Debian Contracts

Debian Linux
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Debian skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Debian over the 6 months leading up to 20 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 520 558 644
Rank change year-on-year +38 +86 +145
Contract jobs citing Debian 12 30 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.040% 0.068% 0.072%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.29% 0.51% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 26 32
10th Percentile £513 £313 £463
25th Percentile £514 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £511 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.16% -7.09% -
75th Percentile £553 £550 £581
90th Percentile £580 £553 £749
UK excluding London median daily rate £543 £511 £550
% change year-on-year +6.16% -7.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £39.25 - £47.50
Median hourly rate £44.50 - £50.00
75th Percentile £49.75 - £52.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Operating Systems
UK

Debian 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 4,165 5,888 8,943
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.92% 13.42% 16.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,721 3,881 6,208
10th Percentile £200 £188 £190
25th Percentile £313 £313 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.21% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £581 £588 £633
90th Percentile £675 £700 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £463
% change year-on-year - -2.70% +8.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 206 428 396
10th Percentile £15.42 £12.75 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.44 £16.00 £18.22
Median hourly rate £21.95 £24.18 £43.93
Median % change year-on-year -9.22% -44.96% +95.24%
75th Percentile £40.31 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.87 £25.25 £37.50
% change year-on-year -25.27% -32.67% +87.50%

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
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 8 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 20 June 2025. 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 +48 12 £543 +1.17% 90
UK excluding London +40 9 £543 +6.16% 58
South East +42 5 £532 -1.07% 8
Work from Home +26 4 £530 -3.64% 65
Midlands +8 4 £550 - 9
London +45 3 £563 +22.28% 50
West Midlands +12 2 - - 6
East Midlands +5 2 £550 - 3

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 2 (16.67%) Confluence
1 2 (16.67%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) AWS
1 2 (16.67%) Azure
1 2 (16.67%) Entra ID
1 2 (16.67%) IaaS
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (16.67%) PaaS
1 2 (16.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (75.00%) SAN
2 6 (50.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (16.67%) DHCP
3 2 (16.67%) DNS
3 2 (16.67%) Firewall
3 2 (16.67%) HTTP
3 2 (16.67%) NGFW
3 2 (16.67%) OpenLDAP
3 2 (16.67%) SSL
3 2 (16.67%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Git
2 2 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 2 (16.67%) JIRA
2 2 (16.67%) Maven
2 2 (16.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (16.67%) Finance
1 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Developer
2 6 (50.00%) Python Developer
3 5 (41.67%) Senior
4 4 (33.33%) Senior Developer
5 3 (25.00%) Senior Python Developer
6 2 (16.67%) Architect
6 2 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (16.67%) Linux Developer
6 2 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (8.33%) Linux DevOps Engineer
7 1 (8.33%) Linux Engineer
7 1 (8.33%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (8.33%) Linux/Unix DevOps
7 1 (8.33%) Senior Software Developer
7 1 (8.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 1 (8.33%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) LDAP
1 2 (16.67%) YAML
2 1 (8.33%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 12 (100.00%) Linux
2 10 (83.33%) Ubuntu
3 9 (75.00%) Windows
4 5 (41.67%) Windows Server
4 5 (41.67%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (16.67%) CentOS
6 1 (8.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Agile
2 7 (58.33%) Data Modelling
3 6 (50.00%) Data Engineering
3 6 (50.00%) ITIL
4 4 (33.33%) Configuration Management
4 4 (33.33%) Prototyping
4 4 (33.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 2 (16.67%) Asset Management
5 2 (16.67%) B2C
5 2 (16.67%) Capacity Management
5 2 (16.67%) Customer Service
5 2 (16.67%) DevOps
5 2 (16.67%) Log Aggregation
5 2 (16.67%) Matrix Organization
5 2 (16.67%) Patch Management
5 2 (16.67%) Security Architecture
5 2 (16.67%) Server Management
6 1 (8.33%) Change Control
6 1 (8.33%) Secure Coding
6 1 (8.33%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 10 (83.33%) Python
2 2 (16.67%) Shell Script
3 1 (8.33%) Go
3 1 (8.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 6 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (41.67%) SC Cleared
3 4 (33.33%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (16.67%) Nessus
1 2 (16.67%) Puppet
2 1 (8.33%) Ansible
2 1 (8.33%) Prometheus
2 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (75.00%) VMware
2 7 (58.33%) Red Hat
3 6 (50.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (16.67%) Sophos
5 1 (8.33%) Remedy
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