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 27 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 510 431 438
Rank change year-on-year -79 +7 +173
Permanent jobs citing Ubuntu 41 172 133
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.12% 0.36% 0.42%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.99% 2.71% 2.25%
Number of salaries quoted 23 115 119
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £41,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £45,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -21.74% +9.52%
75th Percentile £68,750 £57,500 £71,213
90th Percentile £75,000 £60,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £51,250 £62,450
% change year-on-year +17.07% -17.93% +13.55%

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 4,136 6,352 5,908
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.02% 13.23% 18.64%
Number of salaries quoted 2,819 3,538 4,645
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £31,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,000 £47,500 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +3.26% +2.22%
75th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £70,000 £76,250 £74,250
UK median annual salary £42,000 £50,000 £51,000
% change year-on-year -16.00% -1.96% -2.86%

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 27 October 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 27 October 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 +14 12 £40,000 +14.29% 1
West Midlands +35 11 £38,750 +10.71% 1
North of England +8 9 £60,000 +33.33% 14
North West +6 9 £60,000 +50.00% 10
South West +41 7 £70,000 +47.37% 16
South East -36 5 £35,000 -22.22% 27
Scotland -11 4 - - 7
Wales - 3 - - 6
East Midlands +11 1 £40,000 -
East of England -9 1 £50,000 -7.41% 2
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 9 (21.95%) Confluence
2 8 (19.51%) nginx
3 2 (4.88%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (2.44%) Apache
4 1 (2.44%) Apache Spark
4 1 (2.44%) IIS
4 1 (2.44%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (19.51%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (4.88%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 24 (58.54%) AWS
2 23 (56.10%) Azure
3 15 (36.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 15 (36.59%) Amazon EC2
3 15 (36.59%) Route 53
3 15 (36.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 10 (24.39%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (19.51%) Amazon ECS
5 8 (19.51%) Amazon ELB
5 8 (19.51%) Amazon S3
5 8 (19.51%) AWS CloudFormation
5 8 (19.51%) AWS KMS
6 7 (17.07%) AWS CodeBuild
7 4 (9.76%) Azure AKS
7 4 (9.76%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (9.76%) Google Workspace
8 3 (7.32%) OpenShift
8 3 (7.32%) SurveyMonkey
9 2 (4.88%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (2.44%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 17 (41.46%) Firewall
2 11 (26.83%) DNS
3 9 (21.95%) HTTP
3 9 (21.95%) SSH
4 8 (19.51%) FTP
4 8 (19.51%) IMAP
4 8 (19.51%) OpenLDAP
4 8 (19.51%) SMTP
5 7 (17.07%) VLAN
6 5 (12.20%) VPN
7 4 (9.76%) DHCP
7 4 (9.76%) Multicast
7 4 (9.76%) TCP/IP
7 4 (9.76%) Wireshark
8 3 (7.32%) Asterisk PBX
8 3 (7.32%) Bluetooth
8 3 (7.32%) Intrusion Detection
8 3 (7.32%) Modbus
8 3 (7.32%) Network Security
8 3 (7.32%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (26.83%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (19.51%) Amazon Aurora
2 8 (19.51%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (9.76%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (4.88%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.44%) Big Data
5 1 (2.44%) Cloudera CDH
5 1 (2.44%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 22 (53.66%) Jenkins
2 13 (31.71%) Git
3 10 (24.39%) GitLab
3 10 (24.39%) JIRA
4 8 (19.51%) Vagrant
5 7 (17.07%) CircleCI
6 3 (7.32%) Burp Suite
6 3 (7.32%) Metasploit
7 1 (2.44%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 13 (31.71%) Social Skills
2 8 (19.51%) Presentation Skills
3 7 (17.07%) Law
3 7 (17.07%) Public Sector
4 4 (9.76%) Aerospace
4 4 (9.76%) Finance
4 4 (9.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (9.76%) Marketing
5 3 (7.32%) Manufacturing
6 2 (4.88%) Retail
7 1 (2.44%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (2.44%) Back Office
7 1 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.44%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (36.59%) Platform Engineer
2 12 (29.27%) DevOps Engineer
3 7 (17.07%) DevOps Platform Engineer
4 6 (14.63%) AWS DevOps
4 6 (14.63%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 6 (14.63%) AWS Engineer
4 6 (14.63%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 6 (14.63%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 5 (12.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (12.20%) Linux Engineer
5 5 (12.20%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 4 (9.76%) Azure Engineer
6 4 (9.76%) Site Engineer
7 3 (7.32%) Administrator
7 3 (7.32%) Linux Administrator
7 3 (7.32%) Linux Systems Administrator
7 3 (7.32%) Linux Systems Engineer
7 3 (7.32%) Network Systems Engineer
7 3 (7.32%) Project Administrator
7 3 (7.32%) Project Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (19.51%) LDAP
2 7 (17.07%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (12.20%) REST
4 4 (9.76%) .NET
5 3 (7.32%) XML
5 3 (7.32%) XMPP
6 1 (2.44%) 802.1X
6 1 (2.44%) AngularJS
6 1 (2.44%) LAMP
6 1 (2.44%) Node.js
6 1 (2.44%) OpenCV
6 1 (2.44%) Pandas
6 1 (2.44%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (2.44%) React
6 1 (2.44%) SAML
6 1 (2.44%) Spring
6 1 (2.44%) Spring Boot
6 1 (2.44%) Swagger
6 1 (2.44%) TensorFlow
6 1 (2.44%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (19.51%) Replication
2 3 (7.32%) CAN bus
2 3 (7.32%) Cyber Threat
2 3 (7.32%) IoT
2 3 (7.32%) Operational Technology
2 3 (7.32%) SCADA
3 2 (4.88%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.44%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.44%) BYOD
4 1 (2.44%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.44%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.44%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (2.44%) EPoS
4 1 (2.44%) PKI
4 1 (2.44%) Smartcard
4 1 (2.44%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 41 (100.00%) Linux
2 21 (51.22%) Windows
3 16 (39.02%) Debian
4 8 (19.51%) Amazon Linux
4 8 (19.51%) VMS
5 7 (17.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (14.63%) Windows Server
7 5 (12.20%) CentOS
8 4 (9.76%) Android
9 3 (7.32%) Kali Linux
10 1 (2.44%) Apple iOS
10 1 (2.44%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (2.44%) Rocky
10 1 (2.44%) Unix
10 1 (2.44%) Windows 10
10 1 (2.44%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (58.54%) DevOps
2 22 (53.66%) CI/CD
3 18 (43.90%) Platform Engineering
4 16 (39.02%) Configuration Management
5 14 (34.15%) Infrastructure as Code
6 11 (26.83%) Cloud Security
6 11 (26.83%) Continuous Integration
7 10 (24.39%) Containerisation
8 9 (21.95%) Change Management
8 9 (21.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 9 (21.95%) Patch Management
9 8 (19.51%) Performance Tuning
10 7 (17.07%) Auto-Scaling
11 6 (14.63%) Computer Science
11 6 (14.63%) Software Engineering
12 5 (12.20%) AI
12 5 (12.20%) Migration
12 5 (12.20%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 4 (9.76%) Observability
13 4 (9.76%) Service-Level Objective
Programming Languages
1 34 (82.93%) Python
2 16 (39.02%) PowerShell
3 15 (36.59%) SQL
4 13 (31.71%) Bash
5 8 (19.51%) Groovy
5 8 (19.51%) Java
6 4 (9.76%) C++
7 3 (7.32%) R
7 3 (7.32%) Rust
8 1 (2.44%) JavaScript
8 1 (2.44%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 18 (43.90%) Security Cleared
2 16 (39.02%) Degree
3 14 (34.15%) Azure Certification
3 14 (34.15%) SC Cleared
4 9 (21.95%) AWS Certification
5 5 (12.20%) DV Cleared
6 3 (7.32%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (7.32%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (4.88%) RHCE
7 2 (4.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (2.44%) CCNA
8 1 (2.44%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (2.44%) Linux+ Certification
8 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (2.44%) RHCSA
8 1 (2.44%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (2.44%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.44%) GDPR
1 1 (2.44%) HIPAA
System Software
1 22 (53.66%) Docker
2 9 (21.95%) Dovecot
2 9 (21.95%) Postfix
3 8 (19.51%) DFS Replication
3 8 (19.51%) Squid
4 6 (14.63%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (12.20%) Active Directory
6 3 (7.32%) Hyper-V
6 3 (7.32%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (4.88%) vSphere
8 1 (2.44%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 26 (63.41%) Terraform
2 19 (46.34%) Grafana
2 19 (46.34%) Prometheus
3 16 (39.02%) Ansible
4 15 (36.59%) Kubernetes
5 13 (31.71%) Nessus
6 9 (21.95%) Proxmox
7 3 (7.32%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (7.32%) Nmap
8 2 (4.88%) Puppet
9 1 (2.44%) AirWatch
9 1 (2.44%) FortiGate
9 1 (2.44%) SCCM
9 1 (2.44%) SCOM
9 1 (2.44%) vCenter Server
9 1 (2.44%) WMI
9 1 (2.44%) WSUS
Vendors
1 17 (41.46%) Red Hat
2 14 (34.15%) Splunk
3 8 (19.51%) Jaspersoft
3 8 (19.51%) ServiceNow
4 7 (17.07%) VMware
5 6 (14.63%) Cisco
6 5 (12.20%) Google
7 4 (9.76%) Microsoft
8 3 (7.32%) Qualtrics
9 2 (4.88%) Fortinet
9 2 (4.88%) Palo Alto
9 2 (4.88%) Veeam
10 1 (2.44%) Commvault
10 1 (2.44%) Meraki
10 1 (2.44%) Mitel
10 1 (2.44%) Oracle
10 1 (2.44%) Peplink
10 1 (2.44%) SaltStack
10 1 (2.44%) SolarWinds
10 1 (2.44%) Veritas