Linux Jobs in Cardiff

Linux
South Wales > Cardiff

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Cardiff with a requirement for Linux skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Linux over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 32 51 39
Rank change year-on-year +19 -12 -1
Permanent jobs citing Linux 36 15 62
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cardiff 5.47% 2.61% 7.28%
As % of the Operating Systems category 43.90% 42.86% 46.97%
Number of salaries quoted 31 10 47
10th Percentile £36,250 £34,563 £35,960
25th Percentile £37,101 £46,875 £39,182
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,500 £46,865
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% +18.43% -1.34%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,750 £55,625
90th Percentile £72,433 £68,498 £75,000
South Wales median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +16.67% -1.10%

All Operating Systems
Cardiff

Linux is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Cardiff with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 82 35 132
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cardiff 12.46% 6.09% 15.49%
Number of salaries quoted 77 26 86
10th Percentile £25,000 £25,625 £31,125
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £35,960
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.26% +4.44% +5.88%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,331 £54,688
90th Percentile £70,000 £71,388 £68,750
South Wales median annual salary £40,500 £40,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year +1.25% -5.88% -

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Cardiff

Linux
Salary Trend in Cardiff

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Linux in Cardiff.

Salary trend for Linux in Cardiff

Linux
Salary Histogram in Cardiff

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux in Cardiff over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Linux in Cardiff

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff 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 2 (5.56%) Confluence
1 2 (5.56%) Tomcat
2 1 (2.78%) IIS
2 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.78%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 17 (47.22%) Azure
2 13 (36.11%) AWS
3 7 (19.44%) Cloud Computing
3 7 (19.44%) Slack
4 5 (13.89%) GCP
5 4 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (8.33%) OpenShift
6 3 (8.33%) SaaS
7 2 (5.56%) Power Platform
8 1 (2.78%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 7 (19.44%) DNS
1 7 (19.44%) SAN
2 5 (13.89%) Firewall
3 4 (11.11%) DHCP
4 2 (5.56%) LAN
4 2 (5.56%) Network Security
4 2 (5.56%) SSL
4 2 (5.56%) TCP/IP
4 2 (5.56%) VLAN
4 2 (5.56%) VoIP
4 2 (5.56%) WAN
5 1 (2.78%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.56%) MySQL
2 2 (5.56%) Power BI
3 1 (2.78%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.78%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (8.33%) CircleCI
1 3 (8.33%) IBM UrbanCode
1 3 (8.33%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.56%) JIRA
General
1 17 (47.22%) Social Skills
2 6 (16.67%) Finance
3 5 (13.89%) Banking
4 4 (11.11%) Legal
5 3 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (2.78%) Advertising
7 1 (2.78%) Law
Job Titles
1 15 (41.67%) Senior
2 14 (38.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 12 (33.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 8 (22.22%) DevOps Engineer
5 7 (19.44%) Linux Engineer
5 7 (19.44%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
5 7 (19.44%) Senior Linux Engineer
5 7 (19.44%) Senior Storage Engineer
5 7 (19.44%) Storage Engineer
6 5 (13.89%) Support Engineer
7 4 (11.11%) Network Engineer
7 4 (11.11%) Software Manager
8 3 (8.33%) Senior DevOps
8 3 (8.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 3 (8.33%) Senior Support Engineer
9 2 (5.56%) 2nd Line Engineer
9 2 (5.56%) 2nd Line Network Engineer
9 2 (5.56%) Developer
9 2 (5.56%) JIRA Engineer
9 2 (5.56%) Principal Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.11%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 7 (19.44%) CMDB
2 6 (16.67%) Data Centre
3 5 (13.89%) Public Cloud
4 4 (11.11%) Tandem
5 3 (8.33%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (2.78%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 10 (27.78%) Windows
2 6 (16.67%) Windows Server
3 4 (11.11%) Android
3 4 (11.11%) Unix
4 2 (5.56%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (2.78%) Ubuntu
5 1 (2.78%) Windows 10
5 1 (2.78%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (2.78%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (41.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 12 (33.33%) DevOps
2 12 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (19.44%) Agile
3 7 (19.44%) Change Management
3 7 (19.44%) Line Management
3 7 (19.44%) Migration
3 7 (19.44%) Proactive Monitoring
3 7 (19.44%) Root Cause Analysis
4 6 (16.67%) Customer Service
4 6 (16.67%) Mentoring
5 5 (13.89%) Network Architecture
6 4 (11.11%) Business Continuity
6 4 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (11.11%) ITIL
6 4 (11.11%) Project Management
6 4 (11.11%) Software Engineering
6 4 (11.11%) Strategic Thinking
6 4 (11.11%) Systems Engineering
6 4 (11.11%) Tech Ops
Programming Languages
1 4 (11.11%) C
1 4 (11.11%) C#
1 4 (11.11%) SQL
2 3 (8.33%) Groovy
2 3 (8.33%) Python
3 2 (5.56%) Bash
3 2 (5.56%) PowerShell
3 2 (5.56%) Shell Script
4 1 (2.78%) C++
4 1 (2.78%) Perl
4 1 (2.78%) VB
Qualifications
1 5 (13.89%) BPSS Clearance
1 5 (13.89%) SC Cleared
1 5 (13.89%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.56%) CCNA
2 2 (5.56%) CCNP
2 2 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 6 (16.67%) Hyper-V
2 5 (13.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (11.11%) Docker
3 4 (11.11%) Firmware
3 4 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (5.56%) Active Directory
5 1 (2.78%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (2.78%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (38.89%) Ansible
2 11 (30.56%) Terraform
3 4 (11.11%) Kubernetes
4 3 (8.33%) Progress Chef
5 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 9 (25.00%) VMware
2 3 (8.33%) Google
2 3 (8.33%) IBM
2 3 (8.33%) Oracle
3 2 (5.56%) Atlassian
3 2 (5.56%) Cisco
3 2 (5.56%) SonicWALL
4 1 (2.78%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.78%) Sophos
4 1 (2.78%) Veeam