Ubuntu Job Trends in Bristol

Ubuntu Linux
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring Ubuntu skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 - 125
Rank change year-on-year - - -18
Permanent jobs citing Ubuntu 3 0 6
As % of all permanent jobs in Bristol 0.094% - 0.25%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.70% - 1.95%
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £41,250 - £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 - £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +41.59%
75th Percentile £53,750 - £82,500
90th Percentile £59,750 - -
South West median annual salary £45,000 £72,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -37.93% +61.11% -20.35%

All Operating Systems
Bristol

Ubuntu falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring operating system skills in Bristol.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 176 94 308
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 5.50% 8.39% 12.71%
Number of salaries quoted 136 74 219
10th Percentile £30,500 £30,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £35,000 £31,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +26.67% -14.29% +4.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £58,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £87,500
South West median annual salary £47,500 £37,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +28.38% -17.78% -8.16%

Ubuntu
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Ubuntu relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

Ubuntu job vacancy trend in Bristol

Ubuntu
Salary Trend in Bristol

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Ubuntu.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Ubuntu

Ubuntu
Salary Histogram in Bristol

Salary distribution for jobs citing Ubuntu in Bristol over the 6 months to 20 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Ubuntu in Bristol

Ubuntu
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) GitHub
1 2 (66.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (33.33%) Internet
2 1 (33.33%) LAN
2 1 (33.33%) WAN
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
2 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Administrator
1 2 (66.67%) Linux Administrator
1 2 (66.67%) Linux Systems Administrator
1 2 (66.67%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Debian
3 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Incident Response
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Coaching
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Bash
1 2 (66.67%) PHP
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
1 2 (66.67%) Python
1 2 (66.67%) Ruby
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
1 1 (33.33%) KVM
1 1 (33.33%) QEMU
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (33.33%) Xen
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat
1 1 (33.33%) VMware