Linux Contracts in Farnborough

Linux
Hampshire > Farnborough

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Farnborough 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 14 20 17
Rank change year-on-year +6 -3 -8
Contract jobs citing Linux 11 6 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Farnborough 12.09% 4.35% 7.52%
As % of the Operating Systems category 37.93% 60.00% 27.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 4 5
10th Percentile £568 £408 £410
25th Percentile £625 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £627 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year +25.40% -13.04% +15.00%
75th Percentile £725 £601 £700
90th Percentile £740 £648 -
Hampshire median daily rate £575 £548 £562
% change year-on-year +5.02% -2.58% +4.07%

All Operating Systems
Farnborough

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 Farnborough.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 29 10 37
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Farnborough 31.87% 7.25% 27.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 7 20
10th Percentile - £415 £213
25th Percentile £425 £475 £297
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £600 £425
Median % change year-on-year -22.50% +41.18% -15.00%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £636
90th Percentile £706 £677 £655
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - £58.65
25th Percentile £78.75 - -
Median hourly rate £82.50 - £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +336.36%
75th Percentile £86.25 - -
90th Percentile - - £64.50
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 Farnborough

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Farnborough

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Farnborough

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

Daily rate trend for Linux in Farnborough

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Daily Rate Histogram in Farnborough

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in Farnborough over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in Farnborough

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Farnborough

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux in Farnborough

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Farnborough 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:

Applications
1 3 (27.27%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) Azure
1 2 (18.18%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (9.09%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) DHCP
1 1 (9.09%) DNS
General
1 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
1 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (72.73%) Architect
2 7 (63.64%) Infrastructure Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Linux Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
2 1 (9.09%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 10 (90.91%) Windows
2 1 (9.09%) CentOS
2 1 (9.09%) Fedora
2 1 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Privileged Access Management
1 7 (63.64%) Process Improvement
2 2 (18.18%) Cyber Threat Analysis
2 2 (18.18%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 2 (18.18%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (18.18%) Event Correlation
2 2 (18.18%) Incident Response
2 2 (18.18%) Mentoring
2 2 (18.18%) OSINT
2 2 (18.18%) Requirements Gathering
2 2 (18.18%) SIEM
2 2 (18.18%) Situational Awareness
2 2 (18.18%) Threat Analysis
2 2 (18.18%) Threat Detection
2 2 (18.18%) Threat Intelligence
3 1 (9.09%) Cryptography
3 1 (9.09%) Key Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (9.09%) Bash
Qualifications
1 9 (81.82%) Security Cleared
2 8 (72.73%) DV Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) GDPR
1 1 (9.09%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (63.64%) Active Directory
2 3 (27.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Ansible
Vendors
1 7 (63.64%) VMware
2 5 (45.45%) Microsoft
3 2 (18.18%) ArcSight
4 1 (9.09%) Red Hat