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 5 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 498 433 528
Rank change year-on-year -65 +95 +72
Permanent jobs citing Ubuntu 41 100 140
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.080% 0.34% 0.26%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.13% 2.18% 1.66%
Number of salaries quoted 30 72 123
10th Percentile £30,752 - £37,600
25th Percentile £50,000 £32,500 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,875 £47,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.37% -6.00% -
75th Percentile £69,688 £57,647 £65,000
90th Percentile £73,875 £60,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% -4.35%

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 3,615 4,593 8,438
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.05% 15.55% 15.72%
Number of salaries quoted 2,663 2,642 7,060
10th Percentile £26,265 £26,250 £25,500
25th Percentile £30,000 £31,500 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,000 £47,307 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.56% +11.31% -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 5 March 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 5 March 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 -36 21 £60,000 +14.29% 11
North West -16 7 £48,500 +4.30% 5
North of England -35 7 £48,500 +4.30% 9
Midlands -29 4 £26,265 -24.96% 6
Wales - 4 - - 3
Scotland -10 3 £53,750 +43.33% 2
East Midlands -26 3 £26,265 -34.34% 2
South West -17 2 £67,500 +28.57% 2
West Midlands -22 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 (12.20%) Apache
1 5 (12.20%) Apache Spark
2 3 (7.32%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.44%) Confluence
3 1 (2.44%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (7.32%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 27 (65.85%) Azure
2 17 (41.46%) AWS
3 11 (26.83%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (21.95%) SaaS
5 7 (17.07%) Amazon EKS
5 7 (17.07%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (17.07%) OpenShift
6 6 (14.63%) AWS CloudFormation
6 6 (14.63%) GCP
6 6 (14.63%) GitHub
7 5 (12.20%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (12.20%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (12.20%) Serverless
8 4 (9.76%) Entra ID
8 4 (9.76%) Google Workspace
8 4 (9.76%) SurveyMonkey
9 3 (7.32%) Azure Stack
10 2 (4.88%) Azure AKS
11 1 (2.44%) AWS CodeBuild
11 1 (2.44%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 10 (24.39%) Firewall
2 7 (17.07%) VLAN
2 7 (17.07%) Wireshark
3 5 (12.20%) AMQP
3 5 (12.20%) Network Security
3 5 (12.20%) TCP/IP
4 4 (9.76%) Bluetooth
4 4 (9.76%) Intrusion Detection
4 4 (9.76%) Modbus
4 4 (9.76%) VoIP
4 4 (9.76%) ZigBee
5 3 (7.32%) HTTP
5 3 (7.32%) RTP
5 3 (7.32%) Unified Communications
5 3 (7.32%) VPN
6 1 (2.44%) DHCP
6 1 (2.44%) DNS
6 1 (2.44%) PBX
6 1 (2.44%) SAN
6 1 (2.44%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (12.20%) Big Data
1 5 (12.20%) Cloudera CDH
1 5 (12.20%) Hadoop
2 3 (7.32%) MongoDB
2 3 (7.32%) MySQL
3 1 (2.44%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (19.51%) Git
2 7 (17.07%) GitLab
3 4 (9.76%) Burp Suite
3 4 (9.76%) Metasploit
4 3 (7.32%) JIRA
5 2 (4.88%) Jenkins
6 1 (2.44%) CircleCI
General
1 11 (26.83%) Social Skills
2 8 (19.51%) Aerospace
3 5 (12.20%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (9.76%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (9.76%) Law
4 4 (9.76%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.44%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (31.71%) Linux Engineer
2 12 (29.27%) Linux Systems Engineer
2 12 (29.27%) Systems Engineer
3 11 (26.83%) DevOps Engineer
4 9 (21.95%) DevOps Systems Engineer
4 9 (21.95%) Linux DevOps Engineer
4 9 (21.95%) Linux/Unix DevOps
5 5 (12.20%) Site Engineer
5 5 (12.20%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 5 (12.20%) Software Engineer
6 4 (9.76%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
6 4 (9.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (9.76%) Linux Support
6 4 (9.76%) Linux Support Engineer
6 4 (9.76%) Support Engineer
7 3 (7.32%) Developer
7 3 (7.32%) Graduate Support Engineer
7 3 (7.32%) Graduate Systems Engineer
7 3 (7.32%) Platform Engineer
7 3 (7.32%) Systems Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (19.51%) REST
2 5 (12.20%) AngularJS
2 5 (12.20%) gRPC
2 5 (12.20%) Material-UI
2 5 (12.20%) Node.js
2 5 (12.20%) OpenAPI
2 5 (12.20%) RabbitMQ
2 5 (12.20%) React
2 5 (12.20%) Spring
2 5 (12.20%) Spring Boot
2 5 (12.20%) Swagger
3 3 (7.32%) ARM Templates
3 3 (7.32%) Django
3 3 (7.32%) Flask
3 3 (7.32%) Jinja
3 3 (7.32%) OAuth
3 3 (7.32%) OAuth2
3 3 (7.32%) pytest
3 3 (7.32%) RFC 2833
3 3 (7.32%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.20%) Cloud Native
1 5 (12.20%) Management Information System
2 4 (9.76%) CAN bus
2 4 (9.76%) Cyber Threat
2 4 (9.76%) IoT
2 4 (9.76%) Operational Technology
2 4 (9.76%) SCADA
3 3 (7.32%) Onboarding
3 3 (7.32%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (4.88%) Mobile App
4 2 (4.88%) Robotics
4 2 (4.88%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (2.44%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (2.44%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.44%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (2.44%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.44%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 41 (100.00%) Linux
2 16 (39.02%) CentOS
3 13 (31.71%) Windows
4 10 (24.39%) Windows Server
5 9 (21.95%) Debian
5 9 (21.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (9.76%) Android
6 4 (9.76%) Kali Linux
7 3 (7.32%) SUSE
8 2 (4.88%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (4.88%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (2.44%) Rocky
9 1 (2.44%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (46.34%) DevOps
2 17 (41.46%) Containerisation
3 14 (34.15%) Infrastructure as Code
4 13 (31.71%) CI/CD
5 12 (29.27%) Agile
6 11 (26.83%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (24.39%) Configuration Management
8 8 (19.51%) Open Source
9 7 (17.07%) AI
9 7 (17.07%) Computer Science
9 7 (17.07%) Platform Engineering
10 6 (14.63%) Collaborative Working
10 6 (14.63%) Innovative Thinking
10 6 (14.63%) User Experience
11 5 (12.20%) API Development
11 5 (12.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 5 (12.20%) Mentoring
11 5 (12.20%) Microservices
11 5 (12.20%) Scaled Agile Framework
11 5 (12.20%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 19 (46.34%) Python
2 18 (43.90%) Bash
3 11 (26.83%) PowerShell
4 9 (21.95%) Java
5 7 (17.07%) C++
6 5 (12.20%) JavaScript
7 4 (9.76%) R
7 4 (9.76%) Rust
8 3 (7.32%) C
9 1 (2.44%) PHP
9 1 (2.44%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 17 (41.46%) Security Cleared
2 13 (31.71%) SC Cleared
3 6 (14.63%) BPSS Clearance
3 6 (14.63%) Degree
4 5 (12.20%) DV Cleared
5 4 (9.76%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (7.32%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (4.88%) CCNA
7 2 (4.88%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (4.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (2.44%) Azure Certification
8 1 (2.44%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (2.44%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (7.32%) PCI DSS
2 2 (4.88%) GDPR
System Software
1 11 (26.83%) Docker
2 6 (14.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (7.32%) Kamailio
3 3 (7.32%) vSphere
4 2 (4.88%) Active Directory
4 2 (4.88%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (2.44%) Hyper-V
5 1 (2.44%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 27 (65.85%) Ansible
2 26 (63.41%) Terraform
3 20 (48.78%) Kubernetes
4 6 (14.63%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (14.63%) Nessus
4 6 (14.63%) Puppet
5 5 (12.20%) Nagios
6 4 (9.76%) Nmap
7 3 (7.32%) Argo
8 2 (4.88%) vCenter Server
9 1 (2.44%) AirWatch
9 1 (2.44%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (2.44%) Grafana
9 1 (2.44%) Podman
9 1 (2.44%) Progress Chef
9 1 (2.44%) Prometheus
9 1 (2.44%) Proxmox
9 1 (2.44%) SCCM
9 1 (2.44%) SCOM
Vendors
1 26 (63.41%) Red Hat
2 11 (26.83%) Microsoft
3 10 (24.39%) Splunk
4 9 (21.95%) Cisco
4 9 (21.95%) Google
5 6 (14.63%) VMware
6 5 (12.20%) Fortinet
6 5 (12.20%) SaltStack
7 4 (9.76%) Mitel
7 4 (9.76%) Qualtrics
8 3 (7.32%) BT
9 2 (4.88%) Palo Alto
10 1 (2.44%) Citrix
10 1 (2.44%) Commvault
10 1 (2.44%) Juniper
10 1 (2.44%) Meraki
10 1 (2.44%) Peplink
10 1 (2.44%) Ubiquiti
10 1 (2.44%) Veeam
10 1 (2.44%) Veritas