Linux Jobs in Wales

Linux
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in 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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 27 46 48
Rank change year-on-year +19 +2 -20
Permanent jobs citing Linux 97 95 100
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 5.03% 5.56% 5.10%
As % of the Operating Systems category 44.50% 37.25% 42.74%
Number of salaries quoted 56 21 84
10th Percentile £27,000 £42,500 £34,413
25th Percentile £37,101 £43,500 £37,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £46,865
Median % change year-on-year - +6.69% +17.16%
75th Percentile £53,750 £58,750 £50,000
90th Percentile £56,999 £67,525 £63,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +7.14%

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 218 255 234
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 11.30% 14.91% 11.94%
Number of salaries quoted 153 103 143
10th Percentile £24,500 £25,250 £29,800
25th Percentile £29,000 £26,875 £35,480
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,067 £35,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.33% -22.22% +20.00%
75th Percentile £53,750 £49,125 £50,000
90th Percentile £57,500 £58,500 £61,250
UK median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.52% - +5.00%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Wales

Linux
Salary Trend in Wales

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

Salary trend for Linux in Wales

Linux
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux in Wales over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 2024. 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 +7 75 £50,000 -9.09% 5
North Wales +2 8 £34,000 -
West Wales +19 5 £40,808 -9.32%
Mid Wales - 2 £55,000 - 2
Linux
UK

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 28 (28.87%) WebLogic
2 24 (24.74%) Oracle Service Bus
3 5 (5.15%) Apache
4 4 (4.12%) Confluence
4 4 (4.12%) SharePoint
5 3 (3.09%) Jupyter
5 3 (3.09%) OpenStack
6 1 (1.03%) IIS
6 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 28 (28.87%) Microsoft Office
2 26 (26.80%) Microsoft Excel
3 24 (24.74%) MS Visio
4 2 (2.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 24 (24.74%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (4.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 19 (19.59%) Azure
2 18 (18.56%) AWS
3 9 (9.28%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (7.22%) Cloud Computing
4 7 (7.22%) Slack
5 5 (5.15%) Amazon S3
6 4 (4.12%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (4.12%) Amazon SQS
6 4 (4.12%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (4.12%) SaaS
7 3 (3.09%) Nutanix
8 1 (1.03%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.03%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.03%) GCP
8 1 (1.03%) GitHub
8 1 (1.03%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 16 (16.49%) Firewall
2 12 (12.37%) DNS
3 11 (11.34%) Internet
4 8 (8.25%) SSL
5 7 (7.22%) DHCP
5 7 (7.22%) SAN
6 6 (6.19%) TCP/IP
6 6 (6.19%) VPN
7 5 (5.15%) IPsec
7 5 (5.15%) LAN
7 5 (5.15%) SNMP
7 5 (5.15%) WAN
8 4 (4.12%) BGP
8 4 (4.12%) HTTPS
8 4 (4.12%) VoIP
9 2 (2.06%) Network Security
9 2 (2.06%) RS-232
9 2 (2.06%) RTP
9 2 (2.06%) VLAN
9 2 (2.06%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (28.87%) Oracle Database
2 24 (24.74%) Oracle Database 10g
2 24 (24.74%) Oracle Database 11g
2 24 (24.74%) VLDB
3 10 (10.31%) Relational Database
4 9 (9.28%) RDBMS
5 7 (7.22%) MongoDB
6 6 (6.19%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (5.15%) MySQL
8 4 (4.12%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (3.09%) Metabase
10 1 (1.03%) Data Lake
10 1 (1.03%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (4.12%) JIRA
1 4 (4.12%) Vagrant
2 3 (3.09%) Visual Studio Code
3 2 (2.06%) Git
3 2 (2.06%) Subversion
4 1 (1.03%) GitLab
4 1 (1.03%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.03%) JMeter
General
1 26 (26.80%) Analytical Skills
2 21 (21.65%) Social Skills
3 12 (12.37%) Finance
4 7 (7.22%) Manufacturing
5 6 (6.19%) Telecoms
6 4 (4.12%) Electronics
7 3 (3.09%) Welsh Language
8 2 (2.06%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.06%) Legal
8 2 (2.06%) Retail
9 1 (1.03%) Advertising
9 1 (1.03%) Aerospace
9 1 (1.03%) Law
9 1 (1.03%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 24 (24.74%) Analyst
1 24 (24.74%) Applications Support
1 24 (24.74%) Applications Support Analyst
1 24 (24.74%) Oracle Analyst
1 24 (24.74%) Oracle Support Analyst
1 24 (24.74%) SQL Analyst
1 24 (24.74%) SQL Support Analyst
1 24 (24.74%) Support Analyst
2 17 (17.53%) Senior
3 10 (10.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 9 (9.28%) IT Support
4 9 (9.28%) Linux Engineer
4 9 (9.28%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 7 (7.22%) Applications Engineer
5 7 (7.22%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
5 7 (7.22%) Senior Linux Engineer
5 7 (7.22%) Senior Storage Engineer
5 7 (7.22%) Storage Engineer
6 6 (6.19%) Architect
6 6 (6.19%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (9.28%) RabbitMQ
2 5 (5.15%) WinForms
2 5 (5.15%) WPF
2 5 (5.15%) YAML
3 4 (4.12%) .NET
3 4 (4.12%) Spring Boot
4 2 (2.06%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 13 (13.40%) Data Centre
2 7 (7.22%) CMDB
3 4 (4.12%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (4.12%) Public Cloud
4 3 (3.09%) Raspberry Pi
5 2 (2.06%) CCTV
5 2 (2.06%) Driving Licence
5 2 (2.06%) FPGA
5 2 (2.06%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.06%) PCIe
5 2 (2.06%) Tandem
5 2 (2.06%) VHDL
6 1 (1.03%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.03%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.03%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 31 (31.96%) Unix
2 29 (29.90%) Windows
3 24 (24.74%) Solaris
4 13 (13.40%) Windows Server
5 8 (8.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (5.15%) Data ONTAP
6 5 (5.15%) Ubuntu
7 4 (4.12%) CentOS
8 3 (3.09%) Windows 7
9 2 (2.06%) Android
9 2 (2.06%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (1.03%) Windows 10
10 1 (1.03%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (1.03%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (38.14%) Actionable Insight
2 29 (29.90%) Artificial Intelligence
2 29 (29.90%) Capacity Planning
2 29 (29.90%) Incident Management
2 29 (29.90%) Release Management
3 28 (28.87%) Capacity Management
4 25 (25.77%) ITSM
5 24 (24.74%) Performance Monitoring
5 24 (24.74%) Performance Tuning
6 21 (21.65%) Problem-Solving
7 16 (16.49%) Change Management
7 16 (16.49%) Project Management
7 16 (16.49%) Software Engineering
8 13 (13.40%) Migration
9 11 (11.34%) Agile
9 11 (11.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 11 (11.34%) SDLC
10 9 (9.28%) ITIL
11 8 (8.25%) Service Delivery
12 7 (7.22%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 34 (35.05%) SQL
2 24 (24.74%) PL/SQL
3 18 (18.56%) C
4 16 (16.49%) C#
5 14 (14.43%) C++
6 9 (9.28%) Python
7 8 (8.25%) Shell Script
8 4 (4.12%) Java
9 2 (2.06%) Bash
9 2 (2.06%) Embedded C
10 1 (1.03%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 39 (40.21%) Degree
1 39 (40.21%) SC Cleared
1 39 (40.21%) Security Cleared
2 5 (5.15%) BPSS Clearance
2 5 (5.15%) CCNA
2 5 (5.15%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (4.12%) AWS Certification
3 4 (4.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 4 (4.12%) Azure Certification
3 4 (4.12%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (3.09%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.06%) CCNP
5 2 (2.06%) HNC
5 2 (2.06%) HND
5 2 (2.06%) PMI Certification
5 2 (2.06%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (27.84%) SLA
2 1 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.03%) QA
System Software
1 24 (24.74%) Oracle RAC
2 13 (13.40%) Docker
3 11 (11.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (9.28%) Active Directory
5 4 (4.12%) Hyper-V
6 2 (2.06%) Firmware
6 2 (2.06%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (1.03%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (1.03%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 24 (24.74%) Data Guard
1 24 (24.74%) Oracle RMAN
2 22 (22.68%) Ansible
3 11 (11.34%) Kubernetes
3 11 (11.34%) Terraform
4 5 (5.15%) Prometheus
4 5 (5.15%) vCenter Server
5 3 (3.09%) SCCM
6 1 (1.03%) Grafana
6 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.03%) Puppet
Vendors
1 37 (38.14%) Oracle
2 24 (24.74%) Remedy
2 24 (24.74%) Sun
3 18 (18.56%) VMware
4 10 (10.31%) Microsoft
5 5 (5.15%) NetApp
5 5 (5.15%) Palo Alto
5 5 (5.15%) Red Hat
5 5 (5.15%) SolidFire
6 4 (4.12%) Sparx
6 4 (4.12%) Veeam
7 3 (3.09%) Meraki
8 2 (2.06%) Altera
8 2 (2.06%) Cadence
8 2 (2.06%) Cisco
8 2 (2.06%) EMC
8 2 (2.06%) Lattice Semiconductor
8 2 (2.06%) SonicWALL
9 1 (1.03%) Google
9 1 (1.03%) Sophos