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 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 434 274 428
Rank change year-on-year -160 +154 +29
Permanent jobs citing Ubuntu 22 395 239
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.12% 1.17% 0.59%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.86% 8.57% 3.84%
Number of salaries quoted 11 97 166
10th Percentile £45,750 £38,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,000 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -13.04% -4.17%
75th Percentile £55,000 £82,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £57,500 £92,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £62,450
% change year-on-year -14.29% -15.93% +18.95%

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 2,569 4,611 6,217
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.87% 13.63% 15.45%
Number of salaries quoted 1,232 3,554 4,536
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,369 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £39,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £52,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -5.45% -
75th Percentile £69,000 £67,500 £75,063
90th Percentile £82,751 £83,750 £93,750
UK median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - -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 23 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 (13.64%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (13.64%) nginx
1 3 (13.64%) SharePoint
2 2 (9.09%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (4.55%) Apache
3 1 (4.55%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 14 (63.64%) AWS
2 10 (45.45%) Azure
3 9 (40.91%) GitHub
4 5 (22.73%) Amazon S3
4 5 (22.73%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (18.18%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (18.18%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (18.18%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (18.18%) Serverless
6 3 (13.64%) Entra ID
6 3 (13.64%) npm
6 3 (13.64%) OneDrive
7 2 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (4.55%) Azure AKS
8 1 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (4.55%) OpenShift
8 1 (4.55%) SaaS
8 1 (4.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (18.18%) Bluetooth
1 4 (18.18%) Firewall
2 3 (13.64%) DNS
3 2 (9.09%) DHCP
3 2 (9.09%) HTTP
3 2 (9.09%) TCP/IP
3 2 (9.09%) VLAN
4 1 (4.55%) 3GPP
4 1 (4.55%) 4G
4 1 (4.55%) 5G
4 1 (4.55%) Diameter Protocol
4 1 (4.55%) SCTP
4 1 (4.55%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (22.73%) MariaDB
1 5 (22.73%) Metadata
2 4 (18.18%) MySQL
2 4 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (18.18%) RDBMS
2 4 (18.18%) Relational Database
3 3 (13.64%) SQL Server
4 2 (9.09%) Airbyte
4 2 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (9.09%) Qlik Sense
5 1 (4.55%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 8 (36.36%) Git
2 3 (13.64%) Babel
2 3 (13.64%) gulp
2 3 (13.64%) webpack
3 1 (4.55%) GitLab
3 1 (4.55%) Jenkins
3 1 (4.55%) JIRA
3 1 (4.55%) Robot Framework
General
1 8 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 4 (18.18%) Games
2 4 (18.18%) Legal
3 3 (13.64%) Fire and Rescue
4 1 (4.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (22.73%) Software Engineer
2 4 (18.18%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 4 (18.18%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (18.18%) Administrator
2 4 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (18.18%) Linux Administrator
2 4 (18.18%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 4 (18.18%) Senior
2 4 (18.18%) Senior Software Engineer
2 4 (18.18%) Systems Administrator
2 4 (18.18%) VMWare Administrator
3 3 (13.64%) Developer
3 3 (13.64%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 3 (13.64%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Data Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Kubernetes Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Linux Systems Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (31.82%) CSS
1 7 (31.82%) HTML
2 5 (22.73%) REST
3 4 (18.18%) Django
3 4 (18.18%) Node.js
3 4 (18.18%) WebSockets
4 3 (13.64%) OAuth
4 3 (13.64%) React
4 3 (13.64%) Sass
4 3 (13.64%) Svelte
4 3 (13.64%) Vue
5 2 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (9.09%) NumPy
5 2 (9.09%) Pandas
5 2 (9.09%) SQLAlchemy
6 1 (4.55%) GraphQL
6 1 (4.55%) gRPC
6 1 (4.55%) Loki
6 1 (4.55%) OpenAPI
6 1 (4.55%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 9 (40.91%) Management Information System
2 4 (18.18%) Algorithms
2 4 (18.18%) Client/Server
2 4 (18.18%) Embedded Systems
2 4 (18.18%) IoT
2 4 (18.18%) Mobile App
3 3 (13.64%) Smart City
4 2 (9.09%) NHS
5 1 (4.55%) Cloud Native
5 1 (4.55%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 22 (100.00%) Linux
2 7 (31.82%) CentOS
3 5 (22.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (18.18%) Debian
5 2 (9.09%) SUSE
5 2 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 10 (45.45%) DevOps
3 6 (27.27%) Analytics
3 6 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (22.73%) CI/CD
4 5 (22.73%) Information Governance
4 5 (22.73%) Test Automation
5 4 (18.18%) Actionable Insight
5 4 (18.18%) Containerisation
5 4 (18.18%) Data Analytics
5 4 (18.18%) Data Science
5 4 (18.18%) Data Security
5 4 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 4 (18.18%) Regulatory Compliance
5 4 (18.18%) Roadmaps
5 4 (18.18%) Security Patching
5 4 (18.18%) Software Engineering
5 4 (18.18%) Technology Roadmap
5 4 (18.18%) Validation
5 4 (18.18%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 10 (45.45%) Python
2 7 (31.82%) JavaScript
3 6 (27.27%) SQL
4 5 (22.73%) C++
4 5 (22.73%) PowerShell
5 4 (18.18%) Bash
5 4 (18.18%) C
5 4 (18.18%) Ladder Logic
5 4 (18.18%) TypeScript
6 3 (13.64%) R
7 2 (9.09%) T-SQL
8 1 (4.55%) Go
8 1 (4.55%) Java
Qualifications
1 14 (63.64%) Degree
2 4 (18.18%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (13.64%) AWS Certification
3 3 (13.64%) Azure Certification
3 3 (13.64%) Linux+ Certification
3 3 (13.64%) RHCE
4 1 (4.55%) Master's Degree
4 1 (4.55%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.64%) GDPR
1 3 (13.64%) HIPAA
System Software
1 9 (40.91%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (31.82%) Docker
3 6 (27.27%) VMware ESXi
3 6 (27.27%) vSphere
4 4 (18.18%) Virtual Servers
5 3 (13.64%) Active Directory
5 3 (13.64%) Dovecot
5 3 (13.64%) Hyper-V
5 3 (13.64%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 6 (27.27%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.55%) Ansible
2 1 (4.55%) Grafana
2 1 (4.55%) Kibana
2 1 (4.55%) logstash
2 1 (4.55%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (40.91%) VMware
2 7 (31.82%) Microsoft
3 6 (27.27%) Red Hat
4 4 (18.18%) Siemens
5 3 (13.64%) Okta
5 3 (13.64%) Ping Identity
6 2 (9.09%) Dell
6 2 (9.09%) HP
6 2 (9.09%) Salesforce
7 1 (4.55%) Databricks