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

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 474 447 478
Rank change year-on-year -27 +31 +121
Permanent jobs citing Ubuntu 32 125 89
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.076% 0.35% 0.26%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.97% 2.27% 1.59%
Number of salaries quoted 19 83 78
10th Percentile £31,000 - £35,575
25th Percentile £50,000 £32,500 £38,084
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £45,000 £46,250
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -2.70% -11.90%
75th Percentile £71,875 £53,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £60,000 £71,675
UK median annual salary £61,250 £50,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +22.50% -13.04% -

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 3,285 5,512 5,612
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.78% 15.37% 16.20%
Number of salaries quoted 2,426 2,907 4,608
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,250 £26,216
25th Percentile £30,000 £32,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £46,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.48% +2.22% -
75th Percentile £53,750 £60,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £75,100 £72,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -4.76%

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 13 January 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 13 January 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 -21 8 £50,000 +1.05% 15
North West +25 6 £62,500 +58.23% 2
North of England +18 6 £62,500 +56.25% 6
South West +12 6 £72,500 +56.76% 5
West Midlands -1 6 £25,000 -28.57% 3
Midlands -5 6 £25,000 -28.57% 5
Wales - 4 - -
Scotland +1 2 £53,750 +43.33% 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 5 (15.63%) Confluence
2 4 (12.50%) nginx
3 3 (9.38%) Apache
3 3 (9.38%) Apache Spark
4 1 (3.13%) IIS
4 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (12.50%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 22 (68.75%) AWS
2 20 (62.50%) Azure
3 7 (21.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 7 (21.88%) Amazon EC2
3 7 (21.88%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (21.88%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (21.88%) Route 53
3 7 (21.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 6 (18.75%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (15.63%) OpenShift
5 5 (15.63%) SaaS
6 4 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (12.50%) Amazon ELB
6 4 (12.50%) Amazon S3
6 4 (12.50%) AWS KMS
6 4 (12.50%) Google Workspace
6 4 (12.50%) SurveyMonkey
7 3 (9.38%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (9.38%) AWS CodeBuild
7 3 (9.38%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 12 (37.50%) Firewall
2 7 (21.88%) VLAN
3 6 (18.75%) DNS
4 5 (15.63%) HTTP
4 5 (15.63%) TCP/IP
5 4 (12.50%) Bluetooth
5 4 (12.50%) FTP
5 4 (12.50%) IMAP
5 4 (12.50%) Intrusion Detection
5 4 (12.50%) Modbus
5 4 (12.50%) Network Security
5 4 (12.50%) OpenLDAP
5 4 (12.50%) SMTP
5 4 (12.50%) SSH
5 4 (12.50%) Wireshark
5 4 (12.50%) ZigBee
6 3 (9.38%) AMQP
6 3 (9.38%) VPN
7 2 (6.25%) DHCP
7 2 (6.25%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (15.63%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (12.50%) Amazon Aurora
2 4 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (9.38%) Big Data
3 3 (9.38%) Cloudera CDH
3 3 (9.38%) Hadoop
4 1 (3.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (31.25%) Jenkins
2 5 (15.63%) Git
2 5 (15.63%) GitLab
2 5 (15.63%) JIRA
3 4 (12.50%) Burp Suite
3 4 (12.50%) Metasploit
3 4 (12.50%) Vagrant
4 3 (9.38%) CircleCI
5 1 (3.13%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 9 (28.13%) Social Skills
2 7 (21.88%) Aerospace
3 4 (12.50%) Law
3 4 (12.50%) Manufacturing
3 4 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
3 4 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.13%) Back Office
4 1 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (3.13%) Retail
4 1 (3.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (31.25%) DevOps Engineer
1 10 (31.25%) Platform Engineer
2 7 (21.88%) Linux Engineer
3 6 (18.75%) Linux Systems Engineer
4 5 (15.63%) DevOps Systems Engineer
4 5 (15.63%) Linux DevOps Engineer
4 5 (15.63%) Linux/Unix DevOps
4 5 (15.63%) Systems Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) DevOps Platform Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Software Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) AWS DevOps
6 2 (6.25%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Lead
7 1 (3.13%) IT Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Network Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.50%) LDAP
2 3 (9.38%) AngularJS
2 3 (9.38%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (9.38%) gRPC
2 3 (9.38%) Material-UI
2 3 (9.38%) Node.js
2 3 (9.38%) OpenAPI
2 3 (9.38%) RabbitMQ
2 3 (9.38%) React
2 3 (9.38%) REST
2 3 (9.38%) Spring
2 3 (9.38%) Spring Boot
2 3 (9.38%) Swagger
3 1 (3.13%) XML
3 1 (3.13%) XMPP
3 1 (3.13%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.50%) CAN bus
1 4 (12.50%) Cyber Threat
1 4 (12.50%) IoT
1 4 (12.50%) Operational Technology
1 4 (12.50%) Replication
1 4 (12.50%) SCADA
2 3 (9.38%) Cloud Native
3 2 (6.25%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (6.25%) Management Information System
3 2 (6.25%) Onboarding
3 2 (6.25%) Robotics
3 2 (6.25%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (3.13%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (3.13%) BYOD
4 1 (3.13%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.13%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (3.13%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 32 (100.00%) Linux
2 13 (40.63%) Windows
3 12 (37.50%) Debian
4 5 (15.63%) Android
5 4 (12.50%) Amazon Linux
5 4 (12.50%) CentOS
5 4 (12.50%) Kali Linux
5 4 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (12.50%) VMS
5 4 (12.50%) Windows Server
6 1 (3.13%) Apple iOS
6 1 (3.13%) Unix
6 1 (3.13%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (59.38%) DevOps
2 12 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 11 (34.38%) Platform Engineering
4 10 (31.25%) Configuration Management
5 9 (28.13%) CI/CD
6 8 (25.00%) Cloud Security
7 7 (21.88%) Containerisation
7 7 (21.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 7 (21.88%) Patch Management
8 6 (18.75%) Change Management
8 6 (18.75%) Innovative Thinking
8 6 (18.75%) User Experience
9 5 (15.63%) AI
9 5 (15.63%) Computer Science
9 5 (15.63%) Cybersecurity
10 4 (12.50%) Ergonomics
10 4 (12.50%) Human Factors
10 4 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
10 4 (12.50%) Psychology
10 4 (12.50%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 22 (68.75%) Python
2 11 (34.38%) Bash
3 8 (25.00%) PowerShell
4 7 (21.88%) Java
5 5 (15.63%) SQL
6 4 (12.50%) C++
6 4 (12.50%) Groovy
6 4 (12.50%) R
6 4 (12.50%) Rust
7 3 (9.38%) JavaScript
8 1 (3.13%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 17 (53.13%) Security Cleared
2 15 (46.88%) SC Cleared
3 12 (37.50%) Degree
4 6 (18.75%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (18.75%) DV Cleared
5 5 (15.63%) Azure Certification
6 4 (12.50%) AWS Certification
6 4 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (9.38%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (6.25%) CCNA
8 2 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (6.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 1 (3.13%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (3.13%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.25%) GDPR
System Software
1 9 (28.13%) Docker
2 4 (12.50%) DFS Replication
2 4 (12.50%) Dovecot
2 4 (12.50%) Postfix
2 4 (12.50%) Squid
3 3 (9.38%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (9.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (6.25%) Active Directory
5 1 (3.13%) Hyper-V
5 1 (3.13%) VMware NSX
5 1 (3.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 21 (65.63%) Terraform
2 18 (56.25%) Ansible
3 11 (34.38%) Kubernetes
4 9 (28.13%) Nessus
5 7 (21.88%) Grafana
5 7 (21.88%) Prometheus
6 5 (15.63%) Proxmox
7 4 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (12.50%) Nmap
7 4 (12.50%) Puppet
8 1 (3.13%) AirWatch
8 1 (3.13%) SCCM
8 1 (3.13%) SCOM
8 1 (3.13%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 18 (56.25%) Red Hat
2 8 (25.00%) Cisco
3 7 (21.88%) Google
3 7 (21.88%) Splunk
4 5 (15.63%) Microsoft
5 4 (12.50%) Jaspersoft
5 4 (12.50%) Qualtrics
5 4 (12.50%) ServiceNow
5 4 (12.50%) VMware
6 3 (9.38%) SaltStack
7 2 (6.25%) Fortinet
7 2 (6.25%) Palo Alto
8 1 (3.13%) Citrix
8 1 (3.13%) Commvault
8 1 (3.13%) Juniper
8 1 (3.13%) Mitel
8 1 (3.13%) Remedy
8 1 (3.13%) SolarWinds
8 1 (3.13%) Veeam
8 1 (3.13%) Veritas