Ubuntu Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Ubuntu Linux
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 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 281 294 428
Rank change year-on-year +13 +134 +108
Contract jobs citing Ubuntu 23 51 49
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.23% 0.33% 0.19%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.95% 3.19% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 36 40
10th Percentile £459 £470 £413
25th Percentile £477 £509 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £505
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +8.86% -1.41%
75th Percentile £544 - £610
90th Percentile £551 £625 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -7.41% -1.82% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 0
Median hourly rate £68.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £68.00 £21.00 £18.74
% change year-on-year +223.81% +12.09% -72.87%

All Operating Systems
Work from Home

Ubuntu 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 1,177 1,597 3,543
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 11.88% 10.41% 13.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 792 1,113 2,503
10th Percentile £288 £218 £250
25th Percentile £388 £350 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £520
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -8.65% +4.00%
75th Percentile £581 £588 £625
90th Percentile £675 £680 £718
UK median daily rate £475 £469 £505
% change year-on-year +1.28% -7.13% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 49 101
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.15 £19.00
25th Percentile £32.19 £14.27 £40.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £18.30 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +241.53% -68.17% +35.29%
75th Percentile £68.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £68.53 £73.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £24.18 £22.00 £39.30
% change year-on-year +9.91% -44.02% +74.67%

Ubuntu
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Ubuntu trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Ubuntu daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Ubuntu over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Ubuntu daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Ubuntu hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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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:

Business Applications
1 1 (4.35%) iTrent
1 1 (4.35%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 8 (34.78%) AWS
2 5 (21.74%) Azure
2 5 (21.74%) GitHub
3 4 (17.39%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (13.04%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (13.04%) Amazon ECS
4 3 (13.04%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 3 (13.04%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 3 (13.04%) Amazon S3
4 3 (13.04%) AWS CodeBuild
4 3 (13.04%) AWS CodeDeploy
4 3 (13.04%) AWS CodePipeline
4 3 (13.04%) AWS Fargate
4 3 (13.04%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (13.04%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (13.04%) OpenShift
4 3 (13.04%) Route 53
4 3 (13.04%) Serverless
5 1 (4.35%) PaaS
5 1 (4.35%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (17.39%) Firewall
2 3 (13.04%) DHCP
2 3 (13.04%) DNS
2 3 (13.04%) TCP/IP
3 2 (8.70%) SSH
4 1 (4.35%) SSL
4 1 (4.35%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (17.39%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (13.04%) Big Data
2 3 (13.04%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (8.70%) InfluxDB
3 2 (8.70%) MariaDB
3 2 (8.70%) Oracle Database
4 1 (4.35%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 7 (30.43%) Git
2 6 (26.09%) Jenkins
3 3 (13.04%) Artifactory
General
1 3 (13.04%) Finance
2 1 (4.35%) Law
2 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (43.48%) Linux Engineer
2 8 (34.78%) Product Engineer
2 8 (34.78%) Products Support Engineer
2 8 (34.78%) Software Support Engineer
2 8 (34.78%) Support Engineer
3 7 (30.43%) Linux Support
3 7 (30.43%) Linux Support Engineer
3 7 (30.43%) Platform Engineer
4 6 (26.09%) AWS Engineer
4 6 (26.09%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 6 (26.09%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 3 (13.04%) Administrator
6 2 (8.70%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) Azure Platform Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) Linux Systems Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) Network Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) Network Systems Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) Principal Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) Principal Systems Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (34.78%) Middleware
2 3 (13.04%) AWS CDK
3 2 (8.70%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (4.35%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.70%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.35%) e-Learning
2 1 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (4.35%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 23 (100.00%) Linux
2 7 (30.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (21.74%) CentOS
4 4 (17.39%) Windows
4 4 (17.39%) Windows Server
5 3 (13.04%) SUSE
5 3 (13.04%) Unix
6 2 (8.70%) Solaris
7 1 (4.35%) AIX
7 1 (4.35%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (34.78%) Software Engineering
2 7 (30.43%) Platform Engineering
3 6 (26.09%) Configuration Management
4 5 (21.74%) Containerisation
5 3 (13.04%) Agile
5 3 (13.04%) CI/CD
5 3 (13.04%) Continuous Delivery
5 3 (13.04%) Customer-Centric Approach
5 3 (13.04%) Customer-Centricity
5 3 (13.04%) DevOps
5 3 (13.04%) High Availability
5 3 (13.04%) Kanban
5 3 (13.04%) Open Source
5 3 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (13.04%) Scrum
5 3 (13.04%) Server Building
6 2 (8.70%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 2 (8.70%) Software Delivery
7 1 (4.35%) Human-Centred Design
7 1 (4.35%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (39.13%) Python
1 9 (39.13%) Shell Script
2 8 (34.78%) Ada
2 8 (34.78%) C
2 8 (34.78%) C++
2 8 (34.78%) JavaScript
3 7 (30.43%) Bash
4 3 (13.04%) Groovy
4 3 (13.04%) PowerShell
5 2 (8.70%) Perl
5 2 (8.70%) SQL
6 1 (4.35%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (4.35%) DV Cleared
1 1 (4.35%) SC Cleared
1 1 (4.35%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (4.35%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (13.04%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (8.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (39.13%) Ansible
2 6 (26.09%) Kubernetes
3 4 (17.39%) Grafana
3 4 (17.39%) Terraform
4 3 (13.04%) Kibana
4 3 (13.04%) Progress Chef
4 3 (13.04%) Puppet
5 2 (8.70%) Failover Clustering
5 2 (8.70%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (4.35%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (4.35%) Oracle ZFS
6 1 (4.35%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 14 (60.87%) Red Hat
2 3 (13.04%) Databricks
2 3 (13.04%) VMware
3 2 (8.70%) Imperva
3 2 (8.70%) Oracle
4 1 (4.35%) HP
4 1 (4.35%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.35%) NVIDIA