Linux Contracts in South Wales

Linux
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South 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 26 13 34
Rank change year-on-year -13 +21 +2
Contract jobs citing Linux 8 28 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 3.28% 8.33% 4.62%
As % of the Operating Systems category 22.22% 56.00% 27.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 23 19
10th Percentile £527 £472 £403
25th Percentile £549 £519 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £586 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.91% +15.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £643 £690 £528
90th Percentile £677 £719 £595
Wales median daily rate £586 £575 £500
% change year-on-year +1.91% +15.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.50 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £48.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +14.58% - -
75th Percentile £57.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Wales median hourly rate £55.00 £48.00 -
% change year-on-year +14.58% - -

All Operating Systems
South 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 South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 36 50 86
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 14.75% 14.88% 16.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 39 69
10th Percentile £178 £197 £141
25th Percentile £194 £354 £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £365 £540 £470
Median % change year-on-year -32.41% +14.89% +6.09%
75th Percentile £438 £634 £538
90th Percentile £515 £703 £626
Wales median daily rate £365 £500 £425
% change year-on-year -27.00% +17.65% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 5
10th Percentile £22.38 £12.67 £19.32
25th Percentile £28.13 £13.31 £21.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £14.36 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +161.14% -69.77% +2.70%
75th Percentile £41.25 £31.18 £50.00
90th Percentile £49.38 £41.27 £55.25
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 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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Linux in South Wales

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in South Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in South Wales over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in South Wales

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux in South Wales

Linux
Contract Job Locations in South 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 South 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
Cardiff -12 5 £556 +0.86% 30
Newport +7 1 - - 28
Glamorgan - 1 - - 8
Monmouthshire - 1 £700 -
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 3 (37.50%) Apache
1 3 (37.50%) JBoss
1 3 (37.50%) nginx
1 3 (37.50%) WebLogic
1 3 (37.50%) WebLogic Portal
1 3 (37.50%) WebSphere
2 1 (12.50%) Tomcat
2 1 (12.50%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) GitHub
2 3 (37.50%) OpenShift
3 2 (25.00%) AWS
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Stack
4 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
4 1 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (12.50%) Linode
4 1 (12.50%) OCI
4 1 (12.50%) PaaS
4 1 (12.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) SSL
2 1 (12.50%) DHCP
2 1 (12.50%) DNS
2 1 (12.50%) Ethernet
2 1 (12.50%) Firewall
2 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
2 1 (12.50%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
1 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Administrator
1 2 (25.00%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Embedded Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Embedded Linux Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) IT Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Migration Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Senior
2 1 (12.50%) Site Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Web Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (12.50%) JSON
1 1 (12.50%) JWT
1 1 (12.50%) Middleware
1 1 (12.50%) OAuth
1 1 (12.50%) Web Services
1 1 (12.50%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) e-Learning
1 1 (12.50%) Embedded Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (12.50%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (12.50%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) CentOS
1 1 (12.50%) Embedded Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Rocky
1 1 (12.50%) Ubuntu
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
1 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
1 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (37.50%) API Management
2 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure Automation
2 3 (37.50%) Microservices
2 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (25.00%) Analytics
3 2 (25.00%) DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (25.00%) Migration
3 2 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) Data Security
4 1 (12.50%) GitOps
4 1 (12.50%) Identity Management
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) Observability
4 1 (12.50%) Project Management
4 1 (12.50%) Requirements Gathering
4 1 (12.50%) Roadmaps
4 1 (12.50%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Java
2 1 (12.50%) Bash
2 1 (12.50%) C
2 1 (12.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) AWS Certification
1 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
1 1 (12.50%) CSSLP
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
1 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Network+ Certification
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (50.00%) QA
2 1 (12.50%) GDPR
2 1 (12.50%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) Docker
2 3 (37.50%) LXC
3 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
3 1 (12.50%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (37.50%) Ansible
3 2 (25.00%) Terraform
4 1 (12.50%) Argo
4 1 (12.50%) Grafana
4 1 (12.50%) Nagios
4 1 (12.50%) Oracle Identity Management
4 1 (12.50%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 3 (37.50%) Oracle
3 1 (12.50%) Dell
3 1 (12.50%) IBM
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft