Ubuntu Contract Job Trends in the South West

Ubuntu Linux
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Ubuntu skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 102 127 142
Rank change year-on-year +25 +15 +9
Contract jobs citing Ubuntu 11 8 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.56% 0.30% 0.49%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.10% 1.45% 2.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 13
10th Percentile £487 £348 £393
25th Percentile £489 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.50% - -2.44%
75th Percentile £496 £550 £625
90th Percentile £499 £668 £721
England median daily rate £485 £425 £550
% change year-on-year +14.12% -22.73% +6.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 0
Median hourly rate £68.00 - -
England median hourly rate £68.00 - £72.50
% change year-on-year - - +5.84%

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 355 552 622
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 18.13% 20.74% 18.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 226 341 410
10th Percentile £185 £178 £170
25th Percentile £226 £350 £343
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £437 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -16.71% +0.96% +9.47%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £630
90th Percentile £673 £672 £713
England median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 63 59
10th Percentile £18.13 £65.00 £20.20
25th Percentile £18.87 £66.25 £49.78
Median hourly rate £20.53 £70.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -70.67% +7.69% -
75th Percentile £65.00 - £78.00
90th Percentile £68.00 - -
England median hourly rate £25.15 £57.38 £47.67
% change year-on-year -56.17% +20.37% +98.60%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

Ubuntu
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

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 14 September 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 +13 9 - - 18
Wiltshire +17 2 £493 -38.44%
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 (9.09%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) Firewall
1 1 (9.09%) VSAN
General
1 1 (9.09%) Law
Job Titles
1 9 (81.82%) Product Engineer
1 9 (81.82%) Products Support Engineer
1 9 (81.82%) Software Support Engineer
1 9 (81.82%) Support Engineer
2 8 (72.73%) Linux Engineer
2 8 (72.73%) Linux Support
2 8 (72.73%) Linux Support Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) DevOps Platform Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (72.73%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 11 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (18.18%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) Software Engineering
2 2 (18.18%) Benchmarking
2 2 (18.18%) Security Hardening
2 2 (18.18%) Vulnerability Scanning
3 1 (9.09%) Converged Infrastructure
3 1 (9.09%) Data Protection
3 1 (9.09%) DevOps
3 1 (9.09%) GitOps
3 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (9.09%) ITIL
3 1 (9.09%) Network Virtualisation
3 1 (9.09%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (9.09%) Project Delivery
3 1 (9.09%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (81.82%) Ada
1 9 (81.82%) C
1 9 (81.82%) C++
1 9 (81.82%) JavaScript
1 9 (81.82%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
1 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Active Directory
2 1 (9.09%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (9.09%) VMware NSX
2 1 (9.09%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
1 2 (18.18%) Nessus
2 1 (9.09%) Ansible
2 1 (9.09%) Packer
2 1 (9.09%) SCCM
2 1 (9.09%) Terraform
2 1 (9.09%) vCenter Server
2 1 (9.09%) VxRail
2 1 (9.09%) WSUS
Vendors
1 9 (81.82%) Red Hat
2 2 (18.18%) VMware
3 1 (9.09%) Dell