Linux Contracts in Portsmouth

Linux
Hampshire > Portsmouth

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Portsmouth 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 7 15 14
Rank change year-on-year +8 -1 -1
Contract jobs citing Linux 23 32 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Portsmouth 18.70% 10.70% 12.65%
As % of the Operating Systems category 92.00% 62.75% 54.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 13 14
10th Percentile £464 £134 £415
25th Percentile £525 - £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% -20.00% -24.53%
75th Percentile £626 £419 £517
90th Percentile £660 £524 £550
Hampshire median daily rate £575 £548 £562
% change year-on-year +5.02% -2.58% +4.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 10 10
10th Percentile £52.50 £51.55 £52.68
25th Percentile £55.81 £60.31 £53.31
Median hourly rate £60.50 £62.25 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.81% +8.26% -4.92%
75th Percentile £63.13 £64.69 £69.38
90th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £71.65
Hampshire median hourly rate £59.13 £62.50 £65.84
% change year-on-year -5.40% -5.08% +4.53%

All Operating Systems
Portsmouth

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 Portsmouth.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 25 51 57
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Portsmouth 20.33% 17.06% 23.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 22 38
10th Percentile £463 £243 £184
25th Percentile £510 £400 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £413 £208
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% +98.71% -53.87%
75th Percentile £626 £556 £492
90th Percentile £657 - £514
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 10 10
10th Percentile £52.50 £51.55 £52.68
25th Percentile £55.81 £60.31 £53.31
Median hourly rate £60.50 £62.25 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.81% +8.26% +21.05%
75th Percentile £63.13 £64.69 £69.38
90th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £71.65
Hampshire median hourly rate £60.50 £60.00 £55.50
% change year-on-year +0.83% +8.11% +226.47%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Portsmouth

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Portsmouth

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Portsmouth

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

Daily rate trend for Linux in Portsmouth

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in Portsmouth

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

Daily rate histogram for Linux in Portsmouth

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Portsmouth

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux in Portsmouth

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Portsmouth 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 (65.22%) Confluence
2 1 (4.35%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 2 (8.70%) GitHub
2 1 (4.35%) npm
2 1 (4.35%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 12 (52.17%) Software-Defined Radio
2 8 (34.78%) SNMP
3 3 (13.04%) HTTP
4 2 (8.70%) Firewall
5 1 (4.35%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.04%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.35%) Redis
Development Applications
1 17 (73.91%) JIRA
2 15 (65.22%) Bitbucket
2 15 (65.22%) Robot Framework
3 14 (60.87%) GoogleTest
4 12 (52.17%) Jenkins
5 11 (47.83%) Eclipse
5 11 (47.83%) Git
6 6 (26.09%) GitLab
General
1 2 (8.70%) Aerospace
1 2 (8.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (8.70%) Military
2 1 (4.35%) Aviation
2 1 (4.35%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (34.78%) Embedded Engineer
2 7 (30.43%) Software Engineer
2 7 (30.43%) Software Test Engineer
2 7 (30.43%) Test Engineer
3 6 (26.09%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Firmware Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Analyst
6 1 (4.35%) C++ Software Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Systems Integrator
6 1 (4.35%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (34.78%) CSS
1 8 (34.78%) HTML
2 3 (13.04%) Node.js
3 1 (4.35%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (4.35%) Kafka
3 1 (4.35%) Keycloak
3 1 (4.35%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) Verilog
1 3 (13.04%) VHDL
2 2 (8.70%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (8.70%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.70%) Oracle Linux
1 2 (8.70%) Solaris
1 2 (8.70%) Windows
1 2 (8.70%) Windows 10
1 2 (8.70%) Windows Server
1 2 (8.70%) Windows Server 2012
1 2 (8.70%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (4.35%) CentOS
2 1 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (82.61%) Agile
1 19 (82.61%) Scrum
2 12 (52.17%) Software Engineering
3 11 (47.83%) SysML
3 11 (47.83%) UML
4 9 (39.13%) Software Testing
5 8 (34.78%) Validation
5 8 (34.78%) Verification and Validation
6 7 (30.43%) Migration
7 6 (26.09%) Prototyping
8 4 (17.39%) Integration Testing
9 3 (13.04%) DevOps
9 3 (13.04%) Test Automation
10 2 (8.70%) CI/CD
10 2 (8.70%) Incident Management
10 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure as Code
10 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 2 (8.70%) Problem-Solving
11 1 (4.35%) Platform Engineering
11 1 (4.35%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 13 (56.52%) C++
2 6 (26.09%) JavaScript
2 6 (26.09%) Python
3 3 (13.04%) SystemVerilog
3 3 (13.04%) Tcl
4 2 (8.70%) Bash
4 2 (8.70%) PowerShell
4 2 (8.70%) SQL
5 1 (4.35%) PHP
Qualifications
1 19 (82.61%) Security Cleared
2 17 (73.91%) SC Cleared
3 2 (8.70%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 7 (30.43%) Firmware
2 2 (8.70%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (8.70%) Ansible
1 2 (8.70%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.35%) Grafana
2 1 (4.35%) Packer
2 1 (4.35%) Prometheus
2 1 (4.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (65.22%) Atlassian
2 12 (52.17%) Google
3 6 (26.09%) Intel
4 3 (13.04%) Red Hat
4 3 (13.04%) Xilinx
5 2 (8.70%) Oracle
5 2 (8.70%) VMware
6 1 (4.35%) Splunk
6 1 (4.35%) Twitter