Linux Contract Job Trends in West Wales

Linux
Wales > West Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Wales 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 7 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Linux 7 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in West Wales 13.73% - -
As % of the Operating Systems category 87.50% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 - -
Wales median daily rate £465 £586 £575
% change year-on-year -20.65% +1.91% +15.00%

All Operating Systems
West 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 West Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 8 0 2
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Wales 15.69% - 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
Wales median daily rate £290 £370 £513
% change year-on-year -21.62% -27.80% +18.84%
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 - - -
Wales median hourly rate £22.00 £37.50 £14.36
% change year-on-year -41.33% +161.14% -58.97%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in West Wales

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

Linux job vacancy trend in West Wales

Linux
Daily Rate Trend in West Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Wales citing Linux.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Wales citing Linux

Linux
Hourly Rate Trend in West Wales

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Wales citing Linux.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Wales citing Linux

Linux
Contract Job Locations in West 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 West Wales region over the 6 months to 6 May 2026. 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
Swansea - 7 £465 - 4
Linux
Wales

Linux
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Wales 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