Ubuntu Contracts in the South West

Ubuntu Linux
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 150 155 151
Rank change year-on-year +5 -4 -20
Contract jobs citing Ubuntu 3 8 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.095% 0.23% 0.60%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.60% 1.16% 2.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 8 10
10th Percentile - £476 £402
25th Percentile £863 £516 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £875 £575 £495
Median % change year-on-year +52.17% +16.22% -10.05%
75th Percentile £888 £606 £538
90th Percentile - £634 £628
England median daily rate £550 £575 £540
% change year-on-year -4.35% +6.48% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
Median hourly rate - - £69.05
England median hourly rate - £18.74 £69.05
% change year-on-year - -72.87% +376.21%

All Operating Systems
South West

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 South West with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 500 691 746
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 15.86% 19.91% 20.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 357 495 442
10th Percentile £175 £179 £153
25th Percentile £300 £288 £214
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £448
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +14.53% +14.96%
75th Percentile £588 £624 £550
90th Percentile £700 £700 £638
England median daily rate £471 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -8.10% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 80 74
10th Percentile £14.00 £17.48 £16.06
25th Percentile £40.00 £50.95 £20.00
Median hourly rate £63.75 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.92% +18.18% +168.29%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile - £78.00 £73.22
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 South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Ubuntu in the South West

Ubuntu
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Ubuntu in the South West

Ubuntu
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Ubuntu in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for Ubuntu in the South West

Ubuntu
Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ubuntu within the South West 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
Bristol - 2 - - 6
Gloucestershire -4 1 £875 +45.83%
Ubuntu
England

Ubuntu
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 1 (33.33%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
General
1 1 (33.33%) Electronics
1 1 (33.33%) Manufacturing
1 1 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Security Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (33.33%) PKI
1 1 (33.33%) Security Operations Centre
1 1 (33.33%) STB
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) CAD
1 1 (33.33%) Change Management
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
1 1 (33.33%) Information Security
1 1 (33.33%) ITIL
1 1 (33.33%) Load Balancing
1 1 (33.33%) Observability
1 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (33.33%) Security Operations
1 1 (33.33%) SIEM
1 1 (33.33%) SOAR
1 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) Kibana
2 1 (33.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) ArcSight
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat
1 1 (33.33%) VMware