Ubuntu Contracts

Ubuntu Linux
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Ubuntu skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Ubuntu over the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 502 467 652
Rank change year-on-year -35 +185 -21
Contract jobs citing Ubuntu 64 179 201
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.36% 0.23%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.18% 2.32% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 129 123
10th Percentile £243 £360 £285
25th Percentile £350 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £525 £576 £600
90th Percentile £546 £632 £732
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £515
% change year-on-year +5.26% -7.77% +7.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 4
10th Percentile - £59.50 £29.53
25th Percentile - £69.38 £49.12
Median hourly rate £112.00 £72.50 £68.50
Median % change year-on-year +54.48% +5.84% +57.60%
75th Percentile - £73.75 £77.19
90th Percentile - £74.25 £77.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £72.50 £68.50
% change year-on-year - +5.84% -

All Operating Systems
UK

Ubuntu falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 5,439 7,701 13,494
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.17% 15.44% 15.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,466 5,244 9,339
10th Percentile £200 £185 £184
25th Percentile £330 £325 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £625
90th Percentile £675 £700 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £450
% change year-on-year - - +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 268 372 531
10th Percentile £15.89 £14.59 £12.50
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate £51.25 £45.88 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year +11.70% +91.89% +36.63%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £63.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £76.53 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £43.75 £22.00
% change year-on-year +25.71% +98.86% +29.41%

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 20 September 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 14 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 20 September 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 +3 52 £425 -22.73% 43
UK excluding London -6 45 £500 +5.26% 40
Work from Home +45 35 £506 +1.15% 23
London +22 14 £400 -30.56% 8
Scotland +14 11 £516 +18.00% 4
South East +11 11 £375 -27.88% 8
North of England +36 9 £425 +85.79% 15
South West +9 8 £500 -8.05% 3
North West +23 6 £225 +23.29% 12
Midlands +12 6 £300 -47.83% 8
West Midlands - 6 £300 - 6
Yorkshire +15 2 £425 +54.55%
Wales +5 1 - - 1
North East - 1 £550 - 3

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 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (4.69%) Apache
3 2 (3.13%) Confluence
3 2 (3.13%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.56%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.56%) Skype for Business
4 1 (1.56%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (4.69%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.56%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 23 (35.94%) AWS
2 14 (21.88%) Azure
3 12 (18.75%) AWS CloudFormation
4 11 (17.19%) Serverless
5 10 (15.63%) OpenShift
6 9 (14.06%) AWS Lambda
6 9 (14.06%) Microsoft 365
7 8 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
7 8 (12.50%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 8 (12.50%) AWS Fargate
8 7 (10.94%) Amazon EC2
8 7 (10.94%) Amazon S3
9 6 (9.38%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 6 (9.38%) AWS CodeBuild
9 6 (9.38%) AWS CodeDeploy
9 6 (9.38%) AWS CodePipeline
9 6 (9.38%) Route 53
10 5 (7.81%) GitHub
11 3 (4.69%) Entra ID
11 3 (4.69%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 14 (21.88%) Firewall
2 11 (17.19%) DNS
3 8 (12.50%) DHCP
4 6 (9.38%) LAN
4 6 (9.38%) WAN
5 5 (7.81%) SAN
6 3 (4.69%) Fibre Channel
6 3 (4.69%) HTTP
6 3 (4.69%) Remote Desktop
6 3 (4.69%) VSAN
7 2 (3.13%) HTTPS
7 2 (3.13%) IPsec
7 2 (3.13%) SNMP
7 2 (3.13%) SSH
7 2 (3.13%) TCP/IP
7 2 (3.13%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (1.56%) Internet
8 1 (1.56%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (1.56%) SSL
8 1 (1.56%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (17.19%) Elasticsearch
2 10 (15.63%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (10.94%) InfluxDB
4 4 (6.25%) MySQL
5 3 (4.69%) SQL Server
6 2 (3.13%) Big Data
6 2 (3.13%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 10 (15.63%) Jenkins
2 9 (14.06%) Artifactory
3 8 (12.50%) Git
4 6 (9.38%) JIRA
5 3 (4.69%) GitLab
6 2 (3.13%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (1.56%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.56%) Gradle
7 1 (1.56%) Liquibase
7 1 (1.56%) Maven
7 1 (1.56%) Selenium
7 1 (1.56%) SonarQube
General
1 18 (28.13%) Social Skills
2 11 (17.19%) Public Sector
3 5 (7.81%) Influencing Skills
4 3 (4.69%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (4.69%) Retail
5 2 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.56%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.56%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.56%) Electronics
6 1 (1.56%) Finance
6 1 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.56%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (17.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 11 (17.19%) Linux Engineer
2 9 (14.06%) Platform Engineer
3 8 (12.50%) Linux Support
4 7 (10.94%) AWS Engineer
4 7 (10.94%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 7 (10.94%) DevOps Engineer
5 6 (9.38%) Applications Engineer
6 5 (7.81%) Administrator
6 5 (7.81%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 5 (7.81%) Linux Specialist
7 4 (6.25%) IT Support
7 4 (6.25%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (6.25%) Support Engineer
7 4 (6.25%) Systems Engineer
7 4 (6.25%) Windows Engineer
8 3 (4.69%) Linux Support Engineer
8 3 (4.69%) Linux Systems Engineer
8 3 (4.69%) Systems Administrator
8 3 (4.69%) VMWare Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (14.06%) AWS CDK
2 6 (9.38%) RabbitMQ
3 5 (7.81%) ADO
4 3 (4.69%) LDAP
5 2 (3.13%) CSS
5 2 (3.13%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (3.13%) HTML
5 2 (3.13%) Keycloak
5 2 (3.13%) Node.js
5 2 (3.13%) React
6 1 (1.56%) .NET
6 1 (1.56%) jQuery
6 1 (1.56%) Loki
6 1 (1.56%) Playwright
6 1 (1.56%) RESTful
6 1 (1.56%) SOAP
6 1 (1.56%) Spring Boot
6 1 (1.56%) Swagger
6 1 (1.56%) YAML
6 1 (1.56%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.81%) PKI
2 3 (4.69%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (4.69%) EPoS
2 3 (4.69%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.56%) Clustering
4 1 (1.56%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.56%) Fat Client
4 1 (1.56%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.56%) NHS
4 1 (1.56%) STB
4 1 (1.56%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 64 (100.00%) Linux
2 31 (48.44%) Windows
3 20 (31.25%) CentOS
4 18 (28.13%) Windows Server
5 14 (21.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (10.94%) Debian
7 5 (7.81%) Mac OS
8 4 (6.25%) Rocky
8 4 (6.25%) Unix
8 4 (6.25%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (4.69%) Windows 10
10 2 (3.13%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (1.56%) AIX
11 1 (1.56%) Fedora
11 1 (1.56%) Solaris
11 1 (1.56%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (23.44%) CI/CD
2 12 (18.75%) Agile
2 12 (18.75%) Containerisation
3 11 (17.19%) Infrastructure as Code
3 11 (17.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 10 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (15.63%) Software Delivery
5 9 (14.06%) Application Packaging
5 9 (14.06%) DevOps
6 7 (10.94%) Kanban
6 7 (10.94%) Migration
6 7 (10.94%) Patch Management
6 7 (10.94%) Scrum
7 6 (9.38%) Platform Engineering
8 5 (7.81%) Observability
8 5 (7.81%) Task Automation
8 5 (7.81%) Test Automation
9 4 (6.25%) Change Control
9 4 (6.25%) Information Security
10 3 (4.69%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 28 (43.75%) Bash
2 16 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 15 (23.44%) Python
4 8 (12.50%) Groovy
4 8 (12.50%) Java
5 4 (6.25%) JavaScript
6 3 (4.69%) C++
6 3 (4.69%) SQL
6 3 (4.69%) TypeScript
7 2 (3.13%) C#
7 2 (3.13%) T-SQL
7 2 (3.13%) VB
8 1 (1.56%) R
8 1 (1.56%) Ruby
8 1 (1.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 6 (9.38%) DV Cleared
3 5 (7.81%) Degree
3 5 (7.81%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (6.25%) MCSA
4 4 (6.25%) SC Cleared
5 3 (4.69%) MCSE
5 3 (4.69%) OCP
5 3 (4.69%) Oracle Certification
6 2 (3.13%) Linux+ Certification
6 2 (3.13%) RHCE
6 2 (3.13%) RHCT
7 1 (1.56%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.56%) CCNA
7 1 (1.56%) CEH
7 1 (1.56%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.56%) CISSP
7 1 (1.56%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.13%) Disclosure Scotland
1 2 (3.13%) SLA
2 1 (1.56%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.56%) JSP 440
System Software
1 24 (37.50%) Active Directory
2 13 (20.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (12.50%) vSphere
4 7 (10.94%) Docker
4 7 (10.94%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (9.38%) VMware NSX
6 3 (4.69%) Hyper-V
6 3 (4.69%) VMware Server
7 2 (3.13%) KVM
7 2 (3.13%) NFS
8 1 (1.56%) iptables
8 1 (1.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (26.56%) Ansible
2 14 (21.88%) Kubernetes
3 11 (17.19%) Grafana
4 10 (15.63%) Kibana
4 10 (15.63%) vCenter Server
5 5 (7.81%) Nessus
6 3 (4.69%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (4.69%) Puppet
6 3 (4.69%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (4.69%) Terraform
6 3 (4.69%) ZABBIX
7 2 (3.13%) Jamf Pro
7 2 (3.13%) Nagios
7 2 (3.13%) Progress Chef
7 2 (3.13%) Prometheus
7 2 (3.13%) Red Hat Satellite
8 1 (1.56%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (1.56%) logstash
8 1 (1.56%) WhatsUp Gold
8 1 (1.56%) WSUS
Vendors
1 21 (32.81%) Red Hat
2 15 (23.44%) VMware
3 12 (18.75%) Microsoft
4 6 (9.38%) Imperva
5 4 (6.25%) Cisco
5 4 (6.25%) Veeam
6 3 (4.69%) Qualys
7 2 (3.13%) Wind River
8 1 (1.56%) arcserve
8 1 (1.56%) Dell
8 1 (1.56%) Google
8 1 (1.56%) HP
8 1 (1.56%) Juniper
8 1 (1.56%) New Relic
8 1 (1.56%) Oracle
8 1 (1.56%) Palo Alto
8 1 (1.56%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.56%) Sophos
8 1 (1.56%) Splunk
8 1 (1.56%) Supermicro