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

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 550 467 498
Rank change year-on-year -83 +31 +9
Contract jobs citing Ubuntu 106 76 86
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.25% 0.20%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.19% 1.81% 1.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 48 60
10th Percentile £318 £325 £374
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £511
Median % change year-on-year - -2.15% -4.93%
75th Percentile £541 £538 £550
90th Percentile £620 £553 £576
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +5.00% -2.44% +2.50%
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 4,847 4,197 5,886
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.51% 13.84% 13.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,093 2,732 3,870
10th Percentile £190 £200 £190
25th Percentile £313 £313 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -2.63% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £581 £588
90th Percentile £650 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £463
% change year-on-year - -2.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 330 212 434
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.50 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.00 £17.41 £16.25
Median hourly rate £26.83 £22.25 £24.34
Median % change year-on-year +20.58% -8.59% -44.59%
75th Percentile £63.75 £41.48 £63.75
90th Percentile £70.26 £65.98 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.47 £18.87 £30.50
% change year-on-year +40.28% -38.13% -18.67%

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 27 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 27 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Ubuntu in the UK

Ubuntu
Top 15 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 27 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 -110 93 £500 - 21
UK excluding London -114 53 £525 +5.00% 24
London -47 37 £500 -4.76% 6
Work from Home -66 19 £475 -7.32% 9
South West -37 14 £538 +7.50% 3
South East -65 14 £513 +2.50% 6
North of England -58 13 £531 +38.73% 3
Yorkshire -35 7 £537 +40.30%
Midlands -62 7 £425 -22.73% 1
West Midlands -61 4 £338 -46.00% 1
North West - 4 £538 - 2
East Midlands -15 3 £500 -4.76%
East of England -32 3 £850 +98.83% 4
Scotland -8 2 - -
North East - 2 £388 - 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 16 (15.09%) Apache
2 5 (4.72%) CloudStack
3 4 (3.77%) nginx
3 4 (3.77%) SharePoint
3 4 (3.77%) Tomcat
3 4 (3.77%) WordPress
4 3 (2.83%) IIS
5 2 (1.89%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.94%) JBoss
6 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.94%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (3.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.94%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 36 (33.96%) Azure
2 26 (24.53%) AWS
3 13 (12.26%) Entra ID
4 7 (6.60%) Azure AKS
5 6 (5.66%) GCP
5 6 (5.66%) IaaS
5 6 (5.66%) SaaS
6 5 (4.72%) Azure Sentinel
6 5 (4.72%) GitHub
6 5 (4.72%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (3.77%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (3.77%) OpenShift
8 3 (2.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (2.83%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (2.83%) AWS Control Tower
8 3 (2.83%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (2.83%) Cloudflare
8 3 (2.83%) PaaS
9 2 (1.89%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (1.89%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 13 (12.26%) DNS
1 13 (12.26%) Firewall
2 10 (9.43%) VPN
3 8 (7.55%) Cisco IOS
3 8 (7.55%) NAS
3 8 (7.55%) SAN
4 7 (6.60%) Network Security
4 7 (6.60%) TCP/IP
5 6 (5.66%) BGP
5 6 (5.66%) Cisco ASA
5 6 (5.66%) MPLS
5 6 (5.66%) TACACS
6 5 (4.72%) VSAN
7 4 (3.77%) VLAN
8 3 (2.83%) LAN
8 3 (2.83%) SSH
8 3 (2.83%) Structured Cabling
8 3 (2.83%) VXLAN
9 2 (1.89%) DHCP
9 2 (1.89%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (10.38%) MySQL
1 11 (10.38%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (4.72%) SQL Server
3 4 (3.77%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (3.77%) MongoDB
3 4 (3.77%) Redis
3 4 (3.77%) Relational Database
4 3 (2.83%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.89%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (1.89%) Power BI
6 1 (0.94%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.94%) OpenStack Swift
Development Applications
1 13 (12.26%) Git
2 9 (8.49%) GitLab
3 3 (2.83%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.94%) MSI
General
1 21 (19.81%) Social Skills
2 12 (11.32%) Banking
2 12 (11.32%) Public Sector
3 8 (7.55%) Documentation Skills
4 7 (6.60%) Finance
5 6 (5.66%) Retail
6 4 (3.77%) Manufacturing
7 3 (2.83%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.89%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.94%) Legal
9 1 (0.94%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 40 (37.74%) Linux Engineer
2 12 (11.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 12 (11.32%) Senior
3 8 (7.55%) Cloud Engineer
3 8 (7.55%) DevOps Engineer
3 8 (7.55%) Migration Engineer
3 8 (7.55%) Ubuntu Engineer
4 7 (6.60%) Support Engineer
5 6 (5.66%) Security Engineer
6 5 (4.72%) Architect
6 5 (4.72%) AWS Engineer
6 5 (4.72%) Lead
6 5 (4.72%) Linux Support
6 5 (4.72%) Linux Support Engineer
7 4 (3.77%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 4 (3.77%) 2nd Line Support
7 4 (3.77%) Open Source Engineer
7 4 (3.77%) Python Engineer
7 4 (3.77%) Senior DevOps
7 4 (3.77%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (12.26%) Middleware
2 9 (8.49%) LDAP
2 9 (8.49%) YAML
3 8 (7.55%) cloud-init
3 8 (7.55%) REST
4 7 (6.60%) Elastic Stack
5 5 (4.72%) Kafka
5 5 (4.72%) OAuth
6 4 (3.77%) Azure Blueprints
6 4 (3.77%) Celery
6 4 (3.77%) Django
6 4 (3.77%) JWT
6 4 (3.77%) React
6 4 (3.77%) Vue
7 3 (2.83%) ARM Templates
7 3 (2.83%) Keycloak
7 3 (2.83%) LAMP
7 3 (2.83%) LEMP Stack
8 2 (1.89%) JSON
8 2 (1.89%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 13 (12.26%) Cloud Native
2 9 (8.49%) PKI
3 8 (7.55%) Data Centre
4 7 (6.60%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (6.60%) Public Cloud
5 6 (5.66%) Legacy Applications
5 6 (5.66%) Onboarding
5 6 (5.66%) Security Posture
6 4 (3.77%) CMDB
6 4 (3.77%) Low-Code
6 4 (3.77%) Product Ownership
7 3 (2.83%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.89%) EPoS
8 2 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.89%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.89%) Replication
8 2 (1.89%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.94%) Device Driver
9 1 (0.94%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 106 (100.00%) Linux
2 47 (44.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 33 (31.13%) Windows
4 22 (20.75%) Windows Server
5 20 (18.87%) CentOS
6 10 (9.43%) Debian
7 7 (6.60%) Rocky
8 6 (5.66%) Windows Server 2019
9 5 (4.72%) VMS
10 4 (3.77%) Alpine Linux
10 4 (3.77%) Windows 10
10 4 (3.77%) Windows Server 2012
11 3 (2.83%) Mac OS
11 3 (2.83%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (1.89%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 2 (1.89%) Unix
12 2 (1.89%) Windows 7
13 1 (0.94%) Android
13 1 (0.94%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (29.25%) Migration
2 30 (28.30%) DevOps
3 29 (27.36%) Containerisation
4 25 (23.58%) Configuration Management
5 23 (21.70%) CI/CD
6 22 (20.75%) Problem-Solving
7 21 (19.81%) Infrastructure as Code
8 15 (14.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 14 (13.21%) Agile
10 13 (12.26%) Cybersecurity
10 13 (12.26%) Disaster Recovery
11 12 (11.32%) High Availability
11 12 (11.32%) Observability
12 10 (9.43%) RBAC
13 9 (8.49%) Software Engineering
14 8 (7.55%) Capacity Planning
14 8 (7.55%) Knowledge Transfer
14 8 (7.55%) Network Design
14 8 (7.55%) Technical Leadership
15 7 (6.60%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 42 (39.62%) Python
2 25 (23.58%) Bash
3 21 (19.81%) PowerShell
4 7 (6.60%) Go
4 7 (6.60%) Ruby
5 5 (4.72%) Perl
6 4 (3.77%) Bicep
6 4 (3.77%) JavaScript
6 4 (3.77%) PHP
6 4 (3.77%) SQL
7 2 (1.89%) VBScript
8 1 (0.94%) Ladder Logic
8 1 (0.94%) Scala
8 1 (0.94%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 38 (35.85%) Security Cleared
2 31 (29.25%) SC Cleared
3 10 (9.43%) Degree
4 7 (6.60%) DV Cleared
5 6 (5.66%) AWS Certification
6 5 (4.72%) CompTIA Security+
6 5 (4.72%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (4.72%) GIAC
6 5 (4.72%) RHCE
6 5 (4.72%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 4 (3.77%) APMG
7 4 (3.77%) Azure Certification
7 4 (3.77%) CCNP
7 4 (3.77%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (3.77%) GSEC
7 4 (3.77%) SSCP
8 3 (2.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (2.83%) CISM
8 3 (2.83%) CISSP
9 2 (1.89%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (10.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (9.43%) NIST
3 6 (5.66%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (3.77%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 3 (2.83%) SOC 2
6 2 (1.89%) HIPAA
6 2 (1.89%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.94%) NCSC
7 1 (0.94%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.94%) QA
System Software
1 22 (20.75%) Docker
2 18 (16.98%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (14.15%) Active Directory
3 15 (14.15%) vSphere
4 11 (10.38%) VMware ESXi
5 7 (6.60%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (4.72%) NFS
6 5 (4.72%) VMware NSX
7 4 (3.77%) KVM
8 3 (2.83%) Dovecot
8 3 (2.83%) Hyper-V
8 3 (2.83%) Postfix
9 2 (1.89%) Ceph
9 2 (1.89%) QEMU
10 1 (0.94%) GPFS
10 1 (0.94%) iptables
10 1 (0.94%) Lustre
10 1 (0.94%) Samba
10 1 (0.94%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 45 (42.45%) Ansible
2 26 (24.53%) Terraform
3 20 (18.87%) Kubernetes
4 14 (13.21%) Grafana
5 12 (11.32%) Prometheus
6 11 (10.38%) Puppet
7 8 (7.55%) vCenter Server
8 5 (4.72%) systemd
9 3 (2.83%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (2.83%) Check_MK
9 3 (2.83%) HAProxy
9 3 (2.83%) SCOM
9 3 (2.83%) SELinux
9 3 (2.83%) WSUS
10 2 (1.89%) logstash
10 2 (1.89%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (1.89%) Nessus
10 2 (1.89%) PowerCLI
10 2 (1.89%) vRealize
10 2 (1.89%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 22 (20.75%) VMware
2 16 (15.09%) Microsoft
3 15 (14.15%) Cisco
3 15 (14.15%) Red Hat
4 7 (6.60%) Splunk
5 6 (5.66%) NVIDIA
5 6 (5.66%) Tenable
6 5 (4.72%) CrowdStrike
6 5 (4.72%) Google
6 5 (4.72%) Okta
6 5 (4.72%) Rapid7
7 4 (3.77%) Dell
7 4 (3.77%) Qualys
8 3 (2.83%) Commvault
8 3 (2.83%) Databricks
8 3 (2.83%) F5
8 3 (2.83%) Fortinet
8 3 (2.83%) Juniper
8 3 (2.83%) TOWER Software
8 3 (2.83%) Veeam