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 31 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 387 354 377
Rank change year-on-year -33 +23 +45
Contract jobs citing Ubuntu 50 18 10
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.25% 0.13% 0.061%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.22% 1.15% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 9 9
10th Percentile £313 £403 £295
25th Percentile £425 £425 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £400
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +12.50% -30.43%
75th Percentile £534 £538 £475
90th Percentile £788 £575 £528
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -3.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56.75 £53.00 -
Median hourly rate £58.50 £56.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +4.46% - -
75th Percentile £60.25 £59.00 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £44.75 £68.00 -
% change year-on-year -34.19% - -

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 1,553 1,566 1,991
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 7.74% 11.51% 12.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,026 1,072 1,393
10th Percentile £206 £246 £213
25th Percentile £350 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -8.26%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £688 £738 £725
England median daily rate £469 £460 £475
% change year-on-year +1.96% -3.16% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 43 50
10th Percentile £17.60 £18.87 £16.21
25th Percentile £19.50 £22.50 £20.13
Median hourly rate £21.00 £24.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +11.36% -53.68%
75th Percentile £25.34 £27.00 £28.78
90th Percentile £54.40 £61.60 £60.14
England median hourly rate £32.50 £23.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +41.30% -16.36% -35.29%

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 31 July 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
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 31 July 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
Central London - 9 £500 - 1
West London -13 4 £430 - 2
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 5 (10.00%) Apache
2 4 (8.00%) WordPress
3 3 (6.00%) CloudStack
4 2 (4.00%) nginx
4 2 (4.00%) SharePoint
5 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (2.00%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (8.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 20 (40.00%) Azure
2 17 (34.00%) AWS
3 14 (28.00%) Entra ID
4 8 (16.00%) GCP
5 7 (14.00%) Amazon EKS
6 6 (12.00%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (10.00%) Azure Sentinel
7 5 (10.00%) GitHub
7 5 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (8.00%) Datadog
8 4 (8.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 3 (6.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (6.00%) AWS Control Tower
10 2 (4.00%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (4.00%) Azure AKS
10 2 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (4.00%) Azure Monitor
11 1 (2.00%) Amazon S3
11 1 (2.00%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (2.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (26.00%) DNS
2 11 (22.00%) TCP/IP
3 10 (20.00%) Firewall
4 8 (16.00%) VPN
5 7 (14.00%) VLAN
6 5 (10.00%) DHCP
7 4 (8.00%) Network Security
8 2 (4.00%) Internet
8 2 (4.00%) NAS
8 2 (4.00%) SAN
8 2 (4.00%) VXLAN
9 1 (2.00%) Cisco IOS
9 1 (2.00%) HTTPS
9 1 (2.00%) Kerberos
9 1 (2.00%) LAN
9 1 (2.00%) Reverse Proxy
9 1 (2.00%) SSH
9 1 (2.00%) SSL
9 1 (2.00%) Structured Cabling
9 1 (2.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (12.00%) MySQL
1 6 (12.00%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (8.00%) MongoDB
2 4 (8.00%) SQL Server
3 3 (6.00%) Apache Cassandra
3 3 (6.00%) NoSQL
4 2 (4.00%) Redis
4 2 (4.00%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 10 (20.00%) Git
2 7 (14.00%) GitLab
3 5 (10.00%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.00%) Maven
4 1 (2.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 15 (30.00%) Banking
2 10 (20.00%) Finance
3 8 (16.00%) Social Skills
4 7 (14.00%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (8.00%) Automotive
5 4 (8.00%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (6.00%) Financial Institution
6 3 (6.00%) Public Sector
7 2 (4.00%) Retail
8 1 (2.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 23 (46.00%) Linux Engineer
2 12 (24.00%) Senior
3 5 (10.00%) Architect
3 5 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (10.00%) Site Engineer
3 5 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 5 (10.00%) Support Engineer
4 4 (8.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 4 (8.00%) 2nd Line Support
4 4 (8.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 4 (8.00%) AWS DevOps
4 4 (8.00%) Linux Support
4 4 (8.00%) Linux Support Engineer
4 4 (8.00%) Network Engineer
4 4 (8.00%) Security Architect
4 4 (8.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (8.00%) Senior Network Engineer
4 4 (8.00%) Windows Engineer
4 4 (8.00%) Windows Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (26.00%) Middleware
2 8 (16.00%) cloud-init
3 7 (14.00%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (8.00%) 802.1X
4 4 (8.00%) Azure Blueprints
4 4 (8.00%) Kafka
5 3 (6.00%) Keycloak
5 3 (6.00%) LDAP
5 3 (6.00%) OAuth
5 3 (6.00%) REST
6 2 (4.00%) Celery
6 2 (4.00%) Django
6 2 (4.00%) JWT
6 2 (4.00%) React
6 2 (4.00%) SAML
6 2 (4.00%) Vue
6 2 (4.00%) YAML
7 1 (2.00%) OAuth2
7 1 (2.00%) OpenID
7 1 (2.00%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 10 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 7 (14.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 7 (14.00%) PKI
3 6 (12.00%) Legacy Applications
3 6 (12.00%) Onboarding
4 5 (10.00%) Management Information System
4 5 (10.00%) Public Cloud
4 5 (10.00%) Robotics
5 4 (8.00%) CMDB
5 4 (8.00%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (8.00%) Low-Code
5 4 (8.00%) Security Posture
6 3 (6.00%) Data Centre
7 2 (4.00%) Private Cloud
8 1 (2.00%) Device Driver
8 1 (2.00%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (2.00%) Lidar
8 1 (2.00%) Video Conferencing
8 1 (2.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 50 (100.00%) Linux
2 19 (38.00%) Windows
3 15 (30.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 13 (26.00%) Windows Server
5 4 (8.00%) Alpine Linux
6 3 (6.00%) CentOS
7 2 (4.00%) Debian
8 1 (2.00%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (2.00%) Android
8 1 (2.00%) Mac OS
8 1 (2.00%) Unix
8 1 (2.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (40.00%) Configuration Management
2 18 (36.00%) Containerisation
2 18 (36.00%) DevOps
2 18 (36.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 12 (24.00%) Migration
4 11 (22.00%) CI/CD
4 11 (22.00%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (18.00%) Identity Access Management
6 8 (16.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 7 (14.00%) Infrastructure Automation
7 7 (14.00%) Observability
7 7 (14.00%) Validation
8 6 (12.00%) AI
8 6 (12.00%) Change Management
8 6 (12.00%) Customer Service
8 6 (12.00%) Patch Management
8 6 (12.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 6 (12.00%) Zero Trust
9 5 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
9 5 (10.00%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 22 (44.00%) Bash
2 19 (38.00%) Python
3 11 (22.00%) PowerShell
4 4 (8.00%) Bicep
4 4 (8.00%) Go
5 3 (6.00%) Java
5 3 (6.00%) SQL
6 1 (2.00%) Korn
6 1 (2.00%) Ladder Logic
6 1 (2.00%) R
6 1 (2.00%) Ruby
6 1 (2.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (14.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (10.00%) CCNP
2 5 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (10.00%) Degree
3 4 (8.00%) AWS Certification
3 4 (8.00%) JNCIP
3 4 (8.00%) JNCIS
3 4 (8.00%) SC Cleared
4 3 (6.00%) CISM
4 3 (6.00%) CISSP
4 3 (6.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (4.00%) Azure Certification
5 2 (4.00%) ISSAP
5 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (2.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.00%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (2.00%) CRISC
6 1 (2.00%) GCIH
6 1 (2.00%) GIAC
6 1 (2.00%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (6.00%) NIST
2 3 (6.00%) SOC 2
3 2 (4.00%) HIPAA
3 2 (4.00%) PCI DSS
4 1 (2.00%) QA
4 1 (2.00%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (24.00%) Active Directory
1 12 (24.00%) Docker
2 6 (12.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (10.00%) vSphere
4 3 (6.00%) KVM
4 3 (6.00%) NFS
5 2 (4.00%) Ceph
6 1 (2.00%) Hyper-V
6 1 (2.00%) QEMU
6 1 (2.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 30 (60.00%) Ansible
2 23 (46.00%) Terraform
3 12 (24.00%) Grafana
3 12 (24.00%) Kubernetes
4 11 (22.00%) Prometheus
5 9 (18.00%) systemd
6 4 (8.00%) Puppet
7 2 (4.00%) SELinux
8 1 (2.00%) Check_MK
8 1 (2.00%) Dell DRAC
8 1 (2.00%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (2.00%) Kibana
8 1 (2.00%) logstash
Vendors
1 14 (28.00%) Microsoft
2 10 (20.00%) Cisco
3 9 (18.00%) VMware
4 5 (10.00%) CrowdStrike
4 5 (10.00%) Google
4 5 (10.00%) Okta
4 5 (10.00%) Red Hat
4 5 (10.00%) Splunk
5 4 (8.00%) CyberArk
5 4 (8.00%) Juniper
5 4 (8.00%) Meraki
5 4 (8.00%) MikroTik
5 4 (8.00%) Oracle
5 4 (8.00%) Qualys
5 4 (8.00%) Rapid7
5 4 (8.00%) Tenable
6 3 (6.00%) BeyondTrust
6 3 (6.00%) NetApp
6 3 (6.00%) TOWER Software
6 3 (6.00%) WALLIX