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 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 46 28 54
Rank change year-on-year -18 +26 -35
Permanent jobs citing Linux 36 130 91
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 2.95% 5.91% 5.41%
As % of the Operating Systems category 58.06% 46.10% 41.36%
Number of salaries quoted 36 75 19
10th Percentile £41,992 £26,900 £40,126
25th Percentile £46,250 £32,000 £43,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -5.00% +6.69%
75th Percentile £78,750 £53,750 £57,500
90th Percentile - £62,500 £67,575
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -12.00% +4.17%

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 62 282 220
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 5.08% 12.81% 13.07%
Number of salaries quoted 56 192 93
10th Percentile £25,228 £24,775 £25,250
25th Percentile £37,170 £28,290 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £40,500 £33,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.46% +22.73% -26.67%
75th Percentile £77,500 £52,500 £49,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £57,500 £57,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - -14.29% -

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 31 May 2025.

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 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
South Wales -33 8 £47,500 -5.00% 14
West Wales +15 5 £50,124 +16.83%
North Wales -7 1 £40,101 +17.94% 6
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 1 (2.78%) Apache
1 1 (2.78%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 26 (72.22%) Azure
2 11 (30.56%) AWS
3 3 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
3 3 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (5.56%) Amazon S3
4 2 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (5.56%) GitHub
4 2 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (5.56%) Serverless
5 1 (2.78%) Amazon ElastiCache
5 1 (2.78%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 1 (2.78%) AWS CodeBuild
5 1 (2.78%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (2.78%) dbt
5 1 (2.78%) GCP
5 1 (2.78%) Pulumi
5 1 (2.78%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 22 (61.11%) Network Security
2 11 (30.56%) TCP/IP
3 10 (27.78%) Modbus
3 10 (27.78%) MQTT
4 4 (11.11%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (55.56%) RDBMS
1 20 (55.56%) Relational Database
2 17 (47.22%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (11.11%) MariaDB
3 4 (11.11%) MySQL
4 3 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (2.78%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (2.78%) Redis
Development Applications
1 5 (13.89%) Git
2 3 (8.33%) JMeter
3 2 (5.56%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.78%) Eclipse
4 1 (2.78%) Eclipse RCP
4 1 (2.78%) JIRA
4 1 (2.78%) JUnit
General
1 24 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 6 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 17 (47.22%) Lead
2 13 (36.11%) Software Engineer
3 12 (33.33%) Developer
4 11 (30.56%) Lead Software Engineer
5 8 (22.22%) Lead Developer
5 8 (22.22%) Software Team Leader
5 8 (22.22%) Team Leader
6 6 (16.67%) Firmware Developer
7 4 (11.11%) Administrator
7 4 (11.11%) Linux Administrator
7 4 (11.11%) Linux Systems Administrator
7 4 (11.11%) Senior
7 4 (11.11%) Software Developer
7 4 (11.11%) Systems Administrator
7 4 (11.11%) VMWare Administrator
8 3 (8.33%) Performance Engineer
8 3 (8.33%) Performance Test Engineer
8 3 (8.33%) Senior Software Engineer
8 3 (8.33%) Test Engineer
9 2 (5.56%) Lead Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (58.33%) .NET
2 4 (11.11%) Symfony
3 1 (2.78%) CSS
3 1 (2.78%) Django
3 1 (2.78%) HTML
3 1 (2.78%) JSP
3 1 (2.78%) Middleware
3 1 (2.78%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 18 (50.00%) IoT
2 10 (27.78%) Device Driver
3 4 (11.11%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 26 (72.22%) Unix
2 25 (69.44%) Windows
3 4 (11.11%) CentOS
3 4 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (11.11%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (69.44%) Agile
2 23 (63.89%) Problem-Solving
3 21 (58.33%) Software Engineering
4 19 (52.78%) Mentoring
5 18 (50.00%) Product Strategy
5 18 (50.00%) Technical Debt
5 18 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
6 16 (44.44%) Full-Stack Development
6 16 (44.44%) Web Development
7 15 (41.67%) CI/CD
8 10 (27.78%) API Development
8 10 (27.78%) Computer Architecture
9 6 (16.67%) DevOps
10 5 (13.89%) Computer Science
10 5 (13.89%) Infrastructure Monitoring
10 5 (13.89%) Open Source
11 4 (11.11%) Customer Service
11 4 (11.11%) Data Extraction
11 4 (11.11%) Roadmaps
11 4 (11.11%) Security Patching
Programming Languages
1 20 (55.56%) SQL
2 18 (50.00%) C#
3 10 (27.78%) C
3 10 (27.78%) C++
4 4 (11.11%) JavaScript
4 4 (11.11%) PHP
4 4 (11.11%) Python
5 3 (8.33%) Groovy
6 2 (5.56%) Bash
6 2 (5.56%) Java
7 1 (2.78%) Ada
7 1 (2.78%) Rust
Qualifications
1 6 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (2.78%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.78%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.89%) QA
System Software
1 10 (27.78%) Firmware
2 4 (11.11%) Docker
2 4 (11.11%) Virtual Servers
2 4 (11.11%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (11.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (13.89%) Grafana
2 3 (8.33%) Terraform
3 2 (5.56%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.78%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 4 (11.11%) VMware
2 1 (2.78%) Google