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 25 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 9 8
Rank change year-on-year -9 -1 +4
Contract jobs citing Linux 69 195 175
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 8.56% 10.99% 13.51%
As % of the Operating Systems category 41.57% 45.67% 41.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 110 112
10th Percentile £407 £336 £410
25th Percentile £463 £458 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £534
Median % change year-on-year - +3.04% +1.67%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £619
90th Percentile £653 £675 £675
South East median daily rate £535 £533 £520
% change year-on-year +0.38% +2.50% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 22 18
10th Percentile £51.78 £37.50 £53.88
25th Percentile £53.22 £62.00 £56.25
Median hourly rate £57.50 £70.00 £67.09
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% +4.33% +11.82%
75th Percentile £59.78 - £74.69
90th Percentile £61.31 £75.00 £75.00
South East median hourly rate £57.50 £66.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year -13.21% +1.92% +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 166 427 419
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 20.60% 24.07% 32.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 229 251
10th Percentile £308 £320 £204
25th Percentile £425 £463 £278
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £638 £600
90th Percentile £650 £735 £640
South East median daily rate £490 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +3.16% +5.56% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 31 45
10th Percentile £38.19 £17.69 £17.00
25th Percentile £51.78 £19.97 £43.75
Median hourly rate £57.50 £62.50 £58.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +6.84% +244.12%
75th Percentile £59.44 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £61.08 £75.00 £75.00
South East median hourly rate £18.82 £47.50 £56.25
% change year-on-year -60.38% -15.56% +230.88%

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 25 June 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
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 25 June 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
Basingstoke +31 24 £588 +6.82% 9
Portsmouth +2 19 £550 +37.50% 10
Fleet - 5 £402 - 2
Farnborough -9 4 £410 -29.55% 9
Southampton -6 3 £525 -2.33% 15
Winchester -5 1 - - 1
Eastleigh - 1 £500 - 3
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 15 (21.74%) Confluence
2 11 (15.94%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (14.49%) Apache
4 4 (5.80%) CMS
4 4 (5.80%) Drupal
4 4 (5.80%) WordPress
5 2 (2.90%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 3 (4.35%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 16 (23.19%) AWS
2 15 (21.74%) OpenShift
3 10 (14.49%) Azure
4 8 (11.59%) GCP
4 8 (11.59%) IaaS
4 8 (11.59%) PaaS
5 5 (7.25%) GitHub
6 4 (5.80%) Azure Sentinel
6 4 (5.80%) Entra ID
7 3 (4.35%) Amazon EMR
7 3 (4.35%) Amazon Kinesis
7 3 (4.35%) Amazon S3
7 3 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (4.35%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (4.35%) Serverless
8 2 (2.90%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.45%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 11 (15.94%) VPN
2 10 (14.49%) DHCP
2 10 (14.49%) DNS
2 10 (14.49%) Firewall
3 8 (11.59%) SMTP
4 7 (10.14%) WAN
5 6 (8.70%) SNMP
5 6 (8.70%) Software-Defined Radio
6 4 (5.80%) Internet
6 4 (5.80%) LAN
6 4 (5.80%) Network Security
7 3 (4.35%) BGP
7 3 (4.35%) Ethernet VPN
7 3 (4.35%) HTTP
7 3 (4.35%) OSPF
8 1 (1.45%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (1.45%) iSCSI
8 1 (1.45%) SAN
8 1 (1.45%) VLAN
8 1 (1.45%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (14.49%) Elasticsearch
2 8 (11.59%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (11.59%) Big Data
3 6 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (8.70%) Relational Database
4 4 (5.80%) MySQL
4 4 (5.80%) Redis
4 4 (5.80%) SQL Server
5 3 (4.35%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (4.35%) NoSQL
6 2 (2.90%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 19 (27.54%) JIRA
2 16 (23.19%) Robot Framework
3 14 (20.29%) Jenkins
4 13 (18.84%) Git
5 12 (17.39%) GoogleTest
6 10 (14.49%) Bitbucket
7 9 (13.04%) Eclipse
8 7 (10.14%) GitLab
9 6 (8.70%) Bitbucket Server
9 6 (8.70%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (5.80%) MSI
11 2 (2.90%) CA Release Automation
11 2 (2.90%) SonarQube
11 2 (2.90%) TeamCity
General
1 14 (20.29%) Social Skills
2 8 (11.59%) Public Sector
3 4 (5.80%) Finance
4 3 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (2.90%) Banking
5 2 (2.90%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (2.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (2.90%) Military
Job Titles
1 12 (17.39%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 11 (15.94%) Software Engineer
3 10 (14.49%) Architect
3 10 (14.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 8 (11.59%) 3rd Line Support
4 8 (11.59%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 8 (11.59%) Support Engineer
5 7 (10.14%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 7 (10.14%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
5 7 (10.14%) Embedded Engineer
5 7 (10.14%) Infrastructure Support
5 7 (10.14%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 7 (10.14%) Integration Engineer
6 6 (8.70%) DevOps Engineer
6 6 (8.70%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 5 (7.25%) Analyst
7 5 (7.25%) Software Test Engineer
7 5 (7.25%) Test Engineer
8 4 (5.80%) PHP Software Engineer
8 4 (5.80%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (14.49%) CSS
1 10 (14.49%) HTML
2 7 (10.14%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (10.14%) Kafka
3 5 (7.25%) YAML
4 4 (5.80%) Ajax
4 4 (5.80%) AngularJS
4 4 (5.80%) CodeIgniter
4 4 (5.80%) jQuery
4 4 (5.80%) Keycloak
4 4 (5.80%) LAMP
4 4 (5.80%) Middleware
4 4 (5.80%) SOAP
4 4 (5.80%) Web Services
5 3 (4.35%) Node.js
6 2 (2.90%) JSON
6 2 (2.90%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 15 (21.74%) PKI
2 11 (15.94%) Data Centre
3 8 (11.59%) Clustering
4 4 (5.80%) Legacy Code
4 4 (5.80%) Public Cloud
5 3 (4.35%) Cloud Native
5 3 (4.35%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.90%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.90%) Client/Server
6 2 (2.90%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (2.90%) Device Driver
6 2 (2.90%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (2.90%) IoT
6 2 (2.90%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 33 (47.83%) Windows
2 19 (27.54%) Windows Server
3 15 (21.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (11.59%) CentOS
5 6 (8.70%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (5.80%) Unix
6 4 (5.80%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (4.35%) Windows Server 2003
8 2 (2.90%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (2.90%) Solaris
8 2 (2.90%) Ubuntu
8 2 (2.90%) Windows 10
8 2 (2.90%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (53.62%) Agile
2 27 (39.13%) DevOps
3 21 (30.43%) Scrum
4 14 (20.29%) Migration
5 13 (18.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 13 (18.84%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (18.84%) Software Engineering
6 12 (17.39%) CI/CD
7 10 (14.49%) Artificial Intelligence
8 9 (13.04%) Prototyping
8 9 (13.04%) Test Automation
8 9 (13.04%) Validation
9 8 (11.59%) Containerisation
9 8 (11.59%) Machine Learning
9 8 (11.59%) Software Deployment
10 7 (10.14%) Infrastructure as Code
11 6 (8.70%) Batch Scripting
11 6 (8.70%) Deployment Automation
11 6 (8.70%) SysML
11 6 (8.70%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 21 (30.43%) PowerShell
2 16 (23.19%) Python
3 10 (14.49%) C++
3 10 (14.49%) PHP
4 8 (11.59%) JavaScript
5 7 (10.14%) Java
5 7 (10.14%) SQL
6 6 (8.70%) Bash
7 4 (5.80%) Kusto Query Language
8 3 (4.35%) Scala
9 2 (2.90%) C
9 2 (2.90%) Embedded C
9 2 (2.90%) Perl
9 2 (2.90%) VBScript
10 1 (1.45%) Go
10 1 (1.45%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 42 (60.87%) Security Cleared
2 27 (39.13%) DV Cleared
3 16 (23.19%) SC Cleared
4 12 (17.39%) Degree
5 3 (4.35%) AWS Certification
5 3 (4.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (4.35%) CCNP
5 3 (4.35%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (2.90%) CASP
6 2 (2.90%) CISSP
6 2 (2.90%) CompTIA CySA+
6 2 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.90%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.35%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.45%) NIST
System Software
1 20 (28.99%) Active Directory
2 16 (23.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (18.84%) Docker
4 10 (14.49%) Hyper-V
5 9 (13.04%) VMware ESXi
6 8 (11.59%) BitLocker
6 8 (11.59%) Microsoft App-V
6 8 (11.59%) Terminal Services
7 6 (8.70%) Firmware
8 4 (5.80%) vSphere
9 2 (2.90%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 26 (37.68%) Ansible
2 19 (27.54%) Kubernetes
3 12 (17.39%) Terraform
4 8 (11.59%) Nagios
4 8 (11.59%) Puppet
4 8 (11.59%) vCenter Server
4 8 (11.59%) vMotion
5 4 (5.80%) Grafana
5 4 (5.80%) Packer
5 4 (5.80%) Prometheus
5 4 (5.80%) WMI
6 2 (2.90%) Kibana
6 2 (2.90%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.45%) Rancher
7 1 (1.45%) SCCM
7 1 (1.45%) VxRail
Vendors
1 23 (33.33%) VMware
2 19 (27.54%) Microsoft
3 18 (26.09%) Google
4 14 (20.29%) Red Hat
5 10 (14.49%) Atlassian
6 8 (11.59%) Citrix
6 8 (11.59%) HP
6 8 (11.59%) Symantec
7 6 (8.70%) Intel
7 6 (8.70%) Splunk
8 5 (7.25%) ArcSight
9 4 (5.80%) MuleSoft
9 4 (5.80%) Zend
10 3 (4.35%) Cisco
10 3 (4.35%) Mellanox
10 3 (4.35%) NVIDIA
11 2 (2.90%) AppDynamics
11 2 (2.90%) Oracle
12 1 (1.45%) Dell
12 1 (1.45%) ServiceNow