Ubuntu Job Trends in England

Ubuntu Linux
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Ubuntu skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 585 494 491
Rank change year-on-year -91 -3 +128
Permanent jobs citing Ubuntu 87 105 348
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.12% 0.29% 0.43%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.77% 1.85% 2.87%
Number of salaries quoted 63 85 198
10th Percentile £39,450 £32,500 £38,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £36,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -6.98% -7.33%
75th Percentile £74,375 £61,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £66,500 £90,597
UK median annual salary £53,750 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +7.50% -4.76% -12.50%

All Operating Systems
England

Ubuntu 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 4,919 5,668 12,126
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 6.63% 15.48% 15.07%
Number of salaries quoted 3,710 4,028 10,032
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,500 £25,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £33,750 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -14.29%
75th Percentile £66,188 £68,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £88,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -14.29%

Ubuntu
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Ubuntu job vacancy trend in England

Ubuntu
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Ubuntu.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Ubuntu

Ubuntu
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Ubuntu in England over the 6 months to 11 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Ubuntu in England

Ubuntu
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Ubuntu within the England region over the 6 months to 11 April 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
London -11 35 £61,250 +0.41% 11
South East -40 31 £60,000 +20.00% 15
North of England -62 10 £48,500 -3.00% 9
North West -30 8 £48,500 -3.00% 6
Midlands -66 7 £26,265 -24.96% 5
East Midlands -50 6 £26,265 -34.34% 1
South West - 3 £65,000 - 2
North East -26 2 £47,500 - 2
West Midlands -36 1 - - 4
Ubuntu
UK

Ubuntu
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 11 (12.64%) Apache
2 8 (9.20%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (6.90%) Apache Spark
4 2 (2.30%) Confluence
4 2 (2.30%) IIS
5 1 (1.15%) OpenStack
5 1 (1.15%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (2.30%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 47 (54.02%) Azure
2 39 (44.83%) AWS
3 16 (18.39%) GCP
4 15 (17.24%) AWS CloudFormation
5 13 (14.94%) SaaS
6 12 (13.79%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (13.79%) Microsoft 365
7 11 (12.64%) OpenShift
8 8 (9.20%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (6.90%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (6.90%) Entra ID
9 6 (6.90%) GitHub
9 6 (6.90%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (6.90%) Serverless
10 4 (4.60%) Datadog
11 3 (3.45%) Azure Stack
12 2 (2.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 2 (2.30%) Amazon EC2
12 2 (2.30%) Azure AKS
12 2 (2.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 21 (24.14%) Firewall
2 10 (11.49%) VPN
3 8 (9.20%) DNS
4 6 (6.90%) AMQP
4 6 (6.90%) TCP/IP
5 5 (5.75%) DHCP
5 5 (5.75%) Software-Defined Networking
5 5 (5.75%) VoIP
6 4 (4.60%) NAS
6 4 (4.60%) SAN
6 4 (4.60%) WAN
7 3 (3.45%) HTTP
7 3 (3.45%) LAN
7 3 (3.45%) LoRaWAN
7 3 (3.45%) MQTT
7 3 (3.45%) RTP
7 3 (3.45%) Unified Communications
7 3 (3.45%) VLAN
7 3 (3.45%) Wireshark
8 2 (2.30%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (12.64%) MySQL
2 7 (8.05%) SQL Server
3 6 (6.90%) Big Data
3 6 (6.90%) Cloudera CDH
3 6 (6.90%) Hadoop
4 4 (4.60%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (3.45%) MongoDB
5 3 (3.45%) Neo4j
6 2 (2.30%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.15%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (1.15%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.15%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 15 (17.24%) Git
2 10 (11.49%) GitLab
3 4 (4.60%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 4 (4.60%) Jenkins
3 4 (4.60%) JIRA
General
1 22 (25.29%) Social Skills
2 5 (5.75%) Aerospace
2 5 (5.75%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (5.75%) Documentation Skills
2 5 (5.75%) Finance
2 5 (5.75%) Law
3 4 (4.60%) Mandarin Language
4 3 (3.45%) Manufacturing
5 2 (2.30%) Advertising
5 2 (2.30%) Banking
5 2 (2.30%) Retail
6 1 (1.15%) Electronics
6 1 (1.15%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 25 (28.74%) Systems Engineer
2 20 (22.99%) DevOps Engineer
2 20 (22.99%) Linux Engineer
3 18 (20.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 16 (18.39%) Linux Systems Engineer
5 14 (16.09%) Senior
6 12 (13.79%) DevOps Systems Engineer
6 12 (13.79%) Linux DevOps Engineer
6 12 (13.79%) Linux/Unix DevOps
7 10 (11.49%) Senior Systems Engineer
8 8 (9.20%) Support Engineer
9 7 (8.05%) Administrator
9 7 (8.05%) Linux Administrator
10 6 (6.90%) Linux Support
10 6 (6.90%) Linux Support Engineer
10 6 (6.90%) Site Engineer
10 6 (6.90%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 6 (6.90%) Software Engineer
11 5 (5.75%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
11 5 (5.75%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (10.34%) REST
2 6 (6.90%) AngularJS
2 6 (6.90%) gRPC
2 6 (6.90%) Material-UI
2 6 (6.90%) Node.js
2 6 (6.90%) OpenAPI
2 6 (6.90%) RabbitMQ
2 6 (6.90%) React
2 6 (6.90%) Spring
2 6 (6.90%) Spring Boot
2 6 (6.90%) Swagger
3 4 (4.60%) LAMP
3 4 (4.60%) web3js
4 3 (3.45%) Django
4 3 (3.45%) Flask
4 3 (3.45%) FreeSWITCH
4 3 (3.45%) OAuth
4 3 (3.45%) OAuth2
4 3 (3.45%) SQLAlchemy
4 3 (3.45%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.20%) Data Centre
2 7 (8.05%) Management Information System
3 6 (6.90%) Cloud Native
3 6 (6.90%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (5.75%) Blockchain
4 5 (5.75%) Replication
4 5 (5.75%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (4.60%) IoT
5 4 (4.60%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (4.60%) Web3
6 3 (3.45%) Driving Licence
7 2 (2.30%) Digital Signage
7 2 (2.30%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (2.30%) Eurex
7 2 (2.30%) Mobile App
7 2 (2.30%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.15%) Clustering
8 1 (1.15%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (1.15%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (1.15%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 87 (100.00%) Linux
2 32 (36.78%) CentOS
3 30 (34.48%) Windows
4 23 (26.44%) Windows Server
5 17 (19.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 12 (13.79%) Debian
7 5 (5.75%) VMS
7 5 (5.75%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (4.60%) Unix
9 3 (3.45%) Rocky
9 3 (3.45%) SUSE
9 3 (3.45%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (2.30%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (44.83%) Containerisation
2 35 (40.23%) Infrastructure as Code
3 30 (34.48%) DevOps
4 27 (31.03%) Problem-Solving
5 24 (27.59%) Platform Engineering
6 22 (25.29%) Agile
7 21 (24.14%) CI/CD
8 20 (22.99%) Configuration Management
9 18 (20.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 15 (17.24%) Collaborative Culture
11 14 (16.09%) AI
12 13 (14.94%) Mentoring
13 11 (12.64%) Disaster Recovery
13 11 (12.64%) Knowledge Transfer
13 11 (12.64%) Machine Learning
13 11 (12.64%) Open Source
14 10 (11.49%) Computer Science
14 10 (11.49%) MLOps
14 10 (11.49%) Observability
15 9 (10.34%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 30 (34.48%) Bash
2 29 (33.33%) Python
3 16 (18.39%) PowerShell
4 8 (9.20%) Shell Script
5 7 (8.05%) Java
6 6 (6.90%) JavaScript
7 4 (4.60%) SQL
8 3 (3.45%) C
8 3 (3.45%) C++
9 1 (1.15%) C#
9 1 (1.15%) Go
9 1 (1.15%) Perl
9 1 (1.15%) PHP
9 1 (1.15%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 23 (26.44%) Security Cleared
2 17 (19.54%) DV Cleared
3 8 (9.20%) SC Cleared
4 7 (8.05%) Degree
5 4 (4.60%) Postgraduate
6 3 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (3.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 2 (2.30%) Azure Certification
7 2 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.15%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.15%) Linux+ Certification
8 1 (1.15%) MCDST
8 1 (1.15%) MCITP
8 1 (1.15%) MCSA
8 1 (1.15%) MCSE
8 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (1.15%) RHCE
8 1 (1.15%) RHCSA
8 1 (1.15%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (1.15%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (3.45%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.15%) GDPR
2 1 (1.15%) NIST
System Software
1 23 (26.44%) Docker
2 17 (19.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (18.39%) Active Directory
4 8 (9.20%) vSphere
5 4 (4.60%) KVM
5 4 (4.60%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (3.45%) Kamailio
7 2 (2.30%) Hyper-V
7 2 (2.30%) iptables
7 2 (2.30%) Terminal Services
8 1 (1.15%) QEMU
8 1 (1.15%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (1.15%) VMware NSX
8 1 (1.15%) Xen
Systems Management
1 52 (59.77%) Ansible
2 51 (58.62%) Terraform
3 46 (52.87%) Kubernetes
4 12 (13.79%) Argo
5 11 (12.64%) Nagios
6 10 (11.49%) Puppet
7 9 (10.34%) Prometheus
7 9 (10.34%) vCenter Server
8 7 (8.05%) Grafana
9 6 (6.90%) Docker Swarm
10 5 (5.75%) Istio
10 5 (5.75%) linkerd
10 5 (5.75%) Mesos
11 4 (4.60%) Nessus
12 3 (3.45%) Galera Cluster
12 3 (3.45%) Microsoft Intune
12 3 (3.45%) Single Sign-On
13 2 (2.30%) SCCM
13 2 (2.30%) systemd
14 1 (1.15%) SCOM
Vendors
1 37 (42.53%) Red Hat
2 22 (25.29%) Microsoft
3 21 (24.14%) VMware
4 10 (11.49%) NVIDIA
5 7 (8.05%) Google
6 6 (6.90%) Cisco
6 6 (6.90%) SaltStack
6 6 (6.90%) Splunk
7 5 (5.75%) Fortinet
8 4 (4.60%) Mitel
9 3 (3.45%) BT
9 3 (3.45%) ServiceNow
10 2 (2.30%) Citrix
10 2 (2.30%) Dell
10 2 (2.30%) Facebook
10 2 (2.30%) ION Trading
10 2 (2.30%) Patsystems
10 2 (2.30%) Reuters
10 2 (2.30%) Trayport
10 2 (2.30%) Veeam