Ubuntu Contracts in the North of England

Ubuntu Linux
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 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 163 180 211
Rank change year-on-year +17 +31 +7
Contract jobs citing Ubuntu 3 5 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.091% 0.10% 0.15%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.54% 0.69% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 8
10th Percentile - - £185
25th Percentile £373 - £294
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £401 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year -5.76% - +4.81%
75th Percentile £428 £456 £700
90th Percentile - £513 £723
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +3.77%

All Operating Systems
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 557 725 911
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 16.90% 15.21% 15.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 353 495 652
10th Percentile £163 £167 £165
25th Percentile £210 £275 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -10.53% +18.75%
75th Percentile £538 £531 £575
90th Percentile £635 £650 £675
England median daily rate £475 £463 £513
% change year-on-year +2.70% -9.76% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 80 57
10th Percentile £13.00 - £13.98
25th Percentile £16.25 £10.95 £17.75
Median hourly rate £18.00 £16.00 £28.70
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -44.25% +63.35%
75th Percentile £19.75 £19.44 £43.75
90th Percentile £41.50 £30.68 £49.52
England median hourly rate £24.18 £22.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year +9.91% -42.11% +76.74%

Ubuntu
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Ubuntu in the North of England

Ubuntu
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Ubuntu in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Ubuntu in the North of England

Ubuntu
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Ubuntu in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Ubuntu in the North of England

Ubuntu
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ubuntu within the North of England 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
North West +17 2 - - 15
Yorkshire +7 1 £401 -5.76%
Ubuntu
England

Ubuntu
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) NAS
1 2 (66.67%) SAN
2 1 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) LAN
2 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (33.33%) VLAN
2 1 (33.33%) VPN
2 1 (33.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) MySQL
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Unix Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Engineering Specialist
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Specialist
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) CentOS
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) AIX
2 2 (66.67%) HPUX
2 2 (66.67%) Solaris
2 2 (66.67%) Unix
3 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) High Availability
2 2 (66.67%) Configuration Management
2 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (66.67%) Patch Management
2 2 (66.67%) Problem Management
2 2 (66.67%) Task Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 1 (33.33%) Conflict Resolution
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Bash
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) Perl
2 2 (66.67%) Shell Script
3 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) KVM
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
2 2 (66.67%) Progress Chef
2 2 (66.67%) Puppet
3 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (66.67%) VMware
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco