Ubuntu Jobs in Scotland

Ubuntu Linux
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Ubuntu skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Ubuntu over the 6 months leading up to 6 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 168 272 194
Rank change year-on-year +104 -78 +43
Permanent jobs citing Ubuntu 4 10 18
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.13% 0.15% 0.42%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.08% 1.27% 2.46%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 16
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £47,500 £83,750 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £87,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -42.86% +16.67% +163.16%
75th Percentile £52,500 £91,250 £80,000
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -9.52% -16.00% +13.64%

All Operating Systems
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 192 786 731
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 6.30% 11.41% 16.93%
Number of salaries quoted 139 418 405
10th Percentile £36,250 £26,250 £27,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £30,250 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £48,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% +4.17% -8.57%
75th Percentile £70,125 £61,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £93,778 £76,625 £75,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - -14.29% -

Ubuntu
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Ubuntu as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Ubuntu in Scotland

Ubuntu
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Ubuntu in Scotland.

Salary trend for Ubuntu in Scotland

Ubuntu
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Ubuntu within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 6 June 2025. 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
Glasgow +157 4 £50,000 -42.86% 5
Ubuntu
UK

Ubuntu
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) Azure AKS
1 3 (75.00%) Azure Monitor
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Git
1 3 (75.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
1 3 (75.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 3 (75.00%) Law
1 3 (75.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Azure Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) Site Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Virtualisation Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) .NET
1 3 (75.00%) REST
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (75.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (75.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Black-Box Testing
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 3 (75.00%) Continuous Integration
1 3 (75.00%) Observability
1 3 (75.00%) Service-Level Objective
1 3 (75.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 3 (75.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Fintech
2 1 (25.00%) Network Management
2 1 (25.00%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Java
1 3 (75.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (75.00%) Python
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
2 1 (25.00%) KVM
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (25.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Grafana
1 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (75.00%) Prometheus
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Red Hat
1 3 (75.00%) Splunk
2 1 (25.00%) VMware