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 1 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 564 502 400
Rank change year-on-year -62 -102 +2
Permanent jobs citing Ubuntu 110 43 245
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.12% 0.46%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.22% 0.93% 3.52%
Number of salaries quoted 86 25 119
10th Percentile £34,500 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,125 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £60,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +33.33% -25.00%
75th Percentile £65,777 £66,250 £55,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £75,000 £67,000
UK median annual salary £58,750 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.08% +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 4,947 4,643 6,963
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 5.73% 13.45% 13.16%
Number of salaries quoted 3,724 2,845 3,971
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 £47,307
Median % change year-on-year +10.89% -18.99% +0.43%
75th Percentile £61,250 £51,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £75,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £41,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.43% -17.00% -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 1 October 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 1 October 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 -14 49 £55,000 +57.14% 18
North of England -62 20 £47,500 -20.83% 11
Midlands -50 13 £60,000 +50.00% 2
North West -26 12 £40,000 -33.33% 10
Scotland +20 10 £63,451 - 7
West Midlands -51 10 £60,000 +14.29% 1
South West -74 8 £45,000 -37.93% 6
East of England -22 7 £80,000 +60.00% 3
North East - 7 £50,000 - 1
East Midlands -34 3 £41,000 +2.50% 1
Wales -72 3 £35,000 - 3
Yorkshire - 1 £42,500 -
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 (22.73%) Apache
2 15 (13.64%) IIS
3 8 (7.27%) nginx
3 8 (7.27%) SharePoint
4 7 (6.36%) Apache Spark
4 7 (6.36%) Confluence
5 6 (5.45%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (1.82%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 51 (46.36%) Azure
2 40 (36.36%) AWS
3 39 (35.45%) Microsoft 365
4 28 (25.45%) Entra ID
5 21 (19.09%) SaaS
6 12 (10.91%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (10.91%) OpenShift
7 10 (9.09%) GCP
8 9 (8.18%) Microsoft Copilot
9 8 (7.27%) Power Automate
10 7 (6.36%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (6.36%) AWS CloudFormation
10 7 (6.36%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (6.36%) Serverless
11 6 (5.45%) GitHub
11 6 (5.45%) Google Workspace
12 4 (3.64%) Azure Stack
12 4 (3.64%) GitHub Actions
13 3 (2.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 3 (2.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 32 (29.09%) DNS
2 26 (23.64%) TCP/IP
3 24 (21.82%) Firewall
4 19 (17.27%) DHCP
5 17 (15.45%) VPN
6 16 (14.55%) VLAN
7 7 (6.36%) AMQP
8 6 (5.45%) LAN
8 6 (5.45%) VoIP
8 6 (5.45%) WAN
8 6 (5.45%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (3.64%) SAN
10 3 (2.73%) NAS
10 3 (2.73%) SSH
11 2 (1.82%) Asterisk PBX
11 2 (1.82%) LoRaWAN
11 2 (1.82%) MQTT
11 2 (1.82%) Network Security
11 2 (1.82%) WireGuard
12 1 (0.91%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (22.73%) MySQL
2 13 (11.82%) SQL Server
3 7 (6.36%) Big Data
3 7 (6.36%) Cloudera CDH
3 7 (6.36%) Hadoop
4 3 (2.73%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.82%) Neo4j
6 1 (0.91%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (8.18%) Git
1 9 (8.18%) JIRA
2 7 (6.36%) GitLab
3 5 (4.55%) Bitbucket
4 3 (2.73%) Cypress.io
4 3 (2.73%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.82%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.91%) SonarQube
General
1 21 (19.09%) Social Skills
2 8 (7.27%) Documentation Skills
3 7 (6.36%) Aerospace
3 7 (6.36%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (4.55%) Law
5 4 (3.64%) Manufacturing
6 3 (2.73%) Legal
7 2 (1.82%) Finance
7 2 (1.82%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.91%) Advertising
8 1 (0.91%) Agriculture
8 1 (0.91%) Games
8 1 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (23.64%) Support Engineer
2 23 (20.91%) IT Engineer
3 20 (18.18%) Senior
4 19 (17.27%) DevOps Engineer
5 18 (16.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 17 (15.45%) IT Support
6 17 (15.45%) IT Support Engineer
7 16 (14.55%) Linux Engineer
8 13 (11.82%) Systems Engineer
9 12 (10.91%) Administrator
9 12 (10.91%) Systems Administrator
10 11 (10.00%) Linux Administrator
10 11 (10.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
10 11 (10.00%) Technical Support
11 10 (9.09%) Developer
12 9 (8.18%) Software Engineer
13 8 (7.27%) Linux DevOps Engineer
13 8 (7.27%) Senior Developer
13 8 (7.27%) Technical Engineer
13 8 (7.27%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (36.36%) Terraform
2 16 (14.55%) React
3 15 (13.64%) Node.js
4 7 (6.36%) AngularJS
4 7 (6.36%) gRPC
4 7 (6.36%) Material-UI
4 7 (6.36%) OpenAPI
4 7 (6.36%) RabbitMQ
4 7 (6.36%) REST
4 7 (6.36%) Spring
4 7 (6.36%) Spring Boot
4 7 (6.36%) Swagger
5 6 (5.45%) ARM Templates
6 5 (4.55%) CSS
6 5 (4.55%) HTML
6 5 (4.55%) Ruby on Rails
7 4 (3.64%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (3.64%) LAMP
8 3 (2.73%) Jest
8 3 (2.73%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.00%) Replication
2 7 (6.36%) Cloud Native
2 7 (6.36%) Onboarding
3 3 (2.73%) Data Centre
3 3 (2.73%) IoT
3 3 (2.73%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (2.73%) Robotics
4 2 (1.82%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (1.82%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (1.82%) Driving Licence
4 2 (1.82%) Educational Technology
4 2 (1.82%) Raspberry Pi
5 1 (0.91%) Clustering
5 1 (0.91%) CUDA
5 1 (0.91%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (0.91%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.91%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 110 (100.00%) Linux
2 50 (45.45%) Windows
3 40 (36.36%) Windows Server
4 32 (29.09%) Debian
5 21 (19.09%) CentOS
6 20 (18.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 11 (10.00%) Windows Server 2016
8 8 (7.27%) Rocky
9 4 (3.64%) Unix
9 4 (3.64%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (2.73%) Mac OS
10 3 (2.73%) Robot Operating System
11 1 (0.91%) Solaris
11 1 (0.91%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (30.00%) DevOps
2 28 (25.45%) Agile
3 26 (23.64%) Problem-Solving
4 25 (22.73%) Infrastructure as Code
4 25 (22.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 21 (19.09%) AI
6 20 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
6 20 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
7 19 (17.27%) CI/CD
8 18 (16.36%) Software Engineering
9 17 (15.45%) Scrum
10 14 (12.73%) Migration
11 13 (11.82%) Containerisation
12 12 (10.91%) Customer Service
12 12 (10.91%) Service Delivery
13 10 (9.09%) Asset Management
14 9 (8.18%) Configuration Management
14 9 (8.18%) Cybersecurity
14 9 (8.18%) Open Source
14 9 (8.18%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 36 (32.73%) Bash
2 35 (31.82%) PowerShell
3 32 (29.09%) Python
4 13 (11.82%) PHP
5 12 (10.91%) JavaScript
6 8 (7.27%) Ruby
7 7 (6.36%) Java
8 5 (4.55%) Shell Script
8 5 (4.55%) TypeScript
9 4 (3.64%) SQL
10 2 (1.82%) Bicep
11 1 (0.91%) C#
11 1 (0.91%) Perl
Qualifications
1 22 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 15 (13.64%) SC Cleared
3 14 (12.73%) DV Cleared
4 7 (6.36%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (5.45%) Degree
6 3 (2.73%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.73%) HNC
6 3 (2.73%) HND
7 1 (0.91%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.91%) Linux+ Certification
7 1 (0.91%) RHCE
7 1 (0.91%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.27%) SLA
2 3 (2.73%) QA
System Software
1 30 (27.27%) VMware Infrastructure
2 27 (24.55%) Active Directory
3 21 (19.09%) Docker
4 11 (10.00%) vSphere
5 9 (8.18%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (5.45%) Hyper-V
6 6 (5.45%) iptables
7 4 (3.64%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (2.73%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 3 (2.73%) Xen
9 2 (1.82%) KVM
10 1 (0.91%) Ceph
10 1 (0.91%) GPFS
10 1 (0.91%) Lustre
10 1 (0.91%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 44 (40.00%) Ansible
2 32 (29.09%) Kubernetes
3 13 (11.82%) Puppet
4 7 (6.36%) vCenter Server
5 6 (5.45%) Podman
5 6 (5.45%) WSUS
6 5 (4.55%) Grafana
6 5 (4.55%) Nessus
6 5 (4.55%) Prometheus
7 4 (3.64%) Docker Swarm
7 4 (3.64%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (3.64%) Nagios
7 4 (3.64%) Progress Chef
7 4 (3.64%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (2.73%) Red Hat Satellite
8 3 (2.73%) systemd
9 2 (1.82%) FlexNet
9 2 (1.82%) Galera Cluster
9 2 (1.82%) Rancher
9 2 (1.82%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 46 (41.82%) Microsoft
2 39 (35.45%) VMware
3 37 (33.64%) Red Hat
4 15 (13.64%) Veeam
5 14 (12.73%) SonicWALL
6 13 (11.82%) Google
7 12 (10.91%) Dell
8 8 (7.27%) Citrix
8 8 (7.27%) NetApp
9 7 (6.36%) SaltStack
10 6 (5.45%) Aruba
10 6 (5.45%) CheckPoint
10 6 (5.45%) HP
10 6 (5.45%) Palo Alto
11 4 (3.64%) Cisco
11 4 (3.64%) NVIDIA
11 4 (3.64%) Splunk
12 3 (2.73%) Instagram
12 3 (2.73%) Synology
12 3 (2.73%) YouTube