Ubuntu Job Trends in the North of England

Ubuntu Linux
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Ubuntu skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 321 287 347
Rank change year-on-year -34 +60 +60
Permanent jobs citing Ubuntu 9 8 28
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.047% 0.10% 0.16%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.01% 0.45% 1.28%
Number of salaries quoted 6 8 20
10th Percentile - £45,750 £36,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,063 £44,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.73% +10.00% +75.44%
75th Percentile £50,250 £63,125 £55,000
90th Percentile £51,375 £65,000 £56,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +33.33% -14.29% -13.93%

All Operating Systems
North of England

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 of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 895 1,788 2,183
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 4.65% 22.58% 12.81%
Number of salaries quoted 684 714 1,748
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £40,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.88% -
75th Percentile £52,813 £57,500 £56,250
90th Percentile £69,817 £72,500 £67,968
England median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year - - -14.29%

Ubuntu
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Ubuntu job vacancy trend in the North of England

Ubuntu
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Ubuntu.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Ubuntu

Ubuntu
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Ubuntu within the North of England region over the 6 months to 21 May 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
North West +4 6 £48,500 -11.82% 1
North East - 3 £47,500 - 6
Ubuntu
England

Ubuntu
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 (33.33%) Apache
1 3 (33.33%) Apache Spark
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) AWS
2 5 (55.56%) Amazon EKS
2 5 (55.56%) Azure
3 3 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (33.33%) Amazon S3
3 3 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (33.33%) Entra ID
3 3 (33.33%) GCP
3 3 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (33.33%) OpenShift
3 3 (33.33%) Serverless
3 3 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 2 (22.22%) Azure AKS
4 2 (22.22%) GitHub
4 2 (22.22%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) AMQP
1 3 (33.33%) Firewall
1 3 (33.33%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (33.33%) Big Data
1 3 (33.33%) Cloudera CDH
1 3 (33.33%) Hadoop
1 3 (33.33%) MySQL
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) GitLab
General
1 3 (33.33%) Aerospace
1 3 (33.33%) Law
2 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Administrator
1 3 (33.33%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
1 3 (33.33%) Linux Administrator
1 3 (33.33%) Linux Systems Administrator
1 3 (33.33%) Software Engineer
1 3 (33.33%) Systems Administrator
2 2 (22.22%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Azure Platform Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) DevOps Platform Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Lead
3 1 (11.11%) Support Team Leader
3 1 (11.11%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) AngularJS
1 3 (33.33%) gRPC
1 3 (33.33%) Material-UI
1 3 (33.33%) Node.js
1 3 (33.33%) OpenAPI
1 3 (33.33%) RabbitMQ
1 3 (33.33%) React
1 3 (33.33%) REST
1 3 (33.33%) Spring
1 3 (33.33%) Spring Boot
1 3 (33.33%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 3 (33.33%) Replication
2 2 (22.22%) Mobile App
2 2 (22.22%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (100.00%) Linux
2 5 (55.56%) Debian
3 3 (33.33%) CentOS
3 3 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (11.11%) Windows
4 1 (11.11%) Windows Server
4 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (55.56%) Containerisation
2 5 (55.56%) Service Delivery
3 3 (33.33%) Agile
3 3 (33.33%) API Development
3 3 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
3 3 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 3 (33.33%) Kanban
3 3 (33.33%) Microservices
3 3 (33.33%) Open Source
3 3 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 3 (33.33%) Scrum
3 3 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 3 (33.33%) Task Automation
3 3 (33.33%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
4 2 (22.22%) DevOps
4 2 (22.22%) Platform Engineering
5 1 (11.11%) Collaborative Culture
5 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Bash
1 3 (33.33%) Java
1 3 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 3 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) DV Cleared
1 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) iptables
2 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
2 1 (11.11%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (88.89%) Terraform
2 5 (55.56%) Ansible
2 5 (55.56%) Kubernetes
3 3 (33.33%) Grafana
3 3 (33.33%) Prometheus
3 3 (33.33%) Puppet
3 3 (33.33%) systemd
4 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (11.11%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (11.11%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Google
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 3 (33.33%) Red Hat
1 3 (33.33%) SaltStack
2 1 (11.11%) Dell
2 1 (11.11%) VMware