Ubuntu Job Trends in Manchester

Ubuntu Linux
North West > Manchester

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

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 148 141
Rank change year-on-year +21 -7 +108
Permanent jobs citing Ubuntu 6 3 7
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.21% 0.11% 0.28%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.16% 0.72% 1.77%
Number of salaries quoted 3 2 6
10th Percentile £58,250 £37,050 -
25th Percentile £59,375 £37,125 £38,084
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £39,500 £40,144
Median % change year-on-year +58.23% -1.60% -38.24%
75th Percentile £63,750 £42,125 £46,176
90th Percentile - £42,350 £55,250
North West median annual salary £62,500 £39,500 £40,144
% change year-on-year +58.23% -1.60% -19.71%

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 190 418 395
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 6.63% 15.67% 15.58%
Number of salaries quoted 170 216 295
10th Percentile £27,000 £25,629 £27,000
25th Percentile £31,000 £33,250 £31,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £57,500 £67,500 £68,375
90th Percentile £65,000 £77,500 £80,000
North West median annual salary £40,500 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -4.71% -5.56% +4.65%

Ubuntu
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Ubuntu job vacancy trend in Manchester

Ubuntu
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Ubuntu.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Ubuntu

Ubuntu
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 3 (50.00%) Apache
1 3 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
1 6 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 3 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 3 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 3 (50.00%) AWS CodeBuild
2 3 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) GCP
2 3 (50.00%) OpenShift
2 3 (50.00%) Route 53
2 3 (50.00%) Serverless
2 3 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Big Data
1 3 (50.00%) Cloudera CDH
1 3 (50.00%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) CircleCI
1 3 (50.00%) GitLab
1 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (50.00%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) AngularJS
1 3 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
1 3 (50.00%) gRPC
1 3 (50.00%) Material-UI
1 3 (50.00%) Node.js
1 3 (50.00%) OpenAPI
1 3 (50.00%) RabbitMQ
1 3 (50.00%) React
1 3 (50.00%) REST
1 3 (50.00%) Spring
1 3 (50.00%) Spring Boot
1 3 (50.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Debian
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (50.00%) CentOS
2 3 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 6 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 6 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (50.00%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) API Development
2 3 (50.00%) Auto-Scaling
2 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 3 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (50.00%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) Kanban
2 3 (50.00%) Microservices
2 3 (50.00%) Open Source
2 3 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 3 (50.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 3 (50.00%) Scrum
2 3 (50.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (50.00%) Bash
2 3 (50.00%) Java
2 3 (50.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) Ansible
1 6 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 6 (100.00%) Terraform
2 3 (50.00%) Grafana
2 3 (50.00%) Prometheus
2 3 (50.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Google
1 3 (50.00%) Red Hat
1 3 (50.00%) SaltStack
1 3 (50.00%) Splunk