Linux Jobs in South Wales

Linux
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in South Wales requiring Linux skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Linux over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 25 40
Rank change year-on-year -33 +15 -18
Permanent jobs citing Linux 8 99 75
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 0.84% 6.28% 6.45%
As % of the Operating Systems category 40.00% 46.48% 49.34%
Number of salaries quoted 8 44 15
10th Percentile £43,625 £36,855 £35,378
25th Percentile £46,250 £37,101 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £58,750 £56,748 £57,500
90th Percentile £65,237 £67,500 £67,675
Wales median annual salary £65,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +36.84% -5.00% +6.69%

All Operating Systems
South Wales

Linux falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring operating system skills in South Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 20 213 152
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 2.09% 13.52% 13.08%
Number of salaries quoted 18 137 41
10th Percentile £28,875 £24,500 £24,000
25th Percentile £37,170 £28,290 £27,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £40,500 £39,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.28% +3.85% -7.67%
75th Percentile £56,250 £53,750 £56,250
90th Percentile £66,987 £64,500 £67,775
Wales median annual salary £50,000 £40,500 £33,000
% change year-on-year +23.46% +22.73% -26.67%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in South Wales

Linux
Salary Trend in South Wales

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

Salary trend for Linux in South Wales

Linux
Salary Histogram in South Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux in South Wales over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Linux in South Wales

Linux
Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 31 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cardiff +16 8 £47,500 -6.86% 8
Linux
Wales

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South 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 1 (12.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) AWS
2 3 (37.50%) Amazon ECS
2 3 (37.50%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon S3
3 2 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (25.00%) GitHub
3 2 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (25.00%) Serverless
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon ECR
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon ElastiCache
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 1 (12.50%) Azure
4 1 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (12.50%) dbt
4 1 (12.50%) GCP
4 1 (12.50%) Pulumi
4 1 (12.50%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) MariaDB
1 4 (50.00%) MySQL
1 4 (50.00%) RDBMS
1 4 (50.00%) Relational Database
2 3 (37.50%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (12.50%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (12.50%) Git
2 1 (12.50%) JIRA
2 1 (12.50%) JUnit
General
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Administrator
1 4 (50.00%) Linux Administrator
1 4 (50.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
1 4 (50.00%) Systems Administrator
1 4 (50.00%) VMWare Administrator
2 2 (25.00%) AWS DevOps
2 2 (25.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Applications Support
3 1 (12.50%) Applications Support Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Junior
3 1 (12.50%) Junior Applications Support
3 1 (12.50%) Junior Support Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Site Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Django
1 1 (12.50%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) CentOS
1 4 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 4 (50.00%) Ubuntu
2 1 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Computer Science
2 4 (50.00%) Security Patching
3 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
3 3 (37.50%) DevOps
4 2 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (25.00%) Software Engineering
5 1 (12.50%) Application Performance Monitoring
5 1 (12.50%) Clean Code
5 1 (12.50%) Continuous Delivery
5 1 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (12.50%) Fintech
5 1 (12.50%) High Availability
5 1 (12.50%) Open Source
5 1 (12.50%) Performance Monitoring
5 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (12.50%) Prototyping
5 1 (12.50%) Service-Level Objective
5 1 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) Bash
3 1 (12.50%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Docker
1 4 (50.00%) Virtual Servers
1 4 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
1 4 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (50.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Terraform
2 2 (25.00%) Grafana
2 2 (25.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (12.50%) Google