Linux Engineer Contract Job Trends in Swansea

Linux Engineer
West Wales > Swansea

The median Linux Engineer daily rate in Swansea is £465, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 28 April 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Swansea 5.00% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 5.88% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 - -
West Wales median daily rate £465 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Swansea

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Swansea. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Swansea with a recognized job title 34 20 17
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 85.00% 95.24% 94.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 19 13
10th Percentile - £125 £200
25th Percentile £413 £185 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% +5.56% +2.86%
75th Percentile £491 £550 £525
90th Percentile £536 £578 -
West Wales median daily rate £470 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -1.05% +5.56% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £18.25 £16.75 £11.75
Median hourly rate £18.50 £17.50 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.71% +29.63% -10.00%
75th Percentile £18.75 £18.25 £15.25
90th Percentile - - -
West Wales median hourly rate £13.85 £17.50 £13.50
% change year-on-year -20.89% +29.63% -10.00%

Linux Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Swansea

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Linux Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Swansea.

Linux Engineer job vacancy trend in Swansea

Linux Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Swansea

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Linux Engineer job vacancies in Swansea.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Linux Engineer job vacancies in Swansea

Linux Engineer Skill Set
Top 9 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Swansea

For the 6 months to 28 April 2026, Linux Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Swansea region featuring Linux Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Management
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (50.00%) NVIDIA
2 1 (50.00%) Parallel Computing
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Puppet
2 1 (50.00%) Slurm Workload Manager

Linux Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Swansea by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) CUDA
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Parallel Computing
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) NVIDIA