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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 335 375 386
Rank change year-on-year +40 +11 +144
Contract jobs citing Ubuntu 27 13 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.20% 0.081% 0.27%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.75% 0.63% 1.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 12 43
10th Percentile £414 £143 £400
25th Percentile £425 £269 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £400 £576
Median % change year-on-year +15.63% -30.56% +4.73%
75th Percentile £534 £438 £628
90th Percentile £575 £520 £713
England median daily rate £480 £425 £550
% change year-on-year +12.94% -22.73% +5.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £53.00 - £47.50
Median hourly rate £56.00 - £50.00
75th Percentile £59.00 - £52.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £68.00 - £72.50
% change year-on-year - - +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 1,540 2,063 3,257
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.47% 12.77% 14.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,013 1,374 2,349
10th Percentile £225 £226 £208
25th Percentile £363 £360 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year -0.90% -6.98% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £663
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
England median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 32 57
10th Percentile £18.87 £20.05 £18.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £22.00 £22.75
Median hourly rate £25.15 £26.63 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.54% -33.44% +67.29%
75th Percentile £25.25 £52.44 £60.00
90th Percentile £58.90 £64.19 £84.42
England median hourly rate £25.15 £57.25 £46.69
% change year-on-year -56.07% +22.62% +95.27%

Ubuntu
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Ubuntu as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Ubuntu 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 17 September 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 17 September 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 and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 11 (40.74%) Confluence
1 11 (40.74%) nginx
2 3 (11.11%) Apache
3 2 (7.41%) Oracle HTTP Server
3 2 (7.41%) Tomcat
3 2 (7.41%) WebLogic
Applications
1 10 (37.04%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 17 (62.96%) Azure
2 15 (55.56%) AWS
3 11 (40.74%) Amazon S3
4 10 (37.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 10 (37.04%) Amazon EC2
4 10 (37.04%) Amazon ECS
4 10 (37.04%) Amazon ELB
4 10 (37.04%) AWS KMS
4 10 (37.04%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (37.04%) Route 53
4 10 (37.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 4 (14.81%) Entra ID
6 3 (11.11%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 15 (55.56%) Firewall
2 14 (51.85%) DNS
3 12 (44.44%) HTTP
4 10 (37.04%) FTP
4 10 (37.04%) IMAP
4 10 (37.04%) OpenLDAP
4 10 (37.04%) SMTP
4 10 (37.04%) SSH
5 2 (7.41%) DHCP
5 2 (7.41%) SSL
6 1 (3.70%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (37.04%) Amazon Aurora
1 10 (37.04%) Amazon RDS
1 10 (37.04%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.70%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (3.70%) MariaDB
2 1 (3.70%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 12 (44.44%) JIRA
2 11 (40.74%) Git
2 11 (40.74%) Jenkins
2 11 (40.74%) Vagrant
3 1 (3.70%) Bitbucket
General
1 11 (40.74%) Social Skills
2 10 (37.04%) Presentation Skills
3 9 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (37.04%) AWS Engineer
1 10 (37.04%) AWS Platform Engineer
1 10 (37.04%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 10 (37.04%) Platform Engineer
2 8 (29.63%) AWS DevOps
2 8 (29.63%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 8 (29.63%) DevOps Engineer
2 8 (29.63%) DevOps Platform Engineer
3 4 (14.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (14.81%) Linux Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Administrator
5 2 (7.41%) Architect
5 2 (7.41%) Cloud Architect
5 2 (7.41%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
5 2 (7.41%) Infrastructure Architect
5 2 (7.41%) Linux Administrator
5 2 (7.41%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 2 (7.41%) Systems Administrator
5 2 (7.41%) Systems Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (37.04%) LDAP
2 4 (14.81%) Middleware
3 1 (3.70%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (3.70%) Kafka
3 1 (3.70%) LAMP
3 1 (3.70%) Zend Framework
Miscellaneous
1 11 (40.74%) Replication
2 3 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 3 (11.11%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.70%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 27 (100.00%) Linux
2 21 (77.78%) Windows
3 10 (37.04%) Amazon Linux
3 10 (37.04%) CentOS
3 10 (37.04%) VMS
4 9 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (29.63%) Windows Server
6 5 (18.52%) Unix
7 2 (7.41%) Debian
8 1 (3.70%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (55.56%) DevOps
2 13 (48.15%) CI/CD
3 12 (44.44%) Change Management
3 12 (44.44%) Configuration Management
4 11 (40.74%) Cloud Security
4 11 (40.74%) Patch Management
5 10 (37.04%) Performance Tuning
5 10 (37.04%) Platform Engineering
6 5 (18.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 4 (14.81%) Disaster Recovery
7 4 (14.81%) High Availability
7 4 (14.81%) Identity Management
7 4 (14.81%) RBAC
7 4 (14.81%) Resource Allocation
8 3 (11.11%) Containerisation
8 3 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
8 3 (11.11%) Infrastructure Automation
9 2 (7.41%) Cloud Operations
9 2 (7.41%) Performance Metrics
9 2 (7.41%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 16 (59.26%) Python
2 13 (48.15%) PowerShell
3 10 (37.04%) Groovy
3 10 (37.04%) SQL
4 9 (33.33%) Bash
5 2 (7.41%) Go
6 1 (3.70%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.70%) Perl
6 1 (3.70%) PHP
6 1 (3.70%) Ruby
6 1 (3.70%) Scala
6 1 (3.70%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (48.15%) AWS Certification
2 10 (37.04%) Azure Certification
2 10 (37.04%) Degree
3 9 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 9 (33.33%) Security Cleared
4 3 (11.11%) RHCE
5 2 (7.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.70%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (3.70%) NIST
1 1 (3.70%) PCI DSS
1 1 (3.70%) QA
System Software
1 14 (51.85%) Docker
2 10 (37.04%) DFS Replication
2 10 (37.04%) Dovecot
2 10 (37.04%) Postfix
2 10 (37.04%) Squid
3 9 (33.33%) Active Directory
4 8 (29.63%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (14.81%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (14.81%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (11.11%) Hyper-V
7 2 (7.41%) vSphere
8 1 (3.70%) DRBD
8 1 (3.70%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 14 (51.85%) Prometheus
1 14 (51.85%) Terraform
2 11 (40.74%) Grafana
2 11 (40.74%) Nessus
3 10 (37.04%) Proxmox
4 6 (22.22%) Ansible
5 4 (14.81%) vCenter Server
6 3 (11.11%) Kubernetes
6 3 (11.11%) Nagios
7 1 (3.70%) Graphite
7 1 (3.70%) Icinga
7 1 (3.70%) Kibana
7 1 (3.70%) logstash
7 1 (3.70%) Progress Chef
7 1 (3.70%) Puppet
7 1 (3.70%) Salt
7 1 (3.70%) SCCM
Vendors
1 11 (40.74%) ServiceNow
2 10 (37.04%) Jaspersoft
2 10 (37.04%) VMware
3 4 (14.81%) Citrix
3 4 (14.81%) Microsoft
3 4 (14.81%) Red Hat
4 2 (7.41%) Oracle
4 2 (7.41%) Splunk
5 1 (3.70%) MuleSoft
5 1 (3.70%) New Relic
5 1 (3.70%) Qualys
5 1 (3.70%) Rackspace
5 1 (3.70%) Rapid7
5 1 (3.70%) Remedy
5 1 (3.70%) Tanium
5 1 (3.70%) Tenable
5 1 (3.70%) Zend