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

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 505 463 484
Rank change year-on-year -42 +21 +49
Permanent jobs citing Ubuntu 76 62 262
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.11% 0.21% 0.38%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.00% 1.26% 2.56%
Number of salaries quoted 57 50 148
10th Percentile £32,750 £32,500 £36,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £33,438 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £40,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -20.00% -11.50%
75th Percentile £72,500 £52,500 £60,500
90th Percentile £78,500 £63,875 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £46,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +29.03% -11.43% -15.93%

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 3,805 4,938 10,241
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 5.70% 16.84% 14.78%
Number of salaries quoted 2,884 3,019 8,147
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,250 £25,500
25th Percentile £30,500 £31,250 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £40,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £60,000 £56,206 £57,500
90th Percentile £74,987 £70,000 £68,750
UK median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 20 May 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 20 May 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 +7 45 £60,000 +29.73% 22
North of England -35 9 £48,000 -12.73% 9
Midlands -48 9 £26,265 -24.96% 3
Scotland +6 6 £66,875 +52.86%
North West +1 6 £48,500 -11.82% 1
East Midlands -31 6 £26,265 -34.34% 2
West Midlands -48 3 - - 1
North East - 3 £47,500 - 6
South West - 3 £62,500 - 4
East of England -17 2 £70,000 +7.69% 3
Wales -28 2 £35,000 -26.32% 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 6 (7.89%) Apache
2 5 (6.58%) Apache Spark
2 5 (6.58%) Confluence
3 2 (2.63%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.32%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.32%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 45 (59.21%) Azure
2 34 (44.74%) AWS
3 23 (30.26%) SaaS
4 17 (22.37%) Microsoft 365
5 15 (19.74%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (13.16%) OpenShift
7 7 (9.21%) Amazon EKS
7 7 (9.21%) GCP
8 5 (6.58%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (6.58%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (6.58%) Azure Stack
8 5 (6.58%) Entra ID
8 5 (6.58%) GitHub
8 5 (6.58%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (6.58%) Serverless
9 3 (3.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (3.95%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (3.95%) Amazon S3
9 3 (3.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (2.63%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (17.11%) Firewall
2 5 (6.58%) AMQP
2 5 (6.58%) VoIP
2 5 (6.58%) VPN
3 4 (5.26%) NAS
3 4 (5.26%) SAN
4 3 (3.95%) HTTP
4 3 (3.95%) LoRaWAN
4 3 (3.95%) MQTT
4 3 (3.95%) RTP
4 3 (3.95%) SSH
4 3 (3.95%) Unified Communications
4 3 (3.95%) VLAN
4 3 (3.95%) Wireshark
5 2 (2.63%) Asterisk PBX
5 2 (2.63%) DNS
5 2 (2.63%) Network Security
5 2 (2.63%) WireGuard
6 1 (1.32%) TCP/IP
6 1 (1.32%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (15.79%) MySQL
2 6 (7.89%) SQL Server
3 5 (6.58%) Big Data
3 5 (6.58%) Cloudera CDH
3 5 (6.58%) Hadoop
4 3 (3.95%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (3.95%) MongoDB
4 3 (3.95%) Neo4j
5 1 (1.32%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (14.47%) Git
2 7 (9.21%) GitLab
3 6 (7.89%) JIRA
4 1 (1.32%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.32%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.32%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.32%) SonarQube
General
1 10 (13.16%) Social Skills
2 7 (9.21%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (7.89%) Law
4 5 (6.58%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (5.26%) Aerospace
6 3 (3.95%) Finance
6 3 (3.95%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.32%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 22 (28.95%) DevOps Engineer
2 20 (26.32%) Linux Engineer
3 18 (23.68%) Linux Systems Engineer
3 18 (23.68%) Systems Engineer
4 15 (19.74%) DevOps Systems Engineer
4 15 (19.74%) Linux DevOps Engineer
4 15 (19.74%) Linux/Unix DevOps
5 11 (14.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 9 (11.84%) Support Engineer
7 8 (10.53%) Site Engineer
7 8 (10.53%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 7 (9.21%) IT Engineer
9 6 (7.89%) Administrator
9 6 (7.89%) IT Support
9 6 (7.89%) IT Support Engineer
9 6 (7.89%) Linux Administrator
9 6 (7.89%) Linux Systems Administrator
9 6 (7.89%) Systems Administrator
10 5 (6.58%) Junior
10 5 (6.58%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (10.53%) REST
2 6 (7.89%) Node.js
2 6 (7.89%) React
3 5 (6.58%) AngularJS
3 5 (6.58%) ARM Templates
3 5 (6.58%) gRPC
3 5 (6.58%) Material-UI
3 5 (6.58%) OpenAPI
3 5 (6.58%) RabbitMQ
3 5 (6.58%) Spring
3 5 (6.58%) Spring Boot
3 5 (6.58%) Swagger
4 4 (5.26%) pytest
5 3 (3.95%) Flask
5 3 (3.95%) FreeSWITCH
5 3 (3.95%) Jinja
5 3 (3.95%) OAuth2
5 3 (3.95%) RFC 2833
5 3 (3.95%) SQLAlchemy
5 3 (3.95%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.89%) Replication
2 5 (6.58%) Cloud Native
2 5 (6.58%) Management Information System
3 4 (5.26%) Data Centre
4 3 (3.95%) Driving Licence
4 3 (3.95%) IoT
4 3 (3.95%) Onboarding
4 3 (3.95%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.63%) Distributed Computing
5 2 (2.63%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.63%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.63%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.63%) Raspberry Pi
5 2 (2.63%) Robotics
5 2 (2.63%) Video Conferencing
6 1 (1.32%) Clustering
6 1 (1.32%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 76 (100.00%) Linux
2 27 (35.53%) Windows
3 24 (31.58%) CentOS
4 22 (28.95%) Windows Server
5 14 (18.42%) Debian
5 14 (18.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (7.89%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (6.58%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (3.95%) SUSE
9 2 (2.63%) Mac OS
10 1 (1.32%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (40.79%) DevOps
2 25 (32.89%) Infrastructure as Code
3 22 (28.95%) Problem-Solving
4 19 (25.00%) Agile
5 18 (23.68%) Containerisation
6 15 (19.74%) CI/CD
7 12 (15.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 10 (13.16%) Configuration Management
8 10 (13.16%) Mentoring
8 10 (13.16%) Open Source
9 8 (10.53%) Observability
9 8 (10.53%) Platform Engineering
9 8 (10.53%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 7 (9.21%) Collaborative Culture
10 7 (9.21%) Collaborative Working
10 7 (9.21%) Service Delivery
11 6 (7.89%) Application Packaging
11 6 (7.89%) Asset Management
11 6 (7.89%) Computer Science
11 6 (7.89%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 36 (47.37%) Bash
2 22 (28.95%) Python
3 16 (21.05%) PowerShell
4 5 (6.58%) Java
4 5 (6.58%) JavaScript
5 4 (5.26%) PHP
5 4 (5.26%) SQL
6 3 (3.95%) C
6 3 (3.95%) C++
7 2 (2.63%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 18 (23.68%) Security Cleared
2 11 (14.47%) SC Cleared
3 7 (9.21%) Degree
4 6 (7.89%) DV Cleared
5 3 (3.95%) HNC
5 3 (3.95%) HND
6 2 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.63%) CCNA
6 2 (2.63%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (2.63%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (3.95%) PCI DSS
2 2 (2.63%) GDPR
System Software
1 17 (22.37%) Docker
2 14 (18.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (14.47%) vSphere
4 6 (7.89%) Active Directory
4 6 (7.89%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (3.95%) iptables
5 3 (3.95%) Kamailio
6 2 (2.63%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (1.32%) GPFS
7 1 (1.32%) KVM
7 1 (1.32%) Lustre
7 1 (1.32%) QEMU
7 1 (1.32%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (1.32%) Xen
Systems Management
1 50 (65.79%) Terraform
2 49 (64.47%) Ansible
3 30 (39.47%) Kubernetes
4 9 (11.84%) Puppet
4 9 (11.84%) vCenter Server
5 8 (10.53%) Nagios
6 6 (7.89%) Nessus
7 5 (6.58%) Podman
7 5 (6.58%) Progress Chef
8 4 (5.26%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (3.95%) Argo
9 3 (3.95%) Docker Swarm
9 3 (3.95%) Galera Cluster
9 3 (3.95%) Grafana
9 3 (3.95%) Prometheus
9 3 (3.95%) Red Hat Satellite
9 3 (3.95%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (3.95%) systemd
Vendors
1 42 (55.26%) Red Hat
2 26 (34.21%) Microsoft
3 18 (23.68%) VMware
4 8 (10.53%) Splunk
5 5 (6.58%) Cisco
5 5 (6.58%) Google
5 5 (6.58%) SaltStack
6 4 (5.26%) Facebook
6 4 (5.26%) Instagram
7 3 (3.95%) BT
7 3 (3.95%) Fortinet
7 3 (3.95%) Mitel
8 2 (2.63%) Meraki
8 2 (2.63%) Synology
8 2 (2.63%) Veeam
9 1 (1.32%) Dell