Linux Contracts in Cardiff

Linux
South Wales > Cardiff

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cardiff 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 13 34 28
Rank change year-on-year +21 -6 -8
Contract jobs citing Linux 22 11 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 10.33% 3.27% 5.64%
As % of the Operating Systems category 64.71% 30.56% 34.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 10 24
10th Percentile £490 £354 £400
25th Percentile £516 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £551 £469 £447
Median % change year-on-year +17.49% +4.98% -18.82%
75th Percentile £662 £570 £517
90th Percentile £689 £628 £669
South Wales median daily rate £575 £494 £450
% change year-on-year +16.46% +9.72% -18.18%

All Operating Systems
Cardiff

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 Cardiff with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 34 36 87
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 15.96% 10.71% 16.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 31 56
10th Percentile £272 £160 £225
25th Percentile £463 £208 £371
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% - +13.33%
75th Percentile £600 £500 £516
90th Percentile £680 £551 £594
South Wales median daily rate £540 £460 £427
% change year-on-year +17.39% +7.72% +13.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 3
10th Percentile - £18.35 £12.84
25th Percentile £12.25 £18.84 £13.75
Median hourly rate £12.50 £20.28 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.36% +30.84% +10.48%
75th Percentile £12.75 £22.34 £17.56
90th Percentile - £23.18 £18.65
South Wales median hourly rate £14.36 £47.50 £46.25
% change year-on-year -69.77% +2.70% +129.81%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Cardiff

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Daily rate trend for Linux in Cardiff

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Daily Rate Histogram in Cardiff

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

Daily rate histogram for Linux in Cardiff

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux in Cardiff

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff 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 (4.55%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 13 (59.09%) Azure
2 11 (50.00%) GitHub
3 10 (45.45%) AWS
4 7 (31.82%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (22.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (13.64%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (13.64%) Amazon S3
7 2 (9.09%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (4.55%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (22.73%) Firewall
1 5 (22.73%) TCP/IP
1 5 (22.73%) VPN
2 2 (9.09%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (68.18%) MySQL
2 11 (50.00%) Relational Database
3 4 (18.18%) RDBMS
4 3 (13.64%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (13.64%) Oracle Database
4 3 (13.64%) Oracle ODI
4 3 (13.64%) PowerCenter
4 3 (13.64%) SQL Server
5 1 (4.55%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 8 (36.36%) Cypress.io
1 8 (36.36%) GitLab
1 8 (36.36%) Postman
2 3 (13.64%) JIRA
3 2 (9.09%) Burp Suite
3 2 (9.09%) SonarQube
4 1 (4.55%) AppScan
4 1 (4.55%) Git
4 1 (4.55%) Jenkins
4 1 (4.55%) Subversion
General
1 5 (22.73%) Finance
1 5 (22.73%) Social Skills
2 3 (13.64%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (45.45%) DBA
2 7 (31.82%) Developer
2 7 (31.82%) PHP Developer
3 6 (27.27%) Administrator
3 6 (27.27%) Full Stack Developer
3 6 (27.27%) Full Stack PHP Developer
4 5 (22.73%) Oracle DBA
5 3 (13.64%) Azure Administrator
5 3 (13.64%) MySQL DBA
5 3 (13.64%) Senior
6 2 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) Senior Storage Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) Storage Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) DevOps Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Software Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (36.36%) Laravel
2 7 (31.82%) React
2 7 (31.82%) Vue
3 5 (22.73%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (13.64%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 7 (31.82%) Product Ownership
1 7 (31.82%) Public Cloud
2 1 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.55%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 9 (40.91%) Windows
2 5 (22.73%) AIX
3 2 (9.09%) Data ONTAP
3 2 (9.09%) Unix
3 2 (9.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (50.00%) Agile
1 11 (50.00%) Project Management
2 10 (45.45%) DevOps
3 8 (36.36%) CI/CD
3 8 (36.36%) Continuous Integration
3 8 (36.36%) Full Stack Development
3 8 (36.36%) Test Automation
4 7 (31.82%) Migration
5 6 (27.27%) Analytics
5 6 (27.27%) Change Control
5 6 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (22.73%) E-business
7 4 (18.18%) Data Analytics
8 3 (13.64%) High Availability
8 3 (13.64%) Performance Tuning
9 2 (9.09%) Blue-Green Deployment
9 2 (9.09%) Database Security
9 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
9 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 2 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 9 (40.91%) PHP
2 3 (13.64%) Shell Script
2 3 (13.64%) SQL
3 1 (4.55%) Bash
3 1 (4.55%) PowerShell
3 1 (4.55%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (9.09%) SANS
1 2 (9.09%) SC Cleared
1 2 (9.09%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.55%) AWS Certification
2 1 (4.55%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (59.09%) QA
2 2 (9.09%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (18.18%) Docker
2 3 (13.64%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 7 (31.82%) Ansible
1 7 (31.82%) Grafana
1 7 (31.82%) Nagios
1 7 (31.82%) Terraform
2 5 (22.73%) Data Guard
2 5 (22.73%) Graylog
2 5 (22.73%) Prometheus
3 3 (13.64%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 2 (9.09%) Kubernetes
4 2 (9.09%) NetBackup
5 1 (4.55%) HP Fortify
5 1 (4.55%) Nessus
5 1 (4.55%) Progress Chef
5 1 (4.55%) Puppet
5 1 (4.55%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 10 (45.45%) Microsoft
2 5 (22.73%) Oracle
2 5 (22.73%) Splunk
3 3 (13.64%) Informatica
4 2 (9.09%) Brocade
4 2 (9.09%) Checkmarx
4 2 (9.09%) Cisco
4 2 (9.09%) Dell
4 2 (9.09%) NetApp
4 2 (9.09%) Veritas
5 1 (4.55%) Veracode