Ubuntu Jobs with Work from Home Options

Ubuntu Linux
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Ubuntu skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Ubuntu over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 266 439 443
Rank change year-on-year +173 +4 -24
Permanent jobs citing Ubuntu 392 239 483
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.16% 0.58% 0.70%
As % of the Operating Systems category 8.44% 3.75% 3.91%
Number of salaries quoted 96 167 238
10th Percentile £35,125 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £41,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% -4.17% +14.29%
75th Percentile £82,813 £72,500 £89,688
90th Percentile £92,000 £80,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £52,500 £62,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -16.00% +19.05% +5.00%

All Operating Systems
Work from Home

Ubuntu is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 4,646 6,376 12,343
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.78% 15.42% 17.80%
Number of salaries quoted 3,602 4,688 7,485
10th Percentile £30,500 £31,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £39,000 £41,250 £40,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £73,675
90th Percentile £82,500 £93,750 £87,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% - +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

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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 13 May 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 48 (12.24%) ArcGIS
1 48 (12.24%) GeoServer
2 3 (0.77%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (0.77%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.26%) Apache
3 1 (0.26%) Confluence
3 1 (0.26%) nginx
3 1 (0.26%) Tomcat
Applications
1 14 (3.57%) Simulink
2 5 (1.28%) Trello
3 2 (0.51%) CATIA
3 2 (0.51%) NASTRAN
4 1 (0.26%) 1Password
4 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.51%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 293 (74.74%) Azure
2 213 (54.34%) Entra ID
3 85 (21.68%) AWS
4 11 (2.81%) Cloud Computing
4 11 (2.81%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (2.30%) SaaS
6 7 (1.79%) Amazon S3
7 5 (1.28%) ClickUp
8 4 (1.02%) Azure Sentinel
8 4 (1.02%) GCP
9 3 (0.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (0.77%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (0.77%) CloudFront
9 3 (0.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (0.51%) Amazon ECR
10 2 (0.51%) Amazon ELB
10 2 (0.51%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (0.51%) AWS OpsWorks
11 1 (0.26%) Amazon SQS
11 1 (0.26%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 210 (53.57%) 5G
1 210 (53.57%) Broadband
2 45 (11.48%) Firewall
3 41 (10.46%) LAN
4 36 (9.18%) Internet
4 36 (9.18%) VPN
5 35 (8.93%) WAN
6 12 (3.06%) TCP/IP
7 8 (2.04%) HTTPS
7 8 (2.04%) SSL
8 7 (1.79%) Wi-Fi
9 5 (1.28%) DHCP
9 5 (1.28%) DNS
10 2 (0.51%) Asterisk PBX
10 2 (0.51%) PBX
10 2 (0.51%) RTP
10 2 (0.51%) VLAN
10 2 (0.51%) VoIP
11 1 (0.26%) Ethernet
11 1 (0.26%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (12.24%) GIS
1 48 (12.24%) PostgreSQL
1 48 (12.24%) QGIS
2 21 (5.36%) MySQL
3 15 (3.83%) NoSQL
4 14 (3.57%) SQL Server
5 10 (2.55%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (1.79%) MongoDB
7 3 (0.77%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.26%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.26%) InfluxDB
8 1 (0.26%) Riak
Development Applications
1 23 (5.87%) Vagrant
2 21 (5.36%) Git
3 12 (3.06%) JIRA
4 1 (0.26%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.26%) Protractor
4 1 (0.26%) Selenium
4 1 (0.26%) Subversion
4 1 (0.26%) Visual Studio
General
1 210 (53.57%) Analytical Skills
1 210 (53.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 51 (13.01%) Social Skills
3 35 (8.93%) Retail
4 25 (6.38%) Finance
5 18 (4.59%) Telecoms
6 13 (3.32%) Banking
7 10 (2.55%) Financial Institution
8 9 (2.30%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.26%) Advertising
10 1 (0.26%) Electronics
10 1 (0.26%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.26%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.26%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 210 (53.57%) Linux Specialist
1 210 (53.57%) Technical Specialist
2 191 (48.72%) Senior
3 127 (32.40%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
3 127 (32.40%) Senior Linux Specialist
3 127 (32.40%) Senior Technical Specialist
3 127 (32.40%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
4 80 (20.41%) Software Engineer
5 48 (12.24%) Senior Software Engineer
6 29 (7.40%) Linux Engineer
7 23 (5.87%) Architect
8 22 (5.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 21 (5.36%) Infrastructure Architect
10 17 (4.34%) Lead
11 16 (4.08%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 14 (3.57%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
13 10 (2.55%) Administrator
13 10 (2.55%) Linux Support
13 10 (2.55%) Support Engineer
13 10 (2.55%) Ubuntu Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (12.50%) React
2 48 (12.24%) Django
2 48 (12.24%) Leaflet
2 48 (12.24%) OpenLayers
2 48 (12.24%) PostGIS
3 27 (6.89%) Middleware
4 12 (3.06%) Kafka
5 8 (2.04%) GTK
6 5 (1.28%) HTML
6 5 (1.28%) REST
7 4 (1.02%) Laravel
7 4 (1.02%) SOAP
8 2 (0.51%) Node.js
9 1 (0.26%) .NET
9 1 (0.26%) CSS
9 1 (0.26%) HTML5
9 1 (0.26%) LAMP
9 1 (0.26%) LEMP Stack
9 1 (0.26%) WebSockets
9 1 (0.26%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 210 (53.57%) Social Media
2 11 (2.81%) PKI
3 9 (2.30%) Replication
4 8 (2.04%) Cyber Threat
4 8 (2.04%) Cyberattack
4 8 (2.04%) Data Fabric
5 5 (1.28%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.02%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 4 (1.02%) Public Cloud
7 2 (0.51%) Educational Technology
7 2 (0.51%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.26%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.26%) Clustering
8 1 (0.26%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.26%) iPhone
8 1 (0.26%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.26%) Video Conferencing
8 1 (0.26%) YubiKey
Operating Systems
1 392 (100.00%) Linux
2 60 (15.31%) Windows
3 52 (13.27%) CentOS
4 35 (8.93%) VMS
5 28 (7.14%) Debian
6 24 (6.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 20 (5.10%) Unix
8 16 (4.08%) Android
9 14 (3.57%) Solaris
10 12 (3.06%) zOS
11 4 (1.02%) SUSE
12 3 (0.77%) Windows Server
13 2 (0.51%) Fedora
14 1 (0.26%) Apple iOS
14 1 (0.26%) Mac OS
14 1 (0.26%) openSUSE
14 1 (0.26%) Windows 10
14 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
14 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 224 (57.14%) Artificial Intelligence
2 216 (55.10%) Cybersecurity
3 212 (54.08%) IT Strategy
3 212 (54.08%) Technology Strategy
4 210 (53.57%) CRM
5 90 (22.96%) Agile
6 84 (21.43%) Software Engineering
7 79 (20.15%) Actionable Insight
8 55 (14.03%) DevOps
9 52 (13.27%) Web Development
10 37 (9.44%) Collaborative Culture
11 36 (9.18%) DevSecOps
12 35 (8.93%) Application Security
13 31 (7.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 20 (5.10%) Computer Science
14 20 (5.10%) Key Management
15 17 (4.34%) Infrastructure as Code
16 15 (3.83%) Microservices
17 14 (3.57%) Machine Learning
17 14 (3.57%) Signal Processing
Programming Languages
1 233 (59.44%) Bash
2 80 (20.41%) Python
3 71 (18.11%) JavaScript
4 23 (5.87%) SQL
5 19 (4.85%) C
6 17 (4.34%) Java
7 15 (3.83%) C++
7 15 (3.83%) Kotlin
8 14 (3.57%) Shell Script
9 7 (1.79%) PowerShell
10 4 (1.02%) PHP
10 4 (1.02%) T-SQL
11 3 (0.77%) Ada
12 2 (0.51%) Go
12 2 (0.51%) Perl
13 1 (0.26%) C#
13 1 (0.26%) Embedded C
13 1 (0.26%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 103 (26.28%) Security Cleared
2 65 (16.58%) SC Cleared
3 34 (8.67%) DV Cleared
4 26 (6.63%) Degree
5 14 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.02%) CISM
6 4 (1.02%) CISSP
7 1 (0.26%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.26%) CCNA
7 1 (0.26%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.26%) HNC
7 1 (0.26%) HND
7 1 (0.26%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (1.53%) SLA
2 5 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (1.28%) QA
3 4 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 4 (1.02%) NIST
4 1 (0.26%) MISRA
System Software
1 249 (63.52%) Active Directory
2 12 (3.06%) Docker
3 4 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.51%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.51%) Kamailio
4 2 (0.51%) vSphere
5 1 (0.26%) KVM
5 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 1 (0.26%) Samba
5 1 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 219 (55.87%) Microsoft Intune
2 210 (53.57%) Jamf Pro
3 60 (15.31%) Ansible
4 56 (14.29%) Terraform
5 4 (1.02%) Kubernetes
6 2 (0.51%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.51%) Puppet
6 2 (0.51%) WSUS
7 1 (0.26%) Cacti
7 1 (0.26%) Grafana
7 1 (0.26%) HAProxy
7 1 (0.26%) Icinga
7 1 (0.26%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 221 (56.38%) Microsoft
2 210 (53.57%) CyberArk
2 210 (53.57%) Tanium
3 48 (12.24%) ESRI
4 17 (4.34%) Red Hat
5 14 (3.57%) Xilinx
6 9 (2.30%) Cisco
7 8 (2.04%) IBM
8 6 (1.53%) Meraki
8 6 (1.53%) Ubiquiti
8 6 (1.53%) VMware
9 4 (1.02%) Qualys
9 4 (1.02%) Splunk
10 3 (0.77%) Dialogic
10 3 (0.77%) Ribbon
11 2 (0.51%) Commvault
12 1 (0.26%) Apple
12 1 (0.26%) Dell
12 1 (0.26%) Sophos
12 1 (0.26%) TOWER Software