Ubuntu Contracts in the South West

Ubuntu Linux
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for Ubuntu skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Ubuntu over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 151 160 154
Rank change year-on-year +9 -6 -19
Contract jobs citing Ubuntu 4 7 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.13% 0.19% 0.62%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.80% 0.97% 3.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 11
10th Percentile £660 £473 £413
25th Percentile £694 £506 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £775 £550 £463
Median % change year-on-year +40.91% +18.92% -15.91%
75th Percentile £844 £600 £509
90th Percentile £870 £623 £625
England median daily rate £550 £550 £530
% change year-on-year - +3.77% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
Median hourly rate - - £69.05
England median hourly rate £21.00 £18.74 £69.05
% change year-on-year +12.09% -72.87% +376.21%

All Operating Systems
South West

Ubuntu is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 497 718 754
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 15.54% 19.80% 20.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 358 520 446
10th Percentile £170 £166 £153
25th Percentile £235 £274 £215
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £440
Median % change year-on-year - +13.64% +13.04%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £549
90th Percentile £700 £675 £638
England median daily rate £463 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -9.76% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 85 78
10th Percentile £14.00 £17.18 £16.34
25th Percentile £40.00 £49.68 £21.25
Median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £53.49
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +21.51% +113.97%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile - £78.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £22.00 £38.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -42.11% +76.74% +21.06%

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ubuntu in the South West over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Ubuntu in the South West

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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

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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 29 April 2024. 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
Gloucestershire +4 2 £775 +29.17% 1
Bristol - 2 - - 5
Ubuntu
England

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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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Functions
1 1 (25.00%) GitHub
1 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Git
General
1 1 (25.00%) Electronics
1 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Full Stack Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Security Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (25.00%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (25.00%) PKI
1 1 (25.00%) Security Operations Centre
1 1 (25.00%) STB
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (50.00%) Windows
3 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) Agile
1 1 (25.00%) CAD
1 1 (25.00%) Change Management
1 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (25.00%) DevOps
1 1 (25.00%) Full Stack Development
1 1 (25.00%) Information Assurance
1 1 (25.00%) Information Security
1 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (25.00%) ITIL
1 1 (25.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (25.00%) Observability
1 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (25.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (25.00%) SIEM
1 1 (25.00%) SOAR
1 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Bash
2 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (25.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
2 2 (50.00%) Ansible
2 2 (50.00%) Puppet
3 1 (25.00%) Kibana
3 1 (25.00%) Packer
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) ArcSight
1 1 (25.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (25.00%) VMware