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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 529 494 420
Rank change year-on-year -35 -74 +61
Permanent jobs citing Ubuntu 102 57 266
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.14% 0.17% 0.43%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.17% 1.10% 3.24%
Number of salaries quoted 78 41 139
10th Percentile £34,700 £32,500 £33,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +5.26% -20.83%
75th Percentile £73,750 £62,500 £56,875
90th Percentile £82,500 £65,000 £82,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% - -20.32%

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 4,695 5,184 8,199
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.28% 15.12% 13.30%
Number of salaries quoted 3,648 3,347 6,019
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,250 £25,750
25th Percentile £31,000 £30,750 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £39,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.97% -13.33% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £52,927 £57,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £71,250
UK median annual salary £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.88% -10.53% -9.52%

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 August 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 August 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 +9 52 £65,000 +30.00% 15
North of England -36 17 £50,000 -16.67% 5
Midlands -41 14 £41,000 +2.50% 3
North West -6 9 £51,250 -14.58% 4
East Midlands -27 8 £26,265 -34.34%
East of England -13 7 £80,000 +28.00% 3
North East - 7 £50,000 - 1
West Midlands -40 6 £55,000 +57.14% 3
South West -67 5 £42,500 -33.33% 3
Scotland +12 4 £80,000 +60.00% 2
Wales -62 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 14 (13.73%) Apache
2 8 (7.84%) Confluence
3 6 (5.88%) IIS
4 4 (3.92%) Apache Spark
4 4 (3.92%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (3.92%) SharePoint
5 3 (2.94%) nginx
6 1 (0.98%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 50 (49.02%) Azure
2 39 (38.24%) AWS
3 27 (26.47%) Microsoft 365
4 24 (23.53%) SaaS
5 13 (12.75%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (10.78%) Entra ID
6 11 (10.78%) OpenShift
7 8 (7.84%) GCP
8 7 (6.86%) Azure Stack
9 5 (4.90%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (3.92%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (3.92%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (3.92%) GitHub
10 4 (3.92%) Microsoft Copilot
10 4 (3.92%) Serverless
11 3 (2.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (2.94%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (2.94%) Amazon S3
11 3 (2.94%) Power Automate
11 3 (2.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 24 (23.53%) Firewall
2 15 (14.71%) TCP/IP
3 11 (10.78%) DNS
4 10 (9.80%) VPN
5 8 (7.84%) VoIP
6 7 (6.86%) VLAN
7 6 (5.88%) LAN
7 6 (5.88%) WAN
8 5 (4.90%) DHCP
8 5 (4.90%) SAN
9 4 (3.92%) AMQP
9 4 (3.92%) LoRaWAN
9 4 (3.92%) MQTT
9 4 (3.92%) NAS
10 3 (2.94%) Asterisk PBX
10 3 (2.94%) Network Security
10 3 (2.94%) SSH
10 3 (2.94%) Wi-Fi
11 2 (1.96%) WireGuard
12 1 (0.98%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (24.51%) MySQL
2 13 (12.75%) SQL Server
3 4 (3.92%) Big Data
3 4 (3.92%) Cloudera CDH
3 4 (3.92%) Hadoop
3 4 (3.92%) Neo4j
4 3 (2.94%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.98%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.98%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (11.76%) Git
1 12 (11.76%) JIRA
2 8 (7.84%) GitLab
3 5 (4.90%) Bitbucket
4 3 (2.94%) Cypress.io
4 3 (2.94%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.96%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.98%) SonarQube
General
1 11 (10.78%) Analytical Skills
1 11 (10.78%) Social Skills
2 9 (8.82%) Documentation Skills
3 7 (6.86%) Law
4 6 (5.88%) Manufacturing
5 4 (3.92%) Aerospace
5 4 (3.92%) Finance
6 2 (1.96%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.98%) Advertising
7 1 (0.98%) Electronics
7 1 (0.98%) Games
7 1 (0.98%) Legal
Job Titles
1 20 (19.61%) DevOps Engineer
2 18 (17.65%) Linux Engineer
3 17 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 17 (16.67%) Senior
4 16 (15.69%) Support Engineer
5 14 (13.73%) Systems Engineer
6 13 (12.75%) Linux Systems Engineer
7 12 (11.76%) Administrator
7 12 (11.76%) Linux Administrator
7 12 (11.76%) Linux Systems Administrator
7 12 (11.76%) Systems Administrator
8 11 (10.78%) IT Engineer
9 10 (9.80%) Developer
9 10 (9.80%) DevOps Systems Engineer
9 10 (9.80%) Linux DevOps Engineer
9 10 (9.80%) Linux/Unix DevOps
10 9 (8.82%) IT Support
10 9 (8.82%) IT Support Engineer
10 9 (8.82%) Site Engineer
10 9 (8.82%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (8.82%) Node.js
1 9 (8.82%) React
2 8 (7.84%) ARM Templates
3 5 (4.90%) CSS
3 5 (4.90%) HTML
3 5 (4.90%) REST
3 5 (4.90%) Ruby on Rails
4 4 (3.92%) AngularJS
4 4 (3.92%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (3.92%) gRPC
4 4 (3.92%) LAMP
4 4 (3.92%) Material-UI
4 4 (3.92%) OpenAPI
4 4 (3.92%) pytest
4 4 (3.92%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (3.92%) Spring
4 4 (3.92%) Spring Boot
4 4 (3.92%) Swagger
5 3 (2.94%) Jest
6 2 (1.96%) Redfish
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.86%) Replication
2 4 (3.92%) Cloud Native
2 4 (3.92%) Data Centre
2 4 (3.92%) Driving Licence
2 4 (3.92%) IoT
3 3 (2.94%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.96%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (1.96%) Clustering
4 2 (1.96%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (1.96%) Educational Technology
4 2 (1.96%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (1.96%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.96%) Public Cloud
4 2 (1.96%) Raspberry Pi
5 1 (0.98%) CUDA
5 1 (0.98%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (0.98%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.98%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 102 (100.00%) Linux
2 40 (39.22%) Windows
3 36 (35.29%) Windows Server
4 29 (28.43%) CentOS
5 24 (23.53%) Debian
6 18 (17.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 11 (10.78%) Windows Server 2016
8 6 (5.88%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (2.94%) Mac OS
9 3 (2.94%) SUSE
10 2 (1.96%) Rocky
10 2 (1.96%) Unix
11 1 (0.98%) Solaris
11 1 (0.98%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (37.25%) DevOps
2 33 (32.35%) Agile
3 28 (27.45%) Infrastructure as Code
3 28 (27.45%) Problem-Solving
4 23 (22.55%) CI/CD
5 20 (19.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 14 (13.73%) Containerisation
6 14 (13.73%) Scrum
7 13 (12.75%) Observability
8 11 (10.78%) Collaborative Culture
8 11 (10.78%) Disaster Recovery
8 11 (10.78%) Mentoring
9 10 (9.80%) AI
9 10 (9.80%) Continuous Improvement
9 10 (9.80%) Incident Response
10 9 (8.82%) Configuration Management
10 9 (8.82%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 9 (8.82%) Software Engineering
11 8 (7.84%) High Availability
11 8 (7.84%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 42 (41.18%) Bash
2 32 (31.37%) Python
3 26 (25.49%) PowerShell
4 13 (12.75%) PHP
5 9 (8.82%) JavaScript
6 8 (7.84%) Ruby
7 5 (4.90%) SQL
7 5 (4.90%) TypeScript
8 4 (3.92%) Java
8 4 (3.92%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.98%) Bicep
9 1 (0.98%) C
9 1 (0.98%) C#
9 1 (0.98%) C++
9 1 (0.98%) Perl
Qualifications
1 24 (23.53%) Security Cleared
2 13 (12.75%) SC Cleared
3 11 (10.78%) DV Cleared
4 5 (4.90%) Degree
5 3 (2.94%) HNC
5 3 (2.94%) HND
5 3 (2.94%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.98%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.98%) Linux+ Certification
6 1 (0.98%) RHCE
6 1 (0.98%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.94%) SLA
2 1 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.98%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 28 (27.45%) VMware Infrastructure
2 25 (24.51%) Docker
3 15 (14.71%) Active Directory
3 15 (14.71%) vSphere
4 8 (7.84%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (5.88%) iptables
6 3 (2.94%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 3 (2.94%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (2.94%) Xen
7 2 (1.96%) Hyper-V
7 2 (1.96%) KVM
8 1 (0.98%) Ceph
8 1 (0.98%) GPFS
8 1 (0.98%) Kamailio
8 1 (0.98%) Lustre
8 1 (0.98%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 53 (51.96%) Ansible
2 50 (49.02%) Terraform
3 40 (39.22%) Kubernetes
4 12 (11.76%) Puppet
4 12 (11.76%) vCenter Server
5 9 (8.82%) Nagios
6 8 (7.84%) Nessus
7 7 (6.86%) Podman
8 5 (4.90%) Docker Swarm
8 5 (4.90%) Grafana
8 5 (4.90%) Progress Chef
8 5 (4.90%) Prometheus
8 5 (4.90%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (3.92%) Galera Cluster
10 3 (2.94%) Red Hat Satellite
10 3 (2.94%) systemd
10 3 (2.94%) WSUS
11 2 (1.96%) FlexNet
11 2 (1.96%) Rancher
11 2 (1.96%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 42 (41.18%) Red Hat
2 36 (35.29%) Microsoft
3 32 (31.37%) VMware
4 9 (8.82%) Splunk
5 6 (5.88%) SonicWALL
5 6 (5.88%) Veeam
6 5 (4.90%) NetApp
7 4 (3.92%) Cisco
7 4 (3.92%) Dell
7 4 (3.92%) Facebook
7 4 (3.92%) Google
7 4 (3.92%) Instagram
7 4 (3.92%) SaltStack
8 3 (2.94%) Aruba
8 3 (2.94%) CheckPoint
8 3 (2.94%) Citrix
8 3 (2.94%) HP
8 3 (2.94%) Palo Alto
8 3 (2.94%) Synology
9 2 (1.96%) Meraki