Ubuntu Job Trends

Ubuntu Linux
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Ubuntu skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 587 527 516
Rank change year-on-year -60 -11 +207
Permanent jobs citing Ubuntu 65 229 220
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.34% 0.42%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.17% 2.59% 2.40%
Number of salaries quoted 37 146 179
10th Percentile £30,750 £32,500 £38,000
25th Percentile £43,375 £40,000 £44,082
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £53,818 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.49% -10.30% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £60,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £49,479 £57,500
% change year-on-year +21.26% -13.95% +9.52%

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 5,544 8,841 9,173
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.59% 13.13% 17.38%
Number of salaries quoted 4,022 5,104 7,447
10th Percentile £26,750 £28,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,375 £68,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £86,250 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -21.05% +5.56% -

Ubuntu
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Ubuntu job vacancy trend in the UK

Ubuntu
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Ubuntu.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Ubuntu

Ubuntu
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Ubuntu over the 6 months to 12 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Ubuntu in the UK

Ubuntu
Top 13 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 12 November 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 -63 53 £60,000 +14.29% 73
UK excluding London -35 43 £60,000 +21.26% 62
London +17 18 £66,250 +8.61% 30
Work from Home -16 16 £52,500 +2.44% 48
Midlands +27 11 £38,750 +10.71% 6
West Midlands +24 11 £38,750 +10.71% 6
North West +23 10 £60,000 +50.00% 6
North of England -1 10 £60,000 +33.33% 6
South West +25 7 £70,000 +33.33% 7
South East -29 6 £35,000 -22.22% 25
Scotland -5 4 - - 6
Wales - 4 - - 2
East of England -6 1 £50,000 -7.41% 3

Ubuntu
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 10 (15.38%) Confluence
2 8 (12.31%) nginx
3 3 (4.62%) Apache
3 3 (4.62%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (3.08%) Apache Spark
4 2 (3.08%) ArcGIS
4 2 (3.08%) GeoServer
4 2 (3.08%) IIS
4 2 (3.08%) Oracle Spatial
5 1 (1.54%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (12.31%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (3.08%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (3.08%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 37 (56.92%) AWS
2 35 (53.85%) Azure
3 17 (26.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 15 (23.08%) Amazon EC2
4 15 (23.08%) Route 53
4 15 (23.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 12 (18.46%) AWS CloudFormation
5 12 (18.46%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (12.31%) Amazon ECS
6 8 (12.31%) Amazon ELB
6 8 (12.31%) Amazon S3
6 8 (12.31%) AWS KMS
7 7 (10.77%) AWS CodeBuild
7 7 (10.77%) GCP
8 6 (9.23%) Azure AKS
9 5 (7.69%) Google Workspace
9 5 (7.69%) OpenShift
10 4 (6.15%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (6.15%) Azure Monitor
10 4 (6.15%) SurveyMonkey
Communications & Networking
1 27 (41.54%) Firewall
2 13 (20.00%) DNS
3 9 (13.85%) HTTP
3 9 (13.85%) SSH
3 9 (13.85%) VLAN
4 8 (12.31%) FTP
4 8 (12.31%) IMAP
4 8 (12.31%) OpenLDAP
4 8 (12.31%) SMTP
4 8 (12.31%) TCP/IP
5 5 (7.69%) VPN
5 5 (7.69%) Wireshark
6 4 (6.15%) Bluetooth
6 4 (6.15%) DHCP
6 4 (6.15%) Intrusion Detection
6 4 (6.15%) Modbus
6 4 (6.15%) Multicast
6 4 (6.15%) Network Security
6 4 (6.15%) ZigBee
7 3 (4.62%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (12.31%) Amazon Aurora
2 8 (12.31%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (10.77%) SQL Server
4 5 (7.69%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (4.62%) MySQL
6 2 (3.08%) Big Data
6 2 (3.08%) Cloudera CDH
6 2 (3.08%) GIS
6 2 (3.08%) Hadoop
6 2 (3.08%) QGIS
7 1 (1.54%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (1.54%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 24 (36.92%) Jenkins
2 14 (21.54%) Git
2 14 (21.54%) GitLab
3 11 (16.92%) JIRA
4 8 (12.31%) Vagrant
5 7 (10.77%) CircleCI
6 4 (6.15%) Burp Suite
6 4 (6.15%) Metasploit
7 2 (3.08%) SonarQube
8 1 (1.54%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 19 (29.23%) Social Skills
2 10 (15.38%) Finance
3 8 (12.31%) Law
3 8 (12.31%) Presentation Skills
4 7 (10.77%) Public Sector
5 6 (9.23%) Aerospace
6 4 (6.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (6.15%) Manufacturing
6 4 (6.15%) Marketing
7 3 (4.62%) Retail
8 2 (3.08%) Banking
9 1 (1.54%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (1.54%) Back Office
9 1 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.54%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (24.62%) DevOps Engineer
1 16 (24.62%) Platform Engineer
2 10 (15.38%) Linux Engineer
3 9 (13.85%) Administrator
3 9 (13.85%) Linux Administrator
4 8 (12.31%) DevOps Platform Engineer
5 6 (9.23%) AWS DevOps
5 6 (9.23%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 6 (9.23%) AWS Engineer
5 6 (9.23%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 6 (9.23%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 6 (9.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (7.69%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 4 (6.15%) Azure Engineer
7 4 (6.15%) Linux Support
7 4 (6.15%) Linux Support Engineer
7 4 (6.15%) Linux Systems Engineer
7 4 (6.15%) Site Engineer
7 4 (6.15%) Support Engineer
8 3 (4.62%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (12.31%) Elastic Stack
1 8 (12.31%) LDAP
2 7 (10.77%) .NET
2 7 (10.77%) REST
3 5 (7.69%) LAMP
4 3 (4.62%) Node.js
4 3 (4.62%) XML
4 3 (4.62%) XMPP
5 2 (3.08%) AngularJS
5 2 (3.08%) Django
5 2 (3.08%) FIX Protocol
5 2 (3.08%) gRPC
5 2 (3.08%) Material-UI
5 2 (3.08%) OpenAPI
5 2 (3.08%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (3.08%) React
5 2 (3.08%) Spring
5 2 (3.08%) Spring Boot
5 2 (3.08%) Swagger
6 1 (1.54%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.31%) Replication
2 6 (9.23%) IoT
3 5 (7.69%) Linux Command Line
4 4 (6.15%) CAN bus
4 4 (6.15%) Cyber Threat
4 4 (6.15%) Data Centre
4 4 (6.15%) Operational Technology
4 4 (6.15%) SCADA
5 2 (3.08%) Cloud Native
5 2 (3.08%) Eurex
5 2 (3.08%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (3.08%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (3.08%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.54%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.54%) Blockchain
6 1 (1.54%) BYOD
6 1 (1.54%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.54%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.54%) Video Conferencing
6 1 (1.54%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 65 (100.00%) Linux
2 24 (36.92%) Windows
3 19 (29.23%) Debian
4 17 (26.15%) CentOS
5 15 (23.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (13.85%) VMS
7 8 (12.31%) Amazon Linux
7 8 (12.31%) Windows Server
8 5 (7.69%) Android
9 4 (6.15%) Kali Linux
10 3 (4.62%) Rocky
10 3 (4.62%) Unix
11 2 (3.08%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (3.08%) Solaris
12 1 (1.54%) Apple iOS
12 1 (1.54%) Windows 10
12 1 (1.54%) Windows Mobile
12 1 (1.54%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (1.54%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (46.15%) DevOps
2 25 (38.46%) CI/CD
3 23 (35.38%) Infrastructure as Code
4 21 (32.31%) Configuration Management
5 20 (30.77%) Platform Engineering
6 15 (23.08%) Containerisation
7 13 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
8 12 (18.46%) Cloud Security
9 11 (16.92%) Patch Management
10 10 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 10 (15.38%) Performance Tuning
11 9 (13.85%) Change Management
11 9 (13.85%) Migration
12 8 (12.31%) AI
12 8 (12.31%) Cybersecurity
13 7 (10.77%) Agile
13 7 (10.77%) Auto-Scaling
13 7 (10.77%) Computer Science
13 7 (10.77%) Software Engineering
14 6 (9.23%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 48 (73.85%) Python
2 22 (33.85%) Bash
3 21 (32.31%) PowerShell
4 17 (26.15%) SQL
5 11 (16.92%) Java
6 8 (12.31%) Groovy
7 6 (9.23%) Shell Script
8 5 (7.69%) C++
9 4 (6.15%) R
9 4 (6.15%) Rust
10 2 (3.08%) JavaScript
11 1 (1.54%) C#
11 1 (1.54%) Go
11 1 (1.54%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 28 (43.08%) Security Cleared
2 20 (30.77%) SC Cleared
3 19 (29.23%) Degree
4 14 (21.54%) Azure Certification
5 10 (15.38%) AWS Certification
5 10 (15.38%) DV Cleared
6 4 (6.15%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (6.15%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (4.62%) RHCE
8 2 (3.08%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (3.08%) RHCSA
8 2 (3.08%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 1 (1.54%) CCNA
9 1 (1.54%) Linux+ Certification
9 1 (1.54%) MCDST
9 1 (1.54%) MCITP
9 1 (1.54%) MCP
9 1 (1.54%) MCSA
9 1 (1.54%) MCSE
9 1 (1.54%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.54%) GDPR
1 1 (1.54%) HIPAA
1 1 (1.54%) NIST
System Software
1 28 (43.08%) Docker
2 11 (16.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (13.85%) Dovecot
3 9 (13.85%) Postfix
4 8 (12.31%) DFS Replication
4 8 (12.31%) Squid
5 7 (10.77%) Active Directory
6 3 (4.62%) Hyper-V
6 3 (4.62%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (3.08%) KVM
7 2 (3.08%) vSphere
8 1 (1.54%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 35 (53.85%) Terraform
2 27 (41.54%) Ansible
3 23 (35.38%) Kubernetes
3 23 (35.38%) Prometheus
4 22 (33.85%) Grafana
5 14 (21.54%) Nessus
6 9 (13.85%) Proxmox
7 4 (6.15%) Nagios
7 4 (6.15%) Nmap
8 3 (4.62%) Puppet
9 2 (3.08%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (1.54%) AirWatch
10 1 (1.54%) Argo
10 1 (1.54%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (1.54%) FortiGate
10 1 (1.54%) Icinga
10 1 (1.54%) Istio
10 1 (1.54%) Kibana
10 1 (1.54%) logstash
10 1 (1.54%) Mesos
Vendors
1 28 (43.08%) Red Hat
2 17 (26.15%) Splunk
3 12 (18.46%) VMware
4 9 (13.85%) Cisco
5 8 (12.31%) Jaspersoft
5 8 (12.31%) ServiceNow
6 7 (10.77%) Google
6 7 (10.77%) Microsoft
7 5 (7.69%) Oracle
8 4 (6.15%) Qualtrics
9 2 (3.08%) CQG
9 2 (3.08%) ESRI
9 2 (3.08%) Fortinet
9 2 (3.08%) ION Trading
9 2 (3.08%) Palo Alto
9 2 (3.08%) Patsystems
9 2 (3.08%) Reuters
9 2 (3.08%) SaltStack
9 2 (3.08%) Trayport
9 2 (3.08%) Veeam