Linux Contracts in Wales

Linux
UK > Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 18 20 29
Rank change year-on-year +2 +9 +6
Contract jobs citing Linux 27 50 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 6.63% 8.64% 4.87%
As % of the Operating Systems category 46.55% 32.89% 25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 40 35
10th Percentile £465 £450 £400
25th Percentile £513 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £551 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.86% +10.53% -13.64%
75th Percentile £667 £638 £619
90th Percentile £703 £650 £668
UK median daily rate £540 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -6.09% - +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £48.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £55.45
% change year-on-year - +17.22% +10.90%

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 contract job vacancies advertised in Wales with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 58 152 184
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 14.25% 26.25% 19.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 118 129
10th Percentile £133 £156 £148
25th Percentile £213 £185 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £427
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +14.17% +0.47%
75th Percentile £588 £572 £575
90th Percentile £689 £650 £638
UK median daily rate £470 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -6.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 11
10th Percentile £12.67 £16.14 £12.24
25th Percentile £13.31 £18.84 £14.13
Median hourly rate £14.36 £35.00 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year -58.97% -24.32% +205.79%
75th Percentile £31.18 £49.69 £47.14
90th Percentile £41.27 £54.38 £47.40
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £45.06 £22.25
% change year-on-year -50.06% +102.49% +27.14%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Linux in Wales

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in Wales over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in Wales

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux in Wales

Linux
Contract Job Locations in 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 Wales region over the 6 months to 9 June 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
South Wales -1 26 £551 +4.86% 12
North Wales - 1 - - 3
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 12 (44.44%) Azure
2 11 (40.74%) GitHub
3 9 (33.33%) AWS
4 6 (22.22%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (14.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (11.11%) Amazon S3
7 2 (7.41%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (3.70%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (14.81%) Firewall
1 4 (14.81%) TCP/IP
1 4 (14.81%) VPN
2 2 (7.41%) SAN
3 1 (3.70%) 4G
3 1 (3.70%) LTE
3 1 (3.70%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (55.56%) MySQL
2 10 (37.04%) Relational Database
3 3 (11.11%) Amazon Aurora
3 3 (11.11%) Oracle Database
3 3 (11.11%) Oracle ODI
3 3 (11.11%) PowerCenter
3 3 (11.11%) RDBMS
4 2 (7.41%) SQL Server
5 1 (3.70%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 8 (29.63%) Cypress.io
1 8 (29.63%) GitLab
1 8 (29.63%) Postman
2 3 (11.11%) JIRA
3 2 (7.41%) Burp Suite
3 2 (7.41%) SonarQube
4 1 (3.70%) AppScan
4 1 (3.70%) Git
4 1 (3.70%) Jenkins
4 1 (3.70%) Subversion
General
1 6 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 5 (18.52%) Finance
3 3 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (7.41%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.70%) Aerospace
5 1 (3.70%) Electronics
5 1 (3.70%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 9 (33.33%) DBA
2 7 (25.93%) Developer
2 7 (25.93%) PHP Developer
3 6 (22.22%) Full Stack Developer
3 6 (22.22%) Full Stack PHP Developer
4 5 (18.52%) Administrator
4 5 (18.52%) Oracle DBA
5 3 (11.11%) Azure Administrator
5 3 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (11.11%) MySQL DBA
5 3 (11.11%) Senior
6 2 (7.41%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Senior Storage Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Software Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Storage Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Consultant
7 1 (3.70%) Full Stack Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (33.33%) Laravel
2 8 (29.63%) Vue
3 7 (25.93%) React
4 5 (18.52%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (11.11%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 7 (25.93%) Product Ownership
2 6 (22.22%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.70%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (3.70%) Mobile App
3 1 (3.70%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 8 (29.63%) Windows
2 5 (18.52%) AIX
3 4 (14.81%) Unix
4 2 (7.41%) Data ONTAP
4 2 (7.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (7.41%) Windows Server
5 1 (3.70%) CentOS
5 1 (3.70%) Debian
5 1 (3.70%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (40.74%) Agile
1 11 (40.74%) Project Management
2 9 (33.33%) DevOps
2 9 (33.33%) Full Stack Development
3 8 (29.63%) CI/CD
3 8 (29.63%) Continuous Integration
3 8 (29.63%) Test Automation
4 7 (25.93%) Migration
5 6 (22.22%) Analytics
6 5 (18.52%) Change Control
6 5 (18.52%) E-business
6 5 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (14.81%) Data Analytics
8 3 (11.11%) High Availability
8 3 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
9 2 (7.41%) Front End Development
9 2 (7.41%) Identity Management
9 2 (7.41%) OWASP
9 2 (7.41%) Security Testing
9 2 (7.41%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 10 (37.04%) PHP
2 3 (11.11%) Shell Script
3 2 (7.41%) SQL
4 1 (3.70%) Bash
4 1 (3.70%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.70%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.70%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (14.81%) SC Cleared
1 4 (14.81%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.41%) SANS
3 1 (3.70%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.70%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (44.44%) QA
2 2 (7.41%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (14.81%) Docker
2 3 (11.11%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (3.70%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (22.22%) Ansible
1 6 (22.22%) Grafana
1 6 (22.22%) Nagios
1 6 (22.22%) Terraform
2 5 (18.52%) Data Guard
2 5 (18.52%) Graylog
2 5 (18.52%) Prometheus
3 3 (11.11%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 2 (7.41%) Kubernetes
4 2 (7.41%) NetBackup
5 1 (3.70%) HP Fortify
5 1 (3.70%) Nessus
5 1 (3.70%) Progress Chef
5 1 (3.70%) Puppet
5 1 (3.70%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 9 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 5 (18.52%) Oracle
2 5 (18.52%) Splunk
3 3 (11.11%) Informatica
4 2 (7.41%) Brocade
4 2 (7.41%) Checkmarx
4 2 (7.41%) Cisco
4 2 (7.41%) Dell
4 2 (7.41%) NetApp
4 2 (7.41%) Veritas
5 1 (3.70%) Red Hat
5 1 (3.70%) Veracode