Linux Contracts in Hampshire

Linux
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hampshire 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 12 11 7
Rank change year-on-year -1 -4 +5
Contract jobs citing Linux 84 156 195
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 11.26% 9.69% 13.88%
As % of the Operating Systems category 52.17% 46.15% 41.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 90 132
10th Percentile £459 £200 £413
25th Percentile £525 £402 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £548 £562
Median % change year-on-year +5.02% -2.58% +4.07%
75th Percentile £626 £599 £675
90th Percentile £675 £675 £738
South East median daily rate £550 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 14 16
10th Percentile £51.21 £41.00 £52.38
25th Percentile £54.66 £60.31 £54.44
Median hourly rate £59.13 £62.50 £65.84
Median % change year-on-year -5.40% -5.08% +4.53%
75th Percentile £62.81 £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £64.88 £76.75 -
South East median hourly rate £57.75 £62.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -6.85% -4.62% +22.91%

All Operating Systems
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 161 338 465
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 21.58% 20.99% 33.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 172 286
10th Percentile £340 £250 £201
25th Percentile £456 £425 £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £613 £675 £617
90th Percentile £661 £823 £691
South East median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 22 45
10th Percentile £51.35 £14.37 £18.25
25th Percentile £55.38 £17.69 £21.22
Median hourly rate £60.50 £60.00 £55.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.83% +8.11% +226.47%
75th Percentile £63.75 £64.69 £67.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £74.50 £75.00
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £53.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -10.38% +165.00%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Hampshire

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Daily rate trend for Linux in Hampshire

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Linux in Hampshire

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux in Hampshire

Linux
Hourly Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Linux in Hampshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Linux in Hampshire

Linux
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 within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Portsmouth +8 23 £550 +37.50% 16
Basingstoke +31 18 £575 +4.55% 8
Farnborough +6 11 £627 +25.40% 8
Southampton -4 6 £470 -3.59% 11
Fleet - 2 £470 - 1
Hook +1 1 £550 -5.17%
Winchester -6 1 - - 2
Eastleigh - 1 £500 - 1
Linux
South East

Linux
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 21 (25.00%) Confluence
2 9 (10.71%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (5.95%) Apache
4 4 (4.76%) CMS
4 4 (4.76%) Drupal
4 4 (4.76%) WordPress
5 2 (2.38%) JBoss
Applications
1 3 (3.57%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 19 (22.62%) AWS
1 19 (22.62%) OpenShift
2 17 (20.24%) Azure
3 8 (9.52%) GCP
3 8 (9.52%) IaaS
3 8 (9.52%) PaaS
4 7 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (8.33%) SaaS
5 6 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.38%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (2.38%) Entra ID
6 2 (2.38%) GitHub
7 1 (1.19%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 13 (15.48%) Software-Defined Radio
2 12 (14.29%) DHCP
2 12 (14.29%) DNS
3 11 (13.10%) VPN
4 10 (11.90%) Firewall
5 9 (10.71%) SNMP
6 8 (9.52%) SMTP
7 5 (5.95%) WAN
8 4 (4.76%) Internet
8 4 (4.76%) Network Security
9 3 (3.57%) BGP
9 3 (3.57%) Ethernet VPN
9 3 (3.57%) HTTP
9 3 (3.57%) iSCSI
9 3 (3.57%) OSPF
9 3 (3.57%) SAN
9 3 (3.57%) VLAN
10 2 (2.38%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (11.90%) Elasticsearch
2 8 (9.52%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (9.52%) Big Data
3 6 (7.14%) Relational Database
4 4 (4.76%) MySQL
4 4 (4.76%) SQL Server
5 3 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (2.38%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.19%) Redis
Development Applications
1 25 (29.76%) JIRA
2 19 (22.62%) Git
3 16 (19.05%) Bitbucket
3 16 (19.05%) Robot Framework
4 15 (17.86%) GoogleTest
5 14 (16.67%) Jenkins
6 12 (14.29%) Eclipse
7 7 (8.33%) GitLab
8 6 (7.14%) Bitbucket Server
9 2 (2.38%) CA Release Automation
9 2 (2.38%) SonarQube
9 2 (2.38%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (2.38%) TeamCity
General
1 12 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 9 (10.71%) Public Sector
3 2 (2.38%) Aerospace
3 2 (2.38%) Finance
3 2 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (2.38%) Military
4 1 (1.19%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 18 (21.43%) Architect
2 15 (17.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 11 (13.10%) Software Engineer
4 10 (11.90%) Senior
5 8 (9.52%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 8 (9.52%) 3rd Line Support
5 8 (9.52%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 8 (9.52%) Embedded Engineer
5 8 (9.52%) Software Test Engineer
5 8 (9.52%) Support Engineer
5 8 (9.52%) Test Engineer
6 7 (8.33%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
6 7 (8.33%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
6 7 (8.33%) Infrastructure Architect
6 7 (8.33%) Infrastructure Support
6 7 (8.33%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 7 (8.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 6 (7.14%) Applications Packager
7 6 (7.14%) DV Cleared Application Packager
7 6 (7.14%) Embedded Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (15.48%) CSS
1 13 (15.48%) HTML
2 4 (4.76%) Ajax
2 4 (4.76%) AngularJS
2 4 (4.76%) CodeIgniter
2 4 (4.76%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (4.76%) jQuery
2 4 (4.76%) LAMP
2 4 (4.76%) SOAP
2 4 (4.76%) Web Services
3 3 (3.57%) Node.js
4 2 (2.38%) Middleware
4 2 (2.38%) Spring Boot
4 2 (2.38%) YAML
5 1 (1.19%) Kafka
5 1 (1.19%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 12 (14.29%) Data Centre
2 11 (13.10%) PKI
3 9 (10.71%) Public Cloud
4 8 (9.52%) Clustering
5 7 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (7.14%) Algorithms
6 6 (7.14%) Client/Server
6 6 (7.14%) Device Driver
6 6 (7.14%) Embedded Systems
6 6 (7.14%) IoT
7 4 (4.76%) Legacy Code
8 3 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (3.57%) Verilog
8 3 (3.57%) VHDL
9 2 (2.38%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (2.38%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (1.19%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 40 (47.62%) Windows
2 24 (28.57%) Windows Server
3 13 (15.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (11.90%) CentOS
4 10 (11.90%) Windows Server 2016
5 8 (9.52%) Ubuntu
6 4 (4.76%) Unix
7 3 (3.57%) Windows Server 2003
8 2 (2.38%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (2.38%) Solaris
8 2 (2.38%) Windows 10
8 2 (2.38%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (1.19%) Fedora
9 1 (1.19%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (53.57%) Agile
2 24 (28.57%) Scrum
3 21 (25.00%) DevOps
4 18 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 17 (20.24%) Software Engineering
6 15 (17.86%) Application Packaging
7 13 (15.48%) Artificial Intelligence
8 12 (14.29%) Migration
8 12 (14.29%) SysML
8 12 (14.29%) UML
9 10 (11.90%) Software Testing
10 9 (10.71%) Validation
10 9 (10.71%) Verification and Validation
11 8 (9.52%) Machine Learning
11 8 (9.52%) Prototyping
11 8 (9.52%) Software Deployment
12 7 (8.33%) Change Control
12 7 (8.33%) DevSecOps
12 7 (8.33%) Privileged Access Management
12 7 (8.33%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 25 (29.76%) PowerShell
2 16 (19.05%) Python
3 14 (16.67%) C++
4 11 (13.10%) JavaScript
5 6 (7.14%) Embedded C
5 6 (7.14%) VBScript
6 5 (5.95%) C
6 5 (5.95%) PHP
7 4 (4.76%) Bash
7 4 (4.76%) Java
8 3 (3.57%) SystemVerilog
8 3 (3.57%) Tcl
9 2 (2.38%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (2.38%) Perl
9 2 (2.38%) SQL
10 1 (1.19%) Go
10 1 (1.19%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 61 (72.62%) Security Cleared
2 37 (44.05%) DV Cleared
3 25 (29.76%) SC Cleared
4 8 (9.52%) Degree
5 3 (3.57%) CCNP
5 3 (3.57%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.19%) GDPR
1 1 (1.19%) NIST
1 1 (1.19%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 25 (29.76%) VMware Infrastructure
2 20 (23.81%) Active Directory
3 14 (16.67%) Firmware
4 12 (14.29%) vSphere
5 10 (11.90%) Docker
5 10 (11.90%) Hyper-V
6 8 (9.52%) BitLocker
6 8 (9.52%) Microsoft App-V
6 8 (9.52%) Terminal Services
6 8 (9.52%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 24 (28.57%) Ansible
2 21 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 15 (17.86%) vCenter Server
4 13 (15.48%) Terraform
5 8 (9.52%) Nagios
5 8 (9.52%) Puppet
5 8 (9.52%) vMotion
6 7 (8.33%) Nessus
7 2 (2.38%) Kibana
7 2 (2.38%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.19%) Grafana
8 1 (1.19%) Packer
8 1 (1.19%) Prometheus
8 1 (1.19%) Rancher
Vendors
1 32 (38.10%) VMware
2 25 (29.76%) Microsoft
3 21 (25.00%) Google
4 16 (19.05%) Atlassian
4 16 (19.05%) Red Hat
5 9 (10.71%) HP
6 8 (9.52%) Citrix
6 8 (9.52%) Symantec
7 6 (7.14%) Intel
8 4 (4.76%) Zend
9 3 (3.57%) ArcSight
9 3 (3.57%) Cisco
9 3 (3.57%) Mellanox
9 3 (3.57%) NVIDIA
9 3 (3.57%) Splunk
9 3 (3.57%) Xilinx
10 2 (2.38%) AppDynamics
10 2 (2.38%) MuleSoft
10 2 (2.38%) Oracle
11 1 (1.19%) Juniper