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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 269 419 466
Rank change year-on-year +150 +47 -15
Permanent jobs citing Ubuntu 407 241 504
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.17% 0.63% 0.68%
As % of the Operating Systems category 8.74% 4.04% 3.79%
Number of salaries quoted 101 171 237
10th Percentile - £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £91,991 £80,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £52,500 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -16.00% +13.64% +10.00%

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 4,657 5,968 13,290
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.38% 15.49% 17.84%
Number of salaries quoted 3,552 4,406 7,455
10th Percentile £30,500 £30,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £39,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,998 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.46% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £66,250 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £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 2 June 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 (11.79%) ArcGIS
1 48 (11.79%) GeoServer
2 4 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.74%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.25%) Apache
4 1 (0.25%) Confluence
4 1 (0.25%) nginx
4 1 (0.25%) Tomcat
Applications
1 20 (4.91%) Simulink
2 5 (1.23%) Trello
3 2 (0.49%) CATIA
3 2 (0.49%) NASTRAN
4 1 (0.25%) 1Password
4 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.49%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 300 (73.71%) Azure
2 214 (52.58%) Entra ID
3 94 (23.10%) AWS
4 13 (3.19%) SaaS
5 12 (2.95%) Microsoft 365
6 11 (2.70%) Cloud Computing
7 6 (1.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 6 (1.47%) Amazon S3
8 5 (1.23%) ClickUp
9 4 (0.98%) Azure Sentinel
9 4 (0.98%) GCP
10 2 (0.49%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (0.49%) CloudFront
10 2 (0.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 1 (0.25%) Amazon ECR
11 1 (0.25%) Amazon ELB
11 1 (0.25%) Amazon SQS
11 1 (0.25%) IaaS
11 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Purview
11 1 (0.25%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 210 (51.60%) 5G
1 210 (51.60%) Broadband
2 50 (12.29%) Firewall
3 45 (11.06%) LAN
4 40 (9.83%) Internet
4 40 (9.83%) VPN
5 39 (9.58%) WAN
6 12 (2.95%) TCP/IP
7 8 (1.97%) HTTPS
7 8 (1.97%) SSL
8 7 (1.72%) Wi-Fi
9 5 (1.23%) DHCP
9 5 (1.23%) DNS
10 2 (0.49%) Asterisk PBX
10 2 (0.49%) PBX
10 2 (0.49%) RTP
10 2 (0.49%) VLAN
10 2 (0.49%) VoIP
11 1 (0.25%) NetScaler
11 1 (0.25%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (13.02%) PostgreSQL
2 48 (11.79%) GIS
2 48 (11.79%) QGIS
3 26 (6.39%) NoSQL
4 25 (6.14%) MySQL
5 15 (3.69%) SQL Server
6 13 (3.19%) Amazon RDS
7 11 (2.70%) MongoDB
8 4 (0.98%) Amazon Aurora
8 4 (0.98%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.49%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.25%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.25%) InfluxDB
10 1 (0.25%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.25%) Redis
10 1 (0.25%) Riak
10 1 (0.25%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 29 (7.13%) Vagrant
2 27 (6.63%) Git
3 12 (2.95%) JIRA
4 1 (0.25%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.25%) Subversion
4 1 (0.25%) Visual Studio
General
1 210 (51.60%) Analytical Skills
1 210 (51.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 56 (13.76%) Social Skills
3 39 (9.58%) Retail
4 25 (6.14%) Finance
5 19 (4.67%) Telecoms
6 12 (2.95%) Banking
7 10 (2.46%) Financial Institution
8 9 (2.21%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.49%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.25%) Advertising
10 1 (0.25%) Electronics
10 1 (0.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 210 (51.60%) Linux Specialist
1 210 (51.60%) Technical Specialist
2 195 (47.91%) Senior
3 127 (31.20%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
3 127 (31.20%) Senior Linux Specialist
3 127 (31.20%) Senior Technical Specialist
3 127 (31.20%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
4 86 (21.13%) Software Engineer
5 48 (11.79%) Senior Software Engineer
6 28 (6.88%) Linux Engineer
7 27 (6.63%) Architect
7 27 (6.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 21 (5.16%) Infrastructure Architect
9 20 (4.91%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
9 20 (4.91%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 17 (4.18%) Lead
11 11 (2.70%) Linux Support
11 11 (2.70%) Linux Support Engineer
11 11 (2.70%) Support Engineer
12 10 (2.46%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (12.04%) React
2 48 (11.79%) Django
2 48 (11.79%) Leaflet
2 48 (11.79%) OpenLayers
2 48 (11.79%) PostGIS
3 33 (8.11%) Middleware
4 12 (2.95%) Kafka
5 8 (1.97%) GTK
6 6 (1.47%) HTML
7 5 (1.23%) REST
8 4 (0.98%) Laravel
8 4 (0.98%) SOAP
9 2 (0.49%) CSS
9 2 (0.49%) Node.js
10 1 (0.25%) .NET
10 1 (0.25%) ActiveMQ
10 1 (0.25%) HTML5
10 1 (0.25%) jQuery
10 1 (0.25%) LAMP
10 1 (0.25%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 210 (51.60%) Social Media
2 13 (3.19%) Replication
3 11 (2.70%) PKI
4 8 (1.97%) Cyber Threat
4 8 (1.97%) Cyberattack
4 8 (1.97%) Data Fabric
5 6 (1.47%) Management Information System
6 4 (0.98%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 4 (0.98%) Public Cloud
7 2 (0.49%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.25%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.25%) Clustering
8 1 (0.25%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.25%) Educational Technology
8 1 (0.25%) iPhone
8 1 (0.25%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.25%) Video Conferencing
8 1 (0.25%) YubiKey
Operating Systems
1 407 (100.00%) Linux
2 64 (15.72%) Windows
3 59 (14.50%) CentOS
4 39 (9.58%) VMS
5 30 (7.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 28 (6.88%) Debian
7 22 (5.41%) Android
8 19 (4.67%) Unix
9 13 (3.19%) Solaris
10 12 (2.95%) zOS
11 5 (1.23%) SUSE
12 4 (0.98%) Amazon Linux
12 4 (0.98%) Windows Server
13 2 (0.49%) Fedora
14 1 (0.25%) Apple iOS
14 1 (0.25%) Mac OS
14 1 (0.25%) openSUSE
14 1 (0.25%) Windows 10
14 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
14 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 230 (56.51%) Artificial Intelligence
2 216 (53.07%) Cybersecurity
3 212 (52.09%) IT Strategy
3 212 (52.09%) Technology Strategy
4 210 (51.60%) CRM
5 94 (23.10%) Software Engineering
6 93 (22.85%) Agile
7 79 (19.41%) Actionable Insight
8 55 (13.51%) DevOps
9 52 (12.78%) Web Development
10 41 (10.07%) Collaborative Culture
11 40 (9.83%) DevSecOps
12 39 (9.58%) Application Security
13 37 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 28 (6.88%) Computer Science
15 26 (6.39%) Infrastructure as Code
16 21 (5.16%) Machine Learning
16 21 (5.16%) Microservices
17 20 (4.91%) Collaborative Working
17 20 (4.91%) Signal Processing
Programming Languages
1 231 (56.76%) Bash
2 86 (21.13%) Python
3 77 (18.92%) JavaScript
4 32 (7.86%) SQL
5 24 (5.90%) Java
6 22 (5.41%) C++
7 21 (5.16%) Kotlin
8 20 (4.91%) C
9 13 (3.19%) Shell Script
10 7 (1.72%) PowerShell
11 4 (0.98%) PHP
11 4 (0.98%) T-SQL
12 3 (0.74%) Ada
13 2 (0.49%) C#
13 2 (0.49%) Go
14 1 (0.25%) Embedded C
14 1 (0.25%) Perl
14 1 (0.25%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 113 (27.76%) Security Cleared
2 71 (17.44%) SC Cleared
3 38 (9.34%) DV Cleared
4 37 (9.09%) Degree
5 25 (6.14%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (0.98%) CISM
6 4 (0.98%) CISSP
7 2 (0.49%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.49%) CCNA
7 2 (0.49%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.25%) HNC
8 1 (0.25%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (1.47%) SLA
2 5 (1.23%) QA
3 4 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 4 (0.98%) NIST
4 1 (0.25%) MISRA
System Software
1 254 (62.41%) Active Directory
2 12 (2.95%) Docker
3 4 (0.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.74%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.74%) vSphere
5 2 (0.49%) Kamailio
5 2 (0.49%) KVM
5 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 2 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.49%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (0.49%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.25%) Firmware
6 1 (0.25%) NFS
6 1 (0.25%) pfSense
6 1 (0.25%) Samba
6 1 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 219 (53.81%) Microsoft Intune
2 210 (51.60%) Jamf Pro
3 69 (16.95%) Ansible
4 68 (16.71%) Terraform
5 4 (0.98%) Kubernetes
6 2 (0.49%) WSUS
7 1 (0.25%) Cacti
7 1 (0.25%) Grafana
7 1 (0.25%) HAProxy
7 1 (0.25%) Icinga
7 1 (0.25%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.25%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.25%) Puppet
7 1 (0.25%) SCCM
Vendors
1 223 (54.79%) Microsoft
2 210 (51.60%) CyberArk
2 210 (51.60%) Tanium
3 48 (11.79%) ESRI
4 20 (4.91%) Xilinx
5 17 (4.18%) Red Hat
6 11 (2.70%) Cisco
7 8 (1.97%) IBM
8 7 (1.72%) Ubiquiti
9 6 (1.47%) Meraki
9 6 (1.47%) VMware
10 4 (0.98%) Dialogic
10 4 (0.98%) Qualys
10 4 (0.98%) Ribbon
10 4 (0.98%) Splunk
11 2 (0.49%) Commvault
11 2 (0.49%) Juniper
12 1 (0.25%) Apple
12 1 (0.25%) CA
12 1 (0.25%) NetApp