Debian Jobs in the UK excluding London

Debian Linux
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Debian skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Debian over the 6 months leading up to 22 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 558 630 636
Rank change year-on-year +72 +6 +118
Permanent jobs citing Debian 18 144 79
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.045% 0.18% 0.15%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.35% 1.30% 0.86%
Number of salaries quoted 16 65 65
10th Percentile £33,125 £35,800 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £42,500 £46,504
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -20.00% +47.06%
75th Percentile £64,063 £57,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £66,875 £85,000 £70,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £64,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -17.97% +28.00%

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 5,094 11,074 9,226
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.68% 13.54% 16.94%
Number of salaries quoted 3,110 8,248 5,864
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,500 £25,701
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -5.56% -
75th Percentile £53,951 £57,500 £60,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £72,850
UK median annual salary £44,000 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.22% -14.29% -

Debian
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Debian as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Debian in the UK excluding London

Debian
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Debian in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Debian in the UK excluding London

Debian
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Debian in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 22 June 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 22 June 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 +43 7 £60,000 +172.73% 18
North West +9 7 £60,000 +172.73% 16
South East +59 6 £55,000 +4.76% 22
East of England +30 3 £62,500 +8.70% 9
Midlands +84 2 £60,000 +20.00% 10
West Midlands - 2 £60,000 - 6
Debian
UK

Debian
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (16.67%) Confluence
2 1 (5.56%) ColdFusion
2 1 (5.56%) IIS
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 8 (44.44%) AWS
2 6 (33.33%) Azure
2 6 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (22.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 4 (22.22%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (22.22%) AWS CloudFormation
3 4 (22.22%) AWS CodeBuild
3 4 (22.22%) Route 53
3 4 (22.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 2 (11.11%) Nutanix
4 2 (11.11%) Rubrik
5 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (5.56%) Cloudflare
5 1 (5.56%) Entra ID
5 1 (5.56%) GitHub
5 1 (5.56%) SaaS
5 1 (5.56%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 5 (27.78%) VLAN
2 4 (22.22%) DNS
2 4 (22.22%) Firewall
3 3 (16.67%) DHCP
4 2 (11.11%) Asterisk PBX
4 2 (11.11%) Multicast
4 2 (11.11%) TCP/IP
4 2 (11.11%) VPN
5 1 (5.56%) HTTP
5 1 (5.56%) OpenLDAP
5 1 (5.56%) SAN
5 1 (5.56%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) Big Data
1 2 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.56%) MySQL
2 1 (5.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (27.78%) GitLab
1 5 (27.78%) Jenkins
2 4 (22.22%) CircleCI
3 2 (11.11%) Git
3 2 (11.11%) JIRA
4 1 (5.56%) Maven
4 1 (5.56%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (5.56%) Subversion
General
1 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.56%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 5 (27.78%) DevOps Engineer
1 5 (27.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) Linux Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Linux Systems Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Administrator
4 2 (11.11%) Backup Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Linux Administrator
4 2 (11.11%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 2 (11.11%) Network Systems Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Project Administrator
4 2 (11.11%) Project Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Systems Administrator
4 2 (11.11%) Systems Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Technical Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Server Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Software Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (11.11%) XML
2 2 (11.11%) XMPP
3 1 (5.56%) AngularJS
3 1 (5.56%) Bootstrap
3 1 (5.56%) ColdBox
3 1 (5.56%) CSS
3 1 (5.56%) HTML
3 1 (5.56%) jQuery
3 1 (5.56%) JSON
3 1 (5.56%) Laravel
3 1 (5.56%) LDAP
3 1 (5.56%) React
3 1 (5.56%) RESTful
3 1 (5.56%) SOAP
3 1 (5.56%) Tailwind CSS
3 1 (5.56%) Vue
3 1 (5.56%) Web Services
3 1 (5.56%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Data Centre
1 3 (16.67%) Public Cloud
2 2 (11.11%) Driving Licence
3 1 (5.56%) Device Driver
3 1 (5.56%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (5.56%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (5.56%) Low-Code
3 1 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 18 (100.00%) Linux
2 14 (77.78%) Ubuntu
3 6 (33.33%) Windows
4 5 (27.78%) CentOS
5 3 (16.67%) Windows Server
5 3 (16.67%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (11.11%) SUSE
6 2 (11.11%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (11.11%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (5.56%) Mac OS
7 1 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (44.44%) DevOps
2 6 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 6 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 6 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (27.78%) Disaster Recovery
3 5 (27.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 4 (22.22%) Auto-Scaling
4 4 (22.22%) Configuration Management
4 4 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (11.11%) Agile
5 2 (11.11%) Computer Science
5 2 (11.11%) Data Protection
5 2 (11.11%) High Availability
5 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Management
5 2 (11.11%) ITIL
5 2 (11.11%) Machine Learning
5 2 (11.11%) Mentoring
5 2 (11.11%) Migration
5 2 (11.11%) Patch Management
5 2 (11.11%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 9 (50.00%) Bash
1 9 (50.00%) Python
2 4 (22.22%) PowerShell
3 3 (16.67%) SQL
4 1 (5.56%) C
4 1 (5.56%) C++
4 1 (5.56%) Java
4 1 (5.56%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.56%) PHP
4 1 (5.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) Degree
1 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 7 (38.89%) Docker
2 6 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (16.67%) Hyper-V
3 3 (16.67%) vSphere
4 2 (11.11%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (5.56%) Active Directory
5 1 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (38.89%) Ansible
2 6 (33.33%) Grafana
2 6 (33.33%) Prometheus
2 6 (33.33%) Terraform
3 3 (16.67%) Proxmox
4 2 (11.11%) Kubernetes
4 2 (11.11%) NetBackup
4 2 (11.11%) Puppet
5 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (5.56%) Nessus
Vendors
1 8 (44.44%) VMware
2 7 (38.89%) Microsoft
3 5 (27.78%) Red Hat
4 4 (22.22%) Splunk
5 2 (11.11%) Commvault
5 2 (11.11%) Dell
5 2 (11.11%) HP
5 2 (11.11%) Salesforce
5 2 (11.11%) Zerto
6 1 (5.56%) Apple
6 1 (5.56%) Atlassian
6 1 (5.56%) Nimble Storage
6 1 (5.56%) Perforce
6 1 (5.56%) Sophos
6 1 (5.56%) Veeam