Ubuntu Contracts with Work from Home Options

Ubuntu Linux
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 294 406 524
Rank change year-on-year +112 +118 -94
Contract jobs citing Ubuntu 47 49 95
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.32% 0.20% 0.21%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.06% 1.46% 1.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 39 52
10th Percentile £463 £423 £401
25th Percentile £475 £488 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £538 £530
Median % change year-on-year -0.47% +1.42% +17.78%
75th Percentile £550 £706 £675
90th Percentile £620 £738 £699
UK median daily rate £522 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -5.09% +4.76% +10.53%

All Operating Systems
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,534 3,345 5,370
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.42% 13.50% 12.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,075 2,356 3,808
10th Percentile £225 £244 £300
25th Percentile £350 £406 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% +4.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £588 £633 £613
90th Percentile £683 £725 £688
UK median daily rate £466 £503 £500
% change year-on-year -7.33% +0.57% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 105 141
10th Percentile £12.75 £19.00 £15.00
25th Percentile £14.20 £25.71 £20.00
Median hourly rate £16.85 £52.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -67.91% +16.67% +28.57%
75th Percentile £37.85 £67.50 £62.15
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £68.25
UK median hourly rate £22.15 £39.05 £22.50
% change year-on-year -43.28% +73.56% +28.57%

Ubuntu
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Ubuntu as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Ubuntu trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Ubuntu.

Ubuntu daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Ubuntu over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Ubuntu daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Ubuntu.

Ubuntu hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 3 (6.38%) Apache
2 2 (4.26%) nginx
2 2 (4.26%) OpenStack
3 1 (2.13%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 18 (38.30%) AWS
2 15 (31.91%) AWS CloudFormation
3 7 (14.89%) OpenShift
4 6 (12.77%) Amazon EC2
4 6 (12.77%) Amazon S3
4 6 (12.77%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (12.77%) Azure
4 6 (12.77%) Serverless
5 5 (10.64%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 4 (8.51%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (8.51%) AWS Fargate
7 3 (6.38%) IaaS
8 2 (4.26%) Amazon Kinesis
8 2 (4.26%) PaaS
9 1 (2.13%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 1 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (2.13%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 14 (29.79%) TCP/IP
2 13 (27.66%) SAN
3 4 (8.51%) DNS
4 3 (6.38%) DHCP
5 1 (2.13%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (2.13%) Firewall
5 1 (2.13%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (2.13%) LAN
5 1 (2.13%) Network Security
5 1 (2.13%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (2.13%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (12.77%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (10.64%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (6.38%) InfluxDB
4 2 (4.26%) Couchbase
4 2 (4.26%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (10.64%) Artifactory
1 5 (10.64%) GitLab
1 5 (10.64%) Jenkins
2 3 (6.38%) Git
3 1 (2.13%) JIRA
General
1 8 (17.02%) Social Skills
2 3 (6.38%) Manufacturing
2 3 (6.38%) Public Sector
3 2 (4.26%) Finance
3 2 (4.26%) Front Office
3 2 (4.26%) Telecoms
4 1 (2.13%) Banking
4 1 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (27.66%) Developer
2 12 (25.53%) Python Developer
3 8 (17.02%) Applications Engineer
4 7 (14.89%) AWS Engineer
5 5 (10.64%) AWS DevOps
5 5 (10.64%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 5 (10.64%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 5 (10.64%) DevOps Engineer
5 5 (10.64%) Platform Engineer
5 5 (10.64%) Senior
6 4 (8.51%) Backend Developer
6 4 (8.51%) Consultant
6 4 (8.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (8.51%) Linux Engineer
7 3 (6.38%) Azure Consultant
7 3 (6.38%) Linux Support
7 3 (6.38%) Ubuntu Engineer
8 2 (4.26%) Linux Specialist
8 2 (4.26%) Senior Linux Engineer
8 2 (4.26%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (19.15%) ADO
2 6 (12.77%) AWS CDK
3 3 (6.38%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (4.26%) .NET
4 2 (4.26%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (4.26%) LAPP Stack
5 1 (2.13%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (2.13%) Java EE
5 1 (2.13%) Node.js
5 1 (2.13%) React
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.38%) Data Centre
1 3 (6.38%) Tandem
2 2 (4.26%) PKI
2 2 (4.26%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.13%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.13%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (2.13%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 47 (100.00%) Linux
2 14 (29.79%) Debian
3 10 (21.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (12.77%) CentOS
5 4 (8.51%) Rocky
5 4 (8.51%) Windows
6 3 (6.38%) Unix
7 2 (4.26%) Solaris
7 2 (4.26%) VMS
7 2 (4.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (34.04%) Agile
1 16 (34.04%) Infrastructure as Code
2 14 (29.79%) Configuration Management
2 14 (29.79%) ITIL
3 12 (25.53%) Data Modelling
4 11 (23.40%) Customer Service
4 11 (23.40%) Data Engineering
4 11 (23.40%) Matrix Organization
4 11 (23.40%) Prototyping
4 11 (23.40%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 10 (21.28%) Application Packaging
5 10 (21.28%) CI/CD
5 10 (21.28%) DevOps
6 9 (19.15%) Software Engineering
7 7 (14.89%) Software Delivery
8 6 (12.77%) Continuous Improvement
9 5 (10.64%) Containerisation
9 5 (10.64%) Observability
9 5 (10.64%) Roadmaps
10 4 (8.51%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 22 (46.81%) Python
2 16 (34.04%) Bash
3 4 (8.51%) Groovy
4 3 (6.38%) PowerShell
5 2 (4.26%) C++
5 2 (4.26%) Go
5 2 (4.26%) SQL
5 2 (4.26%) VB.NET
6 1 (2.13%) Java
6 1 (2.13%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (29.79%) Security Cleared
2 13 (27.66%) SC Cleared
3 12 (25.53%) DV Cleared
4 2 (4.26%) Degree
4 2 (4.26%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (4.26%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.13%) CEH
5 1 (2.13%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.26%) ISO 9001
1 2 (4.26%) ISO/IEC 20000
1 2 (4.26%) SLA
2 1 (2.13%) Accessibility
System Software
1 14 (29.79%) Active Directory
2 4 (8.51%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (6.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (6.38%) vSphere
4 2 (4.26%) Hyper-V
5 1 (2.13%) Docker
5 1 (2.13%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (2.13%) VMware NSX
5 1 (2.13%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 11 (23.40%) Ansible
2 10 (21.28%) Grafana
2 10 (21.28%) Terraform
3 7 (14.89%) Kubernetes
4 6 (12.77%) Kibana
5 2 (4.26%) Prometheus
5 2 (4.26%) Red Hat Satellite
5 2 (4.26%) WSUS
5 2 (4.26%) ZABBIX
6 1 (2.13%) Progress Chef
6 1 (2.13%) Puppet
6 1 (2.13%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 22 (46.81%) Red Hat
2 18 (38.30%) VMware
3 17 (36.17%) Microsoft
4 2 (4.26%) Qualys
4 2 (4.26%) SolarWinds
5 1 (2.13%) ArcSight
5 1 (2.13%) Remedy