Linux Contracts in North Wales

Linux
Wales > North Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in North Wales requiring Linux skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Linux over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 4 -
Rank change year-on-year +2 - -
Contract jobs citing Linux 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in North Wales 25.00% 6.25% -
As % of the Operating Systems category 100.00% 20.00% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Wales median daily rate £586 £575 £500
% change year-on-year +1.91% +15.00% +11.11%

All Operating Systems
North Wales

Linux falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring operating system skills in North Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 2 5 12
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in North Wales 25.00% 31.25% 40.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 11
10th Percentile - £184 £135
25th Percentile - £189 £146
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £219 £180
Median % change year-on-year - +21.53% +28.57%
75th Percentile - £242 £192
90th Percentile - £243 £200
Wales median daily rate £365 £500 £425
% change year-on-year -27.00% +17.65% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £14.25
Median hourly rate - - £14.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -25.64%
75th Percentile - - £14.75
90th Percentile - - -
Wales median hourly rate £37.50 £14.36 £35.00
% change year-on-year +161.14% -58.97% -1.75%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in North Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in North Wales

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in North Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Linux in North Wales

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in North Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux in North Wales

Linux
Contract Job Locations in North 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 North Wales region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Wrexham - 2 - - 1
Linux
Wales

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in North 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:

Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (100.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DHCP
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) LAN
1 2 (100.00%) Skype
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (100.00%) VoIP
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
1 2 (100.00%) WAN
1 2 (100.00%) Wireless
General
1 2 (100.00%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Field Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Field Service Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Junior
2 1 (50.00%) Junior Field Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Anti-Spyware
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Management
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) A+ Certification
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) SLA
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) AirWatch
1 2 (100.00%) SCCM
1 2 (100.00%) XenMobile
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Adobe
1 2 (100.00%) Apple
1 2 (100.00%) Ivanti
1 2 (100.00%) MobileIron
1 2 (100.00%) Remedy
1 2 (100.00%) ServiceNow