Ubuntu Linux
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Ubuntu skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Ubuntu over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 424 567 614
Rank change year-on-year +143 +47 -98
Permanent jobs citing Ubuntu 611 418 837
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.58% 0.44% 0.49%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.33% 2.70% 2.64%
Number of salaries quoted 236 304 429
10th Percentile £36,000 £37,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,594 £46,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £70,313 £77,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £91,991 £87,125 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -13.04% +21.05% +5.56%

All Operating Systems
UK

Ubuntu is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 14,112 15,500 31,737
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.41% 16.35% 18.77%
Number of salaries quoted 10,734 10,456 16,364
10th Percentile £26,000 £27,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £35,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £71,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £91,250 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.56% - -

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Ubuntu.

Salary trend for Ubuntu in the UK

Ubuntu
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Ubuntu over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Ubuntu in the UK

Ubuntu
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Ubuntu within the UK over the 6 months to 2 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +190 565 £52,500 -14.95% 59
Work from Home +150 407 £50,000 -16.67% 24
UK excluding London +42 326 £50,000 -13.04% 43
London +170 262 £65,000 -3.70% 20
South East +71 144 £47,500 -36.67% 14
South West -7 52 £43,000 -21.82% 5
North of England +55 47 £50,000 +63.93% 6
North West +7 34 £50,000 +53.85% 4
Midlands -3 34 £50,000 -9.09% 7
West Midlands -2 21 £105,000 +133.33% 5
East of England -47 21 £60,000 +4.35% 6
East Midlands -15 13 £24,750 -56.96% 2
Wales +5 10 £50,000 +11.11% 4
Scotland -75 10 £87,500 +16.67% 2
Yorkshire +60 9 £45,000 +57.89% 2
Northern Ireland +23 4 - -
North East - 4 £52,500 -
Isle of Man - 4 £43,000 -

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 48 (7.86%) ArcGIS
1 48 (7.86%) GeoServer
2 41 (6.71%) Apache
3 29 (4.75%) Apache Spark
4 26 (4.26%) Microsoft Exchange
5 15 (2.45%) SharePoint
6 10 (1.64%) IIS
6 10 (1.64%) WordPress
7 8 (1.31%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.65%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.49%) Confluence
9 3 (0.49%) nginx
10 1 (0.16%) CMS
10 1 (0.16%) Drupal
10 1 (0.16%) PrestaShop
10 1 (0.16%) Tomcat
Applications
1 20 (3.27%) Simulink
2 5 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.82%) Trello
3 2 (0.33%) CATIA
3 2 (0.33%) NASTRAN
4 1 (0.16%) 1Password
4 1 (0.16%) GNU Octave
4 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 12 (1.96%) Fidessa
2 5 (0.82%) Oracle Cash Management
3 2 (0.33%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.16%) Magento
4 1 (0.16%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 409 (66.94%) Azure
2 229 (37.48%) Entra ID
3 162 (26.51%) AWS
4 57 (9.33%) Microsoft 365
5 51 (8.35%) GCP
6 31 (5.07%) AWS CloudFormation
6 31 (5.07%) AWS Lambda
6 31 (5.07%) Serverless
7 30 (4.91%) Amazon EKS
7 30 (4.91%) OpenShift
7 30 (4.91%) SaaS
8 12 (1.96%) Amazon S3
8 12 (1.96%) Cloud Computing
9 11 (1.80%) IaaS
10 10 (1.64%) PaaS
11 9 (1.47%) OneDrive
12 6 (0.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 6 (0.98%) GitHub
12 6 (0.98%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (0.82%) ClickUp
Communications & Networking
1 210 (34.37%) 5G
1 210 (34.37%) Broadband
2 93 (15.22%) Firewall
3 69 (11.29%) VPN
4 56 (9.17%) LAN
5 47 (7.69%) WAN
6 46 (7.53%) Internet
7 42 (6.87%) DNS
8 40 (6.55%) TCP/IP
9 32 (5.24%) DHCP
10 29 (4.75%) AMQP
11 27 (4.42%) SAN
12 20 (3.27%) VLAN
13 13 (2.13%) Fibre Channel
13 13 (2.13%) Wireless
14 12 (1.96%) FIX Connectivity
15 10 (1.64%) iSCSI
15 10 (1.64%) NAS
16 9 (1.47%) Wi-Fi
17 8 (1.31%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (9.49%) PostgreSQL
2 48 (7.86%) GIS
2 48 (7.86%) QGIS
3 45 (7.36%) MySQL
4 39 (6.38%) SQL Server
5 31 (5.07%) Big Data
5 31 (5.07%) Hadoop
6 29 (4.75%) Cloudera CDH
7 26 (4.26%) NoSQL
8 14 (2.29%) MongoDB
9 13 (2.13%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (0.65%) Amazon Aurora
10 4 (0.65%) DynamoDB
11 3 (0.49%) MariaDB
11 3 (0.49%) Relational Database
12 2 (0.33%) Elasticsearch
12 2 (0.33%) InfluxDB
12 2 (0.33%) Power BI
13 1 (0.16%) Redis
13 1 (0.16%) Riak
Development Applications
1 43 (7.04%) Git
2 29 (4.75%) Vagrant
3 18 (2.95%) JIRA
4 13 (2.13%) Subversion
4 13 (2.13%) Visual Studio
5 7 (1.15%) PHPUnit
6 4 (0.65%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.33%) LabVIEW
8 1 (0.16%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.16%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.16%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.16%) GitLab
8 1 (0.16%) Selenium
General
1 223 (36.50%) Analytical Skills
2 210 (34.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 101 (16.53%) Social Skills
4 47 (7.69%) Finance
5 43 (7.04%) Retail
6 32 (5.24%) Aerospace
7 26 (4.26%) Telecoms
8 24 (3.93%) Banking
9 14 (2.29%) Electronics
10 12 (1.96%) Billing
11 10 (1.64%) Financial Institution
12 9 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
13 5 (0.82%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.49%) Advertising
14 3 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
15 2 (0.33%) Organisational Skills
16 1 (0.16%) Automotive
16 1 (0.16%) Aviation
16 1 (0.16%) iGaming
16 1 (0.16%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 218 (35.68%) Senior
2 210 (34.37%) Linux Specialist
2 210 (34.37%) Technical Specialist
3 147 (24.06%) Software Engineer
4 127 (20.79%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 127 (20.79%) Senior Linux Specialist
4 127 (20.79%) Senior Technical Specialist
4 127 (20.79%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
5 63 (10.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 63 (10.31%) Linux Engineer
6 50 (8.18%) Senior Software Engineer
7 45 (7.36%) Architect
8 30 (4.91%) Infrastructure Architect
9 29 (4.75%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
10 25 (4.09%) Administrator
11 24 (3.93%) Developer
11 24 (3.93%) Systems Engineer
12 23 (3.76%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 20 (3.27%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
13 20 (3.27%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (13.26%) React
2 52 (8.51%) Middleware
3 48 (7.86%) Django
3 48 (7.86%) Leaflet
3 48 (7.86%) OpenLayers
3 48 (7.86%) PostGIS
4 37 (6.06%) REST
5 32 (5.24%) Node.js
6 31 (5.07%) AngularJS
7 30 (4.91%) RabbitMQ
8 29 (4.75%) gRPC
8 29 (4.75%) Material-UI
8 29 (4.75%) OpenAPI
8 29 (4.75%) Spring
8 29 (4.75%) Spring Boot
8 29 (4.75%) Swagger
9 16 (2.62%) .NET
9 16 (2.62%) HTML
10 15 (2.45%) LAMP
11 14 (2.29%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 210 (34.37%) Social Media
2 40 (6.55%) Replication
3 39 (6.38%) Cloud Native
4 23 (3.76%) PKI
5 21 (3.44%) Data Centre
6 20 (3.27%) Management Information System
7 18 (2.95%) IoT
8 16 (2.62%) Public Cloud
9 12 (1.96%) Distributed Systems
9 12 (1.96%) Eurex
9 12 (1.96%) Linux Command Line
9 12 (1.96%) Robotics
10 11 (1.80%) Cyber Threat
11 8 (1.31%) Cyberattack
11 8 (1.31%) Data Fabric
12 5 (0.82%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 5 (0.82%) Team-Oriented Environment
13 4 (0.65%) Cyber Kill Chain
13 4 (0.65%) Product Ownership
14 3 (0.49%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 611 (100.00%) Linux
2 158 (25.86%) Windows
3 134 (21.93%) CentOS
4 91 (14.89%) Debian
5 76 (12.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 51 (8.35%) VMS
6 51 (8.35%) Windows Server
7 44 (7.20%) Unix
8 37 (6.06%) Solaris
9 30 (4.91%) Windows Server 2016
10 23 (3.76%) Android
11 21 (3.44%) Windows 10
12 16 (2.62%) SUSE
13 13 (2.13%) Windows Server 2019
14 12 (1.96%) zOS
15 9 (1.47%) Windows Server 2012
16 4 (0.65%) Amazon Linux
16 4 (0.65%) Mac OS
17 3 (0.49%) Kali Linux
17 3 (0.49%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 242 (39.61%) Cybersecurity
2 235 (38.46%) Artificial Intelligence
3 214 (35.02%) Technology Strategy
4 212 (34.70%) CRM
4 212 (34.70%) IT Strategy
5 167 (27.33%) Agile
6 160 (26.19%) Software Engineering
7 103 (16.86%) Actionable Insight
8 95 (15.55%) DevOps
9 77 (12.60%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 57 (9.33%) Collaborative Working
10 57 (9.33%) Infrastructure as Code
11 56 (9.17%) Web Development
12 55 (9.00%) Configuration Management
13 53 (8.67%) DevSecOps
14 52 (8.51%) Microservices
15 51 (8.35%) Open Source
16 48 (7.86%) Problem-Solving
17 43 (7.04%) Collaborative Culture
17 43 (7.04%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 279 (45.66%) Bash
2 159 (26.02%) Python
3 132 (21.60%) JavaScript
4 64 (10.47%) PowerShell
5 63 (10.31%) SQL
6 57 (9.33%) Java
7 50 (8.18%) C
8 45 (7.36%) C++
9 34 (5.56%) Shell Script
10 21 (3.44%) Kotlin
11 20 (3.27%) PHP
12 17 (2.78%) Perl
13 13 (2.13%) Ruby
14 10 (1.64%) Ada
15 5 (0.82%) C#
16 4 (0.65%) T-SQL
17 3 (0.49%) Go
18 1 (0.16%) Groovy
18 1 (0.16%) MATLAB
18 1 (0.16%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 162 (26.51%) Security Cleared
2 115 (18.82%) SC Cleared
3 81 (13.26%) DV Cleared
4 76 (12.44%) Degree
5 37 (6.06%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (1.96%) Azure Certification
6 12 (1.96%) MCSE
6 12 (1.96%) Microsoft Certification
7 11 (1.80%) MCSA
7 11 (1.80%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 9 (1.47%) AWS Certification
8 9 (1.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 6 (0.98%) CCNA
9 6 (0.98%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.65%) CISM
10 4 (0.65%) CISSP
11 3 (0.49%) Linux+ Certification
11 3 (0.49%) RHCE
12 2 (0.33%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (1.80%) QA
2 9 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (1.31%) PMO
3 8 (1.31%) SLA
4 7 (1.15%) Cyber Essentials
4 7 (1.15%) NIST
5 4 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 3 (0.49%) GDPR
7 1 (0.16%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.16%) MISRA
System Software
1 298 (48.77%) Active Directory
2 62 (10.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 43 (7.04%) vSphere
4 23 (3.76%) Docker
5 18 (2.95%) Virtual Machines
6 12 (1.96%) Hyper-V
7 10 (1.64%) KVM
8 9 (1.47%) vCloud
9 8 (1.31%) VMware ESXi
10 5 (0.82%) NFS
10 5 (0.82%) VMware Server
11 4 (0.65%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 4 (0.65%) VMware NSX
12 3 (0.49%) Firmware
12 3 (0.49%) QEMU
12 3 (0.49%) Terminal Services
12 3 (0.49%) Xen
13 2 (0.33%) Kamailio
13 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 2 (0.33%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 233 (38.13%) Microsoft Intune
2 210 (34.37%) Jamf Pro
3 116 (18.99%) Ansible
4 106 (17.35%) Terraform
5 64 (10.47%) Kubernetes
6 34 (5.56%) Puppet
7 22 (3.60%) vCenter Server
8 10 (1.64%) Grafana
8 10 (1.64%) SCCM
9 8 (1.31%) Progress Chef
10 7 (1.15%) ZABBIX
11 5 (0.82%) Prometheus
12 4 (0.65%) HAProxy
12 4 (0.65%) Nagios
12 4 (0.65%) Nessus
13 3 (0.49%) Check_MK
13 3 (0.49%) SELinux
14 2 (0.33%) Kustomize
14 2 (0.33%) Trend Micro Deep Security
14 2 (0.33%) WSUS
Vendors
1 294 (48.12%) Microsoft
2 210 (34.37%) CyberArk
2 210 (34.37%) Tanium
3 102 (16.69%) Red Hat
4 78 (12.77%) VMware
5 48 (7.86%) ESRI
6 32 (5.24%) Google
6 32 (5.24%) SaltStack
7 26 (4.26%) Veeam
8 20 (3.27%) Xilinx
9 19 (3.11%) Cisco
10 15 (2.45%) Oracle
11 13 (2.13%) Zerto
12 12 (1.96%) Bloomberg
12 12 (1.96%) CQG
12 12 (1.96%) ION Trading
12 12 (1.96%) Patsystems
12 12 (1.96%) Reuters
12 12 (1.96%) Trayport
13 10 (1.64%) HP