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 4 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 662 618 403
Rank change year-on-year -44 -215 +111
Permanent jobs citing Ubuntu 139 63 463
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.13% 0.58%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.17% 0.95% 4.70%
Number of salaries quoted 106 42 158
10th Percentile £35,000 £33,700 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.08% +20.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £73,438 £72,188 £66,313
90th Percentile £85,625 £78,625 £92,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year - +33.33% -25.00%

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 6,396 6,611 9,858
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.80% 13.48% 12.40%
Number of salaries quoted 4,788 4,326 6,520
10th Percentile £28,000 £27,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £32,000 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £41,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.43% -17.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £38,325 £45,000
% change year-on-year +10.89% -14.83% -4.58%

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 4 September 2026.

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 4 September 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
England -35 119 £60,000 - 94
UK excluding London -52 108 £60,000 - 40
South East +2 51 £60,000 +71.43% 13
Work from Home -23 37 £60,000 +14.29% 45
London -37 24 £85,000 +4.62% 61
North of England -50 17 £50,000 -16.67% 9
Midlands -45 14 £60,000 +50.00% 4
Scotland +12 10 £63,451 +26.90% 5
North West -19 9 £51,250 -14.58% 5
West Midlands -34 9 £60,000 +14.29% 4
East of England -19 7 £80,000 +36.17% 6
North East - 7 £50,000 - 4
South West -73 6 £42,500 -41.38% 1
East Midlands -35 5 £41,000 +2.50%
Wales -70 3 £35,000 -26.32%
Yorkshire - 1 £42,500 -

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 22 (15.83%) Apache
2 12 (8.63%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (7.91%) Confluence
3 11 (7.91%) IIS
4 8 (5.76%) SharePoint
5 7 (5.04%) nginx
6 5 (3.60%) Apache Spark
7 3 (2.16%) ArcGIS
7 3 (2.16%) GeoServer
7 3 (2.16%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 5 (3.60%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (2.88%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 64 (46.04%) Azure
2 52 (37.41%) AWS
3 45 (32.37%) Microsoft 365
4 28 (20.14%) Entra ID
5 23 (16.55%) SaaS
6 12 (8.63%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (7.91%) AWS CloudFormation
7 11 (7.91%) OpenShift
8 10 (7.19%) GCP
9 8 (5.76%) Microsoft Copilot
10 7 (5.04%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (5.04%) Power Automate
11 5 (3.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 5 (3.60%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (3.60%) Amazon S3
11 5 (3.60%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (3.60%) Google Workspace
11 5 (3.60%) Serverless
11 5 (3.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 4 (2.88%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 39 (28.06%) Firewall
2 36 (25.90%) DNS
3 28 (20.14%) TCP/IP
4 23 (16.55%) DHCP
5 19 (13.67%) VPN
6 13 (9.35%) VLAN
7 10 (7.19%) WAN
8 9 (6.47%) LAN
9 7 (5.04%) VoIP
10 5 (3.60%) AMQP
10 5 (3.60%) SAN
10 5 (3.60%) Wi-Fi
11 4 (2.88%) FIX Connectivity
11 4 (2.88%) LoRaWAN
11 4 (2.88%) MQTT
11 4 (2.88%) NAS
12 3 (2.16%) Asterisk PBX
12 3 (2.16%) SSH
12 3 (2.16%) WLAN
13 2 (1.44%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (20.14%) MySQL
2 24 (17.27%) SQL Server
3 5 (3.60%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (3.60%) Big Data
3 5 (3.60%) Cloudera CDH
3 5 (3.60%) Hadoop
4 4 (2.88%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (2.88%) Neo4j
4 4 (2.88%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (2.16%) GIS
5 3 (2.16%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 12 (8.63%) JIRA
2 11 (7.91%) Git
3 9 (6.47%) GitLab
4 7 (5.04%) Bitbucket
5 5 (3.60%) Jenkins
6 4 (2.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (2.16%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.44%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.72%) SonarQube
General
1 31 (22.30%) Social Skills
2 8 (5.76%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (5.76%) Documentation Skills
2 8 (5.76%) Finance
3 7 (5.04%) Law
4 6 (4.32%) Manufacturing
5 5 (3.60%) Aerospace
6 4 (2.88%) Advertising
6 4 (2.88%) Banking
6 4 (2.88%) Mandarin Language
7 3 (2.16%) Legal
7 3 (2.16%) Retail
8 2 (1.44%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.72%) Electronics
9 1 (0.72%) Games
9 1 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 28 (20.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 26 (18.71%) Support Engineer
3 25 (17.99%) IT Engineer
4 22 (15.83%) DevOps Engineer
5 21 (15.11%) Linux Engineer
6 20 (14.39%) Senior
7 18 (12.95%) IT Support
7 18 (12.95%) IT Support Engineer
8 16 (11.51%) Systems Engineer
9 12 (8.63%) Administrator
9 12 (8.63%) Systems Administrator
10 11 (7.91%) Linux Administrator
10 11 (7.91%) Linux Systems Administrator
10 11 (7.91%) Linux Systems Engineer
11 9 (6.47%) Developer
11 9 (6.47%) DevOps Systems Engineer
11 9 (6.47%) Linux DevOps Engineer
11 9 (6.47%) Linux/Unix DevOps
11 9 (6.47%) Technical Support
12 8 (5.76%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (38.13%) Terraform
2 12 (8.63%) Node.js
2 12 (8.63%) React
3 5 (3.60%) AngularJS
3 5 (3.60%) ARM Templates
3 5 (3.60%) CSS
3 5 (3.60%) gRPC
3 5 (3.60%) HTML
3 5 (3.60%) Material-UI
3 5 (3.60%) OpenAPI
3 5 (3.60%) RabbitMQ
3 5 (3.60%) REST
3 5 (3.60%) Ruby on Rails
3 5 (3.60%) Spring
3 5 (3.60%) Spring Boot
3 5 (3.60%) Swagger
4 4 (2.88%) .NET
4 4 (2.88%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (2.88%) LAMP
4 4 (2.88%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.63%) Replication
2 10 (7.19%) Onboarding
3 6 (4.32%) Data Centre
3 6 (4.32%) Linux Command Line
4 5 (3.60%) Cloud Native
4 5 (3.60%) Raspberry Pi
5 4 (2.88%) Blockchain
5 4 (2.88%) Driving Licence
5 4 (2.88%) Eurex
5 4 (2.88%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (2.88%) IoT
5 4 (2.88%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.88%) Web3
6 3 (2.16%) Digital Signage
7 2 (1.44%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.44%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (1.44%) Educational Technology
7 2 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.44%) Robotics
7 2 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 139 (100.00%) Linux
2 64 (46.04%) Windows
3 52 (37.41%) Windows Server
4 33 (23.74%) CentOS
5 30 (21.58%) Debian
6 23 (16.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 11 (7.91%) Rocky
8 10 (7.19%) Windows Server 2016
9 8 (5.76%) Unix
10 6 (4.32%) Windows Server 2019
11 5 (3.60%) Solaris
12 3 (2.16%) Mac OS
13 2 (1.44%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (1.44%) Robot Operating System
13 2 (1.44%) VMS
14 1 (0.72%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (28.06%) DevOps
2 38 (27.34%) Infrastructure as Code
3 35 (25.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 35 (25.18%) Problem-Solving
4 34 (24.46%) Agile
5 27 (19.42%) Disaster Recovery
6 26 (18.71%) CI/CD
7 20 (14.39%) Continuous Improvement
8 19 (13.67%) Containerisation
9 18 (12.95%) AI
9 18 (12.95%) Scrum
10 16 (11.51%) Cybersecurity
11 15 (10.79%) Migration
12 14 (10.07%) Software Engineering
13 13 (9.35%) Observability
14 12 (8.63%) Collaborative Culture
15 11 (7.91%) Configuration Management
15 11 (7.91%) Incident Response
15 11 (7.91%) ITIL
15 11 (7.91%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 45 (32.37%) Bash
2 43 (30.94%) Python
3 42 (30.22%) PowerShell
4 14 (10.07%) JavaScript
5 12 (8.63%) PHP
5 12 (8.63%) Ruby
5 12 (8.63%) SQL
6 7 (5.04%) Shell Script
7 5 (3.60%) Java
7 5 (3.60%) Perl
7 5 (3.60%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.72%) Bicep
8 1 (0.72%) C#
Qualifications
1 30 (21.58%) Security Cleared
2 20 (14.39%) Degree
3 16 (11.51%) SC Cleared
4 15 (10.79%) DV Cleared
5 6 (4.32%) HNC
5 6 (4.32%) HND
6 5 (3.60%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (2.88%) Postgraduate
8 3 (2.16%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (1.44%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.72%) CCNP
10 1 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.72%) Linux+ Certification
10 1 (0.72%) RHCE
10 1 (0.72%) RHCSA
10 1 (0.72%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.04%) SLA
2 4 (2.88%) QA
3 1 (0.72%) GDPR
3 1 (0.72%) NIST
System Software
1 37 (26.62%) VMware Infrastructure
2 36 (25.90%) Active Directory
3 31 (22.30%) Docker
4 19 (13.67%) vSphere
5 9 (6.47%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (5.04%) Hyper-V
7 6 (4.32%) iptables
7 6 (4.32%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (2.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 3 (2.16%) Terminal Services
8 3 (2.16%) Xen
9 2 (1.44%) KVM
10 1 (0.72%) Ceph
10 1 (0.72%) GPFS
10 1 (0.72%) Lustre
10 1 (0.72%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 57 (41.01%) Ansible
2 42 (30.22%) Kubernetes
3 12 (8.63%) vCenter Server
4 11 (7.91%) Puppet
5 7 (5.04%) Grafana
5 7 (5.04%) Prometheus
5 7 (5.04%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (4.32%) Argo
6 6 (4.32%) Docker Swarm
6 6 (4.32%) Nagios
6 6 (4.32%) Nessus
6 6 (4.32%) Podman
7 4 (2.88%) Galera Cluster
7 4 (2.88%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (2.88%) Progress Chef
7 4 (2.88%) WSUS
8 3 (2.16%) Red Hat Satellite
8 3 (2.16%) systemd
9 2 (1.44%) FlexNet
9 2 (1.44%) Mesos
Vendors
1 58 (41.73%) Microsoft
2 52 (37.41%) Red Hat
3 48 (34.53%) VMware
4 16 (11.51%) Veeam
5 11 (7.91%) Cisco
5 11 (7.91%) Dell
5 11 (7.91%) SonicWALL
6 10 (7.19%) Google
7 8 (5.76%) Citrix
8 7 (5.04%) Oracle
9 6 (4.32%) NetApp
9 6 (4.32%) Splunk
9 6 (4.32%) Synology
10 5 (3.60%) Meraki
10 5 (3.60%) SaltStack
11 4 (2.88%) Facebook
11 4 (2.88%) Instagram
11 4 (2.88%) Palo Alto
11 4 (2.88%) ServiceNow
11 4 (2.88%) Trayport