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 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 47 9
Rank change year-on-year +34 -38 -6
Contract jobs citing Linux 23 13 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Basingstoke 16.43% 2.77% 15.18%
As % of the Operating Systems category 42.59% 14.13% 47.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 1 17
10th Percentile £548 - £470
25th Percentile £563 £525 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £612
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.13% +28.84%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £675
90th Percentile - - £718
Hampshire median daily rate £575 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +4.55% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
Hampshire median hourly rate £57.63 £70.00 £65.84
% change year-on-year -17.68% +6.31% +13.22%

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 54 92 61
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Basingstoke 38.57% 19.62% 31.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 52 23
10th Percentile £490 £513 £465
25th Percentile £550 £525 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £613 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.04% +2.08% +26.32%
75th Percentile £625 £825 £675
90th Percentile £650 - £706
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £550 £500
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £15.50
Median hourly rate - £35.00 £17.25
Median % change year-on-year - +102.90% -2.82%
75th Percentile - - £19.44
90th Percentile - - £31.63
Hampshire median hourly rate £57.75 £62.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -6.85% +7.83% +238.24%

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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

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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

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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 10 (43.48%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (30.43%) Apache
3 5 (21.74%) Confluence
4 4 (17.39%) CMS
4 4 (17.39%) Drupal
4 4 (17.39%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 9 (39.13%) AWS
2 8 (34.78%) GCP
2 8 (34.78%) IaaS
2 8 (34.78%) OpenShift
2 8 (34.78%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (47.83%) DHCP
1 11 (47.83%) DNS
2 8 (34.78%) Firewall
2 8 (34.78%) SMTP
2 8 (34.78%) VPN
3 4 (17.39%) Internet
4 3 (13.04%) iSCSI
4 3 (13.04%) SAN
4 3 (13.04%) VLAN
5 1 (4.35%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (34.78%) Amazon RDS
1 8 (34.78%) Big Data
1 8 (34.78%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (17.39%) MySQL
2 4 (17.39%) Relational Database
2 4 (17.39%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (21.74%) JIRA
2 4 (17.39%) Bitbucket Server
2 4 (17.39%) Git
3 2 (8.70%) MSI
3 2 (8.70%) Robot Framework
3 2 (8.70%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (4.35%) GitLab
General
1 9 (39.13%) Public Sector
2 4 (17.39%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (43.48%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 8 (34.78%) 3rd Line Support
2 8 (34.78%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 8 (34.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 8 (34.78%) Support Engineer
3 7 (30.43%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (30.43%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
3 7 (30.43%) Infrastructure Support
3 7 (30.43%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 4 (17.39%) Integration Engineer
4 4 (17.39%) PHP Software Engineer
4 4 (17.39%) Software Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Architect
5 2 (8.70%) Designer
6 1 (4.35%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Enterprise Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Enterprise Management Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Lead Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Lead Enterprise Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Virtualisation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (17.39%) Ajax
1 4 (17.39%) AngularJS
1 4 (17.39%) CodeIgniter
1 4 (17.39%) CSS
1 4 (17.39%) HTML
1 4 (17.39%) jQuery
1 4 (17.39%) LAMP
1 4 (17.39%) SOAP
1 4 (17.39%) Web Services
2 1 (4.35%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (4.35%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 11 (47.83%) PKI
2 8 (34.78%) Clustering
2 8 (34.78%) Data Centre
3 4 (17.39%) Legacy Code
4 3 (13.04%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 12 (52.17%) Windows
2 10 (43.48%) Windows Server
3 5 (21.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (17.39%) Unix
5 3 (13.04%) CentOS
5 3 (13.04%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (8.70%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (52.17%) DevOps
2 10 (43.48%) Agile
3 9 (39.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 8 (34.78%) Artificial Intelligence
4 8 (34.78%) Machine Learning
4 8 (34.78%) Software Deployment
5 4 (17.39%) Design Patterns
5 4 (17.39%) Kanban
5 4 (17.39%) MVC
5 4 (17.39%) OO
5 4 (17.39%) OOP
5 4 (17.39%) Scrum
5 4 (17.39%) Secure Coding
5 4 (17.39%) Software Engineering
5 4 (17.39%) TDD
6 3 (13.04%) Batch Scripting
6 3 (13.04%) Prototyping
6 3 (13.04%) RBAC
6 3 (13.04%) Test Automation
7 2 (8.70%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 13 (56.52%) PowerShell
2 7 (30.43%) PHP
3 4 (17.39%) Java
3 4 (17.39%) JavaScript
4 3 (13.04%) Python
5 1 (4.35%) Go
5 1 (4.35%) SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (82.61%) Security Cleared
2 15 (65.22%) DV Cleared
3 8 (34.78%) Degree
4 4 (17.39%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (52.17%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (47.83%) Active Directory
3 8 (34.78%) BitLocker
3 8 (34.78%) Docker
3 8 (34.78%) Hyper-V
3 8 (34.78%) Microsoft App-V
3 8 (34.78%) Terminal Services
3 8 (34.78%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (13.04%) vSphere
5 1 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (60.87%) Ansible
2 9 (39.13%) Kubernetes
3 8 (34.78%) Nagios
3 8 (34.78%) Puppet
3 8 (34.78%) vCenter Server
3 8 (34.78%) vMotion
4 3 (13.04%) Terraform
5 2 (8.70%) WMI
6 1 (4.35%) Rancher
Vendors
1 16 (69.57%) Microsoft
2 13 (56.52%) VMware
3 8 (34.78%) Citrix
3 8 (34.78%) Google
3 8 (34.78%) HP
3 8 (34.78%) Symantec
4 4 (17.39%) Zend
5 2 (8.70%) Red Hat
6 1 (4.35%) ServiceNow