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 24 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 386 330 384
Rank change year-on-year -56 +54 +46
Contract jobs citing Ubuntu 16 11 18
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.088% 0.090% 0.10%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.16% 0.77% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 5 15
10th Percentile £413 - £375
25th Percentile £418 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% -2.44% -14.58%
75th Percentile £534 £550 £586
90th Percentile £568 - £625
England median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -8.70%
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 £47.50 £68.00 -
% change year-on-year -30.15% - -

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 1,377 1,433 2,088
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 7.54% 11.73% 12.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 909 990 1,489
10th Percentile £209 £244 £200
25th Percentile £350 £373 £335
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £688 £744 £750
England median daily rate £450 £465 £470
% change year-on-year -3.23% -1.06% -8.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 18 66
10th Percentile £20.51 £19.44 £14.99
25th Percentile £22.21 £23.76 £18.13
Median hourly rate £27.00 £24.58 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.85% +11.73% -53.68%
75th Percentile £60.25 £28.85 £26.57
90th Percentile £75.75 £53.80 £60.00
England median hourly rate £41.71 £20.64 £22.50
% change year-on-year +102.08% -8.27% -43.47%

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 24 May 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 24 May 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 -13 2 £513 - 2
West London - 1 £500 -
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 3 (18.75%) Apache
2 2 (12.50%) CloudStack
2 2 (12.50%) SharePoint
3 1 (6.25%) Apache Spark
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (6.25%) nginx
3 1 (6.25%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (31.25%) AWS
2 4 (25.00%) Azure
3 2 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (6.25%) Entra ID
4 1 (6.25%) GCP
4 1 (6.25%) GitHub
4 1 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (6.25%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 4 (25.00%) VPN
2 3 (18.75%) DNS
2 3 (18.75%) VLAN
3 2 (12.50%) Firewall
3 2 (12.50%) Kerberos
3 2 (12.50%) LAN
3 2 (12.50%) TCP/IP
3 2 (12.50%) VXLAN
4 1 (6.25%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (6.25%) DHCP
4 1 (6.25%) NAS
4 1 (6.25%) SAN
4 1 (6.25%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) MongoDB
1 3 (18.75%) MySQL
1 3 (18.75%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (6.25%) Apache Hive
2 1 (6.25%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (6.25%) Hadoop
2 1 (6.25%) Impala
2 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (31.25%) Git
2 4 (25.00%) GitLab
3 3 (18.75%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Finance
3 2 (12.50%) Banking
3 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (43.75%) Linux Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) AWS DevOps
3 2 (12.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Linux DevOps Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Linux/Unix DevOps
4 1 (6.25%) Administrator
4 1 (6.25%) Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Cloud Administrator
4 1 (6.25%) Desktop Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Integration Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Site Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) VMware Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (25.00%) Kafka
2 3 (18.75%) cloud-init
3 2 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (12.50%) Keycloak
4 1 (6.25%) LDAP
4 1 (6.25%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Cloud Native
1 2 (12.50%) Data Centre
1 2 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Onboarding
1 2 (12.50%) PKI
1 2 (12.50%) Private Cloud
2 1 (6.25%) Client/Server
2 1 (6.25%) Device Driver
2 1 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (6.25%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (6.25%) Lidar
2 1 (6.25%) Replication
2 1 (6.25%) Robotics
2 1 (6.25%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (6.25%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (100.00%) Linux
2 7 (43.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (31.25%) Windows
4 4 (25.00%) Windows Server
5 3 (18.75%) CentOS
6 2 (12.50%) Debian
7 1 (6.25%) Android
7 1 (6.25%) Mac OS
7 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) DevOps
2 5 (31.25%) CI/CD
2 5 (31.25%) Configuration Management
2 5 (31.25%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (25.00%) High Availability
3 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 4 (25.00%) Observability
4 3 (18.75%) Capacity Planning
4 3 (18.75%) Containerisation
4 3 (18.75%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (18.75%) Load Balancing
4 3 (18.75%) Patch Management
4 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (12.50%) Customer Requirements
5 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (12.50%) Inventory Management
5 2 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
5 2 (12.50%) Secrets Management
5 2 (12.50%) Server Management
5 2 (12.50%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (50.00%) Bash
1 8 (50.00%) Python
2 5 (31.25%) PowerShell
3 3 (18.75%) Go
4 1 (6.25%) Ladder Logic
4 1 (6.25%) Ruby
4 1 (6.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (31.25%) SC Cleared
1 5 (31.25%) Security Cleared
2 2 (12.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (6.25%) QA
System Software
1 4 (25.00%) Docker
2 3 (18.75%) Active Directory
2 3 (18.75%) KVM
2 3 (18.75%) NFS
2 3 (18.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (12.50%) Ceph
4 1 (6.25%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (6.25%) HDFS
4 1 (6.25%) Hyper-V
4 1 (6.25%) QEMU
4 1 (6.25%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 12 (75.00%) Ansible
2 9 (56.25%) Terraform
3 6 (37.50%) Grafana
3 6 (37.50%) Prometheus
4 3 (18.75%) Puppet
5 2 (12.50%) Kubernetes
5 2 (12.50%) SELinux
6 1 (6.25%) Apache Ranger
6 1 (6.25%) Dell DRAC
6 1 (6.25%) Hadoop YARN
6 1 (6.25%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (6.25%) Kibana
6 1 (6.25%) logstash
6 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (6.25%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) VMware
2 2 (12.50%) Cisco
2 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (12.50%) Red Hat
3 1 (6.25%) Apple
3 1 (6.25%) CheckPoint
3 1 (6.25%) Cloudera
3 1 (6.25%) Dell
3 1 (6.25%) Meraki
3 1 (6.25%) OneTrust
3 1 (6.25%) Oracle
3 1 (6.25%) Palo Alto
3 1 (6.25%) Veeam