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

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 562 501 400
Rank change year-on-year -61 -101 +8
Permanent jobs citing Ubuntu 106 39 232
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.12% 0.11% 0.45%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.14% 0.85% 3.46%
Number of salaries quoted 83 22 119
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +33.33% -22.41%
75th Percentile £65,518 £65,625 £57,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £75,000 £65,500
UK median annual salary £58,750 £61,250 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.08% +22.50% -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 4,955 4,605 6,709
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 5.73% 13.32% 13.07%
Number of salaries quoted 3,703 2,812 3,773
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,188 £30,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £37,733 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.63% -20.56% +0.51%
75th Percentile £61,250 £50,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £76,250
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 10 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 10 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 -12 47 £56,250 +60.71% 18
North of England -47 19 £48,750 -18.75% 8
North West -17 13 £40,000 -33.33% 7
Midlands -42 12 £60,000 +50.00% 2
Scotland +16 10 £63,451 - 7
West Midlands -48 10 £60,000 +54.84% 1
South West -72 8 £42,500 -41.38% 10
East of England -30 7 £80,000 +60.00% 10
North East - 5 £65,000 - 1
Wales -77 3 £35,000 - 3
East Midlands -34 2 £41,000 +2.50% 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 27 (25.47%) Apache
2 17 (16.04%) IIS
3 8 (7.55%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (7.55%) nginx
3 8 (7.55%) SharePoint
4 7 (6.60%) Apache Spark
4 7 (6.60%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 48 (45.28%) Azure
2 39 (36.79%) Microsoft 365
3 37 (34.91%) AWS
4 30 (28.30%) Entra ID
5 20 (18.87%) SaaS
6 11 (10.38%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (10.38%) OpenShift
7 10 (9.43%) GCP
8 9 (8.49%) Microsoft Copilot
9 8 (7.55%) Power Automate
10 7 (6.60%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (6.60%) AWS CloudFormation
10 7 (6.60%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (6.60%) Serverless
11 6 (5.66%) GitHub
11 6 (5.66%) Google Workspace
12 4 (3.77%) Azure Stack
12 4 (3.77%) GitHub Actions
13 1 (0.94%) Azure AKS
13 1 (0.94%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 34 (32.08%) DNS
2 27 (25.47%) TCP/IP
3 24 (22.64%) Firewall
4 21 (19.81%) DHCP
5 19 (17.92%) VLAN
6 18 (16.98%) VPN
7 8 (7.55%) Wi-Fi
8 7 (6.60%) AMQP
9 6 (5.66%) VoIP
10 5 (4.72%) LAN
10 5 (4.72%) WAN
11 3 (2.83%) SAN
12 2 (1.89%) Asterisk PBX
12 2 (1.89%) NAS
12 2 (1.89%) Network Security
12 2 (1.89%) WireGuard
13 1 (0.94%) InfiniBand
13 1 (0.94%) LoRaWAN
13 1 (0.94%) Structured Cabling
13 1 (0.94%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (22.64%) MySQL
2 14 (13.21%) SQL Server
3 7 (6.60%) Big Data
3 7 (6.60%) Cloudera CDH
3 7 (6.60%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.94%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.94%) Neo4j
4 1 (0.94%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (8.49%) Git
1 9 (8.49%) JIRA
2 7 (6.60%) GitLab
3 5 (4.72%) Bitbucket
4 3 (2.83%) Cypress.io
5 2 (1.89%) Artifactory
5 2 (1.89%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.94%) SonarQube
General
1 21 (19.81%) Social Skills
2 8 (7.55%) Documentation Skills
3 7 (6.60%) Aerospace
3 7 (6.60%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (2.83%) Legal
4 3 (2.83%) Manufacturing
5 2 (1.89%) Law
5 2 (1.89%) Telecoms
6 1 (0.94%) Advertising
6 1 (0.94%) Agriculture
6 1 (0.94%) Finance
6 1 (0.94%) Games
6 1 (0.94%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (25.47%) Support Engineer
2 24 (22.64%) IT Engineer
3 20 (18.87%) Senior
4 18 (16.98%) DevOps Engineer
4 18 (16.98%) IT Support
4 18 (16.98%) IT Support Engineer
5 16 (15.09%) Linux Engineer
6 15 (14.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 13 (12.26%) Systems Engineer
8 11 (10.38%) Technical Support
9 10 (9.43%) Administrator
9 10 (9.43%) Developer
9 10 (9.43%) Systems Administrator
10 9 (8.49%) Linux Administrator
10 9 (8.49%) Linux Systems Administrator
10 9 (8.49%) Software Engineer
11 8 (7.55%) Linux Systems Engineer
11 8 (7.55%) Senior Developer
11 8 (7.55%) Technical Engineer
11 8 (7.55%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (34.91%) Terraform
2 16 (15.09%) React
3 15 (14.15%) Node.js
4 7 (6.60%) AngularJS
4 7 (6.60%) gRPC
4 7 (6.60%) Material-UI
4 7 (6.60%) OpenAPI
4 7 (6.60%) RabbitMQ
4 7 (6.60%) REST
4 7 (6.60%) Spring
4 7 (6.60%) Spring Boot
4 7 (6.60%) Swagger
5 6 (5.66%) ARM Templates
6 5 (4.72%) CSS
6 5 (4.72%) HTML
6 5 (4.72%) Ruby on Rails
7 4 (3.77%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (3.77%) LAMP
8 3 (2.83%) Jest
8 3 (2.83%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.55%) Replication
2 7 (6.60%) Cloud Native
2 7 (6.60%) Onboarding
3 4 (3.77%) Data Centre
4 3 (2.83%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (2.83%) Robotics
5 2 (1.89%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.89%) Distributed Computing
5 2 (1.89%) Educational Technology
5 2 (1.89%) IoT
5 2 (1.89%) Raspberry Pi
6 1 (0.94%) Clustering
6 1 (0.94%) CUDA
6 1 (0.94%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.94%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.94%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.94%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 106 (100.00%) Linux
2 49 (46.23%) Windows
3 40 (37.74%) Windows Server
4 32 (30.19%) Debian
5 21 (19.81%) CentOS
6 20 (18.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 12 (11.32%) Windows Server 2016
8 8 (7.55%) Rocky
9 4 (3.77%) Unix
9 4 (3.77%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (2.83%) Mac OS
10 3 (2.83%) Robot Operating System
11 1 (0.94%) Solaris
11 1 (0.94%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (29.25%) DevOps
2 27 (25.47%) Agile
3 25 (23.58%) Problem-Solving
4 24 (22.64%) Infrastructure as Code
5 22 (20.75%) AI
5 22 (20.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 19 (17.92%) CI/CD
6 19 (17.92%) Continuous Improvement
6 19 (17.92%) Disaster Recovery
7 18 (16.98%) Software Engineering
8 17 (16.04%) Scrum
9 14 (13.21%) Customer Service
9 14 (13.21%) Migration
10 12 (11.32%) Containerisation
11 10 (9.43%) Change Management
11 10 (9.43%) Configuration Management
11 10 (9.43%) Cybersecurity
11 10 (9.43%) Incident Management
11 10 (9.43%) Service Delivery
12 9 (8.49%) Presales
Programming Languages
1 34 (32.08%) PowerShell
2 33 (31.13%) Bash
3 32 (30.19%) Python
4 13 (12.26%) PHP
5 12 (11.32%) JavaScript
6 8 (7.55%) Ruby
7 7 (6.60%) Java
8 5 (4.72%) Shell Script
8 5 (4.72%) TypeScript
9 4 (3.77%) SQL
10 2 (1.89%) Bicep
11 1 (0.94%) C#
11 1 (0.94%) Perl
Qualifications
1 22 (20.75%) Security Cleared
2 15 (14.15%) SC Cleared
3 14 (13.21%) DV Cleared
4 9 (8.49%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (5.66%) Degree
6 3 (2.83%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.83%) HNC
6 3 (2.83%) HND
7 1 (0.94%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.94%) Linux+ Certification
7 1 (0.94%) RHCE
7 1 (0.94%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.55%) SLA
2 3 (2.83%) QA
System Software
1 29 (27.36%) VMware Infrastructure
2 28 (26.42%) Active Directory
3 20 (18.87%) Docker
4 10 (9.43%) VMware ESXi
5 9 (8.49%) vSphere
6 6 (5.66%) Hyper-V
7 4 (3.77%) iptables
7 4 (3.77%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (2.83%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (1.89%) Xen
10 1 (0.94%) Ceph
10 1 (0.94%) GPFS
10 1 (0.94%) KVM
10 1 (0.94%) Lustre
10 1 (0.94%) LXC
Systems Management
1 42 (39.62%) Ansible
2 30 (28.30%) Kubernetes
3 13 (12.26%) Puppet
4 8 (7.55%) WSUS
5 6 (5.66%) Podman
6 5 (4.72%) Progress Chef
6 5 (4.72%) vCenter Server
7 4 (3.77%) Docker Swarm
7 4 (3.77%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (3.77%) Nagios
7 4 (3.77%) Nessus
7 4 (3.77%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (2.83%) Grafana
8 3 (2.83%) Prometheus
8 3 (2.83%) Red Hat Satellite
9 2 (1.89%) FlexNet
9 2 (1.89%) Rancher
9 2 (1.89%) ZABBIX
10 1 (0.94%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.94%) Galera Cluster
Vendors
1 45 (42.45%) Microsoft
2 37 (34.91%) VMware
3 35 (33.02%) Red Hat
4 17 (16.04%) Veeam
5 16 (15.09%) SonicWALL
6 14 (13.21%) Dell
7 13 (12.26%) Google
8 10 (9.43%) NetApp
9 8 (7.55%) Aruba
9 8 (7.55%) CheckPoint
9 8 (7.55%) Citrix
9 8 (7.55%) HP
9 8 (7.55%) Palo Alto
10 7 (6.60%) SaltStack
11 4 (3.77%) Cisco
11 4 (3.77%) NVIDIA
11 4 (3.77%) Splunk
12 3 (2.83%) Synology
12 3 (2.83%) YouTube
13 2 (1.89%) Meraki