Ubuntu Linux
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with 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 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 418 574 611
Rank change year-on-year +156 +37 -97
Permanent jobs citing Ubuntu 603 424 832
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.59% 0.44% 0.50%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.31% 2.71% 2.65%
Number of salaries quoted 237 304 437
10th Percentile £36,000 £35,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,625 £46,625 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £62,450 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.93% +13.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £91,991 £87,500 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £56,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -11.50% +18.95% +5.56%

All Operating Systems
UK

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 requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 13,986 15,669 31,425
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.63% 16.10% 18.82%
Number of salaries quoted 10,693 10,509 16,510
10th Percentile £26,000 £27,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £71,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £92,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.56% - -

Ubuntu
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Ubuntu as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Ubuntu in the UK

Ubuntu
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Ubuntu.

Salary trend for Ubuntu in the UK

Ubuntu
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Ubuntu over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Ubuntu in the UK

Ubuntu
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Ubuntu within the UK over the 6 months to 28 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +171 556 £52,500 -12.50% 52
Work from Home +158 401 £50,000 -13.04% 24
UK excluding London +65 316 £50,000 -11.50% 43
London +194 263 £65,000 -3.70% 10
South East +85 141 £47,500 -36.67% 15
South West -2 51 £43,000 -14.00% 5
North of England +66 43 £50,000 +63.93% 6
Midlands +1 32 £50,000 -9.09% 8
North West +23 31 £50,000 +53.85% 4
East of England -47 21 £60,000 +4.35% 5
West Midlands +16 19 £105,000 +133.33% 6
East Midlands -15 13 £24,750 -56.96% 2
Wales +3 10 £50,000 +11.11% 3
Scotland -63 10 £87,500 +16.67% 1
Yorkshire +76 8 £45,000 +57.89% 2
Northern Ireland +23 4 - -
Isle of Man - 4 £43,000 -
North East - 4 £52,500 -

Ubuntu
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (7.96%) ArcGIS
1 48 (7.96%) GeoServer
2 41 (6.80%) Apache
3 28 (4.64%) Apache Spark
4 26 (4.31%) Microsoft Exchange
5 15 (2.49%) SharePoint
6 10 (1.66%) IIS
6 10 (1.66%) WordPress
7 8 (1.33%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.66%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.50%) Confluence
9 3 (0.50%) nginx
10 1 (0.17%) CMS
10 1 (0.17%) Drupal
10 1 (0.17%) PrestaShop
10 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
Applications
1 18 (2.99%) Simulink
2 5 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.83%) Trello
3 2 (0.33%) CATIA
3 2 (0.33%) NASTRAN
4 1 (0.17%) 1Password
4 1 (0.17%) GNU Octave
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 12 (1.99%) Fidessa
2 5 (0.83%) Oracle Cash Management
3 2 (0.33%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.17%) Magento
4 1 (0.17%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 406 (67.33%) Azure
2 227 (37.65%) Entra ID
3 155 (25.70%) AWS
4 56 (9.29%) Microsoft 365
5 50 (8.29%) GCP
6 31 (5.14%) AWS CloudFormation
7 30 (4.98%) AWS Lambda
7 30 (4.98%) Serverless
8 29 (4.81%) Amazon EKS
8 29 (4.81%) OpenShift
9 26 (4.31%) SaaS
10 13 (2.16%) Amazon S3
11 12 (1.99%) Cloud Computing
12 11 (1.82%) IaaS
13 10 (1.66%) PaaS
14 9 (1.49%) OneDrive
15 6 (1.00%) GitHub
15 6 (1.00%) GitHub Actions
16 5 (0.83%) ClickUp
17 4 (0.66%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 210 (34.83%) 5G
1 210 (34.83%) Broadband
2 94 (15.59%) Firewall
3 70 (11.61%) VPN
4 56 (9.29%) LAN
5 47 (7.79%) Internet
5 47 (7.79%) WAN
6 42 (6.97%) DNS
7 40 (6.63%) TCP/IP
8 32 (5.31%) DHCP
9 28 (4.64%) AMQP
9 28 (4.64%) SAN
10 21 (3.48%) VLAN
11 13 (2.16%) Fibre Channel
11 13 (2.16%) Wireless
12 12 (1.99%) FIX Connectivity
13 10 (1.66%) iSCSI
13 10 (1.66%) NAS
14 9 (1.49%) Wi-Fi
15 8 (1.33%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (8.96%) PostgreSQL
2 48 (7.96%) GIS
2 48 (7.96%) QGIS
3 41 (6.80%) MySQL
4 39 (6.47%) SQL Server
5 30 (4.98%) Big Data
5 30 (4.98%) Hadoop
6 28 (4.64%) Cloudera CDH
7 20 (3.32%) NoSQL
8 10 (1.66%) Amazon RDS
8 10 (1.66%) MongoDB
9 4 (0.66%) Relational Database
10 3 (0.50%) MariaDB
11 2 (0.33%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.33%) InfluxDB
11 2 (0.33%) Power BI
12 1 (0.17%) RDBMS
12 1 (0.17%) Redis
12 1 (0.17%) Riak
12 1 (0.17%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 39 (6.47%) Git
2 27 (4.48%) Vagrant
3 19 (3.15%) JIRA
4 12 (1.99%) Subversion
4 12 (1.99%) Visual Studio
5 7 (1.16%) PHPUnit
6 4 (0.66%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.33%) LabVIEW
8 1 (0.17%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.17%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.17%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.17%) GitLab
8 1 (0.17%) Selenium
General
1 223 (36.98%) Analytical Skills
2 210 (34.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 100 (16.58%) Social Skills
4 47 (7.79%) Finance
5 43 (7.13%) Retail
6 31 (5.14%) Aerospace
7 25 (4.15%) Telecoms
8 24 (3.98%) Banking
9 13 (2.16%) Billing
9 13 (2.16%) Electronics
10 10 (1.66%) Financial Institution
11 9 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (0.83%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.50%) Advertising
13 3 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.17%) Automotive
14 1 (0.17%) Aviation
14 1 (0.17%) Front Office
14 1 (0.17%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 218 (36.15%) Senior
2 210 (34.83%) Linux Specialist
2 210 (34.83%) Technical Specialist
3 143 (23.71%) Software Engineer
4 127 (21.06%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 127 (21.06%) Senior Linux Specialist
4 127 (21.06%) Senior Technical Specialist
4 127 (21.06%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
5 65 (10.78%) Linux Engineer
6 61 (10.12%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 50 (8.29%) Senior Software Engineer
8 42 (6.97%) Architect
9 31 (5.14%) Infrastructure Architect
10 28 (4.64%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
11 26 (4.31%) Systems Engineer
12 25 (4.15%) Administrator
13 23 (3.81%) Developer
13 23 (3.81%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 20 (3.32%) Lead
14 20 (3.32%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (13.27%) React
2 50 (8.29%) Middleware
3 48 (7.96%) Django
3 48 (7.96%) Leaflet
3 48 (7.96%) OpenLayers
3 48 (7.96%) PostGIS
4 36 (5.97%) REST
5 30 (4.98%) AngularJS
5 30 (4.98%) Node.js
6 29 (4.81%) RabbitMQ
7 28 (4.64%) gRPC
7 28 (4.64%) Material-UI
7 28 (4.64%) OpenAPI
7 28 (4.64%) Spring
7 28 (4.64%) Spring Boot
7 28 (4.64%) Swagger
8 16 (2.65%) HTML
9 15 (2.49%) .NET
9 15 (2.49%) LAMP
10 13 (2.16%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 210 (34.83%) Social Media
2 38 (6.30%) Cloud Native
3 37 (6.14%) Replication
4 23 (3.81%) PKI
5 22 (3.65%) Data Centre
6 20 (3.32%) Management Information System
7 17 (2.82%) IoT
7 17 (2.82%) Public Cloud
8 12 (1.99%) Eurex
8 12 (1.99%) Linux Command Line
9 11 (1.82%) Cyber Threat
9 11 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
9 11 (1.82%) Robotics
10 8 (1.33%) Cyberattack
10 8 (1.33%) Data Fabric
11 5 (0.83%) Product Ownership
11 5 (0.83%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 5 (0.83%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 4 (0.66%) Cyber Kill Chain
13 3 (0.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 603 (100.00%) Linux
2 160 (26.53%) Windows
3 130 (21.56%) CentOS
4 93 (15.42%) Debian
5 73 (12.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 52 (8.62%) Windows Server
7 51 (8.46%) VMS
8 46 (7.63%) Unix
9 39 (6.47%) Solaris
10 30 (4.98%) Windows Server 2016
11 21 (3.48%) Android
12 20 (3.32%) Windows 10
13 17 (2.82%) SUSE
14 13 (2.16%) Windows Server 2019
15 12 (1.99%) zOS
16 10 (1.66%) Windows Server 2012
17 4 (0.66%) Mac OS
18 3 (0.50%) Kali Linux
18 3 (0.50%) Oracle Linux
19 2 (0.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 242 (40.13%) Cybersecurity
2 233 (38.64%) Artificial Intelligence
3 213 (35.32%) Technology Strategy
4 212 (35.16%) CRM
4 212 (35.16%) IT Strategy
5 166 (27.53%) Agile
6 152 (25.21%) Software Engineering
7 103 (17.08%) Actionable Insight
8 93 (15.42%) DevOps
9 74 (12.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 56 (9.29%) Web Development
11 55 (9.12%) Configuration Management
12 54 (8.96%) Collaborative Working
13 53 (8.79%) DevSecOps
14 51 (8.46%) Open Source
15 50 (8.29%) Infrastructure as Code
16 49 (8.13%) Microservices
17 48 (7.96%) Problem-Solving
18 42 (6.97%) Collaborative Culture
18 42 (6.97%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 281 (46.60%) Bash
2 155 (25.70%) Python
3 129 (21.39%) JavaScript
4 63 (10.45%) PowerShell
5 58 (9.62%) SQL
6 54 (8.96%) Java
7 49 (8.13%) C
8 42 (6.97%) C++
9 36 (5.97%) Shell Script
10 19 (3.15%) Kotlin
10 19 (3.15%) PHP
11 17 (2.82%) Perl
12 13 (2.16%) Ruby
13 10 (1.66%) Ada
14 5 (0.83%) C#
15 4 (0.66%) T-SQL
16 3 (0.50%) Go
17 1 (0.17%) Groovy
17 1 (0.17%) VB.NET
17 1 (0.17%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 159 (26.37%) Security Cleared
2 112 (18.57%) SC Cleared
3 80 (13.27%) DV Cleared
4 69 (11.44%) Degree
5 31 (5.14%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (2.16%) MCSE
6 13 (2.16%) Microsoft Certification
7 12 (1.99%) MCSA
7 12 (1.99%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 11 (1.82%) Azure Certification
9 9 (1.49%) AWS Certification
9 9 (1.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 5 (0.83%) CCNA
10 5 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (0.66%) CISM
11 4 (0.66%) CISSP
12 3 (0.50%) Linux+ Certification
12 3 (0.50%) RHCE
13 2 (0.33%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (1.99%) QA
2 8 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (1.33%) PMO
2 8 (1.33%) SLA
3 7 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials
3 7 (1.16%) NIST
4 4 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 3 (0.50%) GDPR
6 1 (0.17%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.17%) MISRA
System Software
1 297 (49.25%) Active Directory
2 62 (10.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 43 (7.13%) vSphere
4 22 (3.65%) Docker
5 18 (2.99%) Virtual Machines
6 11 (1.82%) Hyper-V
7 10 (1.66%) KVM
7 10 (1.66%) vCloud
8 8 (1.33%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (0.83%) NFS
9 5 (0.83%) VMware Server
10 4 (0.66%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 4 (0.66%) VMware NSX
11 3 (0.50%) Firmware
11 3 (0.50%) QEMU
11 3 (0.50%) Terminal Services
11 3 (0.50%) Xen
12 2 (0.33%) Embedded Firmware
12 2 (0.33%) Kamailio
13 1 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 232 (38.47%) Microsoft Intune
2 210 (34.83%) Jamf Pro
3 112 (18.57%) Ansible
4 99 (16.42%) Terraform
5 63 (10.45%) Kubernetes
6 33 (5.47%) Puppet
7 21 (3.48%) vCenter Server
8 10 (1.66%) Grafana
8 10 (1.66%) SCCM
9 9 (1.49%) Progress Chef
10 7 (1.16%) ZABBIX
11 5 (0.83%) Prometheus
12 4 (0.66%) HAProxy
12 4 (0.66%) Nagios
12 4 (0.66%) Nessus
13 3 (0.50%) Check_MK
13 3 (0.50%) SELinux
14 2 (0.33%) Kustomize
14 2 (0.33%) Trend Micro Deep Security
14 2 (0.33%) WSUS
Vendors
1 292 (48.42%) Microsoft
2 210 (34.83%) CyberArk
2 210 (34.83%) Tanium
3 101 (16.75%) Red Hat
4 78 (12.94%) VMware
5 48 (7.96%) ESRI
6 31 (5.14%) Google
6 31 (5.14%) SaltStack
7 27 (4.48%) Veeam
8 18 (2.99%) Cisco
8 18 (2.99%) Xilinx
9 15 (2.49%) Oracle
10 13 (2.16%) Zerto
11 12 (1.99%) Bloomberg
11 12 (1.99%) CQG
11 12 (1.99%) ION Trading
11 12 (1.99%) Patsystems
11 12 (1.99%) Reuters
11 12 (1.99%) Trayport
12 11 (1.82%) HP