Linux Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Linux
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Linux skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 28 50
Rank change year-on-year -20 +22 -33
Contract jobs citing Linux 73 76 64
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 4.03% 6.43% 3.73%
As % of the Operating Systems category 48.03% 56.30% 42.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 49 39
10th Percentile £375 £234 £393
25th Percentile £412 £354 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £605
Median % change year-on-year - -25.62% +30.04%
75th Percentile £555 £500 £608
90th Percentile £650 £663 -
South East median daily rate £519 £483 £513
% change year-on-year +7.51% -5.85% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.74 - -
Median hourly rate £67.00 - -
75th Percentile £70.50 - -
90th Percentile £71.06 - -
South East median hourly rate £60.00 £57.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +4.35% -17.86% +16.67%

All Operating Systems
Berkshire

Linux falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring operating system skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 152 135 152
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 8.39% 11.42% 8.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 85 95
10th Percentile £303 £219 £223
25th Percentile £400 £325 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.88%
75th Percentile £513 £537 £608
90th Percentile £638 £700 £638
South East median daily rate £490 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +3.16% +5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 3 3
10th Percentile £16.38 - £56.40
25th Percentile £20.50 - £57.18
Median hourly rate £32.50 £18.87 £58.49
Median % change year-on-year +72.23% -67.74% +16.98%
75th Percentile £35.22 £22.01 £64.09
90th Percentile £69.50 £23.89 £67.45
South East median hourly rate £38.72 £18.87 £56.75
% change year-on-year +105.19% -66.75% +3.17%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Linux job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Linux
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Linux.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Linux

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in Berkshire over the 6 months to 10 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in Berkshire

Linux
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Linux.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Linux

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 10 September 2026. 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 -15 37 £625 +25.00% 32
Wokingham -7 25 £434 +15.60% 2
Bracknell -6 3 £450 +5.88% 5
Windsor +2 1 £225 +1.12%
Slough -6 1 £325 -27.78%
Linux
South East

Linux
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (8.22%) OpenStack
2 4 (5.48%) WebSphere
2 4 (5.48%) WebSphere Application Server
3 2 (2.74%) IBM HTTP Server
3 2 (2.74%) JBoss
3 2 (2.74%) Oracle HTTP Server
3 2 (2.74%) WebSphere Portal
4 1 (1.37%) Oracle Service Bus
4 1 (1.37%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (4.11%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.37%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 21 (28.77%) Azure
2 18 (24.66%) OpenShift
3 9 (12.33%) AWS
4 3 (4.11%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (2.74%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (2.74%) Rubrik
6 1 (1.37%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (1.37%) Datadog
6 1 (1.37%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.37%) GCP
6 1 (1.37%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.37%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (17.81%) DNS
2 12 (16.44%) Firewall
3 11 (15.07%) TCP/IP
4 9 (12.33%) DHCP
4 9 (12.33%) VPN
5 7 (9.59%) LTE
6 6 (8.22%) 5G
6 6 (8.22%) Diameter Protocol
6 6 (8.22%) Radio Access Network
6 6 (8.22%) VoLTE
6 6 (8.22%) VoWiFi
6 6 (8.22%) Wireshark
7 3 (4.11%) NAS
7 3 (4.11%) SAN
7 3 (4.11%) Software-Defined Networking
8 2 (2.74%) BGP
8 2 (2.74%) HTTP
8 2 (2.74%) Intrusion Detection
8 2 (2.74%) SSL
9 1 (1.37%) 2G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (9.59%) Oracle Database
2 4 (5.48%) Oracle Database 11g
3 3 (4.11%) Oracle Database 12c
3 3 (4.11%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.74%) Oracle Database 10g
5 1 (1.37%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (1.37%) MySQL
5 1 (1.37%) SQLite
5 1 (1.37%) Vitess
Development Applications
1 11 (15.07%) Jenkins
2 6 (8.22%) JIRA
3 4 (5.48%) GitLab
4 2 (2.74%) Git
4 2 (2.74%) Introscope
5 1 (1.37%) MSI
General
1 20 (27.40%) Social Skills
2 14 (19.18%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (8.22%) Aerospace
4 4 (5.48%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.11%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.74%) Retail
7 1 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.37%) Finance
7 1 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (17.81%) Linux Engineer
2 10 (13.70%) Systems Engineer
3 8 (10.96%) DBA
3 8 (10.96%) Platform Engineer
3 8 (10.96%) Senior
4 6 (8.22%) Cloud Engineer
5 5 (6.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (6.85%) Oracle DBA
6 4 (5.48%) Administrator
6 4 (5.48%) Middleware Engineer
6 4 (5.48%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 3 (4.11%) Architect
7 3 (4.11%) Azure Engineer
7 3 (4.11%) Project Manager
8 2 (2.74%) Integration Engineer
8 2 (2.74%) Migration Engineer
8 2 (2.74%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (2.74%) SQL DBA
8 2 (2.74%) Systems Integration Engineer
8 2 (2.74%) Telecoms Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (16.44%) Terraform
2 4 (5.48%) Middleware
3 3 (4.11%) ARM Templates
4 2 (2.74%) JDBC
4 2 (2.74%) JMS
4 2 (2.74%) Kafka
4 2 (2.74%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (2.74%) WebSphere MQ
5 1 (1.37%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (1.37%) HTML
5 1 (1.37%) LDAP
5 1 (1.37%) REST
5 1 (1.37%) SailPoint
5 1 (1.37%) Software Packaging
5 1 (1.37%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.96%) Cloud Native
2 7 (9.59%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (5.48%) Replication
4 3 (4.11%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (4.11%) Management Information System
4 3 (4.11%) Onboarding
4 3 (4.11%) Operational Technology
4 3 (4.11%) SCADA
5 2 (2.74%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.74%) Clustering
5 2 (2.74%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (2.74%) Distributed Computing
5 2 (2.74%) EPoS
6 1 (1.37%) IoT
6 1 (1.37%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 29 (39.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 27 (36.99%) Windows
3 15 (20.55%) Unix
4 11 (15.07%) Windows Server
5 3 (4.11%) Rocky
6 2 (2.74%) Debian
6 2 (2.74%) Oracle Linux
6 2 (2.74%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
6 2 (2.74%) Ubuntu
6 2 (2.74%) Windows 10
7 1 (1.37%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (31.51%) ITIL
2 22 (30.14%) DevOps
3 17 (23.29%) CI/CD
3 17 (23.29%) Platform Engineering
4 15 (20.55%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (19.18%) Infrastructure as Code
6 13 (17.81%) High Availability
7 12 (16.44%) Disaster Recovery
8 11 (15.07%) Performance Tuning
9 10 (13.70%) Migration
10 9 (12.33%) Agile
10 9 (12.33%) Observability
10 9 (12.33%) Runbook
10 9 (12.33%) Service Delivery
11 8 (10.96%) Business Continuity
11 8 (10.96%) Continuous Improvement
11 8 (10.96%) DevSecOps
11 8 (10.96%) Root Cause Analysis
11 8 (10.96%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 7 (9.59%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 32 (43.84%) Python
2 29 (39.73%) Bash
3 27 (36.99%) PowerShell
4 7 (9.59%) Shell Script
5 6 (8.22%) SQL
6 5 (6.85%) PL/SQL
7 4 (5.48%) Perl
8 3 (4.11%) Bicep
9 2 (2.74%) Jython
9 2 (2.74%) VBScript
10 1 (1.37%) Java
10 1 (1.37%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 42 (57.53%) Security Cleared
2 33 (45.21%) SC Cleared
3 8 (10.96%) DV Cleared
4 6 (8.22%) Degree
5 5 (6.85%) RHCE
6 3 (4.11%) AWS Certification
6 3 (4.11%) Azure Certification
6 3 (4.11%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (4.11%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 3 (4.11%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 2 (2.74%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.37%) CCNA
8 1 (1.37%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (1.37%) Master's Degree
8 1 (1.37%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (1.37%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (1.37%) PMI Certification
8 1 (1.37%) PMP
8 1 (1.37%) Server+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.59%) SLA
2 1 (1.37%) Data Quality
System Software
1 13 (17.81%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (12.33%) Hyper-V
3 8 (10.96%) Docker
4 7 (9.59%) Active Directory
5 5 (6.85%) Oracle RAC
5 5 (6.85%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (4.11%) vSphere
7 1 (1.37%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 27 (36.99%) Ansible
1 27 (36.99%) Kubernetes
2 8 (10.96%) Grafana
2 8 (10.96%) Prometheus
2 8 (10.96%) Red Hat Satellite
3 7 (9.59%) Oracle RMAN
4 5 (6.85%) Data Guard
5 3 (4.11%) Istio
5 3 (4.11%) Podman
5 3 (4.11%) Progress Chef
5 3 (4.11%) Puppet
5 3 (4.11%) SCCM
5 3 (4.11%) SCOM
6 2 (2.74%) CA Wily
6 2 (2.74%) Check_MK
6 2 (2.74%) NetBackup
6 2 (2.74%) Tivoli
7 1 (1.37%) Amdocs OSS
7 1 (1.37%) Rancher
7 1 (1.37%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 31 (42.47%) Red Hat
2 24 (32.88%) VMware
3 16 (21.92%) Microsoft
4 12 (16.44%) Oracle
5 7 (9.59%) Nokia
6 6 (8.22%) BT
6 6 (8.22%) Ericsson
6 6 (8.22%) Huawei
7 5 (6.85%) ServiceNow
7 5 (6.85%) Splunk
8 4 (5.48%) CyberArk
8 4 (5.48%) IBM
9 3 (4.11%) SolarWinds
10 2 (2.74%) AppDynamics
10 2 (2.74%) Citrix
11 1 (1.37%) BMC
11 1 (1.37%) Cisco
11 1 (1.37%) Commvault
11 1 (1.37%) EMC
11 1 (1.37%) Intel