Ubuntu Jobs in the UK excluding London

Ubuntu Linux
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Ubuntu skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Ubuntu over the 6 months leading up to 7 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 533 466 490
Rank change year-on-year -67 +24 -2
Permanent jobs citing Ubuntu 61 309 232
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.14% 0.40% 0.44%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.16% 2.87% 2.54%
Number of salaries quoted 45 169 176
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,000 £28,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £41,929
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -13.04% +17.35%
75th Percentile £62,500 £57,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £65,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% -16.00% +13.64%

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 5,280 10,770 9,133
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.29% 13.92% 17.38%
Number of salaries quoted 3,292 8,046 5,928
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,500 £25,750
25th Percentile £31,231 £30,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -5.56% -
75th Percentile £53,762 £57,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £70,000 £69,000 £73,750
UK median annual salary £42,500 £45,996 £52,500
% change year-on-year -7.60% -12.39% -

Ubuntu
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Ubuntu as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Ubuntu in the UK excluding London

Ubuntu
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Ubuntu in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Ubuntu in the UK excluding London

Ubuntu
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Ubuntu in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 7 July 2025.

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 7 July 2025. 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
Midlands +78 24 £40,000 -20.00% 2
West Midlands +60 17 £35,000 -66.67% 1
North of England +34 12 £60,000 +20.00% 13
North West -12 12 £60,000 +20.00% 6
South East -72 12 £43,750 -7.89% 13
East Midlands +48 7 £40,000 +61.62% 1
Scotland +86 5 £50,000 -42.86% 1
Wales +34 4 £47,500 -5.00%
East of England +13 4 £62,500 +4.17% 6
South West +57 1 £62,500 +38.89% 9
Ubuntu
UK

Ubuntu
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (8.20%) Confluence
2 4 (6.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (6.56%) nginx
2 4 (6.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (18.03%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 6 (9.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (9.84%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 26 (42.62%) Azure
2 25 (40.98%) AWS
3 16 (26.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 13 (21.31%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (19.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 12 (19.67%) Amazon EC2
6 11 (18.03%) Amazon ECS
6 11 (18.03%) Amazon S3
6 11 (18.03%) AWS KMS
7 9 (14.75%) Route 53
8 8 (13.11%) AWS Lambda
8 8 (13.11%) Google Workspace
8 8 (13.11%) Serverless
9 7 (11.48%) Amazon ELB
9 7 (11.48%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 5 (8.20%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (8.20%) AWS CodeBuild
11 4 (6.56%) Azure AKS
11 4 (6.56%) Azure Monitor
11 4 (6.56%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 28 (45.90%) Firewall
2 16 (26.23%) DNS
3 13 (21.31%) DHCP
4 12 (19.67%) VLAN
5 8 (13.11%) SSL
5 8 (13.11%) TCP/IP
6 7 (11.48%) OSPF
7 6 (9.84%) BGP
7 6 (9.84%) VPN
7 6 (9.84%) WLAN
8 5 (8.20%) HTTP
8 5 (8.20%) OpenLDAP
8 5 (8.20%) SSH
9 4 (6.56%) FTP
9 4 (6.56%) IMAP
9 4 (6.56%) SMTP
10 3 (4.92%) Multicast
10 3 (4.92%) Wireshark
11 2 (3.28%) Asterisk PBX
11 2 (3.28%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (11.48%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (9.84%) MySQL
2 6 (9.84%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (6.56%) Amazon Aurora
3 4 (6.56%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (6.56%) MariaDB
3 4 (6.56%) RDBMS
3 4 (6.56%) Relational Database
4 3 (4.92%) SQL Server
5 2 (3.28%) Big Data
6 1 (1.64%) Cloud Spanner
6 1 (1.64%) Couchbase
6 1 (1.64%) DB2
6 1 (1.64%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.64%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.64%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 22 (36.07%) Jenkins
2 9 (14.75%) Git
3 7 (11.48%) Bitbucket Server
3 7 (11.48%) JIRA
3 7 (11.48%) Vagrant
4 6 (9.84%) GitLab
5 5 (8.20%) CircleCI
6 1 (1.64%) Maven
6 1 (1.64%) SoapUI
6 1 (1.64%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 17 (27.87%) Social Skills
2 7 (11.48%) Retail
3 6 (9.84%) Automotive
4 4 (6.56%) Finance
4 4 (6.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (6.56%) Law
4 4 (6.56%) Marketing
4 4 (6.56%) Presentation Skills
4 4 (6.56%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.64%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 14 (22.95%) Linux Engineer
2 13 (21.31%) DevOps Engineer
3 11 (18.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 8 (13.11%) Platform Engineer
4 8 (13.11%) Systems Engineer
5 6 (9.84%) Administrator
5 6 (9.84%) IT Engineer
5 6 (9.84%) Linux Administrator
5 6 (9.84%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 6 (9.84%) Systems Administrator
6 5 (8.20%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 5 (8.20%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (8.20%) Server Engineer
7 4 (6.56%) AWS DevOps
7 4 (6.56%) AWS Engineer
7 4 (6.56%) Azure Engineer
7 4 (6.56%) Linux Systems Engineer
7 4 (6.56%) Site Engineer
7 4 (6.56%) VMWare Administrator
7 4 (6.56%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (11.48%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (8.20%) LDAP
3 4 (6.56%) .NET
3 4 (6.56%) REST
4 2 (3.28%) XML
4 2 (3.28%) XMPP
5 1 (1.64%) 802.1X
5 1 (1.64%) JSON
5 1 (1.64%) LAMP
5 1 (1.64%) Middleware
5 1 (1.64%) OpenCV
5 1 (1.64%) Pandas
5 1 (1.64%) PyTorch
5 1 (1.64%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (1.64%) SAML
5 1 (1.64%) TensorFlow
5 1 (1.64%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (16.39%) Management Information System
2 6 (9.84%) Smartphone
3 5 (8.20%) Data Centre
4 4 (6.56%) Replication
5 2 (3.28%) Driving Licence
5 2 (3.28%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.64%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.64%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.64%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.64%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.64%) NHS
6 1 (1.64%) PKI
6 1 (1.64%) Smartcard
6 1 (1.64%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 61 (100.00%) Linux
2 31 (50.82%) Windows
3 21 (34.43%) CentOS
4 15 (24.59%) Debian
4 15 (24.59%) Windows Server
5 10 (16.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (13.11%) Windows Server 2016
6 8 (13.11%) Windows Server 2019
7 7 (11.48%) Rocky
7 7 (11.48%) VMS
7 7 (11.48%) Windows 10
8 6 (9.84%) Mac OS X
9 4 (6.56%) Amazon Linux
10 3 (4.92%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (3.28%) SUSE
12 1 (1.64%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (1.64%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (42.62%) DevOps
2 21 (34.43%) CI/CD
3 13 (21.31%) Configuration Management
3 13 (21.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 12 (19.67%) Computer Science
4 12 (19.67%) Containerisation
4 12 (19.67%) Disaster Recovery
4 12 (19.67%) Patch Management
5 11 (18.03%) Performance Tuning
6 10 (16.39%) Platform Engineering
7 9 (14.75%) Capacity Management
7 9 (14.75%) Continuous Integration
8 8 (13.11%) Agile
8 8 (13.11%) Service Delivery
9 7 (11.48%) Cloud Security
9 7 (11.48%) Infrastructure as Code
9 7 (11.48%) Key Management
10 6 (9.84%) Business Case
10 6 (9.84%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (9.84%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 27 (44.26%) Python
2 26 (42.62%) PowerShell
3 17 (27.87%) SQL
4 14 (22.95%) Bash
5 8 (13.11%) Java
5 8 (13.11%) Shell Script
6 7 (11.48%) Groovy
7 3 (4.92%) Perl
7 3 (4.92%) Ruby
8 1 (1.64%) C++
8 1 (1.64%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.64%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (34.43%) Degree
2 13 (21.31%) Azure Certification
2 13 (21.31%) Security Cleared
3 9 (14.75%) AWS Certification
3 9 (14.75%) Microsoft Certification
4 8 (13.11%) MCSE
4 8 (13.11%) SC Cleared
5 6 (9.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (9.84%) HNC
5 6 (9.84%) HND
6 5 (8.20%) RHCE
7 4 (6.56%) Linux+ Certification
8 3 (4.92%) CCNA
8 3 (4.92%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (3.28%) CCNP
9 2 (3.28%) MCSA
9 2 (3.28%) Network+ Certification
9 2 (3.28%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (1.64%) DV Cleared
10 1 (1.64%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.20%) SLA
2 4 (6.56%) GDPR
2 4 (6.56%) HIPAA
3 1 (1.64%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.64%) NCSC
3 1 (1.64%) NIST
3 1 (1.64%) QA
System Software
1 29 (47.54%) Docker
2 21 (34.43%) Active Directory
3 19 (31.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (13.11%) Dovecot
4 8 (13.11%) Hyper-V
4 8 (13.11%) Postfix
4 8 (13.11%) vSphere
5 7 (11.48%) Virtual Desktop
5 7 (11.48%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (9.84%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (6.56%) DFS Replication
7 4 (6.56%) Squid
7 4 (6.56%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (1.64%) Firmware
8 1 (1.64%) KVM
Systems Management
1 24 (39.34%) Ansible
1 24 (39.34%) Terraform
2 15 (24.59%) Grafana
2 15 (24.59%) Prometheus
3 13 (21.31%) Kubernetes
3 13 (21.31%) Nessus
3 13 (21.31%) Proxmox
4 3 (4.92%) FortiGate
4 3 (4.92%) Nagios
5 2 (3.28%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (3.28%) NetBackup
6 1 (1.64%) Puppet
6 1 (1.64%) WMI
6 1 (1.64%) WSUS
Vendors
1 24 (39.34%) Microsoft
2 20 (32.79%) VMware
3 15 (24.59%) Red Hat
4 10 (16.39%) Cisco
5 9 (14.75%) Dell
5 9 (14.75%) Splunk
6 8 (13.11%) Google
7 7 (11.48%) Juniper
8 6 (9.84%) Apple
8 6 (9.84%) Fortinet
8 6 (9.84%) Ubiquiti
9 4 (6.56%) Jaspersoft
9 4 (6.56%) Okta
9 4 (6.56%) Ping Identity
9 4 (6.56%) ServiceNow
10 2 (3.28%) Commvault
10 2 (3.28%) HP
10 2 (3.28%) Oracle
10 2 (3.28%) Salesforce
10 2 (3.28%) Veeam