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

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 416 577 600
Rank change year-on-year +161 +23 -97
Permanent jobs citing Ubuntu 599 425 829
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.59% 0.43% 0.51%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.30% 2.69% 2.68%
Number of salaries quoted 236 307 439
10th Percentile £36,000 £36,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £43,563 £46,750 £36,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £62,450 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.93% +18.95% +5.00%
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £91,991 £87,500 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £56,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -11.50% +18.95% +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 13,934 15,823 30,904
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.81% 16.06% 18.87%
Number of salaries quoted 10,696 10,615 16,434
10th Percentile £26,000 £27,000 £26,450
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £35,750
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 £92,500 £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 23 May 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 23 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +188 552 £52,500 -13.93% 57
Work from Home +148 398 £50,000 -13.04% 26
UK excluding London +77 313 £50,000 -11.50% 46
London +176 262 £65,000 -3.70% 14
South East +88 139 £47,500 -36.67% 16
South West +9 51 £43,000 -14.00% 7
North of England +57 43 £50,000 +63.93% 7
North West +18 31 £50,000 +53.85% 5
Midlands -4 31 £50,000 -9.09% 7
East of England -35 21 £60,000 +4.35% 6
West Midlands +14 19 £105,000 +133.33% 5
East Midlands -7 12 £24,750 -56.96% 2
Wales +9 10 £50,000 +11.11% 2
Scotland -63 10 £87,500 +16.67% 1
Yorkshire +78 8 £45,000 +57.89% 2
Northern Ireland +30 4 - -
Isle of Man - 4 £43,000 -
North East - 4 £52,500 -

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 (8.01%) ArcGIS
1 48 (8.01%) GeoServer
2 40 (6.68%) Apache
3 28 (4.67%) Apache Spark
4 26 (4.34%) Microsoft Exchange
5 15 (2.50%) SharePoint
6 10 (1.67%) IIS
6 10 (1.67%) WordPress
7 8 (1.34%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.67%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.50%) Confluence
9 3 (0.50%) nginx
10 1 (0.17%) CMS
10 1 (0.17%) Drupal
10 1 (0.17%) PrestaShop
10 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
Applications
1 16 (2.67%) Simulink
2 5 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.83%) Trello
3 2 (0.33%) CATIA
3 2 (0.33%) NASTRAN
4 1 (0.17%) 1Password
4 1 (0.17%) GNU Octave
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 12 (2.00%) Fidessa
2 5 (0.83%) Oracle Cash Management
3 2 (0.33%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.17%) Magento
4 1 (0.17%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 403 (67.28%) Azure
2 227 (37.90%) Entra ID
3 152 (25.38%) AWS
4 56 (9.35%) Microsoft 365
5 50 (8.35%) GCP
6 31 (5.18%) AWS CloudFormation
7 30 (5.01%) AWS Lambda
7 30 (5.01%) Serverless
8 29 (4.84%) Amazon EKS
8 29 (4.84%) OpenShift
9 26 (4.34%) SaaS
10 13 (2.17%) Amazon S3
11 12 (2.00%) Cloud Computing
12 11 (1.84%) IaaS
13 10 (1.67%) PaaS
14 9 (1.50%) OneDrive
15 6 (1.00%) GitHub
15 6 (1.00%) GitHub Actions
16 5 (0.83%) ClickUp
17 4 (0.67%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 210 (35.06%) 5G
1 210 (35.06%) Broadband
2 93 (15.53%) Firewall
3 69 (11.52%) VPN
4 55 (9.18%) LAN
5 46 (7.68%) Internet
5 46 (7.68%) WAN
6 41 (6.84%) DNS
7 39 (6.51%) TCP/IP
8 31 (5.18%) DHCP
9 28 (4.67%) AMQP
9 28 (4.67%) SAN
10 21 (3.51%) VLAN
11 13 (2.17%) Fibre Channel
11 13 (2.17%) Wireless
12 12 (2.00%) FIX Connectivity
13 10 (1.67%) iSCSI
13 10 (1.67%) NAS
14 9 (1.50%) Wi-Fi
15 8 (1.34%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (9.02%) PostgreSQL
2 48 (8.01%) GIS
2 48 (8.01%) QGIS
3 41 (6.84%) MySQL
4 39 (6.51%) SQL Server
5 30 (5.01%) Big Data
5 30 (5.01%) Hadoop
6 28 (4.67%) Cloudera CDH
7 18 (3.01%) NoSQL
8 10 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
8 10 (1.67%) MongoDB
9 4 (0.67%) Relational Database
10 3 (0.50%) MariaDB
11 2 (0.33%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.33%) InfluxDB
11 2 (0.33%) Power BI
12 1 (0.17%) Firebird
12 1 (0.17%) RDBMS
12 1 (0.17%) Redis
12 1 (0.17%) Riak
Development Applications
1 37 (6.18%) Git
2 25 (4.17%) Vagrant
3 19 (3.17%) JIRA
4 12 (2.00%) Subversion
4 12 (2.00%) Visual Studio
5 7 (1.17%) PHPUnit
6 4 (0.67%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.33%) LabVIEW
8 1 (0.17%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.17%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.17%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.17%) GitLab
8 1 (0.17%) Selenium
General
1 223 (37.23%) Analytical Skills
2 210 (35.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 98 (16.36%) Social Skills
4 47 (7.85%) Finance
5 42 (7.01%) Retail
6 31 (5.18%) Aerospace
7 25 (4.17%) Banking
7 25 (4.17%) Telecoms
8 13 (2.17%) Billing
8 13 (2.17%) Electronics
9 10 (1.67%) Financial Institution
10 9 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (0.83%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.50%) Advertising
12 3 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.17%) Automotive
13 1 (0.17%) Aviation
13 1 (0.17%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.17%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 216 (36.06%) Senior
2 210 (35.06%) Linux Specialist
2 210 (35.06%) Technical Specialist
3 141 (23.54%) Software Engineer
4 127 (21.20%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 127 (21.20%) Senior Linux Specialist
4 127 (21.20%) Senior Technical Specialist
4 127 (21.20%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
5 64 (10.68%) Linux Engineer
6 60 (10.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 50 (8.35%) Senior Software Engineer
8 42 (7.01%) Architect
9 31 (5.18%) Infrastructure Architect
10 28 (4.67%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
11 25 (4.17%) Administrator
11 25 (4.17%) Systems Engineer
12 23 (3.84%) Developer
13 22 (3.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 20 (3.34%) Lead
14 20 (3.34%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (13.36%) React
2 48 (8.01%) Django
2 48 (8.01%) Leaflet
2 48 (8.01%) OpenLayers
2 48 (8.01%) PostGIS
3 47 (7.85%) Middleware
4 36 (6.01%) REST
5 30 (5.01%) AngularJS
5 30 (5.01%) Node.js
6 29 (4.84%) RabbitMQ
7 28 (4.67%) gRPC
7 28 (4.67%) Material-UI
7 28 (4.67%) OpenAPI
7 28 (4.67%) Spring
7 28 (4.67%) Spring Boot
7 28 (4.67%) Swagger
8 16 (2.67%) HTML
9 15 (2.50%) .NET
9 15 (2.50%) LAMP
10 13 (2.17%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 210 (35.06%) Social Media
2 38 (6.34%) Cloud Native
3 37 (6.18%) Replication
4 23 (3.84%) PKI
5 22 (3.67%) Data Centre
6 19 (3.17%) Management Information System
7 17 (2.84%) IoT
7 17 (2.84%) Public Cloud
8 12 (2.00%) Eurex
8 12 (2.00%) Linux Command Line
9 11 (1.84%) Cyber Threat
9 11 (1.84%) Distributed Systems
9 11 (1.84%) Robotics
10 8 (1.34%) Cyberattack
10 8 (1.34%) Data Fabric
11 5 (0.83%) Product Ownership
11 5 (0.83%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 4 (0.67%) Cyber Kill Chain
12 4 (0.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
13 3 (0.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 599 (100.00%) Linux
2 159 (26.54%) Windows
3 127 (21.20%) CentOS
4 93 (15.53%) Debian
5 71 (11.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 52 (8.68%) Windows Server
7 50 (8.35%) VMS
8 46 (7.68%) Unix
9 39 (6.51%) Solaris
10 30 (5.01%) Windows Server 2016
11 20 (3.34%) Windows 10
12 19 (3.17%) Android
13 16 (2.67%) SUSE
14 13 (2.17%) Windows Server 2019
15 12 (2.00%) zOS
16 10 (1.67%) Windows Server 2012
17 4 (0.67%) Mac OS
18 3 (0.50%) Kali Linux
18 3 (0.50%) Oracle Linux
19 2 (0.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 242 (40.40%) Cybersecurity
2 231 (38.56%) Artificial Intelligence
3 213 (35.56%) Technology Strategy
4 212 (35.39%) CRM
4 212 (35.39%) IT Strategy
5 165 (27.55%) Agile
6 150 (25.04%) Software Engineering
7 103 (17.20%) Actionable Insight
8 93 (15.53%) DevOps
9 73 (12.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 56 (9.35%) Web Development
11 55 (9.18%) Configuration Management
12 52 (8.68%) Collaborative Working
12 52 (8.68%) DevSecOps
13 51 (8.51%) Open Source
14 49 (8.18%) Infrastructure as Code
15 47 (7.85%) Microservices
16 46 (7.68%) Problem-Solving
17 42 (7.01%) Containerisation
18 41 (6.84%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 281 (46.91%) Bash
2 153 (25.54%) Python
3 127 (21.20%) JavaScript
4 63 (10.52%) PowerShell
5 56 (9.35%) SQL
6 52 (8.68%) Java
7 49 (8.18%) C
8 40 (6.68%) C++
9 35 (5.84%) Shell Script
10 19 (3.17%) PHP
11 17 (2.84%) Kotlin
11 17 (2.84%) Perl
12 13 (2.17%) Ruby
13 10 (1.67%) Ada
14 5 (0.83%) C#
15 4 (0.67%) T-SQL
16 3 (0.50%) Go
17 1 (0.17%) Embedded C
17 1 (0.17%) Groovy
17 1 (0.17%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 156 (26.04%) Security Cleared
2 110 (18.36%) SC Cleared
3 79 (13.19%) DV Cleared
4 67 (11.19%) Degree
5 29 (4.84%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (2.17%) MCSE
6 13 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
7 12 (2.00%) MCSA
7 12 (2.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 11 (1.84%) Azure Certification
9 9 (1.50%) AWS Certification
9 9 (1.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 5 (0.83%) CCNA
10 5 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (0.67%) CISM
11 4 (0.67%) CISSP
12 2 (0.33%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.33%) Linux+ Certification
12 2 (0.33%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (2.00%) QA
2 8 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (1.34%) PMO
2 8 (1.34%) SLA
3 7 (1.17%) Cyber Essentials
3 7 (1.17%) NIST
4 4 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 3 (0.50%) GDPR
6 1 (0.17%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.17%) MISRA
System Software
1 296 (49.42%) Active Directory
2 61 (10.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 43 (7.18%) vSphere
4 23 (3.84%) Docker
5 17 (2.84%) Virtual Machines
6 11 (1.84%) Hyper-V
7 10 (1.67%) vCloud
8 9 (1.50%) KVM
9 8 (1.34%) VMware ESXi
10 5 (0.83%) NFS
10 5 (0.83%) VMware Server
11 4 (0.67%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 4 (0.67%) VMware NSX
12 3 (0.50%) Firmware
12 3 (0.50%) QEMU
12 3 (0.50%) Terminal Services
12 3 (0.50%) Xen
13 2 (0.33%) Embedded Firmware
13 2 (0.33%) Kamailio
14 1 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 232 (38.73%) Microsoft Intune
2 210 (35.06%) Jamf Pro
3 109 (18.20%) Ansible
4 97 (16.19%) Terraform
5 63 (10.52%) Kubernetes
6 33 (5.51%) Puppet
7 21 (3.51%) vCenter Server
8 10 (1.67%) SCCM
9 9 (1.50%) Grafana
9 9 (1.50%) Progress Chef
10 7 (1.17%) ZABBIX
11 4 (0.67%) HAProxy
11 4 (0.67%) Nagios
11 4 (0.67%) Nessus
11 4 (0.67%) Prometheus
12 3 (0.50%) Check_MK
12 3 (0.50%) SELinux
13 2 (0.33%) Kustomize
13 2 (0.33%) Trend Micro Deep Security
13 2 (0.33%) WSUS
Vendors
1 292 (48.75%) Microsoft
2 210 (35.06%) CyberArk
2 210 (35.06%) Tanium
3 100 (16.69%) Red Hat
4 77 (12.85%) VMware
5 48 (8.01%) ESRI
6 31 (5.18%) Google
6 31 (5.18%) SaltStack
7 27 (4.51%) Veeam
8 18 (3.01%) Cisco
9 16 (2.67%) Xilinx
10 15 (2.50%) Oracle
11 13 (2.17%) Zerto
12 12 (2.00%) Bloomberg
12 12 (2.00%) CQG
12 12 (2.00%) ION Trading
12 12 (2.00%) Patsystems
12 12 (2.00%) Reuters
12 12 (2.00%) Trayport
13 11 (1.84%) HP