Ubuntu Jobs with Work from Home 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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 255 390 551
Rank change year-on-year +135 +161 -126
Permanent jobs citing Ubuntu 332 196 398
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.19% 0.60% 0.51%
As % of the Operating Systems category 9.02% 3.89% 2.86%
Number of salaries quoted 85 122 251
10th Percentile - £35,125 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £41,225
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £62,475 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.97% +4.13% +20.00%
75th Percentile £57,500 £79,375 £77,500
90th Percentile £91,991 £80,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £50,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -20.00% +13.64% +10.00%

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 3,681 5,038 13,892
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.18% 15.35% 17.69%
Number of salaries quoted 2,659 3,865 7,674
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £30,538
25th Percentile £39,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £92,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.52% - +5.00%

Ubuntu
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Ubuntu as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Ubuntu trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Ubuntu over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

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 6 (1.81%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.60%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.30%) Confluence
Applications
1 32 (9.64%) Simulink
2 3 (0.90%) Trello
3 1 (0.30%) 1Password
3 1 (0.30%) CATIA
3 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.30%) NASTRAN
Business Applications
1 1 (0.30%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 258 (77.71%) Azure
2 214 (64.46%) Entra ID
3 45 (13.55%) AWS
4 13 (3.92%) SaaS
5 6 (1.81%) Cloud Computing
5 6 (1.81%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (1.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 5 (1.51%) Amazon S3
7 4 (1.20%) Azure Sentinel
7 4 (1.20%) Cloudflare
7 4 (1.20%) GCP
7 4 (1.20%) Mimecast
8 3 (0.90%) ClickUp
9 1 (0.30%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (0.30%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (0.30%) Route 53
9 1 (0.30%) Serverless
9 1 (0.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (0.30%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 210 (63.25%) 5G
1 210 (63.25%) Broadband
2 36 (10.84%) Firewall
3 28 (8.43%) Internet
3 28 (8.43%) LAN
3 28 (8.43%) VPN
4 27 (8.13%) WAN
5 8 (2.41%) HTTPS
5 8 (2.41%) SSL
6 4 (1.20%) BGP
6 4 (1.20%) DHCP
6 4 (1.20%) DNS
6 4 (1.20%) iSCSI
6 4 (1.20%) NetScaler
6 4 (1.20%) OSPF
6 4 (1.20%) RIP
7 3 (0.90%) Asterisk PBX
7 3 (0.90%) PBX
7 3 (0.90%) RTP
7 3 (0.90%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (12.05%) NoSQL
2 17 (5.12%) SQL Server
3 14 (4.22%) MySQL
4 7 (2.11%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (1.81%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (1.51%) MongoDB
7 4 (1.20%) Amazon Aurora
7 4 (1.20%) DynamoDB
7 4 (1.20%) MariaDB
8 3 (0.90%) Redis
8 3 (0.90%) TimescaleDB
9 1 (0.30%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 41 (12.35%) Vagrant
2 37 (11.14%) Git
3 5 (1.51%) JIRA
4 1 (0.30%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.30%) Visual Studio
General
1 210 (63.25%) Analytical Skills
1 210 (63.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 42 (12.65%) Social Skills
3 27 (8.13%) Retail
4 21 (6.33%) Finance
5 17 (5.12%) Telecoms
6 12 (3.61%) Banking
7 8 (2.41%) Financial Institution
8 2 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.30%) Advertising
9 1 (0.30%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 210 (63.25%) Linux Specialist
1 210 (63.25%) Technical Specialist
2 146 (43.98%) Senior
3 127 (38.25%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
3 127 (38.25%) Senior Linux Specialist
3 127 (38.25%) Senior Technical Specialist
3 127 (38.25%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
4 35 (10.54%) Software Engineer
5 32 (9.64%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
6 24 (7.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 19 (5.72%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 16 (4.82%) Architect
9 11 (3.31%) Administrator
10 10 (3.01%) Linux Administrator
10 10 (3.01%) Linux Engineer
10 10 (3.01%) Systems Administrator
11 9 (2.71%) Infrastructure Architect
11 9 (2.71%) Lead
11 9 (2.71%) Linux Systems Administrator
12 8 (2.41%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (12.95%) Middleware
2 12 (3.61%) Kafka
3 7 (2.11%) HTML
4 4 (1.20%) CSS
4 4 (1.20%) REST
5 3 (0.90%) ActiveMQ
5 3 (0.90%) Flask
5 3 (0.90%) jQuery
5 3 (0.90%) Laravel
5 3 (0.90%) Plotly
5 3 (0.90%) SOAP
6 2 (0.60%) Node.js
7 1 (0.30%) .NET
7 1 (0.30%) AWS CDK
7 1 (0.30%) HTML5
7 1 (0.30%) JWT
7 1 (0.30%) React
7 1 (0.30%) React Native
7 1 (0.30%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 210 (63.25%) Social Media
2 13 (3.92%) Replication
3 8 (2.41%) Cyber Threat
3 8 (2.41%) Cyberattack
3 8 (2.41%) Data Fabric
4 6 (1.81%) Management Information System
5 4 (1.20%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 4 (1.20%) Public Cloud
6 2 (0.60%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.30%) iPhone
7 1 (0.30%) PKI
7 1 (0.30%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.30%) Video Conferencing
7 1 (0.30%) YubiKey
Operating Systems
1 332 (100.00%) Linux
2 70 (21.08%) CentOS
3 47 (14.16%) Windows
4 42 (12.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 34 (10.24%) Android
6 27 (8.13%) VMS
7 16 (4.82%) Unix
8 12 (3.61%) Debian
8 12 (3.61%) Solaris
8 12 (3.61%) zOS
9 6 (1.81%) Windows Server
10 5 (1.51%) SUSE
11 4 (1.20%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.30%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.30%) Fedora
12 1 (0.30%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.30%) openSUSE
12 1 (0.30%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 242 (72.89%) Artificial Intelligence
2 213 (64.16%) Cybersecurity
2 213 (64.16%) IT Strategy
2 213 (64.16%) Technology Strategy
3 210 (63.25%) CRM
4 42 (12.65%) Software Engineering
5 41 (12.35%) Computer Science
6 38 (11.45%) Infrastructure as Code
7 35 (10.54%) Machine Learning
8 33 (9.94%) Microservices
9 32 (9.64%) Collaborative Working
9 32 (9.64%) Signal Processing
10 31 (9.34%) Agile
11 30 (9.04%) Collaborative Culture
12 28 (8.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 27 (8.13%) Application Security
13 27 (8.13%) DevSecOps
14 19 (5.72%) Actionable Insight
15 12 (3.61%) Key Management
15 12 (3.61%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 214 (64.46%) Bash
2 42 (12.65%) SQL
3 40 (12.05%) JavaScript
4 39 (11.75%) Python
5 36 (10.84%) Java
6 35 (10.54%) C++
7 33 (9.94%) Kotlin
8 9 (2.71%) Shell Script
9 8 (2.41%) C
10 4 (1.20%) C#
11 3 (0.90%) PHP
11 3 (0.90%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.60%) Perl
12 2 (0.60%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.30%) Ada
13 1 (0.30%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 64 (19.28%) Security Cleared
2 47 (14.16%) Degree
3 39 (11.75%) Computer Science Degree
4 34 (10.24%) SC Cleared
5 28 (8.43%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.20%) CISM
6 4 (1.20%) CISSP
7 2 (0.60%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.60%) CCNA
7 2 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (1.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 4 (1.20%) NIST
3 3 (0.90%) QA
4 1 (0.30%) SLA
System Software
1 241 (72.59%) Active Directory
2 14 (4.22%) Docker
3 7 (2.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.81%) vSphere
5 5 (1.51%) KVM
6 4 (1.20%) Firmware
6 4 (1.20%) Hyper-V
6 4 (1.20%) NFS
6 4 (1.20%) pfSense
6 4 (1.20%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (1.20%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.90%) Kamailio
8 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 2 (0.60%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.30%) Samba
Systems Management
1 213 (64.16%) Microsoft Intune
2 210 (63.25%) Jamf Pro
3 68 (20.48%) Ansible
4 65 (19.58%) Terraform
5 6 (1.81%) Kubernetes
6 4 (1.20%) SCCM
7 1 (0.30%) WSUS
Vendors
1 220 (66.27%) Microsoft
2 210 (63.25%) CyberArk
2 210 (63.25%) Tanium
3 32 (9.64%) Xilinx
4 15 (4.52%) Red Hat
5 10 (3.01%) Cisco
6 8 (2.41%) IBM
6 8 (2.41%) VMware
7 5 (1.51%) Dialogic
7 5 (1.51%) Ribbon
7 5 (1.51%) Ubiquiti
8 4 (1.20%) Aruba
8 4 (1.20%) CheckPoint
8 4 (1.20%) Citrix
8 4 (1.20%) NetApp
8 4 (1.20%) QNAP
8 4 (1.20%) Qualys
8 4 (1.20%) Splunk
8 4 (1.20%) Synology
9 2 (0.60%) Juniper