Linux Engineer Contracts in Hampshire

Linux Engineer
South East > Hampshire

The median Linux Engineer daily rate in Hampshire is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 88 97 124
Rank change year-on-year +9 +27 -46
Contract jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 11 6 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 0.69% 0.42% 0.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.77% 0.45% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 6
10th Percentile - - £406
25th Percentile £513 £563 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £520
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +10.58% +48.57%
75th Percentile £538 £591 £566
90th Percentile - £596 £588
South East median daily rate £500 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -9.09% +15.79% +35.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.25 - -
Median hourly rate £62.50 - -
75th Percentile £63.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £62.50 - £17.50
% change year-on-year - - -45.74%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Hampshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Hampshire. 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 Hampshire with a recognized job title 1,437 1,341 2,014
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.98% 94.04% 94.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 815 871 1,215
10th Percentile £363 £231 £250
25th Percentile £450 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% +5.00% +9.71%
75th Percentile £675 £615 £600
90th Percentile £738 £700 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 174 108 163
10th Percentile £13.48 £18.25 £13.50
25th Percentile £34.06 £22.36 £16.25
Median hourly rate £57.35 £52.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.24% +138.64% -22.50%
75th Percentile £62.50 £67.50 £44.48
90th Percentile £76.86 £75.00 £62.15
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £48.40 £21.00
% change year-on-year -1.86% +130.48% -13.40%

Linux Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

Job postings that featured Linux Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Hampshire.

Job vacancy trend for Linux Engineer in Hampshire

Linux Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Daily rate trend for Linux Engineer in Hampshire

Linux Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux Engineer in Hampshire

Linux Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux Engineer within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Winchester - 5 - -
Portsmouth - 2 - -
Farnborough - 1 - - 4
Linux Engineer
South East

Linux Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Linux Engineer 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 Hampshire region featuring Linux Engineer in the job title.

1 11 (100.00%) Linux
2 9 (81.82%) VMware
3 7 (63.64%) Security Cleared
3 7 (63.64%) Unix
3 7 (63.64%) Ansible
3 7 (63.64%) Kubernetes
4 6 (54.55%) Python
4 6 (54.55%) Git
4 6 (54.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (54.55%) Bash
5 5 (45.45%) MongoDB
5 5 (45.45%) Build Automation
5 5 (45.45%) SC Cleared
5 5 (45.45%) Agile
5 5 (45.45%) VMS
5 5 (45.45%) RDBMS
5 5 (45.45%) MySQL
5 5 (45.45%) Oracle
5 5 (45.45%) Veritas
5 5 (45.45%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (45.45%) Scrum
5 5 (45.45%) vRealize
5 5 (45.45%) Arqiva
5 5 (45.45%) Packer
5 5 (45.45%) GitLab
5 5 (45.45%) IaaS
5 5 (45.45%) vSphere
5 5 (45.45%) Relational Database
5 5 (45.45%) Linux Command Line
5 5 (45.45%) Runbook

Linux Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 5 (45.45%) IaaS
2 2 (18.18%) AWS
3 1 (9.09%) Azure
3 1 (9.09%) Entra ID
3 1 (9.09%) GitHub
3 1 (9.09%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) Software-Defined Radio
2 1 (9.09%) DNS
2 1 (9.09%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (45.45%) MongoDB
1 5 (45.45%) MySQL
1 5 (45.45%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (45.45%) RDBMS
1 5 (45.45%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (54.55%) Git
2 5 (45.45%) GitLab
3 1 (9.09%) Eclipse
General
1 1 (9.09%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) CSS
1 1 (9.09%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (27.27%) Smart Meter
3 1 (9.09%) Clustering
3 1 (9.09%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 11 (100.00%) Linux
2 7 (63.64%) Unix
3 6 (54.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (45.45%) VMS
5 3 (27.27%) Windows
6 2 (18.18%) Solaris
7 1 (9.09%) CentOS
7 1 (9.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Agile
1 5 (45.45%) Build Automation
1 5 (45.45%) CI/CD
1 5 (45.45%) Containerisation
1 5 (45.45%) Infrastructure as Code
1 5 (45.45%) Project Delivery
1 5 (45.45%) Runbook
1 5 (45.45%) Scrum
2 4 (36.36%) Platform Engineering
3 3 (27.27%) Re-Platforming
4 2 (18.18%) Change Management
4 2 (18.18%) ITIL
4 2 (18.18%) Software Engineering
4 2 (18.18%) Task Automation
5 1 (9.09%) Data Migration
5 1 (9.09%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (9.09%) Migration
5 1 (9.09%) Resource Management
5 1 (9.09%) SysML
5 1 (9.09%) UML
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) Bash
1 6 (54.55%) Python
2 2 (18.18%) Shell Script
3 1 (9.09%) C
3 1 (9.09%) C++
3 1 (9.09%) Java
3 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
3 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (63.64%) Security Cleared
2 5 (45.45%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 5 (45.45%) vSphere
2 4 (36.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (18.18%) Hyper-V
3 2 (18.18%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (9.09%) Active Directory
4 1 (9.09%) Firmware
4 1 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (9.09%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 7 (63.64%) Ansible
1 7 (63.64%) Kubernetes
2 5 (45.45%) Packer
2 5 (45.45%) vRealize
3 2 (18.18%) Rancher
3 2 (18.18%) Red Hat Satellite
3 2 (18.18%) SCOM
3 2 (18.18%) Tivoli Identity Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Terraform
4 1 (9.09%) VxRail
Vendors
1 9 (81.82%) VMware
2 5 (45.45%) Arqiva
2 5 (45.45%) Oracle
2 5 (45.45%) Veritas
3 4 (36.36%) Red Hat
4 3 (27.27%) Dell
5 2 (18.18%) HP
5 2 (18.18%) IBM
6 1 (9.09%) SolarWinds