Ubuntu Contracts in the UK excluding London

Ubuntu Linux
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 324 353 421
Rank change year-on-year +29 +68 -22
Contract jobs citing Ubuntu 77 77 83
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.36% 0.34% 0.27%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.27% 1.80% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 53 58
10th Percentile £378 £380 £279
25th Percentile £463 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £513 £513
Median % change year-on-year -0.15% -0.15% +5.82%
75th Percentile £550 £558 £540
90th Percentile £557 £620 £641
UK median daily rate £511 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -7.09% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
10th Percentile - - £22.52
25th Percentile - £71.25 £31.60
Median hourly rate - £72.50 £46.74
Median % change year-on-year - +55.13% +222.31%
75th Percentile - £73.75 £61.87
90th Percentile - - £70.95
UK median hourly rate - £72.50 £46.74
% change year-on-year - +55.13% +222.31%

All Operating Systems
UK excluding London

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 in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 3,391 4,276 5,788
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.90% 18.84% 19.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,208 2,930 3,824
10th Percentile £176 £165 £150
25th Percentile £275 £250 £208
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £425
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% +8.82% +6.25%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £540
90th Percentile £672 £675 £638
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 341 307 426
10th Percentile £12.25 £13.29 £12.57
25th Percentile £15.25 £17.70 £15.05
Median hourly rate £24.18 £40.59 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.43% +102.95% +17.65%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £49.43
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £23.00 £46.75 £22.25
% change year-on-year -50.80% +110.11% +27.14%

Ubuntu
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Ubuntu as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Ubuntu in the UK excluding London

Ubuntu
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Ubuntu in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Ubuntu in the UK excluding London

Ubuntu
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ubuntu in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Ubuntu in the UK excluding London

Ubuntu
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Ubuntu in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Ubuntu in the UK excluding London

Ubuntu
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 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
South East +16 31 £511 -7.09% 17
Midlands +34 22 £550 -12.00% 5
West Midlands +33 17 £550 -24.14% 4
Scotland +36 7 £513 +5.13% 2
North of England +15 7 £425 -15.00% 8
South West -4 6 £488 -11.36% 2
East Midlands +7 5 £550 -12.00% 1
North West +13 4 £225 -35.71% 6
East of England +4 4 £440 +10.00% 8
Yorkshire +13 2 £425 -41.38% 2
North East +8 1 £550 -24.14%
Wales - 1 - - 4
Ubuntu
UK

Ubuntu
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 5 (6.49%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (3.90%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.60%) IIS
3 2 (2.60%) WordPress
4 1 (1.30%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 17 (22.08%) AWS
2 16 (20.78%) AWS CloudFormation
3 8 (10.39%) Amazon S3
3 8 (10.39%) Azure
3 8 (10.39%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (10.39%) OpenShift
4 7 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
4 7 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
4 7 (9.09%) Serverless
5 6 (7.79%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 5 (6.49%) Amazon ECS
6 5 (6.49%) AWS Fargate
7 2 (2.60%) Entra ID
7 2 (2.60%) OneDrive
7 2 (2.60%) Route 53
8 1 (1.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (1.30%) Amazon Kinesis
8 1 (1.30%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
8 1 (1.30%) GitHub
8 1 (1.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 23 (29.87%) SAN
2 18 (23.38%) TCP/IP
3 16 (20.78%) DNS
4 12 (15.58%) DHCP
5 7 (9.09%) LAN
5 7 (9.09%) WAN
6 6 (7.79%) Fibre Channel
6 6 (7.79%) NAS
7 4 (5.19%) Firewall
7 4 (5.19%) Remote Desktop
8 2 (2.60%) HTTP
8 2 (2.60%) HTTPS
8 2 (2.60%) IPsec
8 2 (2.60%) iSCSI
8 2 (2.60%) SNMP
8 2 (2.60%) SSH
8 2 (2.60%) VPN
8 2 (2.60%) Wireless
9 1 (1.30%) Network Security
9 1 (1.30%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (27.27%) Elasticsearch
2 8 (10.39%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (9.09%) SQL Server
4 4 (5.19%) MySQL
5 3 (3.90%) InfluxDB
6 1 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 10 (12.99%) GitLab
2 8 (10.39%) Jenkins
3 6 (7.79%) Artifactory
4 1 (1.30%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.30%) Gerrit
4 1 (1.30%) Git
4 1 (1.30%) Gradle
4 1 (1.30%) JIRA
4 1 (1.30%) Liquibase
4 1 (1.30%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.30%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 15 (19.48%) Social Skills
2 9 (11.69%) Public Sector
3 3 (3.90%) Front Office
3 3 (3.90%) Retail
4 2 (2.60%) Finance
4 2 (2.60%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.30%) Electronics
5 1 (1.30%) Fire and Rescue
5 1 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (1.30%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.30%) Military
5 1 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.30%) Police
Job Titles
1 16 (20.78%) Developer
2 15 (19.48%) Python Developer
3 10 (12.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 10 (12.99%) SIEM Engineer
4 9 (11.69%) Applications Engineer
5 6 (7.79%) Administrator
5 6 (7.79%) AWS Engineer
5 6 (7.79%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 6 (7.79%) DevOps Engineer
5 6 (7.79%) Linux Engineer
5 6 (7.79%) Platform Engineer
5 6 (7.79%) Senior
6 5 (6.49%) Analyst
6 5 (6.49%) AWS DevOps
6 5 (6.49%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 5 (6.49%) Developer Analyst
6 5 (6.49%) Linux Specialist
6 5 (6.49%) Programmer
6 5 (6.49%) Python Programmer
6 5 (6.49%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
2 8 (10.39%) ADO
3 7 (9.09%) AWS CDK
4 3 (3.90%) .NET
4 3 (3.90%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (2.60%) Keycloak
5 2 (2.60%) LAMP
5 2 (2.60%) LDAP
5 2 (2.60%) Node.js
6 1 (1.30%) Java EE
6 1 (1.30%) jQuery
6 1 (1.30%) JSON
6 1 (1.30%) React
6 1 (1.30%) RESTful
6 1 (1.30%) SOAP
6 1 (1.30%) Spring
6 1 (1.30%) Spring Boot
6 1 (1.30%) Swagger
6 1 (1.30%) Web Services
6 1 (1.30%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 12 (15.58%) Linux Command Line
2 9 (11.69%) PKI
3 4 (5.19%) Fat Client
3 4 (5.19%) Thin Client
4 3 (3.90%) EPoS
5 2 (2.60%) Replication
5 2 (2.60%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.30%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.30%) Clustering
6 1 (1.30%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.30%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.30%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (1.30%) STB
Operating Systems
1 77 (100.00%) Linux
2 31 (40.26%) Windows
3 20 (25.97%) Debian
4 16 (20.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (16.88%) Windows Server
6 10 (12.99%) CentOS
7 6 (7.79%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (5.19%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (3.90%) Rocky
9 3 (3.90%) Unix
10 2 (2.60%) Mac OS
10 2 (2.60%) Solaris
10 2 (2.60%) VMS
10 2 (2.60%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (22.08%) Agile
2 16 (20.78%) ITIL
3 15 (19.48%) Configuration Management
4 13 (16.88%) Data Modelling
4 13 (16.88%) Infrastructure as Code
5 12 (15.58%) Data Engineering
5 12 (15.58%) Prototyping
5 12 (15.58%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 11 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 11 (14.29%) RBAC
6 11 (14.29%) SIEM
7 10 (12.99%) Application Packaging
7 10 (12.99%) Infrastructure Monitoring
8 9 (11.69%) Customer Service
8 9 (11.69%) Matrix Organization
8 9 (11.69%) Patch Management
8 9 (11.69%) Software Engineering
8 9 (11.69%) Visualisation
9 8 (10.39%) DevOps
9 8 (10.39%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 26 (33.77%) Python
2 21 (27.27%) Bash
3 15 (19.48%) PowerShell
4 8 (10.39%) R
5 5 (6.49%) Groovy
6 3 (3.90%) VB.NET
7 2 (2.60%) C++
7 2 (2.60%) Java
7 2 (2.60%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.30%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.30%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 27 (35.06%) Security Cleared
2 22 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 15 (19.48%) DV Cleared
4 5 (6.49%) Degree
5 3 (3.90%) ITIL Certification
5 3 (3.90%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.30%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (1.30%) Linux+ Certification
6 1 (1.30%) LPIC
6 1 (1.30%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.90%) ISO 9001
1 3 (3.90%) ISO/IEC 20000
1 3 (3.90%) SLA
2 1 (1.30%) Accessibility
System Software
1 37 (48.05%) Active Directory
2 11 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (12.99%) vSphere
4 9 (11.69%) iptables
5 8 (10.39%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (6.49%) VMware NSX
7 4 (5.19%) Docker
7 4 (5.19%) Hyper-V
7 4 (5.19%) VMware Server
8 3 (3.90%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (2.60%) NFS
10 1 (1.30%) KVM
10 1 (1.30%) Xen
Systems Management
1 17 (22.08%) Ansible
1 17 (22.08%) Kibana
2 13 (16.88%) Kubernetes
3 10 (12.99%) logstash
4 9 (11.69%) vCenter Server
5 7 (9.09%) WSUS
6 6 (7.79%) Grafana
6 6 (7.79%) Nessus
6 6 (7.79%) Red Hat Satellite
7 5 (6.49%) Terraform
8 4 (5.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (5.19%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (5.19%) ZABBIX
9 2 (2.60%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (2.60%) Prometheus
9 2 (2.60%) Puppet
9 2 (2.60%) SCCM
10 1 (1.30%) Packer
10 1 (1.30%) Progress Chef
10 1 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 31 (40.26%) Red Hat
2 30 (38.96%) VMware
3 27 (35.06%) Microsoft
4 6 (7.79%) Veeam
5 4 (5.19%) Oracle
6 2 (2.60%) Aruba
6 2 (2.60%) Cisco
6 2 (2.60%) Palo Alto
6 2 (2.60%) ProCurve
6 2 (2.60%) SolarWinds
6 2 (2.60%) Splunk
6 2 (2.60%) Synology
6 2 (2.60%) Zerto
7 1 (1.30%) ArcSight
7 1 (1.30%) Qualys
7 1 (1.30%) Remedy