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

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 430 566 622
Rank change year-on-year +136 +56 -100
Permanent jobs citing Ubuntu 608 420 842
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.56% 0.45% 0.49%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.25% 2.76% 2.63%
Number of salaries quoted 238 305 429
10th Percentile £36,000 £36,036 £31,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £91,991 £87,500 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -13.04% +21.05% +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 14,310 15,215 31,955
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.20% 16.34% 18.59%
Number of salaries quoted 10,728 10,332 16,389
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 £91,250 £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 9 June 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 9 June 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 +158 568 £53,250 -14.73% 50
Work from Home +139 395 £50,000 -19.94% 26
UK excluding London +16 321 £50,000 -13.04% 43
London +138 266 £66,250 -1.85% 13
South East +73 145 £47,500 -36.67% 15
South West -9 50 £42,750 -23.32% 3
North of England +44 44 £50,000 +63.93% 10
Midlands -22 34 £50,000 -6.76% 5
North West +9 32 £50,000 +53.85% 8
East of England -48 24 £60,000 +4.35% 5
West Midlands -1 22 £105,000 +133.33% 4
East Midlands -33 12 £24,750 -56.00% 1
Wales +12 9 £50,000 +11.11% 4
Yorkshire +62 8 £45,000 +57.89% 2
Scotland -75 8 £87,500 +16.67% 2
Isle of Man - 4 £43,000 -
North East - 4 £52,500 -
Northern Ireland +20 3 - -

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 41 (6.74%) Apache
2 36 (5.92%) ArcGIS
2 36 (5.92%) GeoServer
3 29 (4.77%) Apache Spark
4 28 (4.61%) Microsoft Exchange
5 15 (2.47%) SharePoint
6 10 (1.64%) IIS
6 10 (1.64%) WordPress
7 8 (1.32%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.66%) Confluence
8 4 (0.66%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.49%) nginx
10 1 (0.16%) CMS
10 1 (0.16%) Drupal
10 1 (0.16%) PrestaShop
10 1 (0.16%) Tomcat
Applications
1 20 (3.29%) Simulink
2 5 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.82%) Trello
3 2 (0.33%) CATIA
3 2 (0.33%) NASTRAN
4 1 (0.16%) 1Password
4 1 (0.16%) GNU Octave
4 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 13 (2.14%) Fidessa
2 6 (0.99%) Oracle Cash Management
3 2 (0.33%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.16%) Magento
4 1 (0.16%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 401 (65.95%) Azure
2 230 (37.83%) Entra ID
3 152 (25.00%) AWS
4 60 (9.87%) Microsoft 365
5 51 (8.39%) GCP
6 31 (5.10%) AWS Lambda
6 31 (5.10%) Serverless
7 30 (4.93%) Amazon EKS
7 30 (4.93%) AWS CloudFormation
7 30 (4.93%) OpenShift
7 30 (4.93%) SaaS
8 12 (1.97%) Cloud Computing
9 11 (1.81%) Amazon S3
9 11 (1.81%) IaaS
10 10 (1.64%) PaaS
11 9 (1.48%) OneDrive
12 6 (0.99%) GitHub
12 6 (0.99%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (0.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 5 (0.82%) ClickUp
Communications & Networking
1 210 (34.54%) 5G
1 210 (34.54%) Broadband
2 94 (15.46%) Firewall
3 68 (11.18%) VPN
4 56 (9.21%) LAN
5 47 (7.73%) WAN
6 45 (7.40%) Internet
7 43 (7.07%) DNS
8 40 (6.58%) TCP/IP
9 33 (5.43%) DHCP
10 29 (4.77%) AMQP
11 28 (4.61%) SAN
12 19 (3.13%) VLAN
13 13 (2.14%) Fibre Channel
13 13 (2.14%) FIX Connectivity
13 13 (2.14%) Wireless
14 11 (1.81%) iSCSI
15 10 (1.64%) NAS
16 9 (1.48%) Wi-Fi
17 8 (1.32%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (7.73%) PostgreSQL
2 45 (7.40%) MySQL
2 45 (7.40%) SQL Server
3 36 (5.92%) GIS
3 36 (5.92%) QGIS
4 31 (5.10%) Big Data
4 31 (5.10%) Hadoop
5 29 (4.77%) Cloudera CDH
6 27 (4.44%) NoSQL
7 14 (2.30%) MongoDB
8 12 (1.97%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (0.66%) Amazon Aurora
9 4 (0.66%) DynamoDB
9 4 (0.66%) MariaDB
10 2 (0.33%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.33%) InfluxDB
10 2 (0.33%) Power BI
10 2 (0.33%) Redis
10 2 (0.33%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.33%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 45 (7.40%) Git
2 29 (4.77%) Vagrant
3 19 (3.13%) JIRA
4 14 (2.30%) Subversion
4 14 (2.30%) Visual Studio
5 7 (1.15%) PHPUnit
6 4 (0.66%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.33%) LabVIEW
8 1 (0.16%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.16%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.16%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.16%) GitLab
8 1 (0.16%) Selenium
General
1 223 (36.68%) Analytical Skills
2 210 (34.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 103 (16.94%) Social Skills
4 47 (7.73%) Finance
5 43 (7.07%) Retail
6 32 (5.26%) Aerospace
7 26 (4.28%) Telecoms
8 25 (4.11%) Banking
9 15 (2.47%) Electronics
10 11 (1.81%) Billing
11 10 (1.64%) Financial Institution
12 9 (1.48%) Documentation Skills
13 5 (0.82%) Advertising
13 5 (0.82%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
15 2 (0.33%) Organisational Skills
16 1 (0.16%) Automotive
16 1 (0.16%) Aviation
16 1 (0.16%) Front Office
16 1 (0.16%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 210 (34.54%) Linux Specialist
1 210 (34.54%) Technical Specialist
2 206 (33.88%) Senior
3 136 (22.37%) Software Engineer
4 127 (20.89%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 127 (20.89%) Senior Linux Specialist
4 127 (20.89%) Senior Technical Specialist
4 127 (20.89%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
5 68 (11.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 63 (10.36%) Linux Engineer
7 44 (7.24%) Architect
8 38 (6.25%) Senior Software Engineer
9 29 (4.77%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
9 29 (4.77%) Infrastructure Architect
10 26 (4.28%) Developer
11 24 (3.95%) Administrator
11 24 (3.95%) Systems Engineer
12 23 (3.78%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 20 (3.29%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
14 19 (3.13%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (11.35%) React
2 52 (8.55%) Middleware
3 37 (6.09%) REST
4 36 (5.92%) Django
4 36 (5.92%) Leaflet
4 36 (5.92%) OpenLayers
4 36 (5.92%) PostGIS
5 32 (5.26%) Node.js
6 31 (5.10%) AngularJS
7 30 (4.93%) RabbitMQ
8 29 (4.77%) gRPC
8 29 (4.77%) Material-UI
8 29 (4.77%) OpenAPI
8 29 (4.77%) Spring
8 29 (4.77%) Spring Boot
8 29 (4.77%) Swagger
9 17 (2.80%) .NET
9 17 (2.80%) HTML
10 15 (2.47%) LAMP
11 14 (2.30%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 210 (34.54%) Social Media
2 39 (6.41%) Cloud Native
2 39 (6.41%) Replication
3 23 (3.78%) PKI
4 22 (3.62%) Data Centre
5 21 (3.45%) Management Information System
6 19 (3.13%) IoT
7 15 (2.47%) Public Cloud
8 14 (2.30%) Linux Command Line
9 13 (2.14%) Distributed Systems
9 13 (2.14%) Eurex
9 13 (2.14%) Robotics
10 11 (1.81%) Cyber Threat
11 8 (1.32%) Cyberattack
11 8 (1.32%) Data Fabric
12 6 (0.99%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 5 (0.82%) Team-Oriented Environment
14 4 (0.66%) Cyber Kill Chain
14 4 (0.66%) Product Ownership
14 4 (0.66%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 608 (100.00%) Linux
2 163 (26.81%) Windows
3 134 (22.04%) CentOS
4 91 (14.97%) Debian
5 77 (12.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 56 (9.21%) Windows Server
7 51 (8.39%) VMS
8 42 (6.91%) Unix
9 36 (5.92%) Solaris
10 30 (4.93%) Windows Server 2016
11 23 (3.78%) Android
12 22 (3.62%) Windows 10
13 15 (2.47%) SUSE
14 13 (2.14%) Windows Server 2019
15 12 (1.97%) zOS
16 8 (1.32%) Windows Server 2012
17 7 (1.15%) Rocky
18 4 (0.66%) Amazon Linux
18 4 (0.66%) Mac OS
19 3 (0.49%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 242 (39.80%) Cybersecurity
2 234 (38.49%) Artificial Intelligence
3 215 (35.36%) Technology Strategy
4 212 (34.87%) CRM
4 212 (34.87%) IT Strategy
5 157 (25.82%) Agile
6 149 (24.51%) Software Engineering
7 91 (14.97%) Actionable Insight
8 88 (14.47%) DevOps
9 81 (13.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 61 (10.03%) Infrastructure as Code
11 58 (9.54%) Collaborative Working
12 55 (9.05%) DevSecOps
13 54 (8.88%) Configuration Management
14 52 (8.55%) Microservices
15 51 (8.39%) Problem-Solving
16 50 (8.22%) Open Source
17 44 (7.24%) Collaborative Culture
17 44 (7.24%) Web Development
18 42 (6.91%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 282 (46.38%) Bash
2 152 (25.00%) Python
3 123 (20.23%) JavaScript
4 72 (11.84%) PowerShell
5 63 (10.36%) SQL
6 57 (9.38%) Java
7 52 (8.55%) C
8 47 (7.73%) C++
9 32 (5.26%) Shell Script
10 21 (3.45%) Kotlin
11 20 (3.29%) PHP
12 18 (2.96%) Perl
13 14 (2.30%) Ruby
14 10 (1.64%) Ada
15 6 (0.99%) C#
16 4 (0.66%) T-SQL
17 2 (0.33%) Go
18 1 (0.16%) Groovy
18 1 (0.16%) TypeScript
18 1 (0.16%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 151 (24.84%) Security Cleared
2 104 (17.11%) SC Cleared
3 81 (13.32%) DV Cleared
4 78 (12.83%) Degree
5 38 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (1.97%) Azure Certification
7 11 (1.81%) MCSE
7 11 (1.81%) Microsoft Certification
8 10 (1.64%) MCSA
8 10 (1.64%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 9 (1.48%) AWS Certification
9 9 (1.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 6 (0.99%) CCNA
10 6 (0.99%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (0.66%) CISM
11 4 (0.66%) CISSP
12 3 (0.49%) Linux+ Certification
12 3 (0.49%) RHCE
13 2 (0.33%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (1.81%) QA
2 9 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (1.32%) PMO
3 8 (1.32%) SLA
4 7 (1.15%) Cyber Essentials
4 7 (1.15%) NIST
5 4 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 3 (0.49%) GDPR
7 1 (0.16%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.16%) MISRA
System Software
1 303 (49.84%) Active Directory
2 65 (10.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 44 (7.24%) vSphere
4 22 (3.62%) Docker
5 20 (3.29%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (2.30%) Hyper-V
7 11 (1.81%) KVM
7 11 (1.81%) VMware ESXi
8 8 (1.32%) vCloud
9 6 (0.99%) NFS
10 5 (0.82%) VMware Server
11 4 (0.66%) Firmware
11 4 (0.66%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 4 (0.66%) VMware NSX
12 3 (0.49%) QEMU
12 3 (0.49%) Terminal Services
12 3 (0.49%) Xen
13 2 (0.33%) Kamailio
13 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 2 (0.33%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 234 (38.49%) Microsoft Intune
2 210 (34.54%) Jamf Pro
3 119 (19.57%) Ansible
4 107 (17.60%) Terraform
5 65 (10.69%) Kubernetes
6 36 (5.92%) Puppet
7 25 (4.11%) vCenter Server
8 11 (1.81%) SCCM
9 10 (1.64%) Grafana
10 7 (1.15%) Progress Chef
10 7 (1.15%) ZABBIX
11 5 (0.82%) Prometheus
12 4 (0.66%) HAProxy
12 4 (0.66%) Nagios
12 4 (0.66%) Nessus
13 3 (0.49%) Check_MK
13 3 (0.49%) SELinux
14 2 (0.33%) Kustomize
14 2 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
14 2 (0.33%) WSUS
Vendors
1 300 (49.34%) Microsoft
2 210 (34.54%) CyberArk
2 210 (34.54%) Tanium
3 106 (17.43%) Red Hat
4 80 (13.16%) VMware
5 36 (5.92%) ESRI
6 32 (5.26%) Google
6 32 (5.26%) SaltStack
7 25 (4.11%) Veeam
8 20 (3.29%) Xilinx
9 19 (3.13%) Cisco
10 16 (2.63%) Oracle
11 13 (2.14%) Bloomberg
11 13 (2.14%) CQG
11 13 (2.14%) ION Trading
11 13 (2.14%) Patsystems
11 13 (2.14%) Reuters
11 13 (2.14%) Trayport
11 13 (2.14%) Zerto
12 11 (1.81%) Synology