Ubuntu Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Ubuntu Linux
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Ubuntu skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 87 103
Rank change year-on-year -51 +16 +12
Contract jobs citing Ubuntu 9 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.36% 0.096% 0.12%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.88% 0.46% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 1 2
10th Percentile £491 - -
25th Percentile £500 £373 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £401 £425
Median % change year-on-year +31.09% -5.76% -41.38%
75th Percentile £537 £428 -
90th Percentile £538 - -
England median daily rate £525 £500 £538
% change year-on-year +5.00% -6.98% -6.52%

All Operating Systems
Yorkshire

Ubuntu falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring operating system skills in Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 313 216 323
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 12.47% 20.67% 19.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 125 232
10th Percentile £185 £176 £163
25th Percentile £318 £243 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £419
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +7.46% -6.94%
75th Percentile £525 £575 £502
90th Percentile £615 £633 £588
England median daily rate £450 £468 £475
% change year-on-year -3.74% -1.58% -7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 8 15
10th Percentile £16.01 £16.25 £13.65
25th Percentile £16.75 £16.44 £14.52
Median hourly rate £20.91 £18.21 £18.27
Median % change year-on-year +14.83% -0.36% -6.95%
75th Percentile £24.82 £19.56 £23.75
90th Percentile £25.44 £19.76 -
England median hourly rate £47.50 £21.59 £22.00
% change year-on-year +120.01% -1.86% -41.33%

Ubuntu
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Ubuntu relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Ubuntu job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Ubuntu
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Ubuntu.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Ubuntu

Ubuntu
Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Ubuntu.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Ubuntu

Ubuntu
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ubuntu within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 18 May 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South Yorkshire - 8 £531 -
West Yorkshire -19 1 £463 +15.48% 3
Ubuntu
England

Ubuntu
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (11.11%) Amazon ELB
1 1 (11.11%) Amazon S3
1 1 (11.11%) AWS
1 1 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (11.11%) Datadog
1 1 (11.11%) Serverless
1 1 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
General
1 8 (88.89%) Documentation Skills
1 8 (88.89%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (88.89%) Lead
2 2 (22.22%) Technical Leader
3 1 (11.11%) Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Splunk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (88.89%) YAML
2 1 (11.11%) JSON
2 1 (11.11%) REST
2 1 (11.11%) Web Services
2 1 (11.11%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 9 (100.00%) Linux
1 9 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 8 (88.89%) CentOS
3 1 (11.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 8 (88.89%) Continuous Improvement
2 8 (88.89%) DevOps
2 8 (88.89%) ITSM
2 8 (88.89%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (88.89%) RBAC
3 1 (11.11%) Agile
3 1 (11.11%) Analytics
3 1 (11.11%) API Integration
3 1 (11.11%) Configuration Management
3 1 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (11.11%) ITIL
3 1 (11.11%) Observability
3 1 (11.11%) Predictive Analytics
3 1 (11.11%) Service Management
3 1 (11.11%) SIEM
3 1 (11.11%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) Python
2 8 (88.89%) Perl
2 8 (88.89%) Ruby
3 1 (11.11%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 8 (88.89%) RHCE
2 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 8 (88.89%) Ansible
1 8 (88.89%) Puppet
2 1 (11.11%) Grafana
2 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (88.89%) Red Hat
2 1 (11.11%) Cribl.io
2 1 (11.11%) LogicMonitor
2 1 (11.11%) New Relic
2 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow
2 1 (11.11%) Splunk