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 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 452 501 518
Rank change year-on-year +49 +17 +137
Contract jobs citing Ubuntu 78 86 169
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.25% 0.20% 0.30%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.84% 1.46% 1.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 60 125
10th Percentile £325 £374 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £524
Median % change year-on-year -2.15% -2.39% -0.29%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £638
90th Percentile £553 £576 £720
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 0 7
10th Percentile £53.90 - £59.50
25th Percentile £66.50 - £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 4,243 5,905 8,884
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.68% 13.61% 15.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,753 3,889 6,146
10th Percentile £200 £190 £190
25th Percentile £313 £313 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £580 £588 £638
90th Percentile £675 £700 £717
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £463 £462
% change year-on-year -2.70% +0.13% +8.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 218 434 407
10th Percentile £15.50 £12.75 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.44 £16.25 £18.44
Median hourly rate £22.25 £24.93 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.74% -41.35% +88.89%
75th Percentile £43.35 £64.69 £65.00
90th Percentile £66.15 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.87 £31.25 £33.50
% change year-on-year -39.62% -6.72% +67.50%

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 2 July 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 2 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Ubuntu in the UK

Ubuntu
Top 14 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 2 July 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 +51 68 £500 -2.15% 336
UK excluding London +28 56 £500 -2.44% 182
Work from Home +31 28 £513 -1.63% 255
South East +44 19 £500 -2.15% 17
South West +46 15 £500 - 12
London +43 14 £525 +23.53% 234
Midlands -6 9 £525 -4.55% 7
East of England +24 7 £425 -3.41% 12
East Midlands +4 5 £525 -4.55% 4
Scotland +2 5 £189 -63.12% 73
West Midlands -3 4 £495 -10.00% 3
North of England +4 2 £383 -9.94% 55
Yorkshire -2 2 £383 -9.94% 15
Wales +6 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 (5.13%) Confluence
1 4 (5.13%) OpenStack
2 3 (3.85%) Apache
3 2 (2.56%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.28%) Anypoint
Applications
1 4 (5.13%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 22 (28.21%) AWS
2 16 (20.51%) Azure
3 9 (11.54%) GitHub
4 8 (10.26%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (5.13%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (5.13%) Entra ID
5 4 (5.13%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (2.56%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (2.56%) GCP
7 1 (1.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.28%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.28%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.28%) AWS CloudTrail
7 1 (1.28%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.28%) IaaS
7 1 (1.28%) Linode
7 1 (1.28%) PaaS
7 1 (1.28%) Route 53
7 1 (1.28%) SaaS
7 1 (1.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 16 (20.51%) SAN
2 14 (17.95%) DNS
3 13 (16.67%) TCP/IP
4 9 (11.54%) DHCP
4 9 (11.54%) Firewall
5 6 (7.69%) iSCSI
6 5 (6.41%) NFC
6 5 (6.41%) PPP
7 4 (5.13%) LAN
7 4 (5.13%) VLAN
7 4 (5.13%) VSAN
7 4 (5.13%) WAN
8 3 (3.85%) SSL
8 3 (3.85%) VPN
9 2 (2.56%) HTTP
9 2 (2.56%) NAS
9 2 (2.56%) OpenLDAP
9 2 (2.56%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (8.97%) Big Data
2 5 (6.41%) MariaDB
3 4 (5.13%) MySQL
4 3 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.56%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (2.56%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.28%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.28%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 13 (16.67%) Git
1 13 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 9 (11.54%) JIRA
3 5 (6.41%) Eclipse
3 5 (6.41%) Valgrind
4 4 (5.13%) GitLab
4 4 (5.13%) TeamCity
5 3 (3.85%) Vagrant
6 2 (2.56%) Bitbucket
6 2 (2.56%) Maven
6 2 (2.56%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (1.28%) Postman
General
1 9 (11.54%) Finance
2 7 (8.97%) Public Sector
2 7 (8.97%) Social Skills
3 2 (2.56%) Law
4 1 (1.28%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 21 (26.92%) Linux Engineer
2 14 (17.95%) Senior
3 13 (16.67%) Administrator
4 12 (15.38%) Support Engineer
5 11 (14.10%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 11 (14.10%) Product Engineer
5 11 (14.10%) Products Support Engineer
5 11 (14.10%) Software Support Engineer
6 9 (11.54%) Platform Engineer
7 8 (10.26%) Linux Administrator
7 8 (10.26%) Linux Support
7 8 (10.26%) Linux Support Engineer
7 8 (10.26%) Systems Administrator
8 7 (8.97%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 7 (8.97%) Developer
9 6 (7.69%) Linux Systems Administrator
9 6 (7.69%) Python Developer
9 6 (7.69%) Software Engineer
10 5 (6.41%) Senior Software Engineer
10 5 (6.41%) Software Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (20.51%) Middleware
2 6 (7.69%) Web Services
3 5 (6.41%) JSON
3 5 (6.41%) REST
3 5 (6.41%) XML
4 4 (5.13%) LDAP
5 3 (3.85%) LAMP
6 2 (2.56%) Kafka
6 2 (2.56%) YAML
6 2 (2.56%) Zend Framework
7 1 (1.28%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.54%) Data Centre
2 7 (8.97%) Linux Command Line
3 6 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (6.41%) Enterprise Storage
4 5 (6.41%) Smartcard
5 2 (2.56%) Distributed Computing
5 2 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.28%) e-Learning
6 1 (1.28%) PKI
6 1 (1.28%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.28%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 78 (100.00%) Linux
2 41 (52.56%) Windows
3 27 (34.62%) CentOS
4 25 (32.05%) Windows Server
5 14 (17.95%) Debian
6 13 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (8.97%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (6.41%) Unix
9 4 (5.13%) SUSE
10 2 (2.56%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (1.28%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (1.28%) Mac OS
11 1 (1.28%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (1.28%) Rocky
11 1 (1.28%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (24.36%) Software Engineering
2 18 (23.08%) Configuration Management
3 17 (21.79%) DevOps
4 15 (19.23%) Agile
5 13 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 12 (15.38%) High Availability
7 11 (14.10%) ITIL
8 9 (11.54%) Containerisation
8 9 (11.54%) Platform Engineering
8 9 (11.54%) Server Building
9 8 (10.26%) Customer-Centricity
9 8 (10.26%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 7 (8.97%) Continuous Delivery
10 7 (8.97%) Customer-Centric Approach
10 7 (8.97%) Data Modelling
10 7 (8.97%) ITSM
10 7 (8.97%) Open Source
11 6 (7.69%) Asset Management
11 6 (7.69%) Change Management
11 6 (7.69%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 38 (48.72%) Python
2 22 (28.21%) Shell Script
3 20 (25.64%) JavaScript
4 18 (23.08%) C++
5 13 (16.67%) Ada
5 13 (16.67%) Bash
5 13 (16.67%) C
6 12 (15.38%) PowerShell
7 6 (7.69%) C#
7 6 (7.69%) Java
8 4 (5.13%) Perl
9 3 (3.85%) Ruby
9 3 (3.85%) SQL
10 2 (2.56%) Go
10 2 (2.56%) PHP
11 1 (1.28%) Scala
Qualifications
1 12 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 11 (14.10%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.41%) DV Cleared
4 4 (5.13%) Degree
5 1 (1.28%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.28%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 1 (1.28%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (1.28%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.41%) PCI DSS
2 4 (5.13%) QA
3 1 (1.28%) GDPR
3 1 (1.28%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (20.51%) Active Directory
2 14 (17.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (10.26%) Docker
4 7 (8.97%) vSphere
5 6 (7.69%) Hyper-V
5 6 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (7.69%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (2.56%) VirtualBox
6 2 (2.56%) VMware NSX
7 1 (1.28%) Firmware
7 1 (1.28%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 23 (29.49%) Ansible
2 13 (16.67%) Terraform
3 8 (10.26%) Puppet
4 7 (8.97%) vCenter Server
5 6 (7.69%) Kubernetes
5 6 (7.69%) Progress Chef
6 5 (6.41%) SCCM
7 4 (5.13%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (5.13%) Nessus
7 4 (5.13%) Prometheus
8 3 (3.85%) Grafana
8 3 (3.85%) Nagios
9 2 (2.56%) Failover Clustering
9 2 (2.56%) Icinga
9 2 (2.56%) Red Hat Satellite
9 2 (2.56%) Salt
9 2 (2.56%) VxRail
10 1 (1.28%) Graphite
10 1 (1.28%) Kibana
10 1 (1.28%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 34 (43.59%) VMware
2 33 (42.31%) Red Hat
3 23 (29.49%) Microsoft
4 7 (8.97%) Databricks
5 5 (6.41%) ServiceNow
6 4 (5.13%) Citrix
6 4 (5.13%) HP
7 3 (3.85%) MuleSoft
7 3 (3.85%) Rackspace
8 2 (2.56%) Cisco
8 2 (2.56%) Dell
8 2 (2.56%) NetApp
8 2 (2.56%) New Relic
8 2 (2.56%) Oracle
8 2 (2.56%) Sophos
8 2 (2.56%) Zend
9 1 (1.28%) IBM
9 1 (1.28%) NVIDIA
9 1 (1.28%) Remedy
9 1 (1.28%) Veeam