Ubuntu Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Ubuntu Linux
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 8 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 399 280 440
Rank change year-on-year -119 +160 -2
Permanent jobs citing Ubuntu 28 391 245
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.17% 1.16% 0.58%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.45% 8.36% 3.76%
Number of salaries quoted 15 93 172
10th Percentile £45,750 £34,450 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -13.04% -4.17%
75th Percentile £57,500 £83,750 £71,194
90th Percentile £60,000 £92,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £61,725
% change year-on-year -9.52% -14.95% +12.23%

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 1,934 4,677 6,522
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 11.77% 13.84% 15.50%
Number of salaries quoted 1,381 3,637 4,776
10th Percentile £29,000 £30,000 £30,875
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £92,500
UK median annual salary £46,500 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +3.33% -14.29% -

Ubuntu
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Ubuntu as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Ubuntu trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Ubuntu
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Ubuntu.

Ubuntu salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Ubuntu
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Ubuntu over the 6 months to 8 May 2025.

Ubuntu salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 3 (10.71%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (10.71%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (10.71%) SharePoint
2 2 (7.14%) nginx
3 1 (3.57%) Apache
3 1 (3.57%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 19 (67.86%) AWS
2 10 (35.71%) Azure
2 10 (35.71%) GitHub
3 7 (25.00%) Amazon S3
4 6 (21.43%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (21.43%) Serverless
5 5 (17.86%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (10.71%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (10.71%) Entra ID
7 3 (10.71%) OneDrive
8 2 (7.14%) GCP
8 2 (7.14%) npm
9 1 (3.57%) Azure AKS
9 1 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (3.57%) OpenShift
9 1 (3.57%) SaaS
9 1 (3.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (25.00%) Firewall
2 6 (21.43%) Bluetooth
3 3 (10.71%) DNS
4 2 (7.14%) DHCP
4 2 (7.14%) HTTP
4 2 (7.14%) TCP/IP
4 2 (7.14%) VLAN
5 1 (3.57%) 3GPP
5 1 (3.57%) 4G
5 1 (3.57%) 5G
5 1 (3.57%) Diameter Protocol
5 1 (3.57%) SCTP
5 1 (3.57%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (21.43%) MySQL
1 6 (21.43%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (17.86%) MariaDB
2 5 (17.86%) Metadata
2 5 (17.86%) SQL Server
3 4 (14.29%) RDBMS
3 4 (14.29%) Relational Database
4 3 (10.71%) Airbyte
4 3 (10.71%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (10.71%) Qlik Sense
5 2 (7.14%) Cloud Spanner
5 2 (7.14%) Couchbase
5 2 (7.14%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (32.14%) Git
2 2 (7.14%) Babel
2 2 (7.14%) gulp
2 2 (7.14%) webpack
3 1 (3.57%) GitLab
3 1 (3.57%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.57%) JIRA
3 1 (3.57%) Robot Framework
General
1 9 (32.14%) Social Skills
2 6 (21.43%) Games
2 6 (21.43%) Legal
3 2 (7.14%) Fire and Rescue
4 1 (3.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 7 (25.00%) Software Engineer
2 6 (21.43%) Administrator
2 6 (21.43%) Senior
2 6 (21.43%) Senior Software Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) IT Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) Linux Administrator
3 4 (14.29%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 4 (14.29%) Systems Administrator
3 4 (14.29%) VMWare Administrator
4 3 (10.71%) Data Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Linux Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Cloud Administrator
5 2 (7.14%) Developer
5 2 (7.14%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) MySQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (28.57%) CSS
1 8 (28.57%) HTML
2 6 (21.43%) Django
2 6 (21.43%) WebSockets
3 3 (10.71%) NumPy
3 3 (10.71%) Pandas
3 3 (10.71%) REST
3 3 (10.71%) SQLAlchemy
4 2 (7.14%) Node.js
4 2 (7.14%) OAuth
4 2 (7.14%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (7.14%) React
4 2 (7.14%) Sass
4 2 (7.14%) Svelte
4 2 (7.14%) Vue
5 1 (3.57%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (3.57%) gRPC
5 1 (3.57%) Loki
5 1 (3.57%) OpenAPI
5 1 (3.57%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 9 (32.14%) Management Information System
2 6 (21.43%) Algorithms
2 6 (21.43%) Client/Server
2 6 (21.43%) Embedded Systems
2 6 (21.43%) IoT
2 6 (21.43%) Mobile App
3 3 (10.71%) Data Centre
3 3 (10.71%) NHS
4 2 (7.14%) Smart City
5 1 (3.57%) Cloud Native
5 1 (3.57%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 28 (100.00%) Linux
2 10 (35.71%) CentOS
3 8 (28.57%) Windows
4 7 (25.00%) Debian
5 5 (17.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (10.71%) Mac OS
7 2 (7.14%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (42.86%) Computer Science
2 9 (32.14%) Analytics
3 8 (28.57%) DevOps
4 7 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 7 (25.00%) Test Automation
5 6 (21.43%) Actionable Insight
5 6 (21.43%) Data Analytics
5 6 (21.43%) Data Security
5 6 (21.43%) Full-Stack Development
5 6 (21.43%) Regulatory Compliance
5 6 (21.43%) Roadmaps
5 6 (21.43%) Software Engineering
5 6 (21.43%) Technology Roadmap
5 6 (21.43%) Validation
5 6 (21.43%) Verification and Validation
6 5 (17.86%) CI/CD
6 5 (17.86%) Collaborative Culture
6 5 (17.86%) Data Analysis
6 5 (17.86%) Information Governance
6 5 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 11 (39.29%) Python
1 11 (39.29%) SQL
2 8 (28.57%) JavaScript
3 7 (25.00%) C++
4 6 (21.43%) C
4 6 (21.43%) Ladder Logic
4 6 (21.43%) PowerShell
4 6 (21.43%) TypeScript
5 5 (17.86%) T-SQL
6 4 (14.29%) Bash
7 2 (7.14%) PL/SQL
7 2 (7.14%) R
8 1 (3.57%) Go
8 1 (3.57%) Java
Qualifications
1 17 (60.71%) Degree
2 6 (21.43%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (10.71%) AWS Certification
3 3 (10.71%) Azure Certification
3 3 (10.71%) Linux+ Certification
3 3 (10.71%) RHCE
4 1 (3.57%) Master's Degree
4 1 (3.57%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.71%) GDPR
1 3 (10.71%) HIPAA
System Software
1 9 (32.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (21.43%) Active Directory
2 6 (21.43%) Docker
2 6 (21.43%) VMware ESXi
2 6 (21.43%) vSphere
3 4 (14.29%) Virtual Servers
4 3 (10.71%) Dovecot
4 3 (10.71%) Hyper-V
4 3 (10.71%) pfSense
4 3 (10.71%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 5 (17.86%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.57%) Ansible
2 1 (3.57%) Grafana
2 1 (3.57%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (32.14%) VMware
2 8 (28.57%) Microsoft
3 7 (25.00%) Red Hat
4 6 (21.43%) Siemens
5 3 (10.71%) Okta
5 3 (10.71%) Ping Identity
6 2 (7.14%) Dell
6 2 (7.14%) HP
6 2 (7.14%) Salesforce