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 22 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 347 368 363
Rank change year-on-year +21 -5 +149
Contract jobs citing Ubuntu 29 13 65
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.20% 0.082% 0.32%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.80% 0.68% 2.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 8 42
10th Percentile £428 £131 £401
25th Percentile £469 £220 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £300 £565
Median % change year-on-year +83.33% -46.90% +2.73%
75th Percentile £601 £378 £592
90th Percentile £683 £549 £627
England median daily rate £475 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -8.65% -0.95% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £53.00 - £47.50
Median hourly rate £56.00 £112.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% +124.00% -
75th Percentile £59.00 - £52.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £68.00 £112.00 £72.50
% change year-on-year -39.29% +54.48% -5.84%

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 1,613 1,923 2,977
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.40% 12.16% 14.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,042 1,261 2,146
10th Percentile £204 £225 £204
25th Percentile £358 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
England median daily rate £450 £475 £480
% change year-on-year -5.26% -1.04% -5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 19 52
10th Percentile £19.06 £19.85 £18.09
25th Percentile £21.46 £22.80 £21.81
Median hourly rate £25.15 £57.50 £34.67
Median % change year-on-year -56.26% +65.85% +38.68%
75th Percentile - £69.88 £60.00
90th Percentile £53.20 £102.40 £73.63
England median hourly rate £23.00 £57.50 £37.83
% change year-on-year -60.00% +52.01% +51.31%

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 22 November 2025.

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
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ubuntu within the London region over the 6 months to 22 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
South London - 12 £475 -
West London - 4 - -
Ubuntu
England

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 11 (37.93%) Confluence
1 11 (37.93%) nginx
2 4 (13.79%) Apache
3 2 (6.90%) Oracle HTTP Server
3 2 (6.90%) Tomcat
3 2 (6.90%) WebLogic
4 1 (3.45%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 10 (34.48%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 17 (58.62%) Azure
2 16 (55.17%) AWS
3 12 (41.38%) Amazon S3
3 12 (41.38%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (37.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 10 (34.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 10 (34.48%) Amazon EC2
5 10 (34.48%) Amazon ECS
5 10 (34.48%) Amazon ELB
5 10 (34.48%) AWS KMS
5 10 (34.48%) Route 53
6 3 (10.34%) GCP
7 2 (6.90%) Entra ID
8 1 (3.45%) Amazon ECR
8 1 (3.45%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (3.45%) dbt
8 1 (3.45%) GitHub
8 1 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 16 (55.17%) Firewall
2 14 (48.28%) DNS
3 12 (41.38%) HTTP
4 10 (34.48%) FTP
4 10 (34.48%) IMAP
4 10 (34.48%) OpenLDAP
4 10 (34.48%) SMTP
4 10 (34.48%) SSH
5 2 (6.90%) DHCP
5 2 (6.90%) LAN
5 2 (6.90%) SSL
6 1 (3.45%) BGP
6 1 (3.45%) DMZ
6 1 (3.45%) Ethernet VPN
6 1 (3.45%) Network Security
6 1 (3.45%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (3.45%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (3.45%) VPN
6 1 (3.45%) VSAN
6 1 (3.45%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (37.93%) Amazon Aurora
1 11 (37.93%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (34.48%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (3.45%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (3.45%) MariaDB
3 1 (3.45%) MySQL
3 1 (3.45%) Redis
3 1 (3.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (41.38%) Git
1 12 (41.38%) JIRA
2 11 (37.93%) Jenkins
2 11 (37.93%) Vagrant
3 1 (3.45%) Bitbucket
3 1 (3.45%) GitLab
General
1 12 (41.38%) Social Skills
2 10 (34.48%) Presentation Skills
3 9 (31.03%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.90%) Banking
4 2 (6.90%) Finance
5 1 (3.45%) Billing
5 1 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (34.48%) AWS Engineer
1 10 (34.48%) AWS Platform Engineer
1 10 (34.48%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 10 (34.48%) Platform Engineer
2 9 (31.03%) DevOps Engineer
3 8 (27.59%) AWS DevOps
3 8 (27.59%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 8 (27.59%) DevOps Platform Engineer
4 4 (13.79%) Linux Engineer
5 3 (10.34%) Administrator
5 3 (10.34%) Architect
5 3 (10.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (10.34%) Windows Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Cloud Architect
6 2 (6.90%) Infrastructure Architect
6 2 (6.90%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 2 (6.90%) Systems Administrator
6 2 (6.90%) Systems Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) VMware Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (34.48%) LDAP
2 4 (13.79%) Middleware
3 2 (6.90%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (3.45%) AWS CDK
4 1 (3.45%) Jinja
4 1 (3.45%) JSON
4 1 (3.45%) Kafka
4 1 (3.45%) LAMP
4 1 (3.45%) LAPP Stack
4 1 (3.45%) Node.js
4 1 (3.45%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (3.45%) React
4 1 (3.45%) Zend Framework
Miscellaneous
1 13 (44.83%) Replication
2 4 (13.79%) Data Centre
3 3 (10.34%) Cloud Native
4 2 (6.90%) Client/Server
4 2 (6.90%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (3.45%) CUDA
5 1 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (3.45%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (3.45%) Fat Client
5 1 (3.45%) Onboarding
5 1 (3.45%) PKI
5 1 (3.45%) Private Cloud
5 1 (3.45%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 29 (100.00%) Linux
2 21 (72.41%) Windows
3 11 (37.93%) CentOS
4 10 (34.48%) Amazon Linux
4 10 (34.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (34.48%) VMS
5 8 (27.59%) Windows Server
6 5 (17.24%) Unix
7 2 (6.90%) Debian
7 2 (6.90%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (3.45%) Alpine Linux
8 1 (3.45%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (58.62%) DevOps
2 14 (48.28%) CI/CD
3 12 (41.38%) Change Management
3 12 (41.38%) Cloud Security
3 12 (41.38%) Configuration Management
4 11 (37.93%) Patch Management
5 10 (34.48%) Performance Tuning
5 10 (34.48%) Platform Engineering
6 6 (20.69%) Disaster Recovery
7 5 (17.24%) High Availability
7 5 (17.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 4 (13.79%) Containerisation
8 4 (13.79%) Infrastructure as Code
8 4 (13.79%) Infrastructure Automation
9 3 (10.34%) Data Pipeline
10 2 (6.90%) Cybersecurity
10 2 (6.90%) Deployment Automation
10 2 (6.90%) Inventory Management
10 2 (6.90%) Observability
10 2 (6.90%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (62.07%) Python
2 15 (51.72%) PowerShell
3 12 (41.38%) SQL
4 10 (34.48%) Groovy
5 9 (31.03%) Bash
6 2 (6.90%) Go
6 2 (6.90%) JavaScript
7 1 (3.45%) Perl
7 1 (3.45%) PHP
7 1 (3.45%) Ruby
7 1 (3.45%) Scala
7 1 (3.45%) Shell Script
7 1 (3.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (44.83%) AWS Certification
2 12 (41.38%) Degree
3 10 (34.48%) Azure Certification
3 10 (34.48%) Security Cleared
4 9 (31.03%) SC Cleared
5 3 (10.34%) RHCE
6 2 (6.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (3.45%) CCNP
7 1 (3.45%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (3.45%) CISSP
7 1 (3.45%) DV Cleared
7 1 (3.45%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.90%) NIST
2 1 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.45%) NCSC
2 1 (3.45%) NIST 800
2 1 (3.45%) PCI DSS
2 1 (3.45%) QA
System Software
1 18 (62.07%) Docker
2 10 (34.48%) DFS Replication
2 10 (34.48%) Dovecot
2 10 (34.48%) Postfix
2 10 (34.48%) Squid
3 9 (31.03%) Active Directory
4 8 (27.59%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (10.34%) Hyper-V
6 2 (6.90%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (6.90%) vSphere
7 1 (3.45%) DRBD
7 1 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (3.45%) VirtualBox
7 1 (3.45%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (3.45%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 15 (51.72%) Prometheus
1 15 (51.72%) Terraform
2 13 (44.83%) Grafana
3 11 (37.93%) Nessus
4 10 (34.48%) Proxmox
5 8 (27.59%) Ansible
6 6 (20.69%) Kubernetes
7 3 (10.34%) Nagios
7 3 (10.34%) SCCM
8 2 (6.90%) Kibana
8 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (3.45%) FortiGate
9 1 (3.45%) Graphite
9 1 (3.45%) Icinga
9 1 (3.45%) logstash
9 1 (3.45%) Progress Chef
9 1 (3.45%) Salt
9 1 (3.45%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (3.45%) vCenter Server
9 1 (3.45%) VxRail
Vendors
1 11 (37.93%) ServiceNow
2 10 (34.48%) Jaspersoft
2 10 (34.48%) VMware
3 4 (13.79%) Red Hat
3 4 (13.79%) Splunk
4 3 (10.34%) Microsoft
4 3 (10.34%) Veeam
5 2 (6.90%) NVIDIA
5 2 (6.90%) Oracle
6 1 (3.45%) Citrix
6 1 (3.45%) Dell
6 1 (3.45%) MuleSoft
6 1 (3.45%) New Relic
6 1 (3.45%) Qualys
6 1 (3.45%) Rackspace
6 1 (3.45%) Rapid7
6 1 (3.45%) Remedy
6 1 (3.45%) Tanium
6 1 (3.45%) Tenable
6 1 (3.45%) Zend