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

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 550 497 424
Rank change year-on-year -53 -73 +39
Permanent jobs citing Ubuntu 106 57 264
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.14% 0.16% 0.44%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.22% 1.10% 3.42%
Number of salaries quoted 81 39 133
10th Percentile £34,000 £32,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +11.11% -27.94%
75th Percentile £73,750 £62,500 £56,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £66,750 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% - -20.63%

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 4,775 5,196 7,726
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.15% 14.95% 13.01%
Number of salaries quoted 3,695 3,350 5,493
10th Percentile £27,250 £26,250 £25,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £38,325 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.89% -14.83% -1.10%
75th Percentile £61,250 £52,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £72,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £42,000 £48,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% -13.40% -7.62%

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 16 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 16 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 +2 52 £62,500 +47.06% 14
North of England -51 16 £50,000 -16.67% 2
Midlands -37 14 £55,000 +37.50% 2
Scotland +6 8 £63,451 +26.90% 1
North West -12 8 £52,500 -12.50% 2
East Midlands -24 7 £26,265 -34.34%
East of England -25 7 £80,000 +36.17% 1
West Midlands -39 7 £57,500 +31.43% 2
North East - 7 £50,000 -
South West -73 6 £42,500 -34.62% 2
Wales -62 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 16 (15.09%) Apache
2 7 (6.60%) Confluence
2 7 (6.60%) IIS
3 5 (4.72%) Apache Spark
3 5 (4.72%) SharePoint
4 4 (3.77%) nginx
5 3 (2.83%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.94%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 52 (49.06%) Azure
2 40 (37.74%) AWS
3 31 (29.25%) Microsoft 365
4 23 (21.70%) SaaS
5 15 (14.15%) Entra ID
6 12 (11.32%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (11.32%) OpenShift
7 9 (8.49%) GCP
8 6 (5.66%) Azure Stack
9 5 (4.72%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (4.72%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (4.72%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (4.72%) Microsoft Copilot
9 5 (4.72%) Serverless
10 4 (3.77%) Power Automate
11 3 (2.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (2.83%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (2.83%) Amazon S3
11 3 (2.83%) GitHub
11 3 (2.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 24 (22.64%) Firewall
2 19 (17.92%) TCP/IP
3 18 (16.98%) DNS
4 12 (11.32%) VPN
5 9 (8.49%) DHCP
5 9 (8.49%) VLAN
6 7 (6.60%) VoIP
7 6 (5.66%) LAN
7 6 (5.66%) WAN
8 5 (4.72%) AMQP
8 5 (4.72%) SAN
9 4 (3.77%) LoRaWAN
9 4 (3.77%) MQTT
9 4 (3.77%) NAS
10 3 (2.83%) Asterisk PBX
10 3 (2.83%) Network Security
10 3 (2.83%) SSH
10 3 (2.83%) Wi-Fi
11 2 (1.89%) WireGuard
12 1 (0.94%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (22.64%) MySQL
2 13 (12.26%) SQL Server
3 5 (4.72%) Big Data
3 5 (4.72%) Cloudera CDH
3 5 (4.72%) Hadoop
4 4 (3.77%) Neo4j
5 3 (2.83%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.94%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (10.38%) Git
1 11 (10.38%) JIRA
2 7 (6.60%) GitLab
3 5 (4.72%) Bitbucket
4 3 (2.83%) Cypress.io
4 3 (2.83%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.89%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.94%) SonarQube
General
1 15 (14.15%) Social Skills
2 10 (9.43%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (9.43%) Documentation Skills
3 7 (6.60%) Law
4 6 (5.66%) Manufacturing
5 5 (4.72%) Aerospace
6 4 (3.77%) Finance
7 3 (2.83%) Legal
8 2 (1.89%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.94%) Advertising
9 1 (0.94%) Electronics
9 1 (0.94%) Games
Job Titles
1 20 (18.87%) Senior
2 19 (17.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 19 (17.92%) Linux Engineer
2 19 (17.92%) Support Engineer
3 18 (16.98%) DevOps Engineer
4 15 (14.15%) IT Engineer
5 14 (13.21%) Systems Engineer
6 12 (11.32%) Administrator
6 12 (11.32%) Linux Administrator
6 12 (11.32%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 12 (11.32%) Systems Administrator
7 11 (10.38%) IT Support
7 11 (10.38%) IT Support Engineer
7 11 (10.38%) Linux Systems Engineer
8 9 (8.49%) Developer
8 9 (8.49%) DevOps Systems Engineer
8 9 (8.49%) Linux DevOps Engineer
8 9 (8.49%) Linux/Unix DevOps
9 8 (7.55%) Senior Developer
9 8 (7.55%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (10.38%) Node.js
1 11 (10.38%) React
2 7 (6.60%) ARM Templates
3 5 (4.72%) AngularJS
3 5 (4.72%) CSS
3 5 (4.72%) gRPC
3 5 (4.72%) HTML
3 5 (4.72%) Material-UI
3 5 (4.72%) OpenAPI
3 5 (4.72%) RabbitMQ
3 5 (4.72%) REST
3 5 (4.72%) Ruby on Rails
3 5 (4.72%) Spring
3 5 (4.72%) Spring Boot
3 5 (4.72%) Swagger
4 4 (3.77%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (3.77%) LAMP
5 3 (2.83%) Jest
5 3 (2.83%) pytest
6 2 (1.89%) Redfish
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.49%) Replication
2 5 (4.72%) Cloud Native
3 4 (3.77%) Data Centre
3 4 (3.77%) Driving Licence
3 4 (3.77%) IoT
3 4 (3.77%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.89%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (1.89%) Clustering
4 2 (1.89%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (1.89%) Educational Technology
4 2 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (1.89%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.89%) Public Cloud
4 2 (1.89%) Raspberry Pi
5 1 (0.94%) CUDA
5 1 (0.94%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (0.94%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.94%) Robotics
5 1 (0.94%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 106 (100.00%) Linux
2 44 (41.51%) Windows
3 38 (35.85%) Windows Server
4 28 (26.42%) CentOS
5 27 (25.47%) Debian
6 20 (18.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 11 (10.38%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (4.72%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (3.77%) Rocky
9 4 (3.77%) Unix
10 3 (2.83%) Mac OS
11 2 (1.89%) SUSE
12 1 (0.94%) Robot Operating System
12 1 (0.94%) Solaris
12 1 (0.94%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (33.02%) DevOps
2 33 (31.13%) Agile
3 30 (28.30%) Problem-Solving
4 27 (25.47%) Infrastructure as Code
5 24 (22.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 21 (19.81%) CI/CD
7 16 (15.09%) Disaster Recovery
8 15 (14.15%) Continuous Improvement
8 15 (14.15%) Scrum
9 14 (13.21%) AI
9 14 (13.21%) Containerisation
10 13 (12.26%) Mentoring
10 13 (12.26%) Software Engineering
11 12 (11.32%) Observability
12 11 (10.38%) Collaborative Culture
13 10 (9.43%) Configuration Management
13 10 (9.43%) Incident Response
14 9 (8.49%) Collaborative Working
14 9 (8.49%) Full-Stack Development
14 9 (8.49%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 41 (38.68%) Bash
2 34 (32.08%) Python
3 30 (28.30%) PowerShell
4 12 (11.32%) PHP
5 10 (9.43%) JavaScript
6 8 (7.55%) Ruby
7 6 (5.66%) Shell Script
8 5 (4.72%) Java
8 5 (4.72%) SQL
8 5 (4.72%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.94%) Bicep
9 1 (0.94%) C#
9 1 (0.94%) Perl
Qualifications
1 24 (22.64%) Security Cleared
2 14 (13.21%) SC Cleared
3 12 (11.32%) DV Cleared
4 6 (5.66%) Degree
5 3 (2.83%) HNC
5 3 (2.83%) HND
5 3 (2.83%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.94%) Linux+ Certification
7 1 (0.94%) RHCE
7 1 (0.94%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.77%) SLA
2 1 (0.94%) QA
System Software
1 29 (27.36%) VMware Infrastructure
2 24 (22.64%) Docker
3 19 (17.92%) Active Directory
4 15 (14.15%) vSphere
5 8 (7.55%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (5.66%) iptables
7 4 (3.77%) Hyper-V
8 3 (2.83%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 3 (2.83%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (2.83%) Xen
9 2 (1.89%) KVM
10 1 (0.94%) Ceph
10 1 (0.94%) GPFS
10 1 (0.94%) Lustre
10 1 (0.94%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 51 (48.11%) Ansible
2 48 (45.28%) Terraform
3 38 (35.85%) Kubernetes
4 13 (12.26%) Puppet
5 12 (11.32%) vCenter Server
6 8 (7.55%) Nagios
6 8 (7.55%) Nessus
7 6 (5.66%) Podman
8 5 (4.72%) Grafana
8 5 (4.72%) Progress Chef
8 5 (4.72%) Prometheus
8 5 (4.72%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (3.77%) Docker Swarm
9 4 (3.77%) Galera Cluster
10 3 (2.83%) Red Hat Satellite
10 3 (2.83%) systemd
10 3 (2.83%) WSUS
11 2 (1.89%) FlexNet
11 2 (1.89%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (1.89%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 43 (40.57%) Red Hat
2 39 (36.79%) Microsoft
3 35 (33.02%) VMware
4 8 (7.55%) Splunk
4 8 (7.55%) Veeam
5 7 (6.60%) Google
5 7 (6.60%) SonicWALL
6 6 (5.66%) Dell
7 5 (4.72%) NetApp
7 5 (4.72%) SaltStack
8 4 (3.77%) Cisco
8 4 (3.77%) Citrix
8 4 (3.77%) Facebook
8 4 (3.77%) Instagram
9 3 (2.83%) Aruba
9 3 (2.83%) CheckPoint
9 3 (2.83%) HP
9 3 (2.83%) Palo Alto
9 3 (2.83%) Synology
9 3 (2.83%) YouTube