Debian Linux
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Debian skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 699 635 745
Rank change year-on-year -64 +110 +3
Permanent jobs citing Debian 40 24 168
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.043% 0.054% 0.16%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.71% 0.37% 1.20%
Number of salaries quoted 24 20 97
10th Percentile £39,000 £36,025 £31,900
25th Percentile £42,500 £54,375 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,500 £60,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.53% +15.24% -19.23%
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,313 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £81,625 £84,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% +20.00% -20.00%

All Operating Systems
UK

Debian 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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 5,653 6,528 13,986
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.11% 14.75% 13.08%
Number of salaries quoted 4,234 4,213 10,765
10th Percentile £27,694 £27,000 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -14.29%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,400 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £40,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year +6.25% -5.88% -5.56%

Debian
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Debian relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Debian job vacancy trend in the UK

Debian
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Debian.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Debian

Debian
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Debian over the 6 months to 12 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Debian in the UK

Debian
Top 13 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Debian within the UK over the 6 months to 12 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
UK excluding London -38 38 £52,500 -12.50% 12
England -44 36 £48,500 -19.83% 13
Work from Home +4 16 £45,000 -25.00% 6
North of England -27 11 £45,000 -25.00% 2
South East -22 10 £56,250 +2.27% 5
Midlands -15 8 - - 2
North East - 6 £45,000 - 2
East Midlands - 6 - - 2
North West +14 5 £48,500 -19.17%
East of England -16 3 - -
Scotland - 3 £80,000 -
South West - 3 £42,500 - 3
West Midlands -24 2 - -

Debian
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 7 (17.50%) Apache
2 5 (12.50%) Apache Spark
3 3 (7.50%) OpenStack
4 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 18 (45.00%) Azure
2 8 (20.00%) AWS
3 7 (17.50%) Amazon EKS
3 7 (17.50%) GCP
4 5 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
4 5 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (12.50%) IaaS
4 5 (12.50%) OpenShift
4 5 (12.50%) Serverless
5 4 (10.00%) GitHub
6 2 (5.00%) Azure AKS
6 2 (5.00%) Entra ID
6 2 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (2.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (25.00%) Firewall
1 10 (25.00%) VoIP
2 5 (12.50%) AMQP
2 5 (12.50%) DMZ
2 5 (12.50%) Reverse Proxy
2 5 (12.50%) STUN
2 5 (12.50%) VLAN
2 5 (12.50%) VPN
3 4 (10.00%) TCP/IP
4 3 (7.50%) Asterisk PBX
4 3 (7.50%) LAN
4 3 (7.50%) WAN
5 2 (5.00%) Network Security
6 1 (2.50%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (32.50%) MySQL
2 5 (12.50%) Big Data
2 5 (12.50%) Cloudera CDH
2 5 (12.50%) Hadoop
2 5 (12.50%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (12.50%) Bitbucket
1 5 (12.50%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 4 (10.00%) Cypress.io
2 4 (10.00%) JIRA
3 2 (5.00%) GitLab
4 1 (2.50%) Git
4 1 (2.50%) SonarQube
General
1 13 (32.50%) Social Skills
2 5 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
3 4 (10.00%) Aerospace
3 4 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (10.00%) Retail
4 1 (2.50%) Banking
4 1 (2.50%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (22.50%) Technical Support
2 7 (17.50%) Cloud Engineer
3 6 (15.00%) Software Engineer
4 5 (12.50%) Administrator
4 5 (12.50%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (12.50%) Developer
4 5 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (12.50%) Infrastructure Support
4 5 (12.50%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 5 (12.50%) Linux Administrator
4 5 (12.50%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 5 (12.50%) Support Engineer
4 5 (12.50%) Systems Administrator
4 5 (12.50%) VoIP Engineer
4 5 (12.50%) VoIP Support Engineer
5 4 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (10.00%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
5 4 (10.00%) Lead
5 4 (10.00%) Senior
6 3 (7.50%) Platform Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (25.00%) React
2 9 (22.50%) Node.js
3 5 (12.50%) AngularJS
3 5 (12.50%) FreeSWITCH
3 5 (12.50%) gRPC
3 5 (12.50%) Material-UI
3 5 (12.50%) OpenAPI
3 5 (12.50%) RabbitMQ
3 5 (12.50%) REST
3 5 (12.50%) Spring
3 5 (12.50%) Spring Boot
3 5 (12.50%) Swagger
4 4 (10.00%) Jest
4 4 (10.00%) LAMP
4 4 (10.00%) pytest
5 1 (2.50%) XML
5 1 (2.50%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (15.00%) Data Centre
3 5 (12.50%) Cloud Native
4 4 (10.00%) EPoS
5 2 (5.00%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (5.00%) Mobile App
6 1 (2.50%) Clustering
6 1 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (2.50%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 40 (100.00%) Linux
2 21 (52.50%) Ubuntu
3 13 (32.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 12 (30.00%) CentOS
5 5 (12.50%) Windows
5 5 (12.50%) Windows Server
6 3 (7.50%) VMS
7 2 (5.00%) Unix
8 1 (2.50%) Gentoo
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (32.50%) Agile
2 12 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (27.50%) CI/CD
4 9 (22.50%) Containerisation
4 9 (22.50%) Customer Service
4 9 (22.50%) DevOps
4 9 (22.50%) Scrum
4 9 (22.50%) Time Management
5 8 (20.00%) Configuration Management
5 8 (20.00%) High Availability
5 8 (20.00%) Open Source
5 8 (20.00%) Software Engineering
6 7 (17.50%) Infrastructure as Code
7 6 (15.00%) Collaborative Working
7 6 (15.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 5 (12.50%) API Development
8 5 (12.50%) Computer Science
8 5 (12.50%) ITIL
8 5 (12.50%) Kanban
8 5 (12.50%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 17 (42.50%) Python
2 12 (30.00%) Bash
3 6 (15.00%) PHP
3 6 (15.00%) PowerShell
3 6 (15.00%) SQL
4 5 (12.50%) Java
4 5 (12.50%) JavaScript
5 2 (5.00%) Perl
5 2 (5.00%) Ruby
5 2 (5.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (17.50%) Security Cleared
2 6 (15.00%) SC Cleared
3 5 (12.50%) Azure Certification
3 5 (12.50%) Degree
3 5 (12.50%) DV Cleared
4 3 (7.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.50%) HNC
5 1 (2.50%) HND
System Software
1 7 (17.50%) Docker
2 5 (12.50%) Active Directory
3 3 (7.50%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 2 (5.00%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (2.50%) iptables
Systems Management
1 20 (50.00%) Ansible
2 14 (35.00%) Terraform
3 13 (32.50%) Kubernetes
4 11 (27.50%) Puppet
5 5 (12.50%) Progress Chef
6 3 (7.50%) Grafana
6 3 (7.50%) Red Hat Satellite
6 3 (7.50%) ZABBIX
7 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (2.50%) Podman
Vendors
1 10 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 10 (25.00%) Red Hat
2 5 (12.50%) Cisco
2 5 (12.50%) Google
2 5 (12.50%) SaltStack