Ubuntu Contracts in the South East

Ubuntu Linux
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 18 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 161 187 247
Rank change year-on-year +26 +60 -60
Contract jobs citing Ubuntu 41 38 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.73% 0.64% 0.19%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.12% 3.05% 0.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 29 10
10th Percentile £475 £503 £478
25th Percentile £506 £513 £564
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% +65.52%
75th Percentile £550 £558 £650
90th Percentile - £605 -
England median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £20.50 - -
Median hourly rate £21.00 - -
75th Percentile £21.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £21.00 £18.74 £69.05
% change year-on-year +12.09% -72.87% +376.21%

All Operating Systems
South East

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 East with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 994 1,244 1,579
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 17.68% 20.98% 20.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 655 856 1,033
10th Percentile £200 £197 £150
25th Percentile £250 £263 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £487 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.55% +8.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £638 £675 £650
England median daily rate £450 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -12.62% +3.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 66 108
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.08 £12.50
25th Percentile £17.69 £18.25 £13.88
Median hourly rate £35.00 £48.70 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.13% +143.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £62.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £59.77
England median hourly rate £22.00 £29.30 £21.50
% change year-on-year -24.91% +36.28% +19.44%

Ubuntu
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Ubuntu in the South East

Ubuntu
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Ubuntu in the South East

Ubuntu
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Ubuntu in the South East

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 18 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
Thames Valley +5 25 £535 -2.73% 2
Buckinghamshire +29 19 £550 -
Berkshire -6 4 - - 2
Surrey +12 3 £500 - 3
West Sussex - 3 £475 -
Oxfordshire +6 2 £525 -4.55%
Hampshire +3 2 - - 7
Ubuntu
England

Ubuntu
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 3 (7.32%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (4.88%) nginx
3 1 (2.44%) Apache
3 1 (2.44%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (4.88%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 9 (21.95%) AWS
2 8 (19.51%) AWS CloudFormation
3 5 (12.20%) Azure
4 2 (4.88%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (4.88%) OpenShift
5 1 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.44%) Azure Stack
5 1 (2.44%) GitHub
5 1 (2.44%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 22 (53.66%) SAN
2 20 (48.78%) TCP/IP
3 6 (14.63%) DHCP
3 6 (14.63%) DNS
4 3 (7.32%) Firewall
4 3 (7.32%) NAS
5 2 (4.88%) Cisco IOS
5 2 (4.88%) WAN
5 2 (4.88%) Wireless
6 1 (2.44%) NFC
6 1 (2.44%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (14.63%) SQL Server
2 5 (12.20%) MySQL
3 3 (7.32%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (7.32%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.44%) Neo4j
4 1 (2.44%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (4.88%) Bitbucket
1 2 (4.88%) Git
2 1 (2.44%) Eclipse
2 1 (2.44%) GitLab
2 1 (2.44%) GoogleTest
2 1 (2.44%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.44%) JIRA
2 1 (2.44%) Rational DOORS
2 1 (2.44%) TestRail
2 1 (2.44%) Valgrind
2 1 (2.44%) Visual Studio
General
1 4 (9.76%) Social Skills
2 3 (7.32%) Front Office
3 2 (4.88%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (4.88%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (2.44%) Legal
4 1 (2.44%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.44%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 19 (46.34%) Developer
1 19 (46.34%) Python Developer
2 8 (19.51%) Applications Engineer
2 8 (19.51%) Senior
3 5 (12.20%) Analyst
3 5 (12.20%) Analyst Developer
3 5 (12.20%) Developer Analyst
3 5 (12.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (12.20%) Programmer
3 5 (12.20%) Python Programmer
3 5 (12.20%) Security Analyst
4 4 (9.76%) Backend Developer
4 4 (9.76%) Linux Engineer
4 4 (9.76%) Senior Linux Engineer
5 3 (7.32%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 3 (7.32%) Linux Developer
5 3 (7.32%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (7.32%) Software Developer
6 2 (4.88%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (19.51%) ADO
2 4 (9.76%) .NET
3 2 (4.88%) EDI
4 1 (2.44%) CSS
4 1 (2.44%) Django
4 1 (2.44%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (2.44%) HTML
4 1 (2.44%) jQuery
4 1 (2.44%) JSON
4 1 (2.44%) Keycloak
4 1 (2.44%) REST
4 1 (2.44%) Web Services
4 1 (2.44%) XML
4 1 (2.44%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.76%) PKI
2 3 (7.32%) Fat Client
2 3 (7.32%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (7.32%) Thin Client
3 2 (4.88%) CCTV
3 2 (4.88%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.44%) Clustering
4 1 (2.44%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.44%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 41 (100.00%) Linux
2 19 (46.34%) Debian
3 11 (26.83%) Windows
4 5 (12.20%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (9.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (9.76%) Windows Server
6 3 (7.32%) Android
6 3 (7.32%) Unix
7 2 (4.88%) Mac OS
7 2 (4.88%) Solaris
7 2 (4.88%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (4.88%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (2.44%) Apple iOS
8 1 (2.44%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (51.22%) ITIL
2 16 (39.02%) Agile
2 16 (39.02%) Data Modelling
3 14 (34.15%) Customer Service
4 13 (31.71%) Configuration Management
4 13 (31.71%) Data Engineering
4 13 (31.71%) Prototyping
4 13 (31.71%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 10 (24.39%) Matrix Organization
6 8 (19.51%) Application Packaging
6 8 (19.51%) Infrastructure as Code
7 7 (17.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 7 (17.07%) Software Engineering
8 6 (14.63%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (14.63%) Project Delivery
9 5 (12.20%) Mentoring
9 5 (12.20%) Roadmaps
10 4 (9.76%) Computer Science
10 4 (9.76%) Problem-Solving
11 3 (7.32%) Service Delivery Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (53.66%) Python
2 7 (17.07%) PowerShell
3 3 (7.32%) C++
3 3 (7.32%) VB.NET
4 2 (4.88%) Bash
4 2 (4.88%) JavaScript
4 2 (4.88%) SQL
5 1 (2.44%) C#
5 1 (2.44%) Java
5 1 (2.44%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 19 (46.34%) SC Cleared
1 19 (46.34%) Security Cleared
2 11 (26.83%) DV Cleared
3 6 (14.63%) Degree
4 3 (7.32%) ITIL Certification
4 3 (7.32%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.44%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.32%) ISO 9001
1 3 (7.32%) ISO/IEC 20000
1 3 (7.32%) SLA
2 1 (2.44%) QA
System Software
1 17 (41.46%) Active Directory
2 6 (14.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (9.76%) Hyper-V
3 4 (9.76%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (7.32%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (7.32%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (14.63%) Ansible
1 6 (14.63%) WSUS
2 5 (12.20%) Red Hat Satellite
3 4 (9.76%) Nessus
4 3 (7.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 3 (7.32%) Kubernetes
4 3 (7.32%) vCenter Server
4 3 (7.32%) ZABBIX
5 2 (4.88%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (4.88%) PaperCut
5 2 (4.88%) SCCM
6 1 (2.44%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (2.44%) Terraform
Vendors
1 28 (68.29%) VMware
2 27 (65.85%) Red Hat
3 23 (56.10%) Microsoft
4 5 (12.20%) Veeam
5 4 (9.76%) Oracle
6 3 (7.32%) Remedy
7 2 (4.88%) Aruba
7 2 (4.88%) Cisco
7 2 (4.88%) HP
7 2 (4.88%) Nimble Storage
7 2 (4.88%) Sage
7 2 (4.88%) SolarWinds
7 2 (4.88%) WatchGuard
8 1 (2.44%) Google
8 1 (2.44%) Qualys