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

6 months to
28 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 515 479 482
Rank change year-on-year -36 +3 +21
Permanent jobs citing Ubuntu 96 60 294
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.14% 0.19% 0.38%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.25% 1.21% 2.77%
Number of salaries quoted 72 44 167
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £36,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +26.32% -5.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £73,750 £58,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £65,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +26.32% -9.52% -16.00%

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 4,264 4,946 10,609
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.20% 15.79% 13.82%
Number of salaries quoted 3,305 3,139 8,135
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,250 £25,500
25th Percentile £30,500 £31,000 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £40,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £68,750
UK median annual salary £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% -14.29%

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 June 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 June 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 +20 54 £65,000 +44.44% 6
North of England -48 14 £49,250 -17.92% 3
Midlands -45 11 £26,265 -34.34% 1
East Midlands -17 8 £26,265 -34.34%
North West -5 7 £48,500 -19.17% 2
North East - 7 £50,000 - 1
South West -61 6 £42,500 -32.00% 3
Scotland +18 4 £80,000 +60.00%
East of England -9 4 £80,000 +28.00% 4
West Midlands -34 3 - - 1
Wales -40 3 £35,000 -26.32% 1
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 10 (10.42%) Apache
2 8 (8.33%) Confluence
3 6 (6.25%) Apache Spark
4 3 (3.13%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (1.04%) IIS
5 1 (1.04%) OpenStack
5 1 (1.04%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 54 (56.25%) Azure
2 41 (42.71%) AWS
3 29 (30.21%) SaaS
4 19 (19.79%) Microsoft 365
5 16 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (13.54%) OpenShift
7 8 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
7 8 (8.33%) GCP
8 7 (7.29%) Azure Stack
8 7 (7.29%) GitHub
9 6 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (6.25%) Serverless
10 5 (5.21%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (4.17%) Entra ID
12 3 (3.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 3 (3.13%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (3.13%) Amazon S3
12 3 (3.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 2 (2.08%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (18.75%) Firewall
2 9 (9.38%) TCP/IP
2 9 (9.38%) VoIP
3 8 (8.33%) VPN
4 6 (6.25%) AMQP
5 5 (5.21%) LAN
5 5 (5.21%) VLAN
5 5 (5.21%) WAN
6 4 (4.17%) LoRaWAN
6 4 (4.17%) MQTT
6 4 (4.17%) NAS
6 4 (4.17%) SAN
7 3 (3.13%) DNS
7 3 (3.13%) HTTP
7 3 (3.13%) Network Security
7 3 (3.13%) RTP
7 3 (3.13%) SSH
7 3 (3.13%) Unified Communications
7 3 (3.13%) Wireshark
8 2 (2.08%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (21.88%) MySQL
2 9 (9.38%) SQL Server
3 6 (6.25%) Big Data
3 6 (6.25%) Cloudera CDH
3 6 (6.25%) Hadoop
4 4 (4.17%) Neo4j
5 3 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (3.13%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.04%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 15 (15.63%) Git
2 12 (12.50%) JIRA
3 9 (9.38%) GitLab
4 5 (5.21%) Bitbucket
5 3 (3.13%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.04%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.04%) SonarQube
General
1 11 (11.46%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (8.33%) Social Skills
3 7 (7.29%) Documentation Skills
3 7 (7.29%) Law
4 5 (5.21%) Aerospace
5 4 (4.17%) Finance
5 4 (4.17%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.08%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.04%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 24 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 20 (20.83%) Linux Engineer
3 18 (18.75%) Linux Systems Engineer
3 18 (18.75%) Systems Engineer
4 15 (15.63%) DevOps Systems Engineer
4 15 (15.63%) Linux DevOps Engineer
4 15 (15.63%) Linux/Unix DevOps
5 14 (14.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 11 (11.46%) Administrator
6 11 (11.46%) Linux Administrator
6 11 (11.46%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 11 (11.46%) Systems Administrator
7 10 (10.42%) Senior
7 10 (10.42%) Site Engineer
7 10 (10.42%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 10 (10.42%) Support Engineer
8 9 (9.38%) Developer
8 9 (9.38%) IT Engineer
9 7 (7.29%) IT Support
9 7 (7.29%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (11.46%) Node.js
1 11 (11.46%) React
2 9 (9.38%) REST
3 8 (8.33%) ARM Templates
4 6 (6.25%) AngularJS
4 6 (6.25%) gRPC
4 6 (6.25%) Material-UI
4 6 (6.25%) OpenAPI
4 6 (6.25%) pytest
4 6 (6.25%) RabbitMQ
4 6 (6.25%) Spring
4 6 (6.25%) Spring Boot
4 6 (6.25%) Swagger
5 4 (4.17%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (3.13%) Flask
6 3 (3.13%) Jinja
6 3 (3.13%) OAuth
6 3 (3.13%) OAuth2
6 3 (3.13%) RFC 2833
6 3 (3.13%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.29%) Replication
2 6 (6.25%) Cloud Native
3 4 (4.17%) Data Centre
3 4 (4.17%) Driving Licence
3 4 (4.17%) IoT
4 3 (3.13%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.08%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.08%) Distributed Computing
5 2 (2.08%) Educational Technology
5 2 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.08%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.08%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.08%) Raspberry Pi
6 1 (1.04%) Clustering
6 1 (1.04%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (1.04%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 96 (100.00%) Linux
2 31 (32.29%) Windows
3 29 (30.21%) CentOS
4 27 (28.13%) Windows Server
5 25 (26.04%) Debian
6 17 (17.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (9.38%) Windows Server 2016
8 7 (7.29%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (3.13%) SUSE
10 2 (2.08%) Mac OS
11 1 (1.04%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (41.67%) DevOps
2 33 (34.38%) Agile
3 32 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 26 (27.08%) Problem-Solving
5 23 (23.96%) CI/CD
6 20 (20.83%) Containerisation
7 17 (17.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 13 (13.54%) Scrum
9 11 (11.46%) Configuration Management
9 11 (11.46%) Mentoring
9 11 (11.46%) Observability
9 11 (11.46%) Open Source
10 10 (10.42%) Collaborative Culture
10 10 (10.42%) Incident Response
10 10 (10.42%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 10 (10.42%) Software Engineering
11 9 (9.38%) Collaborative Working
11 9 (9.38%) Platform Engineering
12 8 (8.33%) Application Packaging
12 8 (8.33%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 43 (44.79%) Bash
2 33 (34.38%) Python
3 22 (22.92%) PowerShell
4 13 (13.54%) PHP
5 8 (8.33%) JavaScript
6 6 (6.25%) Java
7 5 (5.21%) Ruby
7 5 (5.21%) SQL
8 3 (3.13%) C
8 3 (3.13%) C++
9 2 (2.08%) Shell Script
9 2 (2.08%) TypeScript
10 1 (1.04%) Bicep
10 1 (1.04%) C#
Qualifications
1 23 (23.96%) Security Cleared
2 12 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 11 (11.46%) DV Cleared
4 5 (5.21%) Degree
5 3 (3.13%) HNC
5 3 (3.13%) HND
6 1 (1.04%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (3.13%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 24 (25.00%) Docker
2 20 (20.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (15.63%) vSphere
4 9 (9.38%) Active Directory
5 7 (7.29%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (6.25%) iptables
7 3 (3.13%) Kamailio
7 3 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (1.04%) GPFS
8 1 (1.04%) KVM
8 1 (1.04%) Lustre
8 1 (1.04%) QEMU
8 1 (1.04%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (1.04%) Xen
Systems Management
1 59 (61.46%) Ansible
2 57 (59.38%) Terraform
3 41 (42.71%) Kubernetes
4 13 (13.54%) Puppet
5 12 (12.50%) vCenter Server
6 10 (10.42%) Nagios
7 8 (8.33%) Nessus
8 7 (7.29%) Podman
9 5 (5.21%) Docker Swarm
9 5 (5.21%) Progress Chef
9 5 (5.21%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (4.17%) Galera Cluster
11 3 (3.13%) Argo
11 3 (3.13%) Grafana
11 3 (3.13%) Prometheus
11 3 (3.13%) Red Hat Satellite
11 3 (3.13%) systemd
12 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Intune
13 1 (1.04%) WSUS
Vendors
1 46 (47.92%) Red Hat
2 30 (31.25%) Microsoft
3 24 (25.00%) VMware
4 10 (10.42%) Splunk
5 6 (6.25%) Google
5 6 (6.25%) SaltStack
6 4 (4.17%) Cisco
6 4 (4.17%) Facebook
6 4 (4.17%) Instagram
6 4 (4.17%) Veeam
7 3 (3.13%) BT
7 3 (3.13%) Fortinet
7 3 (3.13%) Mitel
7 3 (3.13%) Synology
8 2 (2.08%) Dell
8 2 (2.08%) Meraki
9 1 (1.04%) Aruba
9 1 (1.04%) CheckPoint
9 1 (1.04%) HP
9 1 (1.04%) NetApp