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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 486 411 420
Rank change year-on-year -75 +9 +146
Permanent jobs citing Ubuntu 53 255 158
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.15% 0.46% 0.46%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.11% 3.55% 2.54%
Number of salaries quoted 33 119 135
10th Percentile £32,000 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £44,707
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £45,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -25.00% +21.03%
75th Percentile £65,000 £55,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £76,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +20.00% -20.00% +19.05%

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 4,760 7,190 6,230
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.83% 12.97% 18.09%
Number of salaries quoted 2,940 4,338 4,828
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,500 £32,500 £31,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,325 £45,000 £46,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.83% -3.23% +3.33%
75th Percentile £51,000 £60,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £42,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -16.00% -4.76% -

Ubuntu
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Ubuntu as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Ubuntu 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 +34 22 £40,000 +14.29% 2
West Midlands +28 16 £52,500 +50.00%
North of England +15 10 £60,000 +33.33% 5
North West +10 10 £60,000 +26.32% 1
South West +53 6 £72,500 +61.11% 21
East Midlands +34 6 £40,000 -20.00% 2
Scotland +43 5 £50,000 -42.86% 1
South East -88 5 £35,000 -22.22% 11
Wales +21 4 £47,500 -5.00% 1
East of England -23 2 £58,750 +17.50% 6
Ubuntu
UK

Ubuntu
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 9 (16.98%) Confluence
2 8 (15.09%) nginx
3 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.89%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (22.64%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 28 (52.83%) AWS
2 25 (47.17%) Azure
3 20 (37.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 19 (35.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 19 (35.85%) Amazon EC2
5 16 (30.19%) Route 53
6 12 (22.64%) Amazon ECS
6 12 (22.64%) Amazon S3
6 12 (22.64%) AWS KMS
7 11 (20.75%) Amazon ELB
8 9 (16.98%) Microsoft 365
9 8 (15.09%) AWS CloudFormation
9 8 (15.09%) AWS CodeBuild
10 5 (9.43%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (9.43%) Google Workspace
10 5 (9.43%) Serverless
11 4 (7.55%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 4 (7.55%) Azure AKS
11 4 (7.55%) Azure Monitor
12 3 (5.66%) SurveyMonkey
Communications & Networking
1 23 (43.40%) Firewall
2 11 (20.75%) DNS
3 9 (16.98%) HTTP
3 9 (16.98%) SSH
4 8 (15.09%) FTP
4 8 (15.09%) IMAP
4 8 (15.09%) OpenLDAP
4 8 (15.09%) SMTP
5 7 (13.21%) VLAN
6 5 (9.43%) SSL
6 5 (9.43%) VPN
7 4 (7.55%) DHCP
7 4 (7.55%) Multicast
7 4 (7.55%) Wireshark
8 3 (5.66%) Asterisk PBX
8 3 (5.66%) Bluetooth
8 3 (5.66%) Intrusion Detection
8 3 (5.66%) Modbus
8 3 (5.66%) Network Security
8 3 (5.66%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (20.75%) Amazon RDS
1 11 (20.75%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (15.09%) Amazon Aurora
3 4 (7.55%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (3.77%) Big Data
4 2 (3.77%) MySQL
4 2 (3.77%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.89%) DB2
5 1 (1.89%) MariaDB
5 1 (1.89%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.89%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.89%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 27 (50.94%) Jenkins
2 13 (24.53%) Git
3 11 (20.75%) JIRA
3 11 (20.75%) Vagrant
4 10 (18.87%) GitLab
5 8 (15.09%) CircleCI
6 4 (7.55%) Bitbucket Server
7 3 (5.66%) Burp Suite
7 3 (5.66%) Metasploit
8 1 (1.89%) SoapUI
8 1 (1.89%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 11 (20.75%) Social Skills
2 8 (15.09%) Presentation Skills
2 8 (15.09%) Public Sector
3 7 (13.21%) Law
4 4 (7.55%) Finance
4 4 (7.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (7.55%) Marketing
5 3 (5.66%) Aerospace
5 3 (5.66%) Manufacturing
6 2 (3.77%) Retail
7 1 (1.89%) Back Office
7 1 (1.89%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 18 (33.96%) Platform Engineer
2 14 (26.42%) DevOps Engineer
3 12 (22.64%) Linux Engineer
4 7 (13.21%) DevOps Platform Engineer
5 6 (11.32%) AWS DevOps
5 6 (11.32%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 6 (11.32%) AWS Engineer
5 6 (11.32%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 6 (11.32%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 5 (9.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (9.43%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 4 (7.55%) Administrator
7 4 (7.55%) Azure Engineer
7 4 (7.55%) Linux Administrator
7 4 (7.55%) Linux Systems Administrator
7 4 (7.55%) Site Engineer
7 4 (7.55%) Systems Administrator
8 3 (5.66%) Linux Systems Engineer
8 3 (5.66%) Network Systems Engineer
8 3 (5.66%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (18.87%) Elastic Stack
2 8 (15.09%) LDAP
3 4 (7.55%) .NET
3 4 (7.55%) REST
4 3 (5.66%) XML
4 3 (5.66%) XMPP
5 1 (1.89%) 802.1X
5 1 (1.89%) LAMP
5 1 (1.89%) Middleware
5 1 (1.89%) OpenCV
5 1 (1.89%) Pandas
5 1 (1.89%) PyTorch
5 1 (1.89%) SAML
5 1 (1.89%) TensorFlow
5 1 (1.89%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (15.09%) Replication
2 3 (5.66%) CAN bus
2 3 (5.66%) Cyber Threat
2 3 (5.66%) IoT
2 3 (5.66%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (5.66%) Operational Technology
2 3 (5.66%) SCADA
3 2 (3.77%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.89%) BYOD
4 1 (1.89%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.89%) EPoS
4 1 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.89%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.89%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.89%) NHS
4 1 (1.89%) PKI
4 1 (1.89%) Smartcard
4 1 (1.89%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 53 (100.00%) Linux
2 26 (49.06%) Windows
3 18 (33.96%) Debian
4 11 (20.75%) CentOS
4 11 (20.75%) VMS
5 9 (16.98%) Windows Server
6 8 (15.09%) Amazon Linux
7 7 (13.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (11.32%) Rocky
9 4 (7.55%) Android
10 3 (5.66%) Kali Linux
11 1 (1.89%) Apple iOS
11 1 (1.89%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (1.89%) Unix
11 1 (1.89%) Windows 10
11 1 (1.89%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (56.60%) DevOps
2 25 (47.17%) CI/CD
3 21 (39.62%) Platform Engineering
4 19 (35.85%) Configuration Management
5 15 (28.30%) Infrastructure as Code
6 14 (26.42%) Cloud Security
7 13 (24.53%) Patch Management
8 12 (22.64%) Containerisation
8 12 (22.64%) Continuous Integration
9 9 (16.98%) Change Management
9 9 (16.98%) Performance Tuning
10 8 (15.09%) Auto-Scaling
10 8 (15.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 7 (13.21%) Computer Science
12 6 (11.32%) Disaster Recovery
13 5 (9.43%) Agile
13 5 (9.43%) Artificial Intelligence
13 5 (9.43%) Capacity Management
13 5 (9.43%) Machine Learning
13 5 (9.43%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 40 (75.47%) Python
2 18 (33.96%) PowerShell
3 15 (28.30%) Bash
3 15 (28.30%) SQL
4 11 (20.75%) Groovy
4 11 (20.75%) Java
5 5 (9.43%) Shell Script
6 4 (7.55%) C++
7 3 (5.66%) Perl
7 3 (5.66%) R
7 3 (5.66%) Ruby
7 3 (5.66%) Rust
Qualifications
1 18 (33.96%) Degree
2 17 (32.08%) Security Cleared
3 14 (26.42%) Azure Certification
4 12 (22.64%) SC Cleared
5 10 (18.87%) AWS Certification
6 3 (5.66%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (5.66%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (5.66%) DV Cleared
7 2 (3.77%) RHCE
8 1 (1.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (1.89%) CCNA
8 1 (1.89%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (1.89%) Linux+ Certification
8 1 (1.89%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.55%) SLA
2 1 (1.89%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.89%) GDPR
2 1 (1.89%) HIPAA
2 1 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.89%) NCSC
2 1 (1.89%) NIST
2 1 (1.89%) QA
System Software
1 29 (54.72%) Docker
2 9 (16.98%) Dovecot
2 9 (16.98%) Postfix
3 8 (15.09%) Active Directory
3 8 (15.09%) DFS Replication
3 8 (15.09%) Squid
4 5 (9.43%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (7.55%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (7.55%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (5.66%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (5.66%) vSphere
7 2 (3.77%) Hyper-V
8 1 (1.89%) KVM
8 1 (1.89%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 32 (60.38%) Terraform
2 27 (50.94%) Ansible
3 22 (41.51%) Grafana
3 22 (41.51%) Prometheus
4 17 (32.08%) Nessus
5 16 (30.19%) Kubernetes
6 14 (26.42%) Proxmox
7 3 (5.66%) Nagios
7 3 (5.66%) Nmap
8 2 (3.77%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (1.89%) FortiGate
9 1 (1.89%) Puppet
9 1 (1.89%) WMI
9 1 (1.89%) WSUS
Vendors
1 15 (28.30%) Red Hat
1 15 (28.30%) Splunk
2 8 (15.09%) Jaspersoft
2 8 (15.09%) ServiceNow
3 7 (13.21%) Microsoft
4 6 (11.32%) VMware
5 5 (9.43%) Google
6 4 (7.55%) Cisco
6 4 (7.55%) Juniper
7 3 (5.66%) Qualtrics
8 2 (3.77%) Oracle
9 1 (1.89%) Dell
9 1 (1.89%) IBM
9 1 (1.89%) Okta
9 1 (1.89%) Ping Identity
9 1 (1.89%) Remedy
9 1 (1.89%) Veeam