systemd Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

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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 24 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 433 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing systemd 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.016% - -
As % of the Systems Management category 0.13% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £451 - -
25th Percentile £491 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 - -
75th Percentile £597 - -
90th Percentile £614 - -
UK median daily rate £563 - £450
% change year-on-year - - +38.46%

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 3,157 1,936 2,302
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.75% 15.16% 11.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,160 1,358 1,715
10th Percentile £281 £231 £213
25th Percentile £402 £380 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £491 £489
Median % change year-on-year +0.15% +0.46% -6.86%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £663 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £513
% change year-on-year -3.85% +1.46% -8.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 141 26 66
10th Percentile £19.25 £17.96 £14.00
25th Percentile £25.26 £21.39 £17.18
Median hourly rate £55.00 £37.50 £39.25
Median % change year-on-year +46.67% -4.46% -7.65%
75th Percentile £68.75 £68.44 £48.75
90th Percentile £74.00 £83.73 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £27.50 £28.75
% change year-on-year +100.00% -4.35% -47.73%

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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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Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing systemd in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 24 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for systemd in the UK excluding London

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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 24 May 2026. 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
Scotland - 1 - -
Midlands - 1 £425 -
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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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) Apache
2 1 (25.00%) JBoss
2 1 (25.00%) OpenStack
2 1 (25.00%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Storage
2 2 (50.00%) IaaS
2 2 (50.00%) PaaS
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (25.00%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Reverse Proxy
1 1 (25.00%) SSH
1 1 (25.00%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle Database
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (25.00%) OpenStack Swift
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
General
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) DBA
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle DBA
2 1 (25.00%) Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Oracle Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Java SE
1 1 (25.00%) Middleware
1 1 (25.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (75.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (25.00%) Rocky
3 1 (25.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Runbook
3 2 (50.00%) High Availability
3 2 (50.00%) Performance Monitoring
3 2 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (50.00%) Statistics
3 2 (50.00%) Storage Management
3 2 (50.00%) Task Automation
4 1 (25.00%) Capacity Management
4 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
4 1 (25.00%) Contract Management
4 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
4 1 (25.00%) JVM Tuning
4 1 (25.00%) OWASP
4 1 (25.00%) Performance Analysis
4 1 (25.00%) Service Management
4 1 (25.00%) Validation
4 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Shell Script
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Bash
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Certification
1 2 (50.00%) OCP
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle Certification
2 1 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) GDPR
2 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (25.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (25.00%) iptables
2 1 (25.00%) NFS
2 1 (25.00%) Samba
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Data Guard
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle RMAN
1 2 (50.00%) SELinux
2 1 (25.00%) Grafana
2 1 (25.00%) Rundeck
2 1 (25.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle
2 2 (50.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (25.00%) SaltStack
3 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow