Linux Job Trends in Winchester

Linux
Hampshire > Winchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Winchester requiring Linux skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 16 9
Rank change year-on-year -1 -7 +16
Permanent jobs citing Linux 1 7 8
As % of all permanent jobs in Winchester 1.15% 8.86% 14.55%
As % of the Operating Systems category 16.67% 53.85% 72.73%
Number of salaries quoted 0 2 7
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £65,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year - -27.78% +63.64%
Hampshire median annual salary £52,500 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -19.23% +13.04% +15.00%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring operating system skills in Winchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 6 13 11
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Winchester 6.90% 16.46% 20.00%
Number of salaries quoted 4 6 10
10th Percentile £27,700 £50,250 £35,525
25th Percentile £28,375 £52,500 £50,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £29,500 £55,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -46.36% -38.89% +67.44%
75th Percentile £30,250 £65,000 -
90th Percentile - £67,500 -
Hampshire median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £44,400
% change year-on-year -13.64% +23.87% -1.33%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Winchester

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

Linux job vacancy trend in Winchester

Linux
Salary Trend in Winchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Winchester citing Linux.

Salary 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECR
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Artifactory
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Immutable Infrastructure
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Sysdig
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform