Linux Contracts in Wales

Linux
UK > Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales with a requirement for Linux skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Linux over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 18 41 39
Rank change year-on-year +23 -2 -3
Contract jobs citing Linux 29 22 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 7.23% 3.49% 4.25%
As % of the Operating Systems category 48.33% 20.56% 21.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 19 35
10th Percentile £472 £403 £400
25th Percentile £519 £447 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% +11.11% -16.28%
75th Percentile £690 £522 £600
90th Percentile £719 £595 £668
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £570
% change year-on-year -4.35% +0.88% +14.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £48.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £60.50 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -6.92% +8.33% +20.00%

All Operating Systems
Wales

Linux is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Wales with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 60 107 197
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 14.96% 16.96% 19.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 87 138
10th Percentile £188 £138 £147
25th Percentile £266 £180 £203
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% - +6.25%
75th Percentile £623 £538 £575
90th Percentile £700 £628 £665
UK median daily rate £470 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -6.93% +1.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 14
10th Percentile £12.67 £16.14 £12.47
25th Percentile £13.31 £18.84 £14.31
Median hourly rate £14.36 £35.00 £35.63
Median % change year-on-year -58.97% -1.75% +137.50%
75th Percentile £31.18 £49.69 £47.27
90th Percentile £41.27 £54.38 £47.40
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £38.75 £22.28
% change year-on-year -43.23% +73.92% +23.78%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Job postings citing Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Wales

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Linux in Wales.

Daily rate trend for Linux in Wales

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in Wales over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in Wales

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Linux in Wales.

Hourly rate trend for Linux in Wales

Linux
Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the Wales region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South Wales +22 28 £575 +16.46% 7
North Wales - 1 - - 2
Linux
UK

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 13 (44.83%) Azure
2 11 (37.93%) GitHub
3 10 (34.48%) AWS
4 7 (24.14%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (17.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (10.34%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (10.34%) Amazon S3
7 2 (6.90%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (3.45%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (17.24%) Firewall
1 5 (17.24%) TCP/IP
1 5 (17.24%) VPN
2 2 (6.90%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (55.17%) MySQL
2 11 (37.93%) Relational Database
3 4 (13.79%) RDBMS
4 3 (10.34%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (10.34%) Oracle Database
4 3 (10.34%) Oracle ODI
4 3 (10.34%) PowerCenter
4 3 (10.34%) SQL Server
5 1 (3.45%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 8 (27.59%) Cypress.io
1 8 (27.59%) GitLab
1 8 (27.59%) Postman
2 3 (10.34%) JIRA
3 2 (6.90%) Burp Suite
3 2 (6.90%) SonarQube
4 1 (3.45%) AppScan
4 1 (3.45%) Git
4 1 (3.45%) Jenkins
4 1 (3.45%) Subversion
General
1 6 (20.69%) Social Skills
2 5 (17.24%) Finance
3 3 (10.34%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.90%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.45%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 10 (34.48%) DBA
2 7 (24.14%) Developer
2 7 (24.14%) PHP Developer
3 6 (20.69%) Administrator
3 6 (20.69%) Full Stack Developer
3 6 (20.69%) Full Stack PHP Developer
4 5 (17.24%) Oracle DBA
5 3 (10.34%) Azure Administrator
5 3 (10.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (10.34%) MySQL DBA
5 3 (10.34%) Senior
6 2 (6.90%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Senior Storage Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Software Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Storage Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) Consultant
7 1 (3.45%) Linux Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (31.03%) Laravel
2 8 (27.59%) Vue
3 7 (24.14%) React
4 5 (17.24%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (10.34%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 7 (24.14%) Product Ownership
1 7 (24.14%) Public Cloud
2 1 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (3.45%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 9 (31.03%) Windows
2 6 (20.69%) Unix
3 5 (17.24%) AIX
4 4 (13.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (6.90%) Data ONTAP
5 2 (6.90%) Windows Server
6 1 (3.45%) CentOS
6 1 (3.45%) Debian
6 1 (3.45%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (41.38%) Agile
2 11 (37.93%) Project Management
3 10 (34.48%) DevOps
4 9 (31.03%) Full Stack Development
5 8 (27.59%) CI/CD
5 8 (27.59%) Continuous Integration
5 8 (27.59%) Test Automation
6 7 (24.14%) Migration
7 6 (20.69%) Analytics
7 6 (20.69%) Change Control
7 6 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (17.24%) E-business
9 4 (13.79%) Data Analytics
9 4 (13.79%) Identity Management
10 3 (10.34%) High Availability
10 3 (10.34%) Performance Tuning
10 3 (10.34%) Software Engineering
11 2 (6.90%) Database Security
11 2 (6.90%) Front End Development
11 2 (6.90%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (34.48%) PHP
2 3 (10.34%) Shell Script
2 3 (10.34%) SQL
3 1 (3.45%) Bash
3 1 (3.45%) JavaScript
3 1 (3.45%) PowerShell
3 1 (3.45%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (20.69%) SC Cleared
1 6 (20.69%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.90%) SANS
3 1 (3.45%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.45%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (44.83%) QA
2 2 (6.90%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (13.79%) Docker
2 3 (10.34%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 7 (24.14%) Ansible
1 7 (24.14%) Grafana
1 7 (24.14%) Nagios
1 7 (24.14%) Terraform
2 5 (17.24%) Data Guard
2 5 (17.24%) Graylog
2 5 (17.24%) Prometheus
3 3 (10.34%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 2 (6.90%) Kubernetes
4 2 (6.90%) NetBackup
5 1 (3.45%) HP Fortify
5 1 (3.45%) Nessus
5 1 (3.45%) Progress Chef
5 1 (3.45%) Puppet
5 1 (3.45%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 10 (34.48%) Microsoft
2 5 (17.24%) Oracle
2 5 (17.24%) Splunk
3 3 (10.34%) Informatica
4 2 (6.90%) Brocade
4 2 (6.90%) Checkmarx
4 2 (6.90%) Cisco
4 2 (6.90%) Dell
4 2 (6.90%) NetApp
4 2 (6.90%) Veritas
5 1 (3.45%) Red Hat
5 1 (3.45%) Veracode