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

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 420 586 612
Rank change year-on-year +166 +26 -96
Permanent jobs citing Ubuntu 595 435 819
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.60% 0.44% 0.50%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.26% 2.72% 2.66%
Number of salaries quoted 236 312 442
10th Percentile £36,000 £37,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,625 £46,625 £36,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £62,450 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.93% +18.95% +5.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £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 13,959 15,993 30,791
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.97% 16.08% 18.91%
Number of salaries quoted 10,719 10,770 16,579
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 20 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 20 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 +180 548 £52,500 -13.93% 60
Work from Home +167 394 £50,000 -13.04% 29
UK excluding London +57 312 £50,000 -11.50% 44
London +162 259 £65,000 -5.45% 16
South East +88 138 £47,500 -36.67% 11
South West +2 51 £43,000 -14.00% 10
North of England +56 44 £50,000 +75.44% 7
North West +17 32 £50,000 +53.85% 5
Midlands -3 30 £50,000 -9.09% 9
East of England -40 21 £60,000 +4.35% 5
West Midlands +18 18 £105,000 +133.33% 4
East Midlands -19 12 £24,750 -56.96% 5
Wales +9 10 £50,000 +11.11% 1
Scotland -71 10 £87,500 +16.67% 1
Yorkshire +80 8 £45,000 +57.89% 2
Northern Ireland +34 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 (8.07%) ArcGIS
1 48 (8.07%) GeoServer
2 39 (6.55%) Apache
3 27 (4.54%) Apache Spark
4 24 (4.03%) Microsoft Exchange
5 15 (2.52%) SharePoint
6 10 (1.68%) IIS
6 10 (1.68%) WordPress
7 8 (1.34%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.67%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.50%) Confluence
9 3 (0.50%) nginx
10 1 (0.17%) CMS
10 1 (0.17%) Drupal
10 1 (0.17%) PrestaShop
10 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
1 402 (67.56%) Azure
2 227 (38.15%) Entra ID
3 151 (25.38%) AWS
4 58 (9.75%) Microsoft 365
5 48 (8.07%) GCP
6 30 (5.04%) AWS CloudFormation
7 29 (4.87%) AWS Lambda
7 29 (4.87%) Serverless
8 28 (4.71%) Amazon EKS
8 28 (4.71%) OpenShift
9 25 (4.20%) SaaS
10 13 (2.18%) Amazon S3
11 12 (2.02%) Cloud Computing
12 10 (1.68%) IaaS
13 9 (1.51%) OneDrive
13 9 (1.51%) 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 (35.29%) 5G
1 210 (35.29%) Broadband
2 91 (15.29%) Firewall
3 68 (11.43%) VPN
4 53 (8.91%) LAN
5 45 (7.56%) Internet
6 44 (7.39%) WAN
7 40 (6.72%) DNS
8 38 (6.39%) TCP/IP
9 30 (5.04%) DHCP
10 29 (4.87%) SAN
11 27 (4.54%) AMQP
12 22 (3.70%) VLAN
13 13 (2.18%) Fibre Channel
13 13 (2.18%) Wireless
14 11 (1.85%) FIX Connectivity
15 10 (1.68%) NAS
16 9 (1.51%) iSCSI
16 9 (1.51%) Wi-Fi
17 8 (1.34%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (8.91%) PostgreSQL
2 48 (8.07%) GIS
2 48 (8.07%) QGIS
3 40 (6.72%) MySQL
4 37 (6.22%) SQL Server
5 29 (4.87%) Big Data
5 29 (4.87%) Hadoop
6 27 (4.54%) Cloudera CDH
7 17 (2.86%) NoSQL
8 10 (1.68%) Amazon RDS
8 10 (1.68%) MongoDB
9 4 (0.67%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.34%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.34%) InfluxDB
10 2 (0.34%) MariaDB
10 2 (0.34%) Power BI
11 1 (0.17%) Firebird
11 1 (0.17%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.17%) Riak
Development Applications
1 37 (6.22%) Git
2 25 (4.20%) Vagrant
3 19 (3.19%) 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%) 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
General
1 223 (37.48%) Analytical Skills
2 210 (35.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 97 (16.30%) Social Skills
4 46 (7.73%) Finance
5 40 (6.72%) Retail
6 30 (5.04%) Aerospace
7 25 (4.20%) Telecoms
8 24 (4.03%) Banking
9 14 (2.35%) Billing
10 13 (2.18%) Electronics
11 10 (1.68%) Financial Institution
12 9 (1.51%) Documentation Skills
13 5 (0.84%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.50%) Advertising
14 3 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
15 1 (0.17%) Aviation
15 1 (0.17%) iGaming
15 1 (0.17%) Investment Banking
15 1 (0.17%) Organisational Skills
15 1 (0.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 214 (35.97%) Senior
2 210 (35.29%) Linux Specialist
2 210 (35.29%) Technical Specialist
3 140 (23.53%) Software Engineer
4 127 (21.34%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 127 (21.34%) Senior Linux Specialist
4 127 (21.34%) Senior Technical Specialist
4 127 (21.34%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
5 64 (10.76%) Linux Engineer
6 57 (9.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 50 (8.40%) Senior Software Engineer
8 42 (7.06%) Architect
9 32 (5.38%) Infrastructure Architect
10 27 (4.54%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
11 26 (4.37%) Administrator
12 25 (4.20%) Systems Engineer
13 22 (3.70%) Developer
14 21 (3.53%) Systems Administrator
15 20 (3.36%) Linux Administrator
15 20 (3.36%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (13.28%) React
2 48 (8.07%) Django
2 48 (8.07%) Leaflet
2 48 (8.07%) OpenLayers
2 48 (8.07%) PostGIS
3 46 (7.73%) Middleware
4 35 (5.88%) REST
5 29 (4.87%) AngularJS
5 29 (4.87%) Node.js
6 28 (4.71%) RabbitMQ
7 27 (4.54%) gRPC
7 27 (4.54%) Material-UI
7 27 (4.54%) OpenAPI
7 27 (4.54%) Spring
7 27 (4.54%) Spring Boot
7 27 (4.54%) Swagger
8 15 (2.52%) .NET
8 15 (2.52%) HTML
8 15 (2.52%) LAMP
9 13 (2.18%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 210 (35.29%) Social Media
2 38 (6.39%) Replication
3 36 (6.05%) Cloud Native
4 23 (3.87%) Data Centre
4 23 (3.87%) PKI
5 19 (3.19%) Management Information System
6 18 (3.03%) Public Cloud
7 17 (2.86%) IoT
8 12 (2.02%) Cyber Threat
8 12 (2.02%) Linux Command Line
9 11 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
9 11 (1.85%) Eurex
9 11 (1.85%) Robotics
10 8 (1.34%) Cyberattack
10 8 (1.34%) Data Fabric
11 5 (0.84%) Product Ownership
12 4 (0.67%) Cyber Kill Chain
12 4 (0.67%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 4 (0.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
13 3 (0.50%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 595 (100.00%) Linux
2 157 (26.39%) Windows
3 125 (21.01%) CentOS
4 92 (15.46%) Debian
5 70 (11.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 52 (8.74%) Windows Server
7 48 (8.07%) VMS
8 45 (7.56%) Unix
9 38 (6.39%) Solaris
10 31 (5.21%) Windows Server 2016
11 21 (3.53%) Windows 10
12 19 (3.19%) Android
13 17 (2.86%) SUSE
14 13 (2.18%) 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 (0.50%) Oracle Linux
19 2 (0.34%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 242 (40.67%) Cybersecurity
2 231 (38.82%) Artificial Intelligence
3 213 (35.80%) Technology Strategy
4 212 (35.63%) CRM
4 212 (35.63%) IT Strategy
5 161 (27.06%) Agile
6 149 (25.04%) Software Engineering
7 103 (17.31%) Actionable Insight
8 93 (15.63%) DevOps
9 70 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 56 (9.41%) Web Development
11 55 (9.24%) Configuration Management
12 51 (8.57%) Collaborative Working
13 50 (8.40%) Open Source
14 49 (8.24%) DevSecOps
15 48 (8.07%) Infrastructure as Code
16 46 (7.73%) Microservices
17 45 (7.56%) Problem-Solving
18 41 (6.89%) Containerisation
19 39 (6.55%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 281 (47.23%) Bash
2 150 (25.21%) Python
3 124 (20.84%) JavaScript
4 63 (10.59%) PowerShell
5 56 (9.41%) SQL
6 50 (8.40%) Java
7 48 (8.07%) C
8 39 (6.55%) C++
9 36 (6.05%) Shell Script
10 19 (3.19%) 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 (0.50%) Go
17 1 (0.17%) Embedded C
17 1 (0.17%) Groovy
17 1 (0.17%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 153 (25.71%) Security Cleared
2 109 (18.32%) SC Cleared
3 76 (12.77%) DV Cleared
4 66 (11.09%) Degree
5 28 (4.71%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (2.35%) MCSE
6 14 (2.35%) Microsoft Certification
7 13 (2.18%) MCSA
7 13 (2.18%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 10 (1.68%) Azure Certification
9 8 (1.34%) AWS Certification
9 8 (1.34%) 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%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.34%) Linux+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (2.02%) QA
2 8 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (1.34%) PMO
2 8 (1.34%) 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 (0.50%) GDPR
6 1 (0.17%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.17%) MISRA
System Software
1 295 (49.58%) Active Directory
2 62 (10.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 43 (7.23%) vSphere
4 22 (3.70%) Docker
5 16 (2.69%) Virtual Machines
6 11 (1.85%) vCloud
7 10 (1.68%) Hyper-V
8 8 (1.34%) KVM
9 7 (1.18%) VMware ESXi
10 5 (0.84%) VMware Server
11 4 (0.67%) NFS
11 4 (0.67%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 4 (0.67%) Terminal Services
11 4 (0.67%) VMware NSX
12 3 (0.50%) QEMU
12 3 (0.50%) Xen
13 2 (0.34%) Embedded Firmware
13 2 (0.34%) Firmware
13 2 (0.34%) Kamailio
14 1 (0.17%) LXC
Systems Management
1 233 (39.16%) Microsoft Intune
2 210 (35.29%) Jamf Pro
3 106 (17.82%) Ansible
4 94 (15.80%) Terraform
5 61 (10.25%) Kubernetes
6 32 (5.38%) Puppet
7 21 (3.53%) vCenter Server
8 10 (1.68%) Progress Chef
9 9 (1.51%) Grafana
9 9 (1.51%) SCCM
10 7 (1.18%) ZABBIX
11 4 (0.67%) HAProxy
11 4 (0.67%) Nagios
11 4 (0.67%) Nessus
11 4 (0.67%) Prometheus
12 3 (0.50%) Check_MK
12 3 (0.50%) SELinux
13 2 (0.34%) Kustomize
13 2 (0.34%) Trend Micro Deep Security
13 2 (0.34%) WSUS
Vendors
1 293 (49.24%) Microsoft
2 210 (35.29%) CyberArk
2 210 (35.29%) Tanium
3 98 (16.47%) Red Hat
4 79 (13.28%) VMware
5 48 (8.07%) ESRI
6 30 (5.04%) Google
6 30 (5.04%) SaltStack
7 28 (4.71%) Veeam
8 18 (3.03%) Cisco
9 16 (2.69%) Xilinx
10 14 (2.35%) Oracle
11 13 (2.18%) Zerto
12 12 (2.02%) HP
13 11 (1.85%) Bloomberg
13 11 (1.85%) CQG
13 11 (1.85%) Fujitsu
13 11 (1.85%) ION Trading
13 11 (1.85%) Patsystems
13 11 (1.85%) Reuters