Ubuntu Jobs in the UK excluding London

Ubuntu Linux
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Ubuntu skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Ubuntu over the 6 months leading up to 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 514 472 536
Rank change year-on-year -42 +64 -96
Permanent jobs citing Ubuntu 65 309 227
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.17% 0.44% 0.38%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.28% 2.93% 2.30%
Number of salaries quoted 53 147 167
10th Percentile - £36,000 £28,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -9.09% +15.79%
75th Percentile £52,500 £58,875 £71,175
90th Percentile £63,750 £84,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £46,500 £52,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.43% -16.00% +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 5,097 10,538 9,885
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.07% 14.87% 16.45%
Number of salaries quoted 3,028 8,151 6,245
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,500 £25,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,101 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.65% -5.56% -
75th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £73,750
UK median annual salary £46,000 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +2.22% -14.29% -

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

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Ubuntu in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Ubuntu in the UK excluding London

Ubuntu
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Ubuntu in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 May 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 14 May 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 +59 27 £35,000 -30.00% 3
South East -10 23 £47,500 - 32
West Midlands +57 20 £35,000 -57.19% 1
East Midlands +28 7 £40,000 +61.62%
North of England +15 7 £50,000 - 18
North West -19 7 £50,000 - 16
Wales +34 4 £47,500 -5.00%
East of England +29 3 £62,500 +4.17% 35
Scotland +111 2 £43,750 +21.53% 2
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 3 (4.62%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (4.62%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (4.62%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.08%) Apache
3 1 (1.54%) Confluence
3 1 (1.54%) Tomcat
Applications
1 14 (21.54%) Microsoft Excel
1 14 (21.54%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (10.77%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 22 (33.85%) Azure
2 20 (30.77%) AWS
3 16 (24.62%) Google Workspace
4 9 (13.85%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (13.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 8 (12.31%) Amazon S3
5 8 (12.31%) AWS Lambda
5 8 (12.31%) Serverless
6 7 (10.77%) Amazon ECS
6 7 (10.77%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 7 (10.77%) AWS KMS
7 5 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (6.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (6.15%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (4.62%) Amazon ELB
9 3 (4.62%) Amazon Glacier
9 3 (4.62%) Entra ID
9 3 (4.62%) GCP
9 3 (4.62%) OneDrive
10 2 (3.08%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 32 (49.23%) Firewall
2 21 (32.31%) DNS
3 20 (30.77%) DHCP
4 19 (29.23%) VLAN
5 17 (26.15%) TCP/IP
6 14 (21.54%) BGP
6 14 (21.54%) OSPF
6 14 (21.54%) WLAN
7 9 (13.85%) SSL
8 7 (10.77%) Wireshark
9 5 (7.69%) VPN
10 2 (3.08%) HTTP
11 1 (1.54%) DVB
11 1 (1.54%) LTE
11 1 (1.54%) OpenLDAP
11 1 (1.54%) SAN
11 1 (1.54%) VSAN
11 1 (1.54%) VSAT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (13.85%) MySQL
2 7 (10.77%) SQL Server
3 5 (7.69%) MariaDB
4 4 (6.15%) RDBMS
4 4 (6.15%) Relational Database
5 3 (4.62%) Airbyte
5 3 (4.62%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (4.62%) Cloud Spanner
5 3 (4.62%) Couchbase
5 3 (4.62%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (4.62%) Metadata
5 3 (4.62%) NoSQL
5 3 (4.62%) Qlik Sense
6 2 (3.08%) Big Data
7 1 (1.54%) DB2
7 1 (1.54%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.54%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 10 (15.38%) Jenkins
2 7 (10.77%) Bitbucket Server
3 3 (4.62%) JIRA
3 3 (4.62%) Vagrant
4 2 (3.08%) Git
5 1 (1.54%) CircleCI
5 1 (1.54%) GitLab
5 1 (1.54%) Maven
5 1 (1.54%) SoapUI
5 1 (1.54%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 19 (29.23%) Social Skills
2 15 (23.08%) Automotive
3 14 (21.54%) Retail
4 1 (1.54%) Aerospace
4 1 (1.54%) Electronics
4 1 (1.54%) Health Technology
4 1 (1.54%) Manufacturing
4 1 (1.54%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 17 (26.15%) Systems Engineer
2 15 (23.08%) IT Engineer
3 12 (18.46%) Linux Engineer
4 11 (16.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 7 (10.77%) NOC Engineer
6 6 (9.23%) Administrator
6 6 (9.23%) DevOps Engineer
7 5 (7.69%) Server Engineer
8 4 (6.15%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 4 (6.15%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (6.15%) Linux Administrator
8 4 (6.15%) Linux Systems Administrator
8 4 (6.15%) Systems Administrator
8 4 (6.15%) VMWare Administrator
9 3 (4.62%) Data Engineer
9 3 (4.62%) DBA
9 3 (4.62%) MySQL DBA
9 3 (4.62%) Platform Engineer
9 3 (4.62%) VMware Engineer
10 2 (3.08%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.62%) Elastic Stack
1 3 (4.62%) NumPy
1 3 (4.62%) Pandas
1 3 (4.62%) RabbitMQ
1 3 (4.62%) SQLAlchemy
2 1 (1.54%) JSON
2 1 (1.54%) LDAP
2 1 (1.54%) Middleware
2 1 (1.54%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (33.85%) Management Information System
2 14 (21.54%) Smartphone
3 10 (15.38%) Data Centre
4 4 (6.15%) NHS
5 3 (4.62%) Public Cloud
6 2 (3.08%) Driving Licence
6 2 (3.08%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.54%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.54%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.54%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.54%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 65 (100.00%) Linux
2 37 (56.92%) Windows
3 27 (41.54%) CentOS
4 24 (36.92%) Windows Server
5 18 (27.69%) Windows Server 2016
6 16 (24.62%) Windows Server 2019
7 14 (21.54%) Mac OS X
7 14 (21.54%) Windows 10
8 10 (15.38%) Debian
9 7 (10.77%) Rocky
10 6 (9.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 3 (4.62%) VMS
11 3 (4.62%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (3.08%) SUSE
13 1 (1.54%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (27.69%) Computer Science
2 17 (26.15%) DevOps
3 16 (24.62%) Performance Tuning
4 14 (21.54%) Business Case
4 14 (21.54%) Disaster Recovery
4 14 (21.54%) Systems Engineering
5 13 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 12 (18.46%) Service Delivery
7 11 (16.92%) Capacity Management
8 9 (13.85%) Agile
9 8 (12.31%) CI/CD
9 8 (12.31%) Patch Management
10 7 (10.77%) Containerisation
10 7 (10.77%) Information Security
10 7 (10.77%) Information Security Management
10 7 (10.77%) Key Management
10 7 (10.77%) Penetration Testing
10 7 (10.77%) Proactive Monitoring
10 7 (10.77%) Security Management
11 6 (9.23%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 30 (46.15%) PowerShell
2 20 (30.77%) SQL
3 15 (23.08%) Python
4 8 (12.31%) Bash
4 8 (12.31%) Shell Script
5 6 (9.23%) T-SQL
6 4 (6.15%) Java
7 3 (4.62%) Groovy
7 3 (4.62%) Perl
7 3 (4.62%) PL/SQL
7 3 (4.62%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 26 (40.00%) Degree
2 22 (33.85%) Microsoft Certification
3 21 (32.31%) MCSE
4 15 (23.08%) HNC
4 15 (23.08%) HND
5 14 (21.54%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (12.31%) Security Cleared
7 7 (10.77%) CCNA
7 7 (10.77%) CCNP
7 7 (10.77%) Cisco Certification
7 7 (10.77%) MCSA
7 7 (10.77%) Network+ Certification
7 7 (10.77%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 5 (7.69%) SC Cleared
9 4 (6.15%) AWS Certification
9 4 (6.15%) Azure Certification
10 3 (4.62%) Linux+ Certification
10 3 (4.62%) RHCE
11 1 (1.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (1.54%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.69%) SLA
2 3 (4.62%) GDPR
2 3 (4.62%) HIPAA
3 1 (1.54%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.54%) NCSC
3 1 (1.54%) NIST
3 1 (1.54%) QA
System Software
1 27 (41.54%) Active Directory
2 23 (35.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (26.15%) Docker
4 9 (13.85%) vSphere
5 7 (10.77%) Virtual Desktop
5 7 (10.77%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (9.23%) Hyper-V
6 6 (9.23%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (6.15%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (4.62%) Dovecot
8 3 (4.62%) Postfix
9 1 (1.54%) Firmware
9 1 (1.54%) KVM
9 1 (1.54%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 19 (29.23%) Ansible
2 13 (20.00%) Terraform
3 9 (13.85%) Kubernetes
3 9 (13.85%) Nessus
3 9 (13.85%) Proxmox
4 3 (4.62%) Grafana
4 3 (4.62%) Nagios
4 3 (4.62%) Prometheus
5 2 (3.08%) FortiGate
5 2 (3.08%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (3.08%) NetBackup
5 2 (3.08%) vCenter Server
6 1 (1.54%) Puppet
Vendors
1 40 (61.54%) Microsoft
2 24 (36.92%) VMware
3 22 (33.85%) Cisco
4 19 (29.23%) Red Hat
5 16 (24.62%) Dell
5 16 (24.62%) Google
6 14 (21.54%) Apple
6 14 (21.54%) Fortinet
6 14 (21.54%) Ubiquiti
7 7 (10.77%) Juniper
7 7 (10.77%) Palo Alto
8 3 (4.62%) Okta
8 3 (4.62%) Ping Identity
9 2 (3.08%) Commvault
9 2 (3.08%) HP
9 2 (3.08%) Salesforce
9 2 (3.08%) Zerto
10 1 (1.54%) IBM
10 1 (1.54%) Oracle
10 1 (1.54%) Sophos