Ubuntu Jobs in Manchester

Ubuntu Linux
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring Ubuntu skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Ubuntu over the 6 months leading up to 15 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 141 186 194
Rank change year-on-year +45 +8 +67
Permanent jobs citing Ubuntu 12 14 3
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 0.47% 0.31% 0.086%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.72% 2.68% 0.59%
Number of salaries quoted 12 3 2
10th Percentile £45,925 - £63,450
25th Percentile £47,500 £36,000 £64,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £40,000 £66,500
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -39.85% +111.11%
75th Percentile £62,500 £50,750 £70,125
90th Percentile £64,750 £54,800 £71,550
North West median annual salary £60,000 £40,000 £63,000
% change year-on-year +50.00% -36.51% +96.88%

All Operating Systems
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 441 523 508
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 17.42% 11.51% 14.56%
Number of salaries quoted 253 327 364
10th Percentile £28,000 £27,500 £29,500
25th Percentile £33,250 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,500 £50,000 £59,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.00% -15.97% +35.23%
75th Percentile £60,000 £64,375 £70,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £71,750 £80,000
North West median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £51,500
% change year-on-year -5.56% -12.62% +21.18%

Ubuntu
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing Ubuntu as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Ubuntu in Manchester

Ubuntu
Salary Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Ubuntu in Manchester.

Salary trend for Ubuntu in Manchester

Ubuntu
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Ubuntu in Manchester over the 6 months to 15 August 2025.

Salary histogram for Ubuntu in Manchester

Ubuntu
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Ubuntu within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 15 August 2025. 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
Bury - 1 £60,000 -
Ubuntu
North West

Ubuntu
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 4 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (33.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 10 (83.33%) AWS
2 6 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 6 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 6 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 6 (50.00%) AWS CodeBuild
2 6 (50.00%) Route 53
2 6 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 4 (33.33%) Azure
3 4 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
3 4 (33.33%) Entra ID
3 4 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (33.33%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) Firewall
1 1 (8.33%) VLAN
1 1 (8.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 6 (50.00%) CircleCI
1 6 (50.00%) GitLab
1 6 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
1 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) VMware Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Data Centre Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Hyper-V Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Linux Server Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Server Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Storage Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Technical Leader
4 1 (8.33%) Windows Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Windows Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (58.33%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 12 (100.00%) Linux
2 8 (66.67%) Debian
3 5 (41.67%) CentOS
4 1 (8.33%) Windows
4 1 (8.33%) Windows Server
4 1 (8.33%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (91.67%) CI/CD
1 11 (91.67%) Containerisation
1 11 (91.67%) DevOps
2 7 (58.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (50.00%) Auto-Scaling
3 6 (50.00%) Configuration Management
3 6 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
4 4 (33.33%) Collaborative Culture
4 4 (33.33%) Data Loss Prevention
4 4 (33.33%) Identity Management
4 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 4 (33.33%) Migration
4 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
6 1 (8.33%) Machine Learning
6 1 (8.33%) Mentoring
6 1 (8.33%) Server Building
Programming Languages
1 11 (91.67%) Bash
2 7 (58.33%) Python
3 5 (41.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) AWS Certification
1 4 (33.33%) Azure Certification
1 4 (33.33%) Degree
1 4 (33.33%) Linux+ Certification
1 4 (33.33%) RHCE
2 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (33.33%) GDPR
1 4 (33.33%) HIPAA
System Software
1 11 (91.67%) Docker
2 5 (41.67%) Hyper-V
2 5 (41.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (33.33%) Active Directory
3 4 (33.33%) Dovecot
3 4 (33.33%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 7 (58.33%) Ansible
1 7 (58.33%) Grafana
1 7 (58.33%) Kubernetes
1 7 (58.33%) Prometheus
1 7 (58.33%) Terraform
2 1 (8.33%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) Splunk
2 5 (41.67%) Microsoft
2 5 (41.67%) Red Hat
2 5 (41.67%) VMware
3 4 (33.33%) Okta
3 4 (33.33%) Ping Identity