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

6 months to
7 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 422 571 619
Rank change year-on-year +149 +48 -115
Permanent jobs citing Ubuntu 618 418 844
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.57% 0.45% 0.49%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.33% 2.72% 2.64%
Number of salaries quoted 239 304 433
10th Percentile £36,000 £37,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £36,250
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 14,261 15,363 32,007
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.22% 16.39% 18.68%
Number of salaries quoted 10,752 10,376 16,480
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 7 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 7 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 +165 573 £54,000 -13.53% 49
Work from Home +136 406 £50,000 -18.33% 26
UK excluding London +38 329 £50,000 -13.04% 42
London +153 267 £65,000 -3.70% 13
South East +63 144 £47,500 -36.67% 15
South West -4 51 £42,750 -23.32% 4
North of England +53 47 £50,000 +63.93% 8
Midlands -10 35 £50,000 -9.09% 4
North West +16 34 £50,000 +53.85% 6
East of England -42 24 £60,000 +4.35% 6
West Midlands +4 22 £105,000 +133.33% 3
East Midlands -22 13 £24,750 -56.96% 1
Wales +7 10 £50,000 +11.11% 4
Scotland -69 10 £87,500 +16.67% 2
Yorkshire +70 9 £45,000 +57.89% 2
Northern Ireland +22 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 (7.77%) ArcGIS
1 48 (7.77%) GeoServer
2 41 (6.63%) Apache
3 29 (4.69%) Apache Spark
4 27 (4.37%) Microsoft Exchange
5 15 (2.43%) SharePoint
6 10 (1.62%) IIS
6 10 (1.62%) WordPress
7 8 (1.29%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.65%) Confluence
8 4 (0.65%) 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 (3.24%) Simulink
2 5 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.81%) Trello
3 2 (0.32%) CATIA
3 2 (0.32%) NASTRAN
4 1 (0.16%) 1Password
4 1 (0.16%) GNU Octave
4 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 13 (2.10%) Fidessa
2 6 (0.97%) Oracle Cash Management
3 2 (0.32%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.16%) Magento
4 1 (0.16%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 413 (66.83%) Azure
2 230 (37.22%) Entra ID
3 164 (26.54%) AWS
4 61 (9.87%) Microsoft 365
5 51 (8.25%) GCP
6 31 (5.02%) AWS Lambda
6 31 (5.02%) Serverless
7 30 (4.85%) Amazon EKS
7 30 (4.85%) AWS CloudFormation
7 30 (4.85%) OpenShift
7 30 (4.85%) SaaS
8 12 (1.94%) Cloud Computing
9 11 (1.78%) Amazon S3
9 11 (1.78%) IaaS
10 10 (1.62%) PaaS
11 9 (1.46%) OneDrive
12 6 (0.97%) GitHub
12 6 (0.97%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (0.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 5 (0.81%) ClickUp
Communications & Networking
1 210 (33.98%) 5G
1 210 (33.98%) Broadband
2 94 (15.21%) Firewall
3 69 (11.17%) VPN
4 56 (9.06%) LAN
5 47 (7.61%) WAN
6 45 (7.28%) Internet
7 43 (6.96%) DNS
8 40 (6.47%) TCP/IP
9 33 (5.34%) DHCP
10 29 (4.69%) AMQP
10 29 (4.69%) SAN
11 20 (3.24%) VLAN
12 13 (2.10%) Fibre Channel
12 13 (2.10%) FIX Connectivity
12 13 (2.10%) Wireless
13 10 (1.62%) iSCSI
13 10 (1.62%) NAS
14 9 (1.46%) Wi-Fi
15 8 (1.29%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (9.55%) PostgreSQL
2 48 (7.77%) GIS
2 48 (7.77%) QGIS
3 44 (7.12%) MySQL
3 44 (7.12%) SQL Server
4 31 (5.02%) Big Data
4 31 (5.02%) Hadoop
5 29 (4.69%) Cloudera CDH
6 27 (4.37%) NoSQL
7 14 (2.27%) MongoDB
8 12 (1.94%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (0.65%) Amazon Aurora
9 4 (0.65%) DynamoDB
10 3 (0.49%) MariaDB
11 2 (0.32%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.32%) InfluxDB
11 2 (0.32%) Power BI
11 2 (0.32%) Redis
11 2 (0.32%) Relational Database
11 2 (0.32%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 44 (7.12%) Git
2 29 (4.69%) Vagrant
3 19 (3.07%) JIRA
4 13 (2.10%) Subversion
4 13 (2.10%) Visual Studio
5 7 (1.13%) PHPUnit
6 4 (0.65%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.32%) 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 (36.08%) Analytical Skills
2 210 (33.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 103 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 47 (7.61%) Finance
5 43 (6.96%) Retail
6 32 (5.18%) Aerospace
7 26 (4.21%) Telecoms
8 25 (4.05%) Banking
9 14 (2.27%) Electronics
10 12 (1.94%) Billing
11 10 (1.62%) Financial Institution
12 9 (1.46%) Documentation Skills
13 5 (0.81%) Advertising
13 5 (0.81%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
15 2 (0.32%) 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
1 218 (35.28%) Senior
2 210 (33.98%) Linux Specialist
2 210 (33.98%) Technical Specialist
3 147 (23.79%) Software Engineer
4 127 (20.55%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 127 (20.55%) Senior Linux Specialist
4 127 (20.55%) Senior Technical Specialist
4 127 (20.55%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
5 66 (10.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 63 (10.19%) Linux Engineer
7 50 (8.09%) Senior Software Engineer
8 45 (7.28%) Architect
9 30 (4.85%) Infrastructure Architect
10 29 (4.69%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
11 26 (4.21%) Developer
12 24 (3.88%) Administrator
12 24 (3.88%) Systems Engineer
13 23 (3.72%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 20 (3.24%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
15 19 (3.07%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (13.11%) React
2 52 (8.41%) Middleware
3 48 (7.77%) Django
3 48 (7.77%) Leaflet
3 48 (7.77%) OpenLayers
3 48 (7.77%) PostGIS
4 37 (5.99%) REST
5 32 (5.18%) Node.js
6 31 (5.02%) AngularJS
7 30 (4.85%) RabbitMQ
8 29 (4.69%) gRPC
8 29 (4.69%) Material-UI
8 29 (4.69%) OpenAPI
8 29 (4.69%) Spring
8 29 (4.69%) Spring Boot
8 29 (4.69%) Swagger
9 17 (2.75%) HTML
10 16 (2.59%) .NET
11 15 (2.43%) LAMP
12 14 (2.27%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 210 (33.98%) Social Media
2 40 (6.47%) Replication
3 39 (6.31%) Cloud Native
4 23 (3.72%) Data Centre
4 23 (3.72%) PKI
5 21 (3.40%) Management Information System
6 18 (2.91%) IoT
7 16 (2.59%) Public Cloud
8 14 (2.27%) Linux Command Line
9 13 (2.10%) Eurex
10 12 (1.94%) Distributed Systems
10 12 (1.94%) Robotics
11 11 (1.78%) Cyber Threat
12 8 (1.29%) Cyberattack
12 8 (1.29%) Data Fabric
13 6 (0.97%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 5 (0.81%) Team-Oriented Environment
15 4 (0.65%) Cyber Kill Chain
15 4 (0.65%) Product Ownership
15 4 (0.65%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 618 (100.00%) Linux
2 162 (26.21%) Windows
3 134 (21.68%) CentOS
4 90 (14.56%) Debian
5 77 (12.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 56 (9.06%) Windows Server
7 51 (8.25%) VMS
8 42 (6.80%) Unix
9 36 (5.83%) Solaris
10 30 (4.85%) Windows Server 2016
11 23 (3.72%) Android
12 21 (3.40%) Windows 10
13 16 (2.59%) SUSE
14 13 (2.10%) Windows Server 2019
15 12 (1.94%) zOS
16 9 (1.46%) Windows Server 2012
17 7 (1.13%) Rocky
18 4 (0.65%) Amazon Linux
18 4 (0.65%) Mac OS
19 3 (0.49%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 242 (39.16%) Cybersecurity
2 234 (37.86%) Artificial Intelligence
3 214 (34.63%) Technology Strategy
4 212 (34.30%) CRM
4 212 (34.30%) IT Strategy
5 168 (27.18%) Agile
6 160 (25.89%) Software Engineering
7 103 (16.67%) Actionable Insight
8 98 (15.86%) DevOps
9 79 (12.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 61 (9.87%) Infrastructure as Code
11 58 (9.39%) Collaborative Working
12 56 (9.06%) Web Development
13 55 (8.90%) DevSecOps
14 54 (8.74%) Configuration Management
15 52 (8.41%) Microservices
16 51 (8.25%) Problem-Solving
17 50 (8.09%) Open Source
18 44 (7.12%) Collaborative Culture
19 42 (6.80%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 282 (45.63%) Bash
2 164 (26.54%) Python
3 135 (21.84%) JavaScript
4 72 (11.65%) PowerShell
5 63 (10.19%) SQL
6 57 (9.22%) Java
7 51 (8.25%) C
8 46 (7.44%) C++
9 32 (5.18%) Shell Script
10 21 (3.40%) Kotlin
11 20 (3.24%) PHP
12 18 (2.91%) Perl
13 14 (2.27%) Ruby
14 10 (1.62%) Ada
15 6 (0.97%) C#
16 4 (0.65%) T-SQL
17 2 (0.32%) Go
18 1 (0.16%) Groovy
18 1 (0.16%) TypeScript
18 1 (0.16%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 163 (26.38%) Security Cleared
2 116 (18.77%) SC Cleared
3 81 (13.11%) DV Cleared
4 77 (12.46%) Degree
5 38 (6.15%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (1.94%) Azure Certification
6 12 (1.94%) MCSE
6 12 (1.94%) Microsoft Certification
7 11 (1.78%) MCSA
7 11 (1.78%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 9 (1.46%) AWS Certification
8 9 (1.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 6 (0.97%) CCNA
9 6 (0.97%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.65%) CISM
10 4 (0.65%) CISSP
11 3 (0.49%) Linux+ Certification
11 3 (0.49%) RHCE
12 2 (0.32%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (1.78%) QA
2 9 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (1.29%) PMO
3 8 (1.29%) SLA
4 7 (1.13%) Cyber Essentials
4 7 (1.13%) NIST
5 4 (0.65%) 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
1 304 (49.19%) Active Directory
2 64 (10.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 44 (7.12%) vSphere
4 21 (3.40%) Docker
5 20 (3.24%) Virtual Machines
6 13 (2.10%) Hyper-V
7 11 (1.78%) KVM
7 11 (1.78%) VMware ESXi
8 9 (1.46%) vCloud
9 5 (0.81%) NFS
9 5 (0.81%) VMware Server
10 4 (0.65%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 4 (0.65%) VMware NSX
11 3 (0.49%) Firmware
11 3 (0.49%) QEMU
11 3 (0.49%) Terminal Services
11 3 (0.49%) Xen
12 2 (0.32%) Kamailio
12 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 2 (0.32%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 234 (37.86%) Microsoft Intune
2 210 (33.98%) Jamf Pro
3 118 (19.09%) Ansible
4 106 (17.15%) Terraform
5 64 (10.36%) Kubernetes
6 36 (5.83%) Puppet
7 25 (4.05%) vCenter Server
8 10 (1.62%) Grafana
8 10 (1.62%) SCCM
9 7 (1.13%) Progress Chef
9 7 (1.13%) ZABBIX
10 5 (0.81%) Prometheus
11 4 (0.65%) HAProxy
11 4 (0.65%) Nagios
11 4 (0.65%) Nessus
12 3 (0.49%) Check_MK
12 3 (0.49%) SELinux
13 2 (0.32%) Kustomize
13 2 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
13 2 (0.32%) WSUS
Vendors
1 299 (48.38%) Microsoft
2 210 (33.98%) CyberArk
2 210 (33.98%) Tanium
3 106 (17.15%) Red Hat
4 79 (12.78%) VMware
5 48 (7.77%) ESRI
6 32 (5.18%) Google
6 32 (5.18%) SaltStack
7 26 (4.21%) Veeam
8 20 (3.24%) Xilinx
9 18 (2.91%) Cisco
10 16 (2.59%) Oracle
11 13 (2.10%) Bloomberg
11 13 (2.10%) CQG
11 13 (2.10%) ION Trading
11 13 (2.10%) Patsystems
11 13 (2.10%) Reuters
11 13 (2.10%) Trayport
11 13 (2.10%) Zerto
12 10 (1.62%) Synology