Ubuntu Linux
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 582 417 601
Rank change year-on-year -165 +184 -6
Permanent jobs citing Ubuntu 102 584 436
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.20% 0.59% 0.42%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.55% 4.14% 2.62%
Number of salaries quoted 80 229 313
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,200 £37,500
25th Percentile £35,688 £43,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -12.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £61,000 £67,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £67,625 £91,991 £89,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -20.00% -4.76% +10.53%

All Operating Systems
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 6,583 14,121 16,635
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.62% 14.36% 15.99%
Number of salaries quoted 4,456 10,927 11,200
10th Percentile £27,500 £25,760 £27,000
25th Percentile £33,250 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -14.29% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,625 £80,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,000 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -1.18% -5.56% -

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 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Ubuntu in the UK

Ubuntu
Top 14 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 30 April 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
England -156 93 £50,000 -9.09% 76
UK excluding London -10 69 £40,000 -20.00% 54
London -101 34 £61,000 -6.15% 26
Work from Home -114 30 £50,000 - 63
Midlands +58 28 £35,000 -30.00% 4
South East +7 25 £50,000 - 8
West Midlands +55 22 £35,000 -40.17% 4
North of England +47 8 £50,000 - 15
North West +8 7 £50,000 - 15
East Midlands +42 6 £40,000 +7.02%
Wales +33 4 £47,500 -5.00%
East of England +41 3 £62,500 +4.17% 3
Scotland +120 2 £43,750 +21.53% 2
North East +49 1 - -

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 11 (10.78%) nginx
2 6 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.94%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (2.94%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.96%) Apache
5 1 (0.98%) Confluence
5 1 (0.98%) IIS
5 1 (0.98%) Office Communications Server
5 1 (0.98%) Tomcat
Applications
1 20 (19.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (6.86%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 3 (2.94%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 46 (45.10%) AWS
2 27 (26.47%) Azure
3 17 (16.67%) Google Workspace
4 15 (14.71%) Amazon S3
5 14 (13.73%) AWS Lambda
5 14 (13.73%) Serverless
6 10 (9.80%) Microsoft 365
7 9 (8.82%) GitHub
7 9 (8.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 7 (6.86%) Amazon EC2
8 7 (6.86%) Amazon ECS
8 7 (6.86%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 7 (6.86%) AWS KMS
9 6 (5.88%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (3.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (3.92%) Entra ID
10 4 (3.92%) GCP
11 3 (2.94%) Amazon ELB
11 3 (2.94%) OneDrive
11 3 (2.94%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 42 (41.18%) Firewall
2 25 (24.51%) DNS
3 24 (23.53%) DHCP
4 22 (21.57%) TCP/IP
5 21 (20.59%) VLAN
6 17 (16.67%) BGP
6 17 (16.67%) OSPF
7 16 (15.69%) WLAN
8 9 (8.82%) SSL
9 7 (6.86%) Wireshark
10 6 (5.88%) Bluetooth
11 4 (3.92%) Telnet
11 4 (3.92%) VPN
12 3 (2.94%) FIX Connectivity
12 3 (2.94%) HTTP
13 2 (1.96%) Diameter Protocol
14 1 (0.98%) 5G
14 1 (0.98%) DVB
14 1 (0.98%) SMPP
14 1 (0.98%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (10.78%) SQL Server
2 9 (8.82%) MySQL
3 8 (7.84%) Relational Database
4 6 (5.88%) MariaDB
4 6 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (3.92%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (3.92%) Metadata
5 4 (3.92%) RDBMS
6 3 (2.94%) Airbyte
6 3 (2.94%) Cloud Spanner
6 3 (2.94%) Couchbase
6 3 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (2.94%) NoSQL
6 3 (2.94%) Qlik Sense
7 2 (1.96%) Big Data
8 1 (0.98%) DB2
8 1 (0.98%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.98%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 13 (12.75%) Git
2 11 (10.78%) Jenkins
3 7 (6.86%) Bitbucket Server
4 3 (2.94%) JIRA
4 3 (2.94%) Vagrant
5 2 (1.96%) GitLab
6 1 (0.98%) Babel
6 1 (0.98%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.98%) gulp
6 1 (0.98%) Maven
6 1 (0.98%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.98%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.98%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.98%) webpack
General
1 41 (40.20%) Social Skills
2 17 (16.67%) Automotive
3 16 (15.69%) Retail
4 8 (7.84%) Finance
5 7 (6.86%) Banking
6 6 (5.88%) Games
6 6 (5.88%) Legal
7 2 (1.96%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.98%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.98%) Electronics
8 1 (0.98%) Fire and Rescue
8 1 (0.98%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.98%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.98%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 28 (27.45%) Systems Engineer
2 24 (23.53%) IT Engineer
3 21 (20.59%) Linux Engineer
4 17 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 10 (9.80%) Linux Systems Engineer
6 8 (7.84%) DevOps Engineer
7 7 (6.86%) Administrator
7 7 (6.86%) NOC Engineer
7 7 (6.86%) Senior
7 7 (6.86%) Software Engineer
8 6 (5.88%) Analyst
8 6 (5.88%) Banking Analyst
8 6 (5.88%) Financial Analyst
8 6 (5.88%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (5.88%) Senior Software Engineer
8 6 (5.88%) Support Analyst
9 5 (4.90%) Linux Administrator
9 5 (4.90%) Linux Systems Administrator
9 5 (4.90%) Systems Administrator
10 4 (3.92%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.86%) CSS
1 7 (6.86%) FIX Protocol
1 7 (6.86%) HTML
2 6 (5.88%) Django
2 6 (5.88%) WebSockets
3 4 (3.92%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (2.94%) NumPy
4 3 (2.94%) Pandas
4 3 (2.94%) RabbitMQ
4 3 (2.94%) SQLAlchemy
5 2 (1.96%) LAMP
5 2 (1.96%) REST
6 1 (0.98%) .NET
6 1 (0.98%) JSON
6 1 (0.98%) LDAP
6 1 (0.98%) Middleware
6 1 (0.98%) OAuth
6 1 (0.98%) RESTful
6 1 (0.98%) Sass
6 1 (0.98%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (24.51%) Management Information System
2 16 (15.69%) Data Centre
2 16 (15.69%) Smartphone
3 7 (6.86%) IoT
3 7 (6.86%) Mobile App
4 6 (5.88%) Algorithms
4 6 (5.88%) Client/Server
4 6 (5.88%) Embedded Systems
5 5 (4.90%) Public Cloud
6 4 (3.92%) Equities
6 4 (3.92%) Fixed Income
6 4 (3.92%) NHS
6 4 (3.92%) Onboarding
6 4 (3.92%) Reference Data
7 3 (2.94%) Eurex
8 2 (1.96%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.96%) Derivative
8 2 (1.96%) Driving Licence
8 2 (1.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.96%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 102 (100.00%) Linux
2 62 (60.78%) Windows
3 37 (36.27%) CentOS
4 27 (26.47%) Debian
4 27 (26.47%) Windows Server
5 20 (19.61%) Windows Server 2016
6 18 (17.65%) Windows Server 2019
7 16 (15.69%) Mac OS X
7 16 (15.69%) Windows 10
8 10 (9.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 10 (9.80%) Rocky
9 8 (7.84%) Unix
10 6 (5.88%) Mac OS
11 3 (2.94%) Solaris
11 3 (2.94%) SUSE
11 3 (2.94%) VMS
11 3 (2.94%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (31.37%) Computer Science
2 29 (28.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 23 (22.55%) DevOps
4 18 (17.65%) Performance Tuning
5 16 (15.69%) Business Case
5 16 (15.69%) Systems Engineering
6 13 (12.75%) Disaster Recovery
6 13 (12.75%) Service Delivery
7 11 (10.78%) Capacity Management
8 10 (9.80%) Agile
8 10 (9.80%) CI/CD
9 9 (8.82%) Analytics
9 9 (8.82%) Containerisation
10 8 (7.84%) Patch Management
11 7 (6.86%) Client Onboarding
11 7 (6.86%) Information Security
11 7 (6.86%) Information Security Management
11 7 (6.86%) Penetration Testing
11 7 (6.86%) Proactive Monitoring
11 7 (6.86%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 38 (37.25%) PowerShell
2 35 (34.31%) SQL
3 31 (30.39%) Python
4 17 (16.67%) Bash
5 10 (9.80%) JavaScript
6 8 (7.84%) Shell Script
7 7 (6.86%) C++
7 7 (6.86%) Perl
8 6 (5.88%) C
8 6 (5.88%) Ladder Logic
8 6 (5.88%) Ruby
8 6 (5.88%) T-SQL
8 6 (5.88%) TypeScript
9 5 (4.90%) Java
10 3 (2.94%) Groovy
10 3 (2.94%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.98%) C#
11 1 (0.98%) Go
11 1 (0.98%) PHP
11 1 (0.98%) R
Qualifications
1 40 (39.22%) Degree
2 27 (26.47%) Computer Science Degree
3 24 (23.53%) Microsoft Certification
4 23 (22.55%) MCSE
5 17 (16.67%) HNC
5 17 (16.67%) HND
6 8 (7.84%) Security Cleared
7 7 (6.86%) CCNA
7 7 (6.86%) CCNP
7 7 (6.86%) Cisco Certification
7 7 (6.86%) MCSA
7 7 (6.86%) Network+ Certification
7 7 (6.86%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 5 (4.90%) SC Cleared
9 4 (3.92%) AWS Certification
9 4 (3.92%) Azure Certification
10 3 (2.94%) Linux+ Certification
10 3 (2.94%) RHCE
11 1 (0.98%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.98%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.90%) SLA
2 3 (2.94%) GDPR
2 3 (2.94%) HIPAA
3 1 (0.98%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.98%) NCSC
3 1 (0.98%) NIST
3 1 (0.98%) QA
System Software
1 35 (34.31%) Active Directory
2 24 (23.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (20.59%) Docker
4 9 (8.82%) vSphere
5 7 (6.86%) Virtual Desktop
5 7 (6.86%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (5.88%) Hyper-V
6 6 (5.88%) pfSense
6 6 (5.88%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (3.92%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (2.94%) Dovecot
8 3 (2.94%) Postfix
9 1 (0.98%) Firmware
9 1 (0.98%) KVM
9 1 (0.98%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 21 (20.59%) Ansible
2 16 (15.69%) Terraform
3 14 (13.73%) Kubernetes
4 9 (8.82%) Nessus
4 9 (8.82%) Proxmox
5 8 (7.84%) Grafana
6 4 (3.92%) Prometheus
7 3 (2.94%) Nagios
8 2 (1.96%) FortiGate
8 2 (1.96%) NetBackup
8 2 (1.96%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.98%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.98%) Puppet
Vendors
1 49 (48.04%) Microsoft
2 27 (26.47%) Red Hat
3 26 (25.49%) Cisco
3 26 (25.49%) VMware
4 18 (17.65%) Dell
5 17 (16.67%) Fortinet
5 17 (16.67%) Google
6 16 (15.69%) Apple
6 16 (15.69%) Ubiquiti
7 7 (6.86%) Juniper
7 7 (6.86%) Palo Alto
8 6 (5.88%) Siemens
9 4 (3.92%) Atlassian
9 4 (3.92%) Oracle
10 3 (2.94%) CQG
10 3 (2.94%) ION Trading
10 3 (2.94%) Okta
10 3 (2.94%) Patsystems
10 3 (2.94%) Ping Identity
10 3 (2.94%) Trayport