Ubuntu Linux
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Ubuntu skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Ubuntu over the 6 months to 10 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 517 702 626
Rank change year-on-year +185 -76 -151
Permanent jobs citing Ubuntu 223 395 501
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.43% 0.32% 0.39%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.46% 1.94% 2.26%
Number of salaries quoted 151 306 308
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,613 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £36,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year - +13.86% -3.81%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £82,725
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,000 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -2.86% +10.53% -2.06%

All Operating Systems
UK

Ubuntu is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 9,056 20,329 22,159
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.32% 16.63% 17.44%
Number of salaries quoted 7,010 13,652 16,244
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £34,500 £36,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £92,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000

Ubuntu
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Ubuntu as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Ubuntu in the UK

Ubuntu
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Ubuntu.

Salary trend for Ubuntu in the UK

Ubuntu
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Ubuntu over the 6 months to 10 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Ubuntu in the UK

Ubuntu
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Ubuntu within the UK over the 6 months to 10 December 2023. 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
England +170 187 £58,000 +0.87% 58
UK excluding London +185 123 £51,000 -2.86% 45
Work from Home +140 104 £45,000 -21.74% 36
London +171 85 £71,250 +18.75% 27
North of England +153 29 £47,500 - 11
South West +94 29 £43,000 -8.99% 4
South East +107 25 £55,000 +4.76% 9
Yorkshire +97 15 £62,500 +13.64% 3
North West +123 14 £41,322 -17.36% 8
Scotland +48 13 £75,000 +50.00% 6
Midlands +125 8 £40,250 -32.92% 10
Wales +11 8 £44,414 -1.30% 4
East of England +80 7 £68,750 +19.57%
West Midlands +125 5 £38,000 -20.00% 6
Northern Ireland +36 4 £80,000 -5.88% 1
East Midlands +47 3 £57,500 -4.17% 4

Ubuntu
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 24 (10.76%) Apache
1 24 (10.76%) ArcGIS
1 24 (10.76%) GeoServer
2 12 (5.38%) nginx
3 9 (4.04%) IIS
4 7 (3.14%) SharePoint
5 5 (2.24%) Apache Spark
5 5 (2.24%) Confluence
6 4 (1.79%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.90%) Red Hat Fuse
7 2 (0.90%) WordPress
8 1 (0.45%) Gunicorn
8 1 (0.45%) SAS
8 1 (0.45%) uWSGI
Applications
1 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 11 (4.93%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.45%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 107 (47.98%) Azure
2 105 (47.09%) AWS
3 28 (12.56%) Microsoft 365
4 25 (11.21%) AWS CloudFormation
5 23 (10.31%) GCP
6 20 (8.97%) Amazon EC2
7 17 (7.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 16 (7.17%) Datadog
9 15 (6.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 14 (6.28%) AWS CodeBuild
10 14 (6.28%) Route 53
11 12 (5.38%) Serverless
12 8 (3.59%) OpenShift
13 7 (3.14%) Amazon EKS
13 7 (3.14%) AWS Lambda
14 5 (2.24%) Akamai
14 5 (2.24%) Azure DevOps
14 5 (2.24%) GitHub
15 4 (1.79%) Amazon ECS
15 4 (1.79%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 69 (30.94%) Firewall
2 45 (20.18%) VPN
3 29 (13.00%) Internet
4 28 (12.56%) DNS
5 26 (11.66%) SAN
6 20 (8.97%) DHCP
6 20 (8.97%) LAN
6 20 (8.97%) WAN
7 17 (7.62%) VLAN
8 16 (7.17%) TCP/IP
9 11 (4.93%) FIX Connectivity
10 5 (2.24%) AMQP
10 5 (2.24%) Cisco ASA
10 5 (2.24%) HTTP
10 5 (2.24%) NAS
10 5 (2.24%) SSH
11 4 (1.79%) iSCSI
11 4 (1.79%) Kerberos
11 4 (1.79%) Network Security
12 3 (1.35%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (14.80%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (10.76%) GIS
2 24 (10.76%) QGIS
3 20 (8.97%) MySQL
3 20 (8.97%) SQL Server
4 11 (4.93%) Elasticsearch
5 9 (4.04%) Metadata
6 8 (3.59%) MongoDB
7 6 (2.69%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (2.69%) Big Data
7 6 (2.69%) Hadoop
8 5 (2.24%) Cloudera CDH
9 4 (1.79%) Relational Database
10 3 (1.35%) InfluxDB
11 2 (0.90%) EDMS
11 2 (0.90%) MariaDB
11 2 (0.90%) NoSQL
11 2 (0.90%) Redis
12 1 (0.45%) MySQL Workbench
12 1 (0.45%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 33 (14.80%) Jenkins
2 21 (9.42%) GitLab
3 18 (8.07%) Git
4 12 (5.38%) CircleCI
4 12 (5.38%) JIRA
5 8 (3.59%) Artifactory
6 5 (2.24%) Gradle
6 5 (2.24%) Maven
7 3 (1.35%) Selenium
8 1 (0.45%) Appium
8 1 (0.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.45%) DBeaver
8 1 (0.45%) JMeter
8 1 (0.45%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.45%) Protractor
8 1 (0.45%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.45%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.45%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.45%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.45%) Vagrant
General
1 71 (31.84%) Social Skills
2 26 (11.66%) Finance
3 21 (9.42%) Banking
4 19 (8.52%) Retail
5 15 (6.73%) Billing
6 11 (4.93%) Influencing Skills
7 8 (3.59%) Aviation
8 5 (2.24%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.79%) Public Sector
10 3 (1.35%) Analytical Skills
10 3 (1.35%) Law
11 2 (0.90%) Advertising
11 2 (0.90%) Games
11 2 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.90%) Military
11 2 (0.90%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.45%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.45%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.45%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 59 (26.46%) Senior
2 35 (15.70%) Architect
3 33 (14.80%) Infrastructure Architect
4 30 (13.45%) Software Engineer
5 29 (13.00%) Senior Software Engineer
6 26 (11.66%) DevOps Engineer
7 22 (9.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 22 (9.87%) Linux Engineer
8 19 (8.52%) Administrator
9 17 (7.62%) Systems Administrator
10 16 (7.17%) IT Engineer
11 13 (5.83%) Analyst
12 12 (5.38%) Linux Administrator
12 12 (5.38%) Support Analyst
13 11 (4.93%) 3rd Line Support
13 11 (4.93%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
13 11 (4.93%) Systems Engineer
14 10 (4.48%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
14 10 (4.48%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Analyst
14 10 (4.48%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (13.00%) React
2 24 (10.76%) Django
2 24 (10.76%) Leaflet
2 24 (10.76%) OpenLayers
2 24 (10.76%) PostGIS
3 18 (8.07%) Elastic Stack
4 12 (5.38%) FIX Protocol
5 11 (4.93%) Node.js
6 9 (4.04%) AngularJS
6 9 (4.04%) RabbitMQ
7 8 (3.59%) LDAP
7 8 (3.59%) REST
8 7 (3.14%) .NET
9 6 (2.69%) LAMP
10 5 (2.24%) gRPC
10 5 (2.24%) LAPP Stack
10 5 (2.24%) Material-UI
10 5 (2.24%) Spring
10 5 (2.24%) Spring Boot
10 5 (2.24%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 31 (13.90%) Data Centre
2 23 (10.31%) Public Cloud
3 18 (8.07%) Replication
4 13 (5.83%) Linux Command Line
5 11 (4.93%) Eurex
6 9 (4.04%) Data Structures
6 9 (4.04%) Virtual Team
7 6 (2.69%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (2.24%) Cloud Native
8 5 (2.24%) Enterprise Storage
8 5 (2.24%) Mobile App
8 5 (2.24%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.79%) Product Ownership
10 3 (1.35%) Cyber Threat
10 3 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.35%) Video Conferencing
11 2 (0.90%) Blackberry
11 2 (0.90%) BYOD
11 2 (0.90%) Client/Server
11 2 (0.90%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 223 (100.00%) Linux
2 108 (48.43%) Windows
3 58 (26.01%) CentOS
4 50 (22.42%) Debian
5 39 (17.49%) Windows Server
6 38 (17.04%) Unix
7 37 (16.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 22 (9.87%) Solaris
9 20 (8.97%) VMS
10 16 (7.17%) SUSE
10 16 (7.17%) Windows Server 2012
11 10 (4.48%) Windows Server 2019
12 8 (3.59%) Fedora
12 8 (3.59%) Mac OS
13 7 (3.14%) openSUSE
13 7 (3.14%) Windows 10
14 5 (2.24%) Windows Server 2016
15 4 (1.79%) Android
16 2 (0.90%) Apple iOS
16 2 (0.90%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (34.98%) Agile
2 61 (27.35%) DevOps
3 48 (21.52%) Actionable Insight
4 38 (17.04%) Infrastructure as Code
5 37 (16.59%) Configuration Management
6 34 (15.25%) Containerisation
7 33 (14.80%) ITIL
8 31 (13.90%) Software Engineering
9 30 (13.45%) CI/CD
10 29 (13.00%) DevSecOps
10 29 (13.00%) Mentoring
11 26 (11.66%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 25 (11.21%) Continuous Improvement
12 25 (11.21%) Web Development
13 23 (10.31%) Problem-Solving
14 20 (8.97%) Collaborative Culture
15 18 (8.07%) Application Security
15 18 (8.07%) Collaborative Working
15 18 (8.07%) Roadmaps
16 16 (7.17%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 110 (49.33%) Python
2 84 (37.67%) Bash
3 55 (24.66%) PowerShell
4 45 (20.18%) JavaScript
5 44 (19.73%) SQL
6 32 (14.35%) Perl
7 22 (9.87%) Java
8 19 (8.52%) PHP
9 16 (7.17%) Shell Script
10 15 (6.73%) Ruby
11 9 (4.04%) Search Processing Language
12 7 (3.14%) Go
13 3 (1.35%) C
13 3 (1.35%) C#
13 3 (1.35%) Groovy
14 1 (0.45%) Clojure
14 1 (0.45%) Rust
14 1 (0.45%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.45%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 48 (21.52%) Security Cleared
2 34 (15.25%) SC Cleared
3 16 (7.17%) MCSA
3 16 (7.17%) MCSE
3 16 (7.17%) Microsoft Certification
4 15 (6.73%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 12 (5.38%) Degree
6 9 (4.04%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 9 (4.04%) CCSP
6 9 (4.04%) Cisco Certification
6 9 (4.04%) CISSP
7 7 (3.14%) DV Cleared
8 6 (2.69%) AWS Certification
9 3 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.45%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.45%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.45%) MCDST
10 1 (0.45%) MCITP
10 1 (0.45%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (0.90%) Government Security Classifications
1 2 (0.90%) ISO 9001
1 2 (0.90%) NCSC
1 2 (0.90%) QA
2 1 (0.45%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.45%) SLA
System Software
1 56 (25.11%) Active Directory
2 54 (24.22%) Docker
3 51 (22.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (10.76%) vSphere
5 15 (6.73%) vCloud
6 8 (3.59%) Samba
7 5 (2.24%) Hyper-V
7 5 (2.24%) Varnish
8 4 (1.79%) NFS
9 3 (1.35%) KVM
9 3 (1.35%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 3 (1.35%) Virtual Machines
10 2 (0.90%) Firmware
11 1 (0.45%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.45%) QEMU
11 1 (0.45%) Shibboleth
11 1 (0.45%) Terminal Services
11 1 (0.45%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 92 (41.26%) Ansible
2 81 (36.32%) Terraform
3 52 (23.32%) Kubernetes
4 31 (13.90%) Puppet
5 16 (7.17%) Grafana
6 14 (6.28%) Prometheus
7 12 (5.38%) ZABBIX
8 8 (3.59%) Progress Chef
9 6 (2.69%) Cobbler
9 6 (2.69%) Microsoft Intune
10 5 (2.24%) HAProxy
10 5 (2.24%) Nagios
11 4 (1.79%) Docker Swarm
11 4 (1.79%) Jamf Pro
11 4 (1.79%) SCCM
11 4 (1.79%) SCOM
12 3 (1.35%) Ganglia
13 2 (0.90%) Kibana
13 2 (0.90%) Packer
13 2 (0.90%) yum
Vendors
1 65 (29.15%) Red Hat
2 62 (27.80%) VMware
3 35 (15.70%) Microsoft
4 32 (14.35%) Splunk
5 24 (10.76%) ESRI
6 20 (8.97%) Veeam
7 17 (7.62%) HP
8 16 (7.17%) Oracle
9 15 (6.73%) Fujitsu
10 13 (5.83%) Cisco
11 12 (5.38%) Bloomberg
11 12 (5.38%) Reuters
12 11 (4.93%) CQG
12 11 (4.93%) ION Trading
12 11 (4.93%) Patsystems
12 11 (4.93%) Trayport
13 9 (4.04%) AppDynamics
13 9 (4.04%) New Relic
13 9 (4.04%) Palo Alto
14 7 (3.14%) Google