Samba Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Samba
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Samba skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Samba over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 301 344 458
Rank change year-on-year +43 +114 +168
Contract jobs citing Samba 3 1 19
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.030% 0.007% 0.073%
As % of the System Software category 0.26% 0.069% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 17
10th Percentile - - £485
25th Percentile £463 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £375 £525
Median % change year-on-year +26.67% -28.57% +5.00%
75th Percentile £488 - £557
90th Percentile - - £558
UK median daily rate £475 £544 £525
% change year-on-year -12.64% +3.57% -4.55%

All System Software Skills
Work from Home

Samba falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,169 1,452 3,207
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 11.80% 9.46% 12.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 868 1,058 2,296
10th Percentile £358 £263 £300
25th Percentile £425 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.68% -3.84% -
75th Percentile £625 £618 £633
90th Percentile £775 £677 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £488 £525
% change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 34 101
10th Percentile £25.25 £15.50 £19.00
25th Percentile £52.44 £15.88 £47.50
Median hourly rate £65.50 £43.32 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.20% -33.35% +165.31%
75th Percentile £79.38 £65.00 £70.25
90th Percentile £92.50 £84.57 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £22.50 £53.43
% change year-on-year +22.22% -57.88% +167.13%

Samba
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Samba trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Samba
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Samba daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Samba
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 (66.67%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) DHCP
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
1 2 (66.67%) FTP
1 2 (66.67%) SMTP
1 2 (66.67%) tcpdump
1 2 (66.67%) Telnet
2 1 (33.33%) Kerberos
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Administrator
1 3 (100.00%) Linux Administrator
2 1 (33.33%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 1 (33.33%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) LDAP
2 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Monitoring
2 2 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Server Migrations
2 2 (66.67%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (33.33%) High Availability
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) CISSP
2 1 (33.33%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (33.33%) Linux+ Certification
2 1 (33.33%) RHCE
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) NFS
2 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
2 2 (66.67%) yum
3 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (33.33%) Nagios
3 1 (33.33%) SELinux
3 1 (33.33%) Terraform
3 1 (33.33%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (66.67%) HP
2 2 (66.67%) VMware