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

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 500 471 489
Rank change year-on-year -29 +18 +38
Permanent jobs citing Ubuntu 79 59 266
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.12% 0.21% 0.38%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.03% 1.26% 2.60%
Number of salaries quoted 60 46 151
10th Percentile £32,750 £32,500 £36,000
25th Percentile £46,625 £33,438 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £40,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -20.00% -11.50%
75th Percentile £73,750 £52,500 £60,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £64,375 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +33.33% -14.29% -15.93%

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 3,896 4,688 10,246
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 5.80% 16.56% 14.46%
Number of salaries quoted 2,969 2,809 8,143
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,250 £25,500
25th Percentile £30,500 £31,250 £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 £74,987 £70,000 £68,750
UK median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 26 May 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 26 May 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 +19 48 £60,000 +50.00% 15
North of England -35 9 £48,000 -12.73% 5
Midlands -57 9 £26,265 -24.96% 3
North West -9 6 £48,500 -11.82%
East Midlands -33 6 £26,265 -34.34% 3
Scotland +1 5 £80,000 +82.86% 1
East of England -23 3 £75,000 +15.38% 1
West Midlands -60 3 - -
South West - 3 £62,500 - 3
North East - 3 £47,500 - 4
Wales -34 2 £35,000 -26.32% 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 6 (7.59%) Apache
1 6 (7.59%) Confluence
2 5 (6.33%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.53%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.27%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.27%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (3.80%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 47 (59.49%) Azure
2 35 (44.30%) AWS
3 24 (30.38%) SaaS
4 17 (21.52%) Microsoft 365
5 15 (18.99%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (13.92%) OpenShift
7 7 (8.86%) Amazon EKS
7 7 (8.86%) GCP
8 6 (7.59%) Azure Stack
9 5 (6.33%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (6.33%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (6.33%) GitHub
9 5 (6.33%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (6.33%) Serverless
10 4 (5.06%) Entra ID
11 3 (3.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (3.80%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (3.80%) Amazon S3
11 3 (3.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 2 (2.53%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (16.46%) Firewall
2 6 (7.59%) VoIP
3 5 (6.33%) AMQP
3 5 (6.33%) VPN
4 4 (5.06%) NAS
4 4 (5.06%) SAN
5 3 (3.80%) HTTP
5 3 (3.80%) LoRaWAN
5 3 (3.80%) MQTT
5 3 (3.80%) RTP
5 3 (3.80%) SSH
5 3 (3.80%) Unified Communications
5 3 (3.80%) VLAN
5 3 (3.80%) Wireshark
6 2 (2.53%) Asterisk PBX
6 2 (2.53%) DNS
6 2 (2.53%) Network Security
6 2 (2.53%) TCP/IP
6 2 (2.53%) WAN
6 2 (2.53%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (17.72%) MySQL
2 6 (7.59%) SQL Server
3 5 (6.33%) Big Data
3 5 (6.33%) Cloudera CDH
3 5 (6.33%) Hadoop
4 3 (3.80%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (3.80%) MongoDB
4 3 (3.80%) Neo4j
5 1 (1.27%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (15.19%) Git
2 8 (10.13%) GitLab
2 8 (10.13%) JIRA
3 2 (2.53%) Bitbucket
3 2 (2.53%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.27%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.27%) SonarQube
General
1 9 (11.39%) Analytical Skills
1 9 (11.39%) Social Skills
2 6 (7.59%) Documentation Skills
2 6 (7.59%) Law
3 4 (5.06%) Aerospace
4 3 (3.80%) Finance
4 3 (3.80%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.27%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 22 (27.85%) DevOps Engineer
2 20 (25.32%) Linux Engineer
3 18 (22.78%) Linux Systems Engineer
3 18 (22.78%) Systems Engineer
4 15 (18.99%) DevOps Systems Engineer
4 15 (18.99%) Linux DevOps Engineer
4 15 (18.99%) Linux/Unix DevOps
5 12 (15.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 9 (11.39%) Site Engineer
6 9 (11.39%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 9 (11.39%) Support Engineer
7 7 (8.86%) IT Engineer
8 6 (7.59%) Administrator
8 6 (7.59%) Developer
8 6 (7.59%) IT Support
8 6 (7.59%) IT Support Engineer
8 6 (7.59%) Linux Administrator
8 6 (7.59%) Linux Systems Administrator
8 6 (7.59%) Systems Administrator
9 5 (6.33%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (10.13%) REST
2 7 (8.86%) Node.js
2 7 (8.86%) React
3 6 (7.59%) ARM Templates
4 5 (6.33%) AngularJS
4 5 (6.33%) gRPC
4 5 (6.33%) Material-UI
4 5 (6.33%) OpenAPI
4 5 (6.33%) pytest
4 5 (6.33%) RabbitMQ
4 5 (6.33%) Spring
4 5 (6.33%) Spring Boot
4 5 (6.33%) Swagger
5 3 (3.80%) Django
5 3 (3.80%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (3.80%) FreeSWITCH
5 3 (3.80%) OAuth
5 3 (3.80%) OAuth2
5 3 (3.80%) SQLAlchemy
5 3 (3.80%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.59%) Replication
2 5 (6.33%) Cloud Native
3 4 (5.06%) Data Centre
3 4 (5.06%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.80%) Driving Licence
4 3 (3.80%) IoT
4 3 (3.80%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.53%) Distributed Computing
5 2 (2.53%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.53%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.53%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.53%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.53%) Raspberry Pi
6 1 (1.27%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.27%) Clustering
6 1 (1.27%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (1.27%) Robotics
6 1 (1.27%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 79 (100.00%) Linux
2 28 (35.44%) Windows
3 26 (32.91%) CentOS
4 24 (30.38%) Windows Server
5 15 (18.99%) Debian
5 15 (18.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (8.86%) Windows Server 2016
7 6 (7.59%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (3.80%) SUSE
9 2 (2.53%) Mac OS
10 1 (1.27%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (40.51%) DevOps
2 27 (34.18%) Infrastructure as Code
3 23 (29.11%) Agile
3 23 (29.11%) Problem-Solving
4 18 (22.78%) CI/CD
4 18 (22.78%) Containerisation
5 13 (16.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 10 (12.66%) Configuration Management
6 10 (12.66%) Mentoring
6 10 (12.66%) Open Source
7 9 (11.39%) Observability
7 9 (11.39%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 8 (10.13%) Collaborative Culture
8 8 (10.13%) Platform Engineering
9 7 (8.86%) Application Packaging
9 7 (8.86%) Collaborative Working
9 7 (8.86%) DevSecOps
9 7 (8.86%) Scrum
10 6 (7.59%) Computer Science
10 6 (7.59%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 37 (46.84%) Bash
2 24 (30.38%) Python
3 17 (21.52%) PowerShell
4 6 (7.59%) JavaScript
4 6 (7.59%) PHP
5 5 (6.33%) Java
6 4 (5.06%) SQL
7 3 (3.80%) C
7 3 (3.80%) C++
8 2 (2.53%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.27%) Ruby
9 1 (1.27%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 19 (24.05%) Security Cleared
2 11 (13.92%) SC Cleared
3 7 (8.86%) DV Cleared
4 6 (7.59%) Degree
5 3 (3.80%) HNC
5 3 (3.80%) HND
6 1 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.27%) CCNA
6 1 (1.27%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (3.80%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.27%) GDPR
System Software
1 19 (24.05%) Docker
2 15 (18.99%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (15.19%) vSphere
4 6 (7.59%) Active Directory
4 6 (7.59%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (3.80%) iptables
5 3 (3.80%) Kamailio
6 2 (2.53%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (1.27%) GPFS
7 1 (1.27%) KVM
7 1 (1.27%) Lustre
7 1 (1.27%) QEMU
7 1 (1.27%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (1.27%) Xen
Systems Management
1 52 (65.82%) Terraform
2 50 (63.29%) Ansible
3 33 (41.77%) Kubernetes
4 10 (12.66%) vCenter Server
5 9 (11.39%) Nagios
5 9 (11.39%) Puppet
6 7 (8.86%) Nessus
7 6 (7.59%) Podman
8 5 (6.33%) Progress Chef
9 4 (5.06%) Docker Swarm
9 4 (5.06%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (3.80%) Argo
10 3 (3.80%) Galera Cluster
10 3 (3.80%) Grafana
10 3 (3.80%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (3.80%) Prometheus
10 3 (3.80%) Red Hat Satellite
10 3 (3.80%) systemd
Vendors
1 43 (54.43%) Red Hat
2 26 (32.91%) Microsoft
3 19 (24.05%) VMware
4 9 (11.39%) Splunk
5 5 (6.33%) Google
5 5 (6.33%) SaltStack
6 4 (5.06%) Cisco
6 4 (5.06%) Facebook
6 4 (5.06%) Instagram
7 3 (3.80%) BT
7 3 (3.80%) Fortinet
7 3 (3.80%) Mitel
8 2 (2.53%) Meraki
8 2 (2.53%) Synology
8 2 (2.53%) Veeam
9 1 (1.27%) Dell