Ubuntu Job Trends in the North East

Ubuntu Linux
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Ubuntu skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 68 113
Rank change year-on-year -22 +45 -
Permanent jobs citing Ubuntu 1 1 4
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 0.062% 0.18% 0.23%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.54% 1.56% 1.63%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £37,375
25th Percentile £46,250 - £44,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 - £52,500
75th Percentile £48,750 - £56,250
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £58,750 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +17.50% -4.76% -11.02%

All Operating Systems
North East

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 North East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 65 64 246
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 4.02% 11.21% 14.12%
Number of salaries quoted 42 59 203
10th Percentile £32,000 £28,900 £24,100
25th Percentile £42,250 £33,125 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £48,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.04% +28.00% -6.25%
75th Percentile £58,688 £66,250 £48,750
90th Percentile £70,000 £74,167 £61,250
England median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -13.88%

Ubuntu
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Ubuntu job vacancy trend in the North East

Ubuntu
Salary Trend in the North East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Ubuntu.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Ubuntu

Ubuntu
Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Ubuntu within the North East region over the 6 months to 3 April 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
Tyne and Wear -25 1 £47,500 - 1
Ubuntu
England

Ubuntu
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
General
1 1 (100.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) iptables
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) systemd
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform