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 15 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 541 501 412
Rank change year-on-year -40 -89 +29
Permanent jobs citing Ubuntu 116 53 251
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.14% 0.15% 0.46%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.42% 1.12% 3.54%
Number of salaries quoted 91 33 117
10th Percentile £34,000 £32,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +33.33% -25.00%
75th Percentile £65,518 £65,000 £55,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £75,000 £78,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +20.00% -20.00%

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 4,802 4,750 7,085
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 5.75% 13.88% 12.85%
Number of salaries quoted 3,709 2,934 4,338
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,125 £30,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £38,325 £45,054
Median % change year-on-year +10.89% -14.93% -3.11%
75th Percentile £61,250 £50,625 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £67,850 £75,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £42,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% -16.00% -4.76%

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 15 September 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 15 September 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 +8 54 £55,000 +57.14% 19
North of England -46 20 £48,750 -18.75% 12
Midlands -57 14 £60,000 +50.00% 5
North West -18 12 £45,000 -25.00% 10
Scotland +9 10 £63,451 +26.90% 9
West Midlands -45 10 £60,000 +14.29% 4
South West -78 8 £45,000 -37.93% 3
East of England -23 7 £80,000 +36.17% 5
North East - 7 £50,000 - 1
East Midlands -30 4 £41,000 +2.50% 1
Wales -73 3 £35,000 -26.32% 3
Yorkshire - 1 £42,500 - 1
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 25 (21.55%) Apache
2 14 (12.07%) IIS
3 9 (7.76%) SharePoint
4 8 (6.90%) nginx
5 7 (6.03%) Apache Spark
5 7 (6.03%) Confluence
6 6 (5.17%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 52 (44.83%) Azure
2 43 (37.07%) AWS
3 41 (35.34%) Microsoft 365
4 27 (23.28%) Entra ID
5 24 (20.69%) SaaS
6 13 (11.21%) OpenShift
7 12 (10.34%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (8.62%) GCP
9 9 (7.76%) Microsoft Copilot
10 8 (6.90%) Power Automate
11 7 (6.03%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (6.03%) AWS CloudFormation
11 7 (6.03%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (6.03%) Serverless
12 5 (4.31%) GitHub
12 5 (4.31%) Google Workspace
13 4 (3.45%) Azure Stack
14 3 (2.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 3 (2.59%) GitHub Actions
14 3 (2.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 30 (25.86%) DNS
2 26 (22.41%) Firewall
3 25 (21.55%) TCP/IP
4 17 (14.66%) DHCP
4 17 (14.66%) VPN
5 15 (12.93%) VLAN
6 7 (6.03%) AMQP
6 7 (6.03%) VoIP
7 6 (5.17%) LAN
7 6 (5.17%) WAN
7 6 (5.17%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (4.31%) SAN
9 4 (3.45%) NAS
10 3 (2.59%) Asterisk PBX
10 3 (2.59%) LoRaWAN
10 3 (2.59%) MQTT
10 3 (2.59%) SSH
11 2 (1.72%) Network Security
11 2 (1.72%) WireGuard
12 1 (0.86%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (22.41%) MySQL
2 15 (12.93%) SQL Server
3 7 (6.03%) Big Data
3 7 (6.03%) Cloudera CDH
3 7 (6.03%) Hadoop
4 3 (2.59%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (2.59%) Neo4j
5 2 (1.72%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (7.76%) Git
1 9 (7.76%) JIRA
2 7 (6.03%) GitLab
3 5 (4.31%) Bitbucket
4 3 (2.59%) Cypress.io
4 3 (2.59%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.72%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.86%) SonarQube
General
1 21 (18.10%) Social Skills
2 8 (6.90%) Documentation Skills
3 7 (6.03%) Aerospace
3 7 (6.03%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (5.17%) Law
5 5 (4.31%) Manufacturing
6 3 (2.59%) Finance
6 3 (2.59%) Legal
7 2 (1.72%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.86%) Advertising
8 1 (0.86%) Agriculture
8 1 (0.86%) Electronics
8 1 (0.86%) Games
8 1 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (22.41%) Support Engineer
2 23 (19.83%) IT Engineer
3 21 (18.10%) DevOps Engineer
4 19 (16.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 19 (16.38%) Senior
5 17 (14.66%) IT Support
5 17 (14.66%) IT Support Engineer
5 17 (14.66%) Linux Engineer
6 14 (12.07%) Systems Engineer
7 12 (10.34%) Administrator
7 12 (10.34%) Systems Administrator
8 11 (9.48%) Linux Administrator
8 11 (9.48%) Linux Systems Administrator
8 11 (9.48%) Technical Support
9 10 (8.62%) Developer
10 9 (7.76%) DevOps Systems Engineer
10 9 (7.76%) Linux DevOps Engineer
10 9 (7.76%) Linux Systems Engineer
10 9 (7.76%) Linux/Unix DevOps
10 9 (7.76%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (36.21%) Terraform
2 16 (13.79%) React
3 15 (12.93%) Node.js
4 7 (6.03%) AngularJS
4 7 (6.03%) gRPC
4 7 (6.03%) Material-UI
4 7 (6.03%) OpenAPI
4 7 (6.03%) RabbitMQ
4 7 (6.03%) REST
4 7 (6.03%) Spring
4 7 (6.03%) Spring Boot
4 7 (6.03%) Swagger
5 5 (4.31%) ARM Templates
5 5 (4.31%) CSS
5 5 (4.31%) HTML
5 5 (4.31%) Ruby on Rails
6 4 (3.45%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (3.45%) LAMP
7 3 (2.59%) Jest
7 3 (2.59%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.48%) Replication
2 7 (6.03%) Cloud Native
3 6 (5.17%) Onboarding
4 4 (3.45%) IoT
5 3 (2.59%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.59%) Driving Licence
5 3 (2.59%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (2.59%) Robotics
6 2 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.72%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (1.72%) Educational Technology
6 2 (1.72%) Raspberry Pi
7 1 (0.86%) Clustering
7 1 (0.86%) CUDA
7 1 (0.86%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (0.86%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.86%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.86%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.86%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 116 (100.00%) Linux
2 51 (43.97%) Windows
3 42 (36.21%) Windows Server
4 33 (28.45%) Debian
5 22 (18.97%) CentOS
6 19 (16.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 12 (10.34%) Windows Server 2016
8 7 (6.03%) Rocky
9 5 (4.31%) Windows Server 2019
10 4 (3.45%) Unix
11 3 (2.59%) Mac OS
11 3 (2.59%) Robot Operating System
12 1 (0.86%) Solaris
12 1 (0.86%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (29.31%) DevOps
2 29 (25.00%) Agile
3 28 (24.14%) Problem-Solving
4 26 (22.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 25 (21.55%) Infrastructure as Code
6 21 (18.10%) AI
6 21 (18.10%) Continuous Improvement
6 21 (18.10%) Disaster Recovery
7 19 (16.38%) CI/CD
8 18 (15.52%) Software Engineering
9 17 (14.66%) Scrum
10 14 (12.07%) Migration
11 13 (11.21%) Containerisation
12 12 (10.34%) Service Delivery
13 11 (9.48%) Customer Service
14 10 (8.62%) Asset Management
14 10 (8.62%) Collaborative Working
14 10 (8.62%) Cybersecurity
14 10 (8.62%) Technical Leadership
15 9 (7.76%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 38 (32.76%) Bash
2 34 (29.31%) PowerShell
3 33 (28.45%) Python
4 13 (11.21%) PHP
5 12 (10.34%) JavaScript
6 8 (6.90%) Ruby
7 7 (6.03%) Java
8 6 (5.17%) SQL
9 5 (4.31%) Shell Script
9 5 (4.31%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.86%) Bicep
10 1 (0.86%) C#
10 1 (0.86%) Perl
Qualifications
1 23 (19.83%) Security Cleared
2 15 (12.93%) DV Cleared
2 15 (12.93%) SC Cleared
3 8 (6.90%) Degree
4 6 (5.17%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.59%) HNC
6 3 (2.59%) HND
7 1 (0.86%) Linux+ Certification
7 1 (0.86%) RHCE
7 1 (0.86%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.90%) SLA
2 3 (2.59%) QA
System Software
1 33 (28.45%) VMware Infrastructure
2 27 (23.28%) Active Directory
3 20 (17.24%) Docker
4 13 (11.21%) vSphere
5 11 (9.48%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (5.17%) Hyper-V
6 6 (5.17%) iptables
7 3 (2.59%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 3 (2.59%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (2.59%) Xen
8 2 (1.72%) KVM
9 1 (0.86%) Ceph
9 1 (0.86%) GPFS
9 1 (0.86%) Lustre
9 1 (0.86%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 46 (39.66%) Ansible
2 32 (27.59%) Kubernetes
3 13 (11.21%) Puppet
4 10 (8.62%) vCenter Server
5 6 (5.17%) Nessus
5 6 (5.17%) Podman
5 6 (5.17%) WSUS
6 5 (4.31%) Grafana
6 5 (4.31%) Prometheus
6 5 (4.31%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (3.45%) Docker Swarm
7 4 (3.45%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (3.45%) Nagios
7 4 (3.45%) Progress Chef
8 3 (2.59%) Galera Cluster
8 3 (2.59%) Red Hat Satellite
8 3 (2.59%) systemd
9 2 (1.72%) FlexNet
9 2 (1.72%) Rancher
9 2 (1.72%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 48 (41.38%) Microsoft
2 42 (36.21%) VMware
3 40 (34.48%) Red Hat
4 14 (12.07%) SonicWALL
4 14 (12.07%) Veeam
5 12 (10.34%) Dell
5 12 (10.34%) Google
6 8 (6.90%) Citrix
6 8 (6.90%) NetApp
7 7 (6.03%) SaltStack
8 6 (5.17%) Aruba
8 6 (5.17%) CheckPoint
8 6 (5.17%) HP
8 6 (5.17%) Palo Alto
9 4 (3.45%) Cisco
9 4 (3.45%) Facebook
9 4 (3.45%) Instagram
9 4 (3.45%) NVIDIA
9 4 (3.45%) Splunk
10 3 (2.59%) YouTube