Ubuntu Contracts in the Midlands

Ubuntu Linux
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 109 156 202
Rank change year-on-year +47 +46 -48
Contract jobs citing Ubuntu 24 4 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.89% 0.12% 0.060%
As % of the Operating Systems category 5.85% 0.68% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 3 3
10th Percentile £300 £460 £353
25th Percentile £528 £550 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £700 £475
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +47.37% -
75th Percentile - £738 £494
90th Percentile £670 £760 £498
England median daily rate £550 £575 £540
% change year-on-year -4.35% +6.48% -1.82%

All Operating Systems
Midlands

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 advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 410 584 983
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 15.22% 17.79% 19.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 267 392 655
10th Percentile £150 £158 £139
25th Percentile £200 £233 £199
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £445 £375
Median % change year-on-year -15.73% +18.67% +3.59%
75th Percentile £538 £568 £500
90th Percentile £630 £690 £586
England median daily rate £471 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -8.10% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 34 70
10th Percentile £12.86 £11.80 £13.18
25th Percentile £14.27 £14.64 £14.87
Median hourly rate £17.86 £17.72 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.79% +4.24% +13.33%
75th Percentile £23.31 £22.25 £22.63
90th Percentile £23.75 £36.43 £24.55
England median hourly rate £22.00 £38.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -42.11% +72.73% +23.94%

Ubuntu
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Ubuntu as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Ubuntu in the Midlands

Ubuntu
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Ubuntu in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Ubuntu in the Midlands

Ubuntu
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ubuntu in the Midlands over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Ubuntu in the Midlands

Ubuntu
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ubuntu within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 16 May 2024. 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
West Midlands +41 17 £550 -24.14% 4
East Midlands +16 7 £550 -21.43% 6
Ubuntu
England

Ubuntu
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (8.33%) IIS
1 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (8.33%) SharePoint
1 2 (8.33%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 2 (8.33%) Azure
1 2 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (8.33%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 11 (45.83%) SAN
2 6 (25.00%) DNS
2 6 (25.00%) Fibre Channel
3 5 (20.83%) TCP/IP
4 4 (16.67%) DHCP
4 4 (16.67%) LAN
4 4 (16.67%) Remote Desktop
4 4 (16.67%) WAN
5 2 (8.33%) Firewall
5 2 (8.33%) iSCSI
5 2 (8.33%) NAS
5 2 (8.33%) VPN
5 2 (8.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (41.67%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (8.33%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (16.67%) Public Sector
1 4 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.17%) Finance
2 1 (4.17%) Fire and Rescue
2 1 (4.17%) Military
2 1 (4.17%) Police
Job Titles
1 10 (41.67%) SIEM Engineer
2 6 (25.00%) Administrator
3 5 (20.83%) Developer
3 5 (20.83%) Python Developer
4 4 (16.67%) Server Administrator
4 4 (16.67%) VMWare Administrator
5 3 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (12.50%) Network Engineer
5 3 (12.50%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Linux Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Senior
6 2 (8.33%) Senior Developer
6 2 (8.33%) Senior Python Developer
6 2 (8.33%) Senior Software Developer
6 2 (8.33%) Systems Administrator
6 2 (8.33%) Ubuntu Administrator
7 1 (4.17%) Audit Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Elasticsearch Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Ubuntu Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (41.67%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (8.33%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 12 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
2 4 (16.67%) PKI
3 2 (8.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 24 (100.00%) Linux
2 15 (62.50%) Windows
3 6 (25.00%) Debian
3 6 (25.00%) Windows Server
4 5 (20.83%) CentOS
5 4 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (8.33%) VMS
6 2 (8.33%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (8.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (41.67%) Infrastructure Monitoring
1 10 (41.67%) SIEM
2 9 (37.50%) Visualisation
3 8 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 8 (33.33%) DataOps
3 8 (33.33%) RBAC
4 5 (20.83%) Agile
4 5 (20.83%) Configuration Management
4 5 (20.83%) Customer Service
4 5 (20.83%) Data Engineering
4 5 (20.83%) Data Modelling
4 5 (20.83%) ITIL
4 5 (20.83%) Matrix Organization
4 5 (20.83%) Prototyping
4 5 (20.83%) Task Automation
4 5 (20.83%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 4 (16.67%) Load Balancing
5 4 (16.67%) Patch Management
5 4 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (16.67%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 8 (33.33%) R
2 6 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 5 (20.83%) Bash
3 5 (20.83%) Python
4 1 (4.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (54.17%) Security Cleared
2 9 (37.50%) DV Cleared
2 9 (37.50%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.17%) CTC Cleared
System Software
1 14 (58.33%) Active Directory
2 9 (37.50%) iptables
3 6 (25.00%) vSphere
4 4 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (16.67%) VMware NSX
4 4 (16.67%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 10 (41.67%) Kibana
1 10 (41.67%) logstash
2 4 (16.67%) vCenter Server
3 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (8.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 11 (45.83%) Microsoft
1 11 (45.83%) VMware
2 6 (25.00%) Red Hat
3 2 (8.33%) Aruba
3 2 (8.33%) Palo Alto
3 2 (8.33%) ProCurve
3 2 (8.33%) Synology
3 2 (8.33%) Veeam
3 2 (8.33%) Zerto