Ubuntu Contracts in the Thames Valley

Ubuntu Linux
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 95 121 129
Rank change year-on-year +26 +8 +30
Contract jobs citing Ubuntu 7 24 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.46% 0.89% 0.75%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.33% 6.14% 4.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 21 19
10th Percentile £485 - £506
25th Percentile - £506 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% -2.73% -15.38%
75th Percentile - £550 -
90th Percentile - - £563
South East median daily rate £500 £523 £550
% change year-on-year -4.31% -5.00% -8.33%

All Operating Systems
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 210 391 442
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 13.90% 14.56% 15.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 281 318
10th Percentile £213 £193 £213
25th Percentile £329 £213 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -15.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £584
90th Percentile £700 £608 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 26 16
10th Percentile - £16.25 £18.08
25th Percentile - £19.13 £19.52
Median hourly rate £14.20 £38.75 £48.70
Median % change year-on-year -63.35% -20.43% +143.50%
75th Percentile £18.58 £57.13 £62.97
90th Percentile £23.63 £61.60 £78.19
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £53.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -10.38% +165.00%

Ubuntu
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Ubuntu as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Ubuntu in the Thames Valley

Ubuntu
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Ubuntu in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Ubuntu in the Thames Valley

Ubuntu
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Ubuntu in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Ubuntu in the Thames Valley

Ubuntu
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ubuntu within the Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +32 5 £500 +33.33%
Oxfordshire +5 2 £488 -7.14% 2
Ubuntu
South East

Ubuntu
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 5 (71.43%) AWS
1 5 (71.43%) Azure
1 5 (71.43%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (57.14%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (71.43%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 7 (100.00%) Git
2 5 (71.43%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (71.43%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 5 (71.43%) Platform Engineer
2 4 (57.14%) AWS Engineer
2 4 (57.14%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Administrator
3 2 (28.57%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Azure Platform Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Unix Administrator
4 1 (14.29%) DBA
4 1 (14.29%) Linux Administrator
4 1 (14.29%) Solaris Administrator
4 1 (14.29%) Unix DBA
4 1 (14.29%) Unix Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Linux
2 5 (71.43%) Windows
2 5 (71.43%) Windows Server
3 2 (28.57%) AIX
3 2 (28.57%) CentOS
3 2 (28.57%) HPUX
3 2 (28.57%) Solaris
3 2 (28.57%) Unix
4 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Configuration Management
2 5 (71.43%) Continuous Delivery
2 5 (71.43%) Customer-Centric Approach
2 5 (71.43%) Customer-Centricity
2 5 (71.43%) DevOps
2 5 (71.43%) High Availability
2 5 (71.43%) Open Source
2 5 (71.43%) Platform Engineering
2 5 (71.43%) Server Building
3 4 (57.14%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Capacity Management
4 1 (14.29%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (14.29%) Server Management
4 1 (14.29%) Service Management
4 1 (14.29%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) PowerShell
1 5 (71.43%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) Bash
3 1 (14.29%) Korn
3 1 (14.29%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 7 (100.00%) Ansible
2 5 (71.43%) Terraform
3 2 (28.57%) Oracle ZFS
3 2 (28.57%) Progress Chef
3 2 (28.57%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Databricks
2 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
3 2 (28.57%) Red Hat
4 1 (14.29%) HP