Linux Jobs in South Wales

Linux
Wales > South Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in South Wales with a requirement for Linux skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries 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 24 50 19
Rank change year-on-year +26 -31 +14
Permanent jobs citing Linux 105 59 153
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 7.30% 5.15% 10.63%
As % of the Operating Systems category 48.17% 50.00% 58.85%
Number of salaries quoted 50 14 60
10th Percentile £36,700 £31,941 £33,506
25th Percentile £37,825 £42,500 £37,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +16.67% -1.10%
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,694 £51,250
90th Percentile £67,993 £67,768 £75,000
Wales median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +15.15%

All Operating Systems
South Wales

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 218 118 260
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 15.16% 10.31% 18.07%
Number of salaries quoted 140 40 112
10th Percentile £24,500 £23,950 £25,775
25th Percentile £28,290 £28,313 £33,904
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,500 £38,750 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.52% -8.82% -
75th Percentile £54,063 £56,500 £51,375
90th Percentile £67,500 £67,753 £64,875
Wales median annual salary £40,500 £35,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +14.08% -21.11% +15.38%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in South Wales

Linux
Salary Trend in South Wales

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Linux in South Wales.

Salary trend for Linux in South Wales

Linux
Salary Histogram in South Wales

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

Salary histogram for Linux in South Wales

Linux
Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the South 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Bridgend +7 62 £50,000 +17.65%
Cardiff +21 36 £52,500 -5.41% 5
Newport - 3 £50,000 - 1
Torfaen - 3 £45,000 -
Gwent - 1 - -
Linux
Wales

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South 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:

Application Platforms
1 34 (32.38%) WebLogic
2 30 (28.57%) Oracle Service Bus
3 5 (4.76%) Apache
4 4 (3.81%) ArcGIS
4 4 (3.81%) GeoServer
5 2 (1.90%) Confluence
5 2 (1.90%) IIS
5 2 (1.90%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.95%) SharePoint
Applications
1 32 (30.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 31 (29.52%) Microsoft Office
3 30 (28.57%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 30 (28.57%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (3.81%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 27 (25.71%) Azure
2 22 (20.95%) AWS
3 7 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
3 7 (6.67%) Slack
4 6 (5.71%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (4.76%) Amazon S3
5 5 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (4.76%) GCP
6 4 (3.81%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (3.81%) Amazon SQS
7 3 (2.86%) OpenShift
7 3 (2.86%) Power Platform
7 3 (2.86%) SaaS
8 1 (0.95%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.95%) Cloudflare
8 1 (0.95%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.95%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 12 (11.43%) DNS
2 10 (9.52%) Firewall
3 7 (6.67%) SAN
4 6 (5.71%) SSL
4 6 (5.71%) TCP/IP
4 6 (5.71%) VPN
5 5 (4.76%) DHCP
5 5 (4.76%) Internet
5 5 (4.76%) IPsec
5 5 (4.76%) SNMP
6 4 (3.81%) BGP
7 3 (2.86%) Ethernet
8 2 (1.90%) LAN
8 2 (1.90%) Network Security
8 2 (1.90%) RS-232
8 2 (1.90%) RS-422
8 2 (1.90%) RS-485
8 2 (1.90%) VLAN
8 2 (1.90%) VoIP
8 2 (1.90%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (32.38%) Oracle Database
2 30 (28.57%) Oracle Database 10g
2 30 (28.57%) Oracle Database 11g
2 30 (28.57%) VLDB
3 9 (8.57%) RDBMS
3 9 (8.57%) Relational Database
4 8 (7.62%) MongoDB
4 8 (7.62%) MySQL
5 7 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (4.76%) SQL Server
7 4 (3.81%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (3.81%) GIS
7 4 (3.81%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (3.81%) QGIS
8 3 (2.86%) Power BI
9 1 (0.95%) InfluxDB
9 1 (0.95%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.95%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (3.81%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.86%) CircleCI
2 3 (2.86%) Git
2 3 (2.86%) IBM UrbanCode
2 3 (2.86%) Subversion
3 2 (1.90%) JIRA
4 1 (0.95%) GitLab
4 1 (0.95%) PHPUnit
4 1 (0.95%) SonarQube
General
1 33 (31.43%) Analytical Skills
2 21 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 12 (11.43%) Finance
4 5 (4.76%) Banking
5 4 (3.81%) Electronics
5 4 (3.81%) Legal
6 3 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.86%) Manufacturing
6 3 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.95%) Advertising
7 1 (0.95%) Law
Job Titles
1 31 (29.52%) Analyst
1 31 (29.52%) Support Analyst
2 30 (28.57%) Applications Support
2 30 (28.57%) Applications Support Analyst
2 30 (28.57%) Oracle Analyst
2 30 (28.57%) Oracle Support Analyst
2 30 (28.57%) SQL Analyst
2 30 (28.57%) SQL Support Analyst
3 24 (22.86%) Senior
4 15 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 13 (12.38%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 10 (9.52%) DevOps Engineer
7 8 (7.62%) Software Engineer
8 7 (6.67%) Applications Engineer
8 7 (6.67%) Linux Engineer
8 7 (6.67%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
8 7 (6.67%) Senior Linux Engineer
8 7 (6.67%) Senior Storage Engineer
8 7 (6.67%) Storage Engineer
9 6 (5.71%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (8.57%) RabbitMQ
2 6 (5.71%) .NET
3 5 (4.76%) WinForms
3 5 (4.76%) WPF
3 5 (4.76%) YAML
4 4 (3.81%) Django
4 4 (3.81%) Leaflet
4 4 (3.81%) OpenLayers
4 4 (3.81%) PostGIS
4 4 (3.81%) React
4 4 (3.81%) Spring Boot
5 2 (1.90%) .NET Core
6 1 (0.95%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.95%) JSON
6 1 (0.95%) Laravel
6 1 (0.95%) REST
6 1 (0.95%) RESTful
6 1 (0.95%) Vue
6 1 (0.95%) Vuex
6 1 (0.95%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 12 (11.43%) Data Centre
2 10 (9.52%) Public Cloud
3 7 (6.67%) CMDB
4 4 (3.81%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (3.81%) Tandem
5 3 (2.86%) Driving Licence
5 3 (2.86%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.90%) FPGA
6 2 (1.90%) PCIe
6 2 (1.90%) VHDL
7 1 (0.95%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.95%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.95%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.95%) Replication
7 1 (0.95%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.95%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 40 (38.10%) Unix
2 30 (28.57%) Solaris
3 24 (22.86%) Windows
4 7 (6.67%) Ubuntu
4 7 (6.67%) Windows Server
5 5 (4.76%) Data ONTAP
6 4 (3.81%) Android
6 4 (3.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (1.90%) Oracle Linux
7 2 (1.90%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.95%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.95%) Debian
8 1 (0.95%) Fedora
8 1 (0.95%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.95%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (45.71%) Actionable Insight
2 35 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
2 35 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
2 35 (33.33%) Incident Management
2 35 (33.33%) Release Management
3 31 (29.52%) ITSM
4 30 (28.57%) Capacity Management
4 30 (28.57%) Performance Monitoring
4 30 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
5 23 (21.90%) Software Engineering
6 18 (17.14%) DevOps
6 18 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
7 17 (16.19%) Agile
8 16 (15.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 14 (13.33%) Project Management
10 12 (11.43%) Change Management
11 11 (10.48%) Migration
11 11 (10.48%) SDLC
12 8 (7.62%) Problem Management
12 8 (7.62%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 38 (36.19%) SQL
2 30 (28.57%) PL/SQL
3 19 (18.10%) C
4 16 (15.24%) C#
5 15 (14.29%) Python
6 12 (11.43%) C++
7 5 (4.76%) Bash
7 5 (4.76%) JavaScript
7 5 (4.76%) Shell Script
8 4 (3.81%) PowerShell
9 3 (2.86%) Embedded C
9 3 (2.86%) Groovy
10 1 (0.95%) Perl
10 1 (0.95%) PHP
10 1 (0.95%) VB
Qualifications
1 48 (45.71%) SC Cleared
1 48 (45.71%) Security Cleared
2 42 (40.00%) Degree
3 5 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (3.81%) AWS Certification
4 4 (3.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 4 (3.81%) Azure Certification
4 4 (3.81%) HNC
5 3 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.86%) HND
6 2 (1.90%) CCNA
6 2 (1.90%) CCNP
6 2 (1.90%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (29.52%) SLA
2 1 (0.95%) ISO 9001
2 1 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.95%) MISRA
System Software
1 30 (28.57%) Oracle RAC
2 12 (11.43%) Docker
3 11 (10.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (5.71%) Hyper-V
5 4 (3.81%) Active Directory
5 4 (3.81%) Firmware
5 4 (3.81%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.95%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.95%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 30 (28.57%) Data Guard
1 30 (28.57%) Oracle RMAN
2 21 (20.00%) Ansible
3 13 (12.38%) Terraform
4 10 (9.52%) Kubernetes
5 6 (5.71%) Prometheus
6 5 (4.76%) vCenter Server
7 3 (2.86%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.90%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.95%) Grafana
9 1 (0.95%) PaperCut
9 1 (0.95%) Puppet
9 1 (0.95%) SCCM
Vendors
1 42 (40.00%) Oracle
2 30 (28.57%) Remedy
2 30 (28.57%) Sun
3 20 (19.05%) VMware
4 5 (4.76%) NetApp
4 5 (4.76%) Palo Alto
4 5 (4.76%) Red Hat
4 5 (4.76%) SolidFire
5 4 (3.81%) ESRI
5 4 (3.81%) Sparx
6 3 (2.86%) Google
6 3 (2.86%) IBM
7 2 (1.90%) Altera
7 2 (1.90%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.90%) Cadence
7 2 (1.90%) Cisco
7 2 (1.90%) EMC
7 2 (1.90%) Microsoft
7 2 (1.90%) SonicWALL
7 2 (1.90%) Veeam