Ubuntu Contracts with Work from Home Options

Ubuntu Linux
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 300 398 526
Rank change year-on-year +98 +128 -83
Contract jobs citing Ubuntu 41 59 97
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.28% 0.25% 0.22%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.61% 1.82% 1.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 42 55
10th Percentile £463 £425 £405
25th Percentile £475 £463 £492
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.65% -4.71% +16.67%
75th Percentile £550 £700 £619
90th Percentile £580 £735 £675
UK median daily rate £511 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -7.09% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £61.25 -
UK median hourly rate - £72.50 £46.74
% change year-on-year - +55.13% +222.31%

All Operating Systems
Work from Home

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,572 3,239 5,309
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.65% 13.57% 12.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,076 2,268 3,789
10th Percentile £229 £245 £300
25th Percentile £363 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +1.94% +9.57%
75th Percentile £594 £638 £620
90th Percentile £685 £731 £694
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 113 125
10th Percentile £12.75 £19.20 £15.00
25th Percentile £14.00 £25.71 £20.00
Median hourly rate £16.00 £52.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -69.52% +16.67% +21.62%
75th Percentile £27.68 £68.75 £65.54
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £23.00 £46.75 £22.25
% change year-on-year -50.80% +110.11% +27.14%

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 12 June 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 1 (2.44%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 15 (36.59%) AWS
2 14 (34.15%) AWS CloudFormation
3 7 (17.07%) OpenShift
4 6 (14.63%) Amazon EC2
4 6 (14.63%) Amazon S3
4 6 (14.63%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (14.63%) Serverless
5 5 (12.20%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 5 (12.20%) Azure
6 4 (9.76%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (9.76%) AWS Fargate
7 3 (7.32%) IaaS
8 1 (2.44%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 1 (2.44%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 12 (29.27%) TCP/IP
2 11 (26.83%) SAN
3 3 (7.32%) DHCP
3 3 (7.32%) DNS
4 1 (2.44%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (2.44%) Firewall
4 1 (2.44%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (2.44%) LAN
4 1 (2.44%) Network Security
4 1 (2.44%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (2.44%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (12.20%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (7.32%) InfluxDB
2 3 (7.32%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (12.20%) Artifactory
1 5 (12.20%) GitLab
1 5 (12.20%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.44%) JIRA
General
1 8 (19.51%) Social Skills
2 3 (7.32%) Manufacturing
2 3 (7.32%) Public Sector
3 2 (4.88%) Finance
3 2 (4.88%) Front Office
4 1 (2.44%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (2.44%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (26.83%) Developer
2 10 (24.39%) Python Developer
3 8 (19.51%) Applications Engineer
4 5 (12.20%) AWS Engineer
4 5 (12.20%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 5 (12.20%) Platform Engineer
4 5 (12.20%) Senior
5 4 (9.76%) AWS DevOps
5 4 (9.76%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 4 (9.76%) Backend Developer
5 4 (9.76%) Consultant
5 4 (9.76%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (9.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (9.76%) Linux Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) Azure Consultant
6 3 (7.32%) Linux Support
6 3 (7.32%) Ubuntu Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) Audit Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) Linux Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (19.51%) ADO
2 6 (14.63%) AWS CDK
3 3 (7.32%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (4.88%) .NET
5 1 (2.44%) Java EE
5 1 (2.44%) Node.js
5 1 (2.44%) React
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.32%) Data Centre
1 3 (7.32%) Tandem
2 1 (2.44%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.44%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (2.44%) PKI
2 1 (2.44%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 41 (100.00%) Linux
2 12 (29.27%) Debian
3 10 (24.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (9.76%) CentOS
4 4 (9.76%) Rocky
4 4 (9.76%) Windows
5 3 (7.32%) Unix
6 2 (4.88%) Solaris
6 2 (4.88%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (36.59%) Infrastructure as Code
2 14 (34.15%) Agile
3 12 (29.27%) ITIL
4 10 (24.39%) Application Packaging
4 10 (24.39%) Configuration Management
4 10 (24.39%) Data Modelling
5 9 (21.95%) Customer Service
5 9 (21.95%) Data Engineering
5 9 (21.95%) Matrix Organization
5 9 (21.95%) Prototyping
5 9 (21.95%) Software Engineering
5 9 (21.95%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 8 (19.51%) DevOps
7 7 (17.07%) CI/CD
7 7 (17.07%) Software Delivery
8 6 (14.63%) Continuous Improvement
9 5 (12.20%) Containerisation
9 5 (12.20%) Roadmaps
10 4 (9.76%) Observability
10 4 (9.76%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 18 (43.90%) Python
2 13 (31.71%) Bash
3 4 (9.76%) Groovy
4 3 (7.32%) PowerShell
5 2 (4.88%) C++
5 2 (4.88%) VB.NET
6 1 (2.44%) Java
6 1 (2.44%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.44%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (24.39%) SC Cleared
1 10 (24.39%) Security Cleared
2 9 (21.95%) DV Cleared
3 2 (4.88%) Degree
3 2 (4.88%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (4.88%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.44%) CEH
4 1 (2.44%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.88%) ISO 9001
1 2 (4.88%) ISO/IEC 20000
1 2 (4.88%) SLA
2 1 (2.44%) Accessibility
System Software
1 12 (29.27%) Active Directory
2 3 (7.32%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (7.32%) vSphere
3 2 (4.88%) Hyper-V
3 2 (4.88%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (2.44%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (2.44%) VMware NSX
4 1 (2.44%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 8 (19.51%) Ansible
1 8 (19.51%) Grafana
2 7 (17.07%) Kubernetes
2 7 (17.07%) Terraform
3 5 (12.20%) Kibana
4 2 (4.88%) Red Hat Satellite
4 2 (4.88%) WSUS
5 1 (2.44%) Progress Chef
5 1 (2.44%) Puppet
5 1 (2.44%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 20 (48.78%) Red Hat
2 15 (36.59%) Microsoft
2 15 (36.59%) VMware
3 2 (4.88%) Qualys
3 2 (4.88%) SolarWinds
4 1 (2.44%) ArcSight
4 1 (2.44%) Remedy