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 24 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 29 47
Rank change year-on-year -27 +18 -26
Contract jobs citing Linux 69 78 67
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 3.79% 6.59% 4.01%
As % of the Operating Systems category 45.10% 61.42% 39.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 53 38
10th Percentile £400 £219 £389
25th Percentile £414 £325 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £425 £605
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -29.75% +34.44%
75th Percentile £578 £486 £608
90th Percentile £650 £604 -
South East median daily rate £525 £475 £506
% change year-on-year +10.53% -6.17% +1.05%
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 £34.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +76.47% -51.43% +12.00%

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 153 127 169
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 8.41% 10.74% 10.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 82 103
10th Percentile £307 £191 £216
25th Percentile £414 £268 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £423 £432
Median % change year-on-year +10.06% -2.20% +5.37%
75th Percentile £574 £500 £608
90th Percentile £638 £586 £638
South East median daily rate £495 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +9.94% - +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 3 4
10th Percentile £16.38 - -
25th Percentile £18.63 - £55.87
Median hourly rate £32.50 £18.87 £57.62
Median % change year-on-year +72.23% -67.25% +15.55%
75th Percentile £35.22 £22.01 £61.29
90th Percentile £69.07 £23.89 £66.33
South East median hourly rate £38.72 £18.87 £57.00
% change year-on-year +105.19% -66.89% +3.63%

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 24 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 24 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 -17 36 £625 +25.00% 26
Wokingham -12 21 £439 +16.93% 10
Bracknell -5 2 £450 +5.88% 3
Windsor +2 1 £225 +1.12%
Slough -6 1 £325 -27.78% 12
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 (8.70%) OpenStack
2 3 (4.35%) WebSphere
2 3 (4.35%) WebSphere Application Server
3 2 (2.90%) JBoss
4 1 (1.45%) IBM HTTP Server
4 1 (1.45%) Oracle HTTP Server
4 1 (1.45%) Oracle Service Bus
4 1 (1.45%) WebLogic
4 1 (1.45%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.45%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 20 (28.99%) Azure
2 18 (26.09%) OpenShift
3 8 (11.59%) AWS
4 3 (4.35%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (2.90%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (2.90%) Rubrik
6 1 (1.45%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (1.45%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.45%) GCP
6 1 (1.45%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.45%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (17.39%) DNS
2 11 (15.94%) Firewall
3 10 (14.49%) TCP/IP
4 9 (13.04%) DHCP
4 9 (13.04%) VPN
5 7 (10.14%) LTE
6 6 (8.70%) 5G
6 6 (8.70%) Diameter Protocol
6 6 (8.70%) Radio Access Network
6 6 (8.70%) VoLTE
6 6 (8.70%) VoWiFi
6 6 (8.70%) Wireshark
7 3 (4.35%) Software-Defined Networking
8 2 (2.90%) BGP
8 2 (2.90%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (1.45%) 2G
9 1 (1.45%) 3G
9 1 (1.45%) DAB
9 1 (1.45%) HTTP
9 1 (1.45%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.14%) Oracle Database
2 4 (5.80%) Oracle Database 11g
3 3 (4.35%) Oracle Database 12c
4 2 (2.90%) Oracle Database 10g
5 1 (1.45%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (1.45%) MySQL
5 1 (1.45%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.45%) SQLite
5 1 (1.45%) Vitess
Development Applications
1 10 (14.49%) Jenkins
2 3 (4.35%) GitLab
3 2 (2.90%) Git
3 2 (2.90%) JIRA
4 1 (1.45%) Introscope
4 1 (1.45%) MSI
General
1 20 (28.99%) Social Skills
2 14 (20.29%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (8.70%) Aerospace
4 3 (4.35%) Public Sector
4 3 (4.35%) Telecoms
5 2 (2.90%) Retail
6 1 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.45%) Finance
Job Titles
1 12 (17.39%) Linux Engineer
2 10 (14.49%) Systems Engineer
3 8 (11.59%) DBA
3 8 (11.59%) Platform Engineer
4 7 (10.14%) Senior
5 5 (7.25%) Cloud Engineer
5 5 (7.25%) Oracle DBA
6 4 (5.80%) Administrator
6 4 (5.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (5.80%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 3 (4.35%) Architect
7 3 (4.35%) Middleware Engineer
8 2 (2.90%) Applications Engineer
8 2 (2.90%) Azure Engineer
8 2 (2.90%) DV Cleared DBA
8 2 (2.90%) Migration Engineer
8 2 (2.90%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (2.90%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (2.90%) SQL DBA
8 2 (2.90%) Telecoms Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (17.39%) Terraform
2 3 (4.35%) ARM Templates
2 3 (4.35%) Middleware
3 1 (1.45%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.45%) HTML
3 1 (1.45%) JDBC
3 1 (1.45%) JMS
3 1 (1.45%) Kafka
3 1 (1.45%) LDAP
3 1 (1.45%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (1.45%) REST
3 1 (1.45%) SailPoint
3 1 (1.45%) Software Packaging
3 1 (1.45%) WebSphere MQ
3 1 (1.45%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.59%) Cloud Native
2 7 (10.14%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (4.35%) Management Information System
3 3 (4.35%) Onboarding
3 3 (4.35%) Operational Technology
3 3 (4.35%) SCADA
4 2 (2.90%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (2.90%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (2.90%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.90%) EPoS
5 1 (1.45%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.45%) Clustering
5 1 (1.45%) IoT
5 1 (1.45%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.45%) Replication
5 1 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 27 (39.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 25 (36.23%) Windows
3 14 (20.29%) Unix
4 11 (15.94%) Windows Server
5 3 (4.35%) Rocky
6 2 (2.90%) Debian
6 2 (2.90%) Ubuntu
6 2 (2.90%) Windows 10
7 1 (1.45%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (1.45%) Solaris
7 1 (1.45%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (30.43%) DevOps
2 19 (27.54%) ITIL
3 17 (24.64%) CI/CD
4 16 (23.19%) Platform Engineering
5 14 (20.29%) Infrastructure as Code
6 13 (18.84%) High Availability
6 13 (18.84%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (15.94%) Disaster Recovery
8 10 (14.49%) Performance Tuning
9 9 (13.04%) Agile
9 9 (13.04%) Observability
9 9 (13.04%) Runbook
9 9 (13.04%) Service Delivery
10 8 (11.59%) Business Continuity
10 8 (11.59%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (11.59%) DevSecOps
10 8 (11.59%) Migration
11 7 (10.14%) Architectural Design
11 7 (10.14%) Change Management
11 7 (10.14%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 31 (44.93%) Python
2 29 (42.03%) Bash
3 26 (37.68%) PowerShell
4 8 (11.59%) Shell Script
5 6 (8.70%) SQL
6 5 (7.25%) PL/SQL
7 3 (4.35%) Bicep
7 3 (4.35%) Perl
8 2 (2.90%) VBScript
9 1 (1.45%) Java
9 1 (1.45%) JavaScript
9 1 (1.45%) Jython
Qualifications
1 39 (56.52%) Security Cleared
2 31 (44.93%) SC Cleared
3 9 (13.04%) DV Cleared
4 5 (7.25%) Degree
4 5 (7.25%) RHCE
5 3 (4.35%) AWS Certification
5 3 (4.35%) Azure Certification
5 3 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (4.35%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 3 (4.35%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 2 (2.90%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.45%) CCNA
7 1 (1.45%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.45%) ISTQB
7 1 (1.45%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (1.45%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.45%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (1.45%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (1.45%) Server+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.14%) SLA
2 1 (1.45%) Data Quality
System Software
1 13 (18.84%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (13.04%) Hyper-V
3 8 (11.59%) Docker
4 5 (7.25%) Oracle RAC
4 5 (7.25%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (5.80%) Active Directory
6 3 (4.35%) vSphere
7 1 (1.45%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 27 (39.13%) Kubernetes
2 26 (37.68%) Ansible
3 8 (11.59%) Grafana
3 8 (11.59%) Prometheus
3 8 (11.59%) Red Hat Satellite
4 7 (10.14%) Oracle RMAN
5 5 (7.25%) Data Guard
6 3 (4.35%) Istio
6 3 (4.35%) Podman
6 3 (4.35%) Progress Chef
6 3 (4.35%) Puppet
6 3 (4.35%) SCCM
6 3 (4.35%) SCOM
7 2 (2.90%) Check_MK
7 2 (2.90%) NetBackup
8 1 (1.45%) BladeLogic
8 1 (1.45%) CA Wily
8 1 (1.45%) Rancher
8 1 (1.45%) Tivoli
8 1 (1.45%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 29 (42.03%) Red Hat
2 23 (33.33%) VMware
3 15 (21.74%) Microsoft
4 9 (13.04%) Oracle
5 7 (10.14%) Nokia
6 6 (8.70%) BT
6 6 (8.70%) Ericsson
6 6 (8.70%) Huawei
7 5 (7.25%) Splunk
8 4 (5.80%) CyberArk
9 3 (4.35%) IBM
9 3 (4.35%) SolarWinds
10 2 (2.90%) BMC
10 2 (2.90%) Citrix
10 2 (2.90%) ServiceNow
11 1 (1.45%) AppDynamics
11 1 (1.45%) ArcSight
11 1 (1.45%) Cisco
11 1 (1.45%) Intel
11 1 (1.45%) Remedy