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 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 13 15
Rank change year-on-year -16 +2 +5
Permanent jobs citing Linux 123 410 347
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hampshire 6.08% 10.25% 12.15%
As % of the Operating Systems category 41.41% 47.79% 50.07%
Number of salaries quoted 104 236 292
10th Percentile £31,250 £38,625 £27,500
25th Percentile £37,555 £43,750 £35,000
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 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £77,375
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 297 858 693
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hampshire 14.69% 21.44% 24.27%
Number of salaries quoted 239 661 561
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,250 £25,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £29,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,300 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.42% +11.29% -10.53%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £58,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £72,500 £75,000
South East median annual salary £40,050 £42,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -5.76% - -10.53%

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 14 May 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 14 May 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
Southampton +1 20 £50,000 -20.00% 21
Basingstoke -3 20 £57,500 -1.46% 7
Portsmouth -14 19 £70,000 +55.56% 19
Fareham -1 8 £32,500 -52.73% 4
Romsey -5 6 £37,500 -31.82% 1
Farnborough -15 6 £35,050 -29.90% 11
Petersfield - 4 £70,000 -
Waterlooville -2 3 £70,000 -6.67%
Gosport -4 3 £70,000 +40.00%
Winchester -5 3 £65,000 +88.41% 3
Southsea - 3 £70,000 -
Lymington - 3 £35,500 -
Havant +17 2 £55,000 - 1
Tadley 0 2 £25,640 -35.90% 2
Eastleigh +1 1 £72,000 -
New Milton +1 1 £36,000 -
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 6 (4.88%) Apache
1 6 (4.88%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (1.63%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 26 (21.14%) Azure
2 19 (15.45%) AWS
3 12 (9.76%) GCP
4 6 (4.88%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (4.88%) OpenShift
5 5 (4.07%) SaaS
6 4 (3.25%) Entra ID
7 3 (2.44%) Azure Sentinel
7 3 (2.44%) Nutanix
7 3 (2.44%) Serverless
8 2 (1.63%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (1.63%) PaaS
8 2 (1.63%) Pulumi
9 1 (0.81%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.81%) GitHub
9 1 (0.81%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 28 (22.76%) Wireshark
2 17 (13.82%) DNS
3 15 (12.20%) DHCP
4 11 (8.94%) Firewall
5 9 (7.32%) Wireless
6 8 (6.50%) Network Security
6 8 (6.50%) Software-Defined Radio
7 7 (5.69%) Remote Desktop
8 6 (4.88%) SMTP
8 6 (4.88%) VLAN
9 5 (4.07%) iSCSI
9 5 (4.07%) SAN
9 5 (4.07%) TCP/IP
10 4 (3.25%) Cisco IOS
10 4 (3.25%) NAS
10 4 (3.25%) VPN
10 4 (3.25%) WAN
11 3 (2.44%) Ethernet
11 3 (2.44%) IPsec
11 3 (2.44%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.88%) Amazon RDS
1 6 (4.88%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (4.07%) NoSQL
3 4 (3.25%) MySQL
4 3 (2.44%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.63%) Cloud Spanner
5 2 (1.63%) Couchbase
5 2 (1.63%) RDBMS
5 2 (1.63%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.81%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 8 (6.50%) Jenkins
2 7 (5.69%) GitLab
3 6 (4.88%) Robot Framework
4 3 (2.44%) Eclipse
5 2 (1.63%) Eclipse RCP
5 2 (1.63%) Git
5 2 (1.63%) Jaeger
5 2 (1.63%) JIRA
6 1 (0.81%) Bugzilla
6 1 (0.81%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.81%) CMake
6 1 (0.81%) CruiseControl
6 1 (0.81%) Gemini Tracker
6 1 (0.81%) Hudson
6 1 (0.81%) Metasploit
6 1 (0.81%) MSI
6 1 (0.81%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.81%) Postman
6 1 (0.81%) Subversion
6 1 (0.81%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 22 (17.89%) Social Skills
2 18 (14.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 9 (7.32%) Finance
4 5 (4.07%) Electronics
4 5 (4.07%) Manufacturing
4 5 (4.07%) Telecoms
5 2 (1.63%) Military
5 2 (1.63%) Public Sector
6 1 (0.81%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (0.81%) Automotive
6 1 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (0.81%) Local Government
6 1 (0.81%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 25 (20.33%) Software Engineer
2 22 (17.89%) Systems Engineer
3 20 (16.26%) Principal Engineer
3 20 (16.26%) Principal Systems Engineer
4 16 (13.01%) Embedded Engineer
5 13 (10.57%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 13 (10.57%) Support Engineer
6 11 (8.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 8 (6.50%) Applications Support
7 8 (6.50%) Lead
8 7 (5.69%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 7 (5.69%) C++ Software Engineer
8 7 (5.69%) NOC Engineer
9 6 (4.88%) 3rd Line Support
9 6 (4.88%) Administrator
9 6 (4.88%) Analyst
9 6 (4.88%) Infrastructure Support
9 6 (4.88%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
10 5 (4.07%) Applications Support Engineer
10 5 (4.07%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.88%) Django
1 6 (4.88%) React
2 4 (3.25%) Yocto
3 2 (1.63%) CSS
3 2 (1.63%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (1.63%) HTML
3 2 (1.63%) JSP
3 2 (1.63%) LAMP
3 2 (1.63%) Middleware
3 2 (1.63%) OpenEmbedded
3 2 (1.63%) OpenTelemetry
3 2 (1.63%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (1.63%) STL
3 2 (1.63%) XML
4 1 (0.81%) .NET
4 1 (0.81%) FreeSWITCH
4 1 (0.81%) Node.js
4 1 (0.81%) POCO
4 1 (0.81%) REST
4 1 (0.81%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.13%) Data Centre
1 10 (8.13%) Embedded Systems
2 8 (6.50%) e-Learning
2 8 (6.50%) MicroBlaze
2 8 (6.50%) PKI
2 8 (6.50%) RISC-V
3 7 (5.69%) Algorithms
4 6 (4.88%) Clustering
4 6 (4.88%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (4.07%) CCTV
6 4 (3.25%) Replication
7 3 (2.44%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.63%) Cyber Security Posture
8 2 (1.63%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.63%) Security Operations Centre
8 2 (1.63%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.81%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.81%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 57 (46.34%) Windows
2 19 (15.45%) Windows Server
3 12 (9.76%) CentOS
4 11 (8.94%) Ubuntu
5 9 (7.32%) Embedded Linux
6 8 (6.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (4.88%) Rocky
7 6 (4.88%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (3.25%) Unix
9 1 (0.81%) Android
9 1 (0.81%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.81%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (23.58%) Containerisation
2 27 (21.95%) Software Engineering
3 24 (19.51%) OO
4 22 (17.89%) Data Analysis
4 22 (17.89%) Roadmaps
5 21 (17.07%) OOP
6 20 (16.26%) Systems Engineering
7 18 (14.63%) Agile
7 18 (14.63%) DevOps
8 14 (11.38%) Problem-Solving
9 13 (10.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 11 (8.94%) High Availability
11 10 (8.13%) Information Security
11 10 (8.13%) ITIL
12 9 (7.32%) Digital Signal Processing
12 9 (7.32%) Logistics
12 9 (7.32%) Mathematics
12 9 (7.32%) Mentoring
12 9 (7.32%) Signal Processing
13 8 (6.50%) Performance Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 31 (25.20%) Python
2 27 (21.95%) C++
3 23 (18.70%) PowerShell
4 19 (15.45%) SQL
5 17 (13.82%) C
6 14 (11.38%) Java
7 10 (8.13%) Bash
8 9 (7.32%) JavaScript
9 4 (3.25%) PHP
10 3 (2.44%) Go
11 2 (1.63%) Ada
11 2 (1.63%) C#
11 2 (1.63%) MATLAB
11 2 (1.63%) Perl
11 2 (1.63%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.63%) R
11 2 (1.63%) Rust
11 2 (1.63%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.63%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.81%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 40 (32.52%) Security Cleared
2 33 (26.83%) Degree
3 26 (21.14%) DV Cleared
4 22 (17.89%) BPSS Clearance
4 22 (17.89%) SC Cleared
5 20 (16.26%) Chartered Engineer
6 10 (8.13%) CCNP
6 10 (8.13%) Cisco Certification
7 8 (6.50%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (5.69%) CCNA
8 7 (5.69%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (5.69%) MCSA
8 7 (5.69%) MCSE
8 7 (5.69%) Network+ Certification
8 7 (5.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 3 (2.44%) AWS Certification
10 2 (1.63%) Numerate Degree
10 2 (1.63%) PhD
11 1 (0.81%) CISM
11 1 (0.81%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.63%) Def Stans
2 1 (0.81%) GDPR
2 1 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.81%) NIST
2 1 (0.81%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 34 (27.64%) VMware Infrastructure
2 17 (13.82%) Docker
3 15 (12.20%) Hyper-V
4 13 (10.57%) VMware ESXi
5 12 (9.76%) Active Directory
6 11 (8.94%) vSphere
7 8 (6.50%) Embedded Firmware
7 8 (6.50%) Firmware
8 6 (4.88%) BitLocker
8 6 (4.88%) Microsoft App-V
8 6 (4.88%) Terminal Services
9 1 (0.81%) KVM
9 1 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.81%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 19 (15.45%) Ansible
2 16 (13.01%) Kubernetes
3 13 (10.57%) Terraform
4 10 (8.13%) Puppet
5 8 (6.50%) vCenter Server
6 6 (4.88%) Nagios
6 6 (4.88%) vMotion
7 4 (3.25%) Progress Chef
8 3 (2.44%) WMI
9 2 (1.63%) Argo
9 2 (1.63%) Kustomize
9 2 (1.63%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (1.63%) Nessus
9 2 (1.63%) Prometheus
9 2 (1.63%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.81%) OpenVAS
Vendors
1 35 (28.46%) VMware
2 30 (24.39%) Microsoft
3 18 (14.63%) Red Hat
4 16 (13.01%) Cisco
5 9 (7.32%) SAP
6 8 (6.50%) Google
7 7 (5.69%) Palo Alto
8 6 (4.88%) Citrix
8 6 (4.88%) HP
8 6 (4.88%) Symantec
9 4 (3.25%) NVIDIA
9 4 (3.25%) Veeam
10 3 (2.44%) Juniper
10 3 (2.44%) SevOne
11 2 (1.63%) Aruba
11 2 (1.63%) Mellanox
11 2 (1.63%) Ruckus Wireless
11 2 (1.63%) Tenable
12 1 (0.81%) Broadcom
12 1 (0.81%) Spotify