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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 332 381 418
Rank change year-on-year +49 +37 +97
Contract jobs citing Ubuntu 12 12 62
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.098% 0.069% 0.24%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.83% 0.57% 1.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 11 56
10th Percentile £425 - £454
25th Percentile £450 £375 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -16.67% -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £713
90th Percentile £560 £625 £750
England median daily rate £500 £512 £575
% change year-on-year -2.30% -11.00% +6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £39.25 - £47.50
Median hourly rate £44.50 - £50.00
75th Percentile £49.75 - £52.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £68.00 - £72.50
% change year-on-year - - +69.55%

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 1,444 2,087 3,682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.78% 11.96% 14.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,004 1,484 2,684
10th Percentile £250 £205 £213
25th Percentile £375 £335 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -
75th Percentile £638 £625 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £775
England median daily rate £470 £475 £510
% change year-on-year -1.05% -6.86% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 67 61
10th Percentile £21.25 £15.09 £18.93
25th Percentile £23.80 £18.13 £23.50
Median hourly rate £24.66 £22.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.09% -56.00% +108.33%
75th Percentile £30.25 £28.19 £64.50
90th Percentile £49.75 £60.57 £83.75
England median hourly rate £20.64 £22.50 £43.13
% change year-on-year -8.27% -47.83% +100.58%

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
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Fidessa
1 1 (8.33%) iTrent
1 1 (8.33%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 7 (58.33%) Azure
2 3 (25.00%) Entra ID
2 3 (25.00%) GitHub
3 1 (8.33%) AWS
3 1 (8.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) DHCP
1 2 (16.67%) DNS
1 2 (16.67%) SSH
1 2 (16.67%) TCP/IP
2 1 (8.33%) Broadband
2 1 (8.33%) FIX Connectivity
2 1 (8.33%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) MariaDB
1 2 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (8.33%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (8.33%) MySQL
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle Database
2 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (8.33%) Banking
1 1 (8.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Linux Engineer
1 4 (33.33%) Linux Systems Engineer
1 4 (33.33%) Systems Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Principal Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Principal Systems Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Network Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Network Systems Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Active Directory Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Applications Support Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Broadband Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) FIX Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) FIX Support Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Linux Support
4 1 (8.33%) Oracle DBA
4 1 (8.33%) Security Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior
4 1 (8.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) SQL Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) Middleware
2 1 (8.33%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (8.33%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (8.33%) Equities
2 1 (8.33%) Eurex
2 1 (8.33%) Fixed Income
2 1 (8.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 12 (100.00%) Linux
2 7 (58.33%) CentOS
3 6 (50.00%) Windows
4 4 (33.33%) Windows Server
5 3 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (25.00%) SUSE
5 3 (25.00%) Unix
6 2 (16.67%) Debian
6 2 (16.67%) Solaris
7 1 (8.33%) Fedora
7 1 (8.33%) Windows 10
7 1 (8.33%) Windows 8
7 1 (8.33%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (8.33%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (25.00%) Configuration Management
1 3 (25.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (25.00%) Identity Management
1 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (25.00%) RBAC
1 3 (25.00%) Resource Allocation
2 2 (16.67%) Change Management
2 2 (16.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (16.67%) DevOps
2 2 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (8.33%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (8.33%) Client Onboarding
3 1 (8.33%) Database Security
3 1 (8.33%) Electronic Trading
3 1 (8.33%) High Availability
3 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (8.33%) Observability
3 1 (8.33%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (8.33%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) Python
2 4 (33.33%) Bash
3 3 (25.00%) Perl
4 2 (16.67%) SQL
5 1 (8.33%) Go
5 1 (8.33%) PL/SQL
5 1 (8.33%) Ruby
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 6 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (25.00%) Docker
2 3 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (16.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (41.67%) Ansible
2 3 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (25.00%) Puppet
2 3 (25.00%) vCenter Server
3 2 (16.67%) Failover Clustering
3 2 (16.67%) Progress Chef
3 2 (16.67%) Red Hat Satellite
3 2 (16.67%) ZABBIX
4 1 (8.33%) Graylog
4 1 (8.33%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Prometheus
4 1 (8.33%) Rundeck
4 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (66.67%) VMware
2 6 (50.00%) Red Hat
3 3 (25.00%) Citrix
3 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (8.33%) Bloomberg
4 1 (8.33%) CQG
4 1 (8.33%) ION Trading
4 1 (8.33%) MuleSoft
4 1 (8.33%) Oracle
4 1 (8.33%) Patsystems
4 1 (8.33%) Reuters
4 1 (8.33%) SolarWinds
4 1 (8.33%) Trayport