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 3 months leading up to 10 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

3 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 439 415 416
Rank change year-on-year -24 +1 -27
Permanent jobs citing Debian 29 9 34
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.075% 0.044% 0.12%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.15% 0.29% 1.09%
Number of salaries quoted 22 8 20
10th Percentile £29,550 £30,000 £35,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £34,688 £40,660
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £60,000 £53,250
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +12.68% -14.80%
75th Percentile £75,000 £62,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £66,250 £75,000
UK median annual salary £56,250 £60,000 £48,500
% change year-on-year -6.25% +23.71% -22.40%

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 2,515 3,083 3,122
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.51% 15.09% 11.18%
Number of salaries quoted 1,970 1,668 2,074
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,000 £30,750 £34,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £38,325 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.89% -20.98% +2.11%
75th Percentile £60,000 £52,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £41,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.76% -18.00% -6.99%

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 3 months to 10 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 3 months to 10 July 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 3 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East -4 13 £52,500 +50.00% 6
North of England -2 4 £65,000 +8.33%
South West - 4 £42,500 - 3
Midlands - 3 £41,000 - 1
North East - 3 £65,000 -
Scotland - 3 £80,000 -
East of England - 2 - - 1
East Midlands - 2 £41,000 - 1
North West +13 1 - -
West Midlands - 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 9 (17.31%) Apache
2 6 (11.54%) Apache Spark
3 4 (7.69%) OpenStack
4 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 2 (3.85%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 22 (42.31%) Azure
2 13 (25.00%) AWS
3 8 (15.38%) Amazon EKS
3 8 (15.38%) GCP
4 7 (13.46%) GitHub
5 6 (11.54%) AWS CloudFormation
5 6 (11.54%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (11.54%) OpenShift
5 6 (11.54%) Serverless
6 5 (9.62%) IaaS
7 3 (5.77%) Entra ID
7 3 (5.77%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (5.77%) SaaS
8 2 (3.85%) Azure AKS
8 2 (3.85%) Cloudflare
8 2 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (3.85%) Google Tag Manager
9 1 (1.92%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 13 (25.00%) Firewall
2 11 (21.15%) VoIP
3 7 (13.46%) TCP/IP
4 6 (11.54%) AMQP
5 5 (9.62%) DMZ
5 5 (9.62%) Reverse Proxy
5 5 (9.62%) STUN
5 5 (9.62%) VLAN
5 5 (9.62%) VPN
6 4 (7.69%) LAN
6 4 (7.69%) WAN
7 3 (5.77%) Asterisk PBX
8 2 (3.85%) Network Security
9 1 (1.92%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (30.77%) MySQL
2 6 (11.54%) Big Data
2 6 (11.54%) Cloudera CDH
2 6 (11.54%) Hadoop
3 5 (9.62%) SQL Server
4 2 (3.85%) MariaDB
5 1 (1.92%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (11.54%) Bitbucket
2 5 (9.62%) JIRA
2 5 (9.62%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 4 (7.69%) Cypress.io
4 2 (3.85%) Git
4 2 (3.85%) GitLab
4 2 (3.85%) PHPUnit
5 1 (1.92%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.92%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.92%) SonarQube
General
1 13 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (9.62%) Aerospace
3 5 (9.62%) Documentation Skills
3 5 (9.62%) Retail
4 4 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (5.77%) Banking
5 3 (5.77%) Manufacturing
6 2 (3.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (21.15%) Technical Support
2 10 (19.23%) Software Engineer
3 9 (17.31%) Senior
4 7 (13.46%) Administrator
4 7 (13.46%) Cloud Engineer
4 7 (13.46%) Developer
4 7 (13.46%) Linux Administrator
4 7 (13.46%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 7 (13.46%) Systems Administrator
5 6 (11.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (9.62%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (9.62%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
6 5 (9.62%) Infrastructure Support
6 5 (9.62%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 5 (9.62%) Lead
6 5 (9.62%) Senior Developer
6 5 (9.62%) Support Engineer
6 5 (9.62%) VoIP Engineer
6 5 (9.62%) VoIP Support Engineer
7 4 (7.69%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (23.08%) React
2 11 (21.15%) Node.js
3 6 (11.54%) AngularJS
3 6 (11.54%) gRPC
3 6 (11.54%) Material-UI
3 6 (11.54%) OpenAPI
3 6 (11.54%) RabbitMQ
3 6 (11.54%) REST
3 6 (11.54%) Spring
3 6 (11.54%) Spring Boot
3 6 (11.54%) Swagger
4 5 (9.62%) FreeSWITCH
4 5 (9.62%) LAMP
5 4 (7.69%) Jest
5 4 (7.69%) pytest
6 2 (3.85%) CSS
6 2 (3.85%) HTML
6 2 (3.85%) Sass
7 1 (1.92%) XML
7 1 (1.92%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 9 (17.31%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (11.54%) Cloud Native
2 6 (11.54%) Data Centre
3 4 (7.69%) EPoS
4 3 (5.77%) Clustering
5 2 (3.85%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (3.85%) Educational Technology
5 2 (3.85%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 52 (100.00%) Linux
2 26 (50.00%) Ubuntu
3 14 (26.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (21.15%) CentOS
5 6 (11.54%) Windows
5 6 (11.54%) Windows Server
6 3 (5.77%) Gentoo
6 3 (5.77%) VMS
7 1 (1.92%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (32.69%) Agile
2 15 (28.85%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (26.92%) CI/CD
3 14 (26.92%) DevOps
4 13 (25.00%) Software Engineering
5 11 (21.15%) Customer Service
5 11 (21.15%) Open Source
5 11 (21.15%) Scrum
5 11 (21.15%) Time Management
6 10 (19.23%) Containerisation
7 9 (17.31%) Configuration Management
7 9 (17.31%) High Availability
7 9 (17.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 8 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
9 7 (13.46%) Collaborative Working
10 6 (11.54%) API Development
10 6 (11.54%) ITIL
10 6 (11.54%) Line Management
10 6 (11.54%) Microservices
10 6 (11.54%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 24 (46.15%) Python
2 17 (32.69%) Bash
3 11 (21.15%) PHP
4 8 (15.38%) JavaScript
4 8 (15.38%) PowerShell
4 8 (15.38%) SQL
5 6 (11.54%) Java
5 6 (11.54%) Ruby
6 2 (3.85%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (17.31%) Security Cleared
2 7 (13.46%) DV Cleared
2 7 (13.46%) SC Cleared
3 5 (9.62%) Azure Certification
3 5 (9.62%) Degree
4 3 (5.77%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.92%) HNC
5 1 (1.92%) HND
5 1 (1.92%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.85%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (23.08%) Docker
2 6 (11.54%) Active Directory
3 4 (7.69%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 3 (5.77%) iptables
5 1 (1.92%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (1.92%) Xen
Systems Management
1 27 (51.92%) Ansible
2 18 (34.62%) Kubernetes
3 17 (32.69%) Puppet
4 16 (30.77%) Terraform
5 5 (9.62%) Progress Chef
5 5 (9.62%) ZABBIX
6 4 (7.69%) Grafana
7 3 (5.77%) Podman
7 3 (5.77%) Red Hat Satellite
8 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (1.92%) FlexNet
9 1 (1.92%) Prometheus
9 1 (1.92%) Rancher
Vendors
1 12 (23.08%) Red Hat
2 11 (21.15%) Microsoft
3 8 (15.38%) Google
4 6 (11.54%) SaltStack
5 5 (9.62%) Cisco
6 1 (1.92%) NetApp
6 1 (1.92%) VMware