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

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 421 586 600
Rank change year-on-year +165 +14 -104
Permanent jobs citing Ubuntu 593 435 802
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.60% 0.43% 0.51%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.23% 2.69% 2.69%
Number of salaries quoted 236 314 447
10th Percentile £36,000 £37,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,625 £45,000 £37,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £62,475 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.97% +19.00% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,995 £90,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +15.79% +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 14,033 16,182 29,776
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.16% 15.97% 18.98%
Number of salaries quoted 10,810 10,929 16,503
10th Percentile £26,000 £27,000 £26,450
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £35,500
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 9 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 9 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 +194 545 £52,500 -13.93% 72
Work from Home +165 392 £50,000 -13.04% 44
UK excluding London +69 310 £50,000 -9.09% 52
London +157 260 £65,000 -7.14% 18
South East +75 137 £47,500 -29.63% 12
South West +1 50 £43,000 -14.00% 11
North of England +74 44 £50,000 +75.44% 13
North West +31 32 £50,000 +53.85% 12
Midlands -5 30 £50,000 -6.76% 9
East of England -27 20 £60,000 +4.35% 6
West Midlands +17 17 £81,750 +92.35% 4
East Midlands -16 13 £37,375 -35.00% 5
Wales +4 11 £50,000 +11.11% 1
Scotland -70 10 £36,000 -52.00%
Yorkshire +89 8 £45,000 +57.89% 1
Northern Ireland +30 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 (8.09%) ArcGIS
1 48 (8.09%) GeoServer
2 39 (6.58%) Apache
3 26 (4.38%) Apache Spark
4 25 (4.22%) Microsoft Exchange
5 16 (2.70%) SharePoint
6 11 (1.85%) IIS
7 10 (1.69%) WordPress
8 7 (1.18%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.67%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.67%) nginx
10 3 (0.51%) Confluence
11 1 (0.17%) CMS
11 1 (0.17%) Drupal
11 1 (0.17%) PrestaShop
11 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
Applications
1 14 (2.36%) 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%) Sage X3
4 1 (0.17%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 400 (67.45%) Azure
2 226 (38.11%) Entra ID
3 146 (24.62%) AWS
4 62 (10.46%) Microsoft 365
5 44 (7.42%) GCP
6 30 (5.06%) AWS CloudFormation
7 28 (4.72%) AWS Lambda
7 28 (4.72%) Serverless
8 27 (4.55%) Amazon EKS
8 27 (4.55%) OpenShift
9 23 (3.88%) SaaS
10 13 (2.19%) Amazon S3
11 11 (1.85%) Cloud Computing
12 9 (1.52%) IaaS
12 9 (1.52%) OneDrive
13 8 (1.35%) PaaS
14 6 (1.01%) GitHub
14 6 (1.01%) GitHub Actions
15 5 (0.84%) Amazon EC2
15 5 (0.84%) ClickUp
Communications & Networking
1 210 (35.41%) 5G
1 210 (35.41%) Broadband
2 92 (15.51%) Firewall
3 67 (11.30%) VPN
4 51 (8.60%) LAN
5 43 (7.25%) Internet
5 43 (7.25%) WAN
6 40 (6.75%) DNS
7 37 (6.24%) TCP/IP
8 31 (5.23%) SAN
9 30 (5.06%) DHCP
10 26 (4.38%) AMQP
11 22 (3.71%) VLAN
12 14 (2.36%) Wireless
13 13 (2.19%) Fibre Channel
14 11 (1.85%) FIX Connectivity
15 10 (1.69%) NAS
16 9 (1.52%) iSCSI
16 9 (1.52%) Wi-Fi
17 8 (1.35%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (8.94%) PostgreSQL
2 48 (8.09%) GIS
2 48 (8.09%) QGIS
3 41 (6.91%) MySQL
4 40 (6.75%) SQL Server
5 28 (4.72%) Big Data
5 28 (4.72%) Hadoop
6 26 (4.38%) Cloudera CDH
7 16 (2.70%) NoSQL
8 11 (1.85%) MongoDB
9 10 (1.69%) 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 35 (5.90%) Git
2 23 (3.88%) Vagrant
3 19 (3.20%) JIRA
4 12 (2.02%) Subversion
4 12 (2.02%) Visual Studio
5 7 (1.18%) PHPUnit
6 4 (0.67%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.34%) GitLab
7 2 (0.34%) LabVIEW
7 2 (0.34%) Selenium
8 1 (0.17%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.17%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.17%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.17%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.17%) Protractor
8 1 (0.17%) WiX
General
1 224 (37.77%) Analytical Skills
2 210 (35.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 98 (16.53%) Social Skills
4 45 (7.59%) Finance
5 39 (6.58%) Retail
6 29 (4.89%) Aerospace
7 25 (4.22%) Telecoms
8 24 (4.05%) Banking
9 15 (2.53%) Billing
10 13 (2.19%) Electronics
11 10 (1.69%) 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%) Organisational Skills
15 1 (0.17%) Presentation Skills
15 1 (0.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 213 (35.92%) Senior
2 210 (35.41%) Linux Specialist
2 210 (35.41%) Technical Specialist
3 137 (23.10%) Software Engineer
4 127 (21.42%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 127 (21.42%) Senior Linux Specialist
4 127 (21.42%) Senior Technical Specialist
4 127 (21.42%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
5 65 (10.96%) Linux Engineer
6 55 (9.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 50 (8.43%) Senior Software Engineer
8 43 (7.25%) Architect
9 34 (5.73%) Infrastructure Architect
10 26 (4.38%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
11 25 (4.22%) Administrator
11 25 (4.22%) Systems Engineer
12 22 (3.71%) Developer
13 20 (3.37%) Lead
13 20 (3.37%) Systems Administrator
14 19 (3.20%) Linux Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (13.15%) React
2 48 (8.09%) Django
2 48 (8.09%) Leaflet
2 48 (8.09%) OpenLayers
2 48 (8.09%) PostGIS
3 43 (7.25%) Middleware
4 34 (5.73%) REST
5 28 (4.72%) AngularJS
5 28 (4.72%) Node.js
6 27 (4.55%) RabbitMQ
7 26 (4.38%) gRPC
7 26 (4.38%) Material-UI
7 26 (4.38%) OpenAPI
7 26 (4.38%) Spring
7 26 (4.38%) Spring Boot
7 26 (4.38%) Swagger
8 16 (2.70%) .NET
9 15 (2.53%) HTML
9 15 (2.53%) LAMP
10 13 (2.19%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 210 (35.41%) Social Media
2 39 (6.58%) Replication
3 34 (5.73%) Cloud Native
4 23 (3.88%) Data Centre
4 23 (3.88%) PKI
5 19 (3.20%) Management Information System
5 19 (3.20%) Public Cloud
6 17 (2.87%) IoT
7 12 (2.02%) Cyber Threat
7 12 (2.02%) Linux Command Line
8 11 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
8 11 (1.85%) Eurex
8 11 (1.85%) Robotics
9 8 (1.35%) Cyberattack
9 8 (1.35%) Data Fabric
10 5 (0.84%) Product Ownership
11 4 (0.67%) Cyber Kill Chain
11 4 (0.67%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (0.67%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 4 (0.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 593 (100.00%) Linux
2 159 (26.81%) Windows
3 122 (20.57%) CentOS
4 92 (15.51%) Debian
5 67 (11.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 55 (9.27%) Windows Server
7 47 (7.93%) VMS
8 45 (7.59%) Unix
9 38 (6.41%) Solaris
10 32 (5.40%) Windows Server 2016
11 22 (3.71%) Windows 10
12 18 (3.04%) Android
12 18 (3.04%) SUSE
13 14 (2.36%) Windows Server 2019
14 13 (2.19%) Windows Server 2012
15 12 (2.02%) zOS
16 6 (1.01%) Mac OS
17 4 (0.67%) Kali Linux
18 3 (0.51%) Oracle Linux
19 2 (0.34%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 241 (40.64%) Cybersecurity
2 229 (38.62%) Artificial Intelligence
3 213 (35.92%) IT Strategy
4 212 (35.75%) CRM
4 212 (35.75%) Technology Strategy
5 159 (26.81%) Agile
6 146 (24.62%) Software Engineering
7 104 (17.54%) Actionable Insight
8 91 (15.35%) DevOps
9 68 (11.47%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 56 (9.44%) Web Development
11 55 (9.27%) Configuration Management
12 48 (8.09%) Collaborative Working
12 48 (8.09%) Open Source
13 47 (7.93%) DevSecOps
14 46 (7.76%) Infrastructure as Code
15 45 (7.59%) Problem-Solving
16 43 (7.25%) Microservices
17 40 (6.75%) Containerisation
18 39 (6.58%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 282 (47.55%) Bash
2 148 (24.96%) Python
3 122 (20.57%) JavaScript
4 65 (10.96%) PowerShell
5 55 (9.27%) SQL
6 48 (8.09%) C
7 47 (7.93%) Java
8 37 (6.24%) C++
9 35 (5.90%) Shell Script
10 19 (3.20%) PHP
11 16 (2.70%) Perl
12 15 (2.53%) Kotlin
13 12 (2.02%) Ruby
14 10 (1.69%) Ada
15 4 (0.67%) C#
15 4 (0.67%) T-SQL
16 3 (0.51%) Go
17 1 (0.17%) Groovy
17 1 (0.17%) VB.NET
17 1 (0.17%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 149 (25.13%) Security Cleared
2 106 (17.88%) SC Cleared
3 74 (12.48%) DV Cleared
4 64 (10.79%) Degree
5 25 (4.22%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (2.53%) MCSE
6 15 (2.53%) Microsoft Certification
7 14 (2.36%) MCSA
7 14 (2.36%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 9 (1.52%) Azure Certification
9 7 (1.18%) AWS Certification
9 7 (1.18%) 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 3 (0.51%) ISTQB
13 2 (0.34%) CCNP
13 2 (0.34%) Linux+ Certification
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
1 297 (50.08%) Active Directory
2 61 (10.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 45 (7.59%) vSphere
4 23 (3.88%) Docker
5 16 (2.70%) Virtual Machines
6 12 (2.02%) vCloud
7 9 (1.52%) 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%) Dovecot
Systems Management
1 235 (39.63%) Microsoft Intune
2 210 (35.41%) Jamf Pro
3 102 (17.20%) Ansible
4 91 (15.35%) Terraform
5 58 (9.78%) Kubernetes
6 32 (5.40%) Puppet
7 21 (3.54%) vCenter Server
8 11 (1.85%) Progress Chef
9 10 (1.69%) Grafana
9 10 (1.69%) SCCM
10 6 (1.01%) ZABBIX
11 5 (0.84%) Prometheus
12 4 (0.67%) HAProxy
12 4 (0.67%) Nagios
12 4 (0.67%) Nessus
13 3 (0.51%) Check_MK
13 3 (0.51%) SELinux
14 2 (0.34%) Kustomize
14 2 (0.34%) Trend Micro Deep Security
14 2 (0.34%) WSUS
Vendors
1 293 (49.41%) Microsoft
2 210 (35.41%) CyberArk
2 210 (35.41%) Tanium
3 96 (16.19%) Red Hat
4 80 (13.49%) VMware
5 48 (8.09%) ESRI
6 31 (5.23%) Veeam
7 29 (4.89%) SaltStack
8 28 (4.72%) Google
9 19 (3.20%) Cisco
10 14 (2.36%) HP
10 14 (2.36%) Oracle
10 14 (2.36%) Xilinx
11 13 (2.19%) Zerto
12 12 (2.02%) Fujitsu
13 11 (1.85%) Bloomberg
13 11 (1.85%) CQG
13 11 (1.85%) ION Trading
13 11 (1.85%) Patsystems
13 11 (1.85%) Reuters