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 13 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 545 466 611
Rank change year-on-year -79 +145 +85
Permanent jobs citing Debian 30 24 115
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.049% 0.092% 0.17%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.80% 0.58% 1.13%
Number of salaries quoted 14 17 60
10th Percentile £28,550 £40,000 £35,875
25th Percentile £42,500 £52,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +20.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £66,938 £63,750 £58,750
90th Percentile £72,500 £66,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -25.00% +14.29% -16.00%

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 3,746 4,161 10,178
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.11% 15.98% 15.43%
Number of salaries quoted 2,790 2,868 8,279
10th Percentile £26,750 £26,250 £25,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £43,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.05% +2.35% -5.56%
75th Percentile £57,500 £58,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £68,750
UK median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -14.29%

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 13 April 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 13 April 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
North of England -57 12 £45,000 -25.00% 2
North West -26 7 £48,500 -19.17%
Midlands -36 7 - - 2
East Midlands - 6 - -
East of England -26 5 £28,500 -51.62%
North East -27 5 £45,000 -47.06% 2
South East -41 4 £70,000 +16.67% 5
South West - 2 £90,000 -
West Midlands -11 1 - - 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 6 (20.00%) Apache
1 6 (20.00%) Apache Spark
2 3 (10.00%) OpenStack
3 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (3.33%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 14 (46.67%) Azure
2 8 (26.67%) Amazon EKS
3 7 (23.33%) AWS
3 7 (23.33%) GCP
4 6 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 6 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (20.00%) OpenShift
4 6 (20.00%) Serverless
5 5 (16.67%) IaaS
6 2 (6.67%) Azure AKS
6 2 (6.67%) Entra ID
6 2 (6.67%) GitHub
6 2 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 9 (30.00%) Firewall
2 8 (26.67%) VPN
3 6 (20.00%) AMQP
3 6 (20.00%) VLAN
4 5 (16.67%) DMZ
4 5 (16.67%) Reverse Proxy
4 5 (16.67%) STUN
4 5 (16.67%) VoIP
5 2 (6.67%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (3.33%) Asterisk PBX
6 1 (3.33%) Modbus
6 1 (3.33%) Multicast
6 1 (3.33%) Network Security
6 1 (3.33%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (30.00%) MySQL
2 6 (20.00%) Big Data
2 6 (20.00%) Cloudera CDH
2 6 (20.00%) Hadoop
3 5 (16.67%) SQL Server
4 3 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (16.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 2 (6.67%) GitLab
General
1 11 (36.67%) Social Skills
2 5 (16.67%) Aerospace
2 5 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
2 5 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (13.33%) Retail
4 1 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.33%) Electronics
4 1 (3.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (30.00%) Technical Support
2 7 (23.33%) Cloud Engineer
2 7 (23.33%) Support Engineer
3 6 (20.00%) Software Engineer
4 5 (16.67%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (16.67%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
4 5 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (16.67%) Infrastructure Support
4 5 (16.67%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 5 (16.67%) VoIP Engineer
4 5 (16.67%) VoIP Support Engineer
5 3 (10.00%) Lead
5 3 (10.00%) Team Leader
6 2 (6.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Azure Platform Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) DevOps Platform Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) IT Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (20.00%) AngularJS
1 6 (20.00%) gRPC
1 6 (20.00%) Material-UI
1 6 (20.00%) Node.js
1 6 (20.00%) OpenAPI
1 6 (20.00%) RabbitMQ
1 6 (20.00%) React
1 6 (20.00%) REST
1 6 (20.00%) Spring
1 6 (20.00%) Spring Boot
1 6 (20.00%) Swagger
2 5 (16.67%) FreeSWITCH
3 1 (3.33%) XML
3 1 (3.33%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 9 (30.00%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (20.00%) Cloud Native
3 4 (13.33%) EPoS
4 3 (10.00%) Data Centre
5 2 (6.67%) Mobile App
6 1 (3.33%) CCTV
6 1 (3.33%) Derivative
6 1 (3.33%) Driving Licence
6 1 (3.33%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 30 (100.00%) Linux
2 10 (33.33%) CentOS
2 10 (33.33%) Ubuntu
3 9 (30.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (26.67%) Windows
5 5 (16.67%) Windows Server
6 3 (10.00%) VMS
7 2 (6.67%) Windows 10
8 1 (3.33%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (30.00%) Agile
1 9 (30.00%) Containerisation
1 9 (30.00%) Customer Service
1 9 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
1 9 (30.00%) Time Management
2 8 (26.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (20.00%) API Development
3 6 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 6 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
3 6 (20.00%) Configuration Management
3 6 (20.00%) High Availability
3 6 (20.00%) Kanban
3 6 (20.00%) Microservices
3 6 (20.00%) Open Source
3 6 (20.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 6 (20.00%) Scrum
3 6 (20.00%) Software Engineering
4 5 (16.67%) DevOps
4 5 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 5 (16.67%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (40.00%) Python
2 7 (23.33%) Bash
3 6 (20.00%) Java
3 6 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 6 (20.00%) SQL
4 5 (16.67%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (16.67%) Azure Certification
1 5 (16.67%) DV Cleared
1 5 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 5 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.67%) Degree
System Software
1 5 (16.67%) Active Directory
2 4 (13.33%) Docker
3 3 (10.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (3.33%) iptables
Systems Management
1 13 (43.33%) Ansible
2 12 (40.00%) Kubernetes
3 10 (33.33%) Puppet
4 9 (30.00%) Terraform
5 3 (10.00%) Grafana
5 3 (10.00%) ZABBIX
6 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (3.33%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 8 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 7 (23.33%) Red Hat
3 6 (20.00%) Cisco
3 6 (20.00%) Google
3 6 (20.00%) SaltStack
4 1 (3.33%) Fortinet
4 1 (3.33%) MikroTik