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 18 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 7 5
Rank change year-on-year -8 -2 +17
Contract jobs citing Linux 21 37 58
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Portsmouth 10.77% 17.62% 21.09%
As % of the Operating Systems category 61.76% 62.71% 77.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 13 35
10th Percentile - - £450
25th Percentile £418 £400 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £413 £525
Median % change year-on-year +15.52% -21.43% -12.50%
75th Percentile £588 £438 £619
90th Percentile £643 £450 £645
Hampshire median daily rate £537 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.36% +4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 15 10
10th Percentile £53.25 £60.50 £54.63
25th Percentile £54.38 - £55.31
Median hourly rate £57.50 £70.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% +21.74% +8.73%
75th Percentile £58.75 - £66.25
90th Percentile - £72.25 £70.13
Hampshire median hourly rate £56.25 £70.00 £67.09
% change year-on-year -19.64% +4.33% +21.99%

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 34 59 75
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Portsmouth 17.44% 28.10% 27.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 28 46
10th Percentile £195 £360 £200
25th Percentile £385 £400 £314
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £419 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.88% -16.25% +11.11%
75th Percentile £569 £482 £609
90th Percentile £660 £568 £638
Hampshire median daily rate £525 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 15 12
10th Percentile - £60.50 £23.12
25th Percentile £18.87 - £54.06
Median hourly rate £55.00 £70.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +21.74% +15.00%
75th Percentile £58.75 - £61.25
90th Percentile - £72.25 £69.88
Hampshire median hourly rate £25.15 £70.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -64.07% +21.74% +238.24%

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 18 August 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 7 (33.33%) Confluence
2 1 (4.76%) Apache
2 1 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (4.76%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 8 (38.10%) GitHub
2 6 (28.57%) OpenShift
3 1 (4.76%) Amazon S3
3 1 (4.76%) GCP
3 1 (4.76%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 3 (14.29%) Firewall
1 3 (14.29%) HTTP
1 3 (14.29%) SNMP
1 3 (14.29%) Software-Defined Radio
2 1 (4.76%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (4.76%) Cisco Firepower
2 1 (4.76%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (4.76%) DNS
2 1 (4.76%) LAN
2 1 (4.76%) Network Security
2 1 (4.76%) SD-WAN
2 1 (4.76%) SSH
2 1 (4.76%) SSL
2 1 (4.76%) TCP/IP
2 1 (4.76%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (42.86%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (28.57%) Redis
3 1 (4.76%) Big Data
3 1 (4.76%) Delta Lake
3 1 (4.76%) Hadoop
3 1 (4.76%) NoSQL
3 1 (4.76%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 10 (47.62%) Jenkins
2 9 (42.86%) GoogleTest
2 9 (42.86%) JIRA
2 9 (42.86%) Robot Framework
3 7 (33.33%) Bitbucket
4 6 (28.57%) Eclipse
4 6 (28.57%) GitLab
5 4 (19.05%) Git
6 1 (4.76%) MLflow
6 1 (4.76%) Poetry
6 1 (4.76%) PyCharm
6 1 (4.76%) SonarQube
6 1 (4.76%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 6 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 3 (14.29%) Military
3 2 (9.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 8 (38.10%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (33.33%) Embedded Engineer
3 6 (28.57%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 6 (28.57%) Software Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Software Test Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Test Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Data Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Network Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Systems Integrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (28.57%) Kafka
2 6 (28.57%) Keycloak
2 6 (28.57%) YAML
3 3 (14.29%) CSS
3 3 (14.29%) HTML
3 3 (14.29%) Node.js
4 1 (4.76%) Apache Avro
4 1 (4.76%) Flask
4 1 (4.76%) NumPy
4 1 (4.76%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.52%) Linux Command Line
1 2 (9.52%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.52%) Oracle Linux
1 2 (9.52%) Solaris
1 2 (9.52%) Windows
1 2 (9.52%) Windows 10
1 2 (9.52%) Windows Server
1 2 (9.52%) Windows Server 2012
1 2 (9.52%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (4.76%) CentOS
2 1 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (76.19%) Agile
1 16 (76.19%) Scrum
2 9 (42.86%) DevOps
3 8 (38.10%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 7 (33.33%) Containerisation
4 7 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (33.33%) Migration
5 6 (28.57%) Immutable Infrastructure
5 6 (28.57%) Observability
5 6 (28.57%) Platform Engineering
5 6 (28.57%) Software Engineering
6 3 (14.29%) Integration Testing
6 3 (14.29%) Software Testing
6 3 (14.29%) SysML
6 3 (14.29%) Test Automation
6 3 (14.29%) UML
6 3 (14.29%) Validation
6 3 (14.29%) Verification and Validation
7 2 (9.52%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (38.10%) Bash
2 7 (33.33%) C++
3 4 (19.05%) Python
4 3 (14.29%) SQL
5 2 (9.52%) PowerShell
6 1 (4.76%) Groovy
6 1 (4.76%) JavaScript
6 1 (4.76%) PHP
Qualifications
1 14 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 12 (57.14%) SC Cleared
3 2 (9.52%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 3 (14.29%) Firmware
2 2 (9.52%) Hyper-V
3 1 (4.76%) Docker
3 1 (4.76%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 8 (38.10%) Kubernetes
2 7 (33.33%) Ansible
3 6 (28.57%) Grafana
3 6 (28.57%) Packer
3 6 (28.57%) Prometheus
3 6 (28.57%) Terraform
4 1 (4.76%) Argo
4 1 (4.76%) Istio
Vendors
1 9 (42.86%) Red Hat
2 7 (33.33%) Atlassian
2 7 (33.33%) Google
3 6 (28.57%) Intel
3 6 (28.57%) Splunk
4 3 (14.29%) VMware
5 2 (9.52%) Oracle
6 1 (4.76%) Cisco
6 1 (4.76%) Cloudera