Hybrid/Remote Ubuntu Job Trends

Ubuntu Linux
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Ubuntu skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 407 408 244
Rank change year-on-year +1 -164 +185
Permanent jobs citing Ubuntu 36 18 314
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.16% 0.11% 1.26%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.30% 0.87% 9.77%
Number of salaries quoted 31 13 78
10th Percentile £31,250 £45,850 -
25th Percentile £35,000 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +11.11% -27.94%
75th Percentile £82,500 £53,750 £56,563
90th Percentile - £71,500 £91,993
UK median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% - -20.63%

All Operating Systems
Work from Home

Ubuntu 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 1,563 2,061 3,214
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 6.88% 12.41% 12.91%
Number of salaries quoted 1,209 1,201 2,318
10th Percentile £28,939 £28,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £33,250 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -13.04%
75th Percentile £72,500 £69,750 £67,968
90th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £42,000 £48,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% -13.40% -7.62%

Ubuntu
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

Ubuntu job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Ubuntu
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

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

Ubuntu
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Ubuntu over the 6 months to 13 August 2026.

Ubuntu salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Ubuntu
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 5 (13.89%) Confluence
2 3 (8.33%) ArcGIS
2 3 (8.33%) GeoServer
2 3 (8.33%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 5 (13.89%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 14 (38.89%) Azure
2 12 (33.33%) AWS
3 8 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (8.33%) Entra ID
4 3 (8.33%) SaaS
5 2 (5.56%) GitHub
6 1 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.78%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 11 (30.56%) Firewall
2 9 (25.00%) DNS
3 8 (22.22%) TCP/IP
4 3 (8.33%) DHCP
5 2 (5.56%) VLAN
5 2 (5.56%) VPN
5 2 (5.56%) WAN
5 2 (5.56%) WireGuard
6 1 (2.78%) Internet
6 1 (2.78%) LAN
6 1 (2.78%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (27.78%) MySQL
2 8 (22.22%) SQL Server
3 3 (8.33%) GIS
3 3 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (8.33%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Git
2 1 (2.78%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (8.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 12 (33.33%) Senior
2 8 (22.22%) Linux Engineer
2 8 (22.22%) Support Engineer
3 7 (19.44%) IT Engineer
4 6 (16.67%) Administrator
4 6 (16.67%) Linux Administrator
4 6 (16.67%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 6 (16.67%) Systems Administrator
5 5 (13.89%) Developer
5 5 (13.89%) IT Support
5 5 (13.89%) IT Support Engineer
5 5 (13.89%) Ruby on Rails Developer
5 5 (13.89%) Senior Developer
5 5 (13.89%) Senior Ruby on Rails Developer
5 5 (13.89%) Systems Engineer
6 3 (8.33%) Architect
6 3 (8.33%) Graduate
6 3 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (8.33%) Linux Support Engineer
6 3 (8.33%) Systems Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (13.89%) CSS
1 5 (13.89%) HTML
1 5 (13.89%) Ruby on Rails
2 4 (11.11%) .NET
3 3 (8.33%) Django
4 1 (2.78%) ARM Templates
4 1 (2.78%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.89%) Raspberry Pi
2 4 (11.11%) Data Centre
3 3 (8.33%) Management Information System
4 2 (5.56%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (5.56%) Educational Technology
5 1 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.78%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 36 (100.00%) Linux
2 11 (30.56%) Debian
2 11 (30.56%) Windows
3 7 (19.44%) Windows Server
4 6 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (13.89%) CentOS
6 4 (11.11%) Unix
7 3 (8.33%) SUSE
8 2 (5.56%) Mac OS
9 1 (2.78%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (25.00%) Agile
2 9 (25.00%) Scrum
3 8 (22.22%) DevOps
3 8 (22.22%) Full-Stack Development
3 8 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 7 (19.44%) Continuous Improvement
4 7 (19.44%) Disaster Recovery
5 6 (16.67%) AI
5 6 (16.67%) Collaborative Culture
6 5 (13.89%) Business Intelligence
6 5 (13.89%) CI/CD
6 5 (13.89%) Mentoring
6 5 (13.89%) Network Management
6 5 (13.89%) Software Engineering
7 4 (11.11%) Open Source
7 4 (11.11%) Security Operations
8 3 (8.33%) Principle of Least Privilege
8 3 (8.33%) Privileged Access Management
8 3 (8.33%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 13 (36.11%) Python
2 8 (22.22%) Ruby
3 6 (16.67%) PowerShell
4 5 (13.89%) Bash
4 5 (13.89%) JavaScript
4 5 (13.89%) SQL
4 5 (13.89%) TypeScript
5 4 (11.11%) Shell Script
6 3 (8.33%) PHP
7 1 (2.78%) Bicep
7 1 (2.78%) C#
Qualifications
1 8 (22.22%) Degree
2 5 (13.89%) HNC
2 5 (13.89%) HND
3 3 (8.33%) SC Cleared
3 3 (8.33%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.78%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.78%) Linux+ Certification
4 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.78%) RHCE
4 1 (2.78%) RHCSA
4 1 (2.78%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.78%) GDPR
1 1 (2.78%) NIST
System Software
1 14 (38.89%) Docker
2 9 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (22.22%) Active Directory
4 6 (16.67%) vSphere
5 5 (13.89%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (8.33%) Hyper-V
6 3 (8.33%) iptables
7 2 (5.56%) KVM
8 1 (2.78%) QEMU
8 1 (2.78%) Xen
Systems Management
1 15 (41.67%) Kubernetes
2 14 (38.89%) Ansible
3 5 (13.89%) Puppet
4 4 (11.11%) Terraform
5 3 (8.33%) Progress Chef
5 3 (8.33%) Red Hat Satellite
6 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (5.56%) Podman
7 1 (2.78%) SCCM
7 1 (2.78%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 15 (41.67%) Red Hat
2 12 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 9 (25.00%) VMware
4 6 (16.67%) Veeam
5 5 (13.89%) Cisco
5 5 (13.89%) Meraki
5 5 (13.89%) Synology
6 3 (8.33%) ESRI
6 3 (8.33%) Oracle
6 3 (8.33%) YouTube
7 1 (2.78%) Citrix
7 1 (2.78%) Dell
7 1 (2.78%) ServiceNow