Linux Job Trends in Wales

Linux
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Wales requiring Linux skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 27 32
Rank change year-on-year -41 +5 +38
Permanent jobs citing Linux 33 36 98
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 1.73% 6.81% 4.56%
As % of the Operating Systems category 29.46% 56.25% 39.20%
Number of salaries quoted 20 36 72
10th Percentile £35,000 £46,250 £26,600
25th Percentile £41,500 £46,486 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,198 £66,313 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.76% +39.61% -2.56%
75th Percentile £65,625 £78,750 £53,750
90th Percentile £67,500 £79,375 £62,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% +9.09% -12.00%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring operating system skills in Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 112 64 250
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 5.87% 12.10% 11.62%
Number of salaries quoted 85 58 190
10th Percentile £25,400 £25,637 £24,750
25th Percentile £29,750 £37,170 £28,290
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £50,062 £40,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.10% +23.61% +24.62%
75th Percentile £47,500 £78,438 £52,500
90th Percentile £67,500 £78,750 £57,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year - - -14.29%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Linux job vacancy trend in Wales

Linux
Salary Trend in Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Linux.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Linux

Linux
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux in Wales over the 6 months to 12 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Linux in Wales

Linux
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the Wales region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South Wales -16 26 £55,395 +8.09% 8
Mid Wales - 3 £65,000 -
North Wales - 3 £35,000 - 2
West Wales -33 1 £55,000 +9.73%
Linux
UK

Linux
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 9 (27.27%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (12.12%) Confluence
3 1 (3.03%) Apache
3 1 (3.03%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 13 (39.39%) Azure
1 13 (39.39%) Microsoft 365
2 12 (36.36%) AWS
3 7 (21.21%) SaaS
4 5 (15.15%) PaaS
5 4 (12.12%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (12.12%) Cloudflare
5 4 (12.12%) IaaS
5 4 (12.12%) Route 53
6 3 (9.09%) Amazon S3
7 2 (6.06%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (6.06%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (6.06%) GCP
8 1 (3.03%) Amazon ElastiCache
8 1 (3.03%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 1 (3.03%) Azure AKS
8 1 (3.03%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (3.03%) Datadog
8 1 (3.03%) GitHub
8 1 (3.03%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 17 (51.52%) DNS
2 13 (39.39%) DHCP
3 7 (21.21%) Firewall
4 5 (15.15%) VPN
5 4 (12.12%) BGP
5 4 (12.12%) MPLS
5 4 (12.12%) WAN
6 1 (3.03%) Intranet
6 1 (3.03%) Network Security
6 1 (3.03%) SAN
6 1 (3.03%) TCP/IP
6 1 (3.03%) VLAN
6 1 (3.03%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (42.42%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (9.09%) MongoDB
2 3 (9.09%) MySQL
2 3 (9.09%) SQL Server
3 2 (6.06%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (6.06%) Redis
4 1 (3.03%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (3.03%) Power BI
4 1 (3.03%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (12.12%) Git
2 2 (6.06%) Jenkins
2 2 (6.06%) JIRA
3 1 (3.03%) Bower
3 1 (3.03%) GitLab
General
1 16 (48.48%) Social Skills
2 9 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (15.15%) Public Sector
4 4 (12.12%) Finance
4 4 (12.12%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (9.09%) Manufacturing
6 1 (3.03%) Aviation
6 1 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (3.03%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (3.03%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 12 (36.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 9 (27.27%) Senior
2 9 (27.27%) Systems Engineer
3 5 (15.15%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (12.12%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
5 3 (9.09%) IT Engineer
5 3 (9.09%) Senior Software Engineer
5 3 (9.09%) Software Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) IT Support
6 2 (6.06%) IT Support Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Platform Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Support Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) Analyst
7 1 (3.03%) Developer
7 1 (3.03%) DevOps Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) IT Analyst
7 1 (3.03%) IT Security Analyst
7 1 (3.03%) Senior Platform Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) Service Transition Manager
7 1 (3.03%) Transition Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.09%) Node.js
2 1 (3.03%) Ajax
2 1 (3.03%) CSS
2 1 (3.03%) Django
2 1 (3.03%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (3.03%) HTML
2 1 (3.03%) jQuery
2 1 (3.03%) JSON
2 1 (3.03%) LESS
2 1 (3.03%) React
2 1 (3.03%) RESTful
2 1 (3.03%) Sass
2 1 (3.03%) SOAP
2 1 (3.03%) Web Services
2 1 (3.03%) XML
2 1 (3.03%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (27.27%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (12.12%) Linux Command Line
2 4 (12.12%) PKI
3 3 (9.09%) Management Information System
3 3 (9.09%) Replication
4 2 (6.06%) Raspberry Pi
5 1 (3.03%) Cloud Native
5 1 (3.03%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 21 (63.64%) Windows
2 15 (45.45%) Windows Server
3 9 (27.27%) Unix
3 9 (27.27%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (9.09%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (36.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 12 (36.36%) Migration
1 12 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (30.30%) Vulnerability Scanning
3 9 (27.27%) Customer Experience
3 9 (27.27%) Customer Service
3 9 (27.27%) Email Filtering
3 9 (27.27%) Kalman Filter
3 9 (27.27%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 9 (27.27%) Web Filtering
4 7 (21.21%) DevOps
5 6 (18.18%) CI/CD
5 6 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (18.18%) Mentoring
5 6 (18.18%) Observability
5 6 (18.18%) Test Automation
6 5 (15.15%) Computer Science
6 5 (15.15%) Containerisation
6 5 (15.15%) ITIL
6 5 (15.15%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 8 (24.24%) SQL
2 6 (18.18%) PowerShell
2 6 (18.18%) Python
3 4 (12.12%) Java
4 3 (9.09%) C
4 3 (9.09%) C++
5 2 (6.06%) Bash
6 1 (3.03%) Bicep
6 1 (3.03%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.03%) PHP
Qualifications
1 19 (57.58%) SC Cleared
1 19 (57.58%) Security Cleared
2 10 (30.30%) Degree
3 4 (12.12%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (12.12%) DV Cleared
4 2 (6.06%) HNC
4 2 (6.06%) HND
5 1 (3.03%) AWS Certification
5 1 (3.03%) Azure Certification
5 1 (3.03%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (3.03%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (27.27%) Cyber Essentials
1 9 (27.27%) PCI DSS
2 1 (3.03%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 16 (48.48%) Active Directory
2 9 (27.27%) Hyper-V
2 9 (27.27%) Terminal Server
3 7 (21.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (21.21%) vSphere
4 6 (18.18%) Docker
5 4 (12.12%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (12.12%) VMware NSX
6 3 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (21.21%) Terraform
2 5 (15.15%) Ansible
3 4 (12.12%) vCenter Server
4 2 (6.06%) Kubernetes
5 1 (3.03%) AWS Copilot
5 1 (3.03%) Grafana
5 1 (3.03%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 19 (57.58%) Microsoft
2 16 (48.48%) VMware
3 13 (39.39%) Splunk
4 12 (36.36%) Veeam
5 9 (27.27%) Brocade
5 9 (27.27%) Nimble Storage
5 9 (27.27%) SolarWinds
5 9 (27.27%) Tanium
6 4 (12.12%) Cisco
7 3 (9.09%) Synology
8 2 (6.06%) Google
8 2 (6.06%) Meraki
9 1 (3.03%) NetApp
9 1 (3.03%) Oracle
9 1 (3.03%) ServiceNow