Debian Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Debian Linux
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Debian skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Debian over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 310 338 444
Rank change year-on-year +28 +106 +163
Contract jobs citing Debian 7 8 12
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.069% 0.055% 0.050%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.61% 0.50% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 8
10th Percentile - £541 £459
25th Percentile £513 - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +15.79% +18.75%
75th Percentile £559 £558 £519
90th Percentile £599 £560 £575
UK median daily rate £535 £511 £525
% change year-on-year +4.70% -2.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £53.00 - £47.50
Median hourly rate £56.00 - £50.00
75th Percentile £59.00 - £52.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £50.25 - £50.00

All Operating Systems
Work from Home

Debian falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,147 1,611 3,210
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 11.28% 11.04% 13.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 743 1,092 2,250
10th Percentile £288 £231 £242
25th Percentile £378 £375 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £495 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.61% -5.71% -
75th Percentile £580 £590 £638
90th Percentile £675 £675 £738
UK median daily rate £465 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -2.16% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 45 121
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £20.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £14.00 £25.71
Median hourly rate £65.00 £17.64 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +268.59% -66.41% +12.49%
75th Percentile £68.00 £58.75 £67.50
90th Percentile - £71.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £22.78 £25.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -8.88% -41.18% +88.89%

Debian
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Debian as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Debian trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Debian
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Debian.

Debian daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Debian
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Debian.

Debian hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Debian
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 2 (28.57%) Apache
1 2 (28.57%) Confluence
1 2 (28.57%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) AWS
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
1 2 (28.57%) Entra ID
1 2 (28.57%) IaaS
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (28.57%) PaaS
1 2 (28.57%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) NGFW
1 2 (28.57%) SAN
1 2 (28.57%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) MariaDB
1 2 (28.57%) MySQL
2 1 (14.29%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Git
2 2 (28.57%) Bitbucket
2 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 2 (28.57%) JIRA
2 2 (28.57%) Vagrant
General
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Senior
2 2 (28.57%) Administrator
2 2 (28.57%) Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Linux Administrator
2 2 (28.57%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 2 (28.57%) Python Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Python Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (14.29%) Site Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) LAMP
1 2 (28.57%) Zend Framework
2 1 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (14.29%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Linux
2 6 (85.71%) Windows
3 5 (71.43%) Ubuntu
4 2 (28.57%) CentOS
4 2 (28.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (28.57%) Windows Server
4 2 (28.57%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (14.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Agile
2 3 (42.86%) DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) B2C
3 2 (28.57%) Build Automation
3 2 (28.57%) Configuration Management
3 2 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (28.57%) Data Modelling
3 2 (28.57%) Deployment Automation
3 2 (28.57%) ITIL
3 2 (28.57%) Security Architecture
3 2 (28.57%) Security Hardening
3 2 (28.57%) Server Building
3 2 (28.57%) Server Patching
3 2 (28.57%) Software Deployment
4 1 (14.29%) Clean Code
4 1 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (14.29%) Observability
4 1 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Python
2 3 (42.86%) Bash
3 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
3 2 (28.57%) Perl
3 2 (28.57%) PHP
4 1 (14.29%) Go
4 1 (14.29%) Ruby
4 1 (14.29%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) QA
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
1 2 (28.57%) VirtualBox
1 2 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Ansible
2 2 (28.57%) Icinga
2 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (28.57%) Nagios
2 2 (28.57%) Progress Chef
2 2 (28.57%) Puppet
2 2 (28.57%) Salt
3 1 (14.29%) Grafana
3 1 (14.29%) Graphite
3 1 (14.29%) Kibana
3 1 (14.29%) logstash
3 1 (14.29%) Prometheus
3 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) VMware
2 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
3 2 (28.57%) New Relic
3 2 (28.57%) Rackspace
3 2 (28.57%) Red Hat
3 2 (28.57%) Zend
4 1 (14.29%) Remedy