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 25 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 348 351 339
Rank change year-on-year +3 -12 +152
Contract jobs citing Ubuntu 26 18 65
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.18% 0.12% 0.35%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.73% 0.99% 2.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 8 43
10th Percentile £425 £131 £403
25th Percentile £463 £220 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £300 £563
Median % change year-on-year +91.67% -46.67% -10.00%
75th Percentile £640 £378 £588
90th Percentile £688 £549 £600
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £53.00 - -
Median hourly rate £56.00 £112.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% - -
75th Percentile £59.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £68.00 £112.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year -39.29% +433.33% +5.00%

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 1,507 1,812 2,659
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.43% 12.11% 14.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 963 1,198 1,933
10th Percentile £204 £227 £204
25th Percentile £359 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.90% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £618 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
England median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - -7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 16 44
10th Percentile £20.82 £16.01 £18.28
25th Percentile £21.46 £23.10 £21.23
Median hourly rate £25.15 £46.25 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -45.62% +42.31% +30.00%
75th Percentile £28.38 £69.31 £60.00
90th Percentile £59.23 £106.00 £70.85
England median hourly rate £25.15 £56.20 £32.50
% change year-on-year -55.25% +72.92% +30.00%

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 25 December 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 25 December 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 - 11 £475 - 1
West London - 3 - - 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 11 (42.31%) nginx
2 10 (38.46%) Confluence
3 3 (11.54%) Apache
4 2 (7.69%) Oracle HTTP Server
4 2 (7.69%) Tomcat
4 2 (7.69%) WebLogic
5 1 (3.85%) Apache Spark
5 1 (3.85%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 10 (38.46%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 3 (11.54%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 17 (65.38%) Azure
2 15 (57.69%) AWS
3 13 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (46.15%) Amazon S3
5 11 (42.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 10 (38.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 10 (38.46%) Amazon EC2
6 10 (38.46%) Amazon ECS
6 10 (38.46%) Amazon ELB
6 10 (38.46%) AWS KMS
6 10 (38.46%) Route 53
7 3 (11.54%) GCP
8 1 (3.85%) Amazon ECR
8 1 (3.85%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (3.85%) dbt
8 1 (3.85%) Entra ID
8 1 (3.85%) GitHub
8 1 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 15 (57.69%) Firewall
2 13 (50.00%) DNS
3 12 (46.15%) HTTP
4 10 (38.46%) FTP
4 10 (38.46%) IMAP
4 10 (38.46%) OpenLDAP
4 10 (38.46%) SMTP
4 10 (38.46%) SSH
5 3 (11.54%) LAN
6 2 (7.69%) SSL
7 1 (3.85%) BGP
7 1 (3.85%) DHCP
7 1 (3.85%) DMZ
7 1 (3.85%) Kerberos
7 1 (3.85%) Network Security
7 1 (3.85%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (3.85%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (3.85%) VPN
7 1 (3.85%) VSAN
7 1 (3.85%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (42.31%) Amazon Aurora
1 11 (42.31%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (38.46%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (3.85%) Apache Hive
3 1 (3.85%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (3.85%) Hadoop
3 1 (3.85%) Impala
3 1 (3.85%) Redis
3 1 (3.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (46.15%) Git
2 11 (42.31%) Jenkins
2 11 (42.31%) JIRA
3 10 (38.46%) Vagrant
4 2 (7.69%) GitLab
General
1 12 (46.15%) Social Skills
2 10 (38.46%) Presentation Skills
3 9 (34.62%) Public Sector
4 3 (11.54%) Banking
4 3 (11.54%) Finance
5 1 (3.85%) Billing
5 1 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (38.46%) AWS Engineer
1 10 (38.46%) AWS Platform Engineer
1 10 (38.46%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 10 (38.46%) DevOps Engineer
1 10 (38.46%) Platform Engineer
2 8 (30.77%) AWS DevOps
2 8 (30.77%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 8 (30.77%) DevOps Platform Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Architect
3 3 (11.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) VMware Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Windows Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Administrator
4 2 (7.69%) Cloud Architect
4 2 (7.69%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
4 2 (7.69%) Infrastructure Architect
4 2 (7.69%) Linux Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (38.46%) LDAP
2 2 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (7.69%) Kafka
2 2 (7.69%) Middleware
3 1 (3.85%) AWS CDK
3 1 (3.85%) Jinja
3 1 (3.85%) JSON
3 1 (3.85%) LAPP Stack
3 1 (3.85%) Node.js
3 1 (3.85%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (3.85%) React
Miscellaneous
1 14 (53.85%) Replication
2 3 (11.54%) Client/Server
2 3 (11.54%) Cloud Native
2 3 (11.54%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (7.69%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.85%) CUDA
4 1 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.85%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (3.85%) Fat Client
4 1 (3.85%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.85%) PKI
4 1 (3.85%) Private Cloud
4 1 (3.85%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 26 (100.00%) Linux
2 17 (65.38%) Windows
3 10 (38.46%) Amazon Linux
3 10 (38.46%) VMS
4 8 (30.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (26.92%) CentOS
5 7 (26.92%) Windows Server
6 3 (11.54%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (7.69%) Unix
8 1 (3.85%) Alpine Linux
8 1 (3.85%) Debian
8 1 (3.85%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (65.38%) DevOps
2 15 (57.69%) CI/CD
3 12 (46.15%) Cloud Security
4 11 (42.31%) Configuration Management
4 11 (42.31%) Patch Management
5 10 (38.46%) Change Management
5 10 (38.46%) Performance Tuning
5 10 (38.46%) Platform Engineering
6 5 (19.23%) Disaster Recovery
6 5 (19.23%) High Availability
6 5 (19.23%) Infrastructure Automation
7 4 (15.38%) Containerisation
7 4 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 3 (11.54%) Data Pipeline
8 3 (11.54%) Inventory Management
8 3 (11.54%) Server Management
9 2 (7.69%) Cloud Operations
9 2 (7.69%) Observability
9 2 (7.69%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 19 (73.08%) Python
2 16 (61.54%) PowerShell
3 12 (46.15%) SQL
4 10 (38.46%) Groovy
5 8 (30.77%) Bash
6 3 (11.54%) Go
7 1 (3.85%) JavaScript
7 1 (3.85%) Ruby
7 1 (3.85%) Scala
7 1 (3.85%) Shell Script
7 1 (3.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 13 (50.00%) Degree
2 11 (42.31%) Security Cleared
3 10 (38.46%) Azure Certification
3 10 (38.46%) SC Cleared
4 3 (11.54%) RHCE
5 2 (7.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.85%) CCNP
6 1 (3.85%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (3.85%) CISSP
6 1 (3.85%) DV Cleared
6 1 (3.85%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.69%) NIST
2 1 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.85%) NCSC
2 1 (3.85%) NIST 800
2 1 (3.85%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 18 (69.23%) Docker
2 10 (38.46%) DFS Replication
2 10 (38.46%) Dovecot
2 10 (38.46%) Postfix
2 10 (38.46%) Squid
3 6 (23.08%) Active Directory
3 6 (23.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (11.54%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (7.69%) Hyper-V
6 1 (3.85%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (3.85%) DRBD
6 1 (3.85%) HDFS
6 1 (3.85%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 16 (61.54%) Prometheus
1 16 (61.54%) Terraform
2 14 (53.85%) Grafana
3 11 (42.31%) Nessus
4 10 (38.46%) Proxmox
5 9 (34.62%) Ansible
6 6 (23.08%) Kubernetes
7 4 (15.38%) SCCM
8 3 (11.54%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (7.69%) Kibana
9 2 (7.69%) Nagios
10 1 (3.85%) Apache Ranger
10 1 (3.85%) FortiGate
10 1 (3.85%) Graphite
10 1 (3.85%) Hadoop YARN
10 1 (3.85%) logstash
10 1 (3.85%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (3.85%) VxRail
Vendors
1 11 (42.31%) ServiceNow
2 10 (38.46%) Jaspersoft
3 6 (23.08%) VMware
4 4 (15.38%) Splunk
4 4 (15.38%) Veeam
5 3 (11.54%) Microsoft
5 3 (11.54%) Red Hat
6 2 (7.69%) NVIDIA
6 2 (7.69%) Oracle
7 1 (3.85%) Cloudera
7 1 (3.85%) Dell
7 1 (3.85%) Palo Alto
7 1 (3.85%) Qualys
7 1 (3.85%) Rapid7
7 1 (3.85%) Remedy
7 1 (3.85%) Tanium
7 1 (3.85%) Tenable