Ubuntu Contracts in the Midlands

Ubuntu Linux
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for Ubuntu skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Ubuntu over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 115 160 197
Rank change year-on-year +45 +37 -50
Contract jobs citing Ubuntu 22 5 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.80% 0.14% 0.079%
As % of the Operating Systems category 5.39% 0.77% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 4 4
10th Percentile £520 £417 £299
25th Percentile - £443 £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £583 £413
Median % change year-on-year -5.58% +41.21% +10.00%
75th Percentile - £719 £491
90th Percentile £753 £753 £496
England median daily rate £550 £550 £530
% change year-on-year - +3.77% +6.00%

All Operating Systems
Midlands

Ubuntu is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 408 650 1,025
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 14.87% 18.84% 20.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 259 440 689
10th Percentile £148 £158 £140
25th Percentile £195 £250 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £475 £375
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% +26.67% +4.17%
75th Percentile £541 £561 £495
90th Percentile £628 £688 £575
England median daily rate £463 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -10.11% +2.90% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 38 71
10th Percentile £12.86 £11.80 £12.50
25th Percentile £14.27 £14.64 £14.72
Median hourly rate £18.50 £17.61 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.05% +3.59% +6.72%
75th Percentile £23.75 £19.98 £22.13
90th Percentile - £30.61 £24.00
England median hourly rate £22.00 £35.06 £21.50
% change year-on-year -37.24% +63.05% +20.21%

Ubuntu
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Ubuntu in the Midlands

Ubuntu
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Ubuntu in the Midlands

Ubuntu
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ubuntu in the Midlands over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Ubuntu in the Midlands

Ubuntu
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 Ubuntu within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. 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 +42 14 £550 -21.43% 4
East Midlands +25 7 £550 -21.43% 6
Ubuntu
England

Ubuntu
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 3 (13.64%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (9.09%) IIS
2 2 (9.09%) SharePoint
2 2 (9.09%) WordPress
3 1 (4.55%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 3 (13.64%) Azure
1 3 (13.64%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (9.09%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 9 (40.91%) SAN
2 5 (22.73%) TCP/IP
3 3 (13.64%) DNS
3 3 (13.64%) Fibre Channel
3 3 (13.64%) Firewall
3 3 (13.64%) VPN
3 3 (13.64%) Wireless
4 2 (9.09%) iSCSI
4 2 (9.09%) LAN
4 2 (9.09%) NAS
4 2 (9.09%) WAN
5 1 (4.55%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (4.55%) DHCP
5 1 (4.55%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (4.55%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (45.45%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (13.64%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.55%) MySQL
General
1 4 (18.18%) Public Sector
2 3 (13.64%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Finance
3 1 (4.55%) Fire and Rescue
3 1 (4.55%) Manufacturing
3 1 (4.55%) Military
3 1 (4.55%) Police
Job Titles
1 10 (45.45%) SIEM Engineer
2 5 (22.73%) Developer
2 5 (22.73%) Python Developer
3 3 (13.64%) Administrator
3 3 (13.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Network Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Senior
4 2 (9.09%) Senior Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Senior Python Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Senior Software Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Systems Administrator
4 2 (9.09%) Ubuntu Administrator
5 1 (4.55%) Audit Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Elasticsearch Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Lead
5 1 (4.55%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Ubuntu Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) VMWare Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (45.45%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (9.09%) LAMP
3 1 (4.55%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 12 (54.55%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (9.09%) Replication
3 1 (4.55%) CCTV
3 1 (4.55%) PKI
3 1 (4.55%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 22 (100.00%) Linux
2 13 (59.09%) Windows
3 6 (27.27%) Debian
4 4 (18.18%) Windows Server
5 3 (13.64%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (9.09%) CentOS
6 2 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (9.09%) VMS
6 2 (9.09%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (4.55%) Android
7 1 (4.55%) Mac OS
7 1 (4.55%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (4.55%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (45.45%) Infrastructure Monitoring
1 10 (45.45%) SIEM
2 9 (40.91%) Visualisation
3 8 (36.36%) Data Pipeline
3 8 (36.36%) DataOps
3 8 (36.36%) RBAC
4 6 (27.27%) ITIL
5 5 (22.73%) Agile
5 5 (22.73%) Configuration Management
5 5 (22.73%) Customer Service
5 5 (22.73%) Data Engineering
5 5 (22.73%) Data Modelling
5 5 (22.73%) Matrix Organization
5 5 (22.73%) Prototyping
5 5 (22.73%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 3 (13.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 3 (13.64%) Software Engineering
7 2 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (9.09%) Task Automation
8 1 (4.55%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 8 (36.36%) R
2 5 (22.73%) Python
3 3 (13.64%) PowerShell
4 2 (9.09%) Bash
5 1 (4.55%) Shell Script
5 1 (4.55%) SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (59.09%) Security Cleared
2 9 (40.91%) DV Cleared
2 9 (40.91%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.55%) CTC Cleared
System Software
1 12 (54.55%) Active Directory
2 9 (40.91%) iptables
3 4 (18.18%) vSphere
4 1 (4.55%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (4.55%) VMware NSX
4 1 (4.55%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 10 (45.45%) Kibana
1 10 (45.45%) logstash
2 3 (13.64%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (13.64%) SCCM
3 1 (4.55%) PaperCut
3 1 (4.55%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 9 (40.91%) VMware
2 8 (36.36%) Microsoft
3 7 (31.82%) Red Hat
4 3 (13.64%) Aruba
4 3 (13.64%) Veeam
5 2 (9.09%) Palo Alto
5 2 (9.09%) ProCurve
5 2 (9.09%) Synology
5 2 (9.09%) Zerto
6 1 (4.55%) Cisco
6 1 (4.55%) HP
6 1 (4.55%) Nimble Storage
6 1 (4.55%) Sage
6 1 (4.55%) WatchGuard