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

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 558 487 390
Rank change year-on-year -71 -97 +28
Permanent jobs citing Ubuntu 110 42 249
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.12% 0.46%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.24% 0.90% 3.53%
Number of salaries quoted 85 24 122
10th Percentile £34,400 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +33.33% -25.00%
75th Percentile £66,036 £67,813 £55,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £75,000 £65,000
UK median annual salary £58,750 £61,250 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.08% +22.50% -20.00%

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 4,915 4,672 7,057
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 5.71% 13.58% 13.13%
Number of salaries quoted 3,710 2,863 4,066
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,031 £30,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £38,325 £46,750
Median % change year-on-year +10.89% -18.02% -0.53%
75th Percentile £61,250 £50,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £75,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £41,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.43% -17.00% -4.76%

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 28 September 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 28 September 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 -8 49 £55,000 +57.14% 17
North of England -50 20 £47,500 -20.83% 9
Midlands -53 13 £60,000 +50.00% 2
North West -31 12 £40,000 -33.33% 9
Scotland +12 10 £63,451 - 4
West Midlands -41 10 £60,000 +14.29% 1
South West -80 8 £45,000 -37.93% 7
East of England -22 7 £80,000 +60.00% 5
North East - 7 £50,000 -
East Midlands -36 3 £41,000 +2.50% 1
Wales -60 3 £35,000 - 3
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 25 (22.73%) Apache
2 15 (13.64%) IIS
3 8 (7.27%) nginx
3 8 (7.27%) SharePoint
4 7 (6.36%) Apache Spark
4 7 (6.36%) Confluence
5 6 (5.45%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (1.82%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 51 (46.36%) Azure
2 41 (37.27%) AWS
3 38 (34.55%) Microsoft 365
4 27 (24.55%) Entra ID
5 22 (20.00%) SaaS
6 13 (11.82%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (10.91%) OpenShift
8 10 (9.09%) GCP
9 9 (8.18%) Microsoft Copilot
10 8 (7.27%) Power Automate
11 7 (6.36%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (6.36%) AWS CloudFormation
11 7 (6.36%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (6.36%) Serverless
12 6 (5.45%) GitHub
13 5 (4.55%) Google Workspace
14 4 (3.64%) Azure Stack
14 4 (3.64%) GitHub Actions
15 3 (2.73%) Amazon EC2
15 3 (2.73%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 31 (28.18%) DNS
2 25 (22.73%) TCP/IP
3 24 (21.82%) Firewall
4 18 (16.36%) DHCP
5 16 (14.55%) VPN
6 15 (13.64%) VLAN
7 7 (6.36%) AMQP
8 6 (5.45%) LAN
8 6 (5.45%) VoIP
8 6 (5.45%) WAN
8 6 (5.45%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (3.64%) SAN
10 3 (2.73%) NAS
10 3 (2.73%) SSH
11 2 (1.82%) Asterisk PBX
11 2 (1.82%) LoRaWAN
11 2 (1.82%) MQTT
11 2 (1.82%) Network Security
11 2 (1.82%) WireGuard
12 1 (0.91%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (22.73%) MySQL
2 13 (11.82%) SQL Server
3 7 (6.36%) Big Data
3 7 (6.36%) Cloudera CDH
3 7 (6.36%) Hadoop
4 3 (2.73%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.82%) Neo4j
6 1 (0.91%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (8.18%) Git
1 9 (8.18%) JIRA
2 7 (6.36%) GitLab
3 5 (4.55%) Bitbucket
4 3 (2.73%) Cypress.io
4 3 (2.73%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.82%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.91%) SonarQube
General
1 21 (19.09%) Social Skills
2 8 (7.27%) Documentation Skills
3 7 (6.36%) Aerospace
3 7 (6.36%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (4.55%) Law
5 4 (3.64%) Manufacturing
6 3 (2.73%) Legal
7 2 (1.82%) Finance
7 2 (1.82%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.91%) Advertising
8 1 (0.91%) Agriculture
8 1 (0.91%) Games
8 1 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (22.73%) Support Engineer
2 22 (20.00%) IT Engineer
3 20 (18.18%) DevOps Engineer
3 20 (18.18%) Senior
4 17 (15.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 17 (15.45%) Linux Engineer
5 16 (14.55%) IT Support
5 16 (14.55%) IT Support Engineer
6 14 (12.73%) Systems Engineer
7 12 (10.91%) Administrator
7 12 (10.91%) Systems Administrator
8 11 (10.00%) Linux Administrator
8 11 (10.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
8 11 (10.00%) Technical Support
9 10 (9.09%) Developer
10 9 (8.18%) DevOps Systems Engineer
10 9 (8.18%) Linux DevOps Engineer
10 9 (8.18%) Linux Systems Engineer
10 9 (8.18%) Linux/Unix DevOps
10 9 (8.18%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (37.27%) Terraform
2 16 (14.55%) React
3 15 (13.64%) Node.js
4 7 (6.36%) AngularJS
4 7 (6.36%) gRPC
4 7 (6.36%) Material-UI
4 7 (6.36%) OpenAPI
4 7 (6.36%) RabbitMQ
4 7 (6.36%) REST
4 7 (6.36%) Spring
4 7 (6.36%) Spring Boot
4 7 (6.36%) Swagger
5 6 (5.45%) ARM Templates
6 5 (4.55%) CSS
6 5 (4.55%) HTML
6 5 (4.55%) Ruby on Rails
7 4 (3.64%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (3.64%) LAMP
8 3 (2.73%) Jest
8 3 (2.73%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.09%) Replication
2 7 (6.36%) Cloud Native
3 6 (5.45%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.73%) Data Centre
4 3 (2.73%) IoT
4 3 (2.73%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (2.73%) Robotics
5 2 (1.82%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.82%) Distributed Computing
5 2 (1.82%) Driving Licence
5 2 (1.82%) Educational Technology
5 2 (1.82%) Raspberry Pi
6 1 (0.91%) Clustering
6 1 (0.91%) CUDA
6 1 (0.91%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.91%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.91%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 110 (100.00%) Linux
2 49 (44.55%) Windows
3 40 (36.36%) Windows Server
4 32 (29.09%) Debian
5 21 (19.09%) CentOS
6 20 (18.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 11 (10.00%) Windows Server 2016
8 7 (6.36%) Rocky
9 4 (3.64%) Unix
9 4 (3.64%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (2.73%) Mac OS
10 3 (2.73%) Robot Operating System
11 1 (0.91%) Solaris
11 1 (0.91%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (30.91%) DevOps
2 28 (25.45%) Agile
3 25 (22.73%) Infrastructure as Code
3 25 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
4 24 (21.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 21 (19.09%) AI
6 20 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
6 20 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
7 19 (17.27%) CI/CD
8 18 (16.36%) Software Engineering
9 17 (15.45%) Scrum
10 14 (12.73%) Migration
11 13 (11.82%) Containerisation
12 12 (10.91%) Service Delivery
13 11 (10.00%) Customer Service
14 9 (8.18%) Collaborative Working
14 9 (8.18%) Configuration Management
14 9 (8.18%) Full-Stack Development
14 9 (8.18%) Technical Leadership
14 9 (8.18%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 37 (33.64%) Bash
2 34 (30.91%) PowerShell
3 32 (29.09%) Python
4 13 (11.82%) PHP
5 12 (10.91%) JavaScript
6 8 (7.27%) Ruby
7 7 (6.36%) Java
8 5 (4.55%) Shell Script
8 5 (4.55%) TypeScript
9 4 (3.64%) SQL
10 2 (1.82%) Bicep
11 1 (0.91%) C#
11 1 (0.91%) Perl
Qualifications
1 22 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 15 (13.64%) SC Cleared
3 14 (12.73%) DV Cleared
4 7 (6.36%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (5.45%) Degree
6 3 (2.73%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.73%) HNC
6 3 (2.73%) HND
7 1 (0.91%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.91%) Linux+ Certification
7 1 (0.91%) RHCE
7 1 (0.91%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.27%) SLA
2 3 (2.73%) QA
System Software
1 30 (27.27%) VMware Infrastructure
2 26 (23.64%) Active Directory
3 21 (19.09%) Docker
4 11 (10.00%) vSphere
5 9 (8.18%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (5.45%) Hyper-V
6 6 (5.45%) iptables
7 4 (3.64%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (2.73%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 3 (2.73%) Xen
9 2 (1.82%) KVM
10 1 (0.91%) Ceph
10 1 (0.91%) GPFS
10 1 (0.91%) Lustre
10 1 (0.91%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 45 (40.91%) Ansible
2 32 (29.09%) Kubernetes
3 13 (11.82%) Puppet
4 7 (6.36%) vCenter Server
5 6 (5.45%) Podman
5 6 (5.45%) WSUS
6 5 (4.55%) Grafana
6 5 (4.55%) Nessus
6 5 (4.55%) Prometheus
7 4 (3.64%) Docker Swarm
7 4 (3.64%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (3.64%) Nagios
7 4 (3.64%) Progress Chef
7 4 (3.64%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (2.73%) Red Hat Satellite
8 3 (2.73%) systemd
9 2 (1.82%) FlexNet
9 2 (1.82%) Galera Cluster
9 2 (1.82%) Rancher
9 2 (1.82%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 45 (40.91%) Microsoft
2 38 (34.55%) Red Hat
2 38 (34.55%) VMware
3 14 (12.73%) SonicWALL
3 14 (12.73%) Veeam
4 12 (10.91%) Google
5 11 (10.00%) Dell
6 8 (7.27%) Citrix
6 8 (7.27%) NetApp
7 7 (6.36%) SaltStack
8 6 (5.45%) Aruba
8 6 (5.45%) CheckPoint
8 6 (5.45%) HP
8 6 (5.45%) Palo Alto
9 4 (3.64%) Cisco
9 4 (3.64%) NVIDIA
9 4 (3.64%) Splunk
10 3 (2.73%) Facebook
10 3 (2.73%) Instagram
10 3 (2.73%) YouTube