Ubuntu Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Ubuntu Linux
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Ubuntu skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 494 429 538
Rank change year-on-year -65 +109 +53
Permanent jobs citing Ubuntu 40 106 130
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.081% 0.34% 0.26%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.12% 2.20% 1.61%
Number of salaries quoted 29 73 118
10th Percentile £35,250 - £37,850
25th Percentile £50,000 £32,500 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £49,479 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.63% -1.04% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £57,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £60,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £55,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% -5.41% -3.48%

All Operating Systems
UK excluding London

Ubuntu 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 3,570 4,810 8,062
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.19% 15.53% 15.92%
Number of salaries quoted 2,617 2,643 6,741
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,250 £25,500
25th Percentile £29,750 £31,750 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,000 £47,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.89% +11.76% -5.56%
75th Percentile £55,000 £61,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% +10.53% -9.52%

Ubuntu
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Ubuntu relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Ubuntu job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Ubuntu
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Ubuntu.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Ubuntu

Ubuntu
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Ubuntu in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 26 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Ubuntu in the UK excluding London

Ubuntu
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 Ubuntu within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 26 February 2026. 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
South East -29 20 £60,000 +14.29% 8
North West -11 7 £48,500 +4.30% 5
North of England -27 7 £48,500 +0.52% 8
Wales - 4 - - 2
South West -9 3 £71,250 +35.71% 2
Scotland -11 3 £53,750 +43.33% 3
Midlands -22 3 £26,265 -24.96% 5
East Midlands -24 2 £26,265 - 1
West Midlands -9 1 - - 4
Ubuntu
UK

Ubuntu
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 5 (12.50%) Apache
1 5 (12.50%) Apache Spark
2 3 (7.50%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.50%) Confluence
3 1 (2.50%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (7.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 27 (67.50%) Azure
2 18 (45.00%) AWS
3 11 (27.50%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (22.50%) SaaS
5 7 (17.50%) Amazon EKS
5 7 (17.50%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (17.50%) OpenShift
6 6 (15.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 6 (15.00%) GCP
6 6 (15.00%) GitHub
7 5 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (12.50%) Serverless
8 4 (10.00%) Entra ID
8 4 (10.00%) Google Workspace
8 4 (10.00%) SurveyMonkey
9 3 (7.50%) Azure Stack
10 2 (5.00%) Azure AKS
11 1 (2.50%) AWS CodeBuild
11 1 (2.50%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 10 (25.00%) Firewall
2 7 (17.50%) VLAN
2 7 (17.50%) Wireshark
3 5 (12.50%) AMQP
3 5 (12.50%) Network Security
3 5 (12.50%) TCP/IP
4 4 (10.00%) Bluetooth
4 4 (10.00%) Intrusion Detection
4 4 (10.00%) Modbus
4 4 (10.00%) VoIP
4 4 (10.00%) ZigBee
5 3 (7.50%) HTTP
5 3 (7.50%) RTP
5 3 (7.50%) Unified Communications
5 3 (7.50%) VPN
6 1 (2.50%) DHCP
6 1 (2.50%) DNS
6 1 (2.50%) PBX
6 1 (2.50%) SAN
6 1 (2.50%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (12.50%) Big Data
1 5 (12.50%) Cloudera CDH
1 5 (12.50%) Hadoop
2 3 (7.50%) MongoDB
2 3 (7.50%) MySQL
3 1 (2.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (17.50%) Git
1 7 (17.50%) GitLab
2 4 (10.00%) Burp Suite
2 4 (10.00%) Metasploit
3 3 (7.50%) JIRA
4 2 (5.00%) Jenkins
5 1 (2.50%) CircleCI
General
1 11 (27.50%) Social Skills
2 8 (20.00%) Aerospace
3 5 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (10.00%) Law
4 4 (10.00%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (30.00%) Linux Engineer
2 11 (27.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 11 (27.50%) Linux Systems Engineer
2 11 (27.50%) Systems Engineer
3 9 (22.50%) DevOps Systems Engineer
3 9 (22.50%) Linux DevOps Engineer
3 9 (22.50%) Linux/Unix DevOps
4 5 (12.50%) Software Engineer
5 4 (10.00%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
5 4 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
5 4 (10.00%) Site Engineer
5 4 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) Developer
6 3 (7.50%) Linux Support
6 3 (7.50%) Linux Support Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) Python Developer
6 3 (7.50%) Support Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) Systems Support
7 2 (5.00%) Systems Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (20.00%) REST
2 5 (12.50%) AngularJS
2 5 (12.50%) gRPC
2 5 (12.50%) Material-UI
2 5 (12.50%) Node.js
2 5 (12.50%) OpenAPI
2 5 (12.50%) RabbitMQ
2 5 (12.50%) React
2 5 (12.50%) Spring
2 5 (12.50%) Spring Boot
2 5 (12.50%) Swagger
3 3 (7.50%) ARM Templates
3 3 (7.50%) Django
3 3 (7.50%) Flask
3 3 (7.50%) Jinja
3 3 (7.50%) OAuth
3 3 (7.50%) OAuth2
3 3 (7.50%) pytest
3 3 (7.50%) RFC 2833
3 3 (7.50%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 4 (10.00%) CAN bus
2 4 (10.00%) Cyber Threat
2 4 (10.00%) IoT
2 4 (10.00%) Management Information System
2 4 (10.00%) Operational Technology
2 4 (10.00%) SCADA
3 3 (7.50%) Onboarding
3 3 (7.50%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (5.00%) Mobile App
4 2 (5.00%) Robotics
4 2 (5.00%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (2.50%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (2.50%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.50%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (2.50%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.50%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 40 (100.00%) Linux
2 15 (37.50%) CentOS
3 12 (30.00%) Windows
4 10 (25.00%) Debian
5 9 (22.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (22.50%) Windows Server
6 4 (10.00%) Android
6 4 (10.00%) Kali Linux
7 2 (5.00%) SUSE
7 2 (5.00%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (5.00%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (2.50%) Rocky
8 1 (2.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (47.50%) DevOps
2 16 (40.00%) Containerisation
3 14 (35.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 12 (30.00%) CI/CD
5 11 (27.50%) Agile
6 9 (22.50%) Configuration Management
6 9 (22.50%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (20.00%) Open Source
8 7 (17.50%) AI
8 7 (17.50%) Platform Engineering
9 6 (15.00%) Collaborative Working
9 6 (15.00%) Computer Science
9 6 (15.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 6 (15.00%) Innovative Thinking
9 6 (15.00%) User Experience
10 5 (12.50%) API Development
10 5 (12.50%) Kanban
10 5 (12.50%) Microservices
10 5 (12.50%) Scaled Agile Framework
10 5 (12.50%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 19 (47.50%) Python
2 17 (42.50%) Bash
3 10 (25.00%) PowerShell
4 9 (22.50%) Java
5 7 (17.50%) C++
6 5 (12.50%) JavaScript
7 4 (10.00%) R
7 4 (10.00%) Rust
8 3 (7.50%) C
9 1 (2.50%) PHP
9 1 (2.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 17 (42.50%) Security Cleared
2 13 (32.50%) SC Cleared
3 6 (15.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 6 (15.00%) Degree
4 5 (12.50%) DV Cleared
5 4 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (7.50%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (5.00%) CCNA
7 2 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (5.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (2.50%) Azure Certification
8 1 (2.50%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (2.50%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (7.50%) PCI DSS
2 2 (5.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 10 (25.00%) Docker
2 6 (15.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (7.50%) Kamailio
3 3 (7.50%) vSphere
4 2 (5.00%) Active Directory
4 2 (5.00%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (2.50%) Hyper-V
5 1 (2.50%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 27 (67.50%) Ansible
2 26 (65.00%) Terraform
3 20 (50.00%) Kubernetes
4 6 (15.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (15.00%) Nessus
4 6 (15.00%) Puppet
5 4 (10.00%) Nagios
5 4 (10.00%) Nmap
6 3 (7.50%) Argo
7 2 (5.00%) vCenter Server
8 1 (2.50%) AirWatch
8 1 (2.50%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (2.50%) Grafana
8 1 (2.50%) Podman
8 1 (2.50%) Progress Chef
8 1 (2.50%) Prometheus
8 1 (2.50%) Proxmox
8 1 (2.50%) SCCM
8 1 (2.50%) SCOM
Vendors
1 26 (65.00%) Red Hat
2 11 (27.50%) Microsoft
3 9 (22.50%) Cisco
3 9 (22.50%) Google
3 9 (22.50%) Splunk
4 6 (15.00%) VMware
5 5 (12.50%) Fortinet
5 5 (12.50%) SaltStack
6 4 (10.00%) Mitel
6 4 (10.00%) Qualtrics
7 3 (7.50%) BT
8 2 (5.00%) Palo Alto
9 1 (2.50%) Citrix
9 1 (2.50%) Commvault
9 1 (2.50%) Juniper
9 1 (2.50%) Meraki
9 1 (2.50%) Peplink
9 1 (2.50%) Ubiquiti
9 1 (2.50%) Veeam
9 1 (2.50%) Veritas