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 29 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 36 40
Rank change year-on-year -13 +4 -19
Contract jobs citing Linux 81 65 77
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 4.20% 5.38% 4.30%
As % of the Operating Systems category 39.51% 43.62% 40.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 39 52
10th Percentile £354 £348 £413
25th Percentile £402 £400 £501
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £439 £475 £605
Median % change year-on-year -7.68% -21.49% +27.37%
75th Percentile £531 £509 £608
90th Percentile £638 £619 -
South East median daily rate £519 £509 £525
% change year-on-year +1.97% -3.10% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £56.25
Median hourly rate - - £62.50
75th Percentile - - £68.75
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £52.50 £55.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -4.55% -21.43% +17.89%

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 205 149 188
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 10.64% 12.32% 10.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 90 115
10th Percentile £300 £247 £208
25th Percentile £392 £378 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £437 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -12.60% - +8.11%
75th Percentile £500 £663 £608
90th Percentile £600 £700 £638
South East median daily rate £475 £483 £475
% change year-on-year -1.66% +1.68% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 2 6
10th Percentile £19.25 - £56.38
25th Percentile £29.69 - £57.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £18.87 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +72.23% -69.37% +10.00%
75th Percentile £37.43 - £66.96
90th Percentile £56.00 - £69.22
South East median hourly rate £38.72 £18.87 £50.00
% change year-on-year +105.19% -62.26% -9.09%

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 29 July 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 29 July 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
Wokingham -2 37 £417 -7.33% 4
Reading -21 29 £550 +10.00% 6
Bracknell +1 7 £600 -14.29% 1
Windsor +1 1 £225 -55.00%
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 (7.41%) OpenStack
2 4 (4.94%) WebSphere
2 4 (4.94%) WebSphere Application Server
3 2 (2.47%) IBM HTTP Server
3 2 (2.47%) JBoss
3 2 (2.47%) Oracle HTTP Server
3 2 (2.47%) WebSphere Portal
4 1 (1.23%) Apache
4 1 (1.23%) Appian
4 1 (1.23%) Oracle Service Bus
4 1 (1.23%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (3.70%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.23%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 13 (16.05%) Azure
2 10 (12.35%) AWS
2 10 (12.35%) OpenShift
3 2 (2.47%) SaaS
4 1 (1.23%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (1.23%) Datadog
4 1 (1.23%) Entra ID
4 1 (1.23%) GitHub
4 1 (1.23%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (1.23%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.23%) OCI
4 1 (1.23%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 8 (9.88%) Firewall
2 6 (7.41%) 5G
2 6 (7.41%) Diameter Protocol
2 6 (7.41%) DNS
2 6 (7.41%) LTE
2 6 (7.41%) Radio Access Network
2 6 (7.41%) VoLTE
2 6 (7.41%) VoWiFi
2 6 (7.41%) Wireshark
3 5 (6.17%) TCP/IP
4 3 (3.70%) NAS
4 3 (3.70%) SAN
4 3 (3.70%) VPN
5 2 (2.47%) BGP
5 2 (2.47%) DHCP
5 2 (2.47%) HTTP
5 2 (2.47%) Intrusion Detection
5 2 (2.47%) SSL
6 1 (1.23%) Network Security
6 1 (1.23%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (13.58%) Oracle Database
2 7 (8.64%) SQL Server
3 6 (7.41%) Oracle Database 12c
4 5 (6.17%) Oracle Database 11g
5 4 (4.94%) MySQL
6 2 (2.47%) Electronic Patient Records
6 2 (2.47%) Oracle Database 10g
6 2 (2.47%) Vitess
7 1 (1.23%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.23%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.23%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.23%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (1.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (1.23%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 10 (12.35%) Jenkins
2 6 (7.41%) JIRA
3 4 (4.94%) Eclipse
3 4 (4.94%) Maven
3 4 (4.94%) Subversion
4 2 (2.47%) GitLab
4 2 (2.47%) Introscope
5 1 (1.23%) MSI
General
1 22 (27.16%) Social Skills
2 12 (14.81%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (8.64%) Public Sector
4 3 (3.70%) Telecoms
5 2 (2.47%) Retail
6 1 (1.23%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.23%) Finance
6 1 (1.23%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.23%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 12 (14.81%) DBA
1 12 (14.81%) Linux Engineer
2 9 (11.11%) Platform Engineer
3 8 (9.88%) Oracle DBA
4 7 (8.64%) Senior
5 6 (7.41%) Developer
6 5 (6.17%) Administrator
6 5 (6.17%) Cloud Engineer
7 4 (4.94%) Applications Developer
7 4 (4.94%) Middleware Engineer
7 4 (4.94%) Project Manager
7 4 (4.94%) SQL DBA
8 2 (2.47%) Architect
8 2 (2.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (2.47%) Migration Engineer
8 2 (2.47%) Security Engineer
8 2 (2.47%) Senior DBA
8 2 (2.47%) Senior Oracle DBA
8 2 (2.47%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (2.47%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.94%) Middleware
1 4 (4.94%) XML
2 2 (2.47%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (2.47%) JDBC
2 2 (2.47%) JMS
2 2 (2.47%) Kafka
2 2 (2.47%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 2 (2.47%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (2.47%) WebSphere MQ
3 1 (1.23%) .NET
3 1 (1.23%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.23%) HTML
3 1 (1.23%) Jakarta EE
3 1 (1.23%) LAMP
3 1 (1.23%) LDAP
3 1 (1.23%) MERN Stack
3 1 (1.23%) REST
3 1 (1.23%) Software Packaging
3 1 (1.23%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.41%) Replication
2 5 (6.17%) Cloud Native
3 4 (4.94%) Data Centre
3 4 (4.94%) Operational Technology
3 4 (4.94%) SCADA
4 3 (3.70%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.47%) Clustering
5 2 (2.47%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.47%) EPoS
5 2 (2.47%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.47%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.23%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.23%) IoT
6 1 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.23%) Life Science
6 1 (1.23%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.23%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.23%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 34 (41.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 23 (28.40%) Windows
3 16 (19.75%) Unix
4 3 (3.70%) Windows Server
5 2 (2.47%) Debian
5 2 (2.47%) Oracle Linux
5 2 (2.47%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
5 2 (2.47%) Ubuntu
5 2 (2.47%) Windows 10
6 1 (1.23%) Mac OS
6 1 (1.23%) OpenVMS
6 1 (1.23%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (28.40%) ITIL
2 16 (19.75%) High Availability
2 16 (19.75%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (17.28%) DevOps
3 14 (17.28%) Platform Engineering
4 13 (16.05%) CI/CD
4 13 (16.05%) Migration
4 13 (16.05%) Performance Tuning
5 11 (13.58%) Architectural Design
5 11 (13.58%) Root Cause Analysis
6 10 (12.35%) DevSecOps
7 9 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 8 (9.88%) Runbook
9 7 (8.64%) Disaster Recovery
9 7 (8.64%) Service Delivery
10 6 (7.41%) Agile
10 6 (7.41%) Cybersecurity
11 5 (6.17%) Deployment Automation
11 5 (6.17%) Infrastructure as Code
11 5 (6.17%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 30 (37.04%) Python
2 22 (27.16%) PowerShell
3 20 (24.69%) Bash
4 12 (14.81%) SQL
5 6 (7.41%) Shell Script
6 5 (6.17%) Java
6 5 (6.17%) Perl
6 5 (6.17%) PL/SQL
7 2 (2.47%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.47%) Jython
7 2 (2.47%) Korn
7 2 (2.47%) VBScript
8 1 (1.23%) Bicep
8 1 (1.23%) PHP
Qualifications
1 49 (60.49%) Security Cleared
2 42 (51.85%) SC Cleared
3 7 (8.64%) RHCE
4 6 (7.41%) DV Cleared
5 5 (6.17%) AWS Certification
6 3 (3.70%) Degree
7 2 (2.47%) Azure Certification
7 2 (2.47%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (1.23%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.23%) CCNA
8 1 (1.23%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.23%) OCP
8 1 (1.23%) PMI Certification
8 1 (1.23%) PMP
8 1 (1.23%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.64%) SLA
2 1 (1.23%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.23%) NIST
2 1 (1.23%) NIST 800
System Software
1 8 (9.88%) Active Directory
1 8 (9.88%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (8.64%) Oracle RAC
3 2 (2.47%) Firmware
3 2 (2.47%) Hyper-V
3 2 (2.47%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 20 (24.69%) Ansible
2 18 (22.22%) Kubernetes
3 11 (13.58%) Oracle RMAN
3 11 (13.58%) Red Hat Satellite
4 6 (7.41%) Data Guard
5 5 (6.17%) Terraform
6 4 (4.94%) Grafana
6 4 (4.94%) Prometheus
7 3 (3.70%) Progress Chef
7 3 (3.70%) Puppet
8 2 (2.47%) CA Wily
8 2 (2.47%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 2 (2.47%) SCCM
8 2 (2.47%) SCOM
8 2 (2.47%) Tivoli
9 1 (1.23%) Amdocs OSS
9 1 (1.23%) Istio
9 1 (1.23%) NetBackup
9 1 (1.23%) Rancher
9 1 (1.23%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 36 (44.44%) Red Hat
2 20 (24.69%) VMware
3 17 (20.99%) Oracle
4 11 (13.58%) Microsoft
5 7 (8.64%) Nokia
6 6 (7.41%) BT
6 6 (7.41%) Ericsson
6 6 (7.41%) Huawei
7 5 (6.17%) ServiceNow
8 4 (4.94%) Atlassian
8 4 (4.94%) IBM
8 4 (4.94%) Splunk
9 2 (2.47%) AppDynamics
9 2 (2.47%) CyberArk
9 2 (2.47%) SolarWinds
9 2 (2.47%) Veritas
10 1 (1.23%) ArcSight
10 1 (1.23%) NetCracker
10 1 (1.23%) Veeam
10 1 (1.23%) Wonderware