Ubuntu Contracts in London

Ubuntu Linux
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Ubuntu skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Ubuntu over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 343 371 427
Rank change year-on-year +28 +56 +61
Contract jobs citing Ubuntu 10 20 66
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.080% 0.11% 0.24%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.67% 0.94% 1.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 14 55
10th Percentile £353 £375 £454
25th Percentile £431 £406 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £551 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -8.13% +4.80%
75th Percentile £550 £593 £725
90th Percentile - £625 £750
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £39.25 - -
Median hourly rate £44.50 - £20.00
75th Percentile £49.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £68.00 £21.00 £18.74
% change year-on-year +223.81% +12.09% -72.87%

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 1,502 2,117 3,859
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.97% 11.87% 14.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,043 1,510 2,826
10th Percentile £250 £200 £213
25th Percentile £375 £325 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -
75th Percentile £641 £629 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £764
England median daily rate £475 £463 £513
% change year-on-year +2.70% -9.76% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 69 61
10th Percentile £17.72 £15.30 £18.93
25th Percentile £21.89 £18.93 £22.63
Median hourly rate £24.66 £22.00 £37.34
Median % change year-on-year +12.09% -41.08% +52.41%
75th Percentile £32.75 £33.75 £64.50
90th Percentile £53.80 £60.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £24.18 £22.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year +9.91% -42.11% +76.74%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Ubuntu in London.

Daily rate trend for Ubuntu in London

Ubuntu
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ubuntu in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Ubuntu in London

Ubuntu
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Ubuntu in London.

Hourly rate trend for Ubuntu in London

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 1 May 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
Central London +3 1 - - 2
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 1 (10.00%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Fidessa
1 1 (10.00%) iTrent
1 1 (10.00%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (30.00%) GitHub
3 1 (10.00%) AWS
3 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (10.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) DHCP
1 2 (20.00%) DNS
1 2 (20.00%) SSH
1 2 (20.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (10.00%) BIG-IP
2 1 (10.00%) Broadband
2 1 (10.00%) FIX Connectivity
2 1 (10.00%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (20.00%) MariaDB
3 1 (10.00%) Couchbase
3 1 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (10.00%) MySQL
3 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (10.00%) Oracle Database
3 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Git
1 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (10.00%) Banking
1 1 (10.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Linux Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Linux Systems Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Principal Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Principal Systems Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Systems Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Network Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Network Systems Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Applications Support
4 1 (10.00%) Applications Support Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) DBA
4 1 (10.00%) FIX Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Linux Support
4 1 (10.00%) Network Security Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Oracle DBA
4 1 (10.00%) Principal Security Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Site Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (10.00%) FIX Protocol
1 1 (10.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Equities
1 1 (10.00%) Eurex
1 1 (10.00%) Fixed Income
1 1 (10.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (10.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) Linux
2 5 (50.00%) CentOS
2 5 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (40.00%) SUSE
4 3 (30.00%) Debian
5 2 (20.00%) Solaris
5 2 (20.00%) Unix
5 2 (20.00%) Windows
5 2 (20.00%) Windows Server
6 1 (10.00%) Fedora
6 1 (10.00%) Windows 10
6 1 (10.00%) Windows 8
6 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (30.00%) Configuration Management
1 3 (30.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (20.00%) DevOps
2 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (10.00%) Client Onboarding
3 1 (10.00%) Customer Experience
3 1 (10.00%) Database Security
3 1 (10.00%) High Availability
3 1 (10.00%) Identity Management
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (10.00%) Observability
3 1 (10.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (10.00%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (10.00%) RBAC
3 1 (10.00%) Resource Allocation
3 1 (10.00%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) Python
2 5 (50.00%) Bash
3 3 (30.00%) Perl
3 3 (30.00%) SQL
4 2 (20.00%) Go
5 1 (10.00%) PL/SQL
5 1 (10.00%) Ruby
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (30.00%) Docker
3 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (10.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 6 (60.00%) Ansible
2 3 (30.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (30.00%) Puppet
2 3 (30.00%) ZABBIX
3 2 (20.00%) Failover Clustering
3 2 (20.00%) Progress Chef
3 2 (20.00%) Prometheus
3 2 (20.00%) Red Hat Satellite
3 2 (20.00%) Terraform
4 1 (10.00%) Grafana
4 1 (10.00%) Graylog
4 1 (10.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Rundeck
4 1 (10.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 7 (70.00%) Red Hat
2 4 (40.00%) VMware
3 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (10.00%) Bloomberg
4 1 (10.00%) Citrix
4 1 (10.00%) CQG
4 1 (10.00%) F5
4 1 (10.00%) ION Trading
4 1 (10.00%) Oracle
4 1 (10.00%) Patsystems
4 1 (10.00%) Reuters
4 1 (10.00%) SolarWinds
4 1 (10.00%) Splunk
4 1 (10.00%) Trayport