Linux Contracts in Berkshire

Linux
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring Linux skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Linux over the 6 months leading up to 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 34 22
Rank change year-on-year -1 -12 +11
Contract jobs citing Linux 60 93 150
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 5.22% 4.74% 8.21%
As % of the Operating Systems category 40.54% 42.86% 60.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 62 87
10th Percentile £386 £413 £308
25th Percentile £450 £504 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £605 £488
Median % change year-on-year -17.36% +24.10% -10.14%
75th Percentile £573 £608 £614
90th Percentile £666 - £659
South East median daily rate £525 £532 £520
% change year-on-year -1.22% +2.26% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
10th Percentile - - £32.22
25th Percentile - £56.25 £48.07
Median hourly rate - £62.50 £64.38
Median % change year-on-year - -2.91% -14.17%
75th Percentile - £68.75 £72.84
90th Percentile - - £77.96
South East median hourly rate £57.50 £70.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -17.86% +7.69% +18.18%

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 148 217 249
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 12.88% 11.07% 13.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 135 156
10th Percentile £246 £208 £300
25th Percentile £400 £291 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £494
Median % change year-on-year -0.20% +1.47% -1.25%
75th Percentile £675 £608 £619
90th Percentile £700 £611 £688
South East median daily rate £490 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +3.16% +5.56% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 8 6
10th Percentile - £56.43 £34.58
25th Percentile - £56.50 £47.73
Median hourly rate £18.87 £61.60 £54.38
Median % change year-on-year -69.37% +13.29% -27.50%
75th Percentile £21.77 £63.39 £67.66
90th Percentile £23.50 £69.03 £75.69
South East median hourly rate £18.82 £47.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -60.38% -13.64% +214.29%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Linux in Berkshire

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in Berkshire over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in Berkshire

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux in Berkshire

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 1 July 2025. 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 -10 17 £500 -17.36% 106
Wokingham +6 15 £500 -15.25% 13
Slough - 15 £450 - 109
Windsor - 5 £500 - 7
Bracknell -9 4 £700 +143.48% 21
Maidenhead - 1 - - 3
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 5 (8.33%) OpenStack
2 2 (3.33%) Apache
3 1 (1.67%) Anypoint
3 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 13 (21.67%) AWS
2 12 (20.00%) Azure
3 5 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (6.67%) GitHub
5 2 (3.33%) Entra ID
5 2 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (3.33%) npm
6 1 (1.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (1.67%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.67%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.67%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (1.67%) AWS KMS
6 1 (1.67%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (1.67%) Azure Pipelines
6 1 (1.67%) Azure Storage
6 1 (1.67%) IaaS
6 1 (1.67%) PaaS
6 1 (1.67%) Route 53
6 1 (1.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (26.67%) VPN
2 15 (25.00%) MPLS
2 15 (25.00%) SAN
3 14 (23.33%) ATM
3 14 (23.33%) Ethernet
3 14 (23.33%) Frame Relay
3 14 (23.33%) GPRS
3 14 (23.33%) GSM
3 14 (23.33%) LAN
3 14 (23.33%) LTE
3 14 (23.33%) SDH
3 14 (23.33%) UMTS
3 14 (23.33%) WAN
3 14 (23.33%) Wireshark
4 7 (11.67%) DHCP
4 7 (11.67%) DNS
5 5 (8.33%) TCP/IP
6 4 (6.67%) Firewall
7 2 (3.33%) FTP
7 2 (3.33%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.33%) Big Data
2 3 (5.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (3.33%) GIS
3 2 (3.33%) MongoDB
3 2 (3.33%) NoSQL
3 2 (3.33%) Oracle Database
3 2 (3.33%) Oracle Database 12c
3 2 (3.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (1.67%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.67%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (16.67%) Git
2 6 (10.00%) Jenkins
3 5 (8.33%) JIRA
4 1 (1.67%) Bitbucket Server
4 1 (1.67%) Burp Suite
4 1 (1.67%) CMake
4 1 (1.67%) DbUnit
4 1 (1.67%) GitLab
4 1 (1.67%) jMock
4 1 (1.67%) JUnit
4 1 (1.67%) Maven
4 1 (1.67%) Metasploit
4 1 (1.67%) Mockito
4 1 (1.67%) SonarQube
General
1 26 (43.33%) Social Skills
2 19 (31.67%) Telecoms
3 5 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (8.33%) Finance
4 2 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (3.33%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.33%) Retail
5 1 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (1.67%) Legal
5 1 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (21.67%) IP Engineer
2 12 (20.00%) Test Engineer
3 7 (11.67%) Lead
3 7 (11.67%) Support Engineer
4 5 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
4 5 (8.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 5 (8.33%) Developer
4 5 (8.33%) IP Network Engineer
4 5 (8.33%) Network Engineer
4 5 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
4 5 (8.33%) Tester
5 4 (6.67%) Architect
5 4 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
5 4 (6.67%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 4 (6.67%) Consultant
5 4 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (5.00%) Azure Engineer
7 2 (3.33%) Cloud Developer
7 2 (3.33%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 2 (3.33%) Oracle Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.67%) SOAP
2 2 (3.33%) CSS
2 2 (3.33%) HTML
2 2 (3.33%) LDAP
2 2 (3.33%) Material-UI
2 2 (3.33%) Middleware
2 2 (3.33%) Next.js
2 2 (3.33%) Node.js
2 2 (3.33%) OpenAPI
2 2 (3.33%) React
2 2 (3.33%) REST
2 2 (3.33%) Swagger
3 1 (1.67%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.67%) CNTK
3 1 (1.67%) NETCONF
3 1 (1.67%) OpenVINO
3 1 (1.67%) PyTorch
3 1 (1.67%) RESTCONF
3 1 (1.67%) YANG
3 1 (1.67%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 19 (31.67%) Self-Motivation
2 9 (15.00%) Data Centre
3 6 (10.00%) Product Ownership
3 6 (10.00%) SCADA
4 4 (6.67%) Enterprise Storage
5 2 (3.33%) Cloud Native
5 2 (3.33%) Operational Technology
5 2 (3.33%) PKI
5 2 (3.33%) Replication
6 1 (1.67%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.67%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.67%) Device Driver
6 1 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.67%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.67%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.67%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 28 (46.67%) Windows
2 16 (26.67%) Unix
3 11 (18.33%) Windows Server
4 10 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (11.67%) Ubuntu
6 5 (8.33%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (5.00%) CentOS
7 3 (5.00%) VMS
8 1 (1.67%) Android
8 1 (1.67%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (1.67%) Kali Linux
8 1 (1.67%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (46.67%) Problem-Solving
2 20 (33.33%) Test Strategy
3 15 (25.00%) Project Management
4 14 (23.33%) DevOps
4 14 (23.33%) Fault Management
4 14 (23.33%) Regression Testing
5 13 (21.67%) High Availability
6 12 (20.00%) Open Source
7 8 (13.33%) CI/CD
7 8 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 7 (11.67%) ITIL
8 7 (11.67%) Performance Tuning
9 6 (10.00%) Agile
9 6 (10.00%) DevSecOps
9 6 (10.00%) Migration
10 5 (8.33%) Containerisation
10 5 (8.33%) Customer-Centric Approach
10 5 (8.33%) Customer-Centricity
10 5 (8.33%) Platform Engineering
10 5 (8.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 16 (26.67%) Python
2 15 (25.00%) Java
3 10 (16.67%) PowerShell
4 8 (13.33%) Bash
4 8 (13.33%) SQL
5 6 (10.00%) Perl
5 6 (10.00%) PL/SQL
6 2 (3.33%) C++
6 2 (3.33%) JavaScript
6 2 (3.33%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.67%) Bicep
7 1 (1.67%) C#
7 1 (1.67%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.67%) VB
7 1 (1.67%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 16 (26.67%) Security Cleared
2 14 (23.33%) CCNP
2 14 (23.33%) Cisco Certification
2 14 (23.33%) ISEB
2 14 (23.33%) ISTQB
2 14 (23.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 14 (23.33%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.00%) DV Cleared
4 2 (3.33%) Degree
5 1 (1.67%) CFCE
5 1 (1.67%) CISSP
5 1 (1.67%) GCIH
5 1 (1.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (1.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.67%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (1.67%) GDPR
1 1 (1.67%) HIPAA
1 1 (1.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (11.67%) vSphere
2 6 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (8.33%) Docker
4 3 (5.00%) Active Directory
5 2 (3.33%) NFS
5 2 (3.33%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (3.33%) Samba
5 2 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (3.33%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (1.67%) Postfix
6 1 (1.67%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (1.67%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 15 (25.00%) Ansible
2 10 (16.67%) Kubernetes
3 7 (11.67%) Terraform
4 4 (6.67%) NetBackup
4 4 (6.67%) yum
5 2 (3.33%) BMC PATROL
5 2 (3.33%) Data Guard
5 2 (3.33%) Oracle RMAN
5 2 (3.33%) Progress Chef
5 2 (3.33%) Puppet
5 2 (3.33%) SCCM
6 1 (1.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (1.67%) Grafana
6 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.67%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.67%) SCOM
6 1 (1.67%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.67%) vCenter Server
6 1 (1.67%) WSUS
Vendors
1 24 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 15 (25.00%) Cisco
3 14 (23.33%) Juniper
3 14 (23.33%) VMware
4 9 (15.00%) Red Hat
5 6 (10.00%) HP
6 5 (8.33%) Databricks
7 4 (6.67%) 3PAR
7 4 (6.67%) Dell
7 4 (6.67%) Veritas
8 3 (5.00%) Oracle
9 2 (3.33%) BMC
9 2 (3.33%) IBM
9 2 (3.33%) Splunk
10 1 (1.67%) Atlassian
10 1 (1.67%) Dynatrace
10 1 (1.67%) Jaspersoft
10 1 (1.67%) MuleSoft
10 1 (1.67%) Palo Alto
10 1 (1.67%) Zscaler