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 26 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 405 337 374
Rank change year-on-year -68 +37 +53
Contract jobs citing Ubuntu 13 10 20
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.074% 0.079% 0.11%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.92% 0.66% 0.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 4 14
10th Percentile £415 £353 £375
25th Percentile £425 £431 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £551
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -6.37%
75th Percentile £581 £550 £593
90th Percentile £640 - £625
England median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
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 £53.00 £68.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year -22.06% +223.81% +12.09%

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 1,412 1,518 2,129
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.04% 11.98% 11.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 941 1,056 1,517
10th Percentile £212 £250 £199
25th Percentile £363 £375 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £613 £640 £631
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
England median daily rate £450 £475 £463
% change year-on-year -5.26% +2.70% -10.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 19 74
10th Percentile £19.54 £17.85 £15.65
25th Percentile £20.91 £21.13 £18.93
Median hourly rate £22.27 £24.66 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.71% +12.09% -36.23%
75th Percentile £26.08 £31.50 £36.07
90th Percentile £62.20 £52.45 £60.00
England median hourly rate £42.71 £24.66 £22.00
% change year-on-year +73.18% +12.09% -37.14%

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 26 April 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 26 April 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 -15 1 £525 - 3
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 2 (15.38%) SharePoint
2 1 (7.69%) Apache
2 1 (7.69%) Apache Spark
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (7.69%) nginx
2 1 (7.69%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (46.15%) Azure
2 4 (30.77%) AWS
2 4 (30.77%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (7.69%) Entra ID
3 1 (7.69%) GCP
3 1 (7.69%) GitHub
3 1 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (7.69%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 4 (30.77%) LAN
1 4 (30.77%) VPN
2 3 (23.08%) DNS
3 2 (15.38%) Firewall
3 2 (15.38%) Kerberos
3 2 (15.38%) TCP/IP
4 1 (7.69%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (7.69%) DHCP
4 1 (7.69%) NAS
4 1 (7.69%) SAN
4 1 (7.69%) VLAN
4 1 (7.69%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) MongoDB
1 2 (15.38%) MySQL
1 2 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (7.69%) Apache Hive
2 1 (7.69%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (7.69%) Hadoop
2 1 (7.69%) Impala
2 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (30.77%) Git
2 3 (23.08%) GitLab
2 3 (23.08%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 3 (23.08%) Banking
2 3 (23.08%) Finance
3 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) VMware Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Windows Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Administrator
4 1 (7.69%) Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (7.69%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Cloud Administrator
4 1 (7.69%) Desktop Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Integration Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Linux DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Linux/Unix DevOps
4 1 (7.69%) Site Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) Kafka
2 2 (15.38%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (7.69%) Keycloak
3 1 (7.69%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Client/Server
1 3 (23.08%) Replication
2 2 (15.38%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
3 1 (7.69%) Device Driver
3 1 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (7.69%) Lidar
3 1 (7.69%) PKI
3 1 (7.69%) Robotics
3 1 (7.69%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (7.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (100.00%) Linux
2 7 (53.85%) Windows
3 6 (46.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (46.15%) Windows Server
4 3 (23.08%) CentOS
4 3 (23.08%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (15.38%) Debian
6 1 (7.69%) Android
6 1 (7.69%) Mac OS
6 1 (7.69%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) DevOps
2 4 (30.77%) CI/CD
2 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (30.77%) Inventory Management
3 3 (23.08%) Configuration Management
3 3 (23.08%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (23.08%) High Availability
3 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure Automation
3 3 (23.08%) Observability
3 3 (23.08%) Server Management
4 2 (15.38%) Load Balancing
4 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (15.38%) Security Hardening
5 1 (7.69%) Availability Management
5 1 (7.69%) Collaborative Engineering
5 1 (7.69%) Data Pipeline
5 1 (7.69%) Inventory Control
5 1 (7.69%) Secrets Management
5 1 (7.69%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (53.85%) Bash
1 7 (53.85%) PowerShell
2 6 (46.15%) Python
3 3 (23.08%) Go
4 1 (7.69%) Ladder Logic
4 1 (7.69%) Ruby
4 1 (7.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) Degree
1 4 (30.77%) SC Cleared
1 4 (30.77%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 5 (38.46%) Active Directory
1 5 (38.46%) Docker
1 5 (38.46%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (23.08%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (7.69%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (7.69%) HDFS
3 1 (7.69%) Hyper-V
3 1 (7.69%) KVM
3 1 (7.69%) NFS
3 1 (7.69%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 8 (61.54%) Ansible
2 6 (46.15%) Terraform
3 5 (38.46%) Grafana
3 5 (38.46%) Prometheus
4 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (23.08%) SCCM
5 2 (15.38%) Puppet
6 1 (7.69%) Apache Ranger
6 1 (7.69%) Dell DRAC
6 1 (7.69%) Hadoop YARN
6 1 (7.69%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (7.69%) Kibana
6 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
6 1 (7.69%) logstash
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) VMware
2 4 (30.77%) Microsoft
3 3 (23.08%) Veeam
4 2 (15.38%) Cisco
4 2 (15.38%) Red Hat
5 1 (7.69%) Apple
5 1 (7.69%) CheckPoint
5 1 (7.69%) Cloudera
5 1 (7.69%) Dell
5 1 (7.69%) Meraki
5 1 (7.69%) OneTrust
5 1 (7.69%) Oracle
5 1 (7.69%) Palo Alto