Ubuntu Contracts in the South West

Ubuntu Linux
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 98 153 160
Rank change year-on-year +55 +7 -6
Contract jobs citing Ubuntu 13 4 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.77% 0.13% 0.19%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.10% 0.81% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 7
10th Percentile £488 £660 £473
25th Percentile £493 £694 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £775 £550
Median % change year-on-year -35.48% +40.91% +18.92%
75th Percentile - £844 £600
90th Percentile - £870 £623
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 0
10th Percentile £66.80 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £68.00 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £68.00 £21.00 £18.74
% change year-on-year +223.81% +12.09% -72.87%

All Operating Systems
South 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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 317 495 719
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 18.89% 15.47% 19.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 221 357 520
10th Percentile £200 £170 £166
25th Percentile £250 £245 £274
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% - +13.64%
75th Percentile £623 £588 £613
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £475 £463 £513
% change year-on-year +2.70% -9.76% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 69 85
10th Percentile £18.13 £14.00 £17.18
25th Percentile £18.51 £40.00 £49.68
Median hourly rate £66.50 £60.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.83% -7.69% +21.51%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile - - £78.00
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 South West

Job postings citing Ubuntu as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Ubuntu in the South West

Ubuntu
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Ubuntu in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Ubuntu in the South West

Ubuntu
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Ubuntu in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for Ubuntu in the South West

Ubuntu
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West 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
Bristol +28 11 £500 - 9
Wiltshire - 2 £493 - 5
Ubuntu
England

Ubuntu
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 1 (7.69%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) Firewall
1 1 (7.69%) VSAN
General
1 1 (7.69%) Finance
1 1 (7.69%) Law
1 1 (7.69%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 9 (69.23%) Product Engineer
1 9 (69.23%) Products Support Engineer
1 9 (69.23%) Software Support Engineer
1 9 (69.23%) Support Engineer
2 8 (61.54%) Linux Engineer
3 7 (53.85%) Linux Support
3 7 (53.85%) Linux Support Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) DevOps Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (84.62%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 13 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (15.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (84.62%) Software Engineering
2 2 (15.38%) Benchmarking
2 2 (15.38%) Security Hardening
2 2 (15.38%) Vulnerability Scanning
3 1 (7.69%) Converged Infrastructure
3 1 (7.69%) Data Protection
3 1 (7.69%) DevOps
3 1 (7.69%) GitOps
3 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (7.69%) ITIL
3 1 (7.69%) Network Virtualisation
3 1 (7.69%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (7.69%) Project Delivery
3 1 (7.69%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (84.62%) Ada
1 11 (84.62%) C
1 11 (84.62%) C++
1 11 (84.62%) JavaScript
1 11 (84.62%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (38.46%) SC Cleared
1 5 (38.46%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.69%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (7.69%) VMware NSX
2 1 (7.69%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
1 2 (15.38%) Nessus
2 1 (7.69%) Ansible
2 1 (7.69%) Packer
2 1 (7.69%) SCCM
2 1 (7.69%) Terraform
2 1 (7.69%) vCenter Server
2 1 (7.69%) VxRail
2 1 (7.69%) WSUS
Vendors
1 11 (84.62%) Red Hat
2 2 (15.38%) VMware
3 1 (7.69%) Dell