systemd Contract Job Trends

systemd
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring systemd skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 626 - 592
Rank change year-on-year - - +113
Contract jobs citing systemd 4 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.009% - 0.007%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.062% - 0.058%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £451 - -
25th Percentile £491 - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 - £450
Median % change year-on-year - - +38.46%
75th Percentile £597 - £475
90th Percentile £614 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £563 - -

All Systems Management Skills
UK

systemd falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 6,441 4,679 5,216
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.07% 16.01% 11.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,428 3,204 3,754
10th Percentile £318 £313 £259
25th Percentile £413 £415 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £518
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +1.35% -9.91%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £625
90th Percentile £688 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £495
% change year-on-year - +1.01% -5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 159 52 133
10th Percentile £20.09 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £25.89 £22.14 £17.75
Median hourly rate £55.00 £26.45 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +107.94% -11.83% -47.83%
75th Percentile £69.38 £50.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £79.10 £72.25 £69.73
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £24.18 £30.00
% change year-on-year +127.46% -19.40% -34.86%

systemd
Job Vacancy Trend

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

systemd job vacancy trend in the UK

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing systemd over the 6 months to 11 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for systemd in the UK

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Top 6 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing systemd within the UK over the 6 months to 11 April 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
UK excluding London - 4 £563 - 1
England - 3 £563 - 1
South East - 2 £594 -
Work from Home - 2 £625 -
Midlands - 1 £425 -
Scotland - 1 - -

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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 2 (50.00%) Apache
2 1 (25.00%) JBoss
2 1 (25.00%) OpenStack
2 1 (25.00%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Storage
2 2 (50.00%) IaaS
2 2 (50.00%) PaaS
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (25.00%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Reverse Proxy
1 1 (25.00%) SSH
1 1 (25.00%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle Database
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (25.00%) OpenStack Swift
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
General
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) DBA
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle DBA
2 1 (25.00%) Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Oracle Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Java SE
1 1 (25.00%) Middleware
1 1 (25.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (75.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (25.00%) Rocky
3 1 (25.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Runbook
3 2 (50.00%) High Availability
3 2 (50.00%) Performance Monitoring
3 2 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (50.00%) Statistics
3 2 (50.00%) Storage Management
3 2 (50.00%) Task Automation
4 1 (25.00%) Capacity Management
4 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
4 1 (25.00%) Contract Management
4 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
4 1 (25.00%) JVM Tuning
4 1 (25.00%) OWASP
4 1 (25.00%) Performance Analysis
4 1 (25.00%) Service Management
4 1 (25.00%) Validation
4 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Shell Script
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Bash
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Certification
1 2 (50.00%) OCP
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle Certification
2 1 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) GDPR
2 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (25.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (25.00%) iptables
2 1 (25.00%) NFS
2 1 (25.00%) Samba
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Data Guard
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle RMAN
1 2 (50.00%) SELinux
2 1 (25.00%) Grafana
2 1 (25.00%) Rundeck
2 1 (25.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle
2 2 (50.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (25.00%) SaltStack
3 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow