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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 32 41
Rank change year-on-year -12 +9 -23
Contract jobs citing Linux 88 70 88
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 4.50% 5.76% 4.48%
As % of the Operating Systems category 40.55% 43.75% 42.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 43 57
10th Percentile £315 £359 £413
25th Percentile £396 £431 £501
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £605
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -17.36% +24.10%
75th Percentile £500 £544 £608
90th Percentile £638 £663 -
South East median daily rate £518 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.43% - +0.96%
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 £56.25 £70.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% -19.64% +7.69%

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 217 160 205
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 11.11% 13.17% 10.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 96 120
10th Percentile £300 £231 £212
25th Percentile £375 £393 £322
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £429 £500 £501
Median % change year-on-year -14.20% -0.20% +2.77%
75th Percentile £500 £666 £608
90th Percentile £600 £700 £626
South East median daily rate £475 £490 £475
% change year-on-year -3.06% +3.16% +4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 3 8
10th Percentile £19.25 - £56.43
25th Percentile £29.69 - £56.50
Median hourly rate £32.50 £18.87 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +72.23% -69.37% +13.29%
75th Percentile £37.43 £21.77 £63.39
90th Percentile £56.00 £23.50 £69.03
South East median hourly rate £33.86 £18.87 £47.50
% change year-on-year +79.44% -60.27% -13.64%

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 15 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 15 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 -1 38 £414 -12.84% 1
Reading -25 33 £525 +5.00% 6
Bracknell +4 7 £600 -14.29% 3
Windsor 0 3 £208 -58.50%
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 (6.82%) OpenStack
2 4 (4.55%) WebSphere
2 4 (4.55%) WebSphere Application Server
3 2 (2.27%) Appian
3 2 (2.27%) IBM HTTP Server
3 2 (2.27%) JBoss
3 2 (2.27%) Oracle HTTP Server
3 2 (2.27%) WebSphere Portal
4 1 (1.14%) Apache
4 1 (1.14%) Oracle Service Bus
4 1 (1.14%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (3.41%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.14%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 12 (13.64%) Azure
2 10 (11.36%) AWS
3 9 (10.23%) OpenShift
4 2 (2.27%) SaaS
5 1 (1.14%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (1.14%) Datadog
5 1 (1.14%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.14%) GitHub
5 1 (1.14%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (1.14%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.14%) OCI
5 1 (1.14%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 8 (9.09%) Firewall
2 6 (6.82%) 5G
2 6 (6.82%) Diameter Protocol
2 6 (6.82%) LTE
2 6 (6.82%) Radio Access Network
2 6 (6.82%) VoLTE
2 6 (6.82%) VoWiFi
2 6 (6.82%) Wireshark
3 5 (5.68%) DNS
4 4 (4.55%) TCP/IP
5 3 (3.41%) NAS
5 3 (3.41%) SAN
6 2 (2.27%) BGP
6 2 (2.27%) HTTP
6 2 (2.27%) Intrusion Detection
6 2 (2.27%) SSL
6 2 (2.27%) VPN
7 1 (1.14%) DHCP
7 1 (1.14%) Network Security
7 1 (1.14%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (12.50%) Oracle Database
2 8 (9.09%) SQL Server
3 7 (7.95%) MySQL
4 6 (6.82%) Oracle Database 12c
5 5 (5.68%) Oracle Database 11g
6 4 (4.55%) Relational Database
7 2 (2.27%) Electronic Patient Records
7 2 (2.27%) Oracle Database 10g
7 2 (2.27%) RDBMS
7 2 (2.27%) Vitess
8 1 (1.14%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (1.14%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (1.14%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (1.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (1.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (1.14%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 10 (11.36%) Jenkins
2 6 (6.82%) JIRA
3 4 (4.55%) Eclipse
3 4 (4.55%) Maven
3 4 (4.55%) Subversion
4 2 (2.27%) GitLab
4 2 (2.27%) Introscope
5 1 (1.14%) Burp Suite
5 1 (1.14%) MSI
General
1 23 (26.14%) Social Skills
2 15 (17.05%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (9.09%) Public Sector
4 4 (4.55%) Telecoms
5 2 (2.27%) Retail
6 1 (1.14%) Advertising
6 1 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.14%) Finance
6 1 (1.14%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.14%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 12 (13.64%) DBA
1 12 (13.64%) Linux Engineer
2 9 (10.23%) Platform Engineer
3 8 (9.09%) Oracle DBA
4 6 (6.82%) Administrator
4 6 (6.82%) Developer
4 6 (6.82%) Senior
5 5 (5.68%) Cloud Engineer
6 4 (4.55%) Applications Developer
6 4 (4.55%) Middleware Engineer
6 4 (4.55%) Project Manager
6 4 (4.55%) SQL DBA
7 3 (3.41%) Analyst
8 2 (2.27%) Architect
8 2 (2.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (2.27%) Migration Engineer
8 2 (2.27%) Senior Oracle DBA
8 2 (2.27%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (2.27%) Systems Administrator
8 2 (2.27%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.55%) Middleware
1 4 (4.55%) XML
2 3 (3.41%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (2.27%) .NET
3 2 (2.27%) J2EE
3 2 (2.27%) JDBC
3 2 (2.27%) JMS
3 2 (2.27%) Kafka
3 2 (2.27%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 2 (2.27%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (2.27%) WebSphere MQ
4 1 (1.14%) HTML
4 1 (1.14%) LAMP
4 1 (1.14%) LDAP
4 1 (1.14%) MERN Stack
4 1 (1.14%) REST
4 1 (1.14%) Software Packaging
4 1 (1.14%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.82%) Replication
2 4 (4.55%) Cloud Native
2 4 (4.55%) Data Centre
2 4 (4.55%) Operational Technology
2 4 (4.55%) SCADA
2 4 (4.55%) Security Posture
3 3 (3.41%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.27%) Clustering
4 2 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.27%) EPoS
4 2 (2.27%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.14%) IoT
5 1 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.14%) Life Science
5 1 (1.14%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.14%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.14%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.14%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 34 (38.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 28 (31.82%) Windows
3 18 (20.45%) Unix
4 2 (2.27%) Debian
4 2 (2.27%) Oracle Linux
4 2 (2.27%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
4 2 (2.27%) Ubuntu
4 2 (2.27%) Windows 10
4 2 (2.27%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.14%) Kali Linux
5 1 (1.14%) Mac OS
5 1 (1.14%) OpenVMS
5 1 (1.14%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (25.00%) ITIL
2 19 (21.59%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (18.18%) High Availability
4 14 (15.91%) CI/CD
5 13 (14.77%) DevOps
5 13 (14.77%) Migration
5 13 (14.77%) Performance Tuning
5 13 (14.77%) Platform Engineering
6 11 (12.50%) Architectural Design
7 10 (11.36%) DevSecOps
7 10 (11.36%) Root Cause Analysis
8 9 (10.23%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 8 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
9 8 (9.09%) Runbook
10 7 (7.95%) Agile
10 7 (7.95%) Service Delivery
11 6 (6.82%) Disaster Recovery
12 5 (5.68%) Deployment Automation
12 5 (5.68%) Performance Optimisation
12 5 (5.68%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 33 (37.50%) Python
2 23 (26.14%) PowerShell
3 19 (21.59%) Bash
4 14 (15.91%) SQL
5 7 (7.95%) Java
5 7 (7.95%) Perl
6 6 (6.82%) Shell Script
7 5 (5.68%) PL/SQL
8 4 (4.55%) JavaScript
9 2 (2.27%) Jython
9 2 (2.27%) Korn
9 2 (2.27%) VBScript
10 1 (1.14%) PHP
Qualifications
1 52 (59.09%) Security Cleared
2 43 (48.86%) SC Cleared
3 7 (7.95%) DV Cleared
3 7 (7.95%) RHCE
4 5 (5.68%) AWS Certification
4 5 (5.68%) Degree
5 2 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.27%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (1.14%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (1.14%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.14%) CFCE
6 1 (1.14%) GCFA
6 1 (1.14%) GCIA
6 1 (1.14%) GCIH
6 1 (1.14%) GIAC
6 1 (1.14%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.14%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (1.14%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.14%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.95%) SLA
2 1 (1.14%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.14%) NIST
2 1 (1.14%) NIST 800
System Software
1 9 (10.23%) Active Directory
2 8 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (7.95%) Oracle RAC
4 3 (3.41%) Firmware
5 2 (2.27%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (1.14%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 19 (21.59%) Ansible
2 17 (19.32%) Kubernetes
3 11 (12.50%) Oracle RMAN
3 11 (12.50%) Red Hat Satellite
4 6 (6.82%) Data Guard
5 4 (4.55%) Grafana
5 4 (4.55%) Prometheus
5 4 (4.55%) Terraform
6 3 (3.41%) Progress Chef
6 3 (3.41%) Puppet
7 2 (2.27%) CA Wily
7 2 (2.27%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 2 (2.27%) SCCM
7 2 (2.27%) SCOM
7 2 (2.27%) Tivoli
8 1 (1.14%) Amdocs OSS
8 1 (1.14%) Nessus
8 1 (1.14%) NetBackup
8 1 (1.14%) Nmap
8 1 (1.14%) Rancher
Vendors
1 35 (39.77%) Red Hat
2 20 (22.73%) Oracle
2 20 (22.73%) VMware
3 11 (12.50%) Microsoft
4 7 (7.95%) Nokia
5 6 (6.82%) BT
5 6 (6.82%) Ericsson
5 6 (6.82%) Huawei
6 5 (5.68%) ServiceNow
6 5 (5.68%) Splunk
7 4 (4.55%) Atlassian
7 4 (4.55%) IBM
8 2 (2.27%) AppDynamics
8 2 (2.27%) ArcSight
8 2 (2.27%) CyberArk
8 2 (2.27%) SolarWinds
8 2 (2.27%) Tanium
8 2 (2.27%) Veritas
9 1 (1.14%) Cisco
9 1 (1.14%) NetApp