Linux Jobs in Hampshire

Linux
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Hampshire 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 3 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 14 14
Rank change year-on-year -9 0 +6
Permanent jobs citing Linux 131 426 343
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hampshire 6.71% 9.79% 12.31%
As % of the Operating Systems category 46.29% 48.57% 51.27%
Number of salaries quoted 101 244 289
10th Percentile £31,250 £38,175 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,750 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +15.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,125 £66,250
90th Percentile - £85,000 £75,000
South East median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -4.76%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring operating system skills in Hampshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 283 877 669
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hampshire 14.49% 20.15% 24.01%
Number of salaries quoted 212 663 541
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,500 £25,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £29,400
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,250 £47,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.68% +11.76% -10.53%
75th Percentile £67,813 £63,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
South East median annual salary £40,000 £45,000 £44,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +2.27% -7.37%

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
Salary Trend in Hampshire

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

Salary trend for Linux in Hampshire

Linux
Salary Histogram in Hampshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux in Hampshire over the 6 months to 3 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Linux in Hampshire

Linux
Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 3 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Portsmouth -11 28 £70,000 +55.56% 3
Basingstoke +6 25 £57,500 -1.46% 10
Southampton -3 16 £50,000 -20.00% 25
Fareham +10 11 £32,500 -45.83% 2
Romsey -5 6 £37,500 -31.82% 2
Tadley +1 5 £25,640 -35.90% 1
Farnborough -14 5 £30,000 -40.00% 10
Havant +16 4 £55,000 - 2
Petersfield - 4 £70,000 -
Waterlooville -1 3 £70,000 -6.67%
Gosport -6 3 £70,000 +40.00% 1
Lymington - 3 £35,500 -
Southsea - 3 £70,000 -
New Milton +1 1 £36,000 -
Fleet 0 1 - -
Winchester -8 1 £65,000 +88.41% 1
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 13 (9.92%) Apache
2 6 (4.58%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (3.82%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 20 (15.27%) Azure
2 17 (12.98%) AWS
3 7 (5.34%) GCP
4 6 (4.58%) OpenShift
5 4 (3.05%) Entra ID
5 4 (3.05%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (3.05%) SaaS
5 4 (3.05%) Serverless
6 3 (2.29%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (1.53%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (1.53%) PaaS
7 2 (1.53%) Pulumi
8 1 (0.76%) Amazon EMR
8 1 (0.76%) Amazon Kinesis
8 1 (0.76%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.76%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.76%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.76%) GitHub
8 1 (0.76%) Nutanix
8 1 (0.76%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 26 (19.85%) Wireshark
2 17 (12.98%) Software-Defined Radio
2 17 (12.98%) Wireless
3 16 (12.21%) DNS
4 15 (11.45%) DHCP
5 10 (7.63%) Firewall
6 7 (5.34%) Intrusion Detection
6 7 (5.34%) Network Security
6 7 (5.34%) Remote Desktop
7 6 (4.58%) SMTP
8 5 (3.82%) iSCSI
8 5 (3.82%) SAN
8 5 (3.82%) TCP/IP
8 5 (3.82%) VLAN
9 4 (3.05%) Cisco IOS
9 4 (3.05%) NAS
10 3 (2.29%) Cisco ISE
10 3 (2.29%) Ethernet
10 3 (2.29%) MPLS
10 3 (2.29%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.58%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (3.05%) NoSQL
3 3 (2.29%) MySQL
4 2 (1.53%) RDBMS
4 2 (1.53%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.76%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.76%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.76%) Power BI
5 1 (0.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (2.29%) Eclipse
2 2 (1.53%) Eclipse RCP
2 2 (1.53%) Jaeger
2 2 (1.53%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.53%) JIRA
2 2 (1.53%) MSI
3 1 (0.76%) Bugzilla
3 1 (0.76%) Burp Suite
3 1 (0.76%) CMake
3 1 (0.76%) CruiseControl
3 1 (0.76%) Gemini Tracker
3 1 (0.76%) Git
3 1 (0.76%) GitLab
3 1 (0.76%) Hudson
3 1 (0.76%) Metasploit
3 1 (0.76%) Postman
3 1 (0.76%) Robot Framework
3 1 (0.76%) Subversion
3 1 (0.76%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 27 (20.61%) Social Skills
2 18 (13.74%) Finance
3 14 (10.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 7 (5.34%) Electronics
5 5 (3.82%) Telecoms
6 4 (3.05%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.53%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.53%) Military
8 1 (0.76%) Automotive
8 1 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.76%) Marketing
8 1 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.76%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 28 (21.37%) Software Engineer
2 24 (18.32%) Embedded Engineer
3 22 (16.79%) Systems Engineer
4 21 (16.03%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 20 (15.27%) Principal Engineer
5 20 (15.27%) Principal Systems Engineer
6 11 (8.40%) Applications Support
6 11 (8.40%) Support Engineer
7 10 (7.63%) Analyst
8 9 (6.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 9 (6.87%) Integration Engineer
9 7 (5.34%) Applications Support Analyst
9 7 (5.34%) Lead
9 7 (5.34%) Support Analyst
10 6 (4.58%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 6 (4.58%) Architect
10 6 (4.58%) C++ Software Engineer
10 6 (4.58%) Infrastructure Support
10 6 (4.58%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
11 5 (3.82%) NOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.29%) .NET
1 3 (2.29%) CSS
1 3 (2.29%) HTML
1 3 (2.29%) Yocto
2 2 (1.53%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (1.53%) JSP
2 2 (1.53%) LAMP
2 2 (1.53%) Middleware
2 2 (1.53%) OpenEmbedded
2 2 (1.53%) OpenTelemetry
2 2 (1.53%) STL
2 2 (1.53%) XML
3 1 (0.76%) FreeSWITCH
3 1 (0.76%) JSON
3 1 (0.76%) Laravel
3 1 (0.76%) Node.js
3 1 (0.76%) POCO
3 1 (0.76%) Qt
3 1 (0.76%) REST
3 1 (0.76%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 21 (16.03%) Embedded Systems
2 17 (12.98%) e-Learning
2 17 (12.98%) MicroBlaze
2 17 (12.98%) RISC-V
3 7 (5.34%) Data Centre
3 7 (5.34%) PKI
4 6 (4.58%) Algorithms
4 6 (4.58%) Clustering
4 6 (4.58%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (3.05%) CCTV
5 4 (3.05%) Replication
6 3 (2.29%) FPGA
6 3 (2.29%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (2.29%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.53%) Cyber Security Posture
7 2 (1.53%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.53%) Security Operations Centre
7 2 (1.53%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.76%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.76%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 51 (38.93%) Windows
2 20 (15.27%) Embedded Linux
3 16 (12.21%) Windows Server
4 15 (11.45%) CentOS
4 15 (11.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (5.34%) Unix
6 5 (3.82%) Ubuntu
7 4 (3.05%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (1.53%) Android
9 1 (0.76%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.76%) Rocky
9 1 (0.76%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (23.66%) Software Engineering
2 29 (22.14%) Containerisation
3 25 (19.08%) Agile
4 24 (18.32%) OO
5 22 (16.79%) OOP
5 22 (16.79%) Roadmaps
6 21 (16.03%) DevOps
7 20 (15.27%) Data Analysis
7 20 (15.27%) Systems Engineering
8 18 (13.74%) Digital Signal Processing
8 18 (13.74%) Signal Processing
9 17 (12.98%) Innovative Thinking
10 16 (12.21%) Problem-Solving
11 13 (9.92%) Logistics
12 12 (9.16%) ITIL
13 11 (8.40%) ERP
13 11 (8.40%) High Availability
13 11 (8.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 9 (6.87%) Batch Scripting
14 9 (6.87%) Physics
Programming Languages
1 33 (25.19%) C++
2 30 (22.90%) Python
3 26 (19.85%) C
4 25 (19.08%) PowerShell
5 19 (14.50%) Java
6 16 (12.21%) SQL
7 12 (9.16%) PHP
8 9 (6.87%) Bash
9 5 (3.82%) Go
9 5 (3.82%) JavaScript
10 2 (1.53%) Ada
10 2 (1.53%) C#
10 2 (1.53%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.53%) MATLAB
10 2 (1.53%) Perl
10 2 (1.53%) R
10 2 (1.53%) Rust
11 1 (0.76%) Embedded C
11 1 (0.76%) Scala
11 1 (0.76%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 49 (37.40%) Security Cleared
2 34 (25.95%) Degree
3 32 (24.43%) SC Cleared
4 24 (18.32%) DV Cleared
5 22 (16.79%) BPSS Clearance
6 20 (15.27%) Chartered Engineer
7 7 (5.34%) CCNP
7 7 (5.34%) Cisco Certification
7 7 (5.34%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (4.58%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (3.82%) CCNA
9 5 (3.82%) MCSA
9 5 (3.82%) MCSE
9 5 (3.82%) Network+ Certification
9 5 (3.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 3 (2.29%) AWS Certification
11 2 (1.53%) Numerate Degree
11 2 (1.53%) PhD
12 1 (0.76%) CISM
12 1 (0.76%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.53%) Def Stans
2 1 (0.76%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.76%) GDPR
2 1 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.76%) NIST
2 1 (0.76%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 25 (19.08%) VMware Infrastructure
2 17 (12.98%) Docker
2 17 (12.98%) Embedded Firmware
2 17 (12.98%) Firmware
3 13 (9.92%) Hyper-V
3 13 (9.92%) VMware ESXi
4 12 (9.16%) Active Directory
5 7 (5.34%) vSphere
6 6 (4.58%) BitLocker
6 6 (4.58%) Microsoft App-V
6 6 (4.58%) Terminal Services
7 1 (0.76%) KVM
Systems Management
1 22 (16.79%) Ansible
2 12 (9.16%) Kubernetes
3 8 (6.11%) Terraform
4 7 (5.34%) Puppet
5 6 (4.58%) Nagios
5 6 (4.58%) vCenter Server
5 6 (4.58%) vMotion
6 4 (3.05%) WMI
7 2 (1.53%) Argo
7 2 (1.53%) Kustomize
7 2 (1.53%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.76%) Nessus
8 1 (0.76%) OpenVAS
8 1 (0.76%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.76%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 29 (22.14%) Microsoft
2 26 (19.85%) VMware
3 13 (9.92%) Cisco
4 12 (9.16%) SAP
5 9 (6.87%) Red Hat
6 8 (6.11%) Google
7 6 (4.58%) Citrix
7 6 (4.58%) HP
7 6 (4.58%) Symantec
8 5 (3.82%) Palo Alto
9 4 (3.05%) Veeam
10 3 (2.29%) Juniper
10 3 (2.29%) NVIDIA
10 3 (2.29%) SevOne
10 3 (2.29%) Xilinx
11 2 (1.53%) Aruba
11 2 (1.53%) Ruckus Wireless
11 2 (1.53%) Tenable
12 1 (0.76%) ArcSight
12 1 (0.76%) Atlassian