Ubuntu Contract Job Trends in the North West

Ubuntu Linux
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Ubuntu skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 157 125 -
Rank change year-on-year -32 - -
Contract jobs citing Ubuntu 3 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.097% 0.10% -
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.77% 0.65% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £326 - -
25th Percentile £403 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 - -
75th Percentile £556 - -
90th Percentile £563 - -
England median daily rate £531 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +3.61% -6.82% -

All Operating Systems
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 388 307 367
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 12.60% 15.66% 13.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 261 202 222
10th Percentile £134 £156 £171
25th Percentile £164 £213 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £393 £444
Median % change year-on-year -7.76% -11.44% -8.97%
75th Percentile £500 £534 £538
90th Percentile £617 £620 £668
England median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -13.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 9 67
10th Percentile £18.57 £20.32 -
25th Percentile £21.46 £21.05 £10.95
Median hourly rate £57.50 £24.18 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year +137.80% +51.13% -45.39%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.18 £19.13
90th Percentile £74.26 £81.63 £48.00
England median hourly rate £22.81 £28.21 £22.00
% change year-on-year -19.13% +28.20% -23.88%

Ubuntu
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Ubuntu job vacancy trend in the North West

Ubuntu
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Ubuntu
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ubuntu in the North West over the 6 months to 27 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Ubuntu in the North West

Ubuntu
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 27 March 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
Manchester - 3 £538 - 5
Ubuntu
England

Ubuntu
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) NAS
1 2 (66.67%) SAN
1 2 (66.67%) VSAN
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Installations Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior VMware Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (66.67%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (66.67%) VMS
2 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server
3 1 (33.33%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Capacity Planning
1 2 (66.67%) Change Management
1 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (66.67%) ITIL
1 2 (66.67%) Knowledge Transfer
1 2 (66.67%) Migration
1 2 (66.67%) Network Virtualisation
1 2 (66.67%) Performance Monitoring
1 2 (66.67%) Performance Optimisation
1 2 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
1 2 (66.67%) Virtual Infrastructure
2 1 (33.33%) Change Advisory Board
2 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Integration Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Bash
2 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 2 (66.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) VCAP
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (66.67%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (66.67%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (66.67%) VMware NSX
2 2 (66.67%) vSphere
3 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
2 2 (66.67%) PowerCLI
2 2 (66.67%) vCenter Server
2 2 (66.67%) vMotion
2 2 (66.67%) vRealize
3 1 (33.33%) Progress Chef
3 1 (33.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) VMware