Linux Specialist Contract Job Trends in Fleet

Linux Specialist
Hampshire > Fleet

The median Linux Specialist daily rate in Fleet is £486, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Linux Specialist 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Fleet 8.33% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 9.52% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £454 - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 - -
75th Percentile £515 - -
90th Percentile £528 - -
Hampshire median daily rate £486 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Fleet

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Fleet. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Fleet with a recognized job title 21 18 10
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 87.50% 100.00% 90.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 5 2
10th Percentile £351 £480 £355
25th Percentile £386 £506 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £575 £375
Median % change year-on-year -23.48% +53.33% -41.18%
75th Percentile £471 £588 £388
90th Percentile £538 - £395
Hampshire median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +1.94%

Linux Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Fleet

For the 6 months to 18 September 2025, Linux Specialist contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Fleet region featuring Linux Specialist in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) JBoss
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) Perl
2 1 (50.00%) Unix
2 1 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) RHCSA
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) DHCP
2 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) RHCE
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Service Management
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) Security Management
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
2 1 (50.00%) Ubuntu

Linux Specialist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Fleet 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 1 (50.00%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) CentOS
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Ubuntu
2 1 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Change Management
1 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Network Management
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (50.00%) Security Management
1 1 (50.00%) Service Management
1 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Bash
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) Perl
2 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) RHCE
1 1 (50.00%) RHCSA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
1 1 (50.00%) KVM
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Progress Chef
2 1 (50.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) CyberArk
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (50.00%) VMware