Hybrid/Remote Ubuntu Contract Job Trends

Ubuntu Linux
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Ubuntu skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 292 289 299
Rank change year-on-year -3 +10 +199
Contract jobs citing Ubuntu 16 36 74
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.16% 0.31% 0.43%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.44% 2.56% 3.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 24 59
10th Percentile £458 £358 £300
25th Percentile £475 £447 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £516 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.60% -6.14% +5.82%
75th Percentile £550 £534 £588
90th Percentile £565 £562 £606
UK median daily rate £475 £522 £525
% change year-on-year -9.00% -0.57% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 3
10th Percentile £59.00 - £68.25
25th Percentile £68.00 - £69.38
Median hourly rate £119.00 - £72.50
75th Percentile - - £74.38
90th Percentile - - £74.75
UK median hourly rate £68.00 £112.00 £72.50
% change year-on-year -39.29% +54.48% +81.25%

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 1,113 1,409 2,118
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.95% 11.96% 12.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 745 907 1,514
10th Percentile £204 £250 £250
25th Percentile £356 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.54% -1.60% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £612
90th Percentile £675 £650 £700
UK median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - -7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 23 71
10th Percentile £21.45 £16.32 £17.00
25th Percentile £59.19 £33.13 £22.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £42.50 £57.99
Median % change year-on-year +52.94% -26.71% -10.78%
75th Percentile £67.00 £65.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £66.62 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £49.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -48.67% +63.33% +23.71%

Ubuntu
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Ubuntu and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Ubuntu job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Ubuntu
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Ubuntu.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Ubuntu

Ubuntu
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Ubuntu over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Ubuntu daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Ubuntu
Hourly Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Ubuntu.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Ubuntu

Ubuntu
Hourly Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Ubuntu over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Ubuntu hourly rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid working options

Ubuntu
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (18.75%) Confluence
2 2 (12.50%) Apache
3 1 (6.25%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (6.25%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 4 (25.00%) AWS
2 2 (12.50%) Azure
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon ELB
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon S3
3 1 (6.25%) AWS KMS
3 1 (6.25%) GCP
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (6.25%) OpenShift
3 1 (6.25%) Route 53
3 1 (6.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (25.00%) SMTP
2 3 (18.75%) DKIM
2 3 (18.75%) DMARC
2 3 (18.75%) Firewall
3 2 (12.50%) DNS
4 1 (6.25%) DHCP
4 1 (6.25%) FTP
4 1 (6.25%) HTTP
4 1 (6.25%) HTTPS
4 1 (6.25%) IMAP
4 1 (6.25%) OpenLDAP
4 1 (6.25%) SSH
4 1 (6.25%) SSL
4 1 (6.25%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) MariaDB
1 2 (12.50%) MySQL
2 1 (6.25%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (6.25%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (6.25%) MongoDB
2 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Git
2 3 (18.75%) Jenkins
2 3 (18.75%) JIRA
2 3 (18.75%) Vagrant
3 2 (12.50%) Bitbucket
General
1 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (25.00%) System Design Authority
2 2 (12.50%) Administrator
2 2 (12.50%) Linux Administrator
2 2 (12.50%) Linux Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Linux Specialist
2 2 (12.50%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 2 (12.50%) Senior
2 2 (12.50%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 1 (6.25%) Linux Support
3 1 (6.25%) Products Support Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
3 1 (6.25%) Senior Infrastructure Specialist
3 1 (6.25%) Senior Linux Specialist
3 1 (6.25%) Site Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Software Support Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Support Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (25.00%) LDAP
2 2 (12.50%) LAMP
2 2 (12.50%) Zend Framework
3 1 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (6.25%) Kafka
3 1 (6.25%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) SCADA
2 1 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (6.25%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 16 (100.00%) Linux
2 12 (75.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (50.00%) CentOS
4 3 (18.75%) Debian
4 3 (18.75%) Windows
5 2 (12.50%) Unix
6 1 (6.25%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (6.25%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) CI/CD
2 5 (31.25%) Configuration Management
2 5 (31.25%) Containerisation
2 5 (31.25%) DevOps
2 5 (31.25%) Patch Management
3 4 (25.00%) API Design
3 4 (25.00%) API Integration
3 4 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 4 (25.00%) DevSecOps
3 4 (25.00%) High Availability
3 4 (25.00%) Machine Learning
3 4 (25.00%) OCR
3 4 (25.00%) Software Architecture
3 4 (25.00%) Systems Engineering
4 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure Automation
4 3 (18.75%) Load Balancing
4 3 (18.75%) SIEM
5 2 (12.50%) Agile
5 2 (12.50%) Build Automation
5 2 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 9 (56.25%) Bash
1 9 (56.25%) Python
2 3 (18.75%) JavaScript
2 3 (18.75%) Perl
3 2 (12.50%) PHP
3 2 (12.50%) Ruby
3 2 (12.50%) Shell Script
4 1 (6.25%) Ada
4 1 (6.25%) C
4 1 (6.25%) C++
4 1 (6.25%) Go
4 1 (6.25%) Groovy
4 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
4 1 (6.25%) Scala
4 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (31.25%) SC Cleared
1 5 (31.25%) Security Cleared
2 4 (25.00%) Degree
3 1 (6.25%) AWS Certification
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Certification
3 1 (6.25%) RHCE
3 1 (6.25%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 5 (31.25%) Docker
2 4 (25.00%) Postfix
3 3 (18.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (12.50%) VirtualBox
5 1 (6.25%) DFS Replication
5 1 (6.25%) Dovecot
5 1 (6.25%) KVM
5 1 (6.25%) Squid
Systems Management
1 6 (37.50%) Kubernetes
2 5 (31.25%) Ansible
2 5 (31.25%) SCOM
3 4 (25.00%) Progress Chef
4 3 (18.75%) Grafana
4 3 (18.75%) Nagios
4 3 (18.75%) Prometheus
4 3 (18.75%) Puppet
4 3 (18.75%) Terraform
5 2 (12.50%) Icinga
5 2 (12.50%) Salt
6 1 (6.25%) Cilium
6 1 (6.25%) Graphite
6 1 (6.25%) Kibana
6 1 (6.25%) logstash
6 1 (6.25%) Nessus
6 1 (6.25%) Podman
6 1 (6.25%) Proxmox
6 1 (6.25%) Rsyslog
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) Red Hat
2 3 (18.75%) VMware
3 2 (12.50%) New Relic
3 2 (12.50%) Rackspace
3 2 (12.50%) Zend
4 1 (6.25%) Jaspersoft
4 1 (6.25%) NVIDIA
4 1 (6.25%) ServiceNow