Linux Jobs in Basingstoke

Linux
Hampshire > Basingstoke

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Basingstoke requiring Linux skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Linux over the 6 months leading up to 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 32 8
Rank change year-on-year -4 -24 +7
Permanent jobs citing Linux 20 25 57
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Basingstoke 4.65% 4.47% 15.79%
As % of the Operating Systems category 20.20% 21.93% 56.44%
Number of salaries quoted 19 14 32
10th Percentile £45,500 £46,875 -
25th Percentile £47,875 £52,188 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £58,350 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.46% +45.88% -11.11%
75th Percentile £61,875 £63,238 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £64,625 £74,500
Hampshire median annual salary £57,500 £58,350 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.46% +16.70% -4.76%

All Operating Systems
Basingstoke

Linux falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring operating system skills in Basingstoke.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 99 114 101
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Basingstoke 23.02% 20.39% 27.98%
Number of salaries quoted 81 98 70
10th Percentile £42,500 £31,000 -
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,200 £23,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £51,250 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.20% +28.13% -20.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £58,750 £54,313
90th Percentile £78,750 £63,750 £68,875
Hampshire median annual salary £50,000 £47,300 £42,500
% change year-on-year +5.71% +11.29% -10.53%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Basingstoke

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Basingstoke

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Salary Trend in Basingstoke

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Linux in Basingstoke.

Salary trend for Linux in Basingstoke

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Salary Histogram in Basingstoke

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux in Basingstoke over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Linux in Basingstoke

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Basingstoke 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 5 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (10.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 9 (45.00%) Azure
2 7 (35.00%) GCP
3 5 (25.00%) AWS
3 5 (25.00%) OpenShift
4 4 (20.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 9 (45.00%) DHCP
1 9 (45.00%) DNS
2 6 (30.00%) Firewall
3 5 (25.00%) Network Security
3 5 (25.00%) Remote Desktop
3 5 (25.00%) SAN
3 5 (25.00%) SMTP
4 4 (20.00%) iSCSI
4 4 (20.00%) NAS
5 3 (15.00%) Cisco ISE
5 3 (15.00%) Ethernet
5 3 (15.00%) MPLS
6 2 (10.00%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (5.00%) Cisco Firepower
7 1 (5.00%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (5.00%) VPN
7 1 (5.00%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (15.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (10.00%) Cloud Spanner
3 2 (10.00%) Couchbase
3 2 (10.00%) MySQL
3 2 (10.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) MSI
General
1 5 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 6 (30.00%) Architect
1 6 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (25.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 5 (25.00%) Infrastructure Support
2 5 (25.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
2 5 (25.00%) Support Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) 3rd Line Server Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure Architect
3 3 (15.00%) Server Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Administrator
4 2 (10.00%) Cloud Administrator
4 2 (10.00%) DBA
4 2 (10.00%) Integration Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) MySQL DBA
4 2 (10.00%) Network Architect
4 2 (10.00%) SQL DBA
5 1 (5.00%) Active Directory Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Automation Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Lead
5 1 (5.00%) Lead Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) Clustering
1 5 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
1 5 (25.00%) PKI
1 5 (25.00%) Replication
2 3 (15.00%) Private Cloud
3 1 (5.00%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 15 (75.00%) Windows
2 10 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 6 (30.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (20.00%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (10.00%) CentOS
5 2 (10.00%) Ubuntu
6 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (35.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 6 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 5 (25.00%) Application Virtualisation
3 5 (25.00%) Disk Encryption
3 5 (25.00%) High Availability
3 5 (25.00%) Incident Management
3 5 (25.00%) RBAC
3 5 (25.00%) Task Automation
4 3 (15.00%) Agile
4 3 (15.00%) Configuration Management
4 3 (15.00%) Network Management
5 2 (10.00%) Batch Scripting
5 2 (10.00%) Capacity Management
5 2 (10.00%) Coaching
5 2 (10.00%) Collaborative Culture
5 2 (10.00%) DevOps
5 2 (10.00%) Network Design
5 2 (10.00%) Network Monitoring
5 2 (10.00%) Performance Optimisation
5 2 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 8 (40.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (10.00%) PHP
2 2 (10.00%) PL/SQL
2 2 (10.00%) SQL
2 2 (10.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (65.00%) Security Cleared
2 12 (60.00%) DV Cleared
3 6 (30.00%) SC Cleared
4 3 (15.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (15.00%) Degree
System Software
1 13 (65.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (55.00%) Active Directory
3 10 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
4 9 (45.00%) Hyper-V
5 6 (30.00%) vSphere
6 5 (25.00%) BitLocker
6 5 (25.00%) Docker
6 5 (25.00%) Microsoft App-V
6 5 (25.00%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 7 (35.00%) Ansible
2 5 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (25.00%) Nagios
2 5 (25.00%) Puppet
2 5 (25.00%) vCenter Server
2 5 (25.00%) vMotion
3 3 (15.00%) WMI
4 1 (5.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 14 (70.00%) VMware
2 10 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 5 (25.00%) Citrix
3 5 (25.00%) Google
3 5 (25.00%) HP
3 5 (25.00%) Symantec
3 5 (25.00%) Veeam
4 4 (20.00%) Cisco
5 3 (15.00%) Juniper
5 3 (15.00%) Red Hat
5 3 (15.00%) SevOne