Ubuntu Job Trends in London

Ubuntu Linux
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring Ubuntu skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 385 372 290
Rank change year-on-year -13 -82 +159
Permanent jobs citing Ubuntu 26 17 243
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.12% 0.14% 0.99%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.79% 1.09% 8.21%
Number of salaries quoted 19 8 67
10th Percentile £46,250 - £49,200
25th Percentile £52,500 £34,000 £59,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £61,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +35.25% -9.63% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £80,938 £90,000
90th Percentile £90,500 £101,750 £92,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £46,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year +29.03% -13.89% -13.53%

All Operating Systems
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,449 1,556 2,961
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 6.77% 12.73% 12.06%
Number of salaries quoted 1,019 1,132 2,245
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,000 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £103,750 £110,000 £105,000
England median annual salary £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% -14.29%

Ubuntu
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Ubuntu job vacancy trend in London

Ubuntu
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Ubuntu.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Ubuntu

Ubuntu
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Ubuntu in London over the 6 months to 15 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Ubuntu in London

Ubuntu
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Ubuntu within the London region over the 6 months to 15 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
Central London -1 3 £90,000 +150.00% 1
West London - 1 £85,000 -
Ubuntu
England

Ubuntu
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 5 (19.23%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (11.54%) Apache
3 1 (3.85%) Confluence
3 1 (3.85%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 10 (38.46%) AWS
1 10 (38.46%) Azure
2 7 (26.92%) AWS CloudFormation
3 4 (15.38%) Datadog
3 4 (15.38%) Entra ID
3 4 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (11.54%) GCP
5 2 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (7.69%) Amazon S3
5 2 (7.69%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (7.69%) CloudFront
5 2 (7.69%) Route 53
5 2 (7.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (3.85%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 8 (30.77%) Firewall
2 6 (23.08%) DNS
3 5 (19.23%) DHCP
4 4 (15.38%) WAN
5 3 (11.54%) LAN
5 3 (11.54%) Software-Defined Networking
5 3 (11.54%) VPN
5 3 (11.54%) WLAN
6 2 (7.69%) TCP/IP
7 1 (3.85%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (3.85%) FIX Connectivity
7 1 (3.85%) NAS
7 1 (3.85%) SAN
7 1 (3.85%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (15.38%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (3.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (15.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 4 (15.38%) Git
2 3 (11.54%) GitLab
3 2 (7.69%) Bitbucket
3 2 (7.69%) Jenkins
4 1 (3.85%) JIRA
General
1 11 (42.31%) Social Skills
2 4 (15.38%) Mandarin Language
3 3 (11.54%) Advertising
3 3 (11.54%) Retail
4 1 (3.85%) Banking
4 1 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Finance
4 1 (3.85%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (30.77%) Systems Engineer
2 7 (26.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (26.92%) Senior
3 6 (23.08%) Senior Systems Engineer
4 4 (15.38%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (15.38%) Operations Engineer
5 3 (11.54%) Audio Visual Engineer
5 3 (11.54%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (11.54%) Principal Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Linux Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Linux Systems Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Administrator
7 1 (3.85%) Analyst
7 1 (3.85%) Linux Administrator
7 1 (3.85%) Linux Systems Administrator
7 1 (3.85%) Network Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Support Analyst
7 1 (3.85%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (15.38%) web3js
2 2 (7.69%) Middleware
3 1 (3.85%) .NET
3 1 (3.85%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 4 (15.38%) Blockchain
1 4 (15.38%) Management Information System
1 4 (15.38%) Web3
2 3 (11.54%) Data Centre
2 3 (11.54%) Digital Signage
2 3 (11.54%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (7.69%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (3.85%) Eurex
4 1 (3.85%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 26 (100.00%) Linux
2 12 (46.15%) Windows
3 10 (38.46%) CentOS
4 8 (30.77%) Windows Server
5 7 (26.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (11.54%) VMS
7 2 (7.69%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (3.85%) Solaris
8 1 (3.85%) Unix
8 1 (3.85%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (3.85%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (57.69%) Containerisation
2 14 (53.85%) Infrastructure as Code
3 11 (42.31%) Platform Engineering
4 7 (26.92%) CI/CD
4 7 (26.92%) Cloud Security
4 7 (26.92%) DevOps
4 7 (26.92%) Disaster Recovery
4 7 (26.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 6 (23.08%) AI
5 6 (23.08%) Cybersecurity
5 6 (23.08%) Deployment Automation
5 6 (23.08%) Knowledge Transfer
5 6 (23.08%) Machine Learning
5 6 (23.08%) MLOps
6 5 (19.23%) Collaborative Culture
6 5 (19.23%) Configuration Management
6 5 (19.23%) GitOps
6 5 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (19.23%) Roadmaps
7 4 (15.38%) Business Continuity
Programming Languages
1 7 (26.92%) Python
2 4 (15.38%) PowerShell
3 3 (11.54%) Bash
3 3 (11.54%) Shell Script
4 1 (3.85%) C#
4 1 (3.85%) SQL
4 1 (3.85%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 6 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 5 (19.23%) DV Cleared
3 4 (15.38%) Degree
3 4 (15.38%) Postgraduate
4 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (3.85%) Azure Certification
5 1 (3.85%) Linux+ Certification
5 1 (3.85%) MCDST
5 1 (3.85%) MCITP
5 1 (3.85%) MCSA
5 1 (3.85%) MCSE
5 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 1 (3.85%) RHCE
5 1 (3.85%) RHCSA
5 1 (3.85%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.85%) GDPR
1 1 (3.85%) NIST
System Software
1 10 (38.46%) Docker
2 8 (30.77%) Active Directory
3 4 (15.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (11.54%) Terminal Services
5 1 (3.85%) Hyper-V
5 1 (3.85%) KVM
5 1 (3.85%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (61.54%) Kubernetes
2 12 (46.15%) Terraform
3 11 (42.31%) Ansible
4 7 (26.92%) Argo
5 4 (15.38%) Prometheus
6 3 (11.54%) Docker Swarm
6 3 (11.54%) Grafana
6 3 (11.54%) Istio
6 3 (11.54%) linkerd
6 3 (11.54%) Mesos
7 2 (7.69%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (3.85%) Nagios
8 1 (3.85%) Puppet
8 1 (3.85%) SCCM
8 1 (3.85%) vCenter Server
8 1 (3.85%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 8 (30.77%) Microsoft
2 7 (26.92%) Red Hat
3 6 (23.08%) NVIDIA
3 6 (23.08%) VMware
4 4 (15.38%) Cisco
4 4 (15.38%) ServiceNow
5 3 (11.54%) Freshdesk
6 2 (7.69%) Zscaler
7 1 (3.85%) Bloomberg
7 1 (3.85%) Citrix
7 1 (3.85%) CQG
7 1 (3.85%) Dell
7 1 (3.85%) Google
7 1 (3.85%) ION Trading
7 1 (3.85%) Patsystems
7 1 (3.85%) Reuters
7 1 (3.85%) Trayport
7 1 (3.85%) Veeam