (16.67%) AWS
3 2 (16.67%) Entra ID
3 2 (16.67%) GitHub
3 2 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon ECR
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon S3
4 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (8.33%) dbt
4 1 (8.33%) GCP
4 1 (8.33%) OneDrive
4 1 (8.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (33.33%) LAN
1 4 (33.33%) VPN
2 3 (25.00%) Firewall
3 2 (16.67%) DNS
3 2 (16.67%) Kerberos
3 2 (16.67%) TCP/IP
4 1 (8.33%) BGP
4 1 (8.33%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (8.33%) DHCP
4 1 (8.33%) DMZ
4 1 (8.33%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (8.33%) Network Security
4 1 (8.33%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (8.33%) VSAN
4 1 (8.33%) VXLAN
4 1 (8.33%) WAN
4 1 (8.33%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (8.33%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (8.33%) Apache Hive
2 1 (8.33%) Hadoop
2 1 (8.33%) Impala
2 1 (8.33%) MongoDB
2 1 (8.33%) MySQL
2 1 (8.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Git
1 3 (25.00%) GitLab
1 3 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (25.00%) Banking
1 3 (25.00%) Finance
1 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Billing
2 1 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) VMware Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Windows Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Administrator
3 1 (8.33%) Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Cloud Administrator
3 1 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Desktop Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Integration Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Operations Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Platform Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (8.33%) AWS CDK
2 1 (8.33%) Jinja
2 1 (8.33%) JSON
2 1 (8.33%) Kafka
2 1 (8.33%) LAPP Stack
2 1 (8.33%) LDAP
2 1 (8.33%) Node.js
2 1 (8.33%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (8.33%) React
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Client/Server
1 3 (25.00%) Replication
2 2 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (8.33%) CUDA
3 1 (8.33%) Data Centre
3 1 (8.33%) Fat Client
3 1 (8.33%) Onboarding
3 1 (8.33%) PKI
3 1 (8.33%) Private Cloud
3 1 (8.33%) Thin Client
3 1 (8.33%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 12 (100.00%) Linux
2 7 (58.33%) Windows
3 6 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (50.00%) Windows Server
4 3 (25.00%) CentOS
4 3 (25.00%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (8.33%) Alpine Linux
5 1 (8.33%) Android
5 1 (8.33%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) DevOps
1 5 (41.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 4 (33.33%) Inventory Management
3 3 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 3 (25.00%) Server Management
4 2 (16.67%) Capacity Planning
4 2 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (16.67%) High Availability
4 2 (16.67%) Incident Response
4 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (16.67%) Observability
4 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (16.67%) RBAC
4 2 (16.67%) Security Hardening
4 2 (16.67%) Task Automation
4 2 (16.67%) Workflow
5 1 (8.33%) Cloud Security
5 1 (8.33%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 5 (41.67%) Python
3 4 (33.33%) Bash
4 2 (16.67%) Go
4 2 (16.67%) SQL
5 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
5 1 (8.33%) Shell Script
5 1 (8.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) Degree
2 3 (25.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
4 1 (8.33%) CCNP
4 1 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (8.33%) CISSP
4 1 (8.33%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) NCSC
1 1 (8.33%) NIST
1 1 (8.33%) NIST 800
System Software
1 6 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (41.67%) Docker
2 5 (41.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (25.00%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (8.33%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (8.33%) HDFS
4 1 (8.33%) Hyper-V
4 1 (8.33%) NFS
4 1 (8.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (50.00%) Ansible
2 4 (33.33%) Grafana
2 4 (33.33%) Terraform
3 3 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (25.00%) Prometheus
3 3 (25.00%) SCCM
4 1 (8.33%) Apache Ranger
4 1 (8.33%) FortiGate
4 1 (8.33%) Hadoop YARN
4 1 (8.33%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (8.33%) Kibana
4 1 (8.33%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (8.33%) VxRail
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) VMware
2 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (33.33%) Veeam
3 2 (16.67%) NVIDIA
3 2 (16.67%) Palo Alto
3 2 (16.67%) Splunk
4 1 (8.33%) Apple
4 1 (8.33%) CheckPoint
4 1 (8.33%) Cisco
4 1 (8.33%) Cloudera
4 1 (8.33%) Dell
4 1 (8.33%) OneTrust
4 1 (8.33%) Oracle
4 1 (8.33%) Red Hat