Ubuntu Contract Job Trends

Ubuntu Linux
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Ubuntu skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 483 497 482
Rank change year-on-year +14 -15 +170
Contract jobs citing Ubuntu 70 66 178
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.21% 0.17% 0.35%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.59% 1.21% 2.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 49 127
10th Percentile £361 £247 £358
25th Percentile £450 £350 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.11% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £543 £525 £576
90th Percentile £575 £550 £683
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.50% +5.26% -7.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 7
10th Percentile £65.00 - £59.50
25th Percentile - - £69.38
Median hourly rate £68.00 - £72.50
75th Percentile - - £73.75
90th Percentile - - £74.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.00 - £72.50
% change year-on-year - - +5.84%

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 4,411 5,436 7,805
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.49% 14.16% 15.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,820 3,502 5,306
10th Percentile £190 £200 £186
25th Percentile £300 £331 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £581 £625
90th Percentile £675 £685 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £445 £450 £450
% change year-on-year -1.11% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 272 275 374
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.54 £14.74
25th Percentile £18.74 £20.15 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £49.50 £46.69
Median % change year-on-year -49.19% +6.02% +95.27%
75th Percentile £57.81 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £70.00 £77.21
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £52.75 £45.88
% change year-on-year -52.32% +14.97% +108.55%

Ubuntu
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Ubuntu as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Ubuntu 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 14 September 2025.

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
Top 12 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 14 September 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 +23 67 £485 +14.12% 102
UK excluding London -4 48 £493 -1.50% 102
London +31 27 £463 +15.63% 10
Work from Home -1 21 £530 +4.69% 33
South East +19 17 £513 +36.67% 20
Midlands -5 12 £475 +58.33% 18
West Midlands -10 12 £475 +58.33% 8
South West +25 11 £493 -1.50% 30
East of England +12 6 £413 - 13
Scotland -8 1 - - 4
Yorkshire -14 1 £365 -14.12% 6
North of England -19 1 £365 -14.12% 14

Ubuntu
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 12 (17.14%) Confluence
2 11 (15.71%) nginx
3 5 (7.14%) Apache
4 4 (5.71%) OpenStack
5 2 (2.86%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 2 (2.86%) Tomcat
5 2 (2.86%) WebLogic
6 1 (1.43%) Anypoint
6 1 (1.43%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (14.29%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 1 (1.43%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 24 (34.29%) AWS
2 18 (25.71%) Azure
3 12 (17.14%) Amazon S3
4 11 (15.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 11 (15.71%) Amazon EC2
4 11 (15.71%) AWS KMS
4 11 (15.71%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (15.71%) Route 53
4 11 (15.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 10 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
5 10 (14.29%) Amazon ELB
6 4 (5.71%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (5.71%) Entra ID
6 4 (5.71%) GCP
7 1 (1.43%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.43%) AWS CloudTrail
7 1 (1.43%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.43%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.43%) IaaS
7 1 (1.43%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 21 (30.00%) DNS
2 20 (28.57%) Firewall
3 12 (17.14%) HTTP
4 11 (15.71%) SAN
5 10 (14.29%) FTP
5 10 (14.29%) IMAP
5 10 (14.29%) OpenLDAP
5 10 (14.29%) SMTP
5 10 (14.29%) SSH
6 6 (8.57%) iSCSI
6 6 (8.57%) NFC
6 6 (8.57%) PPP
6 6 (8.57%) TCP/IP
7 5 (7.14%) VSAN
8 4 (5.71%) DHCP
8 4 (5.71%) SSL
9 2 (2.86%) HTTPS
10 1 (1.43%) LAN
10 1 (1.43%) VLAN
10 1 (1.43%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (15.71%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (14.29%) Amazon Aurora
2 10 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (4.29%) MariaDB
3 3 (4.29%) MySQL
4 1 (1.43%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.43%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 19 (27.14%) JIRA
2 14 (20.00%) Git
2 14 (20.00%) Jenkins
3 13 (18.57%) Vagrant
4 6 (8.57%) Eclipse
4 6 (8.57%) Valgrind
5 4 (5.71%) GitLab
5 4 (5.71%) TeamCity
6 2 (2.86%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.43%) Postman
General
1 18 (25.71%) Social Skills
2 12 (17.14%) Public Sector
3 10 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (1.43%) Finance
4 1 (1.43%) Law
Job Titles
1 19 (27.14%) Linux Engineer
2 14 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 14 (20.00%) Senior
3 11 (15.71%) Platform Engineer
4 10 (14.29%) Administrator
4 10 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
4 10 (14.29%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 10 (14.29%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 10 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
4 10 (14.29%) Support Engineer
5 9 (12.86%) DevOps Platform Engineer
5 9 (12.86%) Linux Administrator
5 9 (12.86%) Product Engineer
5 9 (12.86%) Products Support Engineer
5 9 (12.86%) Software Support Engineer
6 8 (11.43%) AWS DevOps
6 8 (11.43%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 8 (11.43%) Linux Support
6 8 (11.43%) Linux Support Engineer
7 7 (10.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (20.00%) Middleware
2 10 (14.29%) LDAP
3 6 (8.57%) JSON
3 6 (8.57%) REST
3 6 (8.57%) Web Services
3 6 (8.57%) XML
4 3 (4.29%) LAMP
5 2 (2.86%) Zend Framework
6 1 (1.43%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (1.43%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 12 (17.14%) Replication
2 10 (14.29%) Data Centre
3 6 (8.57%) Enterprise Storage
3 6 (8.57%) Linux Command Line
3 6 (8.57%) Smartcard
4 3 (4.29%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.43%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 70 (100.00%) Linux
2 38 (54.29%) Windows
3 25 (35.71%) CentOS
4 18 (25.71%) Windows Server
5 17 (24.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 11 (15.71%) Amazon Linux
6 11 (15.71%) VMS
7 9 (12.86%) Debian
8 8 (11.43%) Windows Server 2016
9 7 (10.00%) Unix
10 4 (5.71%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (2.86%) Mac OS
11 2 (2.86%) SUSE
12 1 (1.43%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (1.43%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (28.57%) DevOps
2 19 (27.14%) Configuration Management
3 18 (25.71%) CI/CD
4 16 (22.86%) Software Engineering
5 15 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 14 (20.00%) Change Management
7 12 (17.14%) Patch Management
8 11 (15.71%) Cloud Security
8 11 (15.71%) Containerisation
8 11 (15.71%) Platform Engineering
9 10 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
10 9 (12.86%) Agile
11 7 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
12 6 (8.57%) Cryptography
12 6 (8.57%) Front End Development
12 6 (8.57%) High Availability
12 6 (8.57%) ITSM
12 6 (8.57%) Memory Management
12 6 (8.57%) Multithreading
12 6 (8.57%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 37 (52.86%) Python
2 17 (24.29%) JavaScript
3 16 (22.86%) PowerShell
4 15 (21.43%) C++
4 15 (21.43%) Shell Script
5 13 (18.57%) Bash
5 13 (18.57%) SQL
6 10 (14.29%) Groovy
7 9 (12.86%) Ada
7 9 (12.86%) C
8 7 (10.00%) C#
8 7 (10.00%) Java
9 2 (2.86%) Go
9 2 (2.86%) Perl
9 2 (2.86%) PHP
9 2 (2.86%) Ruby
10 1 (1.43%) Scala
Qualifications
1 17 (24.29%) Security Cleared
2 16 (22.86%) SC Cleared
3 14 (20.00%) AWS Certification
3 14 (20.00%) Degree
4 10 (14.29%) Azure Certification
5 4 (5.71%) DV Cleared
6 3 (4.29%) RHCE
7 2 (2.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (1.43%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (1.43%) RHCSA
8 1 (1.43%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.57%) PCI DSS
1 6 (8.57%) QA
2 1 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.43%) NIST
System Software
1 19 (27.14%) Docker
2 18 (25.71%) Active Directory
3 14 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (14.29%) DFS Replication
4 10 (14.29%) Dovecot
4 10 (14.29%) Postfix
4 10 (14.29%) Squid
5 8 (11.43%) Hyper-V
5 8 (11.43%) vSphere
6 6 (8.57%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (8.57%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (2.86%) VirtualBox
7 2 (2.86%) VMware NSX
8 1 (1.43%) DRBD
8 1 (1.43%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 18 (25.71%) Terraform
2 17 (24.29%) Ansible
3 15 (21.43%) Prometheus
4 13 (18.57%) Nessus
5 12 (17.14%) Grafana
6 10 (14.29%) Proxmox
7 8 (11.43%) Kubernetes
8 7 (10.00%) vCenter Server
9 5 (7.14%) Nagios
10 4 (5.71%) Progress Chef
10 4 (5.71%) Puppet
11 3 (4.29%) VxRail
12 2 (2.86%) Icinga
12 2 (2.86%) Rsyslog
12 2 (2.86%) Salt
12 2 (2.86%) SCCM
12 2 (2.86%) SCOM
13 1 (1.43%) Graphite
13 1 (1.43%) Kibana
13 1 (1.43%) WSUS
Vendors
1 31 (44.29%) VMware
2 24 (34.29%) Red Hat
3 16 (22.86%) ServiceNow
4 13 (18.57%) Microsoft
5 10 (14.29%) Jaspersoft
6 4 (5.71%) Citrix
7 3 (4.29%) MuleSoft
7 3 (4.29%) Oracle
7 3 (4.29%) Rackspace
8 2 (2.86%) Dell
8 2 (2.86%) New Relic
8 2 (2.86%) Remedy
8 2 (2.86%) Splunk
8 2 (2.86%) Zend
9 1 (1.43%) EMC
9 1 (1.43%) IBM
9 1 (1.43%) NVIDIA
9 1 (1.43%) Qualys
9 1 (1.43%) Rapid7
9 1 (1.43%) Veeam