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 22 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 522 430 502
Rank change year-on-year -92 +72 +69
Permanent jobs citing Ubuntu 60 72 245
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.094% 0.27% 0.37%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.61% 1.60% 2.39%
Number of salaries quoted 45 59 135
10th Percentile £32,750 - £36,950
25th Percentile £46,250 £32,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -4.53%
75th Percentile £72,500 £53,750 £64,375
90th Percentile £75,750 £62,750 £85,000
UK median annual salary £53,750 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +7.50% -4.76% -12.50%

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 3,732 4,510 10,267
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 5.86% 16.88% 15.30%
Number of salaries quoted 2,782 2,942 8,257
10th Percentile £26,875 £26,250 £25,250
25th Percentile £30,250 £31,250 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% - -5.56%
75th Percentile £58,000 £57,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £68,750
UK median annual salary £45,000 £48,629 £45,000
% change year-on-year -7.46% +8.06% -14.29%

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 22 April 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 22 April 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 -38 32 £60,000 +20.00% 20
North of England -51 9 £48,500 -3.00% 12
Midlands -66 9 £26,265 -24.96% 2
North West -26 7 £48,500 -3.00% 2
East Midlands -47 6 £26,265 -34.34%
Scotland -14 4 £53,750 +22.86% 1
West Midlands -44 3 - - 2
Wales -22 2 £35,000 -26.32% 2
East of England -29 2 £70,000 +12.00% 3
North East -41 2 £47,500 - 9
South West - 2 £62,500 - 5
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 (8.33%) Apache
1 5 (8.33%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.33%) Confluence
2 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.67%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 35 (58.33%) Azure
2 25 (41.67%) AWS
3 14 (23.33%) Microsoft 365
4 13 (21.67%) SaaS
5 11 (18.33%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (13.33%) OpenShift
7 7 (11.67%) Amazon EKS
7 7 (11.67%) GCP
8 5 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (8.33%) Entra ID
8 5 (8.33%) GitHub
8 5 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (8.33%) Serverless
9 3 (5.00%) Azure Stack
10 2 (3.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (3.33%) Amazon S3
10 2 (3.33%) Azure AKS
10 2 (3.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (21.67%) Firewall
2 5 (8.33%) AMQP
2 5 (8.33%) VPN
3 4 (6.67%) NAS
3 4 (6.67%) SAN
3 4 (6.67%) VLAN
3 4 (6.67%) VoIP
3 4 (6.67%) Wireshark
4 3 (5.00%) HTTP
4 3 (5.00%) LoRaWAN
4 3 (5.00%) MQTT
4 3 (5.00%) Network Security
4 3 (5.00%) RTP
4 3 (5.00%) Unified Communications
5 2 (3.33%) DNS
5 2 (3.33%) SSH
5 2 (3.33%) TCP/IP
5 2 (3.33%) WireGuard
6 1 (1.67%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (1.67%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (15.00%) MySQL
2 5 (8.33%) Big Data
2 5 (8.33%) Cloudera CDH
2 5 (8.33%) Hadoop
2 5 (8.33%) SQL Server
3 3 (5.00%) MongoDB
3 3 (5.00%) Neo4j
4 2 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (15.00%) Git
2 5 (8.33%) GitLab
3 3 (5.00%) JIRA
4 1 (1.67%) Burp Suite
4 1 (1.67%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.67%) Metasploit
General
1 10 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 6 (10.00%) Law
3 5 (8.33%) Aerospace
3 5 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (6.67%) Manufacturing
5 3 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (5.00%) Finance
6 1 (1.67%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 16 (26.67%) Linux Engineer
2 14 (23.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 14 (23.33%) Linux Systems Engineer
2 14 (23.33%) Systems Engineer
3 11 (18.33%) DevOps Systems Engineer
3 11 (18.33%) Linux DevOps Engineer
3 11 (18.33%) Linux/Unix DevOps
4 9 (15.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 8 (13.33%) Support Engineer
6 6 (10.00%) IT Engineer
6 6 (10.00%) Site Engineer
6 6 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 5 (8.33%) Administrator
7 5 (8.33%) IT Support
7 5 (8.33%) IT Support Engineer
7 5 (8.33%) Linux Administrator
7 5 (8.33%) Linux Systems Administrator
7 5 (8.33%) Software Engineer
7 5 (8.33%) Systems Administrator
8 4 (6.67%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (13.33%) REST
2 5 (8.33%) AngularJS
2 5 (8.33%) gRPC
2 5 (8.33%) Material-UI
2 5 (8.33%) Node.js
2 5 (8.33%) OpenAPI
2 5 (8.33%) RabbitMQ
2 5 (8.33%) React
2 5 (8.33%) Spring
2 5 (8.33%) Spring Boot
2 5 (8.33%) Swagger
3 3 (5.00%) Django
3 3 (5.00%) Flask
3 3 (5.00%) FreeSWITCH
3 3 (5.00%) Jinja
3 3 (5.00%) OAuth
3 3 (5.00%) OAuth2
3 3 (5.00%) pytest
3 3 (5.00%) RFC 2833
3 3 (5.00%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.33%) Cloud Native
1 5 (8.33%) Management Information System
1 5 (8.33%) Replication
2 4 (6.67%) IoT
3 3 (5.00%) Driving Licence
3 3 (5.00%) Onboarding
3 3 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (3.33%) Data Centre
4 2 (3.33%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (3.33%) Mobile App
4 2 (3.33%) Public Cloud
4 2 (3.33%) Robotics
4 2 (3.33%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (1.67%) CAN bus
5 1 (1.67%) Clustering
5 1 (1.67%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.67%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (1.67%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.67%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 60 (100.00%) Linux
2 22 (36.67%) Windows
3 20 (33.33%) CentOS
4 17 (28.33%) Windows Server
5 11 (18.33%) Debian
6 10 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (6.67%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (5.00%) SUSE
8 3 (5.00%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (3.33%) Mac OS
10 1 (1.67%) Android
10 1 (1.67%) Kali Linux
10 1 (1.67%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (35.00%) DevOps
2 20 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (30.00%) Containerisation
4 16 (26.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 15 (25.00%) Agile
6 12 (20.00%) CI/CD
7 10 (16.67%) Configuration Management
7 10 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 10 (16.67%) Mentoring
8 9 (15.00%) Open Source
9 8 (13.33%) Platform Engineering
10 7 (11.67%) Collaborative Culture
10 7 (11.67%) Collaborative Working
10 7 (11.67%) User Experience
11 6 (10.00%) AI
11 6 (10.00%) Asset Management
11 6 (10.00%) Computer Science
11 6 (10.00%) Observability
11 6 (10.00%) Service Delivery
11 6 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 24 (40.00%) Bash
2 20 (33.33%) Python
3 12 (20.00%) PowerShell
4 6 (10.00%) Java
5 5 (8.33%) JavaScript
6 4 (6.67%) C++
7 3 (5.00%) C
7 3 (5.00%) SQL
8 2 (3.33%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.67%) PHP
9 1 (1.67%) R
9 1 (1.67%) Rust
Qualifications
1 14 (23.33%) Security Cleared
2 9 (15.00%) SC Cleared
3 6 (10.00%) Degree
3 6 (10.00%) DV Cleared
4 3 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (3.33%) CCNA
5 2 (3.33%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.67%) HNC
6 1 (1.67%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (5.00%) PCI DSS
2 2 (3.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 15 (25.00%) Docker
2 11 (18.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (13.33%) vSphere
4 6 (10.00%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (8.33%) Active Directory
6 3 (5.00%) Kamailio
7 2 (3.33%) iptables
8 1 (1.67%) GPFS
8 1 (1.67%) KVM
8 1 (1.67%) Lustre
8 1 (1.67%) QEMU
8 1 (1.67%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (1.67%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (1.67%) Xen
Systems Management
1 35 (58.33%) Ansible
1 35 (58.33%) Terraform
2 26 (43.33%) Kubernetes
3 9 (15.00%) Puppet
4 7 (11.67%) vCenter Server
5 6 (10.00%) Nagios
6 5 (8.33%) Nessus
7 4 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (5.00%) Argo
8 3 (5.00%) Galera Cluster
8 3 (5.00%) Podman
8 3 (5.00%) Progress Chef
9 2 (3.33%) Grafana
9 2 (3.33%) Prometheus
9 2 (3.33%) systemd
10 1 (1.67%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (1.67%) Nmap
10 1 (1.67%) Red Hat Satellite
10 1 (1.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 31 (51.67%) Red Hat
2 21 (35.00%) Microsoft
3 15 (25.00%) VMware
4 7 (11.67%) Splunk
5 6 (10.00%) Google
6 5 (8.33%) Cisco
6 5 (8.33%) SaltStack
7 4 (6.67%) Facebook
7 4 (6.67%) Instagram
8 3 (5.00%) BT
8 3 (5.00%) Fortinet
8 3 (5.00%) Mitel
9 1 (1.67%) Dell
9 1 (1.67%) Meraki
9 1 (1.67%) Qualtrics
9 1 (1.67%) Synology
9 1 (1.67%) Veeam