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

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 511 421 502
Rank change year-on-year -90 +81 +81
Permanent jobs citing Ubuntu 60 74 242
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.096% 0.28% 0.36%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.61% 1.71% 2.35%
Number of salaries quoted 44 61 134
10th Percentile £32,750 - £38,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £32,500 £42,531
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £53,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,875 £63,750 £85,000
UK median annual salary £54,375 £49,739 £52,500
% change year-on-year +9.32% -5.26% -12.50%

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 3,725 4,326 10,315
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 5.98% 16.39% 15.38%
Number of salaries quoted 2,779 2,884 8,340
10th Percentile £26,750 £26,250 £25,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% - -5.56%
75th Percentile £57,500 £58,086 £57,500
90th Percentile £70,250 £72,500 £68,750
UK median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -14.29%

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 17 April 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 17 April 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 -31 32 £60,000 +20.00% 16
North of England -52 10 £48,500 -3.00% 11
North West -17 8 £48,500 -3.00% 2
Midlands -71 8 £26,265 -24.96% 2
East Midlands -46 6 £26,265 -34.34%
Scotland -21 4 £53,750 +22.86% 2
East of England -26 2 £70,000 +7.69% 3
Wales -30 2 £35,000 -26.32% 2
North East -36 2 £47,500 - 7
West Midlands -44 2 - - 2
South West - 2 £62,500 - 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 6 (10.00%) Apache
1 6 (10.00%) Apache Spark
2 3 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (3.33%) Confluence
4 1 (1.67%) IIS
4 1 (1.67%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 35 (58.33%) Azure
2 24 (40.00%) AWS
3 14 (23.33%) Microsoft 365
4 13 (21.67%) SaaS
5 11 (18.33%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (15.00%) OpenShift
7 8 (13.33%) Amazon EKS
8 7 (11.67%) GCP
9 6 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (10.00%) Serverless
10 5 (8.33%) Entra ID
10 5 (8.33%) GitHub
10 5 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (5.00%) Azure Stack
12 2 (3.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 2 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
12 2 (3.33%) Amazon S3
12 2 (3.33%) Azure AKS
12 2 (3.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (21.67%) Firewall
2 6 (10.00%) AMQP
2 6 (10.00%) VPN
3 5 (8.33%) VLAN
3 5 (8.33%) VoIP
4 4 (6.67%) NAS
4 4 (6.67%) SAN
4 4 (6.67%) Wireshark
5 3 (5.00%) DNS
5 3 (5.00%) HTTP
5 3 (5.00%) LoRaWAN
5 3 (5.00%) MQTT
5 3 (5.00%) RTP
5 3 (5.00%) TCP/IP
5 3 (5.00%) Unified Communications
6 2 (3.33%) Network Security
6 2 (3.33%) SSH
6 2 (3.33%) WireGuard
7 1 (1.67%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (1.67%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (15.00%) MySQL
2 6 (10.00%) Big Data
2 6 (10.00%) Cloudera CDH
2 6 (10.00%) Hadoop
2 6 (10.00%) SQL Server
3 3 (5.00%) MongoDB
3 3 (5.00%) Neo4j
4 2 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (15.00%) Git
2 5 (8.33%) GitLab
3 3 (5.00%) JIRA
4 1 (1.67%) Burp Suite
4 1 (1.67%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.67%) Metasploit
General
1 11 (18.33%) Social Skills
2 6 (10.00%) Aerospace
2 6 (10.00%) Law
3 5 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (6.67%) Manufacturing
5 3 (5.00%) Finance
6 1 (1.67%) Electronics
6 1 (1.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (26.67%) Linux Engineer
2 14 (23.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 14 (23.33%) Linux Systems Engineer
2 14 (23.33%) Systems Engineer
3 11 (18.33%) DevOps Systems Engineer
3 11 (18.33%) Linux DevOps Engineer
3 11 (18.33%) Linux/Unix DevOps
4 10 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 7 (11.67%) Support Engineer
6 6 (10.00%) Site Engineer
6 6 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 6 (10.00%) Software Engineer
7 5 (8.33%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
7 5 (8.33%) IT Engineer
8 4 (6.67%) Administrator
8 4 (6.67%) IT Support
8 4 (6.67%) IT Support Engineer
8 4 (6.67%) Linux Administrator
8 4 (6.67%) Linux Systems Administrator
8 4 (6.67%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (15.00%) REST
2 6 (10.00%) AngularJS
2 6 (10.00%) gRPC
2 6 (10.00%) Material-UI
2 6 (10.00%) Node.js
2 6 (10.00%) OpenAPI
2 6 (10.00%) RabbitMQ
2 6 (10.00%) React
2 6 (10.00%) Spring
2 6 (10.00%) Spring Boot
2 6 (10.00%) Swagger
3 3 (5.00%) ARM Templates
3 3 (5.00%) Flask
3 3 (5.00%) FreeSWITCH
3 3 (5.00%) Jinja
3 3 (5.00%) OAuth2
3 3 (5.00%) pytest
3 3 (5.00%) RFC 2833
3 3 (5.00%) SQLAlchemy
3 3 (5.00%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 5 (8.33%) Management Information System
2 5 (8.33%) Replication
3 4 (6.67%) IoT
4 3 (5.00%) Data Centre
4 3 (5.00%) Driving Licence
4 3 (5.00%) Onboarding
4 3 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (3.33%) Distributed Computing
5 2 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (3.33%) Mobile App
5 2 (3.33%) Public Cloud
5 2 (3.33%) Robotics
5 2 (3.33%) Video Conferencing
6 1 (1.67%) CAN bus
6 1 (1.67%) Clustering
6 1 (1.67%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (1.67%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (1.67%) Raspberry Pi
6 1 (1.67%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 60 (100.00%) Linux
2 22 (36.67%) Windows
3 20 (33.33%) CentOS
4 17 (28.33%) Windows Server
5 11 (18.33%) Debian
5 11 (18.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (6.67%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (5.00%) SUSE
7 3 (5.00%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (3.33%) Mac OS
9 1 (1.67%) Android
9 1 (1.67%) Kali Linux
9 1 (1.67%) Rocky
9 1 (1.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (35.00%) DevOps
2 19 (31.67%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (30.00%) Containerisation
4 17 (28.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 16 (26.67%) Agile
6 12 (20.00%) CI/CD
7 11 (18.33%) Configuration Management
7 11 (18.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 11 (18.33%) Mentoring
8 10 (16.67%) Open Source
9 8 (13.33%) Platform Engineering
10 7 (11.67%) Collaborative Culture
10 7 (11.67%) Collaborative Working
11 6 (10.00%) API Development
11 6 (10.00%) Computer Science
11 6 (10.00%) Kanban
11 6 (10.00%) Observability
11 6 (10.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
11 6 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 6 (10.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 24 (40.00%) Bash
2 21 (35.00%) Python
3 13 (21.67%) PowerShell
4 7 (11.67%) Java
5 6 (10.00%) JavaScript
6 4 (6.67%) C++
7 3 (5.00%) C
7 3 (5.00%) SQL
8 1 (1.67%) PHP
8 1 (1.67%) R
8 1 (1.67%) Rust
8 1 (1.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 16 (26.67%) Security Cleared
2 11 (18.33%) SC Cleared
3 7 (11.67%) DV Cleared
4 6 (10.00%) Degree
5 3 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (3.33%) CCNA
6 2 (3.33%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.67%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.67%) HNC
7 1 (1.67%) HND
7 1 (1.67%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (1.67%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (1.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (5.00%) PCI DSS
2 2 (3.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 14 (23.33%) Docker
2 12 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (13.33%) vSphere
4 6 (10.00%) Active Directory
5 5 (8.33%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (5.00%) Kamailio
7 2 (3.33%) iptables
8 1 (1.67%) GPFS
8 1 (1.67%) Hyper-V
8 1 (1.67%) KVM
8 1 (1.67%) Lustre
8 1 (1.67%) QEMU
8 1 (1.67%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (1.67%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (1.67%) Xen
Systems Management
1 35 (58.33%) Ansible
1 35 (58.33%) Terraform
2 26 (43.33%) Kubernetes
3 9 (15.00%) Puppet
4 7 (11.67%) vCenter Server
5 6 (10.00%) Nagios
6 5 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (8.33%) Nessus
7 3 (5.00%) Argo
7 3 (5.00%) Galera Cluster
7 3 (5.00%) Podman
8 2 (3.33%) Grafana
8 2 (3.33%) Progress Chef
8 2 (3.33%) Prometheus
8 2 (3.33%) systemd
9 1 (1.67%) AirWatch
9 1 (1.67%) Nmap
9 1 (1.67%) Red Hat Satellite
9 1 (1.67%) SCCM
9 1 (1.67%) SCOM
Vendors
1 32 (53.33%) Red Hat
2 21 (35.00%) Microsoft
3 15 (25.00%) VMware
4 7 (11.67%) Google
4 7 (11.67%) Splunk
5 6 (10.00%) Cisco
5 6 (10.00%) SaltStack
6 4 (6.67%) Fortinet
6 4 (6.67%) Mitel
7 3 (5.00%) BT
7 3 (5.00%) Facebook
7 3 (5.00%) Instagram
8 2 (3.33%) Veeam
9 1 (1.67%) Citrix
9 1 (1.67%) Commvault
9 1 (1.67%) Dell
9 1 (1.67%) Juniper
9 1 (1.67%) Meraki
9 1 (1.67%) SolarWinds
9 1 (1.67%) Synology