Ubuntu Job Trends in Oxfordshire

Ubuntu Linux
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Oxfordshire requiring Ubuntu skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
16 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 - 86
Rank change year-on-year - - -8
Permanent jobs citing Ubuntu 8 0 8
As % of all permanent jobs in Oxfordshire 0.46% - 0.64%
As % of the Operating Systems category 7.34% - 5.19%
Number of salaries quoted 8 0 8
10th Percentile - - £25,750
25th Percentile £42,500 - £43,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 - £53,818
Median % change year-on-year - - +51.35%
75th Percentile £57,500 - £61,250
90th Percentile - - £68,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £35,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +57.14% -22.22% -34.31%

All Operating Systems
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 109 80 154
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 6.20% 11.75% 12.27%
Number of salaries quoted 87 60 115
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,688 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £41,500 £44,982
Median % change year-on-year +2.41% -7.74% +9.71%
75th Percentile £62,500 £43,250 £59,750
90th Percentile £63,750 £57,500 £68,100
South East median annual salary £45,000 £40,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +12.50% -20.00% +7.53%

Ubuntu
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Ubuntu job vacancy trend in Oxfordshire

Ubuntu
Salary Trend in Oxfordshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Ubuntu.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Ubuntu

Ubuntu
Job Locations in Oxfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Ubuntu within the Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 16 September 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
Oxford - 3 £45,000 - 3
Ubuntu
South East

Ubuntu
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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 5 (62.50%) Azure
1 5 (62.50%) Entra ID
1 5 (62.50%) Google Workspace
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (37.50%) AWS
2 3 (37.50%) GitHub
2 3 (37.50%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (62.50%) DHCP
1 5 (62.50%) DNS
1 5 (62.50%) TCP/IP
1 5 (62.50%) VLAN
1 5 (62.50%) VPN
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Git
1 3 (37.50%) GitLab
General
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (100.00%) Support Engineer
2 5 (62.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (62.50%) Infrastructure Support
2 5 (62.50%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
2 5 (62.50%) IT Engineer
2 5 (62.50%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (62.50%) IT Support
2 5 (62.50%) IT Support Engineer
3 3 (37.50%) Technical Engineer
3 3 (37.50%) Technical Support
3 3 (37.50%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) Node.js
1 3 (37.50%) React
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Onboarding
1 5 (62.50%) Replication
2 3 (37.50%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (37.50%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Linux
2 5 (62.50%) Rocky
2 5 (62.50%) Windows
3 3 (37.50%) Debian
3 3 (37.50%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Asset Management
1 5 (62.50%) Customer Service
1 5 (62.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 5 (62.50%) IT Asset Management
1 5 (62.50%) Problem-Solving
1 5 (62.50%) Server Management
2 3 (37.50%) AI
2 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
2 3 (37.50%) Code Quality
2 3 (37.50%) Computer Science
2 3 (37.50%) Containerisation
2 3 (37.50%) Edge Computing
2 3 (37.50%) End-to-End Testing
2 3 (37.50%) Simultaneous Localization and Mapping
2 3 (37.50%) Software Engineering
2 3 (37.50%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) PowerShell
2 3 (37.50%) Bash
2 3 (37.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (37.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) QA
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) Active Directory
2 3 (37.50%) Docker
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Dell
1 5 (62.50%) Google
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft
1 5 (62.50%) Veeam
1 5 (62.50%) VMware
2 3 (37.50%) NVIDIA
Ubuntu jobs