Ubuntu Contract Job Trends

Ubuntu Linux
UK

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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 547 451 504
Rank change year-on-year -96 +53 +42
Contract jobs citing Ubuntu 103 74 91
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.25% 0.21%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.16% 1.80% 1.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 47 65
10th Percentile £363 £315 £375
25th Percentile £425 £425 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £511
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% -2.15% -7.09%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £550
90th Percentile £625 £550 £583
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £512
% change year-on-year +5.00% -2.30% -0.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 11 0
10th Percentile £33.13 £62.00 -
25th Percentile £37.06 - -
Median hourly rate £44.75 £68.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -34.19% - -
75th Percentile £53.06 - -
90th Percentile £57.38 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £68.00 -

All Operating Systems
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 4,774 4,118 5,880
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.55% 13.99% 13.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,042 2,693 3,913
10th Percentile £188 £200 £188
25th Percentile £316 £313 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £465 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.08% -2.11% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £585 £588
90th Percentile £650 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £450
% change year-on-year - - -2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 339 196 408
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.17 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.00 £17.33 £15.64
Median hourly rate £29.48 £21.59 £22.79
Median % change year-on-year +36.54% -5.27% -48.33%
75th Percentile £63.75 £41.48 £62.50
90th Percentile £70.05 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.94 £18.87 £24.18
% change year-on-year +48.07% -21.96% -39.69%

Ubuntu
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Ubuntu job vacancy trend in the UK

Ubuntu
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Ubuntu
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ubuntu over the 6 months to 12 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Ubuntu in the UK

Ubuntu
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Ubuntu
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Ubuntu over the 6 months to 12 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Ubuntu in the UK

Ubuntu
Top 14 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 12 June 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 -91 90 £500 - 28
UK excluding London -90 55 £525 +5.00% 24
London -47 31 £500 -2.44% 6
Work from Home -54 24 £500 - 10
North of England -58 16 £525 +37.17% 4
South West -24 14 £538 +7.50% 4
South East -76 14 £513 +2.50% 12
Yorkshire -44 10 £531 +38.73%
East of England -24 6 £681 +58.37% 1
North West -28 4 £538 - 1
West Midlands -57 4 £338 -46.00%
Midlands -67 4 £338 -38.64% 2
North East - 2 £388 - 3
Scotland -12 1 - -

Ubuntu
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 15 (14.56%) Apache
2 4 (3.88%) CloudStack
2 4 (3.88%) nginx
2 4 (3.88%) SharePoint
2 4 (3.88%) Tomcat
3 3 (2.91%) IIS
3 3 (2.91%) WordPress
4 2 (1.94%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.97%) JBoss
5 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.97%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (3.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.97%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 31 (30.10%) Azure
2 25 (24.27%) AWS
3 8 (7.77%) Entra ID
4 6 (5.83%) GCP
5 5 (4.85%) Azure Sentinel
5 5 (4.85%) GitHub
6 4 (3.88%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (3.88%) OpenShift
7 3 (2.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (2.91%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (2.91%) AWS Control Tower
7 3 (2.91%) Cloudflare
7 3 (2.91%) SaaS
8 2 (1.94%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (1.94%) Amazon S3
8 2 (1.94%) Azure AKS
8 2 (1.94%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.94%) IaaS
8 2 (1.94%) Power Platform
8 2 (1.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (10.68%) DNS
2 10 (9.71%) VPN
3 8 (7.77%) Firewall
4 7 (6.80%) Cisco IOS
4 7 (6.80%) NAS
4 7 (6.80%) SAN
5 6 (5.83%) BGP
5 6 (5.83%) Cisco ASA
5 6 (5.83%) MPLS
5 6 (5.83%) Network Security
5 6 (5.83%) TACACS
6 5 (4.85%) TCP/IP
6 5 (4.85%) VSAN
7 4 (3.88%) VLAN
8 3 (2.91%) LAN
8 3 (2.91%) SSH
9 2 (1.94%) BIG-IP
9 2 (1.94%) DHCP
9 2 (1.94%) Internet
9 2 (1.94%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.74%) MySQL
2 6 (5.83%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (3.88%) MongoDB
3 4 (3.88%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.94%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (1.94%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.94%) Power BI
4 2 (1.94%) Redis
4 2 (1.94%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.97%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.97%) OpenStack Swift
Development Applications
1 18 (17.48%) Git
2 10 (9.71%) GitLab
3 4 (3.88%) Jenkins
General
1 22 (21.36%) Social Skills
2 13 (12.62%) Public Sector
3 11 (10.68%) Documentation Skills
4 9 (8.74%) Banking
5 6 (5.83%) Finance
6 3 (2.91%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.91%) Retail
6 3 (2.91%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.94%) Aerospace
7 2 (1.94%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 36 (34.95%) Linux Engineer
2 13 (12.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 11 (10.68%) Senior
4 8 (7.77%) DevOps Engineer
4 8 (7.77%) Lead
4 8 (7.77%) Migration Engineer
4 8 (7.77%) Ubuntu Engineer
5 6 (5.83%) Architect
5 6 (5.83%) Security Engineer
6 5 (4.85%) AWS Engineer
6 5 (4.85%) Cloud Engineer
7 4 (3.88%) Administrator
7 4 (3.88%) Consultant
7 4 (3.88%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
7 4 (3.88%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (3.88%) Open Source Engineer
7 4 (3.88%) Security Architect
7 4 (3.88%) Senior Linux Engineer
7 4 (3.88%) Support Engineer
7 4 (3.88%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (11.65%) YAML
2 10 (9.71%) Middleware
3 9 (8.74%) LDAP
4 7 (6.80%) cloud-init
5 6 (5.83%) Elastic Stack
5 6 (5.83%) REST
6 5 (4.85%) Kafka
7 4 (3.88%) Azure Blueprints
8 3 (2.91%) Keycloak
8 3 (2.91%) LAMP
8 3 (2.91%) LEMP Stack
8 3 (2.91%) OAuth
9 2 (1.94%) Celery
9 2 (1.94%) Django
9 2 (1.94%) JSON
9 2 (1.94%) JWT
9 2 (1.94%) React
9 2 (1.94%) SOAP
9 2 (1.94%) Vue
10 1 (0.97%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.68%) Cloud Native
2 9 (8.74%) Data Centre
2 9 (8.74%) PKI
3 7 (6.80%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (5.83%) Onboarding
4 6 (5.83%) Public Cloud
5 5 (4.85%) Legacy Applications
6 4 (3.88%) CMDB
6 4 (3.88%) Product Ownership
6 4 (3.88%) Security Posture
7 3 (2.91%) Acoustics
7 3 (2.91%) Derivative
7 3 (2.91%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.91%) Low-Code
7 3 (2.91%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.94%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.94%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.94%) Replication
9 1 (0.97%) Device Driver
9 1 (0.97%) Grid Computing
Operating Systems
1 103 (100.00%) Linux
2 50 (48.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 29 (28.16%) Windows
4 24 (23.30%) CentOS
5 22 (21.36%) Windows Server
6 13 (12.62%) Debian
7 7 (6.80%) Rocky
7 7 (6.80%) VMS
8 6 (5.83%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (3.88%) Alpine Linux
9 4 (3.88%) Windows Server 2012
9 4 (3.88%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (2.91%) Mac OS
10 3 (2.91%) Windows 10
11 2 (1.94%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 2 (1.94%) Unix
11 2 (1.94%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.97%) Android
12 1 (0.97%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (29.13%) DevOps
2 25 (24.27%) CI/CD
2 25 (24.27%) Containerisation
2 25 (24.27%) Migration
3 23 (22.33%) Problem-Solving
4 22 (21.36%) Configuration Management
5 17 (16.50%) Infrastructure as Code
6 16 (15.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 13 (12.62%) RBAC
8 12 (11.65%) Cybersecurity
8 12 (11.65%) Observability
9 11 (10.68%) Agile
10 10 (9.71%) Continuous Improvement
10 10 (9.71%) Knowledge Transfer
11 9 (8.74%) Disaster Recovery
11 9 (8.74%) High Availability
12 8 (7.77%) Generative AI
12 8 (7.77%) ITSM
12 8 (7.77%) Technical Leadership
13 7 (6.80%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 43 (41.75%) Python
2 24 (23.30%) Bash
3 19 (18.45%) PowerShell
4 10 (9.71%) Ruby
5 8 (7.77%) Go
5 8 (7.77%) Perl
6 4 (3.88%) Bicep
6 4 (3.88%) JavaScript
6 4 (3.88%) PHP
7 2 (1.94%) SQL
8 1 (0.97%) Ladder Logic
8 1 (0.97%) Scala
8 1 (0.97%) Search Processing Language
8 1 (0.97%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 37 (35.92%) Security Cleared
2 30 (29.13%) SC Cleared
3 9 (8.74%) Degree
4 8 (7.77%) RHCE
5 6 (5.83%) DV Cleared
6 5 (4.85%) AWS Certification
6 5 (4.85%) CompTIA Security+
6 5 (4.85%) GIAC
7 4 (3.88%) APMG
7 4 (3.88%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (3.88%) GSEC
7 4 (3.88%) SSCP
7 4 (3.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 3 (2.91%) Azure Certification
8 3 (2.91%) CISM
8 3 (2.91%) CISSP
9 2 (1.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (1.94%) CCNP
9 2 (1.94%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.94%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (10.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (9.71%) NIST
3 6 (5.83%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (3.88%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 3 (2.91%) SOC 2
6 2 (1.94%) HIPAA
6 2 (1.94%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.97%) NCSC
7 1 (0.97%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.97%) QA
System Software
1 18 (17.48%) VMware Infrastructure
2 16 (15.53%) Docker
3 13 (12.62%) vSphere
4 11 (10.68%) Active Directory
5 10 (9.71%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (5.83%) QEMU
7 5 (4.85%) NFS
7 5 (4.85%) VMware NSX
8 4 (3.88%) KVM
8 4 (3.88%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (2.91%) Dovecot
9 3 (2.91%) Hyper-V
9 3 (2.91%) Postfix
10 2 (1.94%) Ceph
11 1 (0.97%) GPFS
11 1 (0.97%) iptables
11 1 (0.97%) Lustre
11 1 (0.97%) Samba
11 1 (0.97%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 50 (48.54%) Ansible
2 26 (25.24%) Terraform
3 15 (14.56%) Kubernetes
4 14 (13.59%) Grafana
4 14 (13.59%) Puppet
5 12 (11.65%) Prometheus
6 9 (8.74%) vCenter Server
7 5 (4.85%) Podman
8 4 (3.88%) systemd
9 3 (2.91%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (2.91%) HAProxy
9 3 (2.91%) Nessus
9 3 (2.91%) SCOM
9 3 (2.91%) SELinux
9 3 (2.91%) WSUS
10 2 (1.94%) Kibana
10 2 (1.94%) logstash
10 2 (1.94%) PowerCLI
10 2 (1.94%) vRealize
10 2 (1.94%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 23 (22.33%) Red Hat
2 22 (21.36%) VMware
3 15 (14.56%) Microsoft
4 13 (12.62%) Cisco
5 12 (11.65%) NVIDIA
6 7 (6.80%) Dell
6 7 (6.80%) Splunk
7 6 (5.83%) Tenable
8 5 (4.85%) CrowdStrike
8 5 (4.85%) Google
8 5 (4.85%) Okta
8 5 (4.85%) Rapid7
9 4 (3.88%) Qualys
10 3 (2.91%) F5
10 3 (2.91%) Juniper
10 3 (2.91%) TOWER Software
11 2 (1.94%) Commvault
11 2 (1.94%) Oracle
11 2 (1.94%) ServiceNow
11 2 (1.94%) Veeam