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

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 478 535 526
Rank change year-on-year +57 -9 +174
Permanent jobs citing Debian 28 37 41
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.066% 0.10% 0.12%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.85% 0.67% 0.73%
Number of salaries quoted 25 18 36
10th Percentile £27,150 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £35,500 £38,750 £40,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £52,500 £48,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +9.38% -16.52%
75th Percentile £63,750 £58,086 £54,063
90th Percentile £75,000 £60,000 £63,750
UK median annual salary £43,500 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -27.50% +20.00% -13.04%

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 3,285 5,512 5,612
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.78% 15.37% 16.20%
Number of salaries quoted 2,426 2,907 4,608
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,250 £26,216
25th Percentile £30,000 £32,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £46,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.48% +2.22% -
75th Percentile £53,750 £60,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £75,100 £72,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -4.76%

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 January 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 January 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
East of England +29 11 £42,500 -23.17% 3
North West +36 10 £37,000 -7.50%
North of England +32 10 £37,000 -22.11%
South West +15 6 £75,000 +87.50%
South East +1 1 £35,000 -30.00% 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 3 (10.71%) Apache
1 3 (10.71%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (3.57%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 12 (42.86%) Azure
2 11 (39.29%) AWS
3 8 (28.57%) Cohesity
4 6 (21.43%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (14.29%) IaaS
5 4 (14.29%) OpenShift
5 4 (14.29%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 3 (10.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (10.71%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (10.71%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (10.71%) AWS CodeBuild
6 3 (10.71%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (10.71%) GCP
6 3 (10.71%) Route 53
6 3 (10.71%) Serverless
6 3 (10.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (28.57%) SAN
1 8 (28.57%) VPN
2 5 (17.86%) VLAN
3 4 (14.29%) DMZ
3 4 (14.29%) STUN
3 4 (14.29%) VoIP
4 3 (10.71%) AMQP
4 3 (10.71%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (7.14%) Firewall
6 1 (3.57%) Asterisk PBX
6 1 (3.57%) Internet
6 1 (3.57%) Modbus
6 1 (3.57%) Multicast
6 1 (3.57%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 3 (10.71%) Big Data
2 3 (10.71%) Cloudera CDH
2 3 (10.71%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 4 (14.29%) GitLab
1 4 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 3 (10.71%) CircleCI
General
1 4 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
1 4 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 3 (10.71%) Aerospace
3 1 (3.57%) Electronics
3 1 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (3.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (50.00%) Support Engineer
2 9 (32.14%) Linux Engineer
3 8 (28.57%) Platform Engineer
4 7 (25.00%) Linux Support
4 7 (25.00%) Linux Support Engineer
5 4 (14.29%) Applications Engineer
5 4 (14.29%) Applications Support
5 4 (14.29%) Applications Support Engineer
5 4 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
5 4 (14.29%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (14.29%) Infrastructure Support
5 4 (14.29%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 3 (10.71%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
6 3 (10.71%) IT Engineer
6 3 (10.71%) IT Support
6 3 (10.71%) IT Support Engineer
6 3 (10.71%) Software Engineer
6 3 (10.71%) Windows Engineer
6 3 (10.71%) Windows Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (14.29%) FreeSWITCH
2 3 (10.71%) AngularJS
2 3 (10.71%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (10.71%) gRPC
2 3 (10.71%) Material-UI
2 3 (10.71%) Node.js
2 3 (10.71%) OpenAPI
2 3 (10.71%) RabbitMQ
2 3 (10.71%) React
2 3 (10.71%) REST
2 3 (10.71%) Spring
2 3 (10.71%) Spring Boot
2 3 (10.71%) Swagger
3 1 (3.57%) XML
3 1 (3.57%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.86%) Driving Licence
2 3 (10.71%) Cloud Native
3 2 (7.14%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (3.57%) CCTV
4 1 (3.57%) Derivative
4 1 (3.57%) Operational Technology
4 1 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 28 (100.00%) Linux
2 12 (42.86%) Ubuntu
3 11 (39.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (35.71%) Windows
5 8 (28.57%) Solaris
5 8 (28.57%) Unix
6 6 (21.43%) Windows Server
7 3 (10.71%) CentOS
7 3 (10.71%) Windows 10
8 1 (3.57%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (42.86%) DevOps
2 11 (39.29%) Infrastructure as Code
3 9 (32.14%) Platform Engineering
4 7 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 7 (25.00%) Service Delivery
5 6 (21.43%) Configuration Management
5 6 (21.43%) Containerisation
5 6 (21.43%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (14.29%) Business Development
6 4 (14.29%) CI/CD
6 4 (14.29%) High Availability
6 4 (14.29%) Software Licensing
6 4 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
7 3 (10.71%) Agile
7 3 (10.71%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (10.71%) Kanban
7 3 (10.71%) Open Source
7 3 (10.71%) Scrum
7 3 (10.71%) Software Engineering
7 3 (10.71%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 20 (71.43%) Python
2 12 (42.86%) Bash
3 8 (28.57%) Korn
4 5 (17.86%) SQL
5 3 (10.71%) Java
5 3 (10.71%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 13 (46.43%) Security Cleared
2 8 (28.57%) DV Cleared
3 7 (25.00%) SC Cleared
4 2 (7.14%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (28.57%) SLA
2 4 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (14.29%) ISO 9001
2 4 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 8 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (14.29%) Kamailio
3 3 (10.71%) Docker
4 2 (7.14%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (3.57%) iptables
Systems Management
1 19 (67.86%) Ansible
2 11 (39.29%) Terraform
3 10 (35.71%) Kubernetes
4 3 (10.71%) Grafana
4 3 (10.71%) Prometheus
4 3 (10.71%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (28.57%) NetApp
1 8 (28.57%) Red Hat
1 8 (28.57%) VMware
2 4 (14.29%) Salesforce
3 3 (10.71%) Google
3 3 (10.71%) SaltStack
3 3 (10.71%) Splunk
4 1 (3.57%) Cisco
4 1 (3.57%) Fortinet
4 1 (3.57%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.57%) MikroTik