Debian Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Debian Linux
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Debian skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 395 347 355
Rank change year-on-year -48 +8 +91
Contract jobs citing Debian 9 5 50
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.049% 0.034% 0.25%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.31% 0.20% 1.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 2 48
10th Percentile £400 £414 -
25th Percentile £425 £416 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £425 £525
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% -19.05% -4.55%
75th Percentile £681 £434 £550
90th Percentile - £436 £556
UK median daily rate £555 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +16.84% -9.52% -4.55%

All Operating Systems
UK excluding London

Debian 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 2,892 2,493 3,377
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.71% 16.92% 17.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,910 1,493 2,213
10th Percentile £163 £180 £160
25th Percentile £213 £235 £215
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £425 £430
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% -1.16% -4.44%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £575
90th Percentile £619 £650 £655
UK median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - -7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 300 151 264
10th Percentile £15.00 £16.00 £14.05
25th Percentile £18.50 £20.30 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £26.09
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% +24.57% +18.59%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £69.99 £70.00 £75.70
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.75 £32.50
% change year-on-year -33.38% +16.15% +34.02%

Debian
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Debian relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Debian job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Debian
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Debian.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Debian

Debian
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Debian in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 27 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Debian in the UK excluding London

Debian
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Debian.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Debian

Debian
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Debian within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 27 December 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
East of England - 4 £681 - 14
South East -14 3 £550 - 19
West Midlands -26 2 £400 - 8
Midlands -40 2 £400 - 14
Debian
UK

Debian
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (22.22%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) SAN
1 3 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 2 (22.22%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) Git
General
1 3 (33.33%) Telecoms
2 2 (22.22%) Manufacturing
3 1 (11.11%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Linux Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Automation Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Firmware Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Senior
2 2 (22.22%) Senior Automation Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Senior Linux Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) Developer
3 1 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Hardware Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Python Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Acoustics
1 3 (33.33%) Derivative
2 1 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 9 (100.00%) Linux
2 7 (77.78%) Ubuntu
3 3 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (33.33%) VMS
4 2 (22.22%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Containerisation
2 3 (33.33%) Agile
2 3 (33.33%) ITIL
3 2 (22.22%) Configuration Management
3 2 (22.22%) Customer Service
3 2 (22.22%) DevOps
3 2 (22.22%) Incident Management
3 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (22.22%) Problem Management
3 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (22.22%) Release Management
3 2 (22.22%) Validation
4 1 (11.11%) Data Engineering
4 1 (11.11%) Data Modelling
4 1 (11.11%) Matrix Organization
4 1 (11.11%) Prototyping
4 1 (11.11%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Python
2 2 (22.22%) C++
2 2 (22.22%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) DV Cleared
1 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) QEMU
2 2 (22.22%) Embedded Firmware
2 2 (22.22%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Ansible
1 4 (44.44%) Podman
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Red Hat
2 3 (33.33%) NVIDIA
2 3 (33.33%) VMware
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft