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 18 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 559 548 546
Rank change year-on-year -11 -2 +162
Contract jobs citing Debian 11 9 77
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.031% 0.025% 0.16%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.23% 0.18% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 6 61
10th Percentile £390 £356 £400
25th Percentile £456 £416 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +11.26% -9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £551 £538 £550
90th Percentile £591 £559 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £529 £425 £520
% change year-on-year +24.35% -18.27% -4.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £53.00 - £47.50
Median hourly rate £56.00 - £50.00
75th Percentile £59.00 - £52.50
90th Percentile - - -
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 4,783 5,088 7,124
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.51% 14.11% 15.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,087 3,120 4,834
10th Percentile £182 £200 £182
25th Percentile £270 £325 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £480
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -1.04% -5.88%
75th Percentile £573 £585 £613
90th Percentile £660 £688 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £405 £450 £440
% change year-on-year -10.00% +2.27% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 366 215 354
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.25 £15.33
25th Percentile £18.87 £23.45 £18.50
Median hourly rate £24.00 £52.50 £37.83
Median % change year-on-year -54.29% +38.79% +51.31%
75th Percentile £43.75 £68.09 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £70.00 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.00 £52.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year -56.19% +75.00% +33.33%

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 18 November 2025.

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
Top 7 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 18 November 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
England -33 11 £529 +11.26% 18
UK excluding London -22 6 £529 +24.35% 14
Work from Home +10 5 £530 +11.58% 10
South East +5 5 £532 - 2
London +8 2 - - 6
West Midlands -29 1 £400 - 3
Midlands -34 1 £400 - 3

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 3 (27.27%) Apache
2 2 (18.18%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (45.45%) SAN
2 4 (36.36%) TCP/IP
3 1 (9.09%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) MariaDB
1 3 (27.27%) MySQL
2 1 (9.09%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Git
2 3 (27.27%) Jenkins
2 3 (27.27%) Vagrant
3 2 (18.18%) Bitbucket
3 2 (18.18%) JIRA
4 1 (9.09%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
1 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Developer
1 5 (45.45%) Senior
2 4 (36.36%) Python Developer
2 4 (36.36%) Senior Developer
3 3 (27.27%) Administrator
3 3 (27.27%) Linux Administrator
3 3 (27.27%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 3 (27.27%) Senior Python Developer
3 3 (27.27%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (9.09%) Embedded Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Firmware Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Linux Developer
4 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Software Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Site Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Software Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) LAMP
2 2 (18.18%) Zend Framework
3 1 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (9.09%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (9.09%) FPGA
1 1 (9.09%) PCIe
Operating Systems
1 11 (100.00%) Linux
2 10 (90.91%) Ubuntu
3 8 (72.73%) Windows
4 5 (45.45%) Windows Server
4 5 (45.45%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (27.27%) CentOS
5 3 (27.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (9.09%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (9.09%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) Agile
2 6 (54.55%) Configuration Management
3 5 (45.45%) Data Modelling
4 4 (36.36%) Data Engineering
4 4 (36.36%) ITIL
5 3 (27.27%) DevOps
6 2 (18.18%) Build Automation
6 2 (18.18%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (18.18%) Customer Service
6 2 (18.18%) Deployment Automation
6 2 (18.18%) Prototyping
6 2 (18.18%) Security Hardening
6 2 (18.18%) Server Building
6 2 (18.18%) Server Patching
6 2 (18.18%) Software Deployment
6 2 (18.18%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 1 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
7 1 (9.09%) Secure Coding
7 1 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 1 (9.09%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 10 (90.91%) Python
2 4 (36.36%) Bash
3 2 (18.18%) C++
3 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
3 2 (18.18%) Perl
3 2 (18.18%) PHP
4 1 (9.09%) C
4 1 (9.09%) C#
4 1 (9.09%) Embedded C
4 1 (9.09%) Embedded C++
4 1 (9.09%) Go
4 1 (9.09%) Ruby
4 1 (9.09%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) SC Cleared
1 4 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 2 (18.18%) DV Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) QA
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Docker
2 2 (18.18%) VirtualBox
2 2 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (9.09%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (9.09%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) Ansible
2 3 (27.27%) Progress Chef
2 3 (27.27%) Puppet
3 2 (18.18%) Icinga
3 2 (18.18%) Nagios
3 2 (18.18%) Salt
4 1 (9.09%) Grafana
4 1 (9.09%) Graphite
4 1 (9.09%) Kibana
4 1 (9.09%) logstash
4 1 (9.09%) Prometheus
4 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (63.64%) VMware
2 5 (45.45%) Red Hat
3 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
3 3 (27.27%) Rackspace
4 2 (18.18%) New Relic
4 2 (18.18%) Zend
5 1 (9.09%) Remedy