Ubuntu Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Ubuntu Linux
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire requiring Ubuntu skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 78 101
Rank change year-on-year +26 +23 +24
Permanent jobs citing Ubuntu 3 2 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 0.47% 0.31% 0.22%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.41% 1.40% 0.80%
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £58,750 - -
25th Percentile £60,625 - £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 - £60,000
75th Percentile £73,750 - £65,000
90th Percentile £74,500 - -
South West median annual salary £72,500 £46,250 £41,250
% change year-on-year +56.76% +12.12% -12.70%

All Operating Systems
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 88 143 250
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 13.69% 21.97% 27.03%
Number of salaries quoted 51 60 156
10th Percentile £32,750 £28,350 £29,440
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £51,250 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% +4.59% -10.91%
75th Percentile £75,000 £69,500 £61,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £68,750
South West median annual salary £36,555 £40,000 £49,000
% change year-on-year -8.61% -18.37% +8.89%

Ubuntu
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Ubuntu job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

Ubuntu
Salary Trend in Gloucestershire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Ubuntu.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Ubuntu

Ubuntu
Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Ubuntu within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 4 January 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
Tewkesbury - 2 £67,500 -
Cheltenham +10 1 £67,500 - 1
Ubuntu
South West

Ubuntu
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) OpenShift
3 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) Internet
2 1 (33.33%) VLAN
2 1 (33.33%) VPN
2 1 (33.33%) VSAN
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) GitLab
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps Platform Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (66.67%) Debian
3 1 (33.33%) CentOS
3 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) AI
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Business Development
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (33.33%) Identity Management
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (33.33%) Penetration Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Tech Ops
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Bash
2 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (33.33%) Docker
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (33.33%) VMware NSX
2 1 (33.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (66.67%) Ansible
2 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
3 1 (33.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Red Hat
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) Fortinet
2 1 (33.33%) Palo Alto
2 1 (33.33%) VMware