Linux Contracts in Basingstoke

Linux
Hampshire > Basingstoke

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Basingstoke requiring Linux skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Linux over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 41 8
Rank change year-on-year +31 -33 -4
Contract jobs citing Linux 18 12 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Basingstoke 13.33% 2.80% 17.81%
As % of the Operating Systems category 42.86% 16.44% 52.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 1 24
10th Percentile - - £466
25th Percentile £563 £525 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £606
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -9.24% +21.20%
75th Percentile £597 £575 £688
90th Percentile £600 - £713
Hampshire median daily rate £575 £548 £562
% change year-on-year +5.02% -2.58% +4.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
Hampshire median hourly rate £59.13 £62.50 £65.84
% change year-on-year -5.40% -5.08% +4.53%

All Operating Systems
Basingstoke

Linux falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring operating system skills in Basingstoke.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 42 73 75
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Basingstoke 31.11% 17.06% 34.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 36 34
10th Percentile £490 £500 £463
25th Percentile £550 £525 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +26.32%
75th Percentile £625 £825 £675
90th Percentile £650 - £713
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
10th Percentile - - £16.18
25th Percentile - - £17.19
Median hourly rate - £35.00 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year - +86.67% +1.35%
75th Percentile - - £25.56
90th Percentile - - £36.48
Hampshire median hourly rate £60.50 £60.00 £55.50
% change year-on-year +0.83% +8.11% +226.47%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Basingstoke

Job postings citing Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Basingstoke.

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Basingstoke

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Basingstoke

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

Daily rate trend for Linux in Basingstoke

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Basingstoke

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux in Basingstoke

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Basingstoke 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 9 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (27.78%) Confluence
3 4 (22.22%) Apache
3 4 (22.22%) CMS
3 4 (22.22%) Drupal
3 4 (22.22%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 9 (50.00%) AWS
2 8 (44.44%) GCP
2 8 (44.44%) IaaS
2 8 (44.44%) OpenShift
2 8 (44.44%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (61.11%) DHCP
1 11 (61.11%) DNS
2 8 (44.44%) Firewall
2 8 (44.44%) SMTP
2 8 (44.44%) VPN
3 4 (22.22%) Internet
4 3 (16.67%) iSCSI
4 3 (16.67%) SAN
4 3 (16.67%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (44.44%) Amazon RDS
1 8 (44.44%) Big Data
1 8 (44.44%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (22.22%) MySQL
2 4 (22.22%) Relational Database
2 4 (22.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (27.78%) JIRA
2 4 (22.22%) Bitbucket Server
2 4 (22.22%) Git
3 1 (5.56%) GitLab
General
1 7 (38.89%) Public Sector
2 3 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (44.44%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 8 (44.44%) 3rd Line Support
1 8 (44.44%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
1 8 (44.44%) Support Engineer
2 7 (38.89%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (38.89%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
2 7 (38.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (38.89%) Infrastructure Support
2 7 (38.89%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) PHP Software Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) Software Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Designer
5 1 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Management Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Lead
5 1 (5.56%) Lead Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Lead Enterprise Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Virtualisation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (22.22%) Ajax
1 4 (22.22%) AngularJS
1 4 (22.22%) CodeIgniter
1 4 (22.22%) CSS
1 4 (22.22%) HTML
1 4 (22.22%) jQuery
1 4 (22.22%) LAMP
1 4 (22.22%) SOAP
1 4 (22.22%) Web Services
2 1 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 9 (50.00%) PKI
2 8 (44.44%) Clustering
2 8 (44.44%) Data Centre
3 4 (22.22%) Legacy Code
4 3 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 9 (50.00%) Windows
2 8 (44.44%) Windows Server
3 4 (22.22%) Unix
4 3 (16.67%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) DevOps
2 8 (44.44%) Artificial Intelligence
2 8 (44.44%) Machine Learning
2 8 (44.44%) Software Deployment
3 7 (38.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 6 (33.33%) Agile
5 4 (22.22%) Design Patterns
5 4 (22.22%) Kanban
5 4 (22.22%) MVC
5 4 (22.22%) OO
5 4 (22.22%) OOP
5 4 (22.22%) Scrum
5 4 (22.22%) Secure Coding
5 4 (22.22%) Software Engineering
5 4 (22.22%) TDD
6 3 (16.67%) RBAC
7 1 (5.56%) CI/CD
7 1 (5.56%) Containerisation
7 1 (5.56%) Customer Requirements
7 1 (5.56%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 9 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 4 (22.22%) Java
2 4 (22.22%) JavaScript
2 4 (22.22%) PHP
3 1 (5.56%) Go
3 1 (5.56%) Python
Qualifications
1 14 (77.78%) Security Cleared
2 11 (61.11%) DV Cleared
3 8 (44.44%) Degree
4 4 (22.22%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 9 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (44.44%) BitLocker
2 8 (44.44%) Docker
2 8 (44.44%) Hyper-V
2 8 (44.44%) Microsoft App-V
2 8 (44.44%) Terminal Services
2 8 (44.44%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (16.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (50.00%) Ansible
1 9 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 8 (44.44%) Nagios
2 8 (44.44%) Puppet
2 8 (44.44%) vCenter Server
2 8 (44.44%) vMotion
3 1 (5.56%) Rancher
3 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (72.22%) Microsoft
2 9 (50.00%) VMware
3 8 (44.44%) Citrix
3 8 (44.44%) Google
3 8 (44.44%) HP
3 8 (44.44%) Symantec
4 4 (22.22%) Zend
5 1 (5.56%) ServiceNow