systemd Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

systemd
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring systemd skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 408 353 -
Rank change year-on-year -55 - -
Contract jobs citing systemd 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.011% 0.007% -
As % of the Systems Management category 0.071% 0.048% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £563 - -
25th Percentile £573 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £594 - -
75th Percentile £611 - -
90th Percentile £619 - -
UK median daily rate £594 £607 -
% change year-on-year -2.18% - -

All Systems Management Skills
UK excluding London

systemd falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 2,835 2,098 2,663
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.67% 14.03% 13.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,979 1,330 1,853
10th Percentile £262 £230 £231
25th Percentile £400 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +0.05% -2.49% -2.38%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £606
90th Percentile £650 £656 £690
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.42% -6.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 41 127
10th Percentile £16.25 £12.50 £17.00
25th Percentile £19.00 £21.05 £20.75
Median hourly rate £45.00 £24.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +83.67% -46.95% +75.36%
75th Percentile £67.00 £46.18 £68.07
90th Percentile £84.60 £74.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £26.75 £46.18
% change year-on-year +49.53% -42.07% +37.85%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

systemd job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

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Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

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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 systemd within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 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
South East - 2 £594 - 1
systemd
UK

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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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Storage
1 2 (100.00%) IaaS
1 2 (100.00%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle Database
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle Reports
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) DBA
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle DBA
2 1 (50.00%) Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Monitoring
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (100.00%) Runbook
1 2 (100.00%) Statistics
1 2 (100.00%) Storage Management
1 2 (100.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 2 (100.00%) OCP
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Data Guard
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat