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 12 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 400 335 374
Rank change year-on-year -65 +39 +69
Contract jobs citing Ubuntu 12 12 21
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.069% 0.095% 0.12%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.84% 0.80% 0.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 4 14
10th Percentile £391 £368 £375
25th Percentile £425 £469 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £550 £551
Median % change year-on-year -1.14% -0.23% -4.13%
75th Percentile £586 £556 £593
90th Percentile £640 £568 £625
England median daily rate £537 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +7.40% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56.75 £39.25 -
Median hourly rate £58.50 £44.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +31.46% - -
75th Percentile £60.25 £49.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £88.75 £68.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year +30.51% +223.81% +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 1,425 1,496 2,202
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.23% 11.83% 12.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 950 1,045 1,566
10th Percentile £205 £250 £196
25th Percentile £357 £375 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.50% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £629
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
England median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -12.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 19 73
10th Percentile £20.82 £17.85 £14.68
25th Percentile £21.00 £21.13 £18.93
Median hourly rate £22.27 £24.66 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.71% +12.09% -32.31%
75th Percentile £35.63 £31.50 £36.84
90th Percentile £58.95 £52.45 £60.00
England median hourly rate £27.50 £25.08 £21.00
% change year-on-year +9.67% +19.40% -27.59%

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 12 April 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 Spark
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (41.67%) Azure
2 4 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (16.67%) AWS
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (8.33%) Entra ID
4 1 (8.33%) GCP
4 1 (8.33%) GitHub
4 1 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (8.33%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 4 (33.33%) LAN
2 3 (25.00%) VPN
3 2 (16.67%) DNS
3 2 (16.67%) Firewall
3 2 (16.67%) Kerberos
3 2 (16.67%) TCP/IP
4 1 (8.33%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (8.33%) DHCP
4 1 (8.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) MongoDB
1 2 (16.67%) MySQL
1 2 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (8.33%) Apache Hive
2 1 (8.33%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (8.33%) Hadoop
2 1 (8.33%) Impala
2 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Git
1 3 (25.00%) GitLab
1 3 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Banking
2 3 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Billing
3 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
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%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (8.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Cloud Administrator
3 1 (8.33%) Desktop Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Integration Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Linux DevOps Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Linux/Unix DevOps
3 1 (8.33%) Operations Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Platform Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Site Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) Kafka
2 2 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (8.33%) Keycloak
3 1 (8.33%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Client/Server
1 3 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
1 3 (25.00%) Replication
2 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (8.33%) CUDA
2 1 (8.33%) Onboarding
2 1 (8.33%) PKI
2 1 (8.33%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 12 (100.00%) Linux
2 7 (58.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (50.00%) Windows
4 5 (41.67%) Windows Server
5 3 (25.00%) CentOS
5 3 (25.00%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (8.33%) Android
6 1 (8.33%) Debian
6 1 (8.33%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) DevOps
2 5 (41.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 4 (33.33%) High Availability
3 4 (33.33%) Inventory Management
4 3 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 3 (25.00%) Observability
4 3 (25.00%) Server Management
5 2 (16.67%) Capacity Planning
5 2 (16.67%) Configuration Management
5 2 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
5 2 (16.67%) Incident Response
5 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (16.67%) RBAC
5 2 (16.67%) Security Hardening
5 2 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 2 (16.67%) Task Automation
6 1 (8.33%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 5 (41.67%) Bash
3 4 (33.33%) Python
4 3 (25.00%) Go
5 1 (8.33%) Ruby
5 1 (8.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) Degree
2 3 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (41.67%) Active Directory
2 4 (33.33%) Docker
2 4 (33.33%) 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
Systems Management
1 7 (58.33%) Ansible
2 5 (41.67%) Grafana
2 5 (41.67%) Terraform
3 4 (33.33%) Prometheus
4 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (25.00%) SCCM
5 2 (16.67%) Kibana
5 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
6 1 (8.33%) Apache Ranger
6 1 (8.33%) Hadoop YARN
6 1 (8.33%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (8.33%) logstash
6 1 (8.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 4 (33.33%) VMware
2 3 (25.00%) Veeam
3 1 (8.33%) Apple
3 1 (8.33%) CheckPoint
3 1 (8.33%) Cisco
3 1 (8.33%) Cloudera
3 1 (8.33%) NVIDIA
3 1 (8.33%) OneTrust
3 1 (8.33%) Oracle
3 1 (8.33%) Palo Alto
3 1 (8.33%) Red Hat
3 1 (8.33%) Splunk