Debian Contract Job Trends

Debian Linux
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Debian skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 607 518 549
Rank change year-on-year -89 +31 +113
Contract jobs citing Debian 21 8 41
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.044% 0.027% 0.095%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.45% 0.20% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 4 37
10th Percentile £410 £524 £313
25th Percentile £463 £541 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% +3.77% -3.64%
75th Percentile £624 £569 £550
90th Percentile £681 £603 £556
UK excluding London median daily rate £560 £550 £535
% change year-on-year +1.82% +2.80% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £33.13 - -
25th Percentile £37.06 £39.25 -
Median hourly rate £44.75 £44.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +0.56% - -
75th Percentile £53.06 £49.75 -
90th Percentile £57.38 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Operating Systems
UK

Debian 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 4,645 4,078 5,733
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.78% 13.97% 13.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,004 2,680 3,878
10th Percentile £185 £200 £185
25th Percentile £313 £313 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £468
Median % change year-on-year -5.21% +1.60% -7.43%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £652 £690 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £433 £450 £450
% change year-on-year -3.89% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 320 181 392
10th Percentile £15.99 £15.33 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.33 £17.79 £15.44
Median hourly rate £47.50 £23.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +106.52% +4.55% -42.86%
75th Percentile £67.25 £58.75 £60.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £22.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year +115.91% -2.22% -23.21%

Debian
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Debian relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Debian job vacancy trend in the UK

Debian
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Debian.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Debian

Debian
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Debian over the 6 months to 12 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Debian in the UK

Debian
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Debian.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Debian

Debian
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Debian over the 6 months to 12 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Debian in the UK

Debian
Top 9 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Debian within the UK over the 6 months to 12 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
England -113 21 £560 +1.82% 13
UK excluding London -94 17 £560 +1.82% 11
Work from Home -40 6 £681 +21.07% 6
South East - 6 £568 - 10
East of England - 5 £681 -
South West - 4 - -
London -56 2 £500 -11.11% 2
Midlands -57 2 £400 -27.27% 1
West Midlands -64 2 £400 -

Debian
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 6 (28.57%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 10 (47.62%) AWS
2 7 (33.33%) Azure
3 4 (19.05%) GitHub
4 1 (4.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 3 (14.29%) SAN
1 3 (14.29%) TCP/IP
2 2 (9.52%) Wireless
3 1 (4.76%) VLAN
3 1 (4.76%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.52%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 11 (52.38%) Git
2 4 (19.05%) GitLab
3 1 (4.76%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (14.29%) Telecoms
2 2 (9.52%) Aerospace
2 2 (9.52%) Manufacturing
3 1 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (33.33%) Linux Engineer
2 5 (23.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (23.81%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (23.81%) Software Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) Open Source Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Automation Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Citrix Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Citrix Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Senior
4 3 (14.29%) VMware Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Administrator
5 2 (9.52%) Firmware Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Senior Automation Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Senior Linux Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Systems Administrator
6 1 (4.76%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.52%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (9.52%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) Product Ownership
2 3 (14.29%) Acoustics
2 3 (14.29%) Derivative
2 3 (14.29%) PKI
3 2 (9.52%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (9.52%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (9.52%) Private Cloud
3 2 (9.52%) Public Cloud
4 1 (4.76%) Data Centre
4 1 (4.76%) Device Driver
4 1 (4.76%) FPGA
4 1 (4.76%) Lidar
4 1 (4.76%) PCIe
4 1 (4.76%) Robotics
4 1 (4.76%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 21 (100.00%) Linux
2 16 (76.19%) Ubuntu
3 7 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (19.05%) Rocky
4 4 (19.05%) VMS
4 4 (19.05%) Windows
5 2 (9.52%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (4.76%) Windows Server
6 1 (4.76%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (42.86%) Containerisation
2 8 (38.10%) Agile
3 7 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (28.57%) Configuration Management
4 6 (28.57%) Software Engineering
5 5 (23.81%) Computer Science
5 5 (23.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 4 (19.05%) CI/CD
6 4 (19.05%) Open Source
6 4 (19.05%) Performance Optimisation
6 4 (19.05%) Requirements Gathering
6 4 (19.05%) Technical Leadership
7 3 (14.29%) DevOps
7 3 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
7 3 (14.29%) ITIL
8 2 (9.52%) Collaborative Working
8 2 (9.52%) High Availability
8 2 (9.52%) Incident Management
8 2 (9.52%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 2 (9.52%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 10 (47.62%) Python
2 6 (28.57%) Go
3 4 (19.05%) JavaScript
4 3 (14.29%) C++
5 2 (9.52%) Bash
5 2 (9.52%) Ruby
5 2 (9.52%) Shell Script
6 1 (4.76%) C
6 1 (4.76%) C#
6 1 (4.76%) Embedded C
6 1 (4.76%) Embedded C++
6 1 (4.76%) Ladder Logic
6 1 (4.76%) PowerShell
6 1 (4.76%) Scala
Qualifications
1 7 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 7 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 6 (28.57%) DV Cleared
3 5 (23.81%) Degree
4 4 (19.05%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (9.52%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 6 (28.57%) QEMU
2 5 (23.81%) Docker
3 3 (14.29%) VMware NSX
4 2 (9.52%) Embedded Firmware
4 2 (9.52%) Firmware
5 1 (4.76%) KVM
Systems Management
1 8 (38.10%) Ansible
2 5 (23.81%) Podman
3 4 (19.05%) Kubernetes
4 3 (14.29%) Grafana
4 3 (14.29%) Prometheus
5 2 (9.52%) Kibana
5 2 (9.52%) logstash
5 2 (9.52%) Terraform
6 1 (4.76%) Consul
6 1 (4.76%) Dell DRAC
Vendors
1 6 (28.57%) VMware
2 4 (19.05%) Red Hat
3 3 (14.29%) Citrix
3 3 (14.29%) NVIDIA
4 1 (4.76%) Cisco
4 1 (4.76%) Dell
4 1 (4.76%) Meraki
4 1 (4.76%) Microsoft