Ubuntu Contracts

Ubuntu Linux
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Ubuntu skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Ubuntu over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 456 495 550
Rank change year-on-year +39 +55 +69
Contract jobs citing Ubuntu 63 105 163
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.22% 0.24% 0.27%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.55% 1.81% 1.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 73 126
10th Percentile £267 £425 £405
25th Percentile £418 £506 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% -1.82% +4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £638
90th Percentile £631 £598 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £536 £525
% change year-on-year -6.76% +2.14% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 2
10th Percentile £59.73 - £17.72
25th Percentile - £20.50 £18.10
Median hourly rate £68.00 £21.00 £18.74
Median % change year-on-year +223.81% +12.09% -72.87%
75th Percentile - £21.50 £19.37
90th Percentile - - £19.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.00 £21.00 £17.47
% change year-on-year +223.81% +20.21% -74.70%

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 4,075 5,812 9,696
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.94% 13.33% 16.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,687 3,913 6,831
10th Percentile £200 £183 £190
25th Percentile £319 £300 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £468 £505
Median % change year-on-year +1.50% -7.33% +1.00%
75th Percentile £594 £588 £638
90th Percentile £699 £700 £719
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 177 397 416
10th Percentile £16.25 £12.75 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.50 £17.75
Median hourly rate £24.18 £22.00 £39.30
Median % change year-on-year +9.91% -44.02% +74.67%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.00 £22.00 £31.25
% change year-on-year +4.55% -29.60% +56.25%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Ubuntu.

Daily rate trend for Ubuntu in the UK

Ubuntu
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ubuntu over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Ubuntu in the UK

Ubuntu
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Ubuntu.

Hourly rate trend for Ubuntu in the UK

Ubuntu
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Ubuntu over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Ubuntu in the UK

Ubuntu
Top 15 Contract 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 30 April 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 +18 50 £500 -9.09% 76
UK excluding London +19 47 £500 -6.76% 54
Work from Home +22 23 £500 -9.09% 63
South East +17 14 £538 +2.87% 8
South West +54 13 £500 -35.48% 22
London +25 10 £525 -4.76% 26
Scotland +9 7 £190 -62.93% 2
Midlands +9 7 £525 -4.55% 4
East Midlands +8 5 £525 -4.55%
East of England +33 4 £430 -2.27% 3
North of England +26 3 £401 -5.76% 15
North West +11 2 - - 15
West Midlands +4 2 - - 4
Yorkshire +14 1 £401 -5.76%
Wales +5 1 - -

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 4 (6.35%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (3.17%) Confluence
3 1 (1.59%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (6.35%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.59%) Fidessa
1 1 (1.59%) iTrent
1 1 (1.59%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 24 (38.10%) Azure
2 19 (30.16%) AWS
3 11 (17.46%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (15.87%) GitHub
4 10 (15.87%) OpenShift
5 8 (12.70%) SaaS
6 7 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (6.35%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (4.76%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (4.76%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (4.76%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 3 (4.76%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 3 (4.76%) Amazon S3
8 3 (4.76%) AWS CodeBuild
8 3 (4.76%) AWS CodeDeploy
8 3 (4.76%) AWS CodePipeline
8 3 (4.76%) AWS Fargate
8 3 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (4.76%) Route 53
8 3 (4.76%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 11 (17.46%) SAN
2 10 (15.87%) TCP/IP
3 9 (14.29%) Firewall
4 7 (11.11%) NAS
5 6 (9.52%) DHCP
5 6 (9.52%) DNS
6 5 (7.94%) LAN
6 5 (7.94%) WAN
7 3 (4.76%) SSL
7 3 (4.76%) VLAN
7 3 (4.76%) VPN
8 2 (3.17%) HTTP
8 2 (3.17%) OpenLDAP
8 2 (3.17%) SSH
9 1 (1.59%) BIG-IP
9 1 (1.59%) Broadband
9 1 (1.59%) FIX Connectivity
9 1 (1.59%) VSAN
9 1 (1.59%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (11.11%) Big Data
2 6 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (6.35%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (3.17%) InfluxDB
4 2 (3.17%) MariaDB
4 2 (3.17%) MySQL
4 2 (3.17%) Oracle Database
4 2 (3.17%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.59%) Couchbase
5 1 (1.59%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 15 (23.81%) Git
2 13 (20.63%) Jenkins
3 3 (4.76%) Artifactory
4 2 (3.17%) JIRA
4 2 (3.17%) Maven
4 2 (3.17%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 9 (14.29%) Finance
2 5 (7.94%) Public Sector
3 1 (1.59%) Banking
3 1 (1.59%) Law
3 1 (1.59%) Marketing
3 1 (1.59%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (20.63%) Linux Engineer
2 12 (19.05%) Platform Engineer
3 10 (15.87%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 10 (15.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 9 (14.29%) Product Engineer
4 9 (14.29%) Products Support Engineer
4 9 (14.29%) Senior
4 9 (14.29%) Software Support Engineer
4 9 (14.29%) Support Engineer
5 8 (12.70%) Administrator
5 8 (12.70%) AWS Engineer
5 8 (12.70%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 8 (12.70%) Linux Support
5 8 (12.70%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 7 (11.11%) Linux Support Engineer
7 4 (6.35%) Azure Engineer
7 4 (6.35%) Azure Platform Engineer
7 4 (6.35%) Deployment Engineer
7 4 (6.35%) DevOps Administrator
7 4 (6.35%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (17.46%) Middleware
2 6 (9.52%) LDAP
3 3 (4.76%) AWS CDK
4 2 (3.17%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (3.17%) YAML
5 1 (1.59%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (1.59%) FIX Protocol
5 1 (1.59%) Kafka
5 1 (1.59%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.70%) Public Cloud
2 7 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (9.52%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (6.35%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.59%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.59%) e-Learning
5 1 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.59%) Equities
5 1 (1.59%) Eurex
5 1 (1.59%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.59%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.59%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 63 (100.00%) Linux
2 30 (47.62%) Windows
3 23 (36.51%) CentOS
4 22 (34.92%) Windows Server
5 10 (15.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (12.70%) Windows Server 2016
7 7 (11.11%) Debian
7 7 (11.11%) Solaris
7 7 (11.11%) Unix
8 5 (7.94%) AIX
8 5 (7.94%) HPUX
9 4 (6.35%) SUSE
10 1 (1.59%) Fedora
10 1 (1.59%) Rocky
10 1 (1.59%) Windows 10
10 1 (1.59%) Windows 8
10 1 (1.59%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (26.98%) Agile
1 17 (26.98%) Configuration Management
2 16 (25.40%) DevOps
3 13 (20.63%) Platform Engineering
4 12 (19.05%) High Availability
5 11 (17.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 11 (17.46%) Software Engineering
6 9 (14.29%) ITIL
7 8 (12.70%) Customer-Centricity
7 8 (12.70%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 7 (11.11%) Application Packaging
8 7 (11.11%) Change Control
8 7 (11.11%) Continuous Delivery
8 7 (11.11%) Customer-Centric Approach
8 7 (11.11%) DevSecOps
8 7 (11.11%) Open Source
8 7 (11.11%) Problem Management
8 7 (11.11%) Server Building
9 6 (9.52%) Asset Management
9 6 (9.52%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 26 (41.27%) Python
2 18 (28.57%) Shell Script
3 15 (23.81%) Bash
3 15 (23.81%) PowerShell
4 11 (17.46%) Ada
4 11 (17.46%) C
4 11 (17.46%) C++
4 11 (17.46%) JavaScript
5 6 (9.52%) Perl
6 5 (7.94%) SQL
7 3 (4.76%) Groovy
8 2 (3.17%) Go
9 1 (1.59%) Korn
9 1 (1.59%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.59%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 20 (31.75%) Security Cleared
2 15 (23.81%) SC Cleared
3 8 (12.70%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.59%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.59%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (1.59%) GDPR
1 1 (1.59%) NIST
1 1 (1.59%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (25.40%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (12.70%) vSphere
3 5 (7.94%) Docker
4 4 (6.35%) Active Directory
5 3 (4.76%) KVM
6 2 (3.17%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (3.17%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (1.59%) Firmware
7 1 (1.59%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 31 (49.21%) Ansible
2 19 (30.16%) Terraform
3 16 (25.40%) Kubernetes
4 11 (17.46%) Nessus
5 10 (15.87%) Puppet
6 9 (14.29%) vCenter Server
7 7 (11.11%) Progress Chef
8 5 (7.94%) Grafana
8 5 (7.94%) SCCM
9 4 (6.35%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (4.76%) Kibana
10 3 (4.76%) Prometheus
10 3 (4.76%) ZABBIX
11 2 (3.17%) Failover Clustering
11 2 (3.17%) Oracle ZFS
11 2 (3.17%) Red Hat Satellite
12 1 (1.59%) FortiGate
12 1 (1.59%) Graylog
12 1 (1.59%) Packer
12 1 (1.59%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 39 (61.90%) Red Hat
2 21 (33.33%) VMware
3 20 (31.75%) Microsoft
4 7 (11.11%) Databricks
5 5 (7.94%) HP
6 4 (6.35%) NetApp
7 2 (3.17%) Cisco
7 2 (3.17%) Imperva
7 2 (3.17%) Oracle
7 2 (3.17%) Sophos
8 1 (1.59%) Bloomberg
8 1 (1.59%) Citrix
8 1 (1.59%) CQG
8 1 (1.59%) Dell
8 1 (1.59%) F5
8 1 (1.59%) NVIDIA
8 1 (1.59%) Reuters
8 1 (1.59%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.59%) Splunk
8 1 (1.59%) Trayport