Linux Contract Job Trends in Swansea

Linux
West Wales > Swansea

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Swansea requiring Linux skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Linux 7 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Swansea 16.28% - -
As % of the Operating Systems category 87.50% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 - -
West Wales median daily rate £465 - -

All Operating Systems
Swansea

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 Swansea.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 8 0 2
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Swansea 18.60% - 11.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 2
10th Percentile - - £228
25th Percentile - - £269
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 - £350
Median % change year-on-year - - +94.44%
75th Percentile - - £444
90th Percentile - - £493
West Wales median daily rate £465 - £350
% change year-on-year - - +94.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £18.25 - -
Median hourly rate £18.50 - -
75th Percentile £18.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Wales median hourly rate £18.50 - -

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Swansea

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Linux relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Swansea.

Linux job vacancy trend in Swansea

Linux
Daily Rate Trend in Swansea

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Swansea citing Linux.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Swansea citing Linux

Linux
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:

Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Systems Engineer
2 5 (71.43%) Linux Engineer
2 5 (71.43%) Linux Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) CUDA
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Identity Management
1 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure Automation
1 4 (57.14%) Parallel Computing
1 4 (57.14%) Performance Tuning
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Ansible
1 4 (57.14%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) NVIDIA