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

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 506 412 535
Rank change year-on-year -94 +123 +72
Permanent jobs citing Ubuntu 50 77 179
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.087% 0.30% 0.28%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.35% 1.94% 1.81%
Number of salaries quoted 38 66 136
10th Percentile £35,200 - £36,125
25th Percentile £46,938 £32,500 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,875 £47,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.37% -6.00% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £57,188 £62,813
90th Percentile £75,375 £61,250 £85,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -12.50%

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 3,700 3,970 9,876
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.44% 15.34% 15.55%
Number of salaries quoted 2,759 2,819 8,083
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,250 £25,200
25th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £73,886 £68,750
UK median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -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 2 April 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 2 April 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 -38 29 £60,000 +20.00% 15
North of England -64 8 £48,500 -3.00% 9
North West -23 7 £48,500 -3.00% 6
Midlands -53 7 £26,265 -24.96% 5
East Midlands -46 6 £26,265 -34.34% 1
Scotland -25 3 £53,750 +22.86%
South West - 2 £67,500 - 2
Wales -25 1 - - 3
North East -25 1 £47,500 - 2
West Midlands -37 1 - - 4
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 (10.00%) Apache
1 5 (10.00%) Apache Spark
2 3 (6.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.00%) Confluence
3 1 (2.00%) IIS
3 1 (2.00%) OpenStack
3 1 (2.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 31 (62.00%) Azure
2 20 (40.00%) AWS
3 12 (24.00%) SaaS
4 11 (22.00%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (22.00%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (18.00%) OpenShift
6 7 (14.00%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (12.00%) GCP
8 5 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (10.00%) Entra ID
8 5 (10.00%) GitHub
8 5 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (10.00%) Serverless
9 3 (6.00%) Azure Stack
10 2 (4.00%) Azure AKS
11 1 (2.00%) Amazon EC2
11 1 (2.00%) Google Workspace
11 1 (2.00%) IaaS
11 1 (2.00%) SurveyMonkey
Communications & Networking
1 11 (22.00%) Firewall
2 5 (10.00%) AMQP
2 5 (10.00%) VoIP
2 5 (10.00%) VPN
3 4 (8.00%) VLAN
3 4 (8.00%) Wireshark
4 3 (6.00%) HTTP
4 3 (6.00%) LoRaWAN
4 3 (6.00%) MQTT
4 3 (6.00%) RTP
4 3 (6.00%) Unified Communications
5 2 (4.00%) NAS
5 2 (4.00%) Network Security
5 2 (4.00%) SAN
5 2 (4.00%) TCP/IP
6 1 (2.00%) Bluetooth
6 1 (2.00%) DHCP
6 1 (2.00%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (2.00%) SSH
6 1 (2.00%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (14.00%) MySQL
2 5 (10.00%) Big Data
2 5 (10.00%) Cloudera CDH
2 5 (10.00%) Hadoop
2 5 (10.00%) SQL Server
3 3 (6.00%) MongoDB
3 3 (6.00%) Neo4j
4 1 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (18.00%) Git
2 6 (12.00%) GitLab
3 3 (6.00%) JIRA
4 1 (2.00%) Burp Suite
4 1 (2.00%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.00%) Metasploit
General
1 11 (22.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (10.00%) Aerospace
2 5 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (10.00%) Law
3 4 (8.00%) Documentation Skills
3 4 (8.00%) Manufacturing
4 3 (6.00%) Finance
5 1 (2.00%) Electronics
5 1 (2.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (28.00%) Linux Engineer
2 13 (26.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 13 (26.00%) Linux Systems Engineer
2 13 (26.00%) Systems Engineer
3 10 (20.00%) DevOps Systems Engineer
3 10 (20.00%) Linux DevOps Engineer
3 10 (20.00%) Linux/Unix DevOps
4 9 (18.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (12.00%) Site Engineer
5 6 (12.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 5 (10.00%) Software Engineer
7 4 (8.00%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
7 4 (8.00%) Support Engineer
8 3 (6.00%) Developer
8 3 (6.00%) Graduate
8 3 (6.00%) Graduate Support Engineer
8 3 (6.00%) Graduate Systems Engineer
8 3 (6.00%) Linux Support Engineer
8 3 (6.00%) Systems Support
8 3 (6.00%) Systems Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (16.00%) REST
2 5 (10.00%) AngularJS
2 5 (10.00%) gRPC
2 5 (10.00%) Material-UI
2 5 (10.00%) Node.js
2 5 (10.00%) OpenAPI
2 5 (10.00%) RabbitMQ
2 5 (10.00%) React
2 5 (10.00%) Spring
2 5 (10.00%) Spring Boot
2 5 (10.00%) Swagger
3 3 (6.00%) ARM Templates
3 3 (6.00%) Django
3 3 (6.00%) Flask
3 3 (6.00%) Jinja
3 3 (6.00%) OAuth
3 3 (6.00%) OAuth2
3 3 (6.00%) pytest
3 3 (6.00%) RFC 2833
3 3 (6.00%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.00%) Cloud Native
1 5 (10.00%) Management Information System
2 4 (8.00%) IoT
2 4 (8.00%) Replication
3 3 (6.00%) Driving Licence
3 3 (6.00%) Onboarding
3 3 (6.00%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (4.00%) Data Centre
4 2 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (4.00%) Mobile App
4 2 (4.00%) Public Cloud
4 2 (4.00%) Robotics
4 2 (4.00%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (2.00%) CAN bus
5 1 (2.00%) Clustering
5 1 (2.00%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (2.00%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (2.00%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (2.00%) Operational Technology
5 1 (2.00%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 50 (100.00%) Linux
2 19 (38.00%) CentOS
3 17 (34.00%) Windows
4 15 (30.00%) Windows Server
5 10 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (18.00%) Debian
7 4 (8.00%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (6.00%) SUSE
8 3 (6.00%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (2.00%) Android
9 1 (2.00%) Kali Linux
9 1 (2.00%) Rocky
9 1 (2.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (40.00%) DevOps
2 19 (38.00%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (34.00%) Containerisation
4 16 (32.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 15 (30.00%) Agile
6 13 (26.00%) CI/CD
7 10 (20.00%) Configuration Management
7 10 (20.00%) Mentoring
8 9 (18.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 8 (16.00%) Open Source
9 8 (16.00%) Platform Engineering
10 7 (14.00%) Collaborative Culture
11 6 (12.00%) Collaborative Working
11 6 (12.00%) Computer Science
11 6 (12.00%) Observability
11 6 (12.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 5 (10.00%) Kanban
12 5 (10.00%) Scrum
12 5 (10.00%) Service Delivery
12 5 (10.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 23 (46.00%) Bash
2 19 (38.00%) Python
3 14 (28.00%) PowerShell
4 6 (12.00%) Java
5 5 (10.00%) JavaScript
6 4 (8.00%) C++
7 3 (6.00%) C
8 2 (4.00%) SQL
9 1 (2.00%) PHP
9 1 (2.00%) R
9 1 (2.00%) Rust
9 1 (2.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 10 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 6 (12.00%) DV Cleared
4 5 (10.00%) Degree
5 3 (6.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (6.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (4.00%) CCNA
6 2 (4.00%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (4.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (2.00%) Azure Certification
7 1 (2.00%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (2.00%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (6.00%) PCI DSS
2 2 (4.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 12 (24.00%) Docker
2 11 (22.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (16.00%) vSphere
4 6 (12.00%) Active Directory
5 4 (8.00%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (6.00%) Kamailio
7 1 (2.00%) Hyper-V
7 1 (2.00%) iptables
7 1 (2.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 32 (64.00%) Ansible
1 32 (64.00%) Terraform
2 23 (46.00%) Kubernetes
3 8 (16.00%) vCenter Server
4 7 (14.00%) Puppet
5 6 (12.00%) Nagios
6 5 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (10.00%) Nessus
7 3 (6.00%) Argo
7 3 (6.00%) Galera Cluster
8 1 (2.00%) AirWatch
8 1 (2.00%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (2.00%) Grafana
8 1 (2.00%) Nmap
8 1 (2.00%) Podman
8 1 (2.00%) Progress Chef
8 1 (2.00%) Prometheus
8 1 (2.00%) SCCM
8 1 (2.00%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (2.00%) systemd
Vendors
1 27 (54.00%) Red Hat
2 17 (34.00%) Microsoft
3 12 (24.00%) VMware
4 7 (14.00%) Splunk
5 6 (12.00%) Cisco
5 6 (12.00%) Google
6 5 (10.00%) Fortinet
6 5 (10.00%) SaltStack
7 4 (8.00%) Mitel
8 3 (6.00%) BT
9 2 (4.00%) Palo Alto
10 1 (2.00%) Citrix
10 1 (2.00%) Commvault
10 1 (2.00%) Dell
10 1 (2.00%) Facebook
10 1 (2.00%) Juniper
10 1 (2.00%) Qualtrics
10 1 (2.00%) SolarWinds
10 1 (2.00%) Veeam
10 1 (2.00%) Veritas