Linux Contracts in Reading

Linux
Berkshire > Reading

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 32 29 32
Rank change year-on-year -3 +3 -4
Contract jobs citing Linux 65 72 74
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 5.49% 6.92% 5.47%
As % of the Operating Systems category 39.63% 54.55% 36.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 53 49
10th Percentile £413 £333 £396
25th Percentile £501 £456 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £575 £520
Median % change year-on-year +5.22% +10.58% +30.00%
75th Percentile £608 £623 £625
90th Percentile - £780 £671
Berkshire median daily rate £570 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +14.00% - +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £57.13 £71.14 -
25th Percentile £58.44 £72.84 -
Median hourly rate £63.75 £75.69 -
Median % change year-on-year -15.77% - -
75th Percentile £67.81 £78.53 -
90th Percentile £68.38 £80.23 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £63.75 £70.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year -8.93% -6.67% +39.53%

All Operating Systems
Reading

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 Reading with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 164 132 205
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 13.85% 12.68% 15.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 101 161
10th Percentile £205 £325 £150
25th Percentile £213 £455 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £588 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.28% +11.90% +23.53%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £630
90th Percentile - £763 £675
Berkshire median daily rate £425 £514 £493
% change year-on-year -17.27% +4.31% +15.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 0
10th Percentile £56.33 £49.00 -
25th Percentile £56.44 £51.25 -
Median hourly rate £60.25 £62.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -3.60% - -
75th Percentile £65.94 £72.84 -
90th Percentile £67.63 £77.96 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.60 £55.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year +12.00% -16.03% +63.75%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Reading

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Linux in Reading

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in Reading over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in Reading

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux in Reading

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 17 (26.15%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.54%) Apache
2 1 (1.54%) Jadu
2 1 (1.54%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 44 (67.69%) Azure
2 18 (27.69%) Azure Monitor
3 15 (23.08%) Azure Storage
3 15 (23.08%) Entra ID
3 15 (23.08%) Microsoft 365
4 13 (20.00%) OCI
5 12 (18.46%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (6.15%) Power Platform
7 3 (4.62%) Azure AKS
7 3 (4.62%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (4.62%) Azure Functions
7 3 (4.62%) Azure Service Bus
7 3 (4.62%) PaaS
7 3 (4.62%) Serverless
8 1 (1.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (1.54%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.54%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.54%) AWS
8 1 (1.54%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.54%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 29 (44.62%) Firewall
2 28 (43.08%) DHCP
2 28 (43.08%) DNS
3 13 (20.00%) SAN
4 5 (7.69%) Network Security
5 2 (3.08%) Broadband
5 2 (3.08%) Skype
6 1 (1.54%) TCP/IP
6 1 (1.54%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.15%) Azure SQL Database
1 4 (6.15%) Power BI
2 3 (4.62%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (4.62%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (3.08%) MongoDB
3 2 (3.08%) MySQL
3 2 (3.08%) Oracle Database
3 2 (3.08%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.54%) Big Data
4 1 (1.54%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.54%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.54%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (7.69%) Git
2 3 (4.62%) Robot Framework
2 3 (4.62%) Selenium
3 2 (3.08%) GitLab
4 1 (1.54%) CMake
4 1 (1.54%) Visual Studio
General
1 29 (44.62%) Social Skills
2 13 (20.00%) Telecoms
3 7 (10.77%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.54%) Electronics
4 1 (1.54%) Finance
4 1 (1.54%) Manufacturing
4 1 (1.54%) Marketing
4 1 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (1.54%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 17 (26.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 15 (23.08%) Active Directory Support
3 14 (21.54%) Active Directory Specialist
3 14 (21.54%) Azure Specialist
3 14 (21.54%) Support Specialist
4 10 (15.38%) Senior
5 9 (13.85%) Storage Engineer
6 7 (10.77%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
7 6 (9.23%) C# Developer
7 6 (9.23%) Developer
7 6 (9.23%) Security Specialist
7 6 (9.23%) Senior Security Specialist
8 4 (6.15%) Analyst
8 4 (6.15%) Azure Engineer
8 4 (6.15%) Solutions Analyst
8 4 (6.15%) Splunk Specialist
8 4 (6.15%) Test Engineer
9 3 (4.62%) Azure Data Engineer
9 3 (4.62%) Data Engineer
9 3 (4.62%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (23.08%) ARM Templates
2 3 (4.62%) XML
3 2 (3.08%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.54%) .NET
4 1 (1.54%) .NET Framework
4 1 (1.54%) CNTK
4 1 (1.54%) Kafka
4 1 (1.54%) LAMP
4 1 (1.54%) OpenVINO
4 1 (1.54%) PyTorch
4 1 (1.54%) RESTful
4 1 (1.54%) SOAP
4 1 (1.54%) Symfony
4 1 (1.54%) TensorFlow
4 1 (1.54%) Twig
Miscellaneous
1 15 (23.08%) PKI
1 15 (23.08%) Self-Motivation
2 13 (20.00%) Data Centre
3 7 (10.77%) Client/Server
4 5 (7.69%) Product Ownership
5 4 (6.15%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (4.62%) Smart Meter
7 2 (3.08%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (1.54%) Algorithms
8 1 (1.54%) Cloud Native
8 1 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.54%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 50 (76.92%) Windows
2 37 (56.92%) Windows Server
3 28 (43.08%) Windows Server 2016
3 28 (43.08%) Windows Server 2019
4 13 (20.00%) Windows 10
4 13 (20.00%) Windows Server 2012
4 13 (20.00%) Windows XP
5 11 (16.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (13.85%) Unix
7 2 (3.08%) VMS
8 1 (1.54%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (43.08%) DevOps
1 28 (43.08%) ITIL
2 24 (36.92%) Agile
3 19 (29.23%) Analytics
4 18 (27.69%) Release Management
5 17 (26.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 17 (26.15%) Performance Tuning
6 16 (24.62%) CI/CD
6 16 (24.62%) Identity Management
6 16 (24.62%) Infrastructure as Code
7 15 (23.08%) Log Analytics
7 15 (23.08%) Multi-Factor Authentication
7 15 (23.08%) Privileged Identity Management
7 15 (23.08%) RBAC
7 15 (23.08%) Service Management
8 14 (21.54%) Disaster Recovery
8 14 (21.54%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (21.54%) Project Management
9 13 (20.00%) Break/Fix
9 13 (20.00%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 35 (53.85%) PowerShell
2 22 (33.85%) VBScript
3 21 (32.31%) C#
4 15 (23.08%) Bicep
4 15 (23.08%) VB
5 12 (18.46%) Python
5 12 (18.46%) SQL
6 3 (4.62%) Bash
6 3 (4.62%) T-SQL
7 2 (3.08%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.54%) C++
8 1 (1.54%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.54%) PHP
Qualifications
1 44 (67.69%) Security Cleared
2 38 (58.46%) DV Cleared
3 34 (52.31%) SC Cleared
4 31 (47.69%) Degree
5 15 (23.08%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 13 (20.00%) CCNA
6 13 (20.00%) CCNP
6 13 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (4.62%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.54%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.62%) GDPR
2 1 (1.54%) QA
System Software
1 30 (46.15%) Active Directory
2 22 (33.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (26.15%) Virtual Machines
4 15 (23.08%) Virtual Desktop
5 13 (20.00%) Hyper-V
5 13 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (4.62%) Docker
7 2 (3.08%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 30 (46.15%) SCCM
1 30 (46.15%) SCOM
2 28 (43.08%) WSUS
3 19 (29.23%) Kubernetes
4 15 (23.08%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 15 (23.08%) EMC NetWorker
4 15 (23.08%) Microsoft Intune
5 13 (20.00%) NetBackup
5 13 (20.00%) vCenter Server
6 5 (7.69%) Ansible
7 4 (6.15%) Terraform
8 2 (3.08%) Packer
8 2 (3.08%) Prometheus
8 2 (3.08%) vRealize
9 1 (1.54%) Grafana
9 1 (1.54%) Graylog
9 1 (1.54%) Nagios
Vendors
1 42 (64.62%) Microsoft
2 24 (36.92%) VMware
3 16 (24.62%) Oracle
4 15 (23.08%) EMC
5 13 (20.00%) 3PAR
5 13 (20.00%) Cisco
5 13 (20.00%) Dell
5 13 (20.00%) Extreme Networks
5 13 (20.00%) HP
5 13 (20.00%) Juniper
5 13 (20.00%) Palo Alto
5 13 (20.00%) Symantec
5 13 (20.00%) Veeam
6 8 (12.31%) Splunk
7 3 (4.62%) Ab Initio
8 2 (3.08%) Citrix
8 2 (3.08%) Red Hat
8 2 (3.08%) ServiceNow
9 1 (1.54%) ArcSight
9 1 (1.54%) SAP