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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 459 492 536
Rank change year-on-year +33 +44 +98
Contract jobs citing Ubuntu 66 93 153
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.23% 0.22% 0.27%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.66% 1.61% 1.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 67 115
10th Percentile £227 £375 £411
25th Percentile £415 £463 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% +4.76%
75th Percentile £525 £550 £694
90th Percentile £554 £588 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £521 £513
% change year-on-year -4.03% +1.66% +0.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 0 3
10th Percentile £62.00 - £52.25
25th Percentile - - £59.38
Median hourly rate £68.00 - £72.50
75th Percentile - - £73.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.00 - £72.50
% change year-on-year - - +5.00%

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 3,977 5,781 9,064
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.80% 13.50% 16.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,625 3,916 6,314
10th Percentile £200 £185 £189
25th Percentile £313 £300 £336
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.68% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £588 £638
90th Percentile £688 £700 £718
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £465
% change year-on-year - -3.12% +9.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 176 403 388
10th Percentile £15.17 £12.75 £13.61
25th Percentile £17.44 £15.50 £17.74
Median hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -47.06% +93.18%
75th Percentile £54.06 £60.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.14 £22.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -14.96% -40.00% +87.50%

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 29 May 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 29 May 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 29 May 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 +38 53 £500 -2.44% 153
UK excluding London +33 48 £500 -4.03% 152
Work from Home +20 23 £500 -4.76% 132
South West +51 15 £500 - 20
London +54 12 £525 +5.00% 19
East of England +35 8 £430 -2.27% 24
South East +21 8 £500 -2.15% 40
Midlands -3 8 £550 - 24
Scotland +10 7 £190 -62.93% 11
East Midlands +6 5 £525 -4.55% 7
North of England +6 3 £401 -5.76% 36
West Midlands +1 3 £625 +13.64% 14
North West +4 2 - - 20
Yorkshire +9 1 £401 -5.76% 13
Wales +4 1 - - 3

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 (6.06%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (4.55%) OpenStack
3 2 (3.03%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (6.06%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.52%) Fidessa
1 1 (1.52%) iTrent
1 1 (1.52%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 23 (34.85%) AWS
2 19 (28.79%) Azure
3 10 (15.15%) GitHub
4 7 (10.61%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (7.58%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (6.06%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (4.55%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (4.55%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (4.55%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 3 (4.55%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 3 (4.55%) AWS CodeBuild
7 3 (4.55%) AWS CodeDeploy
7 3 (4.55%) AWS CodePipeline
7 3 (4.55%) AWS Fargate
7 3 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (4.55%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (4.55%) Entra ID
7 3 (4.55%) OpenShift
7 3 (4.55%) Route 53
7 3 (4.55%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 15 (22.73%) SAN
2 10 (15.15%) DNS
2 10 (15.15%) TCP/IP
3 9 (13.64%) Firewall
4 7 (10.61%) NAS
5 6 (9.09%) DHCP
6 5 (7.58%) LAN
6 5 (7.58%) WAN
7 4 (6.06%) iSCSI
8 3 (4.55%) SSL
8 3 (4.55%) VLAN
8 3 (4.55%) VPN
9 2 (3.03%) HTTP
9 2 (3.03%) OpenLDAP
9 2 (3.03%) SSH
10 1 (1.52%) Broadband
10 1 (1.52%) NFC
10 1 (1.52%) PPP
10 1 (1.52%) VSAN
10 1 (1.52%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.61%) Big Data
2 5 (7.58%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (6.06%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (3.03%) InfluxDB
4 2 (3.03%) MariaDB
4 2 (3.03%) MySQL
4 2 (3.03%) Oracle Database
4 2 (3.03%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (19.70%) Jenkins
2 12 (18.18%) Git
3 6 (9.09%) JIRA
4 3 (4.55%) Artifactory
4 3 (4.55%) GitLab
4 3 (4.55%) TeamCity
5 2 (3.03%) Maven
5 2 (3.03%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.52%) Eclipse
6 1 (1.52%) Valgrind
General
1 9 (13.64%) Finance
2 6 (9.09%) Public Sector
3 4 (6.06%) Social Skills
4 2 (3.03%) Law
5 1 (1.52%) Banking
5 1 (1.52%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 15 (22.73%) Linux Engineer
2 12 (18.18%) Platform Engineer
3 11 (16.67%) Administrator
3 11 (16.67%) Product Engineer
3 11 (16.67%) Products Support Engineer
3 11 (16.67%) Software Support Engineer
3 11 (16.67%) Support Engineer
4 10 (15.15%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 9 (13.64%) Linux Support
6 8 (12.12%) AWS Engineer
6 8 (12.12%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 8 (12.12%) Linux Support Engineer
7 7 (10.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (10.61%) Systems Administrator
8 4 (6.06%) Azure Engineer
8 4 (6.06%) Azure Platform Engineer
8 4 (6.06%) Deployment Engineer
8 4 (6.06%) DevOps Administrator
8 4 (6.06%) Linux Administrator
8 4 (6.06%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (22.73%) Middleware
2 6 (9.09%) LDAP
3 3 (4.55%) AWS CDK
4 2 (3.03%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (3.03%) Web Services
4 2 (3.03%) YAML
5 1 (1.52%) FIX Protocol
5 1 (1.52%) JSON
5 1 (1.52%) Kafka
5 1 (1.52%) REST
5 1 (1.52%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.12%) Data Centre
2 6 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (7.58%) Linux Command Line
4 4 (6.06%) Distributed Computing
4 4 (6.06%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.52%) e-Learning
5 1 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.52%) Equities
5 1 (1.52%) Eurex
5 1 (1.52%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.52%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.52%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 66 (100.00%) Linux
2 30 (45.45%) Windows
3 22 (33.33%) CentOS
4 18 (27.27%) Windows Server
5 7 (10.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (10.61%) Unix
6 6 (9.09%) Debian
7 5 (7.58%) Solaris
8 3 (4.55%) AIX
8 3 (4.55%) HPUX
8 3 (4.55%) SUSE
9 2 (3.03%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (1.52%) Amazon Linux
10 1 (1.52%) Fedora
10 1 (1.52%) Rocky
10 1 (1.52%) Windows 10
10 1 (1.52%) Windows 8
10 1 (1.52%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (1.52%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (24.24%) DevOps
2 15 (22.73%) Configuration Management
2 15 (22.73%) Software Engineering
3 13 (19.70%) Platform Engineering
4 12 (18.18%) High Availability
5 11 (16.67%) Agile
6 10 (15.15%) Containerisation
7 9 (13.64%) ITIL
8 8 (12.12%) Customer-Centricity
8 8 (12.12%) Disaster Recovery
8 8 (12.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 7 (10.61%) Change Management
9 7 (10.61%) Continuous Delivery
9 7 (10.61%) Customer-Centric Approach
9 7 (10.61%) Open Source
9 7 (10.61%) Problem Management
9 7 (10.61%) Server Building
9 7 (10.61%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 6 (9.09%) Asset Management
10 6 (9.09%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 30 (45.45%) Python
2 23 (34.85%) Shell Script
3 14 (21.21%) C++
3 14 (21.21%) JavaScript
4 13 (19.70%) Ada
4 13 (19.70%) C
5 12 (18.18%) Bash
6 8 (12.12%) PowerShell
7 6 (9.09%) Perl
8 4 (6.06%) SQL
9 3 (4.55%) Groovy
10 1 (1.52%) C#
10 1 (1.52%) Go
10 1 (1.52%) Java
10 1 (1.52%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.52%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 12 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 11 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.55%) Degree
3 3 (4.55%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.52%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.06%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.52%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.52%) GDPR
2 1 (1.52%) NIST
2 1 (1.52%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (18.18%) Active Directory
2 11 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (7.58%) Docker
3 5 (7.58%) vSphere
4 4 (6.06%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (4.55%) Hyper-V
5 3 (4.55%) KVM
5 3 (4.55%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (1.52%) Firmware
6 1 (1.52%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 25 (37.88%) Ansible
2 12 (18.18%) Terraform
3 9 (13.64%) Kubernetes
4 8 (12.12%) Puppet
5 5 (7.58%) Progress Chef
5 5 (7.58%) SCCM
6 4 (6.06%) Grafana
6 4 (6.06%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (6.06%) Nessus
6 4 (6.06%) vCenter Server
7 3 (4.55%) Kibana
8 2 (3.03%) Failover Clustering
8 2 (3.03%) Prometheus
8 2 (3.03%) Red Hat Satellite
8 2 (3.03%) ZABBIX
9 1 (1.52%) FortiGate
9 1 (1.52%) Graylog
9 1 (1.52%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (1.52%) VxRail
9 1 (1.52%) WSUS
Vendors
1 32 (48.48%) Red Hat
2 23 (34.85%) VMware
3 17 (25.76%) Microsoft
4 7 (10.61%) Databricks
5 4 (6.06%) HP
5 4 (6.06%) NetApp
5 4 (6.06%) ServiceNow
6 3 (4.55%) Citrix
7 2 (3.03%) Cisco
7 2 (3.03%) Imperva
7 2 (3.03%) Oracle
7 2 (3.03%) Sophos
8 1 (1.52%) CQG
8 1 (1.52%) Dell
8 1 (1.52%) ION Trading
8 1 (1.52%) MuleSoft
8 1 (1.52%) NVIDIA
8 1 (1.52%) Patsystems
8 1 (1.52%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.52%) Trayport