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 29 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 494 559 481
Rank change year-on-year +65 -78 +238
Permanent jobs citing Debian 33 48 69
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.096% 0.100% 0.22%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.79% 0.75% 1.18%
Number of salaries quoted 31 30 61
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,175 £36,250
25th Percentile £35,500 £41,563 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £53,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.19% -11.25% +14.29%
75th Percentile £62,500 £57,940 £66,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £61,500 £75,000
UK median annual salary £45,375 £53,250 £61,000
% change year-on-year -14.79% -12.70% +10.91%

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 4,160 6,369 5,861
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.07% 13.26% 18.69%
Number of salaries quoted 2,840 3,559 4,609
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £31,552
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,325 £47,500 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.32% +3.26% +2.22%
75th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £70,000 £76,250 £74,250
UK median annual salary £42,000 £50,000 £50,985
% change year-on-year -16.00% -1.93% -2.89%

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 29 October 2025.

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 29 October 2025. 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 +17 13 £60,000 +33.33%
North West +15 13 £60,000 +50.00%
East of England +22 11 £42,500 -23.17% 1
South West +34 5 £75,000 +50.00% 1
South East +18 4 £35,000 -30.00% 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 1 (3.03%) Apache
1 1 (3.03%) Apache Spark
1 1 (3.03%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 13 (39.39%) AWS
2 11 (33.33%) Azure
3 8 (24.24%) AWS CloudFormation
3 8 (24.24%) Cohesity
4 7 (21.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 7 (21.21%) Amazon EC2
4 7 (21.21%) AWS CodeBuild
4 7 (21.21%) Route 53
4 7 (21.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 5 (15.15%) IaaS
5 5 (15.15%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 2 (6.06%) OpenShift
7 1 (3.03%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (3.03%) GCP
7 1 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (3.03%) SaaS
7 1 (3.03%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (24.24%) SAN
1 8 (24.24%) VPN
2 5 (15.15%) DMZ
2 5 (15.15%) STUN
2 5 (15.15%) VLAN
2 5 (15.15%) VoIP
3 3 (9.09%) Asterisk PBX
3 3 (9.09%) Multicast
3 3 (9.09%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (3.03%) AMQP
4 1 (3.03%) Firewall
4 1 (3.03%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (15.15%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.03%) Big Data
3 1 (3.03%) Cloudera CDH
3 1 (3.03%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 9 (27.27%) GitLab
2 8 (24.24%) Jenkins
3 7 (21.21%) CircleCI
General
1 5 (15.15%) Documentation Skills
1 5 (15.15%) Social Skills
2 1 (3.03%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 15 (45.45%) Support Engineer
2 11 (33.33%) Linux Engineer
3 9 (27.27%) Platform Engineer
4 7 (21.21%) Linux Support
4 7 (21.21%) Linux Support Engineer
5 5 (15.15%) Applications Engineer
5 5 (15.15%) Applications Support
5 5 (15.15%) Applications Support Engineer
5 5 (15.15%) Cloud Engineer
5 5 (15.15%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (15.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (15.15%) Infrastructure Support
5 5 (15.15%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 4 (12.12%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (9.09%) IT Engineer
7 3 (9.09%) IT Support
7 3 (9.09%) Linux Systems Engineer
7 3 (9.09%) Network Systems Engineer
7 3 (9.09%) Windows Engineer
7 3 (9.09%) Windows Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (21.21%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (15.15%) FreeSWITCH
3 3 (9.09%) XML
3 3 (9.09%) XMPP
4 1 (3.03%) AngularJS
4 1 (3.03%) gRPC
4 1 (3.03%) Material-UI
4 1 (3.03%) Node.js
4 1 (3.03%) OpenAPI
4 1 (3.03%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (3.03%) React
4 1 (3.03%) REST
4 1 (3.03%) Spring
4 1 (3.03%) Spring Boot
4 1 (3.03%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.15%) Driving Licence
2 2 (6.06%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (3.03%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 33 (100.00%) Linux
2 16 (48.48%) Ubuntu
3 11 (33.33%) Windows
4 10 (30.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (24.24%) Solaris
5 8 (24.24%) Unix
5 8 (24.24%) Windows Server
6 3 (9.09%) Windows 10
7 2 (6.06%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (51.52%) DevOps
2 13 (39.39%) Infrastructure as Code
3 12 (36.36%) Platform Engineering
4 8 (24.24%) CI/CD
4 8 (24.24%) Configuration Management
4 8 (24.24%) Containerisation
4 8 (24.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 7 (21.21%) Auto-Scaling
5 7 (21.21%) Continuous Integration
5 7 (21.21%) Service Delivery
6 6 (18.18%) Cybersecurity
7 5 (15.15%) High Availability
7 5 (15.15%) Software Licensing
7 5 (15.15%) User Acceptance Testing
8 4 (12.12%) Business Development
9 3 (9.09%) Computer Science
9 3 (9.09%) Migration
9 3 (9.09%) Service Management
9 3 (9.09%) Test Automation
10 2 (6.06%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 24 (72.73%) Python
2 19 (57.58%) Bash
3 8 (24.24%) Korn
3 8 (24.24%) SQL
4 1 (3.03%) Java
4 1 (3.03%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 11 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 6 (18.18%) DV Cleared
3 5 (15.15%) SC Cleared
4 3 (9.09%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (24.24%) SLA
2 5 (15.15%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (15.15%) ISO 9001
2 5 (15.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 8 (24.24%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (21.21%) Docker
3 5 (15.15%) Kamailio
4 2 (6.06%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 21 (63.64%) Ansible
2 13 (39.39%) Terraform
3 9 (27.27%) Kubernetes
4 7 (21.21%) Grafana
4 7 (21.21%) Prometheus
5 2 (6.06%) Puppet
6 1 (3.03%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 9 (27.27%) VMware
2 8 (24.24%) NetApp
3 7 (21.21%) Splunk
4 6 (18.18%) Red Hat
5 5 (15.15%) Salesforce
6 1 (3.03%) Atlassian
6 1 (3.03%) Google
6 1 (3.03%) Nimble Storage
6 1 (3.03%) Perforce
6 1 (3.03%) SaltStack