Ubuntu Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Ubuntu Linux
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Ubuntu skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 144 133 135
Rank change year-on-year -11 +2 +70
Contract jobs citing Ubuntu 12 2 6
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.41% 0.075% 0.22%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.70% 0.48% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 5
10th Percentile £381 - £348
25th Percentile £416 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +358.33%
75th Percentile £556 - £588
90th Percentile £605 - -
England median daily rate £475 £500 £535
% change year-on-year -5.00% -6.54% +2.88%

All Operating Systems
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 445 413 457
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 15.13% 15.43% 16.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 307 249 297
10th Percentile £158 £188 £158
25th Percentile £220 £300 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £440 £350
Median % change year-on-year -3.41% +25.71% -22.22%
75th Percentile £525 £550 £513
90th Percentile £588 £651 £625
England median daily rate £450 £475 £488
% change year-on-year -5.26% -2.56% -4.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 18 40
10th Percentile £17.14 £14.31 £13.11
25th Percentile £18.39 £18.69 £16.47
Median hourly rate £25.08 £24.18 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +36.46% +8.68%
75th Percentile £25.15 £25.02 £22.06
90th Percentile £25.49 £63.63 £30.88
England median hourly rate £23.00 £57.50 £38.75
% change year-on-year -60.00% +48.39% +55.00%

Ubuntu
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Ubuntu job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Ubuntu
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Ubuntu.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Ubuntu

Ubuntu
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ubuntu in the Midlands over the 6 months to 7 November 2025.

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 7 November 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 -20 12 £475 - 4
Ubuntu
England

Ubuntu
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 10 (83.33%) Confluence
1 10 (83.33%) nginx
Applications
1 10 (83.33%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 12 (100.00%) AWS
2 11 (91.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 11 (91.67%) Amazon EC2
2 11 (91.67%) Amazon S3
2 11 (91.67%) AWS KMS
2 11 (91.67%) Azure
2 11 (91.67%) Route 53
2 11 (91.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 10 (83.33%) Amazon ECS
3 10 (83.33%) Amazon ELB
3 10 (83.33%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon EventBridge
4 1 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (8.33%) AWS CloudTrail
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (8.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 11 (91.67%) DNS
2 10 (83.33%) Firewall
2 10 (83.33%) FTP
2 10 (83.33%) HTTP
2 10 (83.33%) IMAP
2 10 (83.33%) OpenLDAP
2 10 (83.33%) SMTP
2 10 (83.33%) SSH
3 1 (8.33%) DHCP
3 1 (8.33%) iSCSI
3 1 (8.33%) LAN
3 1 (8.33%) VLAN
3 1 (8.33%) VSAN
3 1 (8.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (91.67%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (83.33%) Amazon Aurora
2 10 (83.33%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (83.33%) Git
1 10 (83.33%) Jenkins
1 10 (83.33%) JIRA
1 10 (83.33%) Vagrant
General
1 11 (91.67%) Social Skills
2 10 (83.33%) Presentation Skills
2 10 (83.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (83.33%) AWS Engineer
1 10 (83.33%) AWS Platform Engineer
1 10 (83.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 10 (83.33%) Platform Engineer
2 8 (66.67%) AWS DevOps
2 8 (66.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 8 (66.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 8 (66.67%) DevOps Platform Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) AWS Specialist
3 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (83.33%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 11 (91.67%) Replication
2 1 (8.33%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (8.33%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 12 (100.00%) Linux
1 12 (100.00%) Windows
2 11 (91.67%) Amazon Linux
3 10 (83.33%) VMS
4 1 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (8.33%) SUSE
4 1 (8.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (91.67%) Change Management
1 11 (91.67%) DevOps
2 10 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 10 (83.33%) Cloud Security
2 10 (83.33%) Configuration Management
2 10 (83.33%) Patch Management
2 10 (83.33%) Performance Tuning
2 10 (83.33%) Platform Engineering
3 2 (16.67%) Agile
4 1 (8.33%) Data Protection
4 1 (8.33%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (8.33%) Migration
4 1 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (8.33%) Process Improvement
4 1 (8.33%) Prototyping
4 1 (8.33%) Rapid Prototyping
4 1 (8.33%) Re-Platforming
4 1 (8.33%) Reverse Engineering
4 1 (8.33%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 11 (91.67%) PowerShell
1 11 (91.67%) SQL
2 10 (83.33%) Groovy
2 10 (83.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 11 (91.67%) AWS Certification
2 10 (83.33%) Azure Certification
2 10 (83.33%) Degree
3 9 (75.00%) SC Cleared
3 9 (75.00%) Security Cleared
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
4 1 (8.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 10 (83.33%) DFS Replication
1 10 (83.33%) Docker
1 10 (83.33%) Dovecot
1 10 (83.33%) Postfix
1 10 (83.33%) Squid
2 2 (16.67%) Active Directory
3 1 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (8.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 11 (91.67%) Terraform
2 10 (83.33%) Grafana
2 10 (83.33%) Nessus
2 10 (83.33%) Prometheus
2 10 (83.33%) Proxmox
3 1 (8.33%) PowerCLI
3 1 (8.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 10 (83.33%) Jaspersoft
1 10 (83.33%) ServiceNow
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) Veeam
2 1 (8.33%) VMware