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

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 490 427 536
Rank change year-on-year -63 +109 +53
Permanent jobs citing Ubuntu 41 96 159
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.079% 0.34% 0.27%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.15% 2.16% 1.73%
Number of salaries quoted 30 73 135
10th Percentile £30,752 - £36,100
25th Percentile £50,000 £32,500 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,875 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.21% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £72,188 £57,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £73,875 £60,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% - -8.70%

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 3,560 4,452 9,188
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.90% 15.74% 15.88%
Number of salaries quoted 2,627 2,772 7,668
10th Percentile £26,375 £26,250 £25,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £55,000 £61,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £68,750
UK median annual salary £45,000 £50,890 £47,000
% change year-on-year -11.57% +8.28% -10.48%

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 March 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 March 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 -32 22 £60,000 +14.29% 9
North West -15 6 £48,500 +4.30% 5
North of England -33 6 £48,500 +0.52% 8
Wales -5 4 - - 5
Midlands -37 4 £26,265 -24.96% 5
Scotland -9 3 £53,750 +43.33% 6
East Midlands -25 3 £26,265 -34.34% 1
South West -22 2 £67,500 +28.57% 3
West Midlands -18 1 - - 4
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 (12.20%) Apache
1 5 (12.20%) Apache Spark
2 3 (7.32%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.44%) Confluence
3 1 (2.44%) IIS
3 1 (2.44%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (7.32%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 27 (65.85%) Azure
2 16 (39.02%) AWS
3 11 (26.83%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (21.95%) SaaS
5 7 (17.07%) Amazon EKS
5 7 (17.07%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (17.07%) OpenShift
6 6 (14.63%) GCP
6 6 (14.63%) GitHub
7 5 (12.20%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (12.20%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (12.20%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (12.20%) Serverless
8 4 (9.76%) Entra ID
8 4 (9.76%) Google Workspace
8 4 (9.76%) SurveyMonkey
9 3 (7.32%) Azure Stack
10 2 (4.88%) Azure AKS
11 1 (2.44%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (24.39%) Firewall
2 7 (17.07%) VLAN
2 7 (17.07%) Wireshark
3 5 (12.20%) AMQP
3 5 (12.20%) Network Security
3 5 (12.20%) TCP/IP
4 4 (9.76%) Bluetooth
4 4 (9.76%) Intrusion Detection
4 4 (9.76%) Modbus
4 4 (9.76%) VoIP
4 4 (9.76%) ZigBee
5 3 (7.32%) HTTP
5 3 (7.32%) RTP
5 3 (7.32%) Unified Communications
5 3 (7.32%) VPN
6 1 (2.44%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (2.44%) DNS
6 1 (2.44%) NetScaler
6 1 (2.44%) PBX
6 1 (2.44%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (12.20%) Big Data
1 5 (12.20%) Cloudera CDH
1 5 (12.20%) Hadoop
2 3 (7.32%) MongoDB
2 3 (7.32%) MySQL
3 1 (2.44%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (19.51%) Git
2 6 (14.63%) GitLab
3 4 (9.76%) Burp Suite
3 4 (9.76%) Metasploit
4 3 (7.32%) JIRA
5 1 (2.44%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (26.83%) Social Skills
2 8 (19.51%) Aerospace
3 5 (12.20%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (9.76%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (9.76%) Law
4 4 (9.76%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.44%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (34.15%) Linux Engineer
2 12 (29.27%) Linux Systems Engineer
2 12 (29.27%) Systems Engineer
3 11 (26.83%) DevOps Engineer
4 9 (21.95%) DevOps Systems Engineer
4 9 (21.95%) Linux DevOps Engineer
4 9 (21.95%) Linux/Unix DevOps
5 5 (12.20%) Site Engineer
5 5 (12.20%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 5 (12.20%) Software Engineer
6 4 (9.76%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
6 4 (9.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (9.76%) Linux Support
6 4 (9.76%) Linux Support Engineer
6 4 (9.76%) Support Engineer
7 3 (7.32%) Graduate Support Engineer
7 3 (7.32%) Graduate Systems Engineer
7 3 (7.32%) Python Developer
7 3 (7.32%) Systems Support
7 3 (7.32%) Systems Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (19.51%) REST
2 5 (12.20%) AngularJS
2 5 (12.20%) gRPC
2 5 (12.20%) Material-UI
2 5 (12.20%) Node.js
2 5 (12.20%) OpenAPI
2 5 (12.20%) RabbitMQ
2 5 (12.20%) React
2 5 (12.20%) Spring
2 5 (12.20%) Spring Boot
2 5 (12.20%) Swagger
3 3 (7.32%) Django
3 3 (7.32%) Flask
3 3 (7.32%) FreeSWITCH
3 3 (7.32%) Jinja
3 3 (7.32%) OAuth
3 3 (7.32%) OAuth2
3 3 (7.32%) pytest
3 3 (7.32%) RFC 2833
3 3 (7.32%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.20%) Cloud Native
1 5 (12.20%) Management Information System
2 4 (9.76%) CAN bus
2 4 (9.76%) Cyber Threat
2 4 (9.76%) IoT
2 4 (9.76%) Operational Technology
2 4 (9.76%) SCADA
3 3 (7.32%) Onboarding
3 3 (7.32%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (4.88%) Data Centre
4 2 (4.88%) Mobile App
4 2 (4.88%) Robotics
4 2 (4.88%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (2.44%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (2.44%) Clustering
5 1 (2.44%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (2.44%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.44%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 41 (100.00%) Linux
2 17 (41.46%) CentOS
3 13 (31.71%) Windows
4 10 (24.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (24.39%) Windows Server
5 8 (19.51%) Debian
6 4 (9.76%) Android
6 4 (9.76%) Kali Linux
7 3 (7.32%) SUSE
8 2 (4.88%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (4.88%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (2.44%) Rocky
9 1 (2.44%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (43.90%) DevOps
2 16 (39.02%) Containerisation
3 13 (31.71%) Infrastructure as Code
4 12 (29.27%) Agile
4 12 (29.27%) CI/CD
5 11 (26.83%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (21.95%) Configuration Management
7 8 (19.51%) Open Source
8 7 (17.07%) AI
8 7 (17.07%) Computer Science
9 6 (14.63%) Collaborative Working
9 6 (14.63%) Innovative Thinking
9 6 (14.63%) Platform Engineering
9 6 (14.63%) User Experience
10 5 (12.20%) API Development
10 5 (12.20%) Collaborative Culture
10 5 (12.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 5 (12.20%) Observability
10 5 (12.20%) Scaled Agile Framework
10 5 (12.20%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 19 (46.34%) Python
2 18 (43.90%) Bash
3 11 (26.83%) PowerShell
4 9 (21.95%) Java
5 7 (17.07%) C++
6 5 (12.20%) JavaScript
7 4 (9.76%) R
7 4 (9.76%) Rust
8 3 (7.32%) C
9 1 (2.44%) PHP
9 1 (2.44%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 17 (41.46%) Security Cleared
2 13 (31.71%) SC Cleared
3 6 (14.63%) BPSS Clearance
3 6 (14.63%) Degree
4 5 (12.20%) DV Cleared
5 4 (9.76%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (7.32%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (4.88%) CCNA
7 2 (4.88%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (4.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (2.44%) Azure Certification
8 1 (2.44%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (2.44%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (7.32%) PCI DSS
2 2 (4.88%) GDPR
System Software
1 11 (26.83%) Docker
2 6 (14.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (7.32%) Kamailio
3 3 (7.32%) vSphere
4 2 (4.88%) Active Directory
4 2 (4.88%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (2.44%) Hyper-V
5 1 (2.44%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 27 (65.85%) Ansible
2 26 (63.41%) Terraform
3 20 (48.78%) Kubernetes
4 7 (17.07%) Puppet
5 6 (14.63%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (14.63%) Nessus
6 5 (12.20%) Nagios
7 4 (9.76%) Nmap
8 3 (7.32%) Argo
9 2 (4.88%) vCenter Server
10 1 (2.44%) AirWatch
10 1 (2.44%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (2.44%) Podman
10 1 (2.44%) Progress Chef
10 1 (2.44%) Proxmox
10 1 (2.44%) SCCM
10 1 (2.44%) SCOM
Vendors
1 26 (63.41%) Red Hat
2 11 (26.83%) Microsoft
3 9 (21.95%) Cisco
3 9 (21.95%) Google
3 9 (21.95%) Splunk
4 6 (14.63%) VMware
5 5 (12.20%) Fortinet
5 5 (12.20%) SaltStack
6 4 (9.76%) Mitel
6 4 (9.76%) Qualtrics
7 3 (7.32%) BT
8 2 (4.88%) Palo Alto
9 1 (2.44%) Citrix
9 1 (2.44%) Commvault
9 1 (2.44%) Juniper
9 1 (2.44%) Meraki
9 1 (2.44%) Peplink
9 1 (2.44%) Ubiquiti
9 1 (2.44%) Veeam
9 1 (2.44%) Veritas