Ubuntu Contracts in the UK excluding London

Ubuntu Linux
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 319 379 431
Rank change year-on-year +60 +52 -48
Contract jobs citing Ubuntu 75 70 78
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.37% 0.30% 0.26%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.34% 1.59% 1.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 50 53
10th Percentile £415 £370 £195
25th Percentile £470 £458 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £517 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.50% +3.45% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £545
90th Percentile £560 £639 £635
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
Median hourly rate - £17.47 £69.05
Median % change year-on-year - -74.70% +376.21%
UK median hourly rate - £18.74 £69.05
% change year-on-year - -72.87% +376.21%

All Operating Systems
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 3,201 4,390 5,844
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.77% 19.08% 19.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,133 3,041 3,829
10th Percentile £175 £163 £150
25th Percentile £263 £250 £206
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +11.76% +6.25%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £540
90th Percentile £672 £675 £638
UK median daily rate £469 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -6.20% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 323 316 451
10th Percentile £12.25 £13.29 £12.83
25th Percentile £14.27 £17.25 £15.02
Median hourly rate £22.50 £29.65 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.11% +48.25% +21.21%
75th Percentile £62.50 £61.25 £49.51
90th Percentile £70.00 £70.74 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £22.08 £39.05 £23.00
% change year-on-year -43.47% +69.78% +31.43%

Ubuntu
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Ubuntu as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Ubuntu in the UK excluding London

Ubuntu
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Ubuntu in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Ubuntu in the UK excluding London

Ubuntu
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Ubuntu in the UK excluding London

Ubuntu
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Ubuntu in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Ubuntu in the UK excluding London

Ubuntu
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ubuntu within the UK excluding London 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
South East +15 31 £511 -7.09% 12
Midlands +47 24 £550 -21.43% 11
West Midlands +41 17 £550 -24.14% 5
Scotland +24 7 £513 +3.80% 1
East Midlands +16 7 £550 -21.43% 6
North of England +24 6 £425 -15.00% 7
East of England +9 4 £440 +10.00% 4
North West +17 3 £325 -7.14% 6
South West +5 3 £875 +52.17% 10
Yorkshire +13 2 £425 -41.38% 1
North East +10 1 £550 -24.14%
Wales - 1 - - 1
Ubuntu
UK

Ubuntu
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 4 (5.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (4.00%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.67%) IIS
3 2 (2.67%) WordPress
4 1 (1.33%) Apache
4 1 (1.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 17 (22.67%) AWS
2 16 (21.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 8 (10.67%) Amazon S3
3 8 (10.67%) OpenShift
4 7 (9.33%) Amazon EC2
4 7 (9.33%) AWS Lambda
4 7 (9.33%) Serverless
5 6 (8.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 6 (8.00%) Azure
5 6 (8.00%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
6 5 (6.67%) AWS Fargate
7 2 (2.67%) OneDrive
7 2 (2.67%) Route 53
8 1 (1.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (1.33%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
8 1 (1.33%) CloudFront
8 1 (1.33%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.33%) GitHub
8 1 (1.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 25 (33.33%) SAN
2 19 (25.33%) TCP/IP
3 15 (20.00%) DNS
4 11 (14.67%) DHCP
5 7 (9.33%) LAN
5 7 (9.33%) WAN
6 6 (8.00%) Fibre Channel
6 6 (8.00%) NAS
7 4 (5.33%) Remote Desktop
8 3 (4.00%) Firewall
9 2 (2.67%) iSCSI
9 2 (2.67%) VPN
9 2 (2.67%) Wireless
10 1 (1.33%) HTTP
10 1 (1.33%) HTTPS
10 1 (1.33%) IPsec
10 1 (1.33%) Network Security
10 1 (1.33%) SNMP
10 1 (1.33%) SSH
10 1 (1.33%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (29.33%) Elasticsearch
2 8 (10.67%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (9.33%) SQL Server
4 4 (5.33%) MySQL
5 3 (4.00%) InfluxDB
6 1 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.33%) Neo4j
6 1 (1.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (13.33%) GitLab
2 8 (10.67%) Jenkins
3 6 (8.00%) Artifactory
4 3 (4.00%) Git
5 1 (1.33%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.33%) Gerrit
5 1 (1.33%) Gradle
5 1 (1.33%) JIRA
5 1 (1.33%) Liquibase
5 1 (1.33%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 12 (16.00%) Social Skills
2 9 (12.00%) Public Sector
3 3 (4.00%) Front Office
3 3 (4.00%) Retail
3 3 (4.00%) Telecoms
4 2 (2.67%) Finance
5 1 (1.33%) Electronics
5 1 (1.33%) Fire and Rescue
5 1 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (1.33%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.33%) Military
5 1 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.33%) Police
Job Titles
1 19 (25.33%) Developer
2 18 (24.00%) Python Developer
3 10 (13.33%) SIEM Engineer
4 9 (12.00%) Applications Engineer
4 9 (12.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (8.00%) Administrator
5 6 (8.00%) AWS Engineer
5 6 (8.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 6 (8.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 6 (8.00%) Linux Engineer
5 6 (8.00%) Platform Engineer
5 6 (8.00%) Senior
6 5 (6.67%) Analyst
6 5 (6.67%) Analyst Developer
6 5 (6.67%) AWS DevOps
6 5 (6.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 5 (6.67%) Developer Analyst
6 5 (6.67%) Programmer
6 5 (6.67%) Python Programmer
6 5 (6.67%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (14.67%) Elastic Stack
2 8 (10.67%) ADO
3 7 (9.33%) AWS CDK
4 3 (4.00%) .NET
4 3 (4.00%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (2.67%) jQuery
5 2 (2.67%) Keycloak
5 2 (2.67%) LAMP
5 2 (2.67%) Node.js
6 1 (1.33%) Apache NiFi
6 1 (1.33%) CSS
6 1 (1.33%) Django
6 1 (1.33%) Java EE
6 1 (1.33%) JSON
6 1 (1.33%) LDAP
6 1 (1.33%) RESTful
6 1 (1.33%) SOAP
6 1 (1.33%) Spring
6 1 (1.33%) Web Services
6 1 (1.33%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 13 (17.33%) Linux Command Line
2 10 (13.33%) PKI
3 4 (5.33%) Fat Client
3 4 (5.33%) Thin Client
4 3 (4.00%) EPoS
5 2 (2.67%) Replication
6 1 (1.33%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.33%) Clustering
6 1 (1.33%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.33%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.33%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.33%) STB
Operating Systems
1 75 (100.00%) Linux
2 29 (38.67%) Windows
3 22 (29.33%) Debian
4 16 (21.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (16.00%) Windows Server
6 9 (12.00%) CentOS
7 6 (8.00%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (4.00%) Unix
8 3 (4.00%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (2.67%) Solaris
9 2 (2.67%) VMS
10 1 (1.33%) Android
10 1 (1.33%) Apple iOS
10 1 (1.33%) Mac OS
10 1 (1.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (25.33%) Agile
2 18 (24.00%) ITIL
3 17 (22.67%) Configuration Management
4 15 (20.00%) Data Modelling
5 14 (18.67%) Data Engineering
5 14 (18.67%) Prototyping
5 14 (18.67%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 13 (17.33%) Infrastructure as Code
7 11 (14.67%) Customer Service
7 11 (14.67%) Matrix Organization
7 11 (14.67%) RBAC
7 11 (14.67%) SIEM
8 10 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 10 (13.33%) Infrastructure Monitoring
9 9 (12.00%) Patch Management
9 9 (12.00%) Software Engineering
9 9 (12.00%) Visualisation
10 8 (10.67%) Application Packaging
10 8 (10.67%) DevOps
10 8 (10.67%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 29 (38.67%) Python
2 18 (24.00%) Bash
3 14 (18.67%) PowerShell
4 8 (10.67%) R
5 5 (6.67%) Groovy
6 3 (4.00%) VB.NET
7 2 (2.67%) C++
7 2 (2.67%) Java
7 2 (2.67%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.67%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 29 (38.67%) Security Cleared
2 23 (30.67%) SC Cleared
3 17 (22.67%) DV Cleared
4 5 (6.67%) Degree
5 3 (4.00%) ITIL Certification
5 3 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.33%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (1.33%) Linux+ Certification
6 1 (1.33%) LPIC
6 1 (1.33%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.00%) ISO 9001
1 3 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 20000
1 3 (4.00%) SLA
2 1 (1.33%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.33%) QA
System Software
1 36 (48.00%) Active Directory
2 10 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (12.00%) iptables
3 9 (12.00%) vSphere
4 8 (10.67%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (6.67%) Docker
6 4 (5.33%) Hyper-V
6 4 (5.33%) VMware NSX
6 4 (5.33%) VMware Server
7 3 (4.00%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (1.33%) KVM
8 1 (1.33%) NFS
8 1 (1.33%) Xen
Systems Management
1 18 (24.00%) Ansible
1 18 (24.00%) Kibana
2 12 (16.00%) Kubernetes
3 10 (13.33%) logstash
4 8 (10.67%) vCenter Server
5 7 (9.33%) WSUS
6 6 (8.00%) Grafana
6 6 (8.00%) Red Hat Satellite
6 6 (8.00%) Terraform
7 5 (6.67%) Nessus
8 4 (5.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (5.33%) ZABBIX
9 3 (4.00%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (2.67%) Prometheus
10 2 (2.67%) Puppet
10 2 (2.67%) SCCM
11 1 (1.33%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (1.33%) Failover Clustering
11 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Clustering
11 1 (1.33%) Packer
Vendors
1 32 (42.67%) VMware
2 28 (37.33%) Microsoft
2 28 (37.33%) Red Hat
3 6 (8.00%) Veeam
4 5 (6.67%) Oracle
5 2 (2.67%) Aruba
5 2 (2.67%) Palo Alto
5 2 (2.67%) ProCurve
5 2 (2.67%) SolarWinds
5 2 (2.67%) Splunk
5 2 (2.67%) Synology
5 2 (2.67%) Zerto
6 1 (1.33%) ArcSight
6 1 (1.33%) Cisco
6 1 (1.33%) Qualys
6 1 (1.33%) Remedy