Ubuntu Job Trends in the Midlands

Ubuntu Linux
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Ubuntu skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 235 201 305
Rank change year-on-year -34 +104 -19
Permanent jobs citing Ubuntu 11 25 32
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.089% 0.50% 0.23%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.77% 2.99% 1.80%
Number of salaries quoted 4 17 21
10th Percentile - - £24,750
25th Percentile - £32,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £26,265 £35,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -24.96% -30.00% -6.76%
75th Percentile £30,449 £40,000 £107,500
90th Percentile £37,980 - £110,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £45,750 £53,159
% change year-on-year +31.15% -13.94% -14.88%

All Operating Systems
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 623 837 1,782
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 5.04% 16.66% 12.76%
Number of salaries quoted 484 625 1,330
10th Percentile £26,375 £26,250 £24,500
25th Percentile £29,000 £29,750 £27,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,000 £36,925 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.62% -7.69% -11.11%
75th Percentile £48,750 £50,000 £53,750
90th Percentile £64,750 £65,000 £62,500
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 the Midlands

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

Ubuntu job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Ubuntu
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Ubuntu.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Ubuntu

Ubuntu
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Ubuntu in the Midlands over the 6 months to 14 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Ubuntu in the Midlands

Ubuntu
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Ubuntu within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 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
East Midlands -23 8 £26,265 -34.34% 2
West Midlands -34 3 - -
Ubuntu
England

Ubuntu
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 2 (18.18%) AWS
1 2 (18.18%) Azure
1 2 (18.18%) GCP
2 1 (9.09%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (63.64%) Firewall
2 5 (45.45%) VPN
3 4 (36.36%) LoRaWAN
3 4 (36.36%) MQTT
4 2 (18.18%) Network Security
5 1 (9.09%) DNS
5 1 (9.09%) TCP/IP
5 1 (9.09%) VLAN
5 1 (9.09%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) MySQL
1 4 (36.36%) Neo4j
1 4 (36.36%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (36.36%) Finance
1 4 (36.36%) Law
1 4 (36.36%) Manufacturing
2 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Administrator
1 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 4 (36.36%) Linux Administrator
1 4 (36.36%) Linux Systems Administrator
1 4 (36.36%) Systems Administrator
2 3 (27.27%) Graduate
2 3 (27.27%) Graduate Support Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Graduate Systems Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Linux Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Linux Support
2 3 (27.27%) Linux Support Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Linux Systems Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Support Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Systems Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Systems Support
2 3 (27.27%) Systems Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Driving Licence
1 4 (36.36%) IoT
1 4 (36.36%) Replication
2 3 (27.27%) Management Information System
3 1 (9.09%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 11 (100.00%) Linux
2 5 (45.45%) CentOS
3 3 (27.27%) Debian
3 3 (27.27%) SUSE
4 1 (9.09%) Mac OS
4 1 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (54.55%) High Availability
3 5 (45.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 4 (36.36%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (36.36%) Mentoring
4 4 (36.36%) Performance Tuning
4 4 (36.36%) Systems Engineering
5 3 (27.27%) Computer Science
5 3 (27.27%) Mathematics
5 3 (27.27%) Ticket Management
6 2 (18.18%) Change Management
6 2 (18.18%) Collaborative Working
6 2 (18.18%) Containerisation
6 2 (18.18%) Cost Optimisation
6 2 (18.18%) Incident Management
6 2 (18.18%) ITIL
6 2 (18.18%) Operational Stability
6 2 (18.18%) Patch Management
6 2 (18.18%) Runbook
6 2 (18.18%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) Bash
2 2 (18.18%) Python
2 2 (18.18%) Shell Script
3 1 (9.09%) PHP
3 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
3 1 (9.09%) Ruby
System Software
1 4 (36.36%) Active Directory
1 4 (36.36%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (36.36%) vSphere
2 3 (27.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) Galera Cluster
1 4 (36.36%) vCenter Server
2 3 (27.27%) Ansible
2 3 (27.27%) Kubernetes
3 2 (18.18%) Progress Chef
3 2 (18.18%) Puppet
3 2 (18.18%) Terraform
4 1 (9.09%) Podman
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) Red Hat
2 4 (36.36%) Microsoft
2 4 (36.36%) VMware