Ubuntu Jobs with Work from Home Options

Ubuntu Linux
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring Ubuntu skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Ubuntu over the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 283 401 467
Rank change year-on-year +118 +66 -29
Permanent jobs citing Ubuntu 385 239 509
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.08% 0.64% 0.67%
As % of the Operating Systems category 8.19% 4.13% 3.79%
Number of salaries quoted 102 168 235
10th Percentile - £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £44,688 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £62,450 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.94% +4.08% +20.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £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 falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 4,702 5,785 13,425
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.23% 15.44% 17.74%
Number of salaries quoted 3,548 4,321 7,485
10th Percentile £30,294 £31,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £39,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,603 £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

Ubuntu
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 13 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 24 (6.23%) ArcGIS
1 24 (6.23%) GeoServer
2 6 (1.56%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.78%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.26%) Apache
4 1 (0.26%) Confluence
4 1 (0.26%) nginx
4 1 (0.26%) Tomcat
Applications
1 22 (5.71%) Simulink
2 5 (1.30%) Trello
3 2 (0.52%) CATIA
3 2 (0.52%) NASTRAN
4 1 (0.26%) 1Password
4 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.52%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 278 (72.21%) Azure
2 214 (55.58%) Entra ID
3 71 (18.44%) AWS
4 13 (3.38%) SaaS
5 12 (3.12%) Microsoft 365
6 11 (2.86%) Cloud Computing
7 5 (1.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (1.30%) Amazon S3
7 5 (1.30%) ClickUp
8 4 (1.04%) Azure Sentinel
8 4 (1.04%) GCP
9 3 (0.78%) Cloudflare
9 3 (0.78%) Mimecast
10 1 (0.26%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (0.26%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.26%) Azure Stack
10 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Purview
10 1 (0.26%) Serverless
10 1 (0.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (0.26%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 210 (54.55%) 5G
1 210 (54.55%) Broadband
2 50 (12.99%) Firewall
3 43 (11.17%) LAN
4 38 (9.87%) Internet
4 38 (9.87%) VPN
5 37 (9.61%) WAN
6 11 (2.86%) TCP/IP
7 8 (2.08%) HTTPS
7 8 (2.08%) SSL
8 7 (1.82%) Wi-Fi
9 5 (1.30%) DHCP
9 5 (1.30%) DNS
10 3 (0.78%) BGP
10 3 (0.78%) iSCSI
10 3 (0.78%) NetScaler
10 3 (0.78%) OSPF
10 3 (0.78%) RIP
11 2 (0.52%) Asterisk PBX
11 2 (0.52%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (8.05%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (7.79%) NoSQL
3 26 (6.75%) MySQL
4 24 (6.23%) GIS
4 24 (6.23%) QGIS
5 17 (4.42%) SQL Server
6 12 (3.12%) Amazon RDS
7 11 (2.86%) MongoDB
8 4 (1.04%) Amazon Aurora
8 4 (1.04%) DynamoDB
9 3 (0.78%) MariaDB
9 3 (0.78%) Redis
9 3 (0.78%) TimescaleDB
10 1 (0.26%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.26%) InfluxDB
10 1 (0.26%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.26%) Riak
Development Applications
1 31 (8.05%) Vagrant
2 29 (7.53%) Git
3 12 (3.12%) JIRA
4 1 (0.26%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.26%) Subversion
4 1 (0.26%) Visual Studio
General
1 210 (54.55%) Analytical Skills
1 210 (54.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 54 (14.03%) Social Skills
3 37 (9.61%) Retail
4 24 (6.23%) Finance
5 19 (4.94%) Telecoms
6 12 (3.12%) Banking
7 10 (2.60%) Financial Institution
8 9 (2.34%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.52%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.26%) Advertising
10 1 (0.26%) Electronics
10 1 (0.26%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 210 (54.55%) Linux Specialist
1 210 (54.55%) Technical Specialist
2 171 (44.42%) Senior
3 127 (32.99%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
3 127 (32.99%) Senior Linux Specialist
3 127 (32.99%) Senior Technical Specialist
3 127 (32.99%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
4 64 (16.62%) Software Engineer
5 29 (7.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 27 (7.01%) Linux Engineer
7 25 (6.49%) Architect
8 24 (6.23%) Senior Software Engineer
9 22 (5.71%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
10 20 (5.19%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 19 (4.94%) Infrastructure Architect
12 16 (4.16%) Lead
13 11 (2.86%) Linux Support
13 11 (2.86%) Linux Support Engineer
13 11 (2.86%) Support Engineer
14 10 (2.60%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (9.09%) Middleware
2 25 (6.49%) React
3 24 (6.23%) Django
3 24 (6.23%) Leaflet
3 24 (6.23%) OpenLayers
3 24 (6.23%) PostGIS
4 12 (3.12%) Kafka
5 8 (2.08%) GTK
5 8 (2.08%) HTML
6 5 (1.30%) REST
7 4 (1.04%) CSS
7 4 (1.04%) Laravel
7 4 (1.04%) SOAP
8 3 (0.78%) ActiveMQ
8 3 (0.78%) Flask
8 3 (0.78%) jQuery
8 3 (0.78%) Plotly
9 2 (0.52%) Node.js
10 1 (0.26%) HTML5
10 1 (0.26%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 210 (54.55%) Social Media
2 13 (3.38%) Replication
3 11 (2.86%) PKI
4 8 (2.08%) Cyber Threat
4 8 (2.08%) Cyberattack
4 8 (2.08%) Data Fabric
5 6 (1.56%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.04%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 4 (1.04%) Public Cloud
7 2 (0.52%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.26%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.26%) Clustering
8 1 (0.26%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.26%) iPhone
8 1 (0.26%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.26%) Video Conferencing
8 1 (0.26%) YubiKey
Operating Systems
1 385 (100.00%) Linux
2 63 (16.36%) Windows
3 60 (15.58%) CentOS
4 37 (9.61%) VMS
5 32 (8.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 29 (7.53%) Debian
7 24 (6.23%) Android
8 17 (4.42%) Unix
9 12 (3.12%) Solaris
9 12 (3.12%) zOS
10 6 (1.56%) Windows Server
11 5 (1.30%) SUSE
12 4 (1.04%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.52%) Fedora
14 1 (0.26%) Apple iOS
14 1 (0.26%) Mac OS
14 1 (0.26%) openSUSE
14 1 (0.26%) Windows 10
14 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
14 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 232 (60.26%) Artificial Intelligence
2 216 (56.10%) Cybersecurity
3 212 (55.06%) IT Strategy
3 212 (55.06%) Technology Strategy
4 210 (54.55%) CRM
5 72 (18.70%) Software Engineering
6 67 (17.40%) Agile
7 53 (13.77%) Actionable Insight
8 39 (10.13%) Collaborative Culture
8 39 (10.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 38 (9.87%) DevSecOps
10 37 (9.61%) Application Security
11 32 (8.31%) Computer Science
12 30 (7.79%) DevOps
13 28 (7.27%) Infrastructure as Code
13 28 (7.27%) Web Development
14 25 (6.49%) Machine Learning
15 23 (5.97%) Microservices
16 22 (5.71%) Collaborative Working
16 22 (5.71%) Signal Processing
Programming Languages
1 229 (59.48%) Bash
2 65 (16.88%) Python
3 57 (14.81%) JavaScript
4 33 (8.57%) SQL
5 27 (7.01%) Java
6 26 (6.75%) C++
7 23 (5.97%) Kotlin
8 22 (5.71%) C
9 12 (3.12%) Shell Script
10 7 (1.82%) PowerShell
11 4 (1.04%) C#
11 4 (1.04%) PHP
11 4 (1.04%) T-SQL
12 3 (0.78%) Ada
13 1 (0.26%) Embedded C
13 1 (0.26%) Go
13 1 (0.26%) Perl
13 1 (0.26%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 91 (23.64%) Security Cleared
2 49 (12.73%) SC Cleared
3 41 (10.65%) Degree
4 38 (9.87%) DV Cleared
5 29 (7.53%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.04%) CISM
6 4 (1.04%) CISSP
7 2 (0.52%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.52%) CCNA
7 2 (0.52%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.26%) HNC
8 1 (0.26%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (1.56%) SLA
2 5 (1.30%) QA
3 4 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 4 (1.04%) NIST
4 1 (0.26%) MISRA
System Software
1 252 (65.45%) Active Directory
2 13 (3.38%) Docker
3 5 (1.30%) Hyper-V
3 5 (1.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.30%) vSphere
4 4 (1.04%) KVM
4 4 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (1.04%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (0.78%) Firmware
5 3 (0.78%) NFS
5 3 (0.78%) pfSense
5 3 (0.78%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.52%) Kamailio
6 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 2 (0.52%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.26%) Samba
Systems Management
1 219 (56.88%) Microsoft Intune
2 210 (54.55%) Jamf Pro
3 69 (17.92%) Ansible
4 66 (17.14%) Terraform
5 5 (1.30%) Kubernetes
6 3 (0.78%) SCCM
7 2 (0.52%) WSUS
8 1 (0.26%) Cacti
8 1 (0.26%) Grafana
8 1 (0.26%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.26%) Icinga
8 1 (0.26%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.26%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.26%) Puppet
Vendors
1 225 (58.44%) Microsoft
2 210 (54.55%) CyberArk
2 210 (54.55%) Tanium
3 24 (6.23%) ESRI
4 22 (5.71%) Xilinx
5 17 (4.42%) Red Hat
6 13 (3.38%) Cisco
7 9 (2.34%) Ubiquiti
8 8 (2.08%) IBM
9 7 (1.82%) VMware
10 6 (1.56%) Meraki
11 4 (1.04%) Dialogic
11 4 (1.04%) Qualys
11 4 (1.04%) Ribbon
11 4 (1.04%) Splunk
12 3 (0.78%) Aruba
12 3 (0.78%) CheckPoint
12 3 (0.78%) Citrix
12 3 (0.78%) NetApp
12 3 (0.78%) Synology