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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 413 581 599
Rank change year-on-year +168 +18 -122
Permanent jobs citing Ubuntu 583 439 802
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.59% 0.42% 0.52%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.14% 2.63% 2.76%
Number of salaries quoted 228 316 464
10th Percentile £36,175 £37,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £91,991 £90,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,250 £47,500
% change year-on-year -4.31% +10.00% +5.56%

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 14,079 16,671 29,105
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.36% 15.93% 18.88%
Number of salaries quoted 10,884 11,238 16,744
10th Percentile £25,760 £27,000 £26,398
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £35,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £71,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £92,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -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 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Ubuntu in the UK

Ubuntu
Top 18 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 27 April 2024. 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 +199 535 £55,000 -8.33% 68
Work from Home +180 387 £50,000 -13.04% 33
UK excluding London +75 298 £50,000 -4.31% 55
London +182 261 £65,000 -7.14% 14
South East +100 130 £50,000 - 16
North of England +71 45 £50,000 +63.93% 10
South West +17 43 £43,375 -12.81% 10
North West +29 32 £50,000 +53.85% 9
Midlands +14 31 £50,000 -6.76% 9
East of England -32 20 £60,000 +4.35% 9
West Midlands +32 18 £58,500 +37.65% 4
East Midlands -14 13 £37,375 -35.00% 5
Wales +14 11 £50,000 +11.11% 2
Scotland -68 10 £36,000 -52.00%
Yorkshire +92 9 £53,750 +88.60%
Northern Ireland +34 4 - -
Isle of Man - 4 £43,000 -
North East - 4 £52,500 - 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 48 (8.23%) ArcGIS
1 48 (8.23%) GeoServer
2 35 (6.00%) Apache
3 26 (4.46%) Microsoft Exchange
4 24 (4.12%) Apache Spark
5 15 (2.57%) SharePoint
6 11 (1.89%) IIS
6 11 (1.89%) WordPress
7 7 (1.20%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.86%) nginx
9 4 (0.69%) Confluence
10 2 (0.34%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.17%) CMS
11 1 (0.17%) Drupal
11 1 (0.17%) Gunicorn
11 1 (0.17%) PrestaShop
11 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Fuse
11 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.17%) uWSGI
Applications
1 10 (1.72%) Simulink
2 5 (0.86%) Trello
3 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.34%) CATIA
4 2 (0.34%) NASTRAN
5 1 (0.17%) 1Password
5 1 (0.17%) GNU Octave
5 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 11 (1.89%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.51%) Oracle Cash Management
3 2 (0.34%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.17%) Magento
4 1 (0.17%) Sage X3
4 1 (0.17%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 389 (66.72%) Azure
2 226 (38.77%) Entra ID
3 139 (23.84%) AWS
4 62 (10.63%) Microsoft 365
5 41 (7.03%) GCP
6 29 (4.97%) AWS CloudFormation
7 26 (4.46%) AWS Lambda
7 26 (4.46%) Serverless
8 25 (4.29%) Amazon EKS
8 25 (4.29%) OpenShift
9 22 (3.77%) SaaS
10 11 (1.89%) Amazon S3
11 10 (1.72%) Cloud Computing
11 10 (1.72%) OneDrive
12 8 (1.37%) IaaS
13 7 (1.20%) PaaS
14 6 (1.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 6 (1.03%) Amazon EC2
14 6 (1.03%) GitHub
14 6 (1.03%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 210 (36.02%) 5G
1 210 (36.02%) Broadband
2 97 (16.64%) Firewall
3 70 (12.01%) VPN
4 53 (9.09%) LAN
5 45 (7.72%) Internet
6 44 (7.55%) WAN
7 38 (6.52%) DNS
8 35 (6.00%) SAN
8 35 (6.00%) TCP/IP
9 27 (4.63%) DHCP
10 24 (4.12%) AMQP
10 24 (4.12%) VLAN
11 14 (2.40%) Fibre Channel
12 13 (2.23%) Wireless
13 11 (1.89%) FIX Connectivity
13 11 (1.89%) NAS
14 10 (1.72%) iSCSI
15 9 (1.54%) Wi-Fi
16 8 (1.37%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
2 48 (8.23%) GIS
2 48 (8.23%) QGIS
3 41 (7.03%) MySQL
4 40 (6.86%) SQL Server
5 25 (4.29%) Big Data
5 25 (4.29%) Hadoop
6 24 (4.12%) Cloudera CDH
7 11 (1.89%) MongoDB
7 11 (1.89%) NoSQL
8 10 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (0.69%) Relational Database
10 3 (0.51%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.34%) InfluxDB
11 2 (0.34%) MariaDB
12 1 (0.17%) RDBMS
12 1 (0.17%) Redis
12 1 (0.17%) Riak
Development Applications
1 30 (5.15%) Git
2 20 (3.43%) JIRA
3 18 (3.09%) Vagrant
4 12 (2.06%) Subversion
4 12 (2.06%) Visual Studio
5 7 (1.20%) PHPUnit
6 5 (0.86%) Jenkins
7 3 (0.51%) GitLab
8 2 (0.34%) CircleCI
8 2 (0.34%) LabVIEW
8 2 (0.34%) Selenium
9 1 (0.17%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.17%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.17%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.17%) Protractor
9 1 (0.17%) WiX
General
1 223 (38.25%) Analytical Skills
2 210 (36.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 94 (16.12%) Social Skills
4 46 (7.89%) Finance
5 40 (6.86%) Retail
6 26 (4.46%) Aerospace
7 25 (4.29%) Banking
8 24 (4.12%) Telecoms
9 17 (2.92%) Billing
10 12 (2.06%) Electronics
11 10 (1.72%) Financial Institution
12 9 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (0.69%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.51%) Advertising
14 3 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
15 2 (0.34%) Aviation
15 2 (0.34%) Public Sector
16 1 (0.17%) Automotive
16 1 (0.17%) Law
16 1 (0.17%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 210 (36.02%) Linux Specialist
1 210 (36.02%) Senior
1 210 (36.02%) Technical Specialist
2 130 (22.30%) Software Engineer
3 127 (21.78%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
3 127 (21.78%) Senior Linux Specialist
3 127 (21.78%) Senior Technical Specialist
3 127 (21.78%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
4 61 (10.46%) Linux Engineer
5 53 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 50 (8.58%) Senior Software Engineer
7 47 (8.06%) Architect
8 38 (6.52%) Infrastructure Architect
9 26 (4.46%) Systems Engineer
10 24 (4.12%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
11 23 (3.95%) Administrator
12 22 (3.77%) Developer
13 20 (3.43%) Lead
14 19 (3.26%) Systems Administrator
15 18 (3.09%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (13.04%) React
2 48 (8.23%) Django
2 48 (8.23%) Leaflet
2 48 (8.23%) OpenLayers
2 48 (8.23%) PostGIS
3 36 (6.17%) Middleware
4 33 (5.66%) REST
5 26 (4.46%) AngularJS
5 26 (4.46%) Node.js
6 25 (4.29%) RabbitMQ
7 24 (4.12%) gRPC
7 24 (4.12%) Material-UI
7 24 (4.12%) OpenAPI
7 24 (4.12%) Spring
7 24 (4.12%) Spring Boot
7 24 (4.12%) Swagger
8 15 (2.57%) .NET
8 15 (2.57%) LAMP
9 14 (2.40%) HTML
9 14 (2.40%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 210 (36.02%) Social Media
2 43 (7.38%) Replication
3 32 (5.49%) Cloud Native
4 25 (4.29%) Data Centre
5 23 (3.95%) PKI
6 22 (3.77%) Public Cloud
7 19 (3.26%) Management Information System
8 17 (2.92%) IoT
9 12 (2.06%) Cyber Threat
9 12 (2.06%) Linux Command Line
10 11 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
10 11 (1.89%) Eurex
10 11 (1.89%) Robotics
11 8 (1.37%) Cyberattack
11 8 (1.37%) Data Fabric
12 4 (0.69%) Cyber Kill Chain
12 4 (0.69%) Product Ownership
13 3 (0.51%) iPhone
13 3 (0.51%) Smart Energy
13 3 (0.51%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 583 (100.00%) Linux
2 161 (27.62%) Windows
3 109 (18.70%) CentOS
4 89 (15.27%) Debian
5 60 (10.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 58 (9.95%) Windows Server
7 47 (8.06%) VMS
8 44 (7.55%) Unix
9 38 (6.52%) Solaris
10 31 (5.32%) Windows Server 2016
11 22 (3.77%) Windows 10
12 21 (3.60%) SUSE
13 15 (2.57%) Windows Server 2012
14 14 (2.40%) Windows Server 2019
15 12 (2.06%) Android
15 12 (2.06%) zOS
16 4 (0.69%) Kali Linux
16 4 (0.69%) Mac OS
17 3 (0.51%) Oracle Linux
17 3 (0.51%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 240 (41.17%) Cybersecurity
2 223 (38.25%) Artificial Intelligence
3 212 (36.36%) CRM
3 212 (36.36%) IT Strategy
4 211 (36.19%) Technology Strategy
5 157 (26.93%) Agile
6 136 (23.33%) Software Engineering
7 106 (18.18%) Actionable Insight
8 91 (15.61%) DevOps
9 66 (11.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 55 (9.43%) Web Development
11 52 (8.92%) Configuration Management
12 48 (8.23%) DevSecOps
13 43 (7.38%) Open Source
14 41 (7.03%) Collaborative Working
15 40 (6.86%) Infrastructure as Code
16 39 (6.69%) Collaborative Culture
16 39 (6.69%) Containerisation
16 39 (6.69%) Problem-Solving
17 37 (6.35%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 278 (47.68%) Bash
2 136 (23.33%) Python
3 114 (19.55%) JavaScript
4 67 (11.49%) PowerShell
5 51 (8.75%) SQL
6 47 (8.06%) C
7 39 (6.69%) Java
8 33 (5.66%) Shell Script
9 32 (5.49%) C++
10 20 (3.43%) PHP
11 14 (2.40%) Perl
12 11 (1.89%) Ruby
13 10 (1.72%) Ada
13 10 (1.72%) Kotlin
14 4 (0.69%) T-SQL
15 3 (0.51%) C#
15 3 (0.51%) Go
16 1 (0.17%) Groovy
16 1 (0.17%) VB.NET
16 1 (0.17%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 142 (24.36%) Security Cleared
2 100 (17.15%) SC Cleared
3 72 (12.35%) DV Cleared
4 56 (9.61%) Degree
5 21 (3.60%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (2.92%) MCSE
6 17 (2.92%) Microsoft Certification
7 16 (2.74%) MCSA
7 16 (2.74%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 8 (1.37%) Azure Certification
9 7 (1.20%) AWS Certification
9 7 (1.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.69%) CCNA
10 4 (0.69%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (0.69%) CISM
10 4 (0.69%) CISSP
11 3 (0.51%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.34%) CCNP
12 2 (0.34%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (2.06%) QA
2 8 (1.37%) PMO
2 8 (1.37%) SLA
3 7 (1.20%) Cyber Essentials
3 7 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (1.20%) NIST
4 4 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 3 (0.51%) GDPR
6 1 (0.17%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.17%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.17%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.17%) MISRA
6 1 (0.17%) NCSC
System Software
1 299 (51.29%) Active Directory
2 58 (9.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 48 (8.23%) vSphere
4 22 (3.77%) Docker
5 14 (2.40%) vCloud
6 10 (1.72%) Hyper-V
6 10 (1.72%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (1.20%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (0.86%) KVM
8 5 (0.86%) VMware Server
9 4 (0.69%) Terminal Services
9 4 (0.69%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.34%) Embedded Firmware
10 2 (0.34%) Firmware
10 2 (0.34%) NFS
10 2 (0.34%) QEMU
10 2 (0.34%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 2 (0.34%) Xen
11 1 (0.17%) Dovecot
11 1 (0.17%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 236 (40.48%) Microsoft Intune
2 210 (36.02%) Jamf Pro
3 92 (15.78%) Ansible
4 86 (14.75%) Terraform
5 52 (8.92%) Kubernetes
6 28 (4.80%) Puppet
7 21 (3.60%) vCenter Server
8 11 (1.89%) SCCM
9 9 (1.54%) Progress Chef
10 7 (1.20%) Grafana
10 7 (1.20%) ZABBIX
11 4 (0.69%) HAProxy
11 4 (0.69%) Nessus
11 4 (0.69%) Prometheus
12 3 (0.51%) Check_MK
12 3 (0.51%) SELinux
12 3 (0.51%) Trend Micro Deep Security
13 2 (0.34%) Nagios
13 2 (0.34%) WSUS
14 1 (0.17%) Icinga
Vendors
1 296 (50.77%) Microsoft
2 210 (36.02%) CyberArk
2 210 (36.02%) Tanium
3 91 (15.61%) Red Hat
4 78 (13.38%) VMware
5 48 (8.23%) ESRI
6 35 (6.00%) Veeam
7 26 (4.46%) Google
8 25 (4.29%) SaltStack
9 18 (3.09%) Cisco
10 16 (2.74%) HP
11 14 (2.40%) Fujitsu
11 14 (2.40%) Oracle
11 14 (2.40%) Zerto
12 11 (1.89%) Aruba
12 11 (1.89%) ION Trading
12 11 (1.89%) Palo Alto
12 11 (1.89%) Patsystems
12 11 (1.89%) Reuters
12 11 (1.89%) Trayport