Ubuntu Contract Job Trends in the South East

Ubuntu Linux
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Ubuntu skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 156 155 175
Rank change year-on-year -1 +20 +33
Contract jobs citing Ubuntu 20 24 33
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.48% 0.59% 0.62%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.82% 3.51% 3.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 22 29
10th Percentile - £376 £400
25th Percentile £463 £466 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £575 £524
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% +9.84% -4.82%
75th Percentile £540 £675 £550
90th Percentile £550 - £561
England median daily rate £475 £523 £535
% change year-on-year -9.09% -2.34% +1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £104.50 - £20.50
Median hourly rate £109.00 - £21.00
75th Percentile £113.50 - £21.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £68.00 £112.00 £72.50
% change year-on-year -39.29% +54.48% +20.83%

All Operating Systems
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 708 683 1,014
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 16.93% 16.87% 19.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 478 451 666
10th Percentile £190 £200 £163
25th Percentile £231 £278 £210
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £435 £410
Median % change year-on-year - +6.10% -13.68%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £565
90th Percentile £607 £656 £638
England median daily rate £450 £475 £480
% change year-on-year -5.26% -1.04% -5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 31 81
10th Percentile £12.50 £16.32 £18.95
25th Percentile £15.50 £44.63 £24.34
Median hourly rate £20.00 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -68.00% +13.64% +193.33%
75th Percentile £25.15 £70.00 £68.63
90th Percentile £75.00 £71.25 £76.53
England median hourly rate £23.50 £60.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -61.16% +86.15% +30.00%

Ubuntu
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Ubuntu job vacancy trend in the South East

Ubuntu
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Ubuntu

Ubuntu
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ubuntu in the South East over the 6 months to 29 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Ubuntu in the South East

Ubuntu
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Ubuntu.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Ubuntu

Ubuntu
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ubuntu within the South East region over the 6 months to 29 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
Surrey +11 8 £475 +35.71%
Thames Valley -1 6 £532 +32.94% 3
Hampshire -15 6 £550 -4.35% 2
Buckinghamshire - 5 £532 -
Berkshire -3 1 - - 2
Ubuntu
England

Ubuntu
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 (5.00%) Anypoint
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (10.00%) AWS
1 2 (10.00%) Azure
1 2 (10.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 8 (40.00%) NFC
1 8 (40.00%) PPP
2 6 (30.00%) TCP/IP
3 5 (25.00%) SAN
4 3 (15.00%) Firewall
4 3 (15.00%) VSAN
5 2 (10.00%) DHCP
5 2 (10.00%) DNS
6 1 (5.00%) HTTPS
6 1 (5.00%) SSL
Development Applications
1 8 (40.00%) Eclipse
1 8 (40.00%) Valgrind
2 1 (5.00%) Git
General
1 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (5.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (60.00%) Senior
2 8 (40.00%) C++ Software Engineer
2 8 (40.00%) Development Engineer
2 8 (40.00%) Linux Engineer
2 8 (40.00%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
2 8 (40.00%) Senior Development Engineer
2 8 (40.00%) Senior Linux Engineer
2 8 (40.00%) Senior Software Development Engineer
2 8 (40.00%) Senior Software Engineer
2 8 (40.00%) Software Development Engineer
2 8 (40.00%) Software Engineer
3 6 (30.00%) Applications Engineer
4 5 (25.00%) Developer
5 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (20.00%) Python Developer
5 4 (20.00%) Senior Developer
6 3 (15.00%) Senior Python Developer
7 2 (10.00%) Linux Specialist
7 2 (10.00%) Technical Specialist
8 1 (5.00%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (40.00%) JSON
1 8 (40.00%) REST
1 8 (40.00%) Web Services
1 8 (40.00%) XML
2 1 (5.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 8 (40.00%) Smartcard
2 2 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 20 (100.00%) Linux
2 7 (35.00%) Windows
2 7 (35.00%) Windows Server
2 7 (35.00%) Windows Server 2016
3 5 (25.00%) CentOS
3 5 (25.00%) Debian
4 3 (15.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (15.00%) Unix
5 2 (10.00%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (5.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (40.00%) Cryptography
1 8 (40.00%) Front End Development
1 8 (40.00%) Memory Management
1 8 (40.00%) Multithreaded Programming
1 8 (40.00%) Multithreading
1 8 (40.00%) Software Engineering
1 8 (40.00%) User Experience
2 5 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 4 (20.00%) Agile
3 4 (20.00%) Configuration Management
3 4 (20.00%) Data Engineering
3 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (20.00%) ITIL
4 3 (15.00%) Containerisation
5 2 (10.00%) CI/CD
5 2 (10.00%) Customer Service
5 2 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (10.00%) Prototyping
5 2 (10.00%) Task Automation
5 2 (10.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 15 (75.00%) Python
2 8 (40.00%) C#
2 8 (40.00%) C++
2 8 (40.00%) Java
2 8 (40.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (10.00%) Bash
3 2 (10.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 5 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.00%) DV Cleared
2 2 (10.00%) RHCE
2 2 (10.00%) RHCSA
3 1 (5.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (15.00%) Docker
1 3 (15.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (15.00%) vSphere
2 2 (10.00%) KVM
3 1 (5.00%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (5.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 4 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (15.00%) Ansible
3 2 (10.00%) Progress Chef
3 2 (10.00%) Puppet
3 2 (10.00%) SCOM
3 2 (10.00%) VxRail
4 1 (5.00%) Rsyslog
4 1 (5.00%) Terraform
4 1 (5.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 10 (50.00%) Red Hat
1 10 (50.00%) VMware
2 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.00%) Dell
3 1 (5.00%) EMC
3 1 (5.00%) IBM
3 1 (5.00%) MuleSoft
3 1 (5.00%) Remedy