Ubuntu Contracts in the UK excluding London

Ubuntu Linux
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 16 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 323 379 437
Rank change year-on-year +56 +58 -66
Contract jobs citing Ubuntu 83 84 79
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.40% 0.34% 0.25%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.50% 1.75% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 66 49
10th Percentile £475 £363 £188
25th Percentile £507 £416 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £522 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.31% +9.95% +1.06%
75th Percentile - £556 £545
90th Percentile £579 £613 £640
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £20.50 - -
Median hourly rate £21.00 £17.47 £69.05
Median % change year-on-year +20.21% -74.70% +376.21%
75th Percentile £21.50 - -
90th Percentile - - £97.82
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £18.74 £69.05
% change year-on-year +12.09% -72.87% +376.21%

All Operating Systems
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 3,325 4,803 5,999
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.95% 19.47% 19.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,201 3,350 3,930
10th Percentile £166 £163 £145
25th Percentile £248 £250 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £420
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +13.10% +8.39%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £538
90th Percentile £675 £680 £638
UK median daily rate £463 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -9.76% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 325 352 486
10th Percentile £12.25 £13.29 £12.50
25th Percentile £14.16 £17.25 £14.82
Median hourly rate £20.00 £26.50 £19.22
Median % change year-on-year -24.53% +37.91% +13.03%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.88 £47.40
90th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £29.30 £22.00
% change year-on-year -24.91% +33.18% +22.22%

Ubuntu
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Ubuntu as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Ubuntu in the UK excluding London

Ubuntu
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Ubuntu in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Ubuntu in the UK excluding London

Ubuntu
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ubuntu in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Ubuntu in the UK excluding London

Ubuntu
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Ubuntu in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Ubuntu in the UK excluding London

Ubuntu
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 Ubuntu within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 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
South East +27 42 £525 -4.55% 14
Midlands +57 23 £550 -5.58% 8
West Midlands +43 14 £550 -21.43% 3
Scotland +33 8 £516 +3.15%
East Midlands +25 8 £550 -21.43% 5
East of England +6 5 £440 +3.53% 6
South West +24 3 £775 +40.91% 11
North of England +25 2 £550 +46.67% 8
North West +27 1 - - 5
North East +17 1 £550 -2.22% 2
Wales - 1 - - 2
Ubuntu
UK

Ubuntu
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 7 (8.43%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (4.82%) SharePoint
3 3 (3.61%) Apache
3 3 (3.61%) nginx
4 2 (2.41%) IIS
4 2 (2.41%) WordPress
5 1 (1.20%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 3 (3.61%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 21 (25.30%) AWS
2 16 (19.28%) AWS CloudFormation
3 11 (13.25%) Azure
4 8 (9.64%) Amazon S3
4 8 (9.64%) OpenShift
4 8 (9.64%) Serverless
5 7 (8.43%) Amazon EC2
5 7 (8.43%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (7.23%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 5 (6.02%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (6.02%) AWS Fargate
7 5 (6.02%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (2.41%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (2.41%) GitHub
8 2 (2.41%) OneDrive
8 2 (2.41%) Route 53
9 1 (1.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (1.20%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
9 1 (1.20%) Azure Stack
9 1 (1.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 33 (39.76%) SAN
2 27 (32.53%) TCP/IP
3 11 (13.25%) DNS
4 8 (9.64%) DHCP
5 7 (8.43%) Firewall
5 7 (8.43%) NAS
6 5 (6.02%) WAN
6 5 (6.02%) Wireless
7 4 (4.82%) Fibre Channel
8 3 (3.61%) Cisco IOS
8 3 (3.61%) LAN
8 3 (3.61%) VPN
9 2 (2.41%) iSCSI
10 1 (1.20%) Network Security
10 1 (1.20%) NFC
10 1 (1.20%) PPP
10 1 (1.20%) Remote Desktop
10 1 (1.20%) VSAN
10 1 (1.20%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (25.30%) Elasticsearch
2 9 (10.84%) SQL Server
3 7 (8.43%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (7.23%) MySQL
5 3 (3.61%) InfluxDB
6 1 (1.20%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.20%) Neo4j
6 1 (1.20%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (12.05%) GitLab
2 9 (10.84%) Jenkins
3 6 (7.23%) Artifactory
4 5 (6.02%) Git
5 3 (3.61%) Bitbucket
6 2 (2.41%) JIRA
7 1 (1.20%) Eclipse
7 1 (1.20%) Gerrit
7 1 (1.20%) GoogleTest
7 1 (1.20%) Gradle
7 1 (1.20%) Liquibase
7 1 (1.20%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (1.20%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.20%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (1.20%) TestRail
7 1 (1.20%) Valgrind
7 1 (1.20%) Visual Studio
General
1 12 (14.46%) Social Skills
2 10 (12.05%) Public Sector
3 3 (3.61%) Finance
3 3 (3.61%) Front Office
3 3 (3.61%) Telecoms
4 2 (2.41%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.41%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.20%) Fire and Rescue
5 1 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (1.20%) Legal
5 1 (1.20%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.20%) Military
5 1 (1.20%) Police
Job Titles
1 26 (31.33%) Developer
2 24 (28.92%) Python Developer
3 11 (13.25%) Senior
4 10 (12.05%) Applications Engineer
4 10 (12.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 10 (12.05%) Linux Engineer
4 10 (12.05%) SIEM Engineer
5 6 (7.23%) AWS Engineer
5 6 (7.23%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 6 (7.23%) DevOps Engineer
5 6 (7.23%) Platform Engineer
6 5 (6.02%) Analyst
6 5 (6.02%) Analyst Developer
6 5 (6.02%) AWS DevOps
6 5 (6.02%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 5 (6.02%) Developer Analyst
6 5 (6.02%) Programmer
6 5 (6.02%) Python Programmer
6 5 (6.02%) Security Analyst
7 4 (4.82%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (13.25%) Elastic Stack
2 8 (9.64%) ADO
3 7 (8.43%) AWS CDK
4 4 (4.82%) .NET
5 3 (3.61%) EDI
5 3 (3.61%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (2.41%) jQuery
6 2 (2.41%) JSON
6 2 (2.41%) Keycloak
6 2 (2.41%) LAMP
6 2 (2.41%) Node.js
6 2 (2.41%) Web Services
7 1 (1.20%) Apache NiFi
7 1 (1.20%) Java EE
7 1 (1.20%) React
7 1 (1.20%) Spring
7 1 (1.20%) Spring Boot
7 1 (1.20%) Swagger
7 1 (1.20%) XML
7 1 (1.20%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 14 (16.87%) Linux Command Line
2 6 (7.23%) PKI
3 3 (3.61%) CCTV
3 3 (3.61%) Fat Client
3 3 (3.61%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (3.61%) Thin Client
4 2 (2.41%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.41%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.41%) Replication
5 1 (1.20%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.20%) Clustering
5 1 (1.20%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.20%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (1.20%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.20%) Smartcard
5 1 (1.20%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 83 (100.00%) Linux
2 28 (33.73%) Debian
2 28 (33.73%) Windows
3 19 (22.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (12.05%) Windows Server
5 9 (10.84%) CentOS
6 8 (9.64%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (4.82%) Android
7 4 (4.82%) Unix
8 3 (3.61%) Mac OS
8 3 (3.61%) Windows Server 2008
8 3 (3.61%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (3.61%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (2.41%) Solaris
9 2 (2.41%) VMS
10 1 (1.20%) Apple iOS
10 1 (1.20%) Data ONTAP
10 1 (1.20%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (1.20%) SUSE
10 1 (1.20%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (36.14%) ITIL
2 28 (33.73%) Agile
3 21 (25.30%) Configuration Management
3 21 (25.30%) Data Modelling
4 19 (22.89%) Customer Service
5 18 (21.69%) Data Engineering
5 18 (21.69%) Prototyping
5 18 (21.69%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 15 (18.07%) Matrix Organization
7 14 (16.87%) Infrastructure as Code
8 11 (13.25%) DevOps
8 11 (13.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 11 (13.25%) RBAC
8 11 (13.25%) SIEM
9 10 (12.05%) Infrastructure Monitoring
9 10 (12.05%) Software Engineering
10 9 (10.84%) CI/CD
10 9 (10.84%) Visualisation
11 8 (9.64%) Application Packaging
11 8 (9.64%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 38 (45.78%) Python
2 16 (19.28%) Bash
3 10 (12.05%) PowerShell
4 8 (9.64%) R
5 5 (6.02%) Groovy
5 5 (6.02%) Shell Script
6 4 (4.82%) Java
7 3 (3.61%) C++
7 3 (3.61%) JavaScript
7 3 (3.61%) SQL
7 3 (3.61%) VB.NET
8 2 (2.41%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.20%) C#
Qualifications
1 37 (44.58%) Security Cleared
2 31 (37.35%) SC Cleared
3 24 (28.92%) DV Cleared
4 8 (9.64%) Degree
5 3 (3.61%) ITIL Certification
5 3 (3.61%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.20%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.20%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (1.20%) Linux+ Certification
7 1 (1.20%) LPIC
7 1 (1.20%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.20%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.61%) ISO 9001
1 3 (3.61%) ISO/IEC 20000
1 3 (3.61%) SLA
2 2 (2.41%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.20%) QA
3 1 (1.20%) WCAG
System Software
1 32 (38.55%) Active Directory
2 9 (10.84%) iptables
2 9 (10.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (9.64%) Docker
4 7 (8.43%) vSphere
5 5 (6.02%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (4.82%) Hyper-V
7 3 (3.61%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (1.20%) KVM
8 1 (1.20%) NFS
8 1 (1.20%) Postfix
8 1 (1.20%) VMware NSX
8 1 (1.20%) VMware Server
8 1 (1.20%) Xen
8 1 (1.20%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 19 (22.89%) Ansible
2 18 (21.69%) Kibana
3 14 (16.87%) Kubernetes
4 10 (12.05%) logstash
5 8 (9.64%) Terraform
6 6 (7.23%) Grafana
6 6 (7.23%) WSUS
7 5 (6.02%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (6.02%) Nessus
7 5 (6.02%) Red Hat Satellite
7 5 (6.02%) SCCM
8 4 (4.82%) vCenter Server
9 3 (3.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (3.61%) PaperCut
9 3 (3.61%) Puppet
9 3 (3.61%) ZABBIX
10 2 (2.41%) Failover Clustering
10 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Clustering
10 2 (2.41%) Packer
10 2 (2.41%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 41 (49.40%) VMware
2 40 (48.19%) Red Hat
3 31 (37.35%) Microsoft
4 9 (10.84%) Veeam
5 5 (6.02%) Aruba
5 5 (6.02%) Cisco
6 4 (4.82%) Oracle
7 3 (3.61%) HP
7 3 (3.61%) Nimble Storage
7 3 (3.61%) Remedy
7 3 (3.61%) Sage
7 3 (3.61%) SolarWinds
7 3 (3.61%) WatchGuard
8 2 (2.41%) Palo Alto
8 2 (2.41%) ProCurve
8 2 (2.41%) Splunk
8 2 (2.41%) Synology
8 2 (2.41%) Zerto
9 1 (1.20%) ArcSight
9 1 (1.20%) Becrypt