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

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 551 489 398
Rank change year-on-year -62 -91 +40
Permanent jobs citing Ubuntu 108 54 264
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.15% 0.45%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.27% 1.06% 3.47%
Number of salaries quoted 84 37 129
10th Percentile £32,750 £36,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +16.67% -25.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £55,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £75,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +20.00% -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 4,759 5,116 7,600
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 5.91% 14.65% 13.05%
Number of salaries quoted 3,689 3,257 5,044
10th Percentile £27,250 £26,250 £25,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,625 £31,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £38,325 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.89% -14.83% -4.26%
75th Percentile £61,250 £51,250 £58,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £72,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £42,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% -16.00% -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 31 August 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 31 August 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 +14 50 £60,000 +71.43% 11
North of England -62 17 £50,000 -16.67% 4
Midlands -41 15 £60,000 +50.00% 2
Scotland +4 10 £63,451 +26.90% 1
North West -10 9 £51,250 -14.58% 4
West Midlands -34 9 £60,000 +14.29% 1
East of England -8 7 £80,000 +36.17% 1
North East - 7 £50,000 -
East Midlands -25 6 £33,633 -15.92% 1
South West -70 6 £42,500 -41.38%
Wales -68 3 £35,000 -26.32% 1
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 20 (18.52%) Apache
2 11 (10.19%) IIS
3 8 (7.41%) SharePoint
4 7 (6.48%) Confluence
4 7 (6.48%) nginx
5 5 (4.63%) Apache Spark
6 4 (3.70%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.93%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 49 (45.37%) Azure
2 40 (37.04%) AWS
3 36 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
4 23 (21.30%) SaaS
5 22 (20.37%) Entra ID
6 12 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (10.19%) OpenShift
8 8 (7.41%) GCP
8 8 (7.41%) Microsoft Copilot
9 7 (6.48%) Power Automate
10 5 (4.63%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (4.63%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (4.63%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (4.63%) Serverless
11 4 (3.70%) Azure Stack
11 4 (3.70%) GitHub
12 3 (2.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 3 (2.78%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (2.78%) Google Workspace
12 3 (2.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 26 (24.07%) Firewall
2 25 (23.15%) DNS
3 21 (19.44%) TCP/IP
4 14 (12.96%) VPN
5 13 (12.04%) DHCP
6 11 (10.19%) VLAN
7 7 (6.48%) VoIP
8 6 (5.56%) LAN
8 6 (5.56%) WAN
9 5 (4.63%) AMQP
9 5 (4.63%) SAN
10 4 (3.70%) LoRaWAN
10 4 (3.70%) MQTT
10 4 (3.70%) NAS
10 4 (3.70%) Wi-Fi
11 3 (2.78%) Asterisk PBX
11 3 (2.78%) SSH
12 2 (1.85%) Network Security
12 2 (1.85%) WireGuard
13 1 (0.93%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (23.15%) MySQL
2 14 (12.96%) SQL Server
3 5 (4.63%) Big Data
3 5 (4.63%) Cloudera CDH
3 5 (4.63%) Hadoop
4 4 (3.70%) Neo4j
5 3 (2.78%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.93%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (8.33%) Git
1 9 (8.33%) JIRA
2 6 (5.56%) GitLab
3 5 (4.63%) Bitbucket
4 3 (2.78%) Cypress.io
4 3 (2.78%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.85%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.93%) SonarQube
General
1 19 (17.59%) Social Skills
2 8 (7.41%) Documentation Skills
3 7 (6.48%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (6.48%) Law
4 6 (5.56%) Manufacturing
5 5 (4.63%) Aerospace
6 4 (3.70%) Finance
7 3 (2.78%) Legal
8 2 (1.85%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.93%) Advertising
9 1 (0.93%) Electronics
9 1 (0.93%) Games
9 1 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (20.37%) Support Engineer
2 20 (18.52%) Senior
3 19 (17.59%) IT Engineer
3 19 (17.59%) Linux Engineer
4 18 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
4 18 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 15 (13.89%) Systems Engineer
6 13 (12.04%) IT Support
6 13 (12.04%) IT Support Engineer
7 12 (11.11%) Administrator
7 12 (11.11%) Systems Administrator
8 11 (10.19%) Linux Administrator
8 11 (10.19%) Linux Systems Administrator
9 10 (9.26%) Linux Systems Engineer
10 9 (8.33%) Developer
10 9 (8.33%) DevOps Systems Engineer
10 9 (8.33%) Linux DevOps Engineer
10 9 (8.33%) Linux/Unix DevOps
10 9 (8.33%) Technical Support
11 8 (7.41%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (38.89%) Terraform
2 12 (11.11%) Node.js
2 12 (11.11%) React
3 5 (4.63%) AngularJS
3 5 (4.63%) ARM Templates
3 5 (4.63%) CSS
3 5 (4.63%) gRPC
3 5 (4.63%) HTML
3 5 (4.63%) Material-UI
3 5 (4.63%) OpenAPI
3 5 (4.63%) RabbitMQ
3 5 (4.63%) REST
3 5 (4.63%) Ruby on Rails
3 5 (4.63%) Spring
3 5 (4.63%) Spring Boot
3 5 (4.63%) Swagger
4 4 (3.70%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (3.70%) LAMP
5 3 (2.78%) Jest
5 3 (2.78%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.26%) Replication
2 5 (4.63%) Cloud Native
3 4 (3.70%) Data Centre
3 4 (3.70%) Driving Licence
3 4 (3.70%) IoT
3 4 (3.70%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.85%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (1.85%) Clustering
4 2 (1.85%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (1.85%) Educational Technology
4 2 (1.85%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (1.85%) Raspberry Pi
4 2 (1.85%) Robotics
5 1 (0.93%) CUDA
5 1 (0.93%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (0.93%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (0.93%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.93%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.93%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 108 (100.00%) Linux
2 47 (43.52%) Windows
3 40 (37.04%) Windows Server
4 30 (27.78%) Debian
5 22 (20.37%) CentOS
6 18 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (9.26%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (4.63%) Rocky
8 5 (4.63%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (3.70%) Unix
10 3 (2.78%) Mac OS
11 2 (1.85%) Robot Operating System
12 1 (0.93%) Solaris
12 1 (0.93%) SUSE
12 1 (0.93%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (29.63%) DevOps
2 28 (25.93%) Agile
2 28 (25.93%) Problem-Solving
3 25 (23.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 24 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
5 20 (18.52%) Continuous Improvement
5 20 (18.52%) Disaster Recovery
6 19 (17.59%) CI/CD
7 18 (16.67%) AI
8 15 (13.89%) Scrum
9 14 (12.96%) Software Engineering
10 13 (12.04%) Migration
11 11 (10.19%) Containerisation
11 11 (10.19%) Service Delivery
12 10 (9.26%) Mentoring
13 9 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
13 9 (8.33%) Full-Stack Development
13 9 (8.33%) Incident Response
13 9 (8.33%) Observability
13 9 (8.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 39 (36.11%) Bash
2 32 (29.63%) PowerShell
2 32 (29.63%) Python
3 12 (11.11%) PHP
4 10 (9.26%) JavaScript
5 8 (7.41%) Ruby
6 5 (4.63%) Java
6 5 (4.63%) Shell Script
6 5 (4.63%) SQL
6 5 (4.63%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.93%) Bicep
7 1 (0.93%) C#
7 1 (0.93%) Perl
Qualifications
1 21 (19.44%) Security Cleared
2 13 (12.04%) DV Cleared
2 13 (12.04%) SC Cleared
3 7 (6.48%) Degree
4 4 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.78%) HNC
5 3 (2.78%) HND
6 1 (0.93%) Linux+ Certification
6 1 (0.93%) RHCE
6 1 (0.93%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.48%) SLA
2 2 (1.85%) QA
System Software
1 31 (28.70%) VMware Infrastructure
2 24 (22.22%) Active Directory
3 21 (19.44%) Docker
4 14 (12.96%) vSphere
5 9 (8.33%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (5.56%) Hyper-V
6 6 (5.56%) iptables
7 3 (2.78%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 3 (2.78%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (2.78%) Xen
8 2 (1.85%) KVM
9 1 (0.93%) Ceph
9 1 (0.93%) GPFS
9 1 (0.93%) Lustre
9 1 (0.93%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 46 (42.59%) Ansible
2 32 (29.63%) Kubernetes
3 12 (11.11%) Puppet
4 11 (10.19%) vCenter Server
5 6 (5.56%) Nessus
5 6 (5.56%) Podman
6 5 (4.63%) Grafana
6 5 (4.63%) Nagios
6 5 (4.63%) Prometheus
6 5 (4.63%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (3.70%) Docker Swarm
7 4 (3.70%) Galera Cluster
7 4 (3.70%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (3.70%) Progress Chef
7 4 (3.70%) WSUS
8 3 (2.78%) Red Hat Satellite
8 3 (2.78%) systemd
9 2 (1.85%) FlexNet
9 2 (1.85%) Rancher
9 2 (1.85%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 44 (40.74%) Microsoft
2 39 (36.11%) Red Hat
3 38 (35.19%) VMware
4 11 (10.19%) SonicWALL
5 10 (9.26%) Veeam
6 8 (7.41%) Dell
6 8 (7.41%) Google
7 7 (6.48%) Citrix
8 6 (5.56%) NetApp
9 5 (4.63%) SaltStack
9 5 (4.63%) Splunk
10 4 (3.70%) Aruba
10 4 (3.70%) CheckPoint
10 4 (3.70%) Cisco
10 4 (3.70%) Facebook
10 4 (3.70%) HP
10 4 (3.70%) Instagram
10 4 (3.70%) Palo Alto
11 3 (2.78%) NVIDIA
11 3 (2.78%) YouTube