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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 504 591 507
Rank change year-on-year +87 -84 +226
Permanent jobs citing Debian 35 63 68
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.10% 0.11% 0.20%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.74% 0.88% 1.09%
Number of salaries quoted 34 28 56
10th Percentile £35,500 £35,350 £37,560
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,188 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,625 £46,750 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.71% -25.20% +27.16%
75th Percentile £63,750 £56,375 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £62,750 £75,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £45,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +33.33% -28.00% +25.00%

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 4,760 7,190 6,230
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.83% 12.97% 18.09%
Number of salaries quoted 2,940 4,338 4,828
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,500 £32,500 £31,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,325 £45,000 £46,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.83% -3.23% +3.33%
75th Percentile £51,000 £60,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £42,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -16.00% -4.76% -

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

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 18 September 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 18 September 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 +35 15 £60,000 +48.73% 1
North West +23 15 £60,000 +50.00%
East of England -7 9 £42,500 -22.73%
South West +61 5 £75,000 +50.00% 1
South East +29 5 £35,000 -30.00% 4
West Midlands +46 1 £60,000 - 3
Midlands +45 1 £60,000 +62.16% 3
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 2 (5.71%) Confluence
2 1 (2.86%) ColdFusion
2 1 (2.86%) IIS
2 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 14 (40.00%) AWS
2 12 (34.29%) Azure
3 8 (22.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 8 (22.86%) Amazon EC2
3 8 (22.86%) AWS CloudFormation
3 8 (22.86%) AWS CodeBuild
3 8 (22.86%) Cohesity
3 8 (22.86%) Route 53
3 8 (22.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 5 (14.29%) IaaS
4 5 (14.29%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 2 (5.71%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.86%) Cloudflare
6 1 (2.86%) Entra ID
6 1 (2.86%) GitHub
6 1 (2.86%) OpenShift
6 1 (2.86%) SaaS
6 1 (2.86%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 8 (22.86%) SAN
2 7 (20.00%) VLAN
2 7 (20.00%) VPN
3 5 (14.29%) DMZ
3 5 (14.29%) STUN
3 5 (14.29%) VoIP
4 4 (11.43%) Firewall
5 3 (8.57%) Asterisk PBX
5 3 (8.57%) Multicast
6 1 (2.86%) DNS
6 1 (2.86%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (8.57%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (5.71%) Big Data
4 1 (2.86%) MySQL
4 1 (2.86%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (28.57%) GitLab
2 9 (25.71%) Jenkins
3 8 (22.86%) CircleCI
4 1 (2.86%) Git
4 1 (2.86%) JIRA
4 1 (2.86%) Subversion
General
1 7 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (2.86%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 12 (34.29%) Support Engineer
2 11 (31.43%) Linux Engineer
3 9 (25.71%) Platform Engineer
4 7 (20.00%) Infrastructure 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%) DevOps Engineer
5 5 (14.29%) Infrastructure Support
5 5 (14.29%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 3 (8.57%) Administrator
6 3 (8.57%) Linux Administrator
6 3 (8.57%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 3 (8.57%) Linux Systems Engineer
6 3 (8.57%) Network Systems Engineer
6 3 (8.57%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (28.57%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (14.29%) FreeSWITCH
3 3 (8.57%) XML
3 3 (8.57%) XMPP
4 1 (2.86%) AngularJS
4 1 (2.86%) Bootstrap
4 1 (2.86%) ColdBox
4 1 (2.86%) CSS
4 1 (2.86%) HTML
4 1 (2.86%) jQuery
4 1 (2.86%) JSON
4 1 (2.86%) Laravel
4 1 (2.86%) React
4 1 (2.86%) RESTful
4 1 (2.86%) SOAP
4 1 (2.86%) Tailwind CSS
4 1 (2.86%) Vue
4 1 (2.86%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (14.29%) Driving Licence
2 3 (8.57%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (5.71%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.86%) Device Driver
4 1 (2.86%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (2.86%) Low-Code
4 1 (2.86%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 35 (100.00%) Linux
2 18 (51.43%) Ubuntu
3 9 (25.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (25.71%) Windows
3 9 (25.71%) Windows Server
4 8 (22.86%) Solaris
4 8 (22.86%) Unix
5 4 (11.43%) CentOS
6 1 (2.86%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (60.00%) DevOps
2 15 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
3 12 (34.29%) Platform Engineering
4 11 (31.43%) CI/CD
5 10 (28.57%) Containerisation
5 10 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 8 (22.86%) Auto-Scaling
6 8 (22.86%) Configuration Management
6 8 (22.86%) Continuous Integration
7 7 (20.00%) Service Delivery
8 6 (17.14%) Cybersecurity
9 5 (14.29%) High Availability
9 5 (14.29%) Software Licensing
9 5 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
10 4 (11.43%) Business Development
11 3 (8.57%) Computer Science
11 3 (8.57%) Migration
11 3 (8.57%) Service Management
12 2 (5.71%) Machine Learning
12 2 (5.71%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 26 (74.29%) Python
2 22 (62.86%) Bash
3 9 (25.71%) SQL
4 8 (22.86%) Korn
5 2 (5.71%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.86%) C
6 1 (2.86%) C++
6 1 (2.86%) Java
6 1 (2.86%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.86%) PHP
Qualifications
1 10 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 5 (14.29%) DV Cleared
3 4 (11.43%) SC Cleared
4 3 (8.57%) 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 10 (28.57%) Docker
2 9 (25.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (14.29%) Kamailio
4 2 (5.71%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (2.86%) Active Directory
5 1 (2.86%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (2.86%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 23 (65.71%) Ansible
2 15 (42.86%) Terraform
3 10 (28.57%) Grafana
3 10 (28.57%) Kubernetes
3 10 (28.57%) Prometheus
4 3 (8.57%) Proxmox
5 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (2.86%) Puppet
Vendors
1 10 (28.57%) VMware
2 8 (22.86%) NetApp
2 8 (22.86%) Splunk
3 7 (20.00%) Red Hat
4 5 (14.29%) Salesforce
5 2 (5.71%) Microsoft
6 1 (2.86%) Apple
6 1 (2.86%) Atlassian
6 1 (2.86%) Nimble Storage
6 1 (2.86%) Perforce
6 1 (2.86%) Veeam