Linux Jobs in Wales

Linux
UK > Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Wales with a requirement for Linux skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Linux over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 27 51 19
Rank change year-on-year +24 -32 +15
Permanent jobs citing Linux 133 83 203
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 6.52% 5.05% 10.52%
As % of the Operating Systems category 46.50% 43.46% 61.14%
Number of salaries quoted 78 19 86
10th Percentile £27,200 £34,126 £35,105
25th Percentile £33,063 £43,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,750 £50,000 £46,865
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +6.69% +17.16%
75th Percentile £53,750 £57,500 £50,000
90th Percentile £67,500 £67,755 £65,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

All Operating Systems
Wales

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 286 191 332
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 14.02% 11.62% 17.21%
Number of salaries quoted 197 84 151
10th Percentile £24,900 £25,000 £29,250
25th Percentile £28,290 £28,500 £34,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,500 £36,250 £43,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.72% -15.70% +14.67%
75th Percentile £52,500 £48,938 £50,000
90th Percentile £62,500 £57,500 £63,750
UK median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% - +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 11 May 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 11 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South Wales +14 102 £50,000 -4.76% 6
North Wales +9 12 £34,000 - 2
West Wales +10 6 £42,904 -4.66% 3
Mid Wales - 5 £42,500 - 1
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 34 (25.56%) WebLogic
2 30 (22.56%) Oracle Service Bus
3 7 (5.26%) OpenStack
4 5 (3.76%) Apache
5 4 (3.01%) ArcGIS
5 4 (3.01%) GeoServer
5 4 (3.01%) SharePoint
6 3 (2.26%) Confluence
6 3 (2.26%) Jupyter
7 2 (1.50%) IIS
8 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 34 (25.56%) Microsoft Office
2 32 (24.06%) Microsoft Excel
3 30 (22.56%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 30 (22.56%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (3.01%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 33 (24.81%) Azure
2 25 (18.80%) AWS
3 12 (9.02%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (6.02%) SaaS
5 7 (5.26%) Cloud Computing
5 7 (5.26%) Nutanix
5 7 (5.26%) Slack
6 6 (4.51%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (3.76%) Amazon S3
8 4 (3.01%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (3.01%) Amazon SQS
9 3 (2.26%) GCP
9 3 (2.26%) OpenShift
10 1 (0.75%) Cloudflare
10 1 (0.75%) Entra ID
10 1 (0.75%) Mimecast
10 1 (0.75%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 17 (12.78%) DNS
2 16 (12.03%) Firewall
3 12 (9.02%) DHCP
4 11 (8.27%) Internet
5 8 (6.02%) SSL
6 7 (5.26%) SAN
7 6 (4.51%) TCP/IP
7 6 (4.51%) VPN
8 5 (3.76%) IPsec
8 5 (3.76%) LAN
8 5 (3.76%) SNMP
8 5 (3.76%) WAN
9 4 (3.01%) BGP
9 4 (3.01%) HTTPS
9 4 (3.01%) VoIP
10 3 (2.26%) Ethernet
11 2 (1.50%) Broadband
11 2 (1.50%) PBX
11 2 (1.50%) RTP
11 2 (1.50%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (25.56%) Oracle Database
2 30 (22.56%) Oracle Database 10g
2 30 (22.56%) Oracle Database 11g
2 30 (22.56%) VLDB
3 9 (6.77%) RDBMS
3 9 (6.77%) Relational Database
4 8 (6.02%) MongoDB
5 7 (5.26%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (4.51%) MySQL
7 4 (3.01%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (3.01%) GIS
7 4 (3.01%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (3.01%) QGIS
8 3 (2.26%) Metabase
8 3 (2.26%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.75%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.75%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.75%) Power BI
9 1 (0.75%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (3.01%) Vagrant
2 3 (2.26%) CircleCI
2 3 (2.26%) Git
2 3 (2.26%) IBM UrbanCode
2 3 (2.26%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.26%) JIRA
2 3 (2.26%) Subversion
2 3 (2.26%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (0.75%) JMeter
3 1 (0.75%) PHPUnit
General
1 32 (24.06%) Analytical Skills
2 30 (22.56%) Social Skills
3 16 (12.03%) Finance
4 9 (6.77%) Manufacturing
5 6 (4.51%) Electronics
5 6 (4.51%) Telecoms
6 4 (3.01%) Legal
7 3 (2.26%) Banking
7 3 (2.26%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.26%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (2.26%) Welsh Language
8 2 (1.50%) Retail
9 1 (0.75%) Advertising
9 1 (0.75%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.75%) Law
9 1 (0.75%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 34 (25.56%) Senior
2 31 (23.31%) Analyst
2 31 (23.31%) Support Analyst
3 30 (22.56%) Applications Support
3 30 (22.56%) Applications Support Analyst
3 30 (22.56%) Oracle Analyst
3 30 (22.56%) Oracle Support Analyst
3 30 (22.56%) SQL Analyst
3 30 (22.56%) SQL Support Analyst
4 15 (11.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 14 (10.53%) IT Support
5 14 (10.53%) Software Engineer
6 13 (9.77%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 9 (6.77%) DevOps Engineer
7 9 (6.77%) Linux Engineer
8 7 (5.26%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
8 7 (5.26%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
8 7 (5.26%) Senior Linux Engineer
8 7 (5.26%) Senior Storage Engineer
8 7 (5.26%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.77%) RabbitMQ
2 6 (4.51%) .NET
3 5 (3.76%) Django
3 5 (3.76%) WinForms
3 5 (3.76%) WPF
3 5 (3.76%) YAML
4 4 (3.01%) Leaflet
4 4 (3.01%) OpenLayers
4 4 (3.01%) PostGIS
4 4 (3.01%) React
4 4 (3.01%) Spring Boot
5 2 (1.50%) .NET Core
5 2 (1.50%) CSS
5 2 (1.50%) HTML
6 1 (0.75%) LAMP
6 1 (0.75%) Laravel
6 1 (0.75%) REST
6 1 (0.75%) RESTful
6 1 (0.75%) SOAP
6 1 (0.75%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (16.54%) Data Centre
2 7 (5.26%) CMDB
2 7 (5.26%) Public Cloud
3 5 (3.76%) Management Information System
4 4 (3.01%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (3.01%) Legacy Applications
4 4 (3.01%) Tandem
5 3 (2.26%) Driving Licence
5 3 (2.26%) Raspberry Pi
6 2 (1.50%) CCTV
6 2 (1.50%) FPGA
6 2 (1.50%) PCIe
6 2 (1.50%) VHDL
7 1 (0.75%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.75%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.75%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.75%) Replication
7 1 (0.75%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.75%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 40 (30.08%) Unix
2 39 (29.32%) Windows
3 30 (22.56%) Solaris
4 19 (14.29%) Windows Server
5 11 (8.27%) Ubuntu
6 8 (6.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (3.76%) Data ONTAP
8 4 (3.01%) Android
8 4 (3.01%) CentOS
9 3 (2.26%) Windows 7
10 2 (1.50%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (1.50%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.75%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.75%) Debian
11 1 (0.75%) Fedora
11 1 (0.75%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.75%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (35.34%) Actionable Insight
2 35 (26.32%) Artificial Intelligence
2 35 (26.32%) Capacity Planning
2 35 (26.32%) Incident Management
2 35 (26.32%) Release Management
3 34 (25.56%) Capacity Management
4 31 (23.31%) ITSM
5 30 (22.56%) Performance Monitoring
5 30 (22.56%) Performance Tuning
6 28 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
6 28 (21.05%) Software Engineering
7 23 (17.29%) Agile
7 23 (17.29%) Project Management
8 18 (13.53%) DevOps
9 17 (12.78%) ITIL
10 16 (12.03%) Change Management
10 16 (12.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 13 (9.77%) Migration
12 12 (9.02%) CI/CD
13 11 (8.27%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 43 (32.33%) SQL
2 30 (22.56%) PL/SQL
3 24 (18.05%) C
4 21 (15.79%) C#
5 15 (11.28%) C++
5 15 (11.28%) Python
6 9 (6.77%) Shell Script
7 6 (4.51%) Java
7 6 (4.51%) JavaScript
8 4 (3.01%) Groovy
8 4 (3.01%) PowerShell
9 3 (2.26%) Bash
9 3 (2.26%) Embedded C
10 1 (0.75%) PHP
Qualifications
1 52 (39.10%) Degree
2 48 (36.09%) SC Cleared
2 48 (36.09%) Security Cleared
3 10 (7.52%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (3.76%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (3.76%) CCNA
4 5 (3.76%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (3.01%) AWS Certification
5 4 (3.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (3.01%) Azure Certification
5 4 (3.01%) HNC
6 3 (2.26%) HND
6 3 (2.26%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.50%) CCNP
7 2 (1.50%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.50%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (25.56%) SLA
2 1 (0.75%) ISO 9001
2 1 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.75%) MISRA
2 1 (0.75%) QA
System Software
1 30 (22.56%) Oracle RAC
2 22 (16.54%) Docker
3 16 (12.03%) Active Directory
4 15 (11.28%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (4.51%) Hyper-V
6 4 (3.01%) Firmware
6 4 (3.01%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.75%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.75%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 31 (23.31%) Ansible
2 30 (22.56%) Data Guard
2 30 (22.56%) Oracle RMAN
3 18 (13.53%) Kubernetes
4 14 (10.53%) Terraform
5 8 (6.02%) SCCM
6 5 (3.76%) Prometheus
6 5 (3.76%) vCenter Server
7 3 (2.26%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.50%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.75%) Grafana
9 1 (0.75%) PaperCut
9 1 (0.75%) Puppet
Vendors
1 42 (31.58%) Oracle
2 30 (22.56%) Remedy
2 30 (22.56%) Sun
3 24 (18.05%) VMware
4 15 (11.28%) Microsoft
5 5 (3.76%) Google
5 5 (3.76%) NetApp
5 5 (3.76%) Palo Alto
5 5 (3.76%) Red Hat
5 5 (3.76%) SolidFire
5 5 (3.76%) Veeam
6 4 (3.01%) ESRI
6 4 (3.01%) Sparx
7 3 (2.26%) IBM
7 3 (2.26%) Meraki
8 2 (1.50%) Altera
8 2 (1.50%) Cadence
8 2 (1.50%) Cisco
8 2 (1.50%) EMC
8 2 (1.50%) Lattice Semiconductor