Linux Specialist Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Linux Specialist
South East > Hampshire

The median Linux Specialist daily rate in Hampshire 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 76 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Linux Specialist 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 0.31% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% - -
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 - -
South East median daily rate £486 - £625
% change year-on-year - - +108.33%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Hampshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 886 1,276 1,195
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.00% 93.07% 92.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 611 810 681
10th Percentile £213 £358 £263
25th Percentile £422 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +1.94%
75th Percentile £600 £649 £613
90th Percentile £650 £700 £680
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 115 104
10th Percentile £16.17 £22.03 £16.00
25th Percentile £21.94 £51.06 £21.04
Median hourly rate £33.89 £57.35 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.92% +4.27% +61.67%
75th Percentile £56.25 £72.50 £66.84
90th Percentile £71.00 £77.99 £75.00
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £57.50 £50.71
% change year-on-year -56.26% +13.39% +111.29%

Linux Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Specialist in Hampshire

Linux Specialist
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Linux Specialist job vacancies in Hampshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Linux Specialist job vacancies in Hampshire

Linux Specialist
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 Specialist within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 18 September 2025. 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
Fleet - 2 £486 - 1
Linux Specialist
South East

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

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 Hampshire region featuring Linux Specialist in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
2 2 (66.67%) Docker
2 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (66.67%) RHCSA
2 2 (66.67%) GCP
2 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (66.67%) Progress Chef
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (66.67%) KVM
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Bash
2 2 (66.67%) Puppet
2 2 (66.67%) Network Management
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Vulnerability Assessment
2 2 (66.67%) Ubuntu
2 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (66.67%) CentOS
2 2 (66.67%) Configuration Management
2 2 (66.67%) Firewall
2 2 (66.67%) Security Management
2 2 (66.67%) DHCP
2 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
2 2 (66.67%) DNS
2 2 (66.67%) RHCE
2 2 (66.67%) Red Hat
2 2 (66.67%) Perl

Linux Specialist 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) DHCP
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
1 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) CentOS
2 2 (66.67%) Ubuntu
2 2 (66.67%) Unix
3 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Configuration Management
1 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
1 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (66.67%) Network Management
1 2 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (66.67%) Security Management
1 2 (66.67%) Task Automation
1 2 (66.67%) Vulnerability Assessment
2 1 (33.33%) Change Management
2 1 (33.33%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) Bash
2 2 (66.67%) Perl
3 1 (33.33%) Java
3 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) RHCE
1 2 (66.67%) RHCSA
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
1 2 (66.67%) KVM
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
2 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (66.67%) Progress Chef
2 2 (66.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Red Hat
1 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) CyberArk
2 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow