Ubuntu Contracts in the Thames Valley

Ubuntu Linux
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 114 129 160
Rank change year-on-year +15 +31 -14
Contract jobs citing Ubuntu 16 16 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.61% 0.56% 0.20%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.52% 3.60% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 13 6
10th Percentile - £506 £547
25th Percentile £506 £510 £584
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £650
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% -15.38% +76.27%
75th Percentile £550 - -
90th Percentile £558 £572 -
South East median daily rate £511 £550 £638
% change year-on-year -7.09% -13.73% +59.38%

All Operating Systems
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 354 445 566
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 13.42% 15.55% 15.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 246 306 385
10th Percentile £203 £200 £147
25th Percentile £244 £350 £206
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £478 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.99% +6.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £575
90th Percentile £608 £675 £650
South East median daily rate £475 £463 £450
% change year-on-year +2.70% +2.78% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 15 21
10th Percentile £18.00 £18.08 -
25th Percentile £22.51 £18.29 £13.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £48.40 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.86% +142.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £59.00 £65.31 £48.75
90th Percentile £61.60 £78.82 £67.50
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £55.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year -13.64% +214.29% -20.45%

Ubuntu
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Ubuntu in the Thames Valley

Ubuntu
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate trend for Ubuntu in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ubuntu in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Ubuntu in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Ubuntu in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Ubuntu in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ubuntu within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 31 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
Buckinghamshire +32 12 £543 +1.07%
Berkshire - 4 £375 - 2
Ubuntu
South East

Ubuntu
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Communications & Networking
1 14 (87.50%) SAN
2 10 (62.50%) TCP/IP
3 4 (25.00%) DHCP
3 4 (25.00%) DNS
3 4 (25.00%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) Elasticsearch
1 4 (25.00%) MySQL
1 4 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (25.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 12 (75.00%) Developer
1 12 (75.00%) Python Developer
2 5 (31.25%) Analyst
2 5 (31.25%) Analyst Developer
2 5 (31.25%) Developer Analyst
2 5 (31.25%) Programmer
2 5 (31.25%) Python Programmer
2 5 (31.25%) Security Analyst
3 4 (25.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 4 (25.00%) Backend Developer
4 3 (18.75%) 3rd Line Support
4 3 (18.75%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) Linux Developer
4 3 (18.75%) Support Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
6 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Support
6 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Fat Client
1 4 (25.00%) PKI
1 4 (25.00%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 16 (100.00%) Linux
2 12 (75.00%) Debian
3 4 (25.00%) Windows
3 4 (25.00%) Windows Server
3 4 (25.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (62.50%) Data Modelling
2 9 (56.25%) Agile
2 9 (56.25%) Configuration Management
2 9 (56.25%) Data Engineering
2 9 (56.25%) ITIL
2 9 (56.25%) Prototyping
2 9 (56.25%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 6 (37.50%) Customer Service
3 6 (37.50%) Matrix Organization
3 6 (37.50%) Software Engineering
4 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 4 (25.00%) Mentoring
5 1 (6.25%) Business Continuity
5 1 (6.25%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (6.25%) Incident Management
5 1 (6.25%) Patch Management
5 1 (6.25%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 12 (75.00%) Python
2 4 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 13 (81.25%) SC Cleared
1 13 (81.25%) Security Cleared
2 6 (37.50%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 4 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (25.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 4 (25.00%) Ansible
1 4 (25.00%) Nessus
1 4 (25.00%) Red Hat Satellite
1 4 (25.00%) vCenter Server
1 4 (25.00%) WSUS
1 4 (25.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 16 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 14 (87.50%) VMware
3 13 (81.25%) Microsoft
4 4 (25.00%) Oracle
4 4 (25.00%) Veeam
5 1 (6.25%) Remedy