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 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 341 384 426
Rank change year-on-year +43 +42 +95
Contract jobs citing Ubuntu 14 9 63
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.11% 0.051% 0.25%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.91% 0.43% 1.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 8 55
10th Percentile - - £457
25th Percentile £425 £375 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £425 £600
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% -29.17% -
75th Percentile £550 £550 £713
90th Percentile £575 £625 £750
England median daily rate £500 £511 £550
% change year-on-year -2.15% -7.09% +4.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £40.63 - -
25th Percentile £42.69 - £47.50
Median hourly rate £50.25 - £50.00
75th Percentile £56.69 - £52.50
90th Percentile £58.08 - -
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 1,542 2,113 3,772
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.87% 12.00% 14.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,052 1,486 2,739
10th Percentile £250 £213 £213
25th Percentile £364 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -
75th Percentile £632 £606 £666
90th Percentile £738 £738 £765
England median daily rate £465 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -2.11% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 68 60
10th Percentile £18.87 £15.19 £18.93
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.13 £22.75
Median hourly rate £24.00 £22.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -56.00% +109.12%
75th Percentile £25.20 £27.00 £64.63
90th Percentile £49.65 £60.00 £83.88
England median hourly rate £19.36 £24.93 £42.50
% change year-on-year -22.33% -41.35% +88.89%

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
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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Ubuntu in London over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 2 July 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 - 2 - -
West London - 2 - - 1
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 (7.14%) Apache
1 1 (7.14%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (42.86%) Azure
2 4 (28.57%) Entra ID
3 2 (14.29%) GitHub
4 1 (7.14%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (28.57%) DHCP
1 4 (28.57%) DNS
2 2 (14.29%) Firewall
2 2 (14.29%) SSH
2 2 (14.29%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) MariaDB
2 2 (14.29%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (7.14%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Bitbucket
1 1 (7.14%) Git
1 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
1 1 (7.14%) JIRA
1 1 (7.14%) Vagrant
General
1 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Linux Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Linux Systems Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Senior
3 3 (21.43%) Systems Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Administrator
4 2 (14.29%) Network Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Network Systems Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Principal Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Principal Systems Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Wintel Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Linux Administrator
5 1 (7.14%) Linux Specialist
5 1 (7.14%) Principal Security Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Infrastructure Specialist
5 1 (7.14%) Site Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Windows Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Windows Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) Kafka
1 2 (14.29%) Middleware
2 1 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (7.14%) LAMP
2 1 (7.14%) Zend Framework
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Data Centre
1 2 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 14 (100.00%) Linux
2 9 (64.29%) Windows
3 8 (57.14%) CentOS
4 6 (42.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (42.86%) Windows Server
5 3 (21.43%) Debian
5 3 (21.43%) Unix
6 2 (14.29%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (28.57%) Identity Management
2 4 (28.57%) RBAC
2 4 (28.57%) Resource Allocation
3 3 (21.43%) Configuration Management
4 2 (14.29%) B2B
4 2 (14.29%) Change Management
4 2 (14.29%) Containerisation
4 2 (14.29%) DevOps
4 2 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (14.29%) High Availability
4 2 (14.29%) Observability
4 2 (14.29%) Service Migration
4 2 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 2 (14.29%) Virtual Infrastructure
5 1 (7.14%) Build Automation
5 1 (7.14%) Security Hardening
5 1 (7.14%) Server Building
5 1 (7.14%) Server Patching
5 1 (7.14%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 7 (50.00%) Bash
2 5 (35.71%) Python
3 3 (21.43%) Perl
4 2 (14.29%) Go
4 2 (14.29%) PowerShell
4 2 (14.29%) Ruby
5 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
5 1 (7.14%) PHP
5 1 (7.14%) Scala
5 1 (7.14%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 9 (64.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (57.14%) Active Directory
3 4 (28.57%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (28.57%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (21.43%) Docker
5 2 (14.29%) Hyper-V
5 2 (14.29%) vSphere
6 1 (7.14%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 5 (35.71%) Ansible
2 4 (28.57%) vCenter Server
3 3 (21.43%) Progress Chef
3 3 (21.43%) Puppet
4 2 (14.29%) Failover Clustering
4 2 (14.29%) Kubernetes
4 2 (14.29%) Prometheus
4 2 (14.29%) Red Hat Satellite
4 2 (14.29%) Terraform
5 1 (7.14%) Grafana
5 1 (7.14%) Graphite
5 1 (7.14%) Icinga
5 1 (7.14%) Kibana
5 1 (7.14%) logstash
5 1 (7.14%) Nagios
5 1 (7.14%) Salt
Vendors
1 11 (78.57%) VMware
2 5 (35.71%) Red Hat
3 4 (28.57%) Citrix
3 4 (28.57%) Microsoft
4 1 (7.14%) MuleSoft
4 1 (7.14%) New Relic
4 1 (7.14%) Rackspace
4 1 (7.14%) Zend