Linux Jobs in Berkshire

Linux
South East > Berkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for Linux skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Linux over the 6 months to 1 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 25 30 15
Rank change year-on-year +5 -15 +14
Permanent jobs citing Linux 244 258 385
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 7.90% 8.09% 11.23%
As % of the Operating Systems category 48.51% 45.50% 55.72%
Number of salaries quoted 194 164 260
10th Percentile £34,000 £27,875 £37,500
25th Percentile £38,938 £38,725 £49,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,350 £63,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.11% +10.43% -4.17%
75th Percentile £70,000 £77,813 £72,500
90th Percentile £81,250 £87,500 £80,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% +5.00%

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 permanent job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 503 567 691
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 16.28% 17.77% 20.16%
Number of salaries quoted 417 339 516
10th Percentile £27,500 £24,000 £28,750
25th Percentile £34,500 £28,938 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £48,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -12.73% -
75th Percentile £60,025 £74,500 £68,813
90th Percentile £71,000 £85,000 £76,250
South East median annual salary £42,500 £42,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year - -10.53% -0.52%

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
Salary Trend in Berkshire

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

Salary trend for Linux in Berkshire

Linux
Salary Histogram in Berkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux in Berkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Linux in Berkshire

Linux
Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Reading +5 147 £59,000 -1.67% 28
Bracknell +5 42 £42,500 -39.29% 11
Slough +9 6 £52,500 +79.49% 5
Wokingham +7 6 £62,500 +4.17% 1
Newbury -1 4 £60,000 -14.29% 1
Thatcham - 1 £50,000 - 2
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 22 (9.02%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (7.79%) WebLogic
3 18 (7.38%) IIS
4 15 (6.15%) Oracle Service Bus
5 11 (4.51%) nginx
6 7 (2.87%) Apache
6 7 (2.87%) Confluence
7 4 (1.64%) ArcGIS
7 4 (1.64%) GeoServer
7 4 (1.64%) SharePoint
7 4 (1.64%) WordPress
8 1 (0.41%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.41%) Tomcat
Applications
1 16 (6.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (6.15%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (6.15%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 15 (6.15%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (1.64%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 80 (32.79%) Azure
2 40 (16.39%) AWS
3 24 (9.84%) Microsoft 365
4 16 (6.56%) Azure Monitor
5 14 (5.74%) Azure Storage
5 14 (5.74%) Entra ID
6 12 (4.92%) OCI
7 10 (4.10%) Amazon S3
8 6 (2.46%) GitHub
8 6 (2.46%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (2.05%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (2.05%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (2.05%) Serverless
10 4 (1.64%) Amazon ELB
10 4 (1.64%) Amazon SQS
10 4 (1.64%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (1.64%) GCP
10 4 (1.64%) OneDrive
10 4 (1.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 3 (1.23%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 57 (23.36%) Firewall
2 51 (20.90%) DNS
3 41 (16.80%) DHCP
4 21 (8.61%) SAN
5 20 (8.20%) VPN
6 19 (7.79%) SNMP
7 14 (5.74%) Wireless
8 10 (4.10%) Internet
9 8 (3.28%) LAN
9 8 (3.28%) NAS
9 8 (3.28%) WAN
10 7 (2.87%) IPsec
11 6 (2.46%) BGP
11 6 (2.46%) TCP/IP
12 5 (2.05%) MQTT
12 5 (2.05%) Wireshark
13 4 (1.64%) Fibre Channel
13 4 (1.64%) iSCSI
13 4 (1.64%) Network Security
13 4 (1.64%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (9.02%) MySQL
2 19 (7.79%) Oracle Database
3 15 (6.15%) Oracle Database 10g
3 15 (6.15%) Oracle Database 11g
3 15 (6.15%) VLDB
4 10 (4.10%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (3.69%) Amazon RDS
6 8 (3.28%) Relational Database
7 6 (2.46%) GIS
7 6 (2.46%) SQL Server
8 5 (2.05%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (2.05%) MongoDB
8 5 (2.05%) RDBMS
9 4 (1.64%) NoSQL
9 4 (1.64%) QGIS
10 2 (0.82%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.82%) Redis
11 1 (0.41%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.41%) Big Data
11 1 (0.41%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 15 (6.15%) Jenkins
2 11 (4.51%) JIRA
3 7 (2.87%) GitLab
4 6 (2.46%) Git
5 2 (0.82%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.82%) IntelliJ
5 2 (0.82%) Robot Framework
5 2 (0.82%) Selenium
5 2 (0.82%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.41%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.41%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.41%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.41%) Gradle
6 1 (0.41%) JUnit
General
1 57 (23.36%) Social Skills
2 27 (11.07%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (3.28%) Finance
4 6 (2.46%) Public Sector
5 4 (1.64%) Electronics
5 4 (1.64%) Manufacturing
6 3 (1.23%) Aerospace
6 3 (1.23%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.41%) Games
7 1 (0.41%) Legal
7 1 (0.41%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 44 (18.03%) Senior
2 37 (15.16%) Software Engineer
3 33 (13.52%) Support Engineer
4 31 (12.70%) Applications Support
5 30 (12.30%) Senior Software Engineer
6 27 (11.07%) DevOps Engineer
7 23 (9.43%) Embedded Engineer
7 23 (9.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 21 (8.61%) Embedded Software Engineer
8 21 (8.61%) Senior Embedded Engineer
9 20 (8.20%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
10 19 (7.79%) Analyst
11 18 (7.38%) Applications Engineer
12 16 (6.56%) Applications Support Engineer
13 15 (6.15%) Applications Support Analyst
13 15 (6.15%) Oracle Analyst
13 15 (6.15%) Oracle Support Analyst
13 15 (6.15%) Support Analyst
13 15 (6.15%) Systems Engineer
13 15 (6.15%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (5.74%) ARM Templates
2 11 (4.51%) React
3 10 (4.10%) RabbitMQ
4 8 (3.28%) Elastic Stack
5 6 (2.46%) Django
5 6 (2.46%) OpenMP
5 6 (2.46%) Qt
6 5 (2.05%) REST
6 5 (2.05%) Spring
6 5 (2.05%) Spring Boot
6 5 (2.05%) XML
6 5 (2.05%) YAML
7 4 (1.64%) GraphQL
7 4 (1.64%) gRPC
7 4 (1.64%) Knex.js
7 4 (1.64%) LEMP Stack
7 4 (1.64%) Node.js
7 4 (1.64%) OpenLayers
7 4 (1.64%) React Native
7 4 (1.64%) Sequelize
Miscellaneous
1 23 (9.43%) Data Centre
2 20 (8.20%) Self-Motivation
3 19 (7.79%) Algorithms
4 18 (7.38%) IoT
5 17 (6.97%) PKI
6 14 (5.74%) CMDB
7 13 (5.33%) Product Ownership
8 12 (4.92%) Linux Command Line
9 6 (2.46%) CUDA
9 6 (2.46%) Public Cloud
10 5 (2.05%) Replication
11 4 (1.64%) Embedded Systems
11 4 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (1.64%) Mobile App
12 3 (1.23%) Arduino
12 3 (1.23%) Raspberry Pi
13 2 (0.82%) Client/Server
13 2 (0.82%) Distributed Systems
13 2 (0.82%) Virtual Team
14 1 (0.41%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 97 (39.75%) Windows
2 61 (25.00%) Windows Server
3 35 (14.34%) Unix
4 33 (13.52%) Windows Server 2016
5 32 (13.11%) Windows Server 2019
6 31 (12.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 21 (8.61%) Embedded Linux
8 17 (6.97%) Windows Server 2012
9 15 (6.15%) Solaris
10 14 (5.74%) CentOS
11 12 (4.92%) Ubuntu
11 12 (4.92%) Windows 10
11 12 (4.92%) Windows XP
12 6 (2.46%) VMS
13 5 (2.05%) Data ONTAP
14 2 (0.82%) Debian
14 2 (0.82%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (27.87%) Agile
2 61 (25.00%) DevOps
3 48 (19.67%) Software Engineering
4 43 (17.62%) Release Management
5 42 (17.21%) CI/CD
6 37 (15.16%) Actionable Insight
6 37 (15.16%) Problem-Solving
7 33 (13.52%) ITIL
8 28 (11.48%) Performance Monitoring
8 28 (11.48%) Performance Tuning
9 27 (11.07%) Configuration Management
10 26 (10.66%) Software Testing
11 24 (9.84%) Incident Management
12 23 (9.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 21 (8.61%) Mathematics
13 21 (8.61%) Physics
13 21 (8.61%) Project Management
14 20 (8.20%) Artificial Intelligence
15 19 (7.79%) Analytics
15 19 (7.79%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 59 (24.18%) Python
2 52 (21.31%) SQL
3 43 (17.62%) PowerShell
4 29 (11.89%) PL/SQL
5 26 (10.66%) Bash
6 21 (8.61%) C++
7 19 (7.79%) C
7 19 (7.79%) VBScript
8 18 (7.38%) Fortran
9 17 (6.97%) C#
10 14 (5.74%) Bicep
10 14 (5.74%) Java
10 14 (5.74%) VB
11 13 (5.33%) JavaScript
12 12 (4.92%) Groovy
13 7 (2.87%) Perl
14 5 (2.05%) Embedded C
14 5 (2.05%) Go
15 4 (1.64%) R
15 4 (1.64%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 147 (60.25%) Security Cleared
2 103 (42.21%) SC Cleared
3 82 (33.61%) Degree
4 58 (23.77%) DV Cleared
5 18 (7.38%) PhD
6 16 (6.56%) CCNA
6 16 (6.56%) Cisco Certification
7 14 (5.74%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 13 (5.33%) Master's Degree
9 12 (4.92%) CCNP
10 9 (3.69%) AWS Certification
11 8 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
12 4 (1.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (1.64%) Azure Certification
12 4 (1.64%) MCSE
12 4 (1.64%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (6.56%) SLA
2 2 (0.82%) QA
3 1 (0.41%) GDPR
3 1 (0.41%) Government Security Classifications
3 1 (0.41%) NCSC
3 1 (0.41%) NIST
System Software
1 61 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 40 (16.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 36 (14.75%) Docker
4 23 (9.43%) VMware ESXi
5 15 (6.15%) Oracle RAC
6 14 (5.74%) Hyper-V
6 14 (5.74%) Virtual Desktop
6 14 (5.74%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (2.87%) vSphere
8 2 (0.82%) KVM
8 2 (0.82%) QEMU
8 2 (0.82%) Xen
Systems Management
1 56 (22.95%) Kubernetes
2 40 (16.39%) SCOM
3 34 (13.93%) Ansible
4 30 (12.30%) SCCM
5 29 (11.89%) Terraform
6 28 (11.48%) vCenter Server
6 28 (11.48%) WSUS
7 18 (7.38%) Microsoft Intune
8 15 (6.15%) Data Guard
8 15 (6.15%) Oracle RMAN
8 15 (6.15%) Rancher
9 14 (5.74%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 14 (5.74%) NetBackup
10 12 (4.92%) EMC NetWorker
11 6 (2.46%) Kibana
11 6 (2.46%) Prometheus
12 3 (1.23%) Grafana
13 2 (0.82%) Nessus
13 2 (0.82%) SolarWinds Orion
14 1 (0.41%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 73 (29.92%) Microsoft
2 53 (21.72%) VMware
3 33 (13.52%) Oracle
4 21 (8.61%) Palo Alto
5 18 (7.38%) Dell
5 18 (7.38%) Red Hat
6 16 (6.56%) Cisco
6 16 (6.56%) Veeam
7 15 (6.15%) Remedy
7 15 (6.15%) Sun
8 14 (5.74%) Dynatrace
8 14 (5.74%) Juniper
9 13 (5.33%) 3PAR
9 13 (5.33%) HP
10 12 (4.92%) EMC
10 12 (4.92%) Extreme Networks
10 12 (4.92%) Symantec
11 5 (2.05%) NetApp
11 5 (2.05%) SolidFire
12 4 (1.64%) ESRI