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 27 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 471 440 421
Rank change year-on-year -31 -19 +186
Permanent jobs citing Ubuntu 39 163 115
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.10% 0.35% 0.39%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.09% 2.49% 2.03%
Number of salaries quoted 22 105 106
10th Percentile £30,125 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,438 £37,500 £40,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +26.32% -13.64% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £56,250 £67,188
90th Percentile £75,000 £60,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £53,159 £60,000
% change year-on-year +12.87% -11.40% +9.09%

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 3,579 6,545 5,670
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 9.57% 13.94% 19.37%
Number of salaries quoted 2,700 3,588 4,519
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% +5.56% -
75th Percentile £53,750 £60,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £73,750
UK median annual salary £42,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -15.00% - -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 27 November 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 27 November 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 +52 9 £60,000 +50.00% 7
North of England +46 9 £60,000 +33.33% 10
West Midlands +40 9 £38,750 +10.71% 2
Midlands +16 9 £38,750 +10.71% 3
South West +24 7 £70,000 +33.33% 4
South East -14 5 £35,000 -29.26% 18
Scotland +10 4 £53,750 -38.57% 5
Wales - 4 - -
East of England +16 1 £50,000 -7.41% 2
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 7 (17.95%) Confluence
2 6 (15.38%) nginx
3 2 (5.13%) Apache
3 2 (5.13%) Apache Spark
3 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (2.56%) IIS
4 1 (2.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (15.38%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 3 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 23 (58.97%) AWS
2 21 (53.85%) Azure
3 12 (30.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 12 (30.77%) Amazon EC2
3 12 (30.77%) Route 53
3 12 (30.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 9 (23.08%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (20.51%) AWS CloudFormation
6 6 (15.38%) Amazon ECS
6 6 (15.38%) Amazon ELB
6 6 (15.38%) Amazon S3
6 6 (15.38%) AWS CodeBuild
6 6 (15.38%) AWS KMS
7 4 (10.26%) Google Workspace
7 4 (10.26%) OpenShift
7 4 (10.26%) SurveyMonkey
8 3 (7.69%) Azure AKS
8 3 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (5.13%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (38.46%) Firewall
2 8 (20.51%) DNS
2 8 (20.51%) VLAN
3 7 (17.95%) HTTP
3 7 (17.95%) SSH
4 6 (15.38%) FTP
4 6 (15.38%) IMAP
4 6 (15.38%) OpenLDAP
4 6 (15.38%) SMTP
5 5 (12.82%) TCP/IP
5 5 (12.82%) Wireshark
6 4 (10.26%) Bluetooth
6 4 (10.26%) Intrusion Detection
6 4 (10.26%) Modbus
6 4 (10.26%) Network Security
6 4 (10.26%) VPN
6 4 (10.26%) ZigBee
7 3 (7.69%) DHCP
7 3 (7.69%) Multicast
7 3 (7.69%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (20.51%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (15.38%) Amazon Aurora
2 6 (15.38%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (7.69%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (5.13%) Big Data
4 2 (5.13%) Cloudera CDH
4 2 (5.13%) Hadoop
4 2 (5.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 18 (46.15%) Jenkins
2 10 (25.64%) Git
3 9 (23.08%) GitLab
4 8 (20.51%) JIRA
5 6 (15.38%) CircleCI
5 6 (15.38%) Vagrant
6 4 (10.26%) Burp Suite
6 4 (10.26%) Metasploit
7 1 (2.56%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 12 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 7 (17.95%) Law
3 6 (15.38%) Aerospace
3 6 (15.38%) Presentation Skills
4 5 (12.82%) Public Sector
5 4 (10.26%) Manufacturing
6 3 (7.69%) Finance
6 3 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (7.69%) Marketing
7 2 (5.13%) Retail
8 1 (2.56%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (2.56%) Back Office
8 1 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (2.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
2 10 (25.64%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (12.82%) DevOps Platform Engineer
3 5 (12.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (12.82%) Linux Engineer
4 4 (10.26%) AWS DevOps
4 4 (10.26%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 4 (10.26%) AWS Engineer
4 4 (10.26%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 4 (10.26%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 4 (10.26%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) Linux Systems Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) Site Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 2 (5.13%) Network Systems Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Project Administrator
6 2 (5.13%) Project Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (15.38%) Elastic Stack
1 6 (15.38%) LDAP
2 5 (12.82%) REST
3 3 (7.69%) .NET
4 2 (5.13%) AngularJS
4 2 (5.13%) gRPC
4 2 (5.13%) Material-UI
4 2 (5.13%) Node.js
4 2 (5.13%) OpenAPI
4 2 (5.13%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (5.13%) React
4 2 (5.13%) Spring
4 2 (5.13%) Spring Boot
4 2 (5.13%) Swagger
4 2 (5.13%) XML
4 2 (5.13%) XMPP
5 1 (2.56%) 802.1X
5 1 (2.56%) OpenCV
5 1 (2.56%) PyTorch
5 1 (2.56%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.38%) Replication
2 4 (10.26%) CAN bus
2 4 (10.26%) Cyber Threat
2 4 (10.26%) IoT
2 4 (10.26%) Operational Technology
2 4 (10.26%) SCADA
3 2 (5.13%) Cloud Native
3 2 (5.13%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (5.13%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (2.56%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.56%) BYOD
4 1 (2.56%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.56%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (2.56%) EPoS
4 1 (2.56%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.56%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.56%) PKI
4 1 (2.56%) Robotics
4 1 (2.56%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 39 (100.00%) Linux
2 18 (46.15%) Windows
3 15 (38.46%) Debian
4 7 (17.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (15.38%) Amazon Linux
5 6 (15.38%) VMS
6 5 (12.82%) Android
6 5 (12.82%) CentOS
6 5 (12.82%) Windows Server
7 4 (10.26%) Kali Linux
8 1 (2.56%) Apple iOS
8 1 (2.56%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (2.56%) Unix
8 1 (2.56%) Windows 10
8 1 (2.56%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (56.41%) DevOps
2 18 (46.15%) CI/CD
3 15 (38.46%) Platform Engineering
4 14 (35.90%) Configuration Management
4 14 (35.90%) Infrastructure as Code
5 10 (25.64%) Cloud Security
5 10 (25.64%) Containerisation
6 9 (23.08%) Continuous Integration
6 9 (23.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 8 (20.51%) Change Management
7 8 (20.51%) Patch Management
8 6 (15.38%) AI
8 6 (15.38%) Auto-Scaling
8 6 (15.38%) Computer Science
8 6 (15.38%) Performance Tuning
8 6 (15.38%) Software Engineering
9 5 (12.82%) Cybersecurity
9 5 (12.82%) Innovative Thinking
9 5 (12.82%) User Experience
10 4 (10.26%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 31 (79.49%) Python
2 13 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 12 (30.77%) Bash
4 11 (28.21%) SQL
5 9 (23.08%) Java
6 6 (15.38%) Groovy
7 5 (12.82%) C++
8 4 (10.26%) R
8 4 (10.26%) Rust
9 2 (5.13%) JavaScript
10 1 (2.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 19 (48.72%) Security Cleared
2 15 (38.46%) Degree
2 15 (38.46%) SC Cleared
3 11 (28.21%) Azure Certification
4 7 (17.95%) AWS Certification
5 6 (15.38%) DV Cleared
6 5 (12.82%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (10.26%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (5.13%) CCNA
8 2 (5.13%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (5.13%) RHCE
8 2 (5.13%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 1 (2.56%) Linux+ Certification
9 1 (2.56%) RHCSA
9 1 (2.56%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (2.56%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.13%) GDPR
2 1 (2.56%) HIPAA
System Software
1 18 (46.15%) Docker
2 7 (17.95%) Dovecot
2 7 (17.95%) Postfix
3 6 (15.38%) DFS Replication
3 6 (15.38%) Squid
3 6 (15.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (10.26%) Active Directory
5 3 (7.69%) Hyper-V
5 3 (7.69%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (5.13%) vSphere
7 1 (2.56%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 24 (61.54%) Terraform
2 17 (43.59%) Ansible
3 15 (38.46%) Grafana
3 15 (38.46%) Kubernetes
3 15 (38.46%) Prometheus
4 12 (30.77%) Nessus
5 7 (17.95%) Proxmox
6 4 (10.26%) Nmap
7 3 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (7.69%) Puppet
8 1 (2.56%) AirWatch
8 1 (2.56%) FortiGate
8 1 (2.56%) SCCM
8 1 (2.56%) SCOM
8 1 (2.56%) vCenter Server
8 1 (2.56%) WMI
8 1 (2.56%) WSUS
Vendors
1 19 (48.72%) Red Hat
2 13 (33.33%) Splunk
3 8 (20.51%) Cisco
4 7 (17.95%) VMware
5 6 (15.38%) Google
5 6 (15.38%) Jaspersoft
5 6 (15.38%) ServiceNow
6 5 (12.82%) Microsoft
7 4 (10.26%) Qualtrics
8 2 (5.13%) Fortinet
8 2 (5.13%) Palo Alto
8 2 (5.13%) SaltStack
8 2 (5.13%) Veeam
9 1 (2.56%) Commvault
9 1 (2.56%) Dell
9 1 (2.56%) Meraki
9 1 (2.56%) Mitel
9 1 (2.56%) Oracle
9 1 (2.56%) SolarWinds
9 1 (2.56%) Veritas