Ubuntu Contracts in Scotland

Ubuntu Linux
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 109 122 148
Rank change year-on-year +13 +26 +15
Contract jobs citing Ubuntu 7 7 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.43% 0.32% 0.52%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.05% 1.95% 2.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 11
10th Percentile £173 £445 £413
25th Percentile £188 £486 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £190 £513 £501
Median % change year-on-year -62.93% +2.40% -4.67%
75th Percentile £195 £527 £522
90th Percentile £414 £536 £529
UK median daily rate £500 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -7.41% -1.82% +4.76%

All Operating Systems
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 341 359 535
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 20.98% 16.19% 18.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 235 377
10th Percentile £191 £184 £160
25th Percentile £407 £324 £260
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £500 £479
Median % change year-on-year -7.10% +4.38% +6.44%
75th Percentile £550 £626 £600
90th Percentile £581 £745 £727
UK median daily rate £475 £469 £505
% change year-on-year +1.28% -7.13% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 15 13
10th Percentile £16.33 £17.23 £17.72
25th Percentile £20.94 £18.27 £20.79
Median hourly rate £22.00 £52.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -58.10% - +162.50%
75th Percentile £23.50 £60.75 £59.03
90th Percentile £24.43 £62.50 £65.36
UK median hourly rate £24.18 £22.00 £39.30
% change year-on-year +9.91% -44.02% +74.67%

Ubuntu
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Ubuntu in Scotland

Ubuntu
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Ubuntu in Scotland

Ubuntu
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ubuntu in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Ubuntu in Scotland

Ubuntu
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ubuntu within the Scotland 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
Edinburgh +7 7 £190 -62.75%
Ubuntu
UK

Ubuntu
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon S3
2 2 (28.57%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (28.57%) AWS CodeBuild
2 2 (28.57%) AWS CodeDeploy
2 2 (28.57%) AWS CodePipeline
2 2 (28.57%) AWS Fargate
2 2 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (28.57%) OpenShift
2 2 (28.57%) Route 53
2 2 (28.57%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (14.29%) InfluxDB
2 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Artifactory
1 2 (28.57%) Git
1 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (71.43%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Deployment Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) AWS Platform Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) IT Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Virtualisation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) AWS CDK
2 1 (14.29%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Linux
2 4 (57.14%) Windows
3 2 (28.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Agile
2 4 (57.14%) Asset Management
2 4 (57.14%) Kanban
2 4 (57.14%) Logistics
3 3 (42.86%) Inventory Management
4 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
4 2 (28.57%) Customer Service
4 2 (28.57%) ITIL
4 2 (28.57%) ITSM
4 2 (28.57%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (28.57%) Scrum
4 2 (28.57%) Service Management
4 2 (28.57%) Visualisation
5 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
5 1 (14.29%) Human-Centred Design
5 1 (14.29%) Inclusive Design
5 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (14.29%) Software Delivery
5 1 (14.29%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Bash
1 2 (28.57%) Groovy
1 2 (28.57%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft Intune
1 4 (57.14%) SCCM
2 2 (28.57%) Ansible
2 2 (28.57%) Grafana
2 2 (28.57%) Kibana
2 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) HP
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Imperva
2 1 (14.29%) NVIDIA
2 1 (14.29%) VMware