Ubuntu Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Ubuntu Linux
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Ubuntu skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 214 158 191
Rank change year-on-year -56 +33 +26
Contract jobs citing Ubuntu 9 4 3
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.18% 0.12% 0.060%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.19% 0.73% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 1
10th Percentile £500 - -
25th Percentile £509 - £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 - £455
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.30%
75th Percentile £537 - £458
90th Percentile £538 - -
England median daily rate £525 £521 £550
% change year-on-year +0.72% -5.23% -

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 758 546 725
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 14.97% 16.13% 14.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 541 324 483
10th Percentile £144 £172 £161
25th Percentile £190 £241 £232
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £400 £400
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% - -11.11%
75th Percentile £500 £550 £500
90th Percentile £613 £634 £587
England median daily rate £447 £475 £463
% change year-on-year -5.89% +2.70% -11.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 22 62
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £14.15
25th Percentile £18.87 £16.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £23.83 £18.13 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +31.45% +2.29% -30.51%
75th Percentile £56.42 £27.80 £24.88
90th Percentile £70.00 £66.46 £48.00
England median hourly rate £22.69 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -49.57% +80.00% -3.85%

Ubuntu
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Ubuntu job vacancy trend in the North of England

Ubuntu
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Ubuntu.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Ubuntu

Ubuntu
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Ubuntu.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Ubuntu

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 7 February 2026. 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
Yorkshire - 9 £531 - 2
Ubuntu
England

Ubuntu
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 1 (11.11%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) AWS
1 1 (11.11%) Azure
1 1 (11.11%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) VLAN
1 1 (11.11%) VXLAN
General
1 8 (88.89%) Documentation Skills
1 8 (88.89%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (88.89%) Lead
2 2 (22.22%) Technical Leader
3 1 (11.11%) Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (88.89%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (11.11%) Private Cloud
1 1 (11.11%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (100.00%) CentOS
1 9 (100.00%) Linux
1 9 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 9 (100.00%) DevOps
2 8 (88.89%) Continuous Improvement
2 8 (88.89%) ITSM
2 8 (88.89%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (88.89%) RBAC
3 1 (11.11%) High Availability
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (11.11%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (11.11%) Migration
3 1 (11.11%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) Python
2 8 (88.89%) Perl
2 8 (88.89%) Ruby
3 1 (11.11%) Bash
Qualifications
1 8 (88.89%) RHCE
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Ceph
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
1 1 (11.11%) KVM
1 1 (11.11%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 9 (100.00%) Ansible
2 8 (88.89%) Puppet
3 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
3 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (88.89%) Red Hat