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

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 424 590 620
Rank change year-on-year +166 +30 -129
Permanent jobs citing Ubuntu 594 426 814
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.59% 0.43% 0.51%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.25% 2.68% 2.68%
Number of salaries quoted 235 303 442
10th Percentile £36,000 £35,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,563 £45,576 £36,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £62,450 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.93% +18.95% +5.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £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 13,973 15,925 30,406
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.99% 16.06% 18.92%
Number of salaries quoted 10,731 10,713 16,468
10th Percentile £26,000 £27,000 £26,450
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 £92,500 £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 18 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 18 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 +187 547 £52,500 -13.93% 56
Work from Home +158 394 £50,000 -13.04% 25
UK excluding London +45 311 £50,000 -11.50% 40
London +169 260 £65,000 -7.14% 15
South East +79 138 £47,500 -32.14% 10
South West -2 51 £43,000 -14.00% 8
North of England +72 44 £50,000 +75.44% 6
North West +23 32 £50,000 +53.85% 5
Midlands -4 30 £50,000 -6.76% 9
East of England -41 20 £60,000 +4.35% 5
West Midlands +18 18 £105,000 +147.06% 4
East Midlands -9 12 £24,750 -56.96% 5
Wales +8 11 £50,000 +11.11% 1
Scotland -70 9 - - 1
Yorkshire +81 8 £45,000 +57.89% 1
Northern Ireland +24 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 (8.08%) ArcGIS
1 48 (8.08%) GeoServer
2 40 (6.73%) Apache
3 27 (4.55%) Apache Spark
4 24 (4.04%) Microsoft Exchange
5 15 (2.53%) SharePoint
6 11 (1.85%) IIS
7 10 (1.68%) WordPress
8 7 (1.18%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.67%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.51%) Confluence
10 3 (0.51%) nginx
11 1 (0.17%) CMS
11 1 (0.17%) Drupal
11 1 (0.17%) PrestaShop
11 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
Applications
1 16 (2.69%) Simulink
2 5 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.84%) Trello
3 2 (0.34%) CATIA
3 2 (0.34%) NASTRAN
4 1 (0.17%) 1Password
4 1 (0.17%) GNU Octave
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 11 (1.85%) Fidessa
2 4 (0.67%) Oracle Cash Management
3 2 (0.34%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.17%) Magento
4 1 (0.17%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 401 (67.51%) Azure
2 226 (38.05%) Entra ID
3 149 (25.08%) AWS
4 59 (9.93%) Microsoft 365
5 46 (7.74%) GCP
6 30 (5.05%) AWS CloudFormation
7 29 (4.88%) AWS Lambda
7 29 (4.88%) Serverless
8 28 (4.71%) Amazon EKS
8 28 (4.71%) OpenShift
9 24 (4.04%) SaaS
10 13 (2.19%) Amazon S3
11 11 (1.85%) Cloud Computing
12 10 (1.68%) IaaS
13 9 (1.52%) OneDrive
13 9 (1.52%) PaaS
14 6 (1.01%) GitHub
14 6 (1.01%) GitHub Actions
15 5 (0.84%) ClickUp
16 4 (0.67%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 210 (35.35%) 5G
1 210 (35.35%) Broadband
2 91 (15.32%) Firewall
3 67 (11.28%) VPN
4 52 (8.75%) LAN
5 44 (7.41%) Internet
6 43 (7.24%) WAN
7 40 (6.73%) DNS
8 37 (6.23%) TCP/IP
9 30 (5.05%) DHCP
10 29 (4.88%) SAN
11 27 (4.55%) AMQP
12 21 (3.54%) VLAN
13 13 (2.19%) Fibre Channel
13 13 (2.19%) Wireless
14 11 (1.85%) FIX Connectivity
15 10 (1.68%) NAS
16 9 (1.52%) iSCSI
16 9 (1.52%) Wi-Fi
17 8 (1.35%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (8.92%) PostgreSQL
2 48 (8.08%) GIS
2 48 (8.08%) QGIS
3 40 (6.73%) MySQL
4 38 (6.40%) SQL Server
5 29 (4.88%) Big Data
5 29 (4.88%) Hadoop
6 27 (4.55%) Cloudera CDH
7 18 (3.03%) NoSQL
8 11 (1.85%) MongoDB
9 10 (1.68%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (0.67%) Relational Database
11 3 (0.51%) Elasticsearch
12 2 (0.34%) InfluxDB
12 2 (0.34%) MariaDB
12 2 (0.34%) Power BI
13 1 (0.17%) Firebird
13 1 (0.17%) RDBMS
13 1 (0.17%) Redis
13 1 (0.17%) Riak
Development Applications
1 37 (6.23%) Git
2 25 (4.21%) Vagrant
3 19 (3.20%) JIRA
4 12 (2.02%) Subversion
4 12 (2.02%) Visual Studio
5 7 (1.18%) PHPUnit
6 3 (0.51%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.34%) 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
8 1 (0.17%) WiX
General
1 223 (37.54%) Analytical Skills
2 210 (35.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 97 (16.33%) Social Skills
4 45 (7.58%) Finance
5 40 (6.73%) Retail
6 30 (5.05%) Aerospace
7 25 (4.21%) Telecoms
8 24 (4.04%) Banking
9 14 (2.36%) Billing
10 13 (2.19%) Electronics
11 10 (1.68%) Financial Institution
12 9 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
13 5 (0.84%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.51%) Advertising
14 3 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
15 1 (0.17%) Automotive
15 1 (0.17%) Aviation
15 1 (0.17%) Investment Banking
15 1 (0.17%) Organisational Skills
15 1 (0.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 215 (36.20%) Senior
2 210 (35.35%) Linux Specialist
2 210 (35.35%) Technical Specialist
3 140 (23.57%) Software Engineer
4 127 (21.38%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 127 (21.38%) Senior Linux Specialist
4 127 (21.38%) Senior Technical Specialist
4 127 (21.38%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
5 65 (10.94%) Linux Engineer
6 58 (9.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 50 (8.42%) Senior Software Engineer
8 42 (7.07%) Architect
9 32 (5.39%) Infrastructure Architect
10 27 (4.55%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
11 25 (4.21%) Administrator
11 25 (4.21%) Systems Engineer
12 22 (3.70%) Developer
13 21 (3.54%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 20 (3.37%) Lead
14 20 (3.37%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (13.30%) React
2 48 (8.08%) Django
2 48 (8.08%) Leaflet
2 48 (8.08%) OpenLayers
2 48 (8.08%) PostGIS
3 46 (7.74%) Middleware
4 35 (5.89%) REST
5 29 (4.88%) AngularJS
5 29 (4.88%) Node.js
6 28 (4.71%) RabbitMQ
7 27 (4.55%) gRPC
7 27 (4.55%) Material-UI
7 27 (4.55%) OpenAPI
7 27 (4.55%) Spring
7 27 (4.55%) Spring Boot
7 27 (4.55%) Swagger
8 15 (2.53%) .NET
8 15 (2.53%) HTML
8 15 (2.53%) LAMP
9 13 (2.19%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 210 (35.35%) Social Media
2 38 (6.40%) Replication
3 36 (6.06%) Cloud Native
4 23 (3.87%) PKI
5 22 (3.70%) Data Centre
6 19 (3.20%) Management Information System
7 18 (3.03%) Public Cloud
8 17 (2.86%) IoT
9 12 (2.02%) Cyber Threat
9 12 (2.02%) Linux Command Line
10 11 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
10 11 (1.85%) Eurex
10 11 (1.85%) Robotics
11 8 (1.35%) Cyberattack
11 8 (1.35%) Data Fabric
12 5 (0.84%) Product Ownership
13 4 (0.67%) Cyber Kill Chain
13 4 (0.67%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 4 (0.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
14 3 (0.51%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 594 (100.00%) Linux
2 158 (26.60%) Windows
3 125 (21.04%) CentOS
4 92 (15.49%) Debian
5 69 (11.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 53 (8.92%) Windows Server
7 48 (8.08%) VMS
8 46 (7.74%) Unix
9 39 (6.57%) Solaris
10 31 (5.22%) Windows Server 2016
11 21 (3.54%) Windows 10
12 19 (3.20%) Android
13 17 (2.86%) SUSE
14 13 (2.19%) Windows Server 2019
15 12 (2.02%) zOS
16 11 (1.85%) Windows Server 2012
17 4 (0.67%) Kali Linux
17 4 (0.67%) Mac OS
18 3 (0.51%) Oracle Linux
19 2 (0.34%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 242 (40.74%) Cybersecurity
2 231 (38.89%) Artificial Intelligence
3 213 (35.86%) Technology Strategy
4 212 (35.69%) CRM
4 212 (35.69%) IT Strategy
5 161 (27.10%) Agile
6 149 (25.08%) Software Engineering
7 103 (17.34%) Actionable Insight
8 91 (15.32%) DevOps
9 71 (11.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 56 (9.43%) Web Development
11 55 (9.26%) Configuration Management
12 51 (8.59%) Collaborative Working
13 49 (8.25%) DevSecOps
13 49 (8.25%) Open Source
14 48 (8.08%) Infrastructure as Code
15 46 (7.74%) Microservices
16 44 (7.41%) Problem-Solving
17 40 (6.73%) Containerisation
18 39 (6.57%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 281 (47.31%) Bash
2 149 (25.08%) Python
3 124 (20.88%) JavaScript
4 64 (10.77%) PowerShell
5 56 (9.43%) SQL
6 50 (8.42%) Java
7 48 (8.08%) C
8 39 (6.57%) C++
9 35 (5.89%) Shell Script
10 19 (3.20%) PHP
11 17 (2.86%) Kotlin
12 16 (2.69%) Perl
13 12 (2.02%) Ruby
14 10 (1.68%) Ada
15 4 (0.67%) C#
15 4 (0.67%) T-SQL
16 3 (0.51%) Go
17 1 (0.17%) Embedded C
17 1 (0.17%) MATLAB
17 1 (0.17%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 153 (25.76%) Security Cleared
2 109 (18.35%) SC Cleared
3 76 (12.79%) DV Cleared
4 65 (10.94%) Degree
5 27 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (2.36%) MCSE
6 14 (2.36%) Microsoft Certification
7 13 (2.19%) MCSA
7 13 (2.19%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 10 (1.68%) Azure Certification
9 8 (1.35%) AWS Certification
9 8 (1.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 5 (0.84%) CCNA
10 5 (0.84%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (0.67%) CISM
11 4 (0.67%) CISSP
12 2 (0.34%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.34%) Linux+ Certification
12 2 (0.34%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (2.02%) QA
2 8 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (1.35%) PMO
2 8 (1.35%) SLA
3 7 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials
3 7 (1.18%) NIST
4 4 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 3 (0.51%) GDPR
6 1 (0.17%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.17%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.17%) MISRA
System Software
1 295 (49.66%) Active Directory
2 61 (10.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 43 (7.24%) vSphere
4 22 (3.70%) Docker
5 16 (2.69%) Virtual Machines
6 11 (1.85%) vCloud
7 10 (1.68%) Hyper-V
8 7 (1.18%) KVM
8 7 (1.18%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (0.84%) VMware Server
10 4 (0.67%) NFS
10 4 (0.67%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 4 (0.67%) Terminal Services
10 4 (0.67%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.34%) Embedded Firmware
11 2 (0.34%) Firmware
11 2 (0.34%) Kamailio
11 2 (0.34%) QEMU
11 2 (0.34%) Xen
12 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 233 (39.23%) Microsoft Intune
2 210 (35.35%) Jamf Pro
3 106 (17.85%) Ansible
4 94 (15.82%) Terraform
5 59 (9.93%) Kubernetes
6 33 (5.56%) Puppet
7 21 (3.54%) vCenter Server
8 11 (1.85%) Progress Chef
9 9 (1.52%) Grafana
9 9 (1.52%) SCCM
10 6 (1.01%) ZABBIX
11 4 (0.67%) HAProxy
11 4 (0.67%) Nagios
11 4 (0.67%) Nessus
11 4 (0.67%) Prometheus
12 3 (0.51%) Check_MK
12 3 (0.51%) SELinux
13 2 (0.34%) Kustomize
13 2 (0.34%) Trend Micro Deep Security
13 2 (0.34%) WSUS
Vendors
1 292 (49.16%) Microsoft
2 210 (35.35%) CyberArk
2 210 (35.35%) Tanium
3 96 (16.16%) Red Hat
4 78 (13.13%) VMware
5 48 (8.08%) ESRI
6 30 (5.05%) SaltStack
7 29 (4.88%) Google
8 28 (4.71%) Veeam
9 18 (3.03%) Cisco
10 16 (2.69%) Xilinx
11 14 (2.36%) Oracle
12 13 (2.19%) Zerto
13 12 (2.02%) HP
14 11 (1.85%) Bloomberg
14 11 (1.85%) CQG
14 11 (1.85%) Fujitsu
14 11 (1.85%) ION Trading
14 11 (1.85%) Patsystems
14 11 (1.85%) Reuters