Debian Job Trends in England

Debian Linux
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Debian skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 660 608 699
Rank change year-on-year -52 +91 +19
Permanent jobs citing Debian 33 25 152
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.040% 0.063% 0.17%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.64% 0.40% 1.22%
Number of salaries quoted 17 21 82
10th Percentile £41,100 £36,250 £32,875
25th Percentile £42,500 £55,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £61,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.49% +16.19% -19.23%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £80,000 £84,875
UK median annual salary £52,500 £61,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.93% +16.19% -18.60%

All Operating Systems
England

Debian falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring operating system skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 5,161 6,248 12,449
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 6.25% 15.85% 13.67%
Number of salaries quoted 3,936 3,913 9,840
10th Percentile £27,694 £27,000 £25,760
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,750 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% -14.29%
75th Percentile £67,813 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year - - -14.29%

Debian
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Debian relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Debian job vacancy trend in England

Debian
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Debian.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Debian

Debian
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Debian in England over the 6 months to 7 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Debian in England

Debian
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Debian within the England region over the 6 months to 7 June 2026. 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
North of England -29 11 £45,000 -25.00% 2
South East -20 8 £65,000 +18.18% 5
Midlands -30 8 - - 2
North East - 6 £45,000 - 2
East Midlands - 6 - - 2
North West -18 5 £48,500 -19.17%
East of England -18 3 - -
West Midlands -23 2 - -
South West - 2 - - 1
Debian
UK

Debian
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 7 (21.21%) Apache
2 5 (15.15%) Apache Spark
3 3 (9.09%) OpenStack
4 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 15 (45.45%) Azure
2 8 (24.24%) AWS
3 7 (21.21%) Amazon EKS
3 7 (21.21%) GCP
4 5 (15.15%) AWS CloudFormation
4 5 (15.15%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (15.15%) IaaS
4 5 (15.15%) OpenShift
4 5 (15.15%) Serverless
5 2 (6.06%) Azure AKS
5 2 (6.06%) Entra ID
5 2 (6.06%) GitHub
5 2 (6.06%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (6.06%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 10 (30.30%) Firewall
2 9 (27.27%) VoIP
3 5 (15.15%) AMQP
3 5 (15.15%) DMZ
3 5 (15.15%) Reverse Proxy
3 5 (15.15%) STUN
3 5 (15.15%) VLAN
3 5 (15.15%) VPN
4 3 (9.09%) Asterisk PBX
5 2 (6.06%) LAN
5 2 (6.06%) Network Security
5 2 (6.06%) TCP/IP
5 2 (6.06%) WAN
6 1 (3.03%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (36.36%) MySQL
2 5 (15.15%) Big Data
2 5 (15.15%) Cloudera CDH
2 5 (15.15%) Hadoop
2 5 (15.15%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (15.15%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 4 (12.12%) Bitbucket
3 3 (9.09%) Cypress.io
3 3 (9.09%) JIRA
4 2 (6.06%) GitLab
5 1 (3.03%) SonarQube
General
1 12 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 5 (15.15%) Documentation Skills
3 4 (12.12%) Aerospace
3 4 (12.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (12.12%) Retail
4 3 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.03%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (27.27%) Technical Support
2 7 (21.21%) Cloud Engineer
3 5 (15.15%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (15.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (15.15%) Infrastructure Support
3 5 (15.15%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 5 (15.15%) Software Engineer
3 5 (15.15%) Support Engineer
3 5 (15.15%) VoIP Engineer
3 5 (15.15%) VoIP Support Engineer
4 4 (12.12%) Administrator
4 4 (12.12%) Developer
4 4 (12.12%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
4 4 (12.12%) Lead
4 4 (12.12%) Linux Administrator
4 4 (12.12%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 4 (12.12%) Systems Administrator
5 3 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (9.09%) Senior
5 3 (9.09%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (27.27%) React
2 8 (24.24%) Node.js
3 5 (15.15%) AngularJS
3 5 (15.15%) FreeSWITCH
3 5 (15.15%) gRPC
3 5 (15.15%) Material-UI
3 5 (15.15%) OpenAPI
3 5 (15.15%) RabbitMQ
3 5 (15.15%) REST
3 5 (15.15%) Spring
3 5 (15.15%) Spring Boot
3 5 (15.15%) Swagger
4 3 (9.09%) Jest
4 3 (9.09%) LAMP
4 3 (9.09%) pytest
5 1 (3.03%) XML
5 1 (3.03%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (24.24%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (15.15%) Cloud Native
3 4 (12.12%) EPoS
4 3 (9.09%) Data Centre
5 2 (6.06%) Mobile App
6 1 (3.03%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 33 (100.00%) Linux
2 15 (45.45%) Ubuntu
3 11 (33.33%) CentOS
4 9 (27.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (15.15%) Windows
5 5 (15.15%) Windows Server
6 3 (9.09%) VMS
7 1 (3.03%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (33.33%) Agile
2 10 (30.30%) CI/CD
2 10 (30.30%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (27.27%) Containerisation
3 9 (27.27%) Customer Service
3 9 (27.27%) Time Management
4 8 (24.24%) High Availability
4 8 (24.24%) Scrum
5 7 (21.21%) DevOps
5 7 (21.21%) Infrastructure as Code
5 7 (21.21%) Open Source
6 6 (18.18%) Collaborative Working
6 6 (18.18%) Configuration Management
6 6 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 6 (18.18%) Software Engineering
7 5 (15.15%) ITIL
7 5 (15.15%) Kanban
7 5 (15.15%) Line Management
7 5 (15.15%) Microservices
7 5 (15.15%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 14 (42.42%) Python
2 10 (30.30%) Bash
3 6 (18.18%) SQL
4 5 (15.15%) Java
4 5 (15.15%) JavaScript
4 5 (15.15%) PowerShell
5 4 (12.12%) PHP
6 2 (6.06%) Shell Script
7 1 (3.03%) Perl
Qualifications
1 7 (21.21%) Security Cleared
2 6 (18.18%) SC Cleared
3 5 (15.15%) Azure Certification
3 5 (15.15%) DV Cleared
4 3 (9.09%) Degree
5 1 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (3.03%) HNC
5 1 (3.03%) HND
System Software
1 6 (18.18%) Docker
2 5 (15.15%) Active Directory
3 3 (9.09%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (3.03%) iptables
4 1 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (42.42%) Ansible
2 13 (39.39%) Kubernetes
3 11 (33.33%) Puppet
4 10 (30.30%) Terraform
5 3 (9.09%) Grafana
5 3 (9.09%) ZABBIX
6 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (6.06%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 7 (21.21%) Microsoft
1 7 (21.21%) Red Hat
2 5 (15.15%) Cisco
2 5 (15.15%) Google
2 5 (15.15%) SaltStack