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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 535 668 812
Rank change year-on-year +133 +144 -137
Contract jobs citing Debian 38 32 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.089% 0.056% 0.051%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.67% 0.35% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 27 33
10th Percentile £313 £461 £328
25th Percentile £425 £500 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - -
75th Percentile £550 £606 £663
90th Percentile £556 £800 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £533 £550 £400
% change year-on-year -3.18% +37.50% +6.67%

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 5,658 9,258 13,082
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.30% 16.21% 14.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,818 6,479 8,883
10th Percentile £185 £190 £175
25th Percentile £300 £331 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £501 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% +0.10% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £613
90th Percentile £700 £719 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £425
% change year-on-year -5.26% +11.76% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 390 404 604
10th Percentile £12.73 £14.25 £13.38
25th Percentile £15.31 £17.97 £16.08
Median hourly rate £22.00 £38.50 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.86% +67.39% +29.50%
75th Percentile £60.56 £64.50 £52.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.50 £29.30 £20.00
% change year-on-year -23.21% +46.50% +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 15 May 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 15 May 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 +69 35 £533 -3.18% 14
England +96 31 £538 -2.27% 17
South East +27 19 £538 -2.27% 2
Work from Home +135 15 £550 +4.76% 12
Midlands +37 6 £550 +18.28% 5
Scotland - 6 £325 - 2
East Midlands - 5 £550 - 4
North of England - 4 £425 - 1
North West - 2 £425 - 1
Yorkshire - 2 £425 -
London +88 1 £460 -27.84% 6
West Midlands +19 1 - - 1
Wales - 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 (15.79%) IIS
2 2 (5.26%) Apache
2 2 (5.26%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 6 (15.79%) AWS
2 5 (13.16%) Datadog
3 3 (7.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (7.89%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (7.89%) Amazon S3
3 3 (7.89%) CloudFront
3 3 (7.89%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (7.89%) Route 53
3 3 (7.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 2 (5.26%) Fastly
4 2 (5.26%) GitHub
5 1 (2.63%) Azure
5 1 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.63%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 15 (39.47%) SAN
1 15 (39.47%) TCP/IP
2 6 (15.79%) DNS
3 3 (7.89%) LAN
3 3 (7.89%) WAN
4 1 (2.63%) BGP
4 1 (2.63%) GPON
4 1 (2.63%) OSPF
4 1 (2.63%) PPP
4 1 (2.63%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.89%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 3 (7.89%) Git
2 2 (5.26%) Bitbucket
General
1 12 (31.58%) Social Skills
2 3 (7.89%) Retail
3 1 (2.63%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (44.74%) Developer
1 17 (44.74%) Python Developer
2 10 (26.32%) Linux Engineer
3 6 (15.79%) 3rd Line Support
3 6 (15.79%) Cloud Engineer
3 6 (15.79%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 6 (15.79%) Platform Engineer
4 5 (13.16%) Analyst
4 5 (13.16%) Analyst Developer
4 5 (13.16%) Developer Analyst
4 5 (13.16%) Programmer
4 5 (13.16%) Python Programmer
4 5 (13.16%) Security Analyst
5 4 (10.53%) Backend Developer
6 3 (7.89%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (7.89%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 3 (7.89%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (7.89%) Linux Developer
6 3 (7.89%) Linux Specialist
7 2 (5.26%) Linux Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.26%) Django
1 2 (5.26%) HornetQ
1 2 (5.26%) RabbitMQ
1 2 (5.26%) VCL
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.79%) Data Centre
2 3 (7.89%) EPoS
3 1 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.63%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 38 (100.00%) Linux
2 22 (57.89%) Ubuntu
3 9 (23.68%) CentOS
3 9 (23.68%) Windows
4 6 (15.79%) Windows Server
4 6 (15.79%) Windows Server 2008
4 6 (15.79%) Windows Server 2012
4 6 (15.79%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (7.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (2.63%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (44.74%) Agile
2 15 (39.47%) Data Modelling
3 14 (36.84%) Configuration Management
3 14 (36.84%) Data Engineering
3 14 (36.84%) ITIL
3 14 (36.84%) Prototyping
3 14 (36.84%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 11 (28.95%) Customer Service
4 11 (28.95%) Matrix Organization
5 9 (23.68%) Software Engineering
6 4 (10.53%) Platform Engineering
7 3 (7.89%) DevOps
7 3 (7.89%) E-Commerce
7 3 (7.89%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (7.89%) Logistics
7 3 (7.89%) Migration
7 3 (7.89%) Performance Analysis
7 3 (7.89%) Process Improvement
7 3 (7.89%) Stakeholder Management
8 1 (2.63%) Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 21 (55.26%) Python
2 7 (18.42%) Bash
3 5 (13.16%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 17 (44.74%) Security Cleared
2 15 (39.47%) SC Cleared
3 13 (34.21%) DV Cleared
4 6 (15.79%) MCSA
4 6 (15.79%) MCSE
4 6 (15.79%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (15.79%) RHCT
5 1 (2.63%) CCNP
5 1 (2.63%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.63%) Degree
5 1 (2.63%) JNCIS
System Software
1 9 (23.68%) Active Directory
2 6 (15.79%) Hyper-V
2 6 (15.79%) KVM
2 6 (15.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (7.89%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (5.26%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 2 (5.26%) Varnish
5 1 (2.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (15.79%) Ansible
2 3 (7.89%) Terraform
3 2 (5.26%) HAProxy
4 1 (2.63%) Icinga
4 1 (2.63%) Kubernetes
4 1 (2.63%) Nagios
Vendors
1 33 (86.84%) Red Hat
2 21 (55.26%) VMware
3 14 (36.84%) Microsoft
4 6 (15.79%) Citrix
5 2 (5.26%) Cisco
6 1 (2.63%) Juniper
6 1 (2.63%) MikroTik
6 1 (2.63%) Remedy
6 1 (2.63%) TP-LINK
6 1 (2.63%) ZyXEL