Linux Contract Job Trends in Winchester

Linux
Hampshire > Winchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Winchester requiring Linux skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 8 5
Rank change year-on-year +1 -3 +4
Contract jobs citing Linux 3 1 6
As % of all contract jobs in Winchester 15.79% 3.85% 17.65%
As % of the Operating Systems category 42.86% 16.67% 60.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £605 - -
25th Percentile £688 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £850 - -
75th Percentile £875 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -2.44%

All Operating Systems
Winchester

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 Winchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 7 6 10
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Winchester 36.84% 23.08% 29.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 0
10th Percentile £188 £535 -
25th Percentile £370 £550 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £740 £575 -
Median % change year-on-year +28.70% - -
75th Percentile £818 £618 -
90th Percentile £875 £644 -
Hampshire median daily rate £525 £531 £550
% change year-on-year -1.13% -3.45% +1.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £14.00
Median hourly rate - - £15.00
75th Percentile - - £16.00
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median hourly rate £25.15 £62.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year -59.76% +0.81% +90.77%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Winchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Linux relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Winchester.

Linux job vacancy trend in Winchester

Linux
Daily Rate Trend in Winchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Winchester citing Linux.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Winchester citing Linux

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in Winchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in Winchester over the 6 months to 4 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in Winchester

Linux
Hourly Rate Trend in Winchester

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Winchester citing Linux.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Winchester citing Linux

Linux
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Winchester by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECR
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Artifactory
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
General
1 2 (66.67%) Military
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Product Owner
2 1 (33.33%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
1 2 (66.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) High Availability
1 2 (66.67%) Product Roadmap
1 2 (66.67%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Immutable Infrastructure
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
1 2 (66.67%) Hyper-V
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Grafana
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
1 1 (33.33%) Sysdig
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 2 (66.67%) VMware