Linux Jobs in Wales

Linux
UK > Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in 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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 25 53 18
Rank change year-on-year +28 -35 +15
Permanent jobs citing Linux 135 83 198
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 6.65% 4.94% 10.36%
As % of the Operating Systems category 46.23% 43.46% 60.74%
Number of salaries quoted 80 19 83
10th Percentile £26,500 £34,126 £35,960
25th Percentile £32,000 £43,000 £38,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,750 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +9.37%
75th Percentile £53,750 £62,513 £50,000
90th Percentile £67,500 £67,755 £62,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

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 permanent job vacancies advertised in Wales with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 292 191 326
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 14.38% 11.38% 17.06%
Number of salaries quoted 201 84 150
10th Percentile £24,750 £25,000 £29,100
25th Percentile £28,290 £28,500 £34,156
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,500 £35,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.08% -21.11% +20.00%
75th Percentile £52,500 £48,188 £50,000
90th Percentile £62,500 £58,375 £59,250
UK median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%

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
Salary Trend in Wales

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

Salary trend for Linux in Wales

Linux
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux in Wales over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Linux in Wales

Linux
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the Wales region over the 6 months to 5 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
South Wales +17 104 £50,000 -4.76% 5
North Wales +8 12 £34,000 - 4
West Wales +10 6 £42,904 -4.66% 3
Mid Wales - 5 £42,500 -
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:

Application Platforms
1 34 (25.19%) WebLogic
2 30 (22.22%) Oracle Service Bus
3 7 (5.19%) OpenStack
4 5 (3.70%) Apache
5 4 (2.96%) ArcGIS
5 4 (2.96%) Confluence
5 4 (2.96%) GeoServer
5 4 (2.96%) SharePoint
6 3 (2.22%) Jupyter
7 2 (1.48%) IIS
8 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.74%) Tomcat
Applications
1 34 (25.19%) Microsoft Office
2 32 (23.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 30 (22.22%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 30 (22.22%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (2.96%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 35 (25.93%) Azure
2 25 (18.52%) AWS
3 12 (8.89%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (5.93%) SaaS
5 7 (5.19%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (5.19%) Cloud Computing
5 7 (5.19%) Nutanix
5 7 (5.19%) Slack
6 5 (3.70%) Amazon S3
7 4 (2.96%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (2.96%) Amazon SQS
7 4 (2.96%) GCP
8 3 (2.22%) OpenShift
9 2 (1.48%) Power Platform
10 1 (0.74%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.74%) Cloudflare
10 1 (0.74%) Entra ID
10 1 (0.74%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 18 (13.33%) DNS
2 16 (11.85%) Firewall
3 12 (8.89%) DHCP
4 11 (8.15%) Internet
5 9 (6.67%) SSL
6 7 (5.19%) SAN
6 7 (5.19%) TCP/IP
7 6 (4.44%) VPN
8 5 (3.70%) IPsec
8 5 (3.70%) LAN
8 5 (3.70%) SNMP
8 5 (3.70%) WAN
9 4 (2.96%) BGP
9 4 (2.96%) HTTPS
9 4 (2.96%) VoIP
10 3 (2.22%) Ethernet
11 2 (1.48%) Broadband
11 2 (1.48%) PBX
11 2 (1.48%) RTP
11 2 (1.48%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (25.19%) Oracle Database
2 30 (22.22%) Oracle Database 10g
2 30 (22.22%) Oracle Database 11g
2 30 (22.22%) VLDB
3 9 (6.67%) RDBMS
3 9 (6.67%) Relational Database
4 8 (5.93%) MongoDB
5 7 (5.19%) Elasticsearch
5 7 (5.19%) MySQL
6 4 (2.96%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (2.96%) GIS
6 4 (2.96%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (2.96%) QGIS
6 4 (2.96%) SQL Server
7 3 (2.22%) Metabase
8 2 (1.48%) Power BI
9 1 (0.74%) InfluxDB
9 1 (0.74%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.74%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (2.96%) Jenkins
1 4 (2.96%) JIRA
1 4 (2.96%) Vagrant
2 3 (2.22%) CircleCI
2 3 (2.22%) Git
2 3 (2.22%) IBM UrbanCode
2 3 (2.22%) Subversion
2 3 (2.22%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (0.74%) GitLab
3 1 (0.74%) JMeter
3 1 (0.74%) PHPUnit
3 1 (0.74%) SonarQube
General
1 33 (24.44%) Analytical Skills
2 30 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 17 (12.59%) Finance
4 9 (6.67%) Manufacturing
5 6 (4.44%) Electronics
5 6 (4.44%) Telecoms
6 4 (2.96%) Banking
6 4 (2.96%) Legal
7 3 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (2.22%) Welsh Language
8 2 (1.48%) Retail
9 1 (0.74%) Advertising
9 1 (0.74%) Law
9 1 (0.74%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 34 (25.19%) Senior
2 31 (22.96%) Analyst
2 31 (22.96%) Support Analyst
3 30 (22.22%) Applications Support
3 30 (22.22%) Applications Support Analyst
3 30 (22.22%) Oracle Analyst
3 30 (22.22%) Oracle Support Analyst
3 30 (22.22%) SQL Analyst
3 30 (22.22%) SQL Support Analyst
4 15 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 14 (10.37%) IT Support
5 14 (10.37%) Software Engineer
6 13 (9.63%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 11 (8.15%) DevOps Engineer
8 9 (6.67%) Linux Engineer
9 7 (5.19%) Applications Engineer
9 7 (5.19%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
9 7 (5.19%) Senior Linux Engineer
9 7 (5.19%) Senior Storage Engineer
9 7 (5.19%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.67%) RabbitMQ
2 6 (4.44%) .NET
3 5 (3.70%) Django
3 5 (3.70%) WinForms
3 5 (3.70%) WPF
3 5 (3.70%) YAML
4 4 (2.96%) Leaflet
4 4 (2.96%) OpenLayers
4 4 (2.96%) PostGIS
4 4 (2.96%) React
4 4 (2.96%) Spring Boot
5 2 (1.48%) .NET Core
5 2 (1.48%) CSS
5 2 (1.48%) HTML
6 1 (0.74%) Flask
6 1 (0.74%) LAMP
6 1 (0.74%) Pyramid
6 1 (0.74%) RESTful
6 1 (0.74%) SOAP
6 1 (0.74%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (16.30%) Data Centre
2 9 (6.67%) Public Cloud
3 7 (5.19%) CMDB
4 5 (3.70%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.96%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (2.96%) Tandem
6 3 (2.22%) Driving Licence
6 3 (2.22%) Legacy Applications
6 3 (2.22%) Raspberry Pi
7 2 (1.48%) CCTV
7 2 (1.48%) FPGA
7 2 (1.48%) PCIe
7 2 (1.48%) VHDL
8 1 (0.74%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.74%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.74%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.74%) Replication
8 1 (0.74%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.74%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 41 (30.37%) Unix
1 41 (30.37%) Windows
2 30 (22.22%) Solaris
3 19 (14.07%) Windows Server
4 11 (8.15%) Ubuntu
5 8 (5.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (3.70%) Data ONTAP
7 4 (2.96%) Android
7 4 (2.96%) CentOS
8 3 (2.22%) Windows 7
9 2 (1.48%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (1.48%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.74%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.74%) Debian
10 1 (0.74%) Fedora
10 1 (0.74%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.74%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (35.56%) Actionable Insight
2 35 (25.93%) Artificial Intelligence
2 35 (25.93%) Capacity Planning
2 35 (25.93%) Incident Management
2 35 (25.93%) Release Management
3 34 (25.19%) Capacity Management
4 31 (22.96%) ITSM
5 30 (22.22%) Performance Monitoring
5 30 (22.22%) Performance Tuning
6 29 (21.48%) Software Engineering
7 28 (20.74%) Problem-Solving
8 24 (17.78%) Agile
9 23 (17.04%) Project Management
10 20 (14.81%) DevOps
11 17 (12.59%) ITIL
12 16 (11.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 15 (11.11%) Change Management
14 13 (9.63%) CI/CD
14 13 (9.63%) Migration
15 11 (8.15%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 44 (32.59%) SQL
2 30 (22.22%) PL/SQL
3 24 (17.78%) C
4 21 (15.56%) C#
5 16 (11.85%) Python
6 15 (11.11%) C++
7 9 (6.67%) Shell Script
8 6 (4.44%) Java
8 6 (4.44%) JavaScript
9 5 (3.70%) Bash
9 5 (3.70%) PowerShell
10 4 (2.96%) Groovy
11 3 (2.22%) Embedded C
12 1 (0.74%) Perl
12 1 (0.74%) PHP
12 1 (0.74%) VB
Qualifications
1 52 (38.52%) Degree
2 48 (35.56%) SC Cleared
2 48 (35.56%) Security Cleared
3 10 (7.41%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (3.70%) CCNA
4 5 (3.70%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (2.96%) AWS Certification
5 4 (2.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (2.96%) Azure Certification
5 4 (2.96%) HNC
6 3 (2.22%) HND
6 3 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.48%) CCNP
7 2 (1.48%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.48%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (25.19%) SLA
2 1 (0.74%) ISO 9001
2 1 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.74%) MISRA
2 1 (0.74%) QA
System Software
1 30 (22.22%) Oracle RAC
2 23 (17.04%) Docker
3 16 (11.85%) Active Directory
4 15 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (4.44%) Hyper-V
6 4 (2.96%) Firmware
6 4 (2.96%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.74%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.74%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 32 (23.70%) Ansible
2 30 (22.22%) Data Guard
2 30 (22.22%) Oracle RMAN
3 19 (14.07%) Kubernetes
4 15 (11.11%) Terraform
5 8 (5.93%) SCCM
6 6 (4.44%) Prometheus
7 5 (3.70%) vCenter Server
8 3 (2.22%) Progress Chef
9 2 (1.48%) Grafana
9 2 (1.48%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.74%) PaperCut
10 1 (0.74%) Puppet
Vendors
1 42 (31.11%) Oracle
2 30 (22.22%) Remedy
2 30 (22.22%) Sun
3 24 (17.78%) VMware
4 15 (11.11%) Microsoft
5 5 (3.70%) Google
5 5 (3.70%) NetApp
5 5 (3.70%) Palo Alto
5 5 (3.70%) Red Hat
5 5 (3.70%) SolidFire
5 5 (3.70%) Veeam
6 4 (2.96%) ESRI
6 4 (2.96%) Sparx
7 3 (2.22%) IBM
7 3 (2.22%) Meraki
8 2 (1.48%) Altera
8 2 (1.48%) Cadence
8 2 (1.48%) Cisco
8 2 (1.48%) EMC
8 2 (1.48%) Lattice Semiconductor