Linux Contracts in South Wales

Linux
Wales > South Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales with a requirement for Linux skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Linux over the 6 months to 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 12 15 33
Rank change year-on-year +3 +18 -4
Contract jobs citing Linux 28 43 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 8.59% 9.00% 5.01%
As % of the Operating Systems category 56.00% 39.09% 26.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 34 33
10th Percentile £472 £450 £402
25th Percentile £519 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £551 £525 £488
Median % change year-on-year +4.95% +7.69% -11.36%
75th Percentile £690 £634 £625
90th Percentile £719 £650 £674
Wales median daily rate £551 £525 £475
% change year-on-year +4.95% +10.53% -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £48.00 - -
Wales median hourly rate £48.00 - -

All Operating Systems
South Wales

Linux is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 50 110 161
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 15.34% 23.01% 18.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 89 111
10th Percentile £133 £153 £163
25th Percentile £220 £263 £269
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year +6.50% +11.11% +16.13%
75th Percentile £630 £588 £575
90th Percentile £703 £650 £638
Wales median daily rate £500 £481 £425
% change year-on-year +3.90% +13.24% +3.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 11
10th Percentile £12.67 £19.32 £12.24
25th Percentile £13.31 £21.25 £16.69
Median hourly rate £14.36 £47.50 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year -69.77% +2.70% +184.62%
75th Percentile £31.18 £50.00 £47.40
90th Percentile £41.27 £55.25 -
Wales median hourly rate £14.36 £35.00 £46.25
% change year-on-year -58.97% -24.32% +205.79%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Linux in South Wales.

Daily rate trend for Linux in South Wales

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in South Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in South Wales over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in South Wales

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Linux in South Wales.

Hourly rate trend for Linux in South Wales

Linux
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 31 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cardiff +16 22 £550 +0.05% 8
Bridgend +2 4 £700 +43.59%
Newport -13 2 £325 -39.53% 1
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 12 (42.86%) Azure
2 11 (39.29%) GitHub
3 9 (32.14%) AWS
4 6 (21.43%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (10.71%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (10.71%) Amazon S3
7 2 (7.14%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (3.57%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (14.29%) Firewall
1 4 (14.29%) TCP/IP
1 4 (14.29%) VPN
2 2 (7.14%) SAN
3 1 (3.57%) 4G
3 1 (3.57%) LTE
3 1 (3.57%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (53.57%) MySQL
2 10 (35.71%) Relational Database
3 3 (10.71%) Amazon Aurora
3 3 (10.71%) Oracle Database
3 3 (10.71%) Oracle ODI
3 3 (10.71%) PowerCenter
3 3 (10.71%) RDBMS
4 2 (7.14%) SQL Server
5 1 (3.57%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 8 (28.57%) Cypress.io
1 8 (28.57%) GitLab
1 8 (28.57%) Postman
2 3 (10.71%) JIRA
3 2 (7.14%) Burp Suite
3 2 (7.14%) SonarQube
4 1 (3.57%) AppScan
4 1 (3.57%) Git
4 1 (3.57%) Jenkins
4 1 (3.57%) Subversion
General
1 5 (17.86%) Finance
1 5 (17.86%) Social Skills
2 3 (10.71%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (7.14%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.57%) Aerospace
4 1 (3.57%) Electronics
4 1 (3.57%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 9 (32.14%) DBA
2 7 (25.00%) Developer
2 7 (25.00%) PHP Developer
3 6 (21.43%) Full Stack Developer
3 6 (21.43%) Full Stack PHP Developer
4 5 (17.86%) Administrator
4 5 (17.86%) Oracle DBA
5 3 (10.71%) Azure Administrator
5 3 (10.71%) MySQL DBA
5 3 (10.71%) Senior
6 2 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Senior Storage Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Software Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Storage Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Consultant
7 1 (3.57%) NetApp Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (32.14%) Laravel
2 8 (28.57%) Vue
3 7 (25.00%) React
4 5 (17.86%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (10.71%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 7 (25.00%) Product Ownership
2 6 (21.43%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.57%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (3.57%) Mobile App
3 1 (3.57%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 8 (28.57%) Windows
2 6 (21.43%) Unix
3 5 (17.86%) AIX
4 4 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (7.14%) Data ONTAP
5 2 (7.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (39.29%) Agile
1 11 (39.29%) Project Management
2 9 (32.14%) DevOps
2 9 (32.14%) Full Stack Development
3 8 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 8 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
3 8 (28.57%) Test Automation
4 7 (25.00%) Migration
5 6 (21.43%) Analytics
6 5 (17.86%) Change Control
6 5 (17.86%) E-business
6 5 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (14.29%) Data Analytics
7 4 (14.29%) Identity Management
8 3 (10.71%) High Availability
8 3 (10.71%) Performance Tuning
8 3 (10.71%) Software Engineering
9 2 (7.14%) Database Security
9 2 (7.14%) OWASP
9 2 (7.14%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (35.71%) PHP
2 3 (10.71%) Shell Script
3 2 (7.14%) SQL
4 1 (3.57%) Bash
4 1 (3.57%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.57%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.57%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (21.43%) SC Cleared
1 6 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.14%) SANS
3 1 (3.57%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.57%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (42.86%) QA
2 2 (7.14%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (14.29%) Docker
2 3 (10.71%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (3.57%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (21.43%) Ansible
1 6 (21.43%) Grafana
1 6 (21.43%) Nagios
1 6 (21.43%) Terraform
2 5 (17.86%) Data Guard
2 5 (17.86%) Graylog
2 5 (17.86%) Prometheus
3 3 (10.71%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 2 (7.14%) Kubernetes
4 2 (7.14%) NetBackup
5 1 (3.57%) HP Fortify
5 1 (3.57%) Nessus
5 1 (3.57%) Progress Chef
5 1 (3.57%) Puppet
5 1 (3.57%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 9 (32.14%) Microsoft
2 5 (17.86%) Oracle
2 5 (17.86%) Splunk
3 3 (10.71%) Informatica
4 2 (7.14%) Brocade
4 2 (7.14%) Checkmarx
4 2 (7.14%) Cisco
4 2 (7.14%) Dell
4 2 (7.14%) NetApp
4 2 (7.14%) Veritas
5 1 (3.57%) Veracode