Linux Contracts in Wales

Linux
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 33 17 36
Rank change year-on-year -16 +19 +3
Contract jobs citing Linux 10 29 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 3.41% 7.34% 3.94%
As % of the Operating Systems category 24.39% 48.33% 22.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 23 20
10th Percentile £527 £472 £408
25th Percentile £549 £519 £455
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 £591
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +0.88%
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 - - -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £60.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +7.44% -6.92% +8.33%

All Operating Systems
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 Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 41 60 113
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 13.99% 15.19% 17.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 43 91
10th Percentile £180 £188 £140
25th Percentile £197 £266 £180
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £365 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -27.00% +17.65% -
75th Percentile £438 £623 £538
90th Percentile £499 £700 £625
UK median daily rate £475 £469 £505
% change year-on-year +1.28% -7.13% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 6
10th Percentile £22.38 £12.67 £16.14
25th Percentile £28.13 £13.31 £18.84
Median hourly rate £37.50 £14.36 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +161.14% -58.97% -1.75%
75th Percentile £41.25 £31.18 £49.69
90th Percentile £49.38 £41.27 £54.38
UK median hourly rate £24.18 £22.00 £39.30
% change year-on-year +9.91% -44.02% +74.67%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Wales

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Linux in Wales

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

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

Daily rate histogram for Linux in Wales

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux in Wales

Linux
Contract Job Locations in 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 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
South Wales -13 8 £586 +1.91% 19
North Wales +2 2 - - 1
Linux
UK

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 (30.00%) Apache
1 3 (30.00%) JBoss
1 3 (30.00%) nginx
1 3 (30.00%) WebLogic
1 3 (30.00%) WebLogic Portal
1 3 (30.00%) WebSphere
2 1 (10.00%) Tomcat
2 1 (10.00%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) Azure
2 3 (30.00%) GitHub
2 3 (30.00%) OpenShift
3 2 (20.00%) AWS
3 2 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (20.00%) OneDrive
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Stack
4 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (10.00%) Linode
4 1 (10.00%) OCI
4 1 (10.00%) PaaS
4 1 (10.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) DHCP
1 3 (30.00%) DNS
1 3 (30.00%) Firewall
1 3 (30.00%) TCP/IP
1 3 (30.00%) VPN
2 2 (20.00%) LAN
2 2 (20.00%) Skype
2 2 (20.00%) SSL
2 2 (20.00%) VoIP
2 2 (20.00%) WAN
2 2 (20.00%) Wireless
3 1 (10.00%) Ethernet
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (20.00%) Electronics
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (20.00%) Administrator
1 2 (20.00%) Automation Engineer
1 2 (20.00%) Field Engineer
1 2 (20.00%) Field Service Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Embedded Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Embedded Linux Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) IT Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Junior
2 1 (10.00%) Junior Field Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Migration Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Senior
2 1 (10.00%) Site Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Web Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (10.00%) JSON
1 1 (10.00%) JWT
1 1 (10.00%) Middleware
1 1 (10.00%) OAuth
1 1 (10.00%) Web Services
1 1 (10.00%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Anti-Spyware
2 1 (10.00%) e-Learning
2 1 (10.00%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (10.00%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (10.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Windows
2 2 (20.00%) Windows 7
3 1 (10.00%) CentOS
3 1 (10.00%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (10.00%) Rocky
3 1 (10.00%) Ubuntu
3 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (40.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (30.00%) API Management
2 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 3 (30.00%) Microservices
2 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (20.00%) Analytics
3 2 (20.00%) DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) Incident Management
3 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (20.00%) Migration
3 2 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (10.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (10.00%) Data Security
4 1 (10.00%) Identity Management
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (10.00%) Project Management
4 1 (10.00%) Roadmaps
4 1 (10.00%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) Java
2 1 (10.00%) Bash
2 1 (10.00%) C
2 1 (10.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Degree
2 2 (20.00%) A+ Certification
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (10.00%) CSSLP
3 1 (10.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) Network+ Certification
3 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) QA
2 3 (30.00%) SLA
3 1 (10.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (50.00%) Docker
2 3 (30.00%) LXC
3 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (10.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (60.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (30.00%) Ansible
3 2 (20.00%) AirWatch
3 2 (20.00%) SCCM
3 2 (20.00%) Terraform
3 2 (20.00%) XenMobile
4 1 (10.00%) Argo
4 1 (10.00%) Grafana
4 1 (10.00%) Nagios
4 1 (10.00%) Oracle Identity Management
4 1 (10.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Red Hat
2 3 (30.00%) Oracle
3 2 (20.00%) Adobe
3 2 (20.00%) Apple
3 2 (20.00%) Ivanti
3 2 (20.00%) MobileIron
3 2 (20.00%) Remedy
3 2 (20.00%) ServiceNow
4 1 (10.00%) Dell
4 1 (10.00%) IBM
4 1 (10.00%) Microsoft