Ubuntu Contracts in the UK excluding London

Ubuntu Linux
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 291 317 374
Rank change year-on-year +26 +57 +58
Contract jobs citing Ubuntu 48 82 73
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.38% 0.40% 0.30%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.18% 2.50% 1.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 58 54
10th Percentile £191 £454 £383
25th Percentile £415 £506 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £536 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.76% +2.14% +10.53%
75th Percentile £558 £550 £559
90th Percentile £675 £565 £626
UK median daily rate £500 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -7.41% -1.82% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 1
10th Percentile £66.80 - -
25th Percentile - £20.50 -
Median hourly rate £68.00 £21.00 £17.47
Median % change year-on-year +223.81% +20.21% -74.70%
75th Percentile - £21.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £68.00 £21.00 £18.74
% change year-on-year +223.81% +12.09% -72.87%

All Operating Systems
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 2,206 3,284 4,628
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 17.25% 15.82% 19.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,420 2,182 3,233
10th Percentile £178 £175 £163
25th Percentile £243 £258 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £638 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £475 £468 £504
% change year-on-year +1.50% -7.14% +0.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 158 321 337
10th Percentile £15.30 £12.25 £13.29
25th Percentile £17.44 £14.27 £17.50
Median hourly rate £22.69 £22.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -26.67% +50.00%
75th Percentile £62.25 £60.75 £61.25
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £72.25
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £22.00 £39.00
% change year-on-year +9.09% -43.59% +73.33%

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 2 May 2025.

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 2 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
South East +21 15 £500 -4.31% 13
South West +52 13 £500 -35.48% 19
Scotland +13 7 £190 -62.93% 2
Midlands +4 7 £525 -4.55% 4
East Midlands +12 5 £525 -4.55%
East of England +29 4 £430 -2.27% 5
North of England +21 3 £401 -5.76% 16
North West +14 2 - - 16
West Midlands +3 2 - - 4
Yorkshire +6 1 £401 -5.76%
Wales +4 1 - -
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 4 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (4.17%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 16 (33.33%) Azure
2 12 (25.00%) AWS
3 11 (22.92%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (18.75%) OpenShift
5 8 (16.67%) SaaS
6 5 (10.42%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (10.42%) GitHub
7 2 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (4.17%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (4.17%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 2 (4.17%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 2 (4.17%) Amazon S3
7 2 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (4.17%) AWS CodeBuild
7 2 (4.17%) AWS CodeDeploy
7 2 (4.17%) AWS CodePipeline
7 2 (4.17%) AWS Fargate
7 2 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (4.17%) Route 53
7 2 (4.17%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 10 (20.83%) SAN
2 8 (16.67%) Firewall
2 8 (16.67%) TCP/IP
3 6 (12.50%) NAS
4 5 (10.42%) LAN
4 5 (10.42%) WAN
5 4 (8.33%) DHCP
5 4 (8.33%) DNS
6 3 (6.25%) SSL
6 3 (6.25%) VLAN
6 3 (6.25%) VPN
7 2 (4.17%) HTTP
7 2 (4.17%) OpenLDAP
8 1 (2.08%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.42%) Big Data
2 2 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.08%) InfluxDB
3 1 (2.08%) MySQL
3 1 (2.08%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (22.92%) Git
2 9 (18.75%) Jenkins
3 2 (4.17%) Artifactory
3 2 (4.17%) JIRA
3 2 (4.17%) Maven
3 2 (4.17%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 6 (12.50%) Finance
2 5 (10.42%) Public Sector
3 1 (2.08%) Law
3 1 (2.08%) Marketing
3 1 (2.08%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (20.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 9 (18.75%) Linux Engineer
2 9 (18.75%) Product Engineer
2 9 (18.75%) Products Support Engineer
2 9 (18.75%) Software Support Engineer
2 9 (18.75%) Support Engineer
3 8 (16.67%) Platform Engineer
3 8 (16.67%) Senior
3 8 (16.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (14.58%) Administrator
4 7 (14.58%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 7 (14.58%) Linux Support
4 7 (14.58%) Linux Support Engineer
5 6 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
5 6 (12.50%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 4 (8.33%) Deployment Engineer
6 4 (8.33%) DevOps Administrator
6 4 (8.33%) Systems Administrator
7 3 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
8 2 (4.17%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (22.92%) Middleware
2 6 (12.50%) LDAP
3 2 (4.17%) AWS CDK
3 2 (4.17%) YAML
4 1 (2.08%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (2.08%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.58%) Hybrid Cloud
1 7 (14.58%) Public Cloud
2 4 (8.33%) Distributed Computing
2 4 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.08%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.08%) e-Learning
3 1 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.08%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (2.08%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 48 (100.00%) Linux
2 26 (54.17%) Windows
3 18 (37.50%) Windows Server
4 17 (35.42%) CentOS
5 8 (16.67%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (8.33%) AIX
6 4 (8.33%) Debian
6 4 (8.33%) HPUX
6 4 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (8.33%) Solaris
6 4 (8.33%) Unix
7 1 (2.08%) Rocky
7 1 (2.08%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (33.33%) Agile
2 12 (25.00%) DevOps
3 11 (22.92%) Configuration Management
3 11 (22.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 11 (22.92%) Software Engineering
4 9 (18.75%) ITIL
5 8 (16.67%) High Availability
5 8 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
6 7 (14.58%) Application Packaging
6 7 (14.58%) Change Control
6 7 (14.58%) DevSecOps
7 6 (12.50%) Asset Management
7 6 (12.50%) Customer-Centricity
7 6 (12.50%) Problem Management
8 5 (10.42%) Continuous Delivery
8 5 (10.42%) Customer-Centric Approach
8 5 (10.42%) Open Source
8 5 (10.42%) Server Building
9 4 (8.33%) Infrastructure Management
9 4 (8.33%) Resource Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (35.42%) Shell Script
2 14 (29.17%) Python
3 13 (27.08%) PowerShell
4 11 (22.92%) Ada
4 11 (22.92%) C
4 11 (22.92%) C++
4 11 (22.92%) JavaScript
5 8 (16.67%) Bash
6 2 (4.17%) Groovy
6 2 (4.17%) Perl
6 2 (4.17%) SQL
7 1 (2.08%) Korn
Qualifications
1 19 (39.58%) Security Cleared
2 14 (29.17%) SC Cleared
3 8 (16.67%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.08%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.08%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (2.08%) GDPR
1 1 (2.08%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (22.92%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (18.75%) vSphere
3 2 (4.17%) Active Directory
3 2 (4.17%) Docker
3 2 (4.17%) KVM
4 1 (2.08%) Firmware
4 1 (2.08%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (2.08%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 21 (43.75%) Ansible
2 14 (29.17%) Terraform
3 11 (22.92%) Kubernetes
3 11 (22.92%) Nessus
4 8 (16.67%) vCenter Server
5 6 (12.50%) Puppet
6 5 (10.42%) SCCM
7 4 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (8.33%) Progress Chef
8 2 (4.17%) Grafana
8 2 (4.17%) Kibana
8 2 (4.17%) Oracle ZFS
9 1 (2.08%) FortiGate
9 1 (2.08%) Packer
9 1 (2.08%) VxRail
9 1 (2.08%) WSUS
Vendors
1 31 (64.58%) Red Hat
2 17 (35.42%) Microsoft
2 17 (35.42%) VMware
3 5 (10.42%) Databricks
3 5 (10.42%) HP
4 4 (8.33%) NetApp
5 2 (4.17%) Cisco
5 2 (4.17%) Sophos
6 1 (2.08%) Dell
6 1 (2.08%) Imperva
6 1 (2.08%) NVIDIA