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 21 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 605 520 579
Rank change year-on-year -85 +59 -44
Permanent jobs citing Debian 58 33 89
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.074% 0.095% 0.15%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.22% 0.64% 1.14%
Number of salaries quoted 36 31 37
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,500 £34,000
25th Percentile £38,625 £35,875 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £47,250 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% -2.58% -22.40%
75th Percentile £73,750 £62,500 £56,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £75,000 £64,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year - +27.78% -28.57%

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 4,737 5,153 7,774
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.04% 14.85% 13.03%
Number of salaries quoted 3,668 3,309 5,439
10th Percentile £27,250 £26,250 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,500 £31,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £38,325 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.89% -14.83% -2.17%
75th Percentile £61,250 £51,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £72,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £42,000 £49,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% -15.15% -5.71%

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 21 August 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 21 August 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 -16 25 £56,250 +60.71% 7
Midlands -31 10 £41,000 -31.67% 2
East Midlands - 9 £41,000 - 1
East of England -18 7 - - 3
Scotland - 6 £56,250 - 2
North of England -52 5 £65,000 +8.33% 4
South West -67 5 £42,500 -41.38% 1
North East - 3 £65,000 -
North West -32 2 - - 4
West Midlands -35 1 - - 1
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 8 (13.79%) Apache
2 7 (12.07%) OpenStack
3 5 (8.62%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 3 (5.17%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 18 (31.03%) Azure
2 14 (24.14%) AWS
3 7 (12.07%) GCP
4 6 (10.34%) GitHub
5 5 (8.62%) Amazon EKS
5 5 (8.62%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (8.62%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (8.62%) Entra ID
5 5 (8.62%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (8.62%) OpenShift
5 5 (8.62%) Serverless
6 3 (5.17%) Cloudflare
6 3 (5.17%) Google Tag Manager
6 3 (5.17%) SaaS
7 2 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.72%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (12.07%) TCP/IP
2 6 (10.34%) Firewall
2 6 (10.34%) VoIP
3 5 (8.62%) AMQP
4 4 (6.90%) LAN
4 4 (6.90%) WAN
5 3 (5.17%) Asterisk PBX
5 3 (5.17%) DHCP
5 3 (5.17%) DNS
6 1 (1.72%) Multicast
6 1 (1.72%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (34.48%) MySQL
2 5 (8.62%) Big Data
2 5 (8.62%) Cloudera CDH
2 5 (8.62%) Hadoop
3 3 (5.17%) MariaDB
4 1 (1.72%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (10.34%) Bitbucket
2 5 (8.62%) JIRA
3 4 (6.90%) Cypress.io
4 3 (5.17%) Git
4 3 (5.17%) PHPUnit
5 2 (3.45%) Artifactory
5 2 (3.45%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.72%) GitLab
6 1 (1.72%) SonarQube
General
1 7 (12.07%) Social Skills
2 6 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (8.62%) Aerospace
4 4 (6.90%) Retail
5 3 (5.17%) Banking
5 3 (5.17%) Manufacturing
6 2 (3.45%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (27.59%) Technical Support
2 12 (20.69%) Senior
3 10 (17.24%) Software Engineer
4 8 (13.79%) Administrator
4 8 (13.79%) Developer
4 8 (13.79%) Lead
4 8 (13.79%) Systems Administrator
5 7 (12.07%) Linux Administrator
5 7 (12.07%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 7 (12.07%) Team Leader
6 5 (8.62%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
6 5 (8.62%) Senior Developer
7 3 (5.17%) Graduate
7 3 (5.17%) Graduate Software Engineer
7 3 (5.17%) Hyper-V Engineer
7 3 (5.17%) IT Engineer
7 3 (5.17%) Platform Manager
7 3 (5.17%) Server Engineer
7 3 (5.17%) Systems Engineer
7 3 (5.17%) Windows Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (24.14%) Terraform
2 12 (20.69%) React
3 11 (18.97%) Node.js
4 6 (10.34%) LAMP
5 5 (8.62%) AngularJS
5 5 (8.62%) gRPC
5 5 (8.62%) Material-UI
5 5 (8.62%) OpenAPI
5 5 (8.62%) RabbitMQ
5 5 (8.62%) REST
5 5 (8.62%) Spring
5 5 (8.62%) Spring Boot
5 5 (8.62%) Swagger
6 4 (6.90%) Jest
6 4 (6.90%) pytest
7 3 (5.17%) CSS
7 3 (5.17%) HTML
7 3 (5.17%) Sass
8 2 (3.45%) OpenTofu
8 2 (3.45%) Redfish
Miscellaneous
1 11 (18.97%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (10.34%) Data Centre
3 5 (8.62%) Cloud Native
4 3 (5.17%) Clustering
5 2 (3.45%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (3.45%) Educational Technology
6 1 (1.72%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.72%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 58 (100.00%) Linux
2 28 (48.28%) Ubuntu
3 17 (29.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (15.52%) CentOS
5 6 (10.34%) Windows
5 6 (10.34%) Windows Server
6 3 (5.17%) Gentoo
6 3 (5.17%) VMS
7 2 (3.45%) Rocky
8 1 (1.72%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (32.76%) Agile
2 17 (29.31%) DevOps
3 16 (27.59%) CI/CD
4 15 (25.86%) Customer Service
4 15 (25.86%) Time Management
5 14 (24.14%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (24.14%) Software Engineering
6 11 (18.97%) Line Management
6 11 (18.97%) Open Source
7 10 (17.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 10 (17.24%) Scrum
8 9 (15.52%) Infrastructure Automation
9 8 (13.79%) AI
9 8 (13.79%) Configuration Management
9 8 (13.79%) Containerisation
9 8 (13.79%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (13.79%) ITIL
9 8 (13.79%) Mentoring
10 7 (12.07%) Code Quality
11 6 (10.34%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 21 (36.21%) Python
2 14 (24.14%) Bash
3 12 (20.69%) PHP
4 8 (13.79%) JavaScript
5 7 (12.07%) PowerShell
6 6 (10.34%) Ruby
7 5 (8.62%) Java
8 4 (6.90%) SQL
9 1 (1.72%) C
9 1 (1.72%) Rust
9 1 (1.72%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (17.24%) Security Cleared
2 8 (13.79%) DV Cleared
2 8 (13.79%) SC Cleared
3 6 (10.34%) Degree
4 4 (6.90%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (6.90%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (1.72%) HNC
5 1 (1.72%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.17%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.72%) QA
System Software
1 16 (27.59%) Docker
2 6 (10.34%) Active Directory
3 5 (8.62%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 3 (5.17%) Hyper-V
4 3 (5.17%) iptables
5 2 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (3.45%) Xen
6 1 (1.72%) KVM
6 1 (1.72%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 27 (46.55%) Ansible
2 19 (32.76%) Puppet
3 18 (31.03%) Kubernetes
4 9 (15.52%) ZABBIX
5 5 (8.62%) Grafana
6 4 (6.90%) Podman
6 4 (6.90%) Progress Chef
7 3 (5.17%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (5.17%) Red Hat Satellite
8 2 (3.45%) FlexNet
8 2 (3.45%) Prometheus
8 2 (3.45%) Rancher
Vendors
1 11 (18.97%) Red Hat
2 8 (13.79%) Google
2 8 (13.79%) Microsoft
3 5 (8.62%) SaltStack
4 2 (3.45%) NetApp
4 2 (3.45%) VMware
5 1 (1.72%) NVIDIA