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 8 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 355 351 321
Rank change year-on-year -4 -30 +158
Contract jobs citing Ubuntu 22 16 65
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.15% 0.11% 0.36%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.51% 0.93% 2.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 6 44
10th Percentile £448 £131 £404
25th Percentile £492 £161 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £578 £275 £564
Median % change year-on-year +110.00% -51.22% -9.80%
75th Percentile £640 £319 £589
90th Percentile £699 £450 £600
England median daily rate £503 £521 £550
% change year-on-year -3.60% -5.23% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £112.00 -
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 1,459 1,714 2,535
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.18% 12.02% 14.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 940 1,141 1,829
10th Percentile £206 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
England median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - -6.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 18 45
10th Percentile £20.82 £16.30 £18.00
25th Percentile £21.46 £21.89 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £31.71 £32.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.67% -0.92% +28.00%
75th Percentile £28.75 £67.69 £60.00
90th Percentile £61.85 £103.60 £70.20
England median hourly rate £25.15 £47.00 £31.00
% change year-on-year -46.49% +51.61% +24.00%

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 8 January 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 8 January 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
South London - 10 £475 - 1
West London - 2 - - 1
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 (50.00%) nginx
2 10 (45.45%) Confluence
3 3 (13.64%) Apache
4 2 (9.09%) Oracle HTTP Server
4 2 (9.09%) Tomcat
4 2 (9.09%) WebLogic
5 1 (4.55%) Apache Spark
5 1 (4.55%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 10 (45.45%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 3 (13.64%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 16 (72.73%) Azure
2 13 (59.09%) AWS
2 13 (59.09%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (50.00%) Amazon S3
3 11 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 10 (45.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 10 (45.45%) Amazon EC2
4 10 (45.45%) Amazon ECS
4 10 (45.45%) Amazon ELB
4 10 (45.45%) AWS KMS
4 10 (45.45%) Route 53
5 2 (9.09%) GCP
6 1 (4.55%) Amazon ECR
6 1 (4.55%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (4.55%) dbt
6 1 (4.55%) Entra ID
6 1 (4.55%) GitHub
6 1 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 14 (63.64%) Firewall
2 12 (54.55%) DNS
2 12 (54.55%) HTTP
3 10 (45.45%) FTP
3 10 (45.45%) IMAP
3 10 (45.45%) OpenLDAP
3 10 (45.45%) SMTP
3 10 (45.45%) SSH
4 3 (13.64%) LAN
5 2 (9.09%) SSL
6 1 (4.55%) BGP
6 1 (4.55%) DMZ
6 1 (4.55%) Ethernet VPN
6 1 (4.55%) Kerberos
6 1 (4.55%) Network Security
6 1 (4.55%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (4.55%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (4.55%) VPN
6 1 (4.55%) VSAN
6 1 (4.55%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (50.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 11 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (45.45%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (4.55%) Apache Hive
3 1 (4.55%) Hadoop
3 1 (4.55%) Impala
3 1 (4.55%) Redis
3 1 (4.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (54.55%) Git
2 11 (50.00%) Jenkins
3 10 (45.45%) JIRA
3 10 (45.45%) Vagrant
4 2 (9.09%) GitLab
General
1 12 (54.55%) Social Skills
2 10 (45.45%) Presentation Skills
3 9 (40.91%) Public Sector
4 3 (13.64%) Banking
4 3 (13.64%) Finance
5 1 (4.55%) Billing
5 1 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (45.45%) AWS Engineer
1 10 (45.45%) AWS Platform Engineer
1 10 (45.45%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 10 (45.45%) DevOps Engineer
1 10 (45.45%) Platform Engineer
2 8 (36.36%) AWS DevOps
2 8 (36.36%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 8 (36.36%) DevOps Platform Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Architect
3 3 (13.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) VMware Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Windows Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Administrator
4 2 (9.09%) Cloud Architect
4 2 (9.09%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
4 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Linux Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (45.45%) LDAP
2 2 (9.09%) Middleware
3 1 (4.55%) AWS CDK
3 1 (4.55%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (4.55%) Jinja
3 1 (4.55%) JSON
3 1 (4.55%) Kafka
3 1 (4.55%) LAPP Stack
3 1 (4.55%) Node.js
3 1 (4.55%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (4.55%) React
Miscellaneous
1 14 (63.64%) Replication
2 3 (13.64%) Client/Server
3 2 (9.09%) Cloud Native
3 2 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (4.55%) CUDA
4 1 (4.55%) Data Centre
4 1 (4.55%) Fat Client
4 1 (4.55%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.55%) PKI
4 1 (4.55%) Private Cloud
4 1 (4.55%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 22 (100.00%) Linux
2 15 (68.18%) Windows
3 10 (45.45%) Amazon Linux
3 10 (45.45%) VMS
4 5 (22.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (22.73%) Windows Server
5 4 (18.18%) CentOS
6 3 (13.64%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (9.09%) Unix
8 1 (4.55%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (68.18%) DevOps
2 14 (63.64%) CI/CD
3 11 (50.00%) Cloud Security
4 10 (45.45%) Change Management
4 10 (45.45%) Configuration Management
4 10 (45.45%) Patch Management
4 10 (45.45%) Performance Tuning
4 10 (45.45%) Platform Engineering
5 5 (22.73%) Disaster Recovery
6 4 (18.18%) High Availability
6 4 (18.18%) Infrastructure Automation
6 4 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 3 (13.64%) Containerisation
7 3 (13.64%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (13.64%) Inventory Management
7 3 (13.64%) Server Management
8 2 (9.09%) Cloud Operations
8 2 (9.09%) Data Pipeline
8 2 (9.09%) RBAC
8 2 (9.09%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 16 (72.73%) Python
2 14 (63.64%) PowerShell
3 12 (54.55%) SQL
4 10 (45.45%) Groovy
5 4 (18.18%) Bash
6 1 (4.55%) Go
6 1 (4.55%) JavaScript
6 1 (4.55%) Shell Script
6 1 (4.55%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (59.09%) Degree
2 12 (54.55%) AWS Certification
3 11 (50.00%) Security Cleared
4 10 (45.45%) Azure Certification
4 10 (45.45%) SC Cleared
5 2 (9.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (9.09%) RHCE
6 1 (4.55%) CCNP
6 1 (4.55%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (4.55%) CISSP
6 1 (4.55%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) NCSC
1 1 (4.55%) NIST
1 1 (4.55%) NIST 800
System Software
1 17 (77.27%) Docker
2 10 (45.45%) DFS Replication
2 10 (45.45%) Dovecot
2 10 (45.45%) Postfix
2 10 (45.45%) Squid
3 5 (22.73%) Active Directory
3 5 (22.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (13.64%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (4.55%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (4.55%) DRBD
5 1 (4.55%) HDFS
5 1 (4.55%) Hyper-V
5 1 (4.55%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 14 (63.64%) Prometheus
1 14 (63.64%) Terraform
2 13 (59.09%) Grafana
3 10 (45.45%) Nessus
3 10 (45.45%) Proxmox
4 6 (27.27%) Ansible
5 5 (22.73%) Kubernetes
6 3 (13.64%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (13.64%) SCCM
7 2 (9.09%) Nagios
8 1 (4.55%) Apache Ranger
8 1 (4.55%) FortiGate
8 1 (4.55%) Hadoop YARN
8 1 (4.55%) Kibana
8 1 (4.55%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (4.55%) VxRail
Vendors
1 10 (45.45%) Jaspersoft
1 10 (45.45%) ServiceNow
2 5 (22.73%) VMware
3 4 (18.18%) Splunk
3 4 (18.18%) Veeam
4 3 (13.64%) Microsoft
5 2 (9.09%) NVIDIA
5 2 (9.09%) Oracle
5 2 (9.09%) Red Hat
6 1 (4.55%) Cloudera
6 1 (4.55%) Dell
6 1 (4.55%) Palo Alto