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

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 414 582 594
Rank change year-on-year +168 +12 -97
Permanent jobs citing Ubuntu 587 439 800
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.60% 0.42% 0.51%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.16% 2.64% 2.71%
Number of salaries quoted 231 314 458
10th Percentile £36,000 £37,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £91,991 £89,250 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% +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 14,115 16,608 29,573
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.32% 16.00% 18.94%
Number of salaries quoted 10,920 11,176 16,749
10th Percentile £25,760 £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 £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 2 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 2 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 +184 539 £55,000 -8.33% 66
Work from Home +176 390 £50,000 -13.04% 27
UK excluding London +57 304 £50,000 -4.76% 50
London +173 260 £65,000 -7.14% 16
South East +96 134 £50,000 -23.08% 12
South West -7 46 £43,375 -13.25% 11
North of England +63 44 £50,000 +63.93% 12
North West +22 32 £50,000 +53.85% 11
Midlands +14 31 £50,000 -6.76% 8
East of England -31 20 £60,000 +4.35% 7
West Midlands +31 18 £58,500 +37.65% 2
East Midlands -15 13 £37,375 -35.00% 6
Wales +14 11 £50,000 +11.11% 1
Scotland -61 10 £36,000 -52.00%
Yorkshire +90 8 £45,000 +57.89%
Northern Ireland +38 4 - -
Isle of Man - 4 £43,000 -
North East - 4 £52,500 - 1

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 (8.18%) ArcGIS
1 48 (8.18%) GeoServer
2 37 (6.30%) Apache
3 25 (4.26%) Apache Spark
3 25 (4.26%) Microsoft Exchange
4 16 (2.73%) SharePoint
5 11 (1.87%) IIS
5 11 (1.87%) WordPress
6 7 (1.19%) OpenStack
7 5 (0.85%) nginx
8 4 (0.68%) Confluence
9 3 (0.51%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.17%) CMS
10 1 (0.17%) Drupal
10 1 (0.17%) Gunicorn
10 1 (0.17%) PrestaShop
10 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Fuse
10 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.17%) uWSGI
Applications
1 12 (2.04%) Simulink
2 5 (0.85%) Trello
3 4 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.34%) CATIA
4 2 (0.34%) NASTRAN
5 1 (0.17%) 1Password
5 1 (0.17%) GNU Octave
5 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 10 (1.70%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.51%) Oracle Cash Management
3 2 (0.34%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.17%) Magento
4 1 (0.17%) Sage X3
4 1 (0.17%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 394 (67.12%) Azure
2 226 (38.50%) Entra ID
3 142 (24.19%) AWS
4 62 (10.56%) Microsoft 365
5 42 (7.16%) GCP
6 29 (4.94%) AWS CloudFormation
7 27 (4.60%) AWS Lambda
7 27 (4.60%) Serverless
8 26 (4.43%) Amazon EKS
8 26 (4.43%) OpenShift
9 22 (3.75%) SaaS
10 12 (2.04%) Amazon S3
11 11 (1.87%) Cloud Computing
12 10 (1.70%) OneDrive
13 8 (1.36%) IaaS
14 7 (1.19%) PaaS
15 6 (1.02%) GitHub
15 6 (1.02%) GitHub Actions
16 5 (0.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 5 (0.85%) ClickUp
Communications & Networking
1 210 (35.78%) 5G
1 210 (35.78%) Broadband
2 95 (16.18%) Firewall
3 70 (11.93%) VPN
4 53 (9.03%) LAN
5 45 (7.67%) Internet
6 44 (7.50%) WAN
7 39 (6.64%) DNS
8 35 (5.96%) TCP/IP
9 34 (5.79%) SAN
10 28 (4.77%) DHCP
11 25 (4.26%) AMQP
12 23 (3.92%) VLAN
13 14 (2.39%) Fibre Channel
13 14 (2.39%) Wireless
14 11 (1.87%) NAS
15 10 (1.70%) FIX Connectivity
15 10 (1.70%) iSCSI
16 9 (1.53%) Wi-Fi
17 8 (1.36%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (9.03%) PostgreSQL
2 48 (8.18%) GIS
2 48 (8.18%) QGIS
3 40 (6.81%) MySQL
4 39 (6.64%) SQL Server
5 26 (4.43%) Big Data
5 26 (4.43%) Hadoop
6 25 (4.26%) Cloudera CDH
7 14 (2.39%) NoSQL
8 11 (1.87%) MongoDB
9 10 (1.70%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (0.68%) Relational Database
11 3 (0.51%) Elasticsearch
12 2 (0.34%) InfluxDB
12 2 (0.34%) MariaDB
13 1 (0.17%) Power BI
13 1 (0.17%) RDBMS
13 1 (0.17%) Redis
13 1 (0.17%) Riak
Development Applications
1 33 (5.62%) Git
2 21 (3.58%) Vagrant
3 20 (3.41%) JIRA
4 12 (2.04%) Subversion
4 12 (2.04%) Visual Studio
5 7 (1.19%) PHPUnit
6 4 (0.68%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.34%) GitLab
7 2 (0.34%) LabVIEW
7 2 (0.34%) Selenium
8 1 (0.17%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.17%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.17%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.17%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.17%) Protractor
8 1 (0.17%) WiX
General
1 223 (37.99%) Analytical Skills
2 210 (35.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 96 (16.35%) Social Skills
4 45 (7.67%) Finance
5 40 (6.81%) Retail
6 27 (4.60%) Aerospace
7 25 (4.26%) Telecoms
8 23 (3.92%) Banking
9 16 (2.73%) Billing
10 12 (2.04%) Electronics
11 10 (1.70%) Financial Institution
12 9 (1.53%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (0.68%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.51%) Advertising
14 3 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
15 2 (0.34%) Aviation
15 2 (0.34%) Public Sector
16 1 (0.17%) Automotive
16 1 (0.17%) Law
16 1 (0.17%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 211 (35.95%) Senior
2 210 (35.78%) Linux Specialist
2 210 (35.78%) Technical Specialist
3 134 (22.83%) Software Engineer
4 127 (21.64%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 127 (21.64%) Senior Linux Specialist
4 127 (21.64%) Senior Technical Specialist
4 127 (21.64%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
5 63 (10.73%) Linux Engineer
6 54 (9.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 50 (8.52%) Senior Software Engineer
8 47 (8.01%) Architect
9 37 (6.30%) Infrastructure Architect
10 26 (4.43%) Systems Engineer
11 25 (4.26%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
12 24 (4.09%) Administrator
13 21 (3.58%) Developer
14 20 (3.41%) Lead
14 20 (3.41%) Systems Administrator
15 18 (3.07%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (13.12%) React
2 48 (8.18%) Django
2 48 (8.18%) Leaflet
2 48 (8.18%) OpenLayers
2 48 (8.18%) PostGIS
3 40 (6.81%) Middleware
4 34 (5.79%) REST
5 27 (4.60%) AngularJS
5 27 (4.60%) Node.js
6 26 (4.43%) RabbitMQ
7 25 (4.26%) gRPC
7 25 (4.26%) Material-UI
7 25 (4.26%) OpenAPI
7 25 (4.26%) Spring
7 25 (4.26%) Spring Boot
7 25 (4.26%) Swagger
8 15 (2.56%) .NET
8 15 (2.56%) LAMP
9 14 (2.39%) HTML
10 13 (2.21%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 210 (35.78%) Social Media
2 42 (7.16%) Replication
3 33 (5.62%) Cloud Native
4 24 (4.09%) Data Centre
5 23 (3.92%) PKI
6 21 (3.58%) Public Cloud
7 19 (3.24%) Management Information System
8 17 (2.90%) IoT
9 12 (2.04%) Cyber Threat
9 12 (2.04%) Linux Command Line
10 11 (1.87%) Distributed Systems
10 11 (1.87%) Robotics
11 10 (1.70%) Eurex
12 8 (1.36%) Cyberattack
12 8 (1.36%) Data Fabric
13 4 (0.68%) Cyber Kill Chain
13 4 (0.68%) Product Ownership
14 3 (0.51%) Self-Motivation
14 3 (0.51%) Smart Energy
14 3 (0.51%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 587 (100.00%) Linux
2 160 (27.26%) Windows
3 114 (19.42%) CentOS
4 89 (15.16%) Debian
5 64 (10.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 57 (9.71%) Windows Server
7 47 (8.01%) VMS
8 44 (7.50%) Unix
9 37 (6.30%) Solaris
10 32 (5.45%) Windows Server 2016
11 22 (3.75%) Windows 10
12 20 (3.41%) SUSE
13 15 (2.56%) Android
13 15 (2.56%) Windows Server 2019
14 14 (2.39%) Windows Server 2012
15 12 (2.04%) zOS
16 5 (0.85%) Mac OS
17 4 (0.68%) Kali Linux
18 3 (0.51%) Oracle Linux
18 3 (0.51%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 241 (41.06%) Cybersecurity
2 226 (38.50%) Artificial Intelligence
3 213 (36.29%) IT Strategy
4 212 (36.12%) CRM
4 212 (36.12%) Technology Strategy
5 159 (27.09%) Agile
6 141 (24.02%) Software Engineering
7 106 (18.06%) Actionable Insight
8 90 (15.33%) DevOps
9 67 (11.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 55 (9.37%) Web Development
11 53 (9.03%) Configuration Management
12 48 (8.18%) DevSecOps
13 46 (7.84%) Open Source
14 44 (7.50%) Collaborative Working
15 43 (7.33%) Infrastructure as Code
15 43 (7.33%) Problem-Solving
16 41 (6.98%) Microservices
17 40 (6.81%) Collaborative Culture
18 39 (6.64%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 278 (47.36%) Bash
2 140 (23.85%) Python
3 116 (19.76%) JavaScript
4 65 (11.07%) PowerShell
5 52 (8.86%) SQL
6 48 (8.18%) C
7 43 (7.33%) Java
8 34 (5.79%) C++
8 34 (5.79%) Shell Script
9 19 (3.24%) PHP
10 14 (2.39%) Perl
11 13 (2.21%) Kotlin
12 10 (1.70%) Ada
12 10 (1.70%) Ruby
13 4 (0.68%) T-SQL
14 3 (0.51%) C#
14 3 (0.51%) Go
15 1 (0.17%) Groovy
15 1 (0.17%) VB.NET
15 1 (0.17%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 146 (24.87%) Security Cleared
2 103 (17.55%) SC Cleared
3 73 (12.44%) DV Cleared
4 60 (10.22%) Degree
5 23 (3.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (2.73%) MCSE
6 16 (2.73%) Microsoft Certification
7 15 (2.56%) MCSA
7 15 (2.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 8 (1.36%) Azure Certification
9 7 (1.19%) AWS Certification
9 7 (1.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.68%) CCNA
10 4 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (0.68%) CISM
10 4 (0.68%) CISSP
11 3 (0.51%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.34%) CCNP
12 2 (0.34%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (2.04%) QA
2 8 (1.36%) PMO
2 8 (1.36%) SLA
3 7 (1.19%) Cyber Essentials
3 7 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (1.19%) NIST
4 4 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 3 (0.51%) GDPR
6 1 (0.17%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.17%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.17%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.17%) MISRA
6 1 (0.17%) NCSC
System Software
1 299 (50.94%) Active Directory
2 60 (10.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 47 (8.01%) vSphere
4 22 (3.75%) Docker
5 13 (2.21%) vCloud
6 12 (2.04%) Virtual Machines
7 10 (1.70%) Hyper-V
8 7 (1.19%) VMware ESXi
9 6 (1.02%) KVM
10 5 (0.85%) VMware Server
11 4 (0.68%) Terminal Services
11 4 (0.68%) VMware NSX
12 3 (0.51%) NFS
12 3 (0.51%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 2 (0.34%) Embedded Firmware
13 2 (0.34%) Firmware
13 2 (0.34%) Kamailio
13 2 (0.34%) QEMU
13 2 (0.34%) Xen
14 1 (0.17%) Samba
Systems Management
1 236 (40.20%) Microsoft Intune
2 210 (35.78%) Jamf Pro
3 97 (16.52%) Ansible
4 89 (15.16%) Terraform
5 54 (9.20%) Kubernetes
6 30 (5.11%) Puppet
7 21 (3.58%) vCenter Server
8 11 (1.87%) SCCM
9 10 (1.70%) Progress Chef
10 8 (1.36%) Grafana
11 7 (1.19%) ZABBIX
12 4 (0.68%) HAProxy
12 4 (0.68%) Nessus
12 4 (0.68%) Prometheus
13 3 (0.51%) Check_MK
13 3 (0.51%) Nagios
13 3 (0.51%) SELinux
13 3 (0.51%) Trend Micro Deep Security
14 2 (0.34%) WSUS
15 1 (0.17%) Cacti
Vendors
1 295 (50.26%) Microsoft
2 210 (35.78%) CyberArk
2 210 (35.78%) Tanium
3 93 (15.84%) Red Hat
4 80 (13.63%) VMware
5 48 (8.18%) ESRI
6 34 (5.79%) Veeam
7 27 (4.60%) Google
7 27 (4.60%) SaltStack
8 19 (3.24%) Cisco
9 15 (2.56%) HP
10 14 (2.39%) Zerto
11 13 (2.21%) Fujitsu
11 13 (2.21%) Oracle
12 12 (2.04%) Xilinx
13 11 (1.87%) Aruba
13 11 (1.87%) Palo Alto
14 10 (1.70%) ProCurve
14 10 (1.70%) Synology
14 10 (1.70%) Trayport