Debian Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Debian Linux
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Debian skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 575 526 581
Rank change year-on-year -49 +55 -15
Permanent jobs citing Debian 54 23 113
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.074% 0.068% 0.17%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.18% 0.45% 1.28%
Number of salaries quoted 35 21 47
10th Percentile £37,350 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,875 £36,250 £40,070
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +20.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 £62,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £65,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £48,500
% change year-on-year -12.50% +23.71% -25.38%

All Operating Systems
UK excluding London

Debian 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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 4,583 5,144 8,814
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.28% 15.16% 13.63%
Number of salaries quoted 3,564 3,322 6,566
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,250 £25,750
25th Percentile £31,000 £30,750 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -11.11% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £53,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.88% -10.53% -9.52%

Debian
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Debian relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Debian job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Debian
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Debian.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Debian

Debian
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Debian in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 25 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Debian in the UK excluding London

Debian
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Debian within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 25 July 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
South East -25 21 £60,000 +33.33% 4
North of England -30 11 £48,500 -19.17% 2
Midlands -29 10 £41,000 -31.67% 1
East Midlands - 8 £41,000 - 1
North East - 7 £45,000 -
East of England -10 5 - - 2
North West -16 4 £48,500 -19.17% 2
South West - 4 £42,500 -
Scotland - 3 £80,000 -
West Midlands -23 2 - -
Debian
UK

Debian
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 7 (12.96%) Apache
2 6 (11.11%) OpenStack
3 4 (7.41%) Apache Spark
4 2 (3.70%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 2 (3.70%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 21 (38.89%) Azure
2 12 (22.22%) AWS
3 7 (12.96%) GCP
3 7 (12.96%) GitHub
4 6 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (7.41%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (7.41%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (7.41%) Entra ID
5 4 (7.41%) IaaS
5 4 (7.41%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (7.41%) OpenShift
5 4 (7.41%) Serverless
6 3 (5.56%) SaaS
7 2 (3.70%) Azure AKS
7 2 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (3.70%) Cloudflare
7 2 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (3.70%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 13 (24.07%) Firewall
2 10 (18.52%) VoIP
3 7 (12.96%) TCP/IP
4 4 (7.41%) AMQP
4 4 (7.41%) DMZ
4 4 (7.41%) LAN
4 4 (7.41%) Reverse Proxy
4 4 (7.41%) STUN
4 4 (7.41%) VLAN
4 4 (7.41%) VPN
4 4 (7.41%) WAN
5 3 (5.56%) Asterisk PBX
6 2 (3.70%) Network Security
7 1 (1.85%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (31.48%) MySQL
2 4 (7.41%) Big Data
2 4 (7.41%) Cloudera CDH
2 4 (7.41%) Hadoop
2 4 (7.41%) SQL Server
3 2 (3.70%) MariaDB
4 1 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (11.11%) Bitbucket
2 5 (9.26%) JIRA
3 4 (7.41%) Cypress.io
3 4 (7.41%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (3.70%) Artifactory
4 2 (3.70%) Git
4 2 (3.70%) GitLab
4 2 (3.70%) Jenkins
4 2 (3.70%) PHPUnit
5 1 (1.85%) SonarQube
General
1 10 (18.52%) Social Skills
2 6 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (7.41%) Aerospace
3 4 (7.41%) Documentation Skills
3 4 (7.41%) Retail
4 3 (5.56%) Banking
4 3 (5.56%) Manufacturing
5 2 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (3.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (22.22%) Technical Support
2 11 (20.37%) Senior
3 9 (16.67%) Software Engineer
4 8 (14.81%) Administrator
4 8 (14.81%) Linux Administrator
4 8 (14.81%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 8 (14.81%) Systems Administrator
5 7 (12.96%) Developer
5 7 (12.96%) Lead
6 6 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
6 6 (11.11%) Team Leader
7 5 (9.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (9.26%) Senior Developer
8 4 (7.41%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (7.41%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
8 4 (7.41%) Infrastructure Support
8 4 (7.41%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
8 4 (7.41%) Support Engineer
8 4 (7.41%) VoIP Engineer
8 4 (7.41%) VoIP Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (18.52%) React
2 9 (16.67%) Node.js
3 5 (9.26%) LAMP
4 4 (7.41%) AngularJS
4 4 (7.41%) FreeSWITCH
4 4 (7.41%) gRPC
4 4 (7.41%) Jest
4 4 (7.41%) Material-UI
4 4 (7.41%) OpenAPI
4 4 (7.41%) pytest
4 4 (7.41%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (7.41%) REST
4 4 (7.41%) Spring
4 4 (7.41%) Spring Boot
4 4 (7.41%) Swagger
5 2 (3.70%) CSS
5 2 (3.70%) HTML
5 2 (3.70%) Redfish
5 2 (3.70%) Sass
6 1 (1.85%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (18.52%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (11.11%) Data Centre
3 4 (7.41%) Cloud Native
4 3 (5.56%) Clustering
5 2 (3.70%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (3.70%) Educational Technology
5 2 (3.70%) EPoS
5 2 (3.70%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 54 (100.00%) Linux
2 25 (46.30%) Ubuntu
3 15 (27.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (16.67%) CentOS
5 6 (11.11%) Windows
5 6 (11.11%) Windows Server
6 3 (5.56%) Gentoo
6 3 (5.56%) VMS
7 2 (3.70%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (31.48%) Agile
1 17 (31.48%) DevOps
2 16 (29.63%) CI/CD
3 13 (24.07%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (22.22%) Customer Service
4 12 (22.22%) Software Engineering
4 12 (22.22%) Time Management
5 10 (18.52%) High Availability
5 10 (18.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 10 (18.52%) Open Source
6 9 (16.67%) Containerisation
6 9 (16.67%) Scrum
7 8 (14.81%) Infrastructure Automation
7 8 (14.81%) ITIL
7 8 (14.81%) Line Management
8 7 (12.96%) Configuration Management
8 7 (12.96%) Mentoring
9 6 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
9 6 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
10 5 (9.26%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 23 (42.59%) Python
2 17 (31.48%) Bash
3 11 (20.37%) PHP
4 7 (12.96%) PowerShell
4 7 (12.96%) SQL
5 6 (11.11%) JavaScript
5 6 (11.11%) Ruby
6 4 (7.41%) Java
7 2 (3.70%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.85%) C
8 1 (1.85%) Rust
Qualifications
1 8 (14.81%) Security Cleared
2 6 (11.11%) DV Cleared
2 6 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 5 (9.26%) Degree
4 4 (7.41%) Azure Certification
5 3 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (5.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (1.85%) HNC
6 1 (1.85%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.70%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 15 (27.78%) Docker
2 6 (11.11%) Active Directory
3 5 (9.26%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 3 (5.56%) iptables
5 2 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (3.70%) Xen
6 1 (1.85%) KVM
6 1 (1.85%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 28 (51.85%) Ansible
2 19 (35.19%) Kubernetes
3 17 (31.48%) Puppet
4 15 (27.78%) Terraform
5 8 (14.81%) ZABBIX
6 5 (9.26%) Grafana
6 5 (9.26%) Progress Chef
7 4 (7.41%) Podman
8 3 (5.56%) Red Hat Satellite
9 2 (3.70%) FlexNet
9 2 (3.70%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (3.70%) Prometheus
9 2 (3.70%) Rancher
Vendors
1 11 (20.37%) Microsoft
1 11 (20.37%) Red Hat
2 6 (11.11%) Google
3 4 (7.41%) Cisco
3 4 (7.41%) SaltStack
4 2 (3.70%) NetApp
4 2 (3.70%) VMware