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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 554 491 404
Rank change year-on-year -63 -87 +20
Permanent jobs citing Ubuntu 115 46 245
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.13% 0.45%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.33% 0.98% 3.43%
Number of salaries quoted 90 26 119
10th Percentile £33,875 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £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 £65,777 £65,938 £55,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £75,000 £67,000
UK median annual salary £56,250 £61,250 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.16% +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 4,944 4,708 7,137
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 5.76% 13.68% 13.09%
Number of salaries quoted 3,748 2,897 4,150
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,000 £30,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £38,325 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.89% -16.68% -1.44%
75th Percentile £61,250 £50,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £75,000
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 25 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 25 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 -3 54 £55,000 +57.14% 20
North of England -55 20 £47,500 -20.83% 8
Midlands -49 13 £60,000 +50.00% 4
North West -24 12 £40,000 -33.33% 8
Scotland +14 10 £63,451 +26.90% 5
West Midlands -51 10 £60,000 +14.29% 2
South West -74 8 £45,000 -37.93% 5
East of England -15 7 £80,000 +60.00% 5
North East - 7 £50,000 -
East Midlands -32 3 £41,000 +2.50% 2
Wales -69 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 (21.74%) Apache
2 15 (13.04%) IIS
3 8 (6.96%) nginx
3 8 (6.96%) SharePoint
4 7 (6.09%) Apache Spark
4 7 (6.09%) Confluence
5 6 (5.22%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (1.74%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 53 (46.09%) Azure
2 43 (37.39%) AWS
3 40 (34.78%) Microsoft 365
4 27 (23.48%) Entra ID
5 24 (20.87%) SaaS
6 13 (11.30%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (11.30%) OpenShift
7 10 (8.70%) GCP
8 9 (7.83%) Microsoft Copilot
9 8 (6.96%) Power Automate
10 7 (6.09%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (6.09%) AWS CloudFormation
10 7 (6.09%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (6.09%) Serverless
11 6 (5.22%) GitHub
12 5 (4.35%) Google Workspace
13 4 (3.48%) Azure Stack
13 4 (3.48%) GitHub Actions
14 3 (2.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 3 (2.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 31 (26.96%) DNS
2 25 (21.74%) TCP/IP
3 24 (20.87%) Firewall
4 18 (15.65%) DHCP
5 16 (13.91%) VPN
6 15 (13.04%) VLAN
7 7 (6.09%) AMQP
7 7 (6.09%) VoIP
8 6 (5.22%) LAN
8 6 (5.22%) WAN
8 6 (5.22%) Wi-Fi
9 5 (4.35%) SAN
10 4 (3.48%) NAS
11 3 (2.61%) Asterisk PBX
11 3 (2.61%) SSH
12 2 (1.74%) LoRaWAN
12 2 (1.74%) MQTT
12 2 (1.74%) Network Security
12 2 (1.74%) WireGuard
13 1 (0.87%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (21.74%) MySQL
2 13 (11.30%) SQL Server
3 7 (6.09%) Big Data
3 7 (6.09%) Cloudera CDH
3 7 (6.09%) Hadoop
4 3 (2.61%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.74%) Neo4j
5 2 (1.74%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (7.83%) Git
1 9 (7.83%) JIRA
2 7 (6.09%) GitLab
3 5 (4.35%) Bitbucket
4 3 (2.61%) Cypress.io
4 3 (2.61%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.74%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.87%) SonarQube
General
1 22 (19.13%) Social Skills
2 8 (6.96%) Documentation Skills
3 7 (6.09%) Aerospace
3 7 (6.09%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (4.35%) Law
5 4 (3.48%) Manufacturing
6 3 (2.61%) Legal
7 2 (1.74%) Finance
7 2 (1.74%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.87%) Advertising
8 1 (0.87%) Agriculture
8 1 (0.87%) Electronics
8 1 (0.87%) Games
8 1 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (22.61%) Support Engineer
2 23 (20.00%) IT Engineer
3 21 (18.26%) DevOps Engineer
4 20 (17.39%) Senior
5 18 (15.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 17 (14.78%) IT Support
6 17 (14.78%) IT Support Engineer
6 17 (14.78%) Linux Engineer
7 14 (12.17%) Systems Engineer
8 12 (10.43%) Administrator
8 12 (10.43%) Systems Administrator
9 11 (9.57%) Linux Administrator
9 11 (9.57%) Linux Systems Administrator
9 11 (9.57%) Technical Support
10 10 (8.70%) Developer
11 9 (7.83%) DevOps Systems Engineer
11 9 (7.83%) Linux DevOps Engineer
11 9 (7.83%) Linux Systems Engineer
11 9 (7.83%) Linux/Unix DevOps
11 9 (7.83%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (37.39%) Terraform
2 16 (13.91%) React
3 15 (13.04%) Node.js
4 7 (6.09%) AngularJS
4 7 (6.09%) gRPC
4 7 (6.09%) Material-UI
4 7 (6.09%) OpenAPI
4 7 (6.09%) RabbitMQ
4 7 (6.09%) REST
4 7 (6.09%) Spring
4 7 (6.09%) Spring Boot
4 7 (6.09%) Swagger
5 6 (5.22%) ARM Templates
6 5 (4.35%) CSS
6 5 (4.35%) HTML
6 5 (4.35%) Ruby on Rails
7 4 (3.48%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (3.48%) LAMP
8 3 (2.61%) Jest
8 3 (2.61%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.70%) Replication
2 7 (6.09%) Cloud Native
3 6 (5.22%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.61%) Data Centre
4 3 (2.61%) IoT
4 3 (2.61%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (2.61%) Robotics
5 2 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.74%) Distributed Computing
5 2 (1.74%) Driving Licence
5 2 (1.74%) Educational Technology
5 2 (1.74%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.74%) Raspberry Pi
6 1 (0.87%) Clustering
6 1 (0.87%) CUDA
6 1 (0.87%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (0.87%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.87%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.87%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 115 (100.00%) Linux
2 51 (44.35%) Windows
3 42 (36.52%) Windows Server
4 33 (28.70%) Debian
5 22 (19.13%) CentOS
6 20 (17.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 12 (10.43%) Windows Server 2016
8 7 (6.09%) Rocky
9 4 (3.48%) Unix
9 4 (3.48%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (2.61%) Mac OS
10 3 (2.61%) Robot Operating System
11 1 (0.87%) Solaris
11 1 (0.87%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (30.43%) DevOps
2 29 (25.22%) Agile
3 27 (23.48%) Problem-Solving
4 26 (22.61%) Infrastructure as Code
5 25 (21.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 21 (18.26%) AI
6 21 (18.26%) Continuous Improvement
6 21 (18.26%) Disaster Recovery
7 19 (16.52%) CI/CD
8 18 (15.65%) Software Engineering
9 17 (14.78%) Scrum
10 15 (13.04%) Migration
11 13 (11.30%) Containerisation
12 12 (10.43%) Service Delivery
13 11 (9.57%) Customer Service
14 10 (8.70%) Asset Management
14 10 (8.70%) Collaborative Working
15 9 (7.83%) Configuration Management
15 9 (7.83%) Cybersecurity
15 9 (7.83%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 39 (33.91%) Bash
2 35 (30.43%) PowerShell
3 34 (29.57%) Python
4 13 (11.30%) PHP
5 12 (10.43%) JavaScript
6 8 (6.96%) Ruby
7 7 (6.09%) Java
8 5 (4.35%) Shell Script
8 5 (4.35%) SQL
8 5 (4.35%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.74%) Bicep
10 1 (0.87%) C#
10 1 (0.87%) Perl
Qualifications
1 23 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 15 (13.04%) DV Cleared
2 15 (13.04%) SC Cleared
3 8 (6.96%) Degree
4 7 (6.09%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (3.48%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.61%) HNC
6 3 (2.61%) HND
7 1 (0.87%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.87%) Linux+ Certification
7 1 (0.87%) RHCE
7 1 (0.87%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.96%) SLA
2 3 (2.61%) QA
System Software
1 31 (26.96%) VMware Infrastructure
2 26 (22.61%) Active Directory
3 21 (18.26%) Docker
4 12 (10.43%) vSphere
5 10 (8.70%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (5.22%) Hyper-V
6 6 (5.22%) iptables
7 4 (3.48%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (2.61%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 3 (2.61%) Xen
9 2 (1.74%) KVM
10 1 (0.87%) Ceph
10 1 (0.87%) GPFS
10 1 (0.87%) Lustre
10 1 (0.87%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 47 (40.87%) Ansible
2 33 (28.70%) Kubernetes
3 13 (11.30%) Puppet
4 8 (6.96%) vCenter Server
5 6 (5.22%) Nessus
5 6 (5.22%) Podman
5 6 (5.22%) WSUS
6 5 (4.35%) Grafana
6 5 (4.35%) Prometheus
7 4 (3.48%) Docker Swarm
7 4 (3.48%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (3.48%) Nagios
7 4 (3.48%) Progress Chef
7 4 (3.48%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (2.61%) Red Hat Satellite
8 3 (2.61%) systemd
9 2 (1.74%) FlexNet
9 2 (1.74%) Galera Cluster
9 2 (1.74%) Rancher
9 2 (1.74%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 47 (40.87%) Microsoft
2 40 (34.78%) Red Hat
2 40 (34.78%) VMware
3 14 (12.17%) SonicWALL
3 14 (12.17%) Veeam
4 12 (10.43%) Google
5 11 (9.57%) Dell
6 8 (6.96%) Citrix
6 8 (6.96%) NetApp
7 7 (6.09%) SaltStack
8 6 (5.22%) Aruba
8 6 (5.22%) CheckPoint
8 6 (5.22%) HP
8 6 (5.22%) Palo Alto
9 4 (3.48%) Cisco
9 4 (3.48%) Facebook
9 4 (3.48%) Instagram
9 4 (3.48%) NVIDIA
9 4 (3.48%) Splunk
10 3 (2.61%) YouTube