Ubuntu Jobs in the West Midlands

Ubuntu Linux
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 174 229 267
Rank change year-on-year +55 +38 -19
Permanent jobs citing Ubuntu 22 18 12
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.49% 0.25% 0.18%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.09% 2.09% 1.45%
Number of salaries quoted 17 13 7
10th Percentile - £33,600 £39,300
25th Percentile £32,500 £38,000 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £58,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -40.17% +37.65% -15.00%
75th Percentile £37,500 £107,500 £65,000
90th Percentile - - £81,250
England median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% +14.29%

All Operating Systems
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 711 863 830
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 15.92% 11.92% 12.45%
Number of salaries quoted 380 739 570
10th Percentile £26,375 £25,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £27,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,925 £37,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.53% -16.67% +5.88%
75th Percentile £52,500 £53,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £62,500 £63,750 £70,000
England median annual salary £46,500 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +3.33% -14.29% -

Ubuntu
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Ubuntu as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Ubuntu in the West Midlands

Ubuntu
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Ubuntu in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for Ubuntu in the West Midlands

Ubuntu
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Ubuntu in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Ubuntu in the West Midlands

Ubuntu
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Ubuntu within the West Midlands region 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
Staffordshire +37 16 £35,000 - 2
Birmingham +26 5 £77,500 -26.19% 1
Solihull +9 1 - -
Ubuntu
England

Ubuntu
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 1 (4.55%) Confluence
Applications
1 16 (72.73%) Microsoft Excel
1 16 (72.73%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (18.18%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 16 (72.73%) Google Workspace
2 6 (27.27%) AWS
3 5 (22.73%) AWS Lambda
3 5 (22.73%) Serverless
4 4 (18.18%) Amazon ECS
4 4 (18.18%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 4 (18.18%) Amazon S3
4 4 (18.18%) AWS KMS
4 4 (18.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 3 (13.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (13.64%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (13.64%) Amazon ELB
5 3 (13.64%) Amazon Glacier
6 1 (4.55%) Azure
6 1 (4.55%) Azure Functions
6 1 (4.55%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (4.55%) IaaS
6 1 (4.55%) OpenShift
6 1 (4.55%) PaaS
6 1 (4.55%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (95.45%) Firewall
2 17 (77.27%) DHCP
2 17 (77.27%) DNS
2 17 (77.27%) VLAN
3 16 (72.73%) BGP
3 16 (72.73%) OSPF
3 16 (72.73%) TCP/IP
3 16 (72.73%) WLAN
4 5 (22.73%) SSL
5 1 (4.55%) HTTP
5 1 (4.55%) OpenLDAP
5 1 (4.55%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.64%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (4.55%) DB2
2 1 (4.55%) MongoDB
2 1 (4.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (22.73%) Jenkins
2 4 (18.18%) Bitbucket Server
3 3 (13.64%) Vagrant
4 1 (4.55%) Git
4 1 (4.55%) JIRA
4 1 (4.55%) Maven
4 1 (4.55%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 16 (72.73%) Automotive
1 16 (72.73%) Retail
1 16 (72.73%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 17 (77.27%) Systems Engineer
2 16 (72.73%) IT Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) Linux Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Architect
6 1 (4.55%) DevOps Systems Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Linux DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Linux Systems Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Linux/Unix DevOps
6 1 (4.55%) Senior
6 1 (4.55%) Senior Architect
6 1 (4.55%) Senior Solutions Architect
6 1 (4.55%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.55%) LDAP
1 1 (4.55%) Middleware
1 1 (4.55%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (72.73%) Management Information System
1 16 (72.73%) Smartphone
2 1 (4.55%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (4.55%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 22 (100.00%) Linux
2 20 (90.91%) Windows
3 16 (72.73%) Mac OS X
3 16 (72.73%) Windows 10
3 16 (72.73%) Windows Server
3 16 (72.73%) Windows Server 2016
3 16 (72.73%) Windows Server 2019
4 3 (13.64%) VMS
5 1 (4.55%) CentOS
5 1 (4.55%) Debian
5 1 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (77.27%) Performance Tuning
2 16 (72.73%) Business Case
2 16 (72.73%) Computer Science
2 16 (72.73%) Systems Engineering
3 6 (27.27%) DevOps
4 5 (22.73%) Agile
4 5 (22.73%) Capacity Management
4 5 (22.73%) Patch Management
5 4 (18.18%) Key Management
5 4 (18.18%) Server Management
6 3 (13.64%) Cloud Security
6 3 (13.64%) Configuration Management
6 3 (13.64%) Platform Engineering
7 2 (9.09%) Asset Management
8 1 (4.55%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 1 (4.55%) High Availability
8 1 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 1 (4.55%) Runbook
8 1 (4.55%) Security Architecture
8 1 (4.55%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 17 (77.27%) PowerShell
2 16 (72.73%) SQL
3 6 (27.27%) Python
4 5 (22.73%) Shell Script
5 3 (13.64%) Groovy
5 3 (13.64%) Java
5 3 (13.64%) Perl
5 3 (13.64%) Ruby
6 1 (4.55%) Bash
Qualifications
1 17 (77.27%) Degree
2 16 (72.73%) Computer Science Degree
2 16 (72.73%) HNC
2 16 (72.73%) HND
2 16 (72.73%) MCSE
2 16 (72.73%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (13.64%) Security Cleared
4 1 (4.55%) AWS Certification
4 1 (4.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (4.55%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (4.55%) NCSC
1 1 (4.55%) NIST
System Software
1 20 (90.91%) Active Directory
2 6 (27.27%) Docker
3 4 (18.18%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (18.18%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (22.73%) Ansible
1 5 (22.73%) Nessus
1 5 (22.73%) Terraform
2 4 (18.18%) Proxmox
3 3 (13.64%) Nagios
4 1 (4.55%) Kubernetes
4 1 (4.55%) Puppet
Vendors
1 17 (77.27%) Microsoft
2 16 (72.73%) Apple
2 16 (72.73%) Cisco
2 16 (72.73%) Dell
2 16 (72.73%) Fortinet
2 16 (72.73%) Google
2 16 (72.73%) Ubiquiti
3 4 (18.18%) Juniper
4 1 (4.55%) IBM
4 1 (4.55%) Oracle
4 1 (4.55%) Sophos
4 1 (4.55%) VMware