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

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 548 496 400
Rank change year-on-year -52 -96 +40
Permanent jobs citing Ubuntu 114 51 251
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.14% 0.15% 0.45%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.36% 1.04% 3.52%
Number of salaries quoted 90 34 118
10th Percentile £33,875 £33,000 £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 £66,036 £65,000 £55,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £75,000 £70,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +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 4,826 4,897 7,126
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 5.86% 14.18% 12.77%
Number of salaries quoted 3,749 3,063 4,408
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £38,325 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.89% -14.83% -3.39%
75th Percentile £61,250 £50,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £74,326
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 9 September 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 9 September 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 +18 54 £55,000 +57.14% 15
North of England -52 18 £50,000 -16.67% 8
Midlands -56 15 £60,000 +50.00% 2
Scotland +13 10 £63,451 +26.90% 4
North West -14 10 £50,000 -16.67% 6
West Midlands -40 10 £60,000 +14.29% 2
East of England -30 7 £80,000 +36.17% 5
South West -70 7 £45,000 -37.93% 2
North East - 7 £50,000 - 2
East Midlands -34 5 £41,000 +2.50%
Wales -69 3 £35,000 -26.32% 1
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 22 (19.30%) Apache
2 13 (11.40%) IIS
3 9 (7.89%) SharePoint
4 8 (7.02%) nginx
5 7 (6.14%) Confluence
6 5 (4.39%) Apache Spark
6 5 (4.39%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (1.75%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 51 (44.74%) Azure
2 41 (35.96%) AWS
3 40 (35.09%) Microsoft 365
4 26 (22.81%) Entra ID
5 24 (21.05%) SaaS
6 12 (10.53%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (9.65%) OpenShift
8 9 (7.89%) Microsoft Copilot
9 8 (7.02%) GCP
9 8 (7.02%) Power Automate
10 5 (4.39%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (4.39%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (4.39%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (4.39%) GitHub
10 5 (4.39%) Google Workspace
10 5 (4.39%) Serverless
11 4 (3.51%) Azure Stack
12 3 (2.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 3 (2.63%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (2.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 29 (25.44%) DNS
2 27 (23.68%) Firewall
3 24 (21.05%) TCP/IP
4 17 (14.91%) VPN
5 16 (14.04%) DHCP
6 14 (12.28%) VLAN
7 7 (6.14%) VoIP
8 6 (5.26%) LAN
8 6 (5.26%) WAN
9 5 (4.39%) AMQP
9 5 (4.39%) SAN
9 5 (4.39%) Wi-Fi
10 4 (3.51%) LoRaWAN
10 4 (3.51%) MQTT
10 4 (3.51%) NAS
11 3 (2.63%) Asterisk PBX
11 3 (2.63%) SSH
12 2 (1.75%) Network Security
12 2 (1.75%) WireGuard
13 1 (0.88%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (22.81%) MySQL
2 15 (13.16%) SQL Server
3 5 (4.39%) Big Data
3 5 (4.39%) Cloudera CDH
3 5 (4.39%) Hadoop
4 4 (3.51%) Neo4j
5 3 (2.63%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (8.77%) Git
2 9 (7.89%) JIRA
3 7 (6.14%) GitLab
4 5 (4.39%) Bitbucket
5 3 (2.63%) Cypress.io
5 3 (2.63%) Jenkins
6 2 (1.75%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.88%) SonarQube
General
1 21 (18.42%) Social Skills
2 8 (7.02%) Documentation Skills
3 7 (6.14%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (6.14%) Law
4 6 (5.26%) Manufacturing
5 5 (4.39%) Aerospace
6 4 (3.51%) Finance
7 3 (2.63%) Legal
8 2 (1.75%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.88%) Advertising
9 1 (0.88%) Agriculture
9 1 (0.88%) Electronics
9 1 (0.88%) Games
9 1 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (21.93%) Support Engineer
2 22 (19.30%) IT Engineer
3 20 (17.54%) DevOps Engineer
3 20 (17.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 19 (16.67%) Senior
5 17 (14.91%) Linux Engineer
6 16 (14.04%) IT Support
6 16 (14.04%) IT Support Engineer
7 14 (12.28%) Systems Engineer
8 12 (10.53%) Administrator
8 12 (10.53%) Systems Administrator
9 11 (9.65%) Linux Administrator
9 11 (9.65%) Linux Systems Administrator
9 11 (9.65%) Technical Support
10 10 (8.77%) Developer
11 9 (7.89%) DevOps Systems Engineer
11 9 (7.89%) Linux DevOps Engineer
11 9 (7.89%) Linux Systems Engineer
11 9 (7.89%) Linux/Unix DevOps
12 8 (7.02%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (35.96%) Terraform
2 14 (12.28%) React
3 13 (11.40%) Node.js
4 5 (4.39%) AngularJS
4 5 (4.39%) ARM Templates
4 5 (4.39%) CSS
4 5 (4.39%) gRPC
4 5 (4.39%) HTML
4 5 (4.39%) Material-UI
4 5 (4.39%) OpenAPI
4 5 (4.39%) RabbitMQ
4 5 (4.39%) REST
4 5 (4.39%) Ruby on Rails
4 5 (4.39%) Spring
4 5 (4.39%) Spring Boot
4 5 (4.39%) Swagger
5 4 (3.51%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (3.51%) LAMP
6 3 (2.63%) Jest
6 3 (2.63%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 12 (10.53%) Replication
2 6 (5.26%) Onboarding
3 5 (4.39%) Cloud Native
3 5 (4.39%) IoT
4 4 (3.51%) Driving Licence
5 3 (2.63%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.63%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (2.63%) Robotics
6 2 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.75%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (1.75%) Educational Technology
6 2 (1.75%) Raspberry Pi
7 1 (0.88%) Clustering
7 1 (0.88%) CUDA
7 1 (0.88%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (0.88%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.88%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.88%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.88%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 114 (100.00%) Linux
2 51 (44.74%) Windows
3 42 (36.84%) Windows Server
4 31 (27.19%) Debian
5 20 (17.54%) CentOS
6 17 (14.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 11 (9.65%) Windows Server 2016
8 7 (6.14%) Rocky
9 5 (4.39%) Windows Server 2019
10 4 (3.51%) Unix
11 3 (2.63%) Mac OS
11 3 (2.63%) Robot Operating System
12 1 (0.88%) Solaris
12 1 (0.88%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (29.82%) DevOps
2 30 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
3 28 (24.56%) Agile
4 27 (23.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 24 (21.05%) Infrastructure as Code
6 21 (18.42%) Continuous Improvement
6 21 (18.42%) Disaster Recovery
7 20 (17.54%) AI
7 20 (17.54%) CI/CD
8 16 (14.04%) Software Engineering
9 15 (13.16%) Scrum
10 14 (12.28%) Migration
11 12 (10.53%) Containerisation
11 12 (10.53%) Service Delivery
12 10 (8.77%) Asset Management
12 10 (8.77%) Customer Service
12 10 (8.77%) Cybersecurity
12 10 (8.77%) Mentoring
12 10 (8.77%) Technical Leadership
13 9 (7.89%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 39 (34.21%) Bash
2 35 (30.70%) PowerShell
3 32 (28.07%) Python
4 13 (11.40%) PHP
5 10 (8.77%) JavaScript
6 8 (7.02%) Ruby
7 6 (5.26%) SQL
8 5 (4.39%) Java
8 5 (4.39%) Shell Script
8 5 (4.39%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.88%) Bicep
9 1 (0.88%) C#
9 1 (0.88%) Perl
Qualifications
1 21 (18.42%) Security Cleared
2 13 (11.40%) DV Cleared
2 13 (11.40%) SC Cleared
3 8 (7.02%) Degree
4 5 (4.39%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.63%) HNC
6 3 (2.63%) HND
7 1 (0.88%) Linux+ Certification
7 1 (0.88%) RHCE
7 1 (0.88%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.02%) SLA
2 3 (2.63%) QA
System Software
1 33 (28.95%) VMware Infrastructure
2 27 (23.68%) Active Directory
3 21 (18.42%) Docker
4 14 (12.28%) vSphere
5 10 (8.77%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (5.26%) Hyper-V
6 6 (5.26%) iptables
7 3 (2.63%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 3 (2.63%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (2.63%) Xen
8 2 (1.75%) KVM
9 1 (0.88%) Ceph
9 1 (0.88%) GPFS
9 1 (0.88%) Lustre
9 1 (0.88%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 45 (39.47%) Ansible
2 31 (27.19%) Kubernetes
3 11 (9.65%) Puppet
3 11 (9.65%) vCenter Server
4 6 (5.26%) Nessus
4 6 (5.26%) Podman
5 5 (4.39%) Grafana
5 5 (4.39%) Nagios
5 5 (4.39%) Prometheus
5 5 (4.39%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (4.39%) WSUS
6 4 (3.51%) Docker Swarm
6 4 (3.51%) Galera Cluster
6 4 (3.51%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (3.51%) Progress Chef
7 3 (2.63%) Red Hat Satellite
7 3 (2.63%) systemd
8 2 (1.75%) FlexNet
8 2 (1.75%) Rancher
8 2 (1.75%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 48 (42.11%) Microsoft
2 42 (36.84%) VMware
3 38 (33.33%) Red Hat
4 13 (11.40%) SonicWALL
4 13 (11.40%) Veeam
5 11 (9.65%) Dell
6 10 (8.77%) Google
7 8 (7.02%) Citrix
8 7 (6.14%) NetApp
9 5 (4.39%) Aruba
9 5 (4.39%) CheckPoint
9 5 (4.39%) HP
9 5 (4.39%) Palo Alto
9 5 (4.39%) SaltStack
9 5 (4.39%) Splunk
10 4 (3.51%) Cisco
10 4 (3.51%) Facebook
10 4 (3.51%) Instagram
10 4 (3.51%) NVIDIA
11 3 (2.63%) Synology