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 6 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 536 448 496
Rank change year-on-year -88 +48 +30
Contract jobs citing Ubuntu 97 70 89
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.20% 0.24% 0.21%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.02% 1.74% 1.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 41 63
10th Percentile £381 £250 £375
25th Percentile £425 £415 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £500 £511
Median % change year-on-year +0.50% -2.15% -7.09%
75th Percentile £545 £525 £550
90th Percentile £603 £550 £585
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £485 £516
% change year-on-year +8.25% -6.05% +0.73%
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 4,796 4,024 5,797
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.71% 13.86% 13.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,057 2,638 3,883
10th Percentile £188 £200 £185
25th Percentile £315 £314 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £465 £468
Median % change year-on-year -1.08% -0.64% -6.40%
75th Percentile £575 £587 £588
90th Percentile £650 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £450
% change year-on-year - - -3.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 347 187 405
10th Percentile £14.80 £15.12 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.25 £17.33 £15.50
Median hourly rate £32.50 £22.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +47.73% -2.22% -47.83%
75th Percentile £65.00 £45.83 £62.00
90th Percentile £72.80 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £18.94 £24.18
% change year-on-year +71.64% -21.69% -37.19%

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 6 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 6 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 6 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 -77 84 £500 - 35
UK excluding London -99 54 £525 +8.25% 34
London -57 26 £500 -4.76% 8
Work from Home -44 23 £500 - 18
North of England -61 16 £525 +37.17% 6
South West -25 14 £538 +7.50% 3
South East -59 14 £513 +2.50% 12
Yorkshire -55 10 £531 +38.73% 1
East of England -29 5 £681 +58.37% 2
North West -39 4 £538 - 1
West Midlands -56 4 £338 -46.00%
Midlands -59 4 £338 -38.64% 2
North East - 2 £388 - 4
Scotland -15 1 - - 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 (15.46%) Apache
2 4 (4.12%) CloudStack
2 4 (4.12%) nginx
2 4 (4.12%) SharePoint
2 4 (4.12%) Tomcat
3 3 (3.09%) IIS
4 2 (2.06%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (1.03%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.03%) JBoss
5 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (1.03%) OpenStack
5 1 (1.03%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (4.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.03%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 28 (28.87%) Azure
2 24 (24.74%) AWS
3 5 (5.15%) Entra ID
3 5 (5.15%) GCP
3 5 (5.15%) GitHub
4 4 (4.12%) Azure Sentinel
4 4 (4.12%) OpenShift
5 3 (3.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (3.09%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (3.09%) AWS Control Tower
5 3 (3.09%) Cloudflare
6 2 (2.06%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (2.06%) Amazon S3
6 2 (2.06%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.06%) IaaS
6 2 (2.06%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (2.06%) Power Platform
6 2 (2.06%) SaaS
6 2 (2.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (1.03%) Amazon ELB
Communications & Networking
1 10 (10.31%) VPN
2 9 (9.28%) DNS
3 8 (8.25%) Firewall
4 7 (7.22%) Cisco IOS
4 7 (7.22%) NAS
4 7 (7.22%) SAN
5 6 (6.19%) BGP
5 6 (6.19%) Cisco ASA
5 6 (6.19%) MPLS
5 6 (6.19%) Network Security
5 6 (6.19%) TACACS
6 5 (5.15%) VSAN
7 4 (4.12%) VLAN
8 3 (3.09%) Kerberos
8 3 (3.09%) LAN
8 3 (3.09%) TCP/IP
9 2 (2.06%) BIG-IP
9 2 (2.06%) DHCP
9 2 (2.06%) Internet
9 2 (2.06%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.22%) MySQL
2 4 (4.12%) MongoDB
2 4 (4.12%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (4.12%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.06%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (2.06%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (2.06%) Power BI
4 1 (1.03%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.03%) Apache Hive
4 1 (1.03%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.03%) Impala
4 1 (1.03%) OpenStack Swift
Development Applications
1 17 (17.53%) Git
2 10 (10.31%) GitLab
3 4 (4.12%) Jenkins
General
1 23 (23.71%) Social Skills
2 13 (13.40%) Public Sector
3 10 (10.31%) Documentation Skills
4 7 (7.22%) Banking
5 3 (3.09%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.09%) Finance
5 3 (3.09%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.06%) Aerospace
6 2 (2.06%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.03%) Retail
Job Titles
1 32 (32.99%) Linux Engineer
2 13 (13.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 9 (9.28%) Senior
4 8 (8.25%) Lead
4 8 (8.25%) Migration Engineer
4 8 (8.25%) Ubuntu Engineer
5 6 (6.19%) Architect
5 6 (6.19%) DevOps Engineer
5 6 (6.19%) Security Engineer
6 5 (5.15%) Administrator
6 5 (5.15%) AWS Engineer
6 5 (5.15%) Cloud Engineer
7 4 (4.12%) Consultant
7 4 (4.12%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
7 4 (4.12%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (4.12%) Open Source Engineer
7 4 (4.12%) Security Architect
7 4 (4.12%) Senior Linux Engineer
7 4 (4.12%) Software Engineer
7 4 (4.12%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (11.34%) YAML
2 8 (8.25%) LDAP
2 8 (8.25%) Middleware
3 6 (6.19%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (6.19%) Kafka
4 5 (5.15%) cloud-init
5 4 (4.12%) Azure Blueprints
6 3 (3.09%) Keycloak
6 3 (3.09%) LAMP
6 3 (3.09%) LEMP Stack
6 3 (3.09%) REST
7 2 (2.06%) SOAP
8 1 (1.03%) JSON
8 1 (1.03%) Web Services
8 1 (1.03%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.28%) Data Centre
1 9 (9.28%) PKI
2 8 (8.25%) Cloud Native
3 6 (6.19%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (6.19%) Public Cloud
4 5 (5.15%) Onboarding
5 4 (4.12%) CMDB
5 4 (4.12%) Product Ownership
6 3 (3.09%) Acoustics
6 3 (3.09%) Derivative
6 3 (3.09%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (3.09%) Legacy Applications
6 3 (3.09%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (3.09%) Private Cloud
7 2 (2.06%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.06%) Replication
7 2 (2.06%) Security Posture
8 1 (1.03%) Device Driver
8 1 (1.03%) EPoS
8 1 (1.03%) Grid Computing
Operating Systems
1 97 (100.00%) Linux
2 47 (48.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 26 (26.80%) Windows
4 24 (24.74%) CentOS
5 21 (21.65%) Windows Server
6 13 (13.40%) Debian
7 7 (7.22%) Rocky
7 7 (7.22%) VMS
8 6 (6.19%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (4.12%) Alpine Linux
9 4 (4.12%) Windows Server 2012
9 4 (4.12%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (3.09%) Mac OS
10 3 (3.09%) Windows 10
11 2 (2.06%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 2 (2.06%) Windows 7
12 1 (1.03%) Android
12 1 (1.03%) SUSE
12 1 (1.03%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (27.84%) DevOps
2 22 (22.68%) CI/CD
2 22 (22.68%) Migration
3 20 (20.62%) Containerisation
3 20 (20.62%) Problem-Solving
4 18 (18.56%) Configuration Management
5 15 (15.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 14 (14.43%) Infrastructure as Code
7 13 (13.40%) RBAC
8 12 (12.37%) Observability
9 11 (11.34%) Cybersecurity
10 10 (10.31%) Continuous Improvement
10 10 (10.31%) High Availability
10 10 (10.31%) Knowledge Transfer
11 9 (9.28%) Agile
11 9 (9.28%) Disaster Recovery
12 8 (8.25%) Capacity Planning
12 8 (8.25%) ITSM
12 8 (8.25%) Technical Leadership
13 7 (7.22%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 41 (42.27%) Python
2 23 (23.71%) Bash
3 18 (18.56%) PowerShell
4 10 (10.31%) Ruby
5 8 (8.25%) Go
5 8 (8.25%) Perl
6 4 (4.12%) Bicep
6 4 (4.12%) JavaScript
6 4 (4.12%) PHP
7 2 (2.06%) SQL
8 1 (1.03%) Ladder Logic
8 1 (1.03%) Scala
8 1 (1.03%) Search Processing Language
8 1 (1.03%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.03%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 37 (38.14%) Security Cleared
2 30 (30.93%) SC Cleared
3 8 (8.25%) Degree
3 8 (8.25%) RHCE
4 6 (6.19%) DV Cleared
5 5 (5.15%) GIAC
6 4 (4.12%) APMG
6 4 (4.12%) AWS Certification
6 4 (4.12%) CompTIA Security+
6 4 (4.12%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (4.12%) GSEC
6 4 (4.12%) SSCP
6 4 (4.12%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 2 (2.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (2.06%) Azure Certification
7 2 (2.06%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (2.06%) CCNP
7 2 (2.06%) CISM
7 2 (2.06%) ISSAP
7 2 (2.06%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (9.28%) NIST
3 6 (6.19%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (4.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (2.06%) HIPAA
5 2 (2.06%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 2 (2.06%) SOC 2
6 1 (1.03%) NCSC
6 1 (1.03%) QA
System Software
1 18 (18.56%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (11.34%) Docker
2 11 (11.34%) vSphere
3 10 (10.31%) VMware ESXi
4 8 (8.25%) Active Directory
5 6 (6.19%) QEMU
6 5 (5.15%) NFS
6 5 (5.15%) VMware NSX
7 4 (4.12%) KVM
7 4 (4.12%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (3.09%) Dovecot
8 3 (3.09%) Hyper-V
8 3 (3.09%) Postfix
9 2 (2.06%) Ceph
10 1 (1.03%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 1 (1.03%) GPFS
10 1 (1.03%) HDFS
10 1 (1.03%) iptables
10 1 (1.03%) Lustre
10 1 (1.03%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 46 (47.42%) Ansible
2 23 (23.71%) Terraform
3 15 (15.46%) Grafana
4 14 (14.43%) Puppet
5 13 (13.40%) Prometheus
6 12 (12.37%) Kubernetes
7 9 (9.28%) vCenter Server
8 5 (5.15%) Podman
9 3 (3.09%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (3.09%) HAProxy
9 3 (3.09%) Nessus
9 3 (3.09%) SCOM
9 3 (3.09%) SELinux
9 3 (3.09%) WSUS
10 2 (2.06%) Check_MK
10 2 (2.06%) Kibana
10 2 (2.06%) logstash
10 2 (2.06%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (2.06%) systemd
10 2 (2.06%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 24 (24.74%) Red Hat
2 22 (22.68%) VMware
3 14 (14.43%) Microsoft
4 13 (13.40%) Cisco
5 12 (12.37%) NVIDIA
6 7 (7.22%) Dell
7 6 (6.19%) Splunk
7 6 (6.19%) Tenable
8 5 (5.15%) Rapid7
9 4 (4.12%) CrowdStrike
9 4 (4.12%) Google
9 4 (4.12%) Okta
9 4 (4.12%) Qualys
10 3 (3.09%) F5
10 3 (3.09%) Juniper
10 3 (3.09%) TOWER Software
11 2 (2.06%) Commvault
11 2 (2.06%) Fortinet
11 2 (2.06%) Oracle
11 2 (2.06%) Veeam