Hybrid/Remote Debian Job Trends

Debian Linux
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Debian skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 405 409 557
Rank change year-on-year +4 +148 -50
Permanent jobs citing Debian 16 9 40
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.081% 0.060% 0.12%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.14% 0.42% 0.89%
Number of salaries quoted 15 7 35
10th Percentile £39,900 £46,000 £28,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £52,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 £88,125 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £105,250 £85,000
UK median annual salary £50,500 £60,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -16.53% +15.24% -19.23%

All Operating Systems
Work from Home

Debian falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,404 2,135 4,475
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 7.13% 14.12% 13.05%
Number of salaries quoted 999 1,236 3,546
10th Percentile £29,000 £28,000 £30,406
25th Percentile £35,750 £33,250 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year - -1.96% -7.27%
75th Percentile £72,500 £69,094 £65,603
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £83,125
UK median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year - - -14.29%

Debian
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Debian and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Debian job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Debian
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Debian.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Debian

Debian
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Debian over the 6 months to 12 June 2026.

Debian salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Debian
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 3 (18.75%) OpenStack
2 1 (6.25%) Apache
2 1 (6.25%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 10 (62.50%) Azure
2 5 (31.25%) IaaS
3 2 (12.50%) AWS
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (6.25%) GCP
4 1 (6.25%) GitHub
4 1 (6.25%) OpenShift
4 1 (6.25%) SaaS
4 1 (6.25%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (37.50%) Firewall
2 5 (31.25%) DMZ
2 5 (31.25%) Reverse Proxy
2 5 (31.25%) STUN
2 5 (31.25%) VLAN
2 5 (31.25%) VoIP
2 5 (31.25%) VPN
3 1 (6.25%) AMQP
3 1 (6.25%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (31.25%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.25%) Big Data
2 1 (6.25%) Cloudera CDH
2 1 (6.25%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 5 (31.25%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (6.25%) Git
General
1 7 (43.75%) Social Skills
2 5 (31.25%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Cloud Engineer
1 5 (31.25%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
1 5 (31.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 5 (31.25%) Infrastructure Support
1 5 (31.25%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
1 5 (31.25%) Support Engineer
1 5 (31.25%) VoIP Engineer
1 5 (31.25%) VoIP Support Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Administrator
2 3 (18.75%) Lead
2 3 (18.75%) Linux Administrator
2 3 (18.75%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 3 (18.75%) Platform Manager
2 3 (18.75%) Systems Administrator
2 3 (18.75%) Team Leader
3 2 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) DevOps Administrator
4 1 (6.25%) Linux DevOps Administrator
4 1 (6.25%) Linux DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Linux Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (31.25%) FreeSWITCH
2 2 (12.50%) LAMP
3 1 (6.25%) AngularJS
3 1 (6.25%) gRPC
3 1 (6.25%) Material-UI
3 1 (6.25%) Node.js
3 1 (6.25%) OpenAPI
3 1 (6.25%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (6.25%) React
3 1 (6.25%) REST
3 1 (6.25%) Spring
3 1 (6.25%) Spring Boot
3 1 (6.25%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 6 (37.50%) Data Centre
2 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.25%) Educational Technology
2 1 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 16 (100.00%) Linux
2 9 (56.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (50.00%) Ubuntu
4 6 (37.50%) CentOS
5 5 (31.25%) Windows
5 5 (31.25%) Windows Server
6 3 (18.75%) VMS
7 2 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) DevOps
2 6 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 5 (31.25%) Agile
3 5 (31.25%) High Availability
3 5 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 3 (18.75%) Coaching
5 3 (18.75%) Configuration Management
5 3 (18.75%) ITIL
5 3 (18.75%) Network Architecture
6 2 (12.50%) Computer Science
6 2 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (12.50%) Service Management
6 2 (12.50%) Software Engineering
6 2 (12.50%) Task Automation
6 2 (12.50%) Test Automation
7 1 (6.25%) Collaborative Culture
7 1 (6.25%) Containerisation
7 1 (6.25%) Incident Response
7 1 (6.25%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 7 (43.75%) Python
2 6 (37.50%) Bash
2 6 (37.50%) PowerShell
3 5 (31.25%) SQL
4 2 (12.50%) Perl
5 1 (6.25%) Java
5 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
5 1 (6.25%) PHP
5 1 (6.25%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 5 (31.25%) Azure Certification
2 2 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (12.50%) Degree
System Software
1 5 (31.25%) Active Directory
2 4 (25.00%) Docker
3 3 (18.75%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 2 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (6.25%) iptables
Systems Management
1 11 (68.75%) Ansible
2 6 (37.50%) Terraform
3 5 (31.25%) Kubernetes
3 5 (31.25%) Puppet
4 3 (18.75%) Grafana
4 3 (18.75%) Progress Chef
4 3 (18.75%) Red Hat Satellite
4 3 (18.75%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 8 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (31.25%) Cisco
3 4 (25.00%) Red Hat
4 1 (6.25%) Google
4 1 (6.25%) SaltStack