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

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 503 468 481
Rank change year-on-year -35 +13 +9
Permanent jobs citing Ubuntu 95 61 294
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.14% 0.20% 0.38%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.25% 1.25% 2.75%
Number of salaries quoted 72 45 166
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £36,125
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 £57,500 £59,375
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 4,227 4,887 10,700
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.18% 16.04% 13.75%
Number of salaries quoted 3,276 3,075 8,202
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 £43,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -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 25 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 25 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 +12 54 £65,000 +44.44% 6
North of England -36 13 £49,250 -17.92% 3
Midlands -36 11 £26,265 -34.34%
East Midlands -30 8 £26,265 -34.34%
North East - 7 £50,000 - 1
North West -8 6 £48,500 -19.17% 2
South West -52 6 £42,500 -32.00% 3
Scotland +7 4 £80,000 +60.00%
East of England -12 4 £80,000 +28.00% 4
West Midlands -33 3 - -
Wales -47 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 9 (9.47%) Apache
2 8 (8.42%) Confluence
3 5 (5.26%) Apache Spark
4 3 (3.16%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (1.05%) IIS
5 1 (1.05%) OpenStack
5 1 (1.05%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.11%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 53 (55.79%) Azure
2 40 (42.11%) AWS
3 29 (30.53%) SaaS
4 19 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
5 16 (16.84%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (12.63%) OpenShift
7 7 (7.37%) Amazon EKS
7 7 (7.37%) Azure Stack
7 7 (7.37%) GCP
7 7 (7.37%) GitHub
8 5 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (5.26%) Serverless
9 4 (4.21%) Entra ID
10 3 (3.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (3.16%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (3.16%) Amazon S3
10 3 (3.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 2 (2.11%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (18.95%) Firewall
2 9 (9.47%) TCP/IP
2 9 (9.47%) VoIP
3 8 (8.42%) VPN
4 5 (5.26%) AMQP
4 5 (5.26%) LAN
4 5 (5.26%) VLAN
4 5 (5.26%) WAN
5 4 (4.21%) LoRaWAN
5 4 (4.21%) MQTT
5 4 (4.21%) NAS
5 4 (4.21%) SAN
6 3 (3.16%) DNS
6 3 (3.16%) HTTP
6 3 (3.16%) Network Security
6 3 (3.16%) RTP
6 3 (3.16%) SSH
6 3 (3.16%) Unified Communications
6 3 (3.16%) Wireshark
7 2 (2.11%) Asterisk PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (22.11%) MySQL
2 9 (9.47%) SQL Server
3 5 (5.26%) Big Data
3 5 (5.26%) Cloudera CDH
3 5 (5.26%) Hadoop
4 4 (4.21%) Neo4j
5 3 (3.16%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (3.16%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.05%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 15 (15.79%) Git
2 12 (12.63%) JIRA
3 9 (9.47%) GitLab
4 5 (5.26%) Bitbucket
5 3 (3.16%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.05%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.05%) SonarQube
General
1 11 (11.58%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (8.42%) Social Skills
3 7 (7.37%) Documentation Skills
3 7 (7.37%) Law
4 4 (4.21%) Aerospace
4 4 (4.21%) Finance
4 4 (4.21%) Manufacturing
5 2 (2.11%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.05%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 24 (25.26%) DevOps Engineer
2 20 (21.05%) Linux Engineer
3 18 (18.95%) Linux Systems Engineer
3 18 (18.95%) Systems Engineer
4 15 (15.79%) DevOps Systems Engineer
4 15 (15.79%) Linux DevOps Engineer
4 15 (15.79%) Linux/Unix DevOps
5 14 (14.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 11 (11.58%) Administrator
6 11 (11.58%) Linux Administrator
6 11 (11.58%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 11 (11.58%) Systems Administrator
7 10 (10.53%) Senior
7 10 (10.53%) Site Engineer
7 10 (10.53%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 10 (10.53%) Support Engineer
8 9 (9.47%) Developer
8 9 (9.47%) IT Engineer
9 7 (7.37%) IT Support
9 7 (7.37%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (10.53%) Node.js
1 10 (10.53%) React
2 8 (8.42%) ARM Templates
2 8 (8.42%) REST
3 6 (6.32%) pytest
4 5 (5.26%) AngularJS
4 5 (5.26%) gRPC
4 5 (5.26%) Material-UI
4 5 (5.26%) OpenAPI
4 5 (5.26%) RabbitMQ
4 5 (5.26%) Spring
4 5 (5.26%) Spring Boot
4 5 (5.26%) Swagger
5 4 (4.21%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (3.16%) Django
6 3 (3.16%) FreeSWITCH
6 3 (3.16%) Jest
6 3 (3.16%) LAMP
6 3 (3.16%) OAuth
6 3 (3.16%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.37%) Replication
2 5 (5.26%) Cloud Native
3 4 (4.21%) Data Centre
3 4 (4.21%) Driving Licence
3 4 (4.21%) IoT
4 3 (3.16%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.16%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.11%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.11%) Distributed Computing
5 2 (2.11%) Educational Technology
5 2 (2.11%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.11%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.11%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.11%) Raspberry Pi
6 1 (1.05%) Clustering
6 1 (1.05%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (1.05%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 95 (100.00%) Linux
2 31 (32.63%) Windows
3 28 (29.47%) CentOS
4 27 (28.42%) Windows Server
5 24 (25.26%) Debian
6 16 (16.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (9.47%) Windows Server 2016
8 7 (7.37%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (3.16%) SUSE
10 2 (2.11%) Mac OS
11 1 (1.05%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (42.11%) DevOps
2 32 (33.68%) Agile
3 31 (32.63%) Infrastructure as Code
4 26 (27.37%) Problem-Solving
5 23 (24.21%) CI/CD
6 19 (20.00%) Containerisation
7 17 (17.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 12 (12.63%) Scrum
9 11 (11.58%) Mentoring
9 11 (11.58%) Observability
10 10 (10.53%) Collaborative Culture
10 10 (10.53%) Configuration Management
10 10 (10.53%) Incident Response
10 10 (10.53%) Open Source
10 10 (10.53%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 9 (9.47%) Platform Engineering
11 9 (9.47%) Software Engineering
12 8 (8.42%) Application Packaging
12 8 (8.42%) Collaborative Working
12 8 (8.42%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 43 (45.26%) Bash
2 32 (33.68%) Python
3 22 (23.16%) PowerShell
4 13 (13.68%) PHP
5 7 (7.37%) JavaScript
6 5 (5.26%) Java
6 5 (5.26%) Ruby
6 5 (5.26%) SQL
7 3 (3.16%) C
7 3 (3.16%) C++
8 2 (2.11%) Shell Script
8 2 (2.11%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.05%) Bicep
9 1 (1.05%) C#
Qualifications
1 22 (23.16%) Security Cleared
2 11 (11.58%) SC Cleared
3 10 (10.53%) DV Cleared
4 5 (5.26%) Degree
5 3 (3.16%) HNC
5 3 (3.16%) HND
6 1 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (3.16%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 24 (25.26%) Docker
2 20 (21.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (15.79%) vSphere
4 9 (9.47%) Active Directory
5 7 (7.37%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (6.32%) iptables
7 3 (3.16%) Kamailio
7 3 (3.16%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (1.05%) GPFS
8 1 (1.05%) KVM
8 1 (1.05%) Lustre
8 1 (1.05%) QEMU
8 1 (1.05%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (1.05%) Xen
Systems Management
1 58 (61.05%) Ansible
2 56 (58.95%) Terraform
3 40 (42.11%) Kubernetes
4 12 (12.63%) Puppet
4 12 (12.63%) vCenter Server
5 10 (10.53%) Nagios
6 8 (8.42%) Nessus
7 7 (7.37%) Podman
8 5 (5.26%) Docker Swarm
8 5 (5.26%) Progress Chef
8 5 (5.26%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (4.21%) Galera Cluster
10 3 (3.16%) Argo
10 3 (3.16%) Grafana
10 3 (3.16%) Prometheus
10 3 (3.16%) Red Hat Satellite
10 3 (3.16%) systemd
11 2 (2.11%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (1.05%) WSUS
Vendors
1 45 (47.37%) Red Hat
2 30 (31.58%) Microsoft
3 24 (25.26%) VMware
4 10 (10.53%) Splunk
5 5 (5.26%) Google
5 5 (5.26%) SaltStack
6 4 (4.21%) Cisco
6 4 (4.21%) Facebook
6 4 (4.21%) Instagram
6 4 (4.21%) Veeam
7 3 (3.16%) BT
7 3 (3.16%) Fortinet
7 3 (3.16%) Mitel
7 3 (3.16%) Synology
8 2 (2.11%) Dell
8 2 (2.11%) Meraki
9 1 (1.05%) Aruba
9 1 (1.05%) CheckPoint
9 1 (1.05%) HP
9 1 (1.05%) Palo Alto