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 2 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 32 35
Rank change year-on-year -5 +3 -8
Contract jobs citing Linux 100 75 96
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 5.46% 6.38% 4.85%
As % of the Operating Systems category 41.84% 47.47% 35.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 48 68
10th Percentile £204 £383 £400
25th Percentile £365 £450 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £403 £494 £570
Median % change year-on-year -18.48% -13.38% +16.92%
75th Percentile £456 £538 £608
90th Percentile £600 £658 -
South East median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £71.20 - £57.13
25th Percentile £73.00 - £58.44
Median hourly rate £79.50 - £63.75
75th Percentile £84.50 - £67.81
90th Percentile £85.40 - £68.38
South East median hourly rate £47.54 £57.75 £62.25
% change year-on-year -17.68% -7.23% -4.23%

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 239 158 272
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 13.05% 13.44% 13.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 101 193
10th Percentile £204 £250 £205
25th Percentile £356 £400 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £414 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -17.20% +17.65% -17.07%
75th Percentile £492 £663 £575
90th Percentile £575 £700 £608
South East median daily rate £475 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 7
10th Percentile £20.23 - £56.40
25th Percentile £41.35 - £56.50
Median hourly rate £57.00 £24.66 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +131.14% -59.97% +12.00%
75th Percentile £80.00 - £63.30
90th Percentile £82.80 - £66.50
South East median hourly rate £47.52 £28.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year +69.71% -41.05% -11.21%

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 2 May 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 2 May 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 -3 40 £403 -18.48% 7
Wokingham -16 38 £414 -17.20% 5
Windsor +6 10 £208 -58.50% 4
Bracknell 0 6 £600 +24.48% 9
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 4 (4.00%) OpenStack
1 4 (4.00%) WebSphere
1 4 (4.00%) WebSphere Application Server
2 2 (2.00%) Appian
2 2 (2.00%) IBM HTTP Server
2 2 (2.00%) JBoss
2 2 (2.00%) Oracle HTTP Server
2 2 (2.00%) WebSphere Portal
3 1 (1.00%) Apache
Applications
1 3 (3.00%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 18 (18.00%) AWS
2 17 (17.00%) Azure
3 10 (10.00%) OpenShift
4 5 (5.00%) GCP
5 4 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (3.00%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (3.00%) Amazon S3
6 3 (3.00%) Azure Storage
7 2 (2.00%) IaaS
7 2 (2.00%) PaaS
7 2 (2.00%) SaaS
8 1 (1.00%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (1.00%) Datadog
8 1 (1.00%) GitHub
8 1 (1.00%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.00%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 10 (10.00%) Firewall
2 6 (6.00%) DNS
2 6 (6.00%) TCP/IP
3 5 (5.00%) Wireshark
4 4 (4.00%) 5G
4 4 (4.00%) DHCP
4 4 (4.00%) Diameter Protocol
4 4 (4.00%) LTE
4 4 (4.00%) Radio Access Network
4 4 (4.00%) SAN
4 4 (4.00%) VoLTE
4 4 (4.00%) VoWiFi
5 3 (3.00%) NAS
6 2 (2.00%) HTTP
6 2 (2.00%) Intrusion Detection
6 2 (2.00%) SSL
7 1 (1.00%) Network Security
7 1 (1.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (14.00%) MySQL
2 11 (11.00%) Relational Database
3 10 (10.00%) Oracle Database
4 8 (8.00%) SQL Server
5 4 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (4.00%) Oracle Database 12c
5 4 (4.00%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (2.00%) Electronic Patient Records
6 2 (2.00%) Oracle Database 11g
6 2 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (2.00%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (1.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 10 (10.00%) Jenkins
2 8 (8.00%) JIRA
3 5 (5.00%) Git
4 4 (4.00%) Eclipse
4 4 (4.00%) Maven
4 4 (4.00%) Subversion
5 2 (2.00%) Burp Suite
5 2 (2.00%) GitLab
5 2 (2.00%) Introscope
6 1 (1.00%) Metasploit
General
1 18 (18.00%) Social Skills
2 12 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (9.00%) Military
3 9 (9.00%) Public Sector
4 3 (3.00%) Telecoms
5 2 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.00%) Advertising
6 1 (1.00%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.00%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 11 (11.00%) DBA
1 11 (11.00%) Tester
2 10 (10.00%) Senior
3 9 (9.00%) Technical Support
4 8 (8.00%) Administrator
4 8 (8.00%) Linux Engineer
4 8 (8.00%) Oracle DBA
5 7 (7.00%) Analyst
6 6 (6.00%) Developer
7 5 (5.00%) Architect
7 5 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
7 5 (5.00%) Test Analyst
8 4 (4.00%) Applications Developer
8 4 (4.00%) Middleware Engineer
8 4 (4.00%) Project Manager
8 4 (4.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (4.00%) SIEM Engineer
9 3 (3.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
9 3 (3.00%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.00%) Elastic Stack
1 4 (4.00%) Middleware
1 4 (4.00%) XML
2 3 (3.00%) .NET
3 2 (2.00%) J2EE
3 2 (2.00%) JDBC
3 2 (2.00%) JMS
3 2 (2.00%) Kafka
3 2 (2.00%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 2 (2.00%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (2.00%) WebSphere MQ
4 1 (1.00%) LAMP
4 1 (1.00%) MERN Stack
4 1 (1.00%) REST
4 1 (1.00%) WebSockets
4 1 (1.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.00%) Cloud Native
2 6 (6.00%) Replication
3 4 (4.00%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (4.00%) Data Centre
3 4 (4.00%) Onboarding
3 4 (4.00%) PKI
3 4 (4.00%) Security Posture
4 2 (2.00%) Clustering
4 2 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.00%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.00%) Operational Technology
4 2 (2.00%) SCADA
5 1 (1.00%) Cyber Security Posture
5 1 (1.00%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (1.00%) HP Storage
5 1 (1.00%) Legacy Code
5 1 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.00%) Life Science
5 1 (1.00%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.00%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 48 (48.00%) Windows
2 25 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 20 (20.00%) Unix
4 2 (2.00%) Kali Linux
4 2 (2.00%) Oracle Linux
4 2 (2.00%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
4 2 (2.00%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.00%) Mac OS
5 1 (1.00%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (29.00%) CI/CD
2 20 (20.00%) DevOps
3 19 (19.00%) Problem-Solving
4 16 (16.00%) ITIL
5 13 (13.00%) High Availability
6 12 (12.00%) Agile
6 12 (12.00%) Cybersecurity
6 12 (12.00%) DevSecOps
6 12 (12.00%) Performance Tuning
7 11 (11.00%) Migration
7 11 (11.00%) OO
7 11 (11.00%) SIEM
8 9 (9.00%) Computer Science
8 9 (9.00%) Containerisation
8 9 (9.00%) OOP
8 9 (9.00%) Platform Engineering
8 9 (9.00%) Process Improvement
9 8 (8.00%) Architectural Design
9 8 (8.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 8 (8.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 35 (35.00%) Python
2 22 (22.00%) SQL
3 18 (18.00%) PowerShell
4 15 (15.00%) Bash
5 14 (14.00%) Perl
6 13 (13.00%) Java
7 11 (11.00%) JavaScript
8 8 (8.00%) Shell Script
9 2 (2.00%) Jython
9 2 (2.00%) Korn
9 2 (2.00%) PHP
9 2 (2.00%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.00%) C#
10 1 (1.00%) Delphi
10 1 (1.00%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 61 (61.00%) Security Cleared
2 42 (42.00%) SC Cleared
3 16 (16.00%) DV Cleared
4 11 (11.00%) Degree
5 9 (9.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (8.00%) RHCE
7 6 (6.00%) AWS Certification
8 4 (4.00%) Azure Certification
8 4 (4.00%) OCP
8 4 (4.00%) Oracle Certification
9 3 (3.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (3.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 2 (2.00%) CEH
10 2 (2.00%) CISSP
10 2 (2.00%) GIAC
10 2 (2.00%) ISTQB
10 2 (2.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (1.00%) GCIA
11 1 (1.00%) GCIH
11 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.00%) SLA
2 3 (3.00%) GDPR
3 1 (1.00%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.00%) NIST
3 1 (1.00%) NIST 800
System Software
1 10 (10.00%) Active Directory
2 8 (8.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (5.00%) Docker
4 4 (4.00%) Hyper-V
4 4 (4.00%) Oracle RAC
5 3 (3.00%) Firmware
5 3 (3.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (21.00%) Ansible
2 16 (16.00%) Kubernetes
3 10 (10.00%) Oracle RMAN
3 10 (10.00%) Terraform
4 8 (8.00%) Red Hat Satellite
5 6 (6.00%) Data Guard
6 5 (5.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 2 (2.00%) CA Wily
7 2 (2.00%) Grafana
7 2 (2.00%) Nmap
7 2 (2.00%) Prometheus
7 2 (2.00%) systemd
7 2 (2.00%) Tivoli
8 1 (1.00%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 1 (1.00%) Kibana
8 1 (1.00%) Nessus
8 1 (1.00%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 32 (32.00%) Red Hat
2 25 (25.00%) Oracle
3 16 (16.00%) VMware
4 13 (13.00%) Microsoft
5 4 (4.00%) Atlassian
5 4 (4.00%) BT
5 4 (4.00%) Ericsson
5 4 (4.00%) Huawei
5 4 (4.00%) IBM
5 4 (4.00%) Nokia
5 4 (4.00%) Tanium
6 3 (3.00%) ServiceNow
6 3 (3.00%) Veritas
7 2 (2.00%) AppDynamics
7 2 (2.00%) ArcSight
7 2 (2.00%) Dell
7 2 (2.00%) HP
7 2 (2.00%) NetApp
7 2 (2.00%) Splunk
8 1 (1.00%) Nimble Storage