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 6 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 49 36
Rank change year-on-year +22 -13 +11
Contract jobs citing Linux 108 71 98
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 7.57% 4.42% 5.58%
As % of the Operating Systems category 55.38% 37.77% 33.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 32 57
10th Percentile £219 £358 £335
25th Percentile £358 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £494 £425
Median % change year-on-year -13.92% +16.18% -25.44%
75th Percentile £509 £608 £600
90th Percentile £552 - £705
South East median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 6
10th Percentile £71.20 - £41.55
25th Percentile £73.00 - £60.31
Median hourly rate £79.50 - £65.75
75th Percentile £84.50 - £68.29
90th Percentile £85.40 - £68.63
South East median hourly rate £13.00 £67.02 £66.88
% change year-on-year -80.60% +0.21% +21.60%

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 195 188 289
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 13.67% 11.69% 16.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 116 217
10th Percentile £204 £200 £148
25th Percentile £261 £298 £210
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £419 £400
Median % change year-on-year +0.30% +4.69% -20.00%
75th Percentile £500 £608 £588
90th Percentile £578 £680 £624
South East median daily rate £430 £439 £400
% change year-on-year -1.99% +9.69% -15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 4 14
10th Percentile £17.36 - £31.56
25th Percentile £18.87 £55.87 £48.40
Median hourly rate £20.79 £56.75 £55.28
Median % change year-on-year -63.36% +2.65% +0.51%
75th Percentile £22.82 £60.64 £64.06
90th Percentile £63.55 £66.07 £68.22
South East median hourly rate £20.18 £61.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -67.19% +11.82% +193.33%

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 6 December 2025.

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 6 December 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
Wokingham +5 49 £425 -15.00% 6
Reading +11 37 £428 -22.27% 21
Bracknell +4 10 £450 - 5
Windsor -9 4 £208 -48.13% 3
Maidenhead - 2 - - 1
Slough -5 1 - - 27
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 2 (1.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.93%) Gunicorn
2 1 (0.93%) nginx
2 1 (0.93%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.93%) SAP MDG
1 1 (0.93%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 39 (36.11%) AWS
2 32 (29.63%) Azure
3 18 (16.67%) OpenShift
4 10 (9.26%) AWS CloudFormation
5 9 (8.33%) IaaS
6 8 (7.41%) GCP
7 7 (6.48%) OCI
8 6 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (5.56%) Serverless
9 2 (1.85%) Entra ID
9 2 (1.85%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 2 (1.85%) Google Workspace
9 2 (1.85%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (1.85%) PaaS
10 1 (0.93%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.93%) Azure Pipelines
10 1 (0.93%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (0.93%) GitHub
10 1 (0.93%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 22 (20.37%) DNS
2 17 (15.74%) TCP/IP
3 15 (13.89%) DHCP
4 11 (10.19%) VLAN
5 9 (8.33%) SAN
6 8 (7.41%) Firewall
7 7 (6.48%) Wireshark
8 4 (3.70%) Network Security
9 2 (1.85%) HTTP
9 2 (1.85%) Intrusion Detection
9 2 (1.85%) NAS
10 1 (0.93%) Asterisk PBX
10 1 (0.93%) BGP
10 1 (0.93%) Ethernet VPN
10 1 (0.93%) Internet
10 1 (0.93%) Intranet
10 1 (0.93%) MPLS
10 1 (0.93%) SSL
10 1 (0.93%) VoIP
10 1 (0.93%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.33%) NoSQL
2 6 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (5.56%) Amazon Redshift
2 6 (5.56%) Couchbase
2 6 (5.56%) Relational Database
3 4 (3.70%) MySQL
3 4 (3.70%) SQL Server
4 3 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.78%) SAP HANA
5 2 (1.85%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (1.85%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.85%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.93%) GIS
6 1 (0.93%) Redis
6 1 (0.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 15 (13.89%) Jenkins
2 9 (8.33%) Burp Suite
3 8 (7.41%) Git
4 7 (6.48%) Metasploit
5 5 (4.63%) JIRA
6 2 (1.85%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.93%) GitLab
General
1 35 (32.41%) Social Skills
2 23 (21.30%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (13.89%) Public Sector
4 8 (7.41%) Legal
5 2 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (1.85%) Military
6 1 (0.93%) Aerospace
6 1 (0.93%) French Language
6 1 (0.93%) German Language
6 1 (0.93%) Law
6 1 (0.93%) Retail
6 1 (0.93%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (21.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 19 (17.59%) Support Engineer
3 17 (15.74%) Infrastructure Support
3 17 (15.74%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 14 (12.96%) Analyst
5 12 (11.11%) Architect
6 11 (10.19%) Senior
7 10 (9.26%) Tester
8 9 (8.33%) Administrator
8 9 (8.33%) SOC Analyst
9 8 (7.41%) Penetration Tester
10 7 (6.48%) Backup Administrator
10 7 (6.48%) Storage Administrator
10 7 (6.48%) Storage and Backup Administrator
11 6 (5.56%) Data Engineer
11 6 (5.56%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 5 (4.63%) Developer
12 5 (4.63%) DevOps Engineer
12 5 (4.63%) Platform Engineer
12 5 (4.63%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.41%) Kafka
1 8 (7.41%) Loki
2 3 (2.78%) REST
3 2 (1.85%) Jinja
3 2 (1.85%) SOAP
4 1 (0.93%) .NET
4 1 (0.93%) BAPI
4 1 (0.93%) Bootstrap
4 1 (0.93%) Django
4 1 (0.93%) FreeSWITCH
4 1 (0.93%) IDoc
4 1 (0.93%) jQuery
4 1 (0.93%) JSON
4 1 (0.93%) Middleware
4 1 (0.93%) Node.js
4 1 (0.93%) SAP Basis
4 1 (0.93%) Web Services
4 1 (0.93%) WebSockets
4 1 (0.93%) XML
4 1 (0.93%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 11 (10.19%) Analytical Mindset
3 10 (9.26%) Management Information System
4 9 (8.33%) Replication
5 8 (7.41%) Virtual Team
6 7 (6.48%) Enterprise Storage
6 7 (6.48%) Security Operations Centre
7 5 (4.63%) Cyber Threat
7 5 (4.63%) Security Posture
8 4 (3.70%) PKI
9 3 (2.78%) HP Storage
10 2 (1.85%) Clustering
10 2 (1.85%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (1.85%) IoT
10 2 (1.85%) Onboarding
11 1 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
11 1 (0.93%) Legacy Code
11 1 (0.93%) Linux Command Line
11 1 (0.93%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 58 (53.70%) Windows
2 23 (21.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 13 (12.04%) Unix
4 9 (8.33%) Kali Linux
5 4 (3.70%) Mac OS
5 4 (3.70%) Windows Server 2012
5 4 (3.70%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (3.70%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (1.85%) CentOS
6 2 (1.85%) SUSE
6 2 (1.85%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
6 2 (1.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (36.11%) CI/CD
2 32 (29.63%) Problem-Solving
3 25 (23.15%) ITIL
4 24 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 23 (21.30%) DevOps
6 20 (18.52%) Infrastructure as Code
7 18 (16.67%) Containerisation
7 18 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
8 17 (15.74%) Agile
9 14 (12.96%) Incident Response
10 13 (12.04%) Cybersecurity
10 13 (12.04%) SIEM
11 12 (11.11%) DevSecOps
11 12 (11.11%) Security Operations
12 11 (10.19%) Preventative Maintenance
12 11 (10.19%) Service Management
12 11 (10.19%) Virtual Infrastructure
13 10 (9.26%) Computer Science
13 10 (9.26%) High Availability
13 10 (9.26%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 51 (47.22%) Python
2 29 (26.85%) Bash
3 22 (20.37%) PowerShell
4 14 (12.96%) Shell Script
5 11 (10.19%) SQL
6 7 (6.48%) Java
7 5 (4.63%) Perl
8 4 (3.70%) JavaScript
9 3 (2.78%) C#
10 2 (1.85%) Ada
10 2 (1.85%) Assembly Language
10 2 (1.85%) C
10 2 (1.85%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.93%) Delphi
11 1 (0.93%) PHP
11 1 (0.93%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 60 (55.56%) Security Cleared
2 46 (42.59%) SC Cleared
3 13 (12.04%) CISSP
4 11 (10.19%) Azure Certification
4 11 (10.19%) GCFA
4 11 (10.19%) GCIH
4 11 (10.19%) Microsoft Certification
4 11 (10.19%) Network+ Certification
4 11 (10.19%) Server+ Certification
5 10 (9.26%) Degree
6 9 (8.33%) GCIA
7 8 (7.41%) CEH
7 8 (7.41%) CFCE
7 8 (7.41%) OSCP
8 7 (6.48%) AWS Certification
8 7 (6.48%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (6.48%) GPEN
9 6 (5.56%) DV Cleared
9 6 (5.56%) GIAC
10 4 (3.70%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (9.26%) NIST
2 9 (8.33%) GDPR
2 9 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (6.48%) HIPAA
4 4 (3.70%) QA
5 1 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 17025
5 1 (0.93%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 29 (26.85%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (13.89%) Docker
2 15 (13.89%) Hyper-V
2 15 (13.89%) vSphere
3 9 (8.33%) Active Directory
4 6 (5.56%) VMware NSX
5 2 (1.85%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.93%) NDS
6 1 (0.93%) NetIQ eDirectory
Systems Management
1 29 (26.85%) Kubernetes
2 25 (23.15%) Ansible
3 23 (21.30%) Terraform
4 14 (12.96%) Argo
5 9 (8.33%) Nmap
6 8 (7.41%) Grafana
6 8 (7.41%) Kustomize
6 8 (7.41%) Prometheus
6 8 (7.41%) Red Hat Satellite
7 6 (5.56%) NetBackup
7 6 (5.56%) vCenter Server
8 5 (4.63%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
9 2 (1.85%) EnCase
9 2 (1.85%) FTK
9 2 (1.85%) logstash
9 2 (1.85%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.93%) Nessus
Vendors
1 39 (36.11%) VMware
2 32 (29.63%) Red Hat
3 27 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 10 (9.26%) Splunk
5 9 (8.33%) CrowdStrike
6 8 (7.41%) ArcSight
6 8 (7.41%) HP
6 8 (7.41%) NetApp
7 7 (6.48%) 3PAR
7 7 (6.48%) LogRhythm
7 7 (6.48%) Veritas
8 6 (5.56%) Confluent
8 6 (5.56%) IBM
8 6 (5.56%) Nimble Storage
8 6 (5.56%) Pure Storage
9 5 (4.63%) Oracle
10 3 (2.78%) Dell
10 3 (2.78%) Google
10 3 (2.78%) SAP
11 2 (1.85%) Darktrace