Ubuntu Job Trends in the South East

Ubuntu Linux
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Ubuntu skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 243 250 256
Rank change year-on-year +7 +6 +78
Permanent jobs citing Ubuntu 39 23 133
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.27% 0.30% 0.81%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.85% 2.01% 4.78%
Number of salaries quoted 33 15 53
10th Percentile £33,450 £36,750 -
25th Percentile £50,000 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +26.32% - -26.92%
75th Percentile £73,750 £53,750 £56,250
90th Percentile £77,250 £57,500 £64,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +33.33% -14.29% -13.93%

All Operating Systems
South 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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,014 1,142 2,780
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 7.07% 14.80% 16.91%
Number of salaries quoted 853 879 2,287
10th Percentile £28,000 £27,000 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £40,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -5.88% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £55,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £69,200 £70,400
England median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year - - -14.29%

Ubuntu
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Ubuntu job vacancy trend in the South East

Ubuntu
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Ubuntu

Ubuntu
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Ubuntu in the South East over the 6 months to 12 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Ubuntu in the South East

Ubuntu
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Ubuntu within the South East region over the 6 months to 12 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
Thames Valley +26 17 £50,000 -13.04% 8
Berkshire +14 17 £50,000 -23.08% 4
Hampshire -21 12 £72,500 +81.25% 7
Kent -31 4 £33,500 -39.09%
Surrey -16 3 £60,000 - 8
East Sussex -19 2 £42,500 -
West Sussex - 1 £70,000 -
Ubuntu
England

Ubuntu
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (5.13%) Confluence
2 1 (2.56%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 30 (76.92%) Azure
2 21 (53.85%) AWS
3 19 (48.72%) SaaS
4 14 (35.90%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (23.08%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (10.26%) Azure Stack
6 4 (10.26%) OpenShift
7 3 (7.69%) GitHub
7 3 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.26%) NAS
1 4 (10.26%) SAN
1 4 (10.26%) VoIP
2 3 (7.69%) HTTP
2 3 (7.69%) RTP
2 3 (7.69%) Unified Communications
2 3 (7.69%) Wireshark
3 1 (2.56%) Asterisk PBX
3 1 (2.56%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.69%) MongoDB
1 3 (7.69%) MySQL
2 1 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (25.64%) Git
2 4 (10.26%) GitLab
2 4 (10.26%) JIRA
General
1 6 (15.38%) Social Skills
2 4 (10.26%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (10.26%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (2.56%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 17 (43.59%) DevOps Engineer
2 15 (38.46%) Linux Engineer
3 14 (35.90%) DevOps Systems Engineer
3 14 (35.90%) Linux DevOps Engineer
3 14 (35.90%) Linux Systems Engineer
3 14 (35.90%) Linux/Unix DevOps
3 14 (35.90%) Systems Engineer
4 7 (17.95%) Site Engineer
4 7 (17.95%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 5 (12.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (10.26%) IT Engineer
6 4 (10.26%) IT Support
6 4 (10.26%) IT Support Engineer
6 4 (10.26%) Support Engineer
7 3 (7.69%) Developer
7 3 (7.69%) Junior
7 3 (7.69%) Junior DevOps
7 3 (7.69%) Junior DevOps Engineer
7 3 (7.69%) Python Developer
8 2 (5.13%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.26%) ARM Templates
2 3 (7.69%) Django
2 3 (7.69%) Flask
2 3 (7.69%) FreeSWITCH
2 3 (7.69%) Jinja
2 3 (7.69%) OAuth
2 3 (7.69%) OAuth2
2 3 (7.69%) pytest
2 3 (7.69%) REST
2 3 (7.69%) RFC 2833
2 3 (7.69%) SQLAlchemy
2 3 (7.69%) WebRTC
3 1 (2.56%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (2.56%) XML
3 1 (2.56%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.13%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (5.13%) Public Cloud
2 1 (2.56%) Clustering
2 1 (2.56%) Data Centre
2 1 (2.56%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (2.56%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 39 (100.00%) Linux
2 16 (41.03%) Windows
2 16 (41.03%) Windows Server
3 10 (25.64%) CentOS
4 5 (12.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (12.82%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (5.13%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (2.56%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (61.54%) DevOps
2 12 (30.77%) Agile
3 11 (28.21%) Infrastructure as Code
4 10 (25.64%) CI/CD
4 10 (25.64%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (20.51%) Containerisation
6 7 (17.95%) Observability
6 7 (17.95%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 6 (15.38%) Platform Engineering
8 5 (12.82%) Application Packaging
8 5 (12.82%) Collaborative Culture
8 5 (12.82%) Configuration Management
8 5 (12.82%) DevSecOps
8 5 (12.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 5 (12.82%) Mentoring
9 4 (10.26%) Asset Management
9 4 (10.26%) Continuous Improvement
9 4 (10.26%) Disaster Recovery
9 4 (10.26%) Incident Response
9 4 (10.26%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 26 (66.67%) Bash
2 13 (33.33%) Python
3 12 (30.77%) PowerShell
4 3 (7.69%) C
4 3 (7.69%) C++
5 2 (5.13%) PHP
6 1 (2.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (20.51%) Security Cleared
2 3 (7.69%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.13%) Degree
4 1 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.56%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (7.69%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 11 (28.21%) Docker
2 5 (12.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (10.26%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (10.26%) vSphere
4 3 (7.69%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 30 (76.92%) Terraform
2 29 (74.36%) Ansible
3 16 (41.03%) Kubernetes
4 7 (17.95%) Nagios
5 5 (12.82%) Nessus
6 4 (10.26%) vCenter Server
7 3 (7.69%) Argo
8 2 (5.13%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (5.13%) Podman
9 1 (2.56%) Puppet
9 1 (2.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 22 (56.41%) Red Hat
2 12 (30.77%) Microsoft
3 9 (23.08%) VMware
4 7 (17.95%) Splunk
5 4 (10.26%) Facebook
5 4 (10.26%) Instagram
6 3 (7.69%) BT
6 3 (7.69%) Fortinet
6 3 (7.69%) Mitel