Ubuntu Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Ubuntu Linux
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Ubuntu skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Ubuntu 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.19% - -
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.01% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £326 - -
25th Percentile £403 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 - -
75th Percentile £556 - -
90th Percentile £563 - -
North West median daily rate £538 - -

All Operating Systems
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 149 143 186
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 9.56% 14.99% 11.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 98 132
10th Percentile £165 £178 £253
25th Percentile £213 £220 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -11.11% -12.20%
75th Percentile £568 £534 £613
90th Percentile £650 £625 £825
North West median daily rate £363 £393 £444
% change year-on-year -7.76% -11.44% -8.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 16
10th Percentile £21.46 - £17.36
25th Percentile £53.75 - £17.72
Median hourly rate £61.00 £29.00 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year +110.34% +14.85% -35.26%
75th Percentile £70.00 - £51.94
90th Percentile £91.75 - £71.88
North West median hourly rate £57.50 £24.18 £16.00
% change year-on-year +137.80% +51.13% -45.39%

Ubuntu
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Ubuntu relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Ubuntu job vacancy trend in Manchester

Ubuntu
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Ubuntu.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Ubuntu

Ubuntu
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ubuntu in Manchester over the 6 months to 27 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Ubuntu in Manchester

Ubuntu
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) NAS
1 2 (66.67%) SAN
1 2 (66.67%) VSAN
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Installations Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior VMware Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (66.67%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (66.67%) VMS
2 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server
3 1 (33.33%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Capacity Planning
1 2 (66.67%) Change Management
1 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (66.67%) ITIL
1 2 (66.67%) Knowledge Transfer
1 2 (66.67%) Migration
1 2 (66.67%) Network Virtualisation
1 2 (66.67%) Performance Monitoring
1 2 (66.67%) Performance Optimisation
1 2 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
1 2 (66.67%) Virtual Infrastructure
2 1 (33.33%) Change Advisory Board
2 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Integration Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Bash
2 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 2 (66.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) VCAP
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (66.67%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (66.67%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (66.67%) VMware NSX
2 2 (66.67%) vSphere
3 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
2 2 (66.67%) PowerCLI
2 2 (66.67%) vCenter Server
2 2 (66.67%) vMotion
2 2 (66.67%) vRealize
3 1 (33.33%) Progress Chef
3 1 (33.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) VMware