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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 617 423 582
Rank change year-on-year -194 +159 +38
Permanent jobs citing Ubuntu 85 606 420
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.58% 0.44%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.19% 4.31% 2.70%
Number of salaries quoted 63 236 307
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,000 £36,500
25th Percentile £35,125 £43,469 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,500 £52,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.43% -16.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £61,750 £70,313 £77,500
90th Percentile £68,250 £91,991 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £50,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -15.00% -13.04% +21.05%

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 7,159 14,054 15,540
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.82% 13.56% 16.22%
Number of salaries quoted 4,235 10,700 10,440
10th Percentile £27,250 £26,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - -14.29% -
75th Percentile £66,250 £62,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% -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 31 May 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 31 May 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 -210 74 £45,000 -14.29% 96
UK excluding London -47 64 £42,500 -15.00% 68
Midlands +58 27 £35,000 -30.00% 6
London -106 22 £61,000 -6.15% 36
West Midlands +55 20 £35,000 -66.67% 5
Work from Home -184 20 £47,500 -5.00% 79
South East -46 16 £40,000 -15.79% 13
North of England +2 9 £60,000 +20.00% 14
North West -22 9 £60,000 +20.00% 9
East Midlands +37 7 £40,000 +61.62% 1
Scotland +116 4 £43,750 -50.00% 9
Wales +35 4 £47,500 -5.00% 1
East of England +33 4 £62,500 +4.17% 12
South West +62 1 £62,500 +45.35% 13

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 10 (11.76%) nginx
2 4 (4.71%) Confluence
3 3 (3.53%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (3.53%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.18%) Apache
4 1 (1.18%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.18%) IIS
4 1 (1.18%) Office Communications Server
4 1 (1.18%) Tomcat
Applications
1 15 (17.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (12.94%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (11.76%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 35 (41.18%) AWS
2 29 (34.12%) Azure
3 14 (16.47%) Amazon S3
3 14 (16.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 13 (15.29%) Amazon EC2
4 13 (15.29%) Google Workspace
5 11 (12.94%) AWS Lambda
5 11 (12.94%) Microsoft 365
5 11 (12.94%) Serverless
6 10 (11.76%) Amazon ECS
6 10 (11.76%) AWS KMS
7 9 (10.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 8 (9.41%) GitHub
9 7 (8.24%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 6 (7.06%) Amazon ELB
10 6 (7.06%) Route 53
11 5 (5.88%) Cloud Computing
12 3 (3.53%) Amazon Glacier
12 3 (3.53%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (3.53%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 32 (37.65%) Firewall
2 21 (24.71%) DNS
3 18 (21.18%) DHCP
4 17 (20.00%) VLAN
5 13 (15.29%) OSPF
5 13 (15.29%) TCP/IP
6 12 (14.12%) BGP
7 11 (12.94%) WLAN
8 9 (10.59%) SSL
9 7 (8.24%) Wireshark
10 6 (7.06%) HTTP
10 6 (7.06%) VPN
11 4 (4.71%) OpenLDAP
11 4 (4.71%) SSH
11 4 (4.71%) Telnet
12 3 (3.53%) Bluetooth
12 3 (3.53%) FTP
12 3 (3.53%) IMAP
12 3 (3.53%) SMTP
13 2 (2.35%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (9.41%) Relational Database
2 7 (8.24%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (7.06%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (7.06%) MySQL
3 6 (7.06%) SQL Server
4 5 (5.88%) MariaDB
5 4 (4.71%) Metadata
5 4 (4.71%) RDBMS
6 3 (3.53%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (3.53%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (2.35%) Big Data
8 1 (1.18%) Airbyte
8 1 (1.18%) Cloud Spanner
8 1 (1.18%) Couchbase
8 1 (1.18%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.18%) DB2
8 1 (1.18%) MongoDB
8 1 (1.18%) NoSQL
8 1 (1.18%) Power BI
8 1 (1.18%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 18 (21.18%) Jenkins
2 17 (20.00%) Git
3 7 (8.24%) Bitbucket Server
3 7 (8.24%) JIRA
4 6 (7.06%) Vagrant
5 5 (5.88%) GitLab
6 3 (3.53%) Babel
6 3 (3.53%) CircleCI
6 3 (3.53%) gulp
6 3 (3.53%) webpack
7 1 (1.18%) Maven
7 1 (1.18%) Robot Framework
7 1 (1.18%) SoapUI
7 1 (1.18%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 32 (37.65%) Social Skills
2 12 (14.12%) Retail
3 11 (12.94%) Automotive
4 7 (8.24%) Finance
5 4 (4.71%) Banking
6 3 (3.53%) Fire and Rescue
6 3 (3.53%) Games
6 3 (3.53%) Legal
6 3 (3.53%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (3.53%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.35%) Law
7 2 (2.35%) Marketing
7 2 (2.35%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.18%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 18 (21.18%) Linux Engineer
2 17 (20.00%) Systems Engineer
3 12 (14.12%) DevOps Engineer
3 12 (14.12%) IT Engineer
4 10 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 7 (8.24%) Linux Systems Engineer
6 6 (7.06%) Administrator
6 6 (7.06%) Linux Administrator
6 6 (7.06%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 6 (7.06%) NOC Engineer
6 6 (7.06%) Platform Engineer
6 6 (7.06%) Senior
6 6 (7.06%) Systems Administrator
7 5 (5.88%) Server Engineer
8 4 (4.71%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 4 (4.71%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (4.71%) Developer
8 4 (4.71%) Software Engineer
8 4 (4.71%) VMWare Administrator
8 4 (4.71%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.24%) Elastic Stack
1 7 (8.24%) REST
2 6 (7.06%) CSS
2 6 (7.06%) HTML
3 4 (4.71%) FIX Protocol
3 4 (4.71%) LDAP
3 4 (4.71%) Node.js
4 3 (3.53%) .NET
4 3 (3.53%) Django
4 3 (3.53%) OAuth
4 3 (3.53%) React
4 3 (3.53%) Sass
4 3 (3.53%) Svelte
4 3 (3.53%) Vue
4 3 (3.53%) WebSockets
5 2 (2.35%) Pandas
6 1 (1.18%) 802.1X
6 1 (1.18%) Loki
6 1 (1.18%) Swagger
6 1 (1.18%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 19 (22.35%) Management Information System
2 11 (12.94%) Smartphone
3 9 (10.59%) Data Centre
4 5 (5.88%) IoT
5 4 (4.71%) Equities
5 4 (4.71%) Fixed Income
5 4 (4.71%) Mobile App
5 4 (4.71%) Onboarding
5 4 (4.71%) Public Cloud
5 4 (4.71%) Reference Data
6 3 (3.53%) Algorithms
6 3 (3.53%) Client/Server
6 3 (3.53%) Embedded Systems
6 3 (3.53%) Replication
6 3 (3.53%) Smart City
7 2 (2.35%) Cloud Native
7 2 (2.35%) Derivative
7 2 (2.35%) Driving Licence
7 2 (2.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (2.35%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 85 (100.00%) Linux
2 44 (51.76%) Windows
3 25 (29.41%) CentOS
4 22 (25.88%) Windows Server
5 20 (23.53%) Debian
6 13 (15.29%) Windows Server 2016
6 13 (15.29%) Windows Server 2019
7 12 (14.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 12 (14.12%) Windows 10
8 11 (12.94%) Mac OS X
8 11 (12.94%) Rocky
9 6 (7.06%) VMS
10 5 (5.88%) Unix
11 3 (3.53%) Amazon Linux
11 3 (3.53%) SUSE
11 3 (3.53%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (35.29%) DevOps
2 26 (30.59%) Computer Science
3 17 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 17 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 16 (18.82%) Performance Tuning
5 13 (15.29%) Service Delivery
6 12 (14.12%) Disaster Recovery
7 11 (12.94%) Business Case
7 11 (12.94%) Configuration Management
7 11 (12.94%) Containerisation
7 11 (12.94%) Patch Management
7 11 (12.94%) Systems Engineering
8 10 (11.76%) Agile
9 9 (10.59%) Capacity Management
10 8 (9.41%) Problem-Solving
11 7 (8.24%) Key Management
11 7 (8.24%) Platform Engineering
12 6 (7.06%) Cloud Security
12 6 (7.06%) Infrastructure as Code
12 6 (7.06%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 34 (40.00%) Python
2 31 (36.47%) PowerShell
3 26 (30.59%) SQL
4 16 (18.82%) Bash
5 8 (9.41%) Shell Script
6 7 (8.24%) Java
7 6 (7.06%) Groovy
7 6 (7.06%) JavaScript
8 5 (5.88%) C++
9 4 (4.71%) Perl
10 3 (3.53%) C
10 3 (3.53%) Ladder Logic
10 3 (3.53%) R
10 3 (3.53%) Ruby
10 3 (3.53%) TypeScript
11 2 (2.35%) T-SQL
12 1 (1.18%) C#
12 1 (1.18%) Go
12 1 (1.18%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 32 (37.65%) Degree
2 18 (21.18%) Computer Science Degree
2 18 (21.18%) Microsoft Certification
3 17 (20.00%) MCSE
4 12 (14.12%) Security Cleared
5 11 (12.94%) HNC
5 11 (12.94%) HND
6 9 (10.59%) Azure Certification
7 7 (8.24%) AWS Certification
7 7 (8.24%) CCNA
7 7 (8.24%) Cisco Certification
7 7 (8.24%) SC Cleared
8 6 (7.06%) CCNP
8 6 (7.06%) MCSA
8 6 (7.06%) Network+ Certification
8 6 (7.06%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 3 (3.53%) Linux+ Certification
9 3 (3.53%) RHCE
10 1 (1.18%) DV Cleared
10 1 (1.18%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.88%) SLA
2 3 (3.53%) GDPR
2 3 (3.53%) HIPAA
3 1 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.18%) NCSC
3 1 (1.18%) NIST
3 1 (1.18%) QA
System Software
1 28 (32.94%) Docker
2 25 (29.41%) Active Directory
3 22 (25.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (9.41%) vSphere
5 7 (8.24%) Hyper-V
5 7 (8.24%) Virtual Desktop
5 7 (8.24%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (7.06%) Dovecot
6 6 (7.06%) Postfix
6 6 (7.06%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (4.71%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (3.53%) DFS Replication
8 3 (3.53%) Squid
9 1 (1.18%) Firmware
9 1 (1.18%) KVM
Systems Management
1 23 (27.06%) Ansible
2 21 (24.71%) Terraform
3 15 (17.65%) Grafana
3 15 (17.65%) Kubernetes
4 12 (14.12%) Nessus
4 12 (14.12%) Proxmox
5 11 (12.94%) Prometheus
6 3 (3.53%) FortiGate
6 3 (3.53%) Nagios
7 2 (2.35%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (2.35%) NetBackup
8 1 (1.18%) HAProxy
8 1 (1.18%) Kibana
8 1 (1.18%) logstash
8 1 (1.18%) Puppet
8 1 (1.18%) WMI
8 1 (1.18%) WSUS
Vendors
1 40 (47.06%) Microsoft
2 24 (28.24%) VMware
3 22 (25.88%) Red Hat
4 21 (24.71%) Cisco
5 14 (16.47%) Dell
6 13 (15.29%) Google
7 12 (14.12%) Fortinet
8 11 (12.94%) Apple
8 11 (12.94%) Ubiquiti
9 7 (8.24%) Juniper
10 6 (7.06%) Palo Alto
11 5 (5.88%) Splunk
12 4 (4.71%) Atlassian
13 3 (3.53%) Jaspersoft
13 3 (3.53%) Okta
13 3 (3.53%) Ping Identity
13 3 (3.53%) ServiceNow
13 3 (3.53%) Siemens
14 2 (2.35%) Salesforce
14 2 (2.35%) Zerto