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 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
11 Jan 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 48 56
Rank change year-on-year +5 +8 +11
Permanent jobs citing Linux 32 26 39
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 3.09% 2.95% 4.08%
As % of the Operating Systems category 58.18% 28.57% 33.62%
Number of salaries quoted 13 16 30
10th Percentile - £43,449 £34,500
25th Percentile £50,250 £44,579 £39,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £49,104 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +42.55% -21.43% +38.89%
75th Percentile £78,790 £58,475 £72,433
90th Percentile £80,000 £74,144 -
UK median annual salary £61,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +2.50% - -4.00%

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 55 91 116
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 5.30% 10.33% 12.13%
Number of salaries quoted 30 48 77
10th Percentile £29,850 - £28,950
25th Percentile £35,438 £23,750 £33,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,750 £44,069 £40,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.35% +8.81% -10.00%
75th Percentile £63,021 £53,252 £58,750
90th Percentile £78,911 £59,750 £72,433
UK median annual salary £44,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% - -4.76%

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 11 January 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 11 January 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 +17 32 £70,000 +20.05% 58
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 12 (37.50%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 24 (75.00%) Azure
2 12 (37.50%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (12.50%) Google Workspace
3 4 (12.50%) SurveyMonkey
4 3 (9.38%) Amazon ECR
4 3 (9.38%) Amazon ECS
4 3 (9.38%) AWS
4 3 (9.38%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (9.38%) Azure Stack
4 3 (9.38%) dbt
4 3 (9.38%) Entra ID
4 3 (9.38%) GCP
4 3 (9.38%) Pulumi
5 2 (6.25%) Amazon ElastiCache
5 2 (6.25%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 2 (6.25%) PaaS
5 2 (6.25%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 12 (37.50%) DHCP
1 12 (37.50%) DNS
2 11 (34.38%) TCP/IP
3 8 (25.00%) Modbus
3 8 (25.00%) Network Security
4 4 (12.50%) Bluetooth
4 4 (12.50%) Firewall
4 4 (12.50%) Intrusion Detection
4 4 (12.50%) MQTT
4 4 (12.50%) VLAN
4 4 (12.50%) Wireshark
4 4 (12.50%) ZigBee
5 3 (9.38%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (46.88%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (9.38%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (9.38%) Redis
4 1 (3.13%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (12.50%) Burp Suite
1 4 (12.50%) Metasploit
General
1 14 (43.75%) Social Skills
2 13 (40.63%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (15.63%) Manufacturing
4 4 (12.50%) Aerospace
4 4 (12.50%) Law
5 3 (9.38%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.13%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 12 (37.50%) Systems Engineer
2 4 (12.50%) Firmware Engineer
2 4 (12.50%) Senior
3 3 (9.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (9.38%) IT Engineer
3 3 (9.38%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) Senior Platform Engineer
5 1 (3.13%) Delivery Manager
5 1 (3.13%) Design Engineer
5 1 (3.13%) Electronics Design Engineer
5 1 (3.13%) Electronics Engineer
5 1 (3.13%) Lead
5 1 (3.13%) Senior Electronics Design Engineer
5 1 (3.13%) Senior Electronics Engineer
5 1 (3.13%) Service Delivery Manager
5 1 (3.13%) Service Manager
5 1 (3.13%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 1 (3.13%) Technical Manager
5 1 (3.13%) Technical Service Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.38%) Django
2 1 (3.13%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 12 (37.50%) Legacy Systems
2 9 (28.13%) IoT
3 4 (12.50%) CAN bus
3 4 (12.50%) Cyber Threat
3 4 (12.50%) Device Driver
3 4 (12.50%) Operational Technology
3 4 (12.50%) SCADA
4 3 (9.38%) Data Centre
4 3 (9.38%) Embedded Systems
4 3 (9.38%) FPGA
4 3 (9.38%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (9.38%) Onboarding
5 2 (6.25%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (3.13%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 21 (65.63%) Windows
2 15 (46.88%) Windows Server
3 12 (37.50%) Windows Server 2016
4 9 (28.13%) Unix
5 4 (12.50%) Android
5 4 (12.50%) Kali Linux
5 4 (12.50%) Ubuntu
6 3 (9.38%) Rocky
6 3 (9.38%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 16 (50.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
2 14 (43.75%) Migration
3 12 (37.50%) Customer Experience
3 12 (37.50%) Customer Service
3 12 (37.50%) Email Filtering
3 12 (37.50%) Kalman Filter
3 12 (37.50%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 12 (37.50%) Web Filtering
4 7 (21.88%) Prototyping
5 5 (15.63%) Cybersecurity
5 5 (15.63%) Software Engineering
5 5 (15.63%) Technical Debt
6 4 (12.50%) Computer Architecture
6 4 (12.50%) Ergonomics
6 4 (12.50%) Machine Learning
6 4 (12.50%) Psychology
6 4 (12.50%) Risk Management
6 4 (12.50%) Security Architecture
6 4 (12.50%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 9 (28.13%) C++
2 7 (21.88%) Python
3 5 (15.63%) C
4 4 (12.50%) Java
4 4 (12.50%) R
4 4 (12.50%) Rust
5 1 (3.13%) C#
5 1 (3.13%) Embedded C
5 1 (3.13%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 22 (68.75%) SC Cleared
1 22 (68.75%) Security Cleared
2 7 (21.88%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (15.63%) Degree
4 4 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (9.38%) Azure Certification
5 3 (9.38%) DV Cleared
5 3 (9.38%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (37.50%) Cyber Essentials
1 12 (37.50%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 15 (46.88%) Active Directory
1 15 (46.88%) Hyper-V
2 12 (37.50%) Terminal Server
3 4 (12.50%) Firmware
4 3 (9.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (12.50%) Nessus
1 4 (12.50%) Nmap
2 3 (9.38%) Kubernetes
2 3 (9.38%) Terraform
3 2 (6.25%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 16 (50.00%) Splunk
2 13 (40.63%) VMware
3 12 (37.50%) Brocade
3 12 (37.50%) Microsoft
3 12 (37.50%) Nimble Storage
3 12 (37.50%) SolarWinds
3 12 (37.50%) Tanium
3 12 (37.50%) Veeam
4 7 (21.88%) Google
5 4 (12.50%) Cisco
5 4 (12.50%) Qualtrics
5 4 (12.50%) Red Hat
6 3 (9.38%) Dell
60 Linux jobs in Wales