Linux Contract Job Trends in Farnborough

Linux
Hampshire > Farnborough

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Farnborough requiring Linux skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 9 17
Rank change year-on-year -9 +8 +1
Contract jobs citing Linux 10 31 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Farnborough 10.20% 18.24% 5.74%
As % of the Operating Systems category 52.63% 65.96% 26.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 24 6
10th Percentile £375 £440 £430
25th Percentile £380 £494 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £579 £569
Median % change year-on-year -13.57% +1.71% +5.32%
75th Percentile £509 £627 £655
90th Percentile £519 £672 £669
Hampshire median daily rate £513 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -6.82% +2.33% +2.38%

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 19 47 26
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Farnborough 19.39% 27.65% 21.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 36 16
10th Percentile £371 £469 £275
25th Percentile £380 £523 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £596 £425
Median % change year-on-year -17.82% +40.29% -13.27%
75th Percentile £509 £672 £513
90th Percentile £523 £688 £647
Hampshire median daily rate £508 £535 £521
% change year-on-year -5.14% +2.69% +2.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - £41.88
25th Percentile - - £56.63
Median hourly rate - - £59.25
75th Percentile - - £60.00
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median hourly rate £25.15 £70.00 £58.50
% change year-on-year -64.07% +19.66% +178.57%

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

Linux
Daily Rate Trend in Farnborough

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Farnborough citing Linux.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Farnborough citing Linux

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in Farnborough

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in Farnborough over the 6 months to 27 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in Farnborough

Linux
Hourly Rate Trend in Farnborough

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Farnborough citing Linux.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Farnborough citing Linux

Linux
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) Azure
1 3 (30.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (10.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) GitHub
2 1 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (10.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) GitLab
2 1 (10.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (10.00%) JMeter
2 1 (10.00%) JUnit
2 1 (10.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Automation Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Security Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) Swagger
2 2 (20.00%) RESTful
3 1 (10.00%) Hibernate
3 1 (10.00%) Kafka
3 1 (10.00%) REST
3 1 (10.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Private Cloud
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (10.00%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 7 (70.00%) Windows
2 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (40.00%) Observability
3 3 (30.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 3 (30.00%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (30.00%) High Availability
3 3 (30.00%) OSINT
3 3 (30.00%) SIEM
3 3 (30.00%) Threat Intelligence
4 2 (20.00%) Agile
4 2 (20.00%) API Development
4 2 (20.00%) Configuration Management
4 2 (20.00%) Containerisation
4 2 (20.00%) Design Patterns
4 2 (20.00%) DevOps
4 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (20.00%) Task Automation
5 1 (10.00%) Cyber Threat Analysis
5 1 (10.00%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) Bash
1 4 (40.00%) Java
1 4 (40.00%) PowerShell
1 4 (40.00%) Python
2 3 (30.00%) Go
2 3 (30.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (30.00%) Kusto Query Language
2 3 (30.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (80.00%) SC Cleared
1 8 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (60.00%) DV Cleared
3 2 (20.00%) CASP
3 2 (20.00%) CISSP
3 2 (20.00%) CompTIA CySA+
3 2 (20.00%) Degree
3 2 (20.00%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 5 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) Ansible
2 4 (40.00%) Terraform
3 3 (30.00%) Proxmox
3 3 (30.00%) Rundeck
3 3 (30.00%) Salt
4 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
5 1 (10.00%) Progress Chef
5 1 (10.00%) vRealize
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) VMware
2 3 (30.00%) ArcSight