Debian Contracts in the Midlands

Debian Linux
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring Debian skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Debian 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 107 127 166
Rank change year-on-year +20 +39 -
Contract jobs citing Debian 4 6 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.21% 0.22% 0.029%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.58% 1.43% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £465
Median % change year-on-year - +18.28% -
75th Percentile - - £473
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £550 £538 £550
% change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -

All Operating Systems
Midlands

Debian 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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 253 419 641
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 13.22% 15.20% 18.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 177 268 433
10th Percentile £150 £145 £158
25th Percentile £200 £190 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £391 £377 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -20.74% +26.67%
75th Percentile £500 £538 £558
90th Percentile £578 £612 £688
England median daily rate £475 £463 £513
% change year-on-year +2.70% -9.76% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 42 38
10th Percentile £15.16 £12.86 £11.80
25th Percentile £16.31 £14.27 £14.64
Median hourly rate £18.13 £18.50 £17.61
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.05% +3.59%
75th Percentile £19.63 £23.75 £19.98
90th Percentile £24.21 - £30.61
England median hourly rate £24.18 £22.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year +9.91% -42.11% +76.74%

Debian
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Debian as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Debian in the Midlands

Debian
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Debian in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Debian in the Midlands

Debian
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Debian within the Midlands 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
West Midlands +15 2 - - 4
East Midlands +7 2 £550 - 3
Debian
England

Debian
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 2 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) SAN
2 2 (50.00%) DHCP
2 2 (50.00%) DNS
2 2 (50.00%) Firewall
2 2 (50.00%) HTTP
2 2 (50.00%) OpenLDAP
2 2 (50.00%) SSL
2 2 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (50.00%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Git
1 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (50.00%) JIRA
1 2 (50.00%) Maven
1 2 (50.00%) Sonatype Nexus
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Python Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Linux Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Linux DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Linux/Unix DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) LDAP
1 2 (50.00%) YAML
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
1 4 (100.00%) Ubuntu
2 2 (50.00%) CentOS
2 2 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Asset Management
2 2 (50.00%) Capacity Management
2 2 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 2 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) ITIL
2 2 (50.00%) Log Aggregation
2 2 (50.00%) Matrix Organization
2 2 (50.00%) Patch Management
2 2 (50.00%) Prototyping
2 2 (50.00%) Server Management
2 2 (50.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) DV Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Nessus
1 2 (50.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (50.00%) Sophos