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 12 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 491 564 478
Rank change year-on-year +73 -86 +239
Permanent jobs citing Debian 35 46 65
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.096% 0.097% 0.21%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.90% 0.73% 1.12%
Number of salaries quoted 32 30 58
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,175 £36,250
25th Percentile £35,500 £45,438 £42,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,000 £54,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.10% -9.17% +14.29%
75th Percentile £62,813 £58,086 £65,813
90th Percentile £75,000 £61,500 £75,000
UK median annual salary £47,250 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -14.09% -12.00% +13.64%

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 3,902 6,315 5,819
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.72% 13.30% 19.11%
Number of salaries quoted 2,796 3,427 4,585
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% +5.56% -
75th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £73,750
UK median annual salary £42,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -15.00% - -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 12 November 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 12 November 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 West +38 14 £60,000 +50.00%
North of England +20 14 £60,000 +33.33%
East of England +14 11 £42,500 -23.17% 2
South West +26 6 £75,000 +20.00% 3
South East +15 4 £35,000 -31.71% 3
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 2 (5.71%) Apache
1 2 (5.71%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.86%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.86%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 14 (40.00%) AWS
2 12 (34.29%) Azure
3 9 (25.71%) AWS CloudFormation
4 8 (22.86%) Cohesity
5 7 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 7 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
5 7 (20.00%) AWS CodeBuild
5 7 (20.00%) Route 53
5 7 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 5 (14.29%) IaaS
6 5 (14.29%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 3 (8.57%) OpenShift
8 2 (5.71%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (5.71%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (5.71%) GCP
8 2 (5.71%) Serverless
9 1 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (2.86%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (25.71%) VPN
2 8 (22.86%) SAN
3 6 (17.14%) VLAN
4 5 (14.29%) DMZ
4 5 (14.29%) STUN
4 5 (14.29%) VoIP
5 3 (8.57%) Asterisk PBX
5 3 (8.57%) Multicast
5 3 (8.57%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (5.71%) AMQP
6 2 (5.71%) Firewall
7 1 (2.86%) Internet
7 1 (2.86%) Modbus
7 1 (2.86%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (17.14%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (14.29%) SQL Server
3 2 (5.71%) Big Data
3 2 (5.71%) Cloudera CDH
3 2 (5.71%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 9 (25.71%) GitLab
2 8 (22.86%) Jenkins
3 7 (20.00%) CircleCI
General
1 5 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
1 5 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 2 (5.71%) Aerospace
3 1 (2.86%) Electronics
3 1 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (2.86%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (42.86%) Support Engineer
2 11 (31.43%) Linux Engineer
3 9 (25.71%) Platform Engineer
4 7 (20.00%) Linux Support
4 7 (20.00%) Linux Support Engineer
5 5 (14.29%) Applications Engineer
5 5 (14.29%) Applications Support
5 5 (14.29%) Applications Support Engineer
5 5 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
5 5 (14.29%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (14.29%) Infrastructure Support
5 5 (14.29%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 4 (11.43%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (8.57%) Administrator
7 3 (8.57%) IT Support
7 3 (8.57%) Linux Systems Engineer
7 3 (8.57%) Systems Administrator
7 3 (8.57%) Windows Engineer
7 3 (8.57%) Windows Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (14.29%) FreeSWITCH
3 3 (8.57%) XML
3 3 (8.57%) XMPP
4 2 (5.71%) AngularJS
4 2 (5.71%) gRPC
4 2 (5.71%) Material-UI
4 2 (5.71%) Node.js
4 2 (5.71%) OpenAPI
4 2 (5.71%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (5.71%) React
4 2 (5.71%) REST
4 2 (5.71%) Spring
4 2 (5.71%) Spring Boot
4 2 (5.71%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.14%) Driving Licence
2 2 (5.71%) Cloud Native
2 2 (5.71%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (2.86%) CCTV
3 1 (2.86%) Derivative
3 1 (2.86%) Operational Technology
3 1 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 35 (100.00%) Linux
2 17 (48.57%) Ubuntu
3 12 (34.29%) Windows
4 11 (31.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (22.86%) Solaris
5 8 (22.86%) Unix
5 8 (22.86%) Windows Server
6 3 (8.57%) CentOS
6 3 (8.57%) Windows 10
7 1 (2.86%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (48.57%) DevOps
2 14 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 12 (34.29%) Platform Engineering
4 9 (25.71%) Configuration Management
4 9 (25.71%) Containerisation
5 8 (22.86%) CI/CD
5 8 (22.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 7 (20.00%) Auto-Scaling
6 7 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
6 7 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
6 7 (20.00%) Service Delivery
7 5 (14.29%) High Availability
7 5 (14.29%) Software Licensing
7 5 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
8 4 (11.43%) Business Development
9 3 (8.57%) Computer Science
9 3 (8.57%) Migration
9 3 (8.57%) Service Management
9 3 (8.57%) Test Automation
10 2 (5.71%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 25 (71.43%) Python
2 19 (54.29%) Bash
3 8 (22.86%) Korn
3 8 (22.86%) SQL
4 2 (5.71%) Java
4 2 (5.71%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 12 (34.29%) Security Cleared
2 7 (20.00%) DV Cleared
3 6 (17.14%) SC Cleared
4 4 (11.43%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (22.86%) SLA
2 5 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (14.29%) ISO 9001
2 5 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 8 (22.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (20.00%) Docker
3 5 (14.29%) Kamailio
4 2 (5.71%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (2.86%) iptables
Systems Management
1 23 (65.71%) Ansible
2 14 (40.00%) Terraform
3 10 (28.57%) Kubernetes
4 7 (20.00%) Grafana
4 7 (20.00%) Prometheus
5 3 (8.57%) Puppet
6 1 (2.86%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 9 (25.71%) VMware
2 8 (22.86%) NetApp
3 7 (20.00%) Red Hat
3 7 (20.00%) Splunk
4 5 (14.29%) Salesforce
5 2 (5.71%) Google
5 2 (5.71%) SaltStack
6 1 (2.86%) Atlassian
6 1 (2.86%) Cisco
6 1 (2.86%) Fortinet
6 1 (2.86%) Microsoft
6 1 (2.86%) MikroTik
6 1 (2.86%) Nimble Storage
6 1 (2.86%) Perforce