Debian Contracts

Debian Linux
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Debian skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Debian over the 6 months to 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 571 658 803
Rank change year-on-year +87 +145 -100
Contract jobs citing Debian 31 37 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.072% 0.067% 0.060%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.53% 0.41% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 29 36
10th Percentile £313 £463 £360
25th Percentile £425 £500 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.09% - -
75th Percentile £550 £600 £671
90th Percentile £556 £775 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £511 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -7.09% +10.00% +33.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £50.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Operating Systems
UK

Debian 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 requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 5,846 8,963 12,908
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.49% 16.13% 14.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,892 6,241 8,824
10th Percentile £185 £190 £175
25th Percentile £309 £338 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £618
90th Percentile £700 £715 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £463 £425
% change year-on-year -2.70% +8.82% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 407 392 566
10th Percentile £12.75 £14.03 £13.00
25th Percentile £15.50 £18.22 £15.77
Median hourly rate £22.50 £45.06 £22.25
Median % change year-on-year -50.06% +102.49% +27.14%
75th Percentile £62.25 £65.00 £52.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.18 £40.59 £20.00
% change year-on-year -40.43% +102.95% +21.21%

Debian
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Debian as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Debian in the UK

Debian
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Debian.

Daily rate trend for Debian in the UK

Debian
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Debian over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Debian in the UK

Debian
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Debian.

Hourly rate trend for Debian in the UK

Debian
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Debian within the UK over the 6 months to 9 June 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
UK excluding London +55 29 £511 -7.09% 20
England +84 25 £538 -2.27% 22
South East +18 15 £538 -2.27% 5
Work from Home +113 12 £550 +12.82% 12
Scotland - 6 £325 - 2
North of England +28 4 £425 - 3
Midlands +25 4 £550 - 7
East Midlands +14 3 £550 - 6
North West +14 2 £425 - 1
Yorkshire - 2 £425 - 1
London +67 1 £460 -14.42% 4
Wales - 1 - - 1
West Midlands - 1 - - 1

Debian
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 6 (19.35%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 3 (9.68%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (6.45%) AWS
2 2 (6.45%) Datadog
3 1 (3.23%) Azure
3 1 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (3.23%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 13 (41.94%) SAN
1 13 (41.94%) TCP/IP
2 3 (9.68%) LAN
2 3 (9.68%) WAN
3 2 (6.45%) DNS
Development Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Git
General
1 7 (22.58%) Social Skills
2 3 (9.68%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (48.39%) Developer
1 15 (48.39%) Python Developer
2 6 (19.35%) 3rd Line Support
2 6 (19.35%) Linux Engineer
3 5 (16.13%) Analyst
3 5 (16.13%) Analyst Developer
3 5 (16.13%) Developer Analyst
3 5 (16.13%) Programmer
3 5 (16.13%) Python Programmer
3 5 (16.13%) Security Analyst
4 4 (12.90%) Backend Developer
5 3 (9.68%) Linux Developer
5 3 (9.68%) Linux Specialist
6 2 (6.45%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Network Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Platform Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Senior Software Developer
6 2 (6.45%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (19.35%) Data Centre
2 3 (9.68%) EPoS
3 1 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.23%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 31 (100.00%) Linux
2 20 (64.52%) Ubuntu
3 9 (29.03%) CentOS
3 9 (29.03%) Windows
4 6 (19.35%) Windows Server
4 6 (19.35%) Windows Server 2008
4 6 (19.35%) Windows Server 2012
4 6 (19.35%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (3.23%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (45.16%) Agile
2 13 (41.94%) Data Modelling
3 12 (38.71%) Configuration Management
3 12 (38.71%) Data Engineering
3 12 (38.71%) ITIL
3 12 (38.71%) Prototyping
3 12 (38.71%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 9 (29.03%) Customer Service
4 9 (29.03%) Matrix Organization
4 9 (29.03%) Software Engineering
5 3 (9.68%) E-Commerce
5 3 (9.68%) Logistics
5 3 (9.68%) Migration
5 3 (9.68%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (6.45%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (6.45%) Performance Analysis
6 2 (6.45%) Platform Engineering
6 2 (6.45%) Process Improvement
7 1 (3.23%) Functional Testing
7 1 (3.23%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 17 (54.84%) Python
2 4 (12.90%) Bash
3 2 (6.45%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (48.39%) Security Cleared
2 13 (41.94%) SC Cleared
3 11 (35.48%) DV Cleared
4 6 (19.35%) MCSA
4 6 (19.35%) MCSE
4 6 (19.35%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (19.35%) RHCT
System Software
1 9 (29.03%) Active Directory
2 6 (19.35%) Hyper-V
2 6 (19.35%) KVM
2 6 (19.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (6.45%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (3.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (6.45%) Ansible
2 1 (3.23%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 27 (87.10%) Red Hat
2 19 (61.29%) VMware
3 12 (38.71%) Microsoft
4 6 (19.35%) Citrix
5 1 (3.23%) Remedy