Linux Contracts in Berkshire

Linux
South East > Berkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for Linux skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Linux over the 6 months to 22 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
22 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 33 23 37
Rank change year-on-year -10 +14 -9
Contract jobs citing Linux 96 140 119
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 5.03% 7.99% 5.04%
As % of the Operating Systems category 38.40% 56.45% 41.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 84 70
10th Percentile £409 £325 £388
25th Percentile £501 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £488 £522
Median % change year-on-year +24.10% -6.52% +12.76%
75th Percentile £608 £619 £611
90th Percentile - £665 £670
South East median daily rate £530 £525 £538
% change year-on-year +0.95% -2.33% +15.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 2
10th Percentile £57.13 £24.86 £64.50
25th Percentile £58.44 £41.94 £67.50
Median hourly rate £63.75 £70.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.93% -6.67% +57.89%
75th Percentile £67.81 £78.19 £82.50
90th Percentile £68.38 £83.82 £85.50
South East median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £50.39
% change year-on-year -3.85% +29.01% -8.39%

All Operating Systems
Berkshire

Linux is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 250 248 285
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 13.11% 14.16% 12.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 162 199
10th Percentile £205 £271 £143
25th Percentile £275 £367 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £515 £488
Median % change year-on-year -7.77% +5.64% +15.25%
75th Percentile £600 £622 £597
90th Percentile £608 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £465 £463 £450
% change year-on-year +0.54% +2.78% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 10 4
10th Percentile £56.40 £21.49 £30.13
25th Percentile £56.50 £32.13 £50.94
Median hourly rate £61.60 £54.38 £66.58
Median % change year-on-year +13.29% -18.33% +319.81%
75th Percentile £63.30 £73.75 £73.06
90th Percentile £66.50 £81.98 £81.72
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £55.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year -13.64% +214.29% -20.45%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Berkshire

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Linux in Berkshire.

Daily rate trend for Linux in Berkshire

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in Berkshire over the 6 months to 22 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in Berkshire

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Linux in Berkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Linux in Berkshire

Linux
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 22 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Reading 0 70 £605 +5.22% 35
Bracknell -6 20 £288 -17.86% 7
Newbury +1 2 - - 2
Wokingham -6 1 £590 +38.82% 3
Linux
South East

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 20 (20.83%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.04%) Apache
2 1 (1.04%) Confluence
2 1 (1.04%) Jadu
2 1 (1.04%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 56 (58.33%) Azure
2 21 (21.88%) Azure Monitor
3 18 (18.75%) Azure Storage
3 18 (18.75%) Entra ID
3 18 (18.75%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (14.58%) OCI
5 12 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (10.42%) AWS
7 4 (4.17%) GCP
7 4 (4.17%) Power Platform
8 3 (3.13%) Azure AKS
8 3 (3.13%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (3.13%) Azure Functions
8 3 (3.13%) Azure Service Bus
8 3 (3.13%) PaaS
8 3 (3.13%) Serverless
9 1 (1.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (1.04%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (1.04%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (1.04%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 41 (42.71%) DNS
2 36 (37.50%) DHCP
3 33 (34.38%) Firewall
4 19 (19.79%) SAN
5 8 (8.33%) SSL
6 5 (5.21%) SD-WAN
6 5 (5.21%) WAN
7 4 (4.17%) NAS
7 4 (4.17%) Network Security
8 2 (2.08%) Broadband
8 2 (2.08%) Skype
8 2 (2.08%) tcpdump
8 2 (2.08%) Wireshark
9 1 (1.04%) TCP/IP
9 1 (1.04%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.38%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (8.33%) MySQL
3 6 (6.25%) SQL Server
4 4 (4.17%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (4.17%) Oracle Database
4 4 (4.17%) Power BI
5 3 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (3.13%) MongoDB
5 3 (3.13%) RDBMS
5 3 (3.13%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.04%) Big Data
6 1 (1.04%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 6 (6.25%) Git
2 3 (3.13%) GitLab
2 3 (3.13%) Robot Framework
2 3 (3.13%) Selenium
3 1 (1.04%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (1.04%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.04%) CMake
3 1 (1.04%) JIRA
3 1 (1.04%) Visual Studio
General
1 33 (34.38%) Social Skills
2 15 (15.63%) Telecoms
3 7 (7.29%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.04%) Electronics
4 1 (1.04%) Finance
4 1 (1.04%) Manufacturing
4 1 (1.04%) Marketing
4 1 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (1.04%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 20 (20.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 18 (18.75%) Active Directory Support
3 14 (14.58%) Active Directory Specialist
3 14 (14.58%) Azure Specialist
3 14 (14.58%) Support Specialist
4 11 (11.46%) Architect
5 10 (10.42%) Storage Engineer
6 9 (9.38%) Developer
6 9 (9.38%) Senior
6 9 (9.38%) Support Engineer
7 7 (7.29%) Azure Engineer
8 6 (6.25%) C# Developer
8 6 (6.25%) Security Specialist
8 6 (6.25%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
8 6 (6.25%) Senior Security Specialist
8 6 (6.25%) Test Engineer
9 5 (5.21%) 2nd Line Engineer
9 5 (5.21%) WAN Engineer
10 4 (4.17%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 4 (4.17%) Active Directory Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (18.75%) ARM Templates
2 8 (8.33%) Web Services
3 6 (6.25%) XML
4 3 (3.13%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (2.08%) Django
6 1 (1.04%) .NET
6 1 (1.04%) .NET Framework
6 1 (1.04%) CNTK
6 1 (1.04%) Express.js
6 1 (1.04%) HTML
6 1 (1.04%) Kafka
6 1 (1.04%) LAMP
6 1 (1.04%) Node.js
6 1 (1.04%) PyTorch
6 1 (1.04%) React
6 1 (1.04%) REST
6 1 (1.04%) RESTful
6 1 (1.04%) SOAP
6 1 (1.04%) TensorFlow
6 1 (1.04%) Twig
Miscellaneous
1 30 (31.25%) PKI
2 18 (18.75%) Self-Motivation
3 15 (15.63%) Data Centre
4 7 (7.29%) Client/Server
5 5 (5.21%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (5.21%) Product Ownership
6 4 (4.17%) Fat Client
6 4 (4.17%) Thin Client
7 3 (3.13%) Smart Meter
8 2 (2.08%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (2.08%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (1.04%) Algorithms
9 1 (1.04%) Cloud Native
9 1 (1.04%) Enterprise Storage
9 1 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (1.04%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 63 (65.63%) Windows
2 45 (46.88%) Windows Server
3 37 (38.54%) Windows Server 2019
4 33 (34.38%) Windows Server 2016
5 15 (15.63%) Windows Server 2012
6 14 (14.58%) Windows 10
6 14 (14.58%) Windows XP
7 12 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 9 (9.38%) Unix
9 4 (4.17%) Ubuntu
9 4 (4.17%) VMS
10 2 (2.08%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (2.08%) Solaris
11 1 (1.04%) Android
11 1 (1.04%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (35.42%) DevOps
1 34 (35.42%) ITIL
2 31 (32.29%) Agile
3 23 (23.96%) Release Management
4 22 (22.92%) Analytics
4 22 (22.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 21 (21.88%) CI/CD
6 19 (19.79%) Identity Management
6 19 (19.79%) Infrastructure as Code
6 19 (19.79%) Proactive Monitoring
7 18 (18.75%) Log Analytics
7 18 (18.75%) Multi-Factor Authentication
7 18 (18.75%) Performance Tuning
7 18 (18.75%) Privileged Identity Management
7 18 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
7 18 (18.75%) RBAC
7 18 (18.75%) Service Management
8 17 (17.71%) Disaster Recovery
9 15 (15.63%) Project Management
10 14 (14.58%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 43 (44.79%) PowerShell
2 25 (26.04%) VBScript
3 24 (25.00%) C#
4 18 (18.75%) Bicep
4 18 (18.75%) VB
5 16 (16.67%) Python
6 13 (13.54%) SQL
7 4 (4.17%) Bash
8 3 (3.13%) Java
8 3 (3.13%) JavaScript
8 3 (3.13%) Shell Script
8 3 (3.13%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.04%) C++
9 1 (1.04%) Go
9 1 (1.04%) PHP
Qualifications
1 67 (69.79%) Security Cleared
2 45 (46.88%) Degree
2 45 (46.88%) SC Cleared
3 43 (44.79%) DV Cleared
4 18 (18.75%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 14 (14.58%) CCNA
5 14 (14.58%) CCNP
5 14 (14.58%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.04%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.21%) ISO 9000
2 3 (3.13%) GDPR
3 1 (1.04%) QA
System Software
1 46 (47.92%) Active Directory
2 28 (29.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (20.83%) Virtual Machines
4 18 (18.75%) Virtual Desktop
4 18 (18.75%) VMware ESXi
5 14 (14.58%) Hyper-V
6 3 (3.13%) Docker
7 2 (2.08%) KVM
7 2 (2.08%) vSphere
8 1 (1.04%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 36 (37.50%) WSUS
2 34 (35.42%) SCCM
2 34 (35.42%) SCOM
3 23 (23.96%) Kubernetes
4 22 (22.92%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 18 (18.75%) Microsoft Intune
5 18 (18.75%) vCenter Server
6 16 (16.67%) EMC NetWorker
7 15 (15.63%) NetBackup
8 10 (10.42%) Ansible
9 5 (5.21%) Terraform
10 4 (4.17%) Nessus
10 4 (4.17%) Red Hat Satellite
10 4 (4.17%) ZABBIX
11 2 (2.08%) Packer
11 2 (2.08%) Prometheus
11 2 (2.08%) vRealize
12 1 (1.04%) Grafana
12 1 (1.04%) Graylog
12 1 (1.04%) Rancher
Vendors
1 49 (51.04%) Microsoft
2 32 (33.33%) VMware
3 26 (27.08%) Oracle
4 19 (19.79%) Cisco
5 18 (18.75%) Veeam
6 16 (16.67%) EMC
7 15 (15.63%) 3PAR
7 15 (15.63%) HP
8 14 (14.58%) Dell
8 14 (14.58%) Extreme Networks
8 14 (14.58%) Juniper
8 14 (14.58%) Palo Alto
8 14 (14.58%) Symantec
9 8 (8.33%) Red Hat
10 7 (7.29%) Splunk
11 3 (3.13%) Ab Initio
11 3 (3.13%) Google
11 3 (3.13%) SAP
11 3 (3.13%) ServiceNow
12 2 (2.08%) Citrix