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 13 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 24 40
Rank change year-on-year -34 +16 -21
Permanent jobs citing Linux 6 102 70
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 0.78% 6.96% 6.11%
As % of the Operating Systems category 28.57% 47.89% 51.47%
Number of salaries quoted 6 47 16
10th Percentile £41,875 £36,960 £32,815
25th Percentile £46,250 £38,550 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £51,563 £62,500 £60,006
90th Percentile £62,061 £67,500 £67,763
Wales median annual salary £65,000 £48,750 £50,000
% change year-on-year +33.33% -2.50% +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 21 213 136
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 2.73% 14.54% 11.87%
Number of salaries quoted 20 138 43
10th Percentile £31,125 £24,500 £23,600
25th Percentile £37,170 £28,468 £28,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,569 £40,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.98% +1.25% -5.88%
75th Percentile £52,625 £53,750 £56,250
90th Percentile £65,662 £67,500 £67,705
Wales median annual salary £49,552 £40,500 £36,250
% change year-on-year +22.35% +11.72% -17.61%

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 13 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 13 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 +4 6 £47,500 -9.09% 9
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 (16.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon ECR
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon ElastiCache
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (16.67%) AWS CodeBuild
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (16.67%) dbt
2 1 (16.67%) GCP
2 1 (16.67%) Pulumi
2 1 (16.67%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) Firewall
2 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) MariaDB
1 4 (66.67%) MySQL
1 4 (66.67%) RDBMS
1 4 (66.67%) Relational Database
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (16.67%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
1 1 (16.67%) JUnit
General
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Administrator
1 4 (66.67%) Linux Administrator
1 4 (66.67%) Linux Systems Administrator
1 4 (66.67%) Systems Administrator
1 4 (66.67%) VMWare Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) Applications Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Applications Support
2 1 (16.67%) Applications Support Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Junior
2 1 (16.67%) Junior Applications Support
2 1 (16.67%) Junior Support Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Site Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Django
1 1 (16.67%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Management Information System
2 1 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) CentOS
1 4 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 4 (66.67%) Ubuntu
2 1 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Computer Science
2 4 (66.67%) Security Patching
3 1 (16.67%) Application Performance Monitoring
3 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 1 (16.67%) Clean Code
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Fintech
3 1 (16.67%) High Availability
3 1 (16.67%) Observability
3 1 (16.67%) Open Source
3 1 (16.67%) Performance Monitoring
3 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) Prototyping
3 1 (16.67%) Service-Level Objective
3 1 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Java
1 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Virtual Servers
1 4 (66.67%) VMware ESXi
1 4 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (66.67%) vSphere
2 2 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) AWS Copilot
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) VMware
2 1 (16.67%) Google