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 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 293 313 372
Rank change year-on-year +20 +59 +50
Contract jobs citing Ubuntu 49 78 72
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.38% 0.38% 0.31%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.23% 2.43% 1.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 55 50
10th Percentile £191 £419 £370
25th Percentile £413 £464 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £522 £511
Median % change year-on-year -4.21% +2.10% +2.25%
75th Percentile - £550 £575
90th Percentile £586 £560 £639
UK median daily rate £500 £522 £550
% change year-on-year -4.21% -5.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 1
10th Percentile £67.40 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £68.00 - £17.47
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £68.00 - £18.74
% change year-on-year - - -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 2,199 3,215 4,353
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 17.27% 15.87% 19.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,428 2,154 3,003
10th Percentile £178 £175 £163
25th Percentile £234 £263 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £450 £470
Median % change year-on-year -0.61% -4.26% +10.59%
75th Percentile £570 £575 £588
90th Percentile £625 £670 £675
UK median daily rate £465 £468 £500
% change year-on-year -0.64% -6.40% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 151 325 318
10th Percentile £15.12 £12.25 £13.29
25th Percentile £17.10 £14.27 £17.48
Median hourly rate £20.00 £22.50 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -28.00% +56.25%
75th Percentile £56.25 £62.50 £61.25
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £71.20
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £22.40 £40.00
% change year-on-year -1.79% -44.00% +77.78%

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 23 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 23 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 West +46 15 £500 - 26
South East +30 9 £500 -2.15% 38
East of England +34 8 £430 -2.27% 18
Midlands +2 8 £550 - 10
Scotland +7 7 £190 -62.93% 2
East Midlands +9 5 £525 -4.55%
North of England +12 3 £401 -5.76% 21
West Midlands -1 3 £625 +13.64% 8
North West +7 2 - - 17
Yorkshire +14 1 £401 -5.76% 3
Wales -2 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 4 (8.16%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (6.12%) OpenStack
3 2 (4.08%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (8.16%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 16 (32.65%) AWS
2 11 (22.45%) Azure
3 6 (12.24%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (10.20%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (10.20%) GitHub
5 4 (8.16%) OpenShift
6 3 (6.12%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (6.12%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (6.12%) SaaS
7 2 (4.08%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (4.08%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (4.08%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 2 (4.08%) Amazon S3
7 2 (4.08%) AWS CodeBuild
7 2 (4.08%) AWS CodeDeploy
7 2 (4.08%) AWS CodePipeline
7 2 (4.08%) AWS Fargate
7 2 (4.08%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (4.08%) Route 53
7 2 (4.08%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 14 (28.57%) SAN
2 8 (16.33%) DNS
2 8 (16.33%) Firewall
2 8 (16.33%) TCP/IP
3 6 (12.24%) NAS
4 5 (10.20%) LAN
4 5 (10.20%) WAN
5 4 (8.16%) DHCP
5 4 (8.16%) iSCSI
6 3 (6.12%) SSL
6 3 (6.12%) VLAN
6 3 (6.12%) VPN
7 2 (4.08%) HTTP
7 2 (4.08%) OpenLDAP
8 1 (2.04%) NFC
8 1 (2.04%) PPP
8 1 (2.04%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.20%) Big Data
2 2 (4.08%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (4.08%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.04%) InfluxDB
3 1 (2.04%) MySQL
3 1 (2.04%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (18.37%) Git
1 9 (18.37%) Jenkins
2 6 (12.24%) JIRA
3 3 (6.12%) GitLab
3 3 (6.12%) TeamCity
4 2 (4.08%) Artifactory
4 2 (4.08%) Maven
4 2 (4.08%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (2.04%) Eclipse
5 1 (2.04%) Valgrind
General
1 6 (12.24%) Finance
1 6 (12.24%) Public Sector
2 4 (8.16%) Social Skills
3 2 (4.08%) Law
4 1 (2.04%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 11 (22.45%) Linux Engineer
1 11 (22.45%) Product Engineer
1 11 (22.45%) Products Support Engineer
1 11 (22.45%) Software Support Engineer
1 11 (22.45%) Support Engineer
2 9 (18.37%) Administrator
3 8 (16.33%) Linux Support
3 8 (16.33%) Linux Support Engineer
3 8 (16.33%) Platform Engineer
4 7 (14.29%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 7 (14.29%) Systems Administrator
5 6 (12.24%) AWS Engineer
5 6 (12.24%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 5 (10.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (8.16%) Deployment Engineer
7 4 (8.16%) DevOps Administrator
7 4 (8.16%) Linux Administrator
7 4 (8.16%) Senior
8 3 (6.12%) DevOps Engineer
8 3 (6.12%) Linux Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (24.49%) Middleware
2 6 (12.24%) LDAP
3 2 (4.08%) AWS CDK
3 2 (4.08%) Web Services
3 2 (4.08%) YAML
4 1 (2.04%) JSON
4 1 (2.04%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (2.04%) REST
4 1 (2.04%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.20%) Data Centre
1 5 (10.20%) Linux Command Line
2 4 (8.16%) Distributed Computing
2 4 (8.16%) Enterprise Storage
2 4 (8.16%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (4.08%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (4.08%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.04%) e-Learning
4 1 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.04%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.04%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 49 (100.00%) Linux
2 22 (44.90%) Windows
3 14 (28.57%) CentOS
4 13 (26.53%) Windows Server
5 4 (8.16%) Debian
6 3 (6.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (6.12%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (4.08%) AIX
7 2 (4.08%) HPUX
7 2 (4.08%) Solaris
7 2 (4.08%) Unix
8 1 (2.04%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (2.04%) Rocky
8 1 (2.04%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (30.61%) Software Engineering
2 12 (24.49%) Agile
2 12 (24.49%) DevOps
3 9 (18.37%) Configuration Management
3 9 (18.37%) ITIL
4 8 (16.33%) High Availability
4 8 (16.33%) Platform Engineering
5 6 (12.24%) Asset Management
5 6 (12.24%) Containerisation
5 6 (12.24%) Customer-Centricity
5 6 (12.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 6 (12.24%) ITSM
5 6 (12.24%) Problem Management
6 5 (10.20%) Continuous Delivery
6 5 (10.20%) Customer-Centric Approach
6 5 (10.20%) Open Source
6 5 (10.20%) Server Building
7 4 (8.16%) Infrastructure Management
7 4 (8.16%) Patch Management
7 4 (8.16%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 22 (44.90%) Shell Script
2 19 (38.78%) Python
3 14 (28.57%) C++
3 14 (28.57%) JavaScript
4 13 (26.53%) Ada
4 13 (26.53%) C
5 8 (16.33%) PowerShell
6 6 (12.24%) Bash
7 2 (4.08%) Groovy
7 2 (4.08%) Perl
7 2 (4.08%) SQL
8 1 (2.04%) C#
8 1 (2.04%) Java
Qualifications
1 13 (26.53%) Security Cleared
2 11 (22.45%) SC Cleared
3 4 (8.16%) DV Cleared
4 3 (6.12%) Degree
5 1 (2.04%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.16%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.04%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (2.04%) GDPR
2 1 (2.04%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (12.24%) Active Directory
1 6 (12.24%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (8.16%) vSphere
3 3 (6.12%) Hyper-V
4 2 (4.08%) Docker
4 2 (4.08%) KVM
5 1 (2.04%) Firmware
5 1 (2.04%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (2.04%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 18 (36.73%) Ansible
2 10 (20.41%) Terraform
3 6 (12.24%) Kubernetes
3 6 (12.24%) Nessus
4 5 (10.20%) SCCM
5 4 (8.16%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (8.16%) Puppet
6 3 (6.12%) vCenter Server
7 2 (4.08%) Grafana
7 2 (4.08%) Kibana
7 2 (4.08%) Progress Chef
8 1 (2.04%) FortiGate
8 1 (2.04%) Packer
8 1 (2.04%) VxRail
8 1 (2.04%) WSUS
Vendors
1 26 (53.06%) Red Hat
2 15 (30.61%) Microsoft
2 15 (30.61%) VMware
3 5 (10.20%) Databricks
4 4 (8.16%) HP
4 4 (8.16%) NetApp
4 4 (8.16%) ServiceNow
5 2 (4.08%) Cisco
5 2 (4.08%) Sophos
6 1 (2.04%) Dell
6 1 (2.04%) Imperva
6 1 (2.04%) NVIDIA