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 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 489 445 443
Rank change year-on-year -44 -2 +168
Permanent jobs citing Ubuntu 33 138 96
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.079% 0.36% 0.34%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.95% 2.36% 1.80%
Number of salaries quoted 20 96 85
10th Percentile £31,125 - £34,900
25th Percentile £50,000 £32,500 £38,084
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £71,563 £54,114 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £60,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +20.00% -13.04% -

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 3,466 5,850 5,337
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.26% 15.31% 18.97%
Number of salaries quoted 2,583 3,225 4,364
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £31,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £47,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.21% +4.44% -
75th Percentile £52,963 £60,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £73,750
UK median annual salary £44,000 £50,242 £50,000
% change year-on-year -12.42% +0.48% -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 20 December 2025.

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 20 December 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 +37 8 £60,000 +51.90% 5
North of England +18 8 £60,000 +50.00% 7
West Midlands +7 7 £38,750 +10.71% 3
Midlands -9 7 £38,750 +10.71% 4
South West +5 6 £72,500 +38.10% 3
South East -14 6 £50,000 +1.05% 9
Wales - 4 - -
Scotland +5 2 £53,750 -36.76% 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 5 (15.15%) Confluence
2 4 (12.12%) nginx
3 3 (9.09%) Apache
3 3 (9.09%) Apache Spark
4 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (3.03%) IIS
5 1 (3.03%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (12.12%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (12.12%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 22 (66.67%) AWS
2 19 (57.58%) Azure
3 8 (24.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 8 (24.24%) Amazon EC2
3 8 (24.24%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (24.24%) Route 53
3 8 (24.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 7 (21.21%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (15.15%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (15.15%) OpenShift
6 4 (12.12%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (12.12%) Amazon ELB
6 4 (12.12%) Amazon S3
6 4 (12.12%) AWS CodeBuild
6 4 (12.12%) AWS KMS
6 4 (12.12%) Google Workspace
6 4 (12.12%) SurveyMonkey
7 3 (9.09%) Entra ID
7 3 (9.09%) GCP
7 3 (9.09%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (36.36%) Firewall
2 7 (21.21%) VLAN
3 6 (18.18%) DNS
4 5 (15.15%) HTTP
4 5 (15.15%) TCP/IP
5 4 (12.12%) Bluetooth
5 4 (12.12%) FTP
5 4 (12.12%) IMAP
5 4 (12.12%) Intrusion Detection
5 4 (12.12%) Modbus
5 4 (12.12%) Network Security
5 4 (12.12%) OpenLDAP
5 4 (12.12%) SMTP
5 4 (12.12%) SSH
5 4 (12.12%) Wireshark
5 4 (12.12%) ZigBee
6 3 (9.09%) AMQP
6 3 (9.09%) VPN
7 2 (6.06%) DHCP
7 2 (6.06%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (15.15%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (12.12%) Amazon Aurora
2 4 (12.12%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (9.09%) Big Data
3 3 (9.09%) Cloudera CDH
3 3 (9.09%) Hadoop
4 1 (3.03%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 6 (18.18%) GitLab
3 5 (15.15%) Git
3 5 (15.15%) JIRA
4 4 (12.12%) Burp Suite
4 4 (12.12%) CircleCI
4 4 (12.12%) Metasploit
4 4 (12.12%) Vagrant
5 1 (3.03%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 10 (30.30%) Social Skills
2 7 (21.21%) Aerospace
3 4 (12.12%) Law
3 4 (12.12%) Manufacturing
3 4 (12.12%) Presentation Skills
3 4 (12.12%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.03%) Back Office
4 1 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (3.03%) Retail
4 1 (3.03%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
2 8 (24.24%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (18.18%) Linux Engineer
4 4 (12.12%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (12.12%) Linux Systems Engineer
5 3 (9.09%) DevOps Platform Engineer
5 3 (9.09%) DevOps Systems Engineer
5 3 (9.09%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
5 3 (9.09%) Linux DevOps Engineer
5 3 (9.09%) Linux/Unix DevOps
5 3 (9.09%) Software Engineer
5 3 (9.09%) Systems Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) AWS DevOps
6 2 (6.06%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Lead
7 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.12%) Elastic Stack
1 4 (12.12%) LDAP
2 3 (9.09%) AngularJS
2 3 (9.09%) gRPC
2 3 (9.09%) Material-UI
2 3 (9.09%) Node.js
2 3 (9.09%) OpenAPI
2 3 (9.09%) RabbitMQ
2 3 (9.09%) React
2 3 (9.09%) REST
2 3 (9.09%) Spring
2 3 (9.09%) Spring Boot
2 3 (9.09%) Swagger
3 1 (3.03%) LAMP
3 1 (3.03%) XML
3 1 (3.03%) XMPP
3 1 (3.03%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.12%) CAN bus
1 4 (12.12%) Cyber Threat
1 4 (12.12%) IoT
1 4 (12.12%) Operational Technology
1 4 (12.12%) Replication
1 4 (12.12%) SCADA
2 3 (9.09%) Cloud Native
3 2 (6.06%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (6.06%) Management Information System
3 2 (6.06%) Onboarding
3 2 (6.06%) Robotics
3 2 (6.06%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (3.03%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (3.03%) BYOD
4 1 (3.03%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.03%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (3.03%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 33 (100.00%) Linux
2 13 (39.39%) Debian
2 13 (39.39%) Windows
3 6 (18.18%) CentOS
4 5 (15.15%) Android
4 5 (15.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (12.12%) Amazon Linux
5 4 (12.12%) Kali Linux
5 4 (12.12%) VMS
5 4 (12.12%) Windows Server
6 1 (3.03%) Apple iOS
6 1 (3.03%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (3.03%) Unix
6 1 (3.03%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (57.58%) DevOps
2 13 (39.39%) Infrastructure as Code
3 12 (36.36%) Platform Engineering
4 11 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 11 (33.33%) Configuration Management
5 9 (27.27%) Containerisation
6 8 (24.24%) Cloud Security
6 8 (24.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 7 (21.21%) Patch Management
8 6 (18.18%) Change Management
8 6 (18.18%) Innovative Thinking
8 6 (18.18%) User Experience
9 5 (15.15%) AI
9 5 (15.15%) Computer Science
9 5 (15.15%) Cybersecurity
10 4 (12.12%) Continuous Integration
10 4 (12.12%) Machine Learning
10 4 (12.12%) Performance Tuning
10 4 (12.12%) Security Architecture
10 4 (12.12%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 23 (69.70%) Python
2 11 (33.33%) Bash
3 9 (27.27%) PowerShell
4 7 (21.21%) Java
5 5 (15.15%) SQL
6 4 (12.12%) C++
6 4 (12.12%) Groovy
6 4 (12.12%) R
6 4 (12.12%) Rust
7 3 (9.09%) JavaScript
8 1 (3.03%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 17 (51.52%) Security Cleared
2 15 (45.45%) SC Cleared
3 13 (39.39%) Degree
4 6 (18.18%) Azure Certification
4 6 (18.18%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (18.18%) DV Cleared
5 5 (15.15%) AWS Certification
6 4 (12.12%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (6.06%) CCNA
8 2 (6.06%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (6.06%) RHCE
8 2 (6.06%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 1 (3.03%) Linux+ Certification
9 1 (3.03%) RHCSA
9 1 (3.03%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (3.03%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.09%) GDPR
2 1 (3.03%) HIPAA
System Software
1 11 (33.33%) Docker
2 5 (15.15%) Dovecot
2 5 (15.15%) Postfix
2 5 (15.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (12.12%) DFS Replication
3 4 (12.12%) Squid
4 3 (9.09%) Active Directory
4 3 (9.09%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (6.06%) Hyper-V
6 1 (3.03%) VMware NSX
6 1 (3.03%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 20 (60.61%) Terraform
2 18 (54.55%) Ansible
3 13 (39.39%) Kubernetes
4 9 (27.27%) Nessus
5 8 (24.24%) Grafana
5 8 (24.24%) Prometheus
6 5 (15.15%) Proxmox
7 4 (12.12%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (12.12%) Nmap
7 4 (12.12%) Puppet
8 1 (3.03%) AirWatch
8 1 (3.03%) SCCM
8 1 (3.03%) SCOM
8 1 (3.03%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 18 (54.55%) Red Hat
2 8 (24.24%) Cisco
2 8 (24.24%) Splunk
3 7 (21.21%) Google
4 6 (18.18%) Microsoft
4 6 (18.18%) VMware
5 4 (12.12%) Jaspersoft
5 4 (12.12%) Qualtrics
5 4 (12.12%) ServiceNow
6 3 (9.09%) SaltStack
7 2 (6.06%) Fortinet
7 2 (6.06%) Palo Alto
8 1 (3.03%) Citrix
8 1 (3.03%) Commvault
8 1 (3.03%) Juniper
8 1 (3.03%) Meraki
8 1 (3.03%) Remedy
8 1 (3.03%) SolarWinds
8 1 (3.03%) Veeam
8 1 (3.03%) Veritas