Ubuntu Contracts

Ubuntu Linux
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 483 527 619
Rank change year-on-year +44 +92 -11
Contract jobs citing Ubuntu 92 156 223
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.21% 0.28% 0.25%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.59% 1.72% 1.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 116 144
10th Percentile £375 £411 £334
25th Percentile £463 £480 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £550 £658 £650
90th Percentile £588 £738 £736
UK excluding London median daily rate £521 £514 £510
% change year-on-year +1.41% +0.74% +7.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 2
10th Percentile - £52.25 £21.73
25th Percentile - £59.38 £29.62
Median hourly rate - £72.50 £42.76
Median % change year-on-year - +69.55% +194.90%
75th Percentile - £73.75 £55.91
90th Percentile - - £63.79
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £72.50 £42.76
% change year-on-year - +69.55% +194.90%

All Operating Systems
UK

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 requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 5,784 9,075 12,888
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.43% 16.19% 14.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,888 6,324 8,810
10th Percentile £185 £190 £175
25th Percentile £300 £340 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £613
90th Percentile £700 £718 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £465 £425
% change year-on-year -3.12% +9.29% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 404 391 567
10th Percentile £12.75 £13.29 £13.00
25th Percentile £15.50 £18.06 £15.76
Median hourly rate £22.50 £42.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.06% +93.18% +25.71%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £52.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.79 £38.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -40.81% +92.50% +21.21%

Ubuntu
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Ubuntu in the UK

Ubuntu
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Ubuntu in the UK

Ubuntu
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ubuntu over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Ubuntu in the UK

Ubuntu
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Ubuntu in the UK

Ubuntu
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 1 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
England +38 82 £512 -11.00% 59
UK excluding London +37 77 £521 +1.41% 44
Work from Home +99 44 £525 +3.91% 23
South East +9 30 £511 -7.09% 15
Midlands +41 23 £550 -12.00% 7
West Midlands +29 17 £550 -24.14% 5
London +41 12 £500 -16.67% 19
Scotland +26 7 £513 +3.80% 2
South West +1 7 £500 -9.09% 5
North of England +20 6 £425 -15.00% 6
East Midlands +13 6 £550 -12.00% 2
East of England +3 4 £440 +10.00% 6
North West +18 3 £325 -7.14% 4
Yorkshire +17 2 £425 -41.38% 2
North East +11 1 £550 -24.14%
Wales - 1 - - 4

Ubuntu
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 4 (4.35%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (3.26%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.17%) IIS
3 2 (2.17%) WordPress
4 1 (1.09%) Apache
4 1 (1.09%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 24 (26.09%) AWS
2 17 (18.48%) AWS CloudFormation
3 14 (15.22%) Azure
4 8 (8.70%) Amazon S3
4 8 (8.70%) OpenShift
5 7 (7.61%) Amazon EC2
5 7 (7.61%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (7.61%) Serverless
6 6 (6.52%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 6 (6.52%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (5.43%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (5.43%) AWS Fargate
8 3 (3.26%) IaaS
9 2 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (2.17%) OneDrive
9 2 (2.17%) Route 53
10 1 (1.09%) Amazon Cognito
10 1 (1.09%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 1 (1.09%) Azure Stack
10 1 (1.09%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 24 (26.09%) SAN
2 18 (19.57%) TCP/IP
3 16 (17.39%) DNS
4 12 (13.04%) DHCP
5 7 (7.61%) LAN
5 7 (7.61%) WAN
6 6 (6.52%) Fibre Channel
6 6 (6.52%) NAS
7 5 (5.43%) Remote Desktop
8 4 (4.35%) Firewall
9 2 (2.17%) iSCSI
9 2 (2.17%) VPN
9 2 (2.17%) Wireless
10 1 (1.09%) Cisco Nexus
10 1 (1.09%) Intrusion Detection
10 1 (1.09%) IPsec
10 1 (1.09%) Network Security
10 1 (1.09%) SNMP
10 1 (1.09%) SSH
10 1 (1.09%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (23.91%) Elasticsearch
2 8 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (7.61%) SQL Server
4 4 (4.35%) MySQL
5 3 (3.26%) InfluxDB
6 1 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 10 (10.87%) GitLab
2 8 (8.70%) Jenkins
3 6 (6.52%) Artifactory
4 2 (2.17%) Git
5 1 (1.09%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.09%) Gerrit
5 1 (1.09%) Gradle
5 1 (1.09%) JIRA
5 1 (1.09%) Liquibase
5 1 (1.09%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.09%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 15 (16.30%) Social Skills
2 10 (10.87%) Public Sector
3 5 (5.43%) Finance
4 4 (4.35%) Manufacturing
5 3 (3.26%) Front Office
5 3 (3.26%) Retail
6 2 (2.17%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.09%) Banking
7 1 (1.09%) Electronics
7 1 (1.09%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.09%) Fire and Rescue
7 1 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.09%) Military
7 1 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.09%) Police
Job Titles
1 17 (18.48%) Developer
2 16 (17.39%) Python Developer
3 12 (13.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 10 (10.87%) SIEM Engineer
5 9 (9.78%) Applications Engineer
6 8 (8.70%) Linux Engineer
7 7 (7.61%) Administrator
7 7 (7.61%) AWS Engineer
8 6 (6.52%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 6 (6.52%) DevOps Engineer
8 6 (6.52%) Platform Engineer
8 6 (6.52%) Senior
9 5 (5.43%) Analyst Developer
9 5 (5.43%) AWS DevOps
9 5 (5.43%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 5 (5.43%) Developer Analyst
9 5 (5.43%) Linux Specialist
9 5 (5.43%) Linux Support
9 5 (5.43%) Python Programmer
9 5 (5.43%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (11.96%) Elastic Stack
2 9 (9.78%) ADO
3 7 (7.61%) AWS CDK
4 3 (3.26%) .NET
4 3 (3.26%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (2.17%) Keycloak
5 2 (2.17%) LAMP
5 2 (2.17%) Node.js
6 1 (1.09%) Apache NiFi
6 1 (1.09%) Java EE
6 1 (1.09%) jQuery
6 1 (1.09%) JSON
6 1 (1.09%) LDAP
6 1 (1.09%) RESTful
6 1 (1.09%) SOAP
6 1 (1.09%) Spring
6 1 (1.09%) Spring Boot
6 1 (1.09%) Swagger
6 1 (1.09%) Web Services
6 1 (1.09%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 12 (13.04%) Linux Command Line
2 11 (11.96%) PKI
3 4 (4.35%) Fat Client
3 4 (4.35%) Thin Client
4 3 (3.26%) Data Centre
4 3 (3.26%) EPoS
4 3 (3.26%) Tandem
5 2 (2.17%) Replication
6 1 (1.09%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.09%) Clustering
6 1 (1.09%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.09%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.09%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.09%) STB
Operating Systems
1 92 (100.00%) Linux
2 34 (36.96%) Windows
3 21 (22.83%) Debian
4 16 (17.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 14 (15.22%) Windows Server
6 10 (10.87%) CentOS
7 7 (7.61%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (4.35%) Rocky
8 4 (4.35%) Unix
9 3 (3.26%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (2.17%) Solaris
10 2 (2.17%) VMS
10 2 (2.17%) Windows 10
11 1 (1.09%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (20.65%) ITIL
2 18 (19.57%) Agile
3 17 (18.48%) Configuration Management
3 17 (18.48%) Infrastructure as Code
4 14 (15.22%) Data Modelling
5 13 (14.13%) Data Engineering
5 13 (14.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 13 (14.13%) Prototyping
5 13 (14.13%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 12 (13.04%) CI/CD
6 12 (13.04%) DevOps
7 11 (11.96%) RBAC
7 11 (11.96%) SIEM
8 10 (10.87%) Application Packaging
8 10 (10.87%) Customer Service
8 10 (10.87%) Infrastructure Monitoring
8 10 (10.87%) Matrix Organization
9 9 (9.78%) Patch Management
9 9 (9.78%) Software Engineering
9 9 (9.78%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 27 (29.35%) Python
2 26 (28.26%) Bash
3 14 (15.22%) PowerShell
4 8 (8.70%) R
5 5 (5.43%) Groovy
6 3 (3.26%) VB.NET
7 2 (2.17%) C++
7 2 (2.17%) Java
7 2 (2.17%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.09%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.09%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 30 (32.61%) Security Cleared
2 23 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 17 (18.48%) DV Cleared
4 5 (5.43%) Degree
5 3 (3.26%) ITIL Certification
5 3 (3.26%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.09%) CEH
6 1 (1.09%) CISSP
6 1 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.09%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (1.09%) Linux+ Certification
6 1 (1.09%) LPIC
6 1 (1.09%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.26%) ISO 9001
1 3 (3.26%) ISO/IEC 20000
1 3 (3.26%) SLA
2 1 (1.09%) Accessibility
System Software
1 40 (43.48%) Active Directory
2 10 (10.87%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (9.78%) iptables
3 9 (9.78%) VMware ESXi
3 9 (9.78%) vSphere
4 5 (5.43%) Docker
4 5 (5.43%) VMware NSX
5 4 (4.35%) Hyper-V
5 4 (4.35%) VMware Server
6 3 (3.26%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (1.09%) KVM
7 1 (1.09%) NFS
7 1 (1.09%) Xen
Systems Management
1 23 (25.00%) Ansible
2 18 (19.57%) Kibana
3 12 (13.04%) Kubernetes
4 10 (10.87%) logstash
5 9 (9.78%) Grafana
5 9 (9.78%) Terraform
5 9 (9.78%) vCenter Server
6 8 (8.70%) WSUS
7 6 (6.52%) Red Hat Satellite
8 5 (5.43%) Nessus
9 4 (4.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (4.35%) ZABBIX
10 3 (3.26%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (2.17%) Progress Chef
11 2 (2.17%) Prometheus
11 2 (2.17%) Puppet
11 2 (2.17%) SCCM
11 2 (2.17%) WhatsUp Gold
12 1 (1.09%) Failover Clustering
12 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 34 (36.96%) Red Hat
2 32 (34.78%) VMware
3 30 (32.61%) Microsoft
4 6 (6.52%) Veeam
5 4 (4.35%) Oracle
6 2 (2.17%) Aruba
6 2 (2.17%) Cisco
6 2 (2.17%) Palo Alto
6 2 (2.17%) ProCurve
6 2 (2.17%) Qualys
6 2 (2.17%) SolarWinds
6 2 (2.17%) Splunk
6 2 (2.17%) Synology
6 2 (2.17%) Zerto
7 1 (1.09%) ArcSight
7 1 (1.09%) Dell
7 1 (1.09%) Remedy
7 1 (1.09%) Wyse