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

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 478 434 519
Rank change year-on-year -44 +85 +52
Permanent jobs citing Ubuntu 36 114 128
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.076% 0.35% 0.26%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.04% 2.23% 1.63%
Number of salaries quoted 26 76 119
10th Percentile £46,750 - £37,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £32,500 £41,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.44% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £64,688 £54,375 £64,375
90th Percentile £74,375 £60,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £51,250 £56,000
% change year-on-year +17.07% -8.48% -2.61%

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 3,465 5,117 7,865
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.33% 15.60% 15.92%
Number of salaries quoted 2,532 2,710 6,620
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,250 £25,500
25th Percentile £29,750 £32,000 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,500 £47,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.95% +11.76% -5.56%
75th Percentile £53,750 £61,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £70,325
UK median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% +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 12 February 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 12 February 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 16 £50,000 - 8
North West +13 8 £55,500 +38.75% 7
North of England -12 8 £55,500 +23.33% 10
South West -8 5 £72,500 +38.10% 4
Wales - 4 - - 3
Scotland -10 3 £53,750 +43.33% 3
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 5 (13.89%) Apache
1 5 (13.89%) Apache Spark
2 3 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.78%) Confluence
3 1 (2.78%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 24 (66.67%) Azure
2 20 (55.56%) AWS
3 11 (30.56%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (25.00%) SaaS
5 7 (19.44%) Amazon EKS
5 7 (19.44%) AWS CloudFormation
5 7 (19.44%) OpenShift
6 6 (16.67%) GitHub
7 5 (13.89%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (13.89%) GCP
7 5 (13.89%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (13.89%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (13.89%) Serverless
8 4 (11.11%) Entra ID
8 4 (11.11%) Google Workspace
8 4 (11.11%) SurveyMonkey
9 2 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (5.56%) Route 53
9 2 (5.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (27.78%) Firewall
2 7 (19.44%) VLAN
2 7 (19.44%) Wireshark
3 5 (13.89%) AMQP
3 5 (13.89%) TCP/IP
4 4 (11.11%) Bluetooth
4 4 (11.11%) Intrusion Detection
4 4 (11.11%) Modbus
4 4 (11.11%) Network Security
4 4 (11.11%) VoIP
4 4 (11.11%) ZigBee
5 3 (8.33%) HTTP
5 3 (8.33%) RTP
5 3 (8.33%) Unified Communications
5 3 (8.33%) VPN
6 1 (2.78%) DNS
6 1 (2.78%) Internet
6 1 (2.78%) NetScaler
6 1 (2.78%) SAN
6 1 (2.78%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (13.89%) Big Data
1 5 (13.89%) Cloudera CDH
1 5 (13.89%) Hadoop
2 3 (8.33%) MongoDB
2 3 (8.33%) MySQL
3 1 (2.78%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (16.67%) GitLab
2 5 (13.89%) Git
3 4 (11.11%) Burp Suite
3 4 (11.11%) Metasploit
4 3 (8.33%) Jenkins
5 2 (5.56%) CircleCI
6 1 (2.78%) JIRA
General
1 9 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (22.22%) Aerospace
3 4 (11.11%) Law
3 4 (11.11%) Manufacturing
4 2 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (30.56%) DevOps Engineer
2 10 (27.78%) Linux Engineer
3 9 (25.00%) DevOps Systems Engineer
3 9 (25.00%) Linux DevOps Engineer
3 9 (25.00%) Linux Systems Engineer
3 9 (25.00%) Linux/Unix DevOps
3 9 (25.00%) Systems Engineer
4 7 (19.44%) Platform Engineer
5 5 (13.89%) Software Engineer
6 4 (11.11%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
7 3 (8.33%) Developer
7 3 (8.33%) Python Developer
7 3 (8.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 2 (5.56%) Azure Platform Engineer
8 2 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
8 2 (5.56%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 2 (5.56%) DevOps Platform Engineer
8 2 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (5.56%) Lead
8 2 (5.56%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (22.22%) REST
2 5 (13.89%) AngularJS
2 5 (13.89%) gRPC
2 5 (13.89%) Material-UI
2 5 (13.89%) Node.js
2 5 (13.89%) OpenAPI
2 5 (13.89%) RabbitMQ
2 5 (13.89%) React
2 5 (13.89%) Spring
2 5 (13.89%) Spring Boot
2 5 (13.89%) Swagger
3 3 (8.33%) Django
3 3 (8.33%) Flask
3 3 (8.33%) FreeSWITCH
3 3 (8.33%) Jinja
3 3 (8.33%) OAuth
3 3 (8.33%) OAuth2
3 3 (8.33%) pytest
3 3 (8.33%) RFC 2833
3 3 (8.33%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.89%) Cloud Native
2 4 (11.11%) CAN bus
2 4 (11.11%) Cyber Threat
2 4 (11.11%) IoT
2 4 (11.11%) Operational Technology
2 4 (11.11%) SCADA
3 3 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (5.56%) Management Information System
4 2 (5.56%) Mobile App
4 2 (5.56%) Onboarding
4 2 (5.56%) Robotics
4 2 (5.56%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (2.78%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (2.78%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.78%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (2.78%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 36 (100.00%) Linux
2 12 (33.33%) Debian
3 9 (25.00%) Windows
4 8 (22.22%) CentOS
5 7 (19.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (16.67%) Windows Server
7 4 (11.11%) Android
7 4 (11.11%) Kali Linux
8 2 (5.56%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (2.78%) Rocky
9 1 (2.78%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (55.56%) DevOps
2 15 (41.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 14 (38.89%) Containerisation
4 11 (30.56%) CI/CD
5 8 (22.22%) AI
5 8 (22.22%) Configuration Management
5 8 (22.22%) Open Source
5 8 (22.22%) Platform Engineering
6 7 (19.44%) Agile
7 6 (16.67%) Innovative Thinking
7 6 (16.67%) User Experience
8 5 (13.89%) API Development
8 5 (13.89%) Collaborative Working
8 5 (13.89%) Cybersecurity
8 5 (13.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 5 (13.89%) Kanban
8 5 (13.89%) Microservices
8 5 (13.89%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 5 (13.89%) Scrum
8 5 (13.89%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 20 (55.56%) Python
2 15 (41.67%) Bash
3 9 (25.00%) Java
4 7 (19.44%) C++
5 6 (16.67%) PowerShell
6 5 (13.89%) JavaScript
7 4 (11.11%) R
7 4 (11.11%) Rust
8 3 (8.33%) C
9 1 (2.78%) PHP
Qualifications
1 14 (38.89%) Security Cleared
2 12 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 6 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
3 6 (16.67%) Degree
3 6 (16.67%) DV Cleared
4 4 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (5.56%) CCNA
6 2 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (5.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (2.78%) Azure Certification
7 1 (2.78%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (2.78%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (8.33%) PCI DSS
2 2 (5.56%) GDPR
System Software
1 8 (22.22%) Docker
2 4 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (8.33%) Kamailio
3 3 (8.33%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (5.56%) Active Directory
4 2 (5.56%) vSphere
5 1 (2.78%) Hyper-V
5 1 (2.78%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 26 (72.22%) Ansible
2 24 (66.67%) Terraform
3 17 (47.22%) Kubernetes
4 6 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (13.89%) Puppet
6 4 (11.11%) Nessus
6 4 (11.11%) Nmap
7 3 (8.33%) Argo
8 2 (5.56%) Grafana
8 2 (5.56%) Nagios
8 2 (5.56%) Prometheus
9 1 (2.78%) AirWatch
9 1 (2.78%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (2.78%) Podman
9 1 (2.78%) Proxmox
9 1 (2.78%) SCCM
9 1 (2.78%) SCOM
9 1 (2.78%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 23 (63.89%) Red Hat
2 9 (25.00%) Cisco
2 9 (25.00%) Google
2 9 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 8 (22.22%) Splunk
4 5 (13.89%) Fortinet
4 5 (13.89%) SaltStack
5 4 (11.11%) Mitel
5 4 (11.11%) Qualtrics
5 4 (11.11%) VMware
6 3 (8.33%) BT
7 2 (5.56%) Palo Alto
8 1 (2.78%) Citrix
8 1 (2.78%) Commvault
8 1 (2.78%) Juniper
8 1 (2.78%) Peplink
8 1 (2.78%) SolarWinds
8 1 (2.78%) Ubiquiti
8 1 (2.78%) Veeam
8 1 (2.78%) Veritas