Ubuntu Contracts with Work from Home Options

Ubuntu Linux
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Ubuntu skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Ubuntu over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 303 415 528
Rank change year-on-year +112 +113 -101
Contract jobs citing Ubuntu 49 51 100
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.33% 0.20% 0.23%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.14% 1.48% 1.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 41 55
10th Percentile £463 £413 £400
25th Percentile £506 £468 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.84% -2.86% +16.67%
75th Percentile - £700 £669
90th Percentile £625 £738 £695
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%

All Operating Systems
Work from Home

Ubuntu is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,560 3,436 5,376
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.37% 13.64% 12.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,096 2,421 3,806
10th Percentile £225 £243 £300
25th Percentile £350 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% +4.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £630 £606
90th Percentile £685 £725 £682
UK median daily rate £468 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -7.43% +1.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 105 152
10th Percentile £12.80 £19.00 £15.00
25th Percentile £14.27 £25.71 £19.66
Median hourly rate £17.69 £55.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -67.84% +22.22% +28.57%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.50 £60.54
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £68.17
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £38.50 £23.00
% change year-on-year -42.86% +67.39% +29.43%

Ubuntu
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Ubuntu as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Ubuntu trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Ubuntu over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

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 a work from home option 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (6.12%) Apache
2 2 (4.08%) nginx
2 2 (4.08%) OpenStack
3 1 (2.04%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 19 (38.78%) AWS
2 15 (30.61%) AWS CloudFormation
3 8 (16.33%) Azure
4 7 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
4 7 (14.29%) Amazon S3
4 7 (14.29%) OpenShift
4 7 (14.29%) Serverless
5 6 (12.24%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (10.20%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 4 (8.16%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (8.16%) AWS Fargate
7 4 (8.16%) IaaS
8 2 (4.08%) Amazon Kinesis
8 2 (4.08%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (4.08%) PaaS
8 2 (4.08%) Route 53
9 1 (2.04%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 1 (2.04%) Azure Functions
9 1 (2.04%) Entra ID
9 1 (2.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 17 (34.69%) TCP/IP
2 16 (32.65%) SAN
3 4 (8.16%) DNS
4 3 (6.12%) DHCP
5 2 (4.08%) Firewall
5 2 (4.08%) LAN
5 2 (4.08%) WAN
6 1 (2.04%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (2.04%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (2.04%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (2.04%) Network Security
6 1 (2.04%) NFC
6 1 (2.04%) PPP
6 1 (2.04%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (2.04%) VPN
6 1 (2.04%) Wireless
6 1 (2.04%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (12.24%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (10.20%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (6.12%) InfluxDB
4 2 (4.08%) Couchbase
4 2 (4.08%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.04%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 6 (12.24%) Jenkins
2 5 (10.20%) Artifactory
2 5 (10.20%) Git
2 5 (10.20%) GitLab
3 2 (4.08%) JIRA
4 1 (2.04%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.04%) Eclipse
4 1 (2.04%) GoogleTest
4 1 (2.04%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (2.04%) TestRail
4 1 (2.04%) Valgrind
4 1 (2.04%) Visual Studio
General
1 7 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 3 (6.12%) Manufacturing
2 3 (6.12%) Public Sector
3 2 (4.08%) Finance
3 2 (4.08%) Front Office
3 2 (4.08%) Telecoms
4 1 (2.04%) Banking
4 1 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (34.69%) Developer
2 15 (30.61%) Python Developer
3 8 (16.33%) Applications Engineer
4 7 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
4 7 (14.29%) Senior
5 5 (10.20%) AWS DevOps
5 5 (10.20%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 5 (10.20%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 5 (10.20%) DevOps Engineer
5 5 (10.20%) Linux Engineer
5 5 (10.20%) Platform Engineer
6 4 (8.16%) Backend Developer
6 4 (8.16%) Consultant
6 4 (8.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (6.12%) Azure Consultant
7 3 (6.12%) Senior Developer
7 3 (6.12%) Senior Linux Engineer
7 3 (6.12%) Senior Python Developer
7 3 (6.12%) Senior Software Developer
7 3 (6.12%) Ubuntu Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (18.37%) ADO
2 6 (12.24%) AWS CDK
3 3 (6.12%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (4.08%) .NET
4 2 (4.08%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (4.08%) LAPP Stack
5 1 (2.04%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (2.04%) Java EE
5 1 (2.04%) JSON
5 1 (2.04%) Node.js
5 1 (2.04%) React
5 1 (2.04%) REST
5 1 (2.04%) Web Services
5 1 (2.04%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.12%) Data Centre
1 3 (6.12%) Tandem
2 2 (4.08%) PKI
2 2 (4.08%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.04%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.04%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (2.04%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (2.04%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.04%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 49 (100.00%) Linux
2 17 (34.69%) Debian
3 10 (20.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (14.29%) CentOS
4 7 (14.29%) Windows
5 3 (6.12%) Unix
5 3 (6.12%) Windows Server
6 2 (4.08%) Solaris
6 2 (4.08%) VMS
7 1 (2.04%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (2.04%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (42.86%) Agile
2 18 (36.73%) Infrastructure as Code
3 17 (34.69%) ITIL
4 16 (32.65%) Configuration Management
5 15 (30.61%) Customer Service
5 15 (30.61%) Data Modelling
6 13 (26.53%) Data Engineering
6 13 (26.53%) Matrix Organization
6 13 (26.53%) Prototyping
6 13 (26.53%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 11 (22.45%) CI/CD
7 11 (22.45%) DevOps
8 10 (20.41%) Software Engineering
9 8 (16.33%) Application Packaging
10 7 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
10 7 (14.29%) Software Delivery
11 5 (10.20%) Containerisation
11 5 (10.20%) Observability
11 5 (10.20%) Roadmaps
11 5 (10.20%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 26 (53.06%) Python
2 13 (26.53%) Bash
3 4 (8.16%) Groovy
4 3 (6.12%) C++
4 3 (6.12%) PowerShell
5 2 (4.08%) Go
5 2 (4.08%) Java
5 2 (4.08%) JavaScript
5 2 (4.08%) SQL
5 2 (4.08%) TypeScript
5 2 (4.08%) VB.NET
6 1 (2.04%) C#
Qualifications
1 17 (34.69%) Security Cleared
2 16 (32.65%) SC Cleared
3 14 (28.57%) DV Cleared
4 3 (6.12%) Degree
5 2 (4.08%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (4.08%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (2.04%) CEH
6 1 (2.04%) CISSP
6 1 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.04%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.08%) Accessibility
1 2 (4.08%) ISO 9001
1 2 (4.08%) ISO/IEC 20000
1 2 (4.08%) SLA
2 1 (2.04%) WCAG
System Software
1 15 (30.61%) Active Directory
2 4 (8.16%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (6.12%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (6.12%) vSphere
4 2 (4.08%) Docker
4 2 (4.08%) Hyper-V
5 1 (2.04%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (2.04%) VMware NSX
5 1 (2.04%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 13 (26.53%) Ansible
2 12 (24.49%) Terraform
3 10 (20.41%) Grafana
4 7 (14.29%) Kubernetes
5 6 (12.24%) Kibana
6 3 (6.12%) Puppet
7 2 (4.08%) Prometheus
7 2 (4.08%) Red Hat Satellite
7 2 (4.08%) WSUS
7 2 (4.08%) ZABBIX
8 1 (2.04%) FortiGate
8 1 (2.04%) Packer
8 1 (2.04%) Progress Chef
8 1 (2.04%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 21 (42.86%) Red Hat
1 21 (42.86%) VMware
2 20 (40.82%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.08%) Qualys
3 2 (4.08%) Remedy
3 2 (4.08%) SolarWinds
4 1 (2.04%) ArcSight
4 1 (2.04%) Cisco
4 1 (2.04%) Google
4 1 (2.04%) Palo Alto