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 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 35 27
Rank change year-on-year +6 -8 +13
Contract jobs citing Linux 76 96 131
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 6.48% 4.84% 7.24%
As % of the Operating Systems category 47.80% 35.29% 54.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 68 82
10th Percentile £383 £400 £325
25th Percentile £450 £478 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £570 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.38% +14.00% -
75th Percentile £538 £608 £619
90th Percentile £658 - £699
South East median daily rate £550 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 7
10th Percentile - £57.13 £24.86
25th Percentile - £58.44 £41.94
Median hourly rate - £63.75 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -8.93% -6.67%
75th Percentile - £67.81 £78.19
90th Percentile - £68.38 £83.82
South East median hourly rate £57.75 £62.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -6.85% -4.62% +22.91%

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 159 272 239
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 13.55% 13.71% 13.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 194 162
10th Percentile £250 £205 £271
25th Percentile £400 £244 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £514
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -17.27% +4.31%
75th Percentile £661 £575 £623
90th Percentile £700 £608 £699
South East median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 11
10th Percentile - £56.40 £21.65
25th Percentile - £56.50 £37.25
Median hourly rate £24.66 £61.60 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -59.97% +12.00% -16.03%
75th Percentile - £63.30 £72.50
90th Percentile - £66.50 £81.37
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £53.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -10.38% +165.00%

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 May 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 May 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 +9 29 £500 +25.00%
Slough - 17 £450 - 6
Reading -12 16 £494 -18.39% 39
Bracknell +2 6 £482 +28.53% 6
Windsor - 6 £500 -
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 8 (10.53%) Apache
2 1 (1.32%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.32%) IIS
2 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 15 (19.74%) AWS
2 14 (18.42%) Azure
3 6 (7.89%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (5.26%) GitHub
5 3 (3.95%) AWS Data Pipeline
6 2 (2.63%) Azure Storage
6 2 (2.63%) Entra ID
6 2 (2.63%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.32%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.32%) Amazon ELB
7 1 (1.32%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.32%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (1.32%) AWS KMS
7 1 (1.32%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.32%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (1.32%) IaaS
7 1 (1.32%) PaaS
7 1 (1.32%) Route 53
7 1 (1.32%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (23.68%) VPN
2 17 (22.37%) MPLS
3 16 (21.05%) ATM
3 16 (21.05%) Ethernet
3 16 (21.05%) Frame Relay
3 16 (21.05%) GPRS
3 16 (21.05%) GSM
3 16 (21.05%) LAN
3 16 (21.05%) LTE
3 16 (21.05%) SAN
3 16 (21.05%) SDH
3 16 (21.05%) UMTS
3 16 (21.05%) WAN
3 16 (21.05%) Wireshark
4 13 (17.11%) DHCP
4 13 (17.11%) DNS
5 8 (10.53%) FTP
5 8 (10.53%) SMTP
5 8 (10.53%) Telnet
6 5 (6.58%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (9.21%) Big Data
2 4 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (3.95%) Data Lake
3 3 (3.95%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.63%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (2.63%) GIS
4 2 (2.63%) Hadoop
4 2 (2.63%) Oracle Database
4 2 (2.63%) Oracle Database 12c
4 2 (2.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.32%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.32%) Apache Hive
5 1 (1.32%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.32%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.32%) HBase
5 1 (1.32%) Impala
5 1 (1.32%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.32%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.32%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (10.53%) Git
2 6 (7.89%) Jenkins
3 5 (6.58%) JIRA
4 1 (1.32%) Bitbucket Server
4 1 (1.32%) Burp Suite
4 1 (1.32%) CMake
4 1 (1.32%) DbUnit
4 1 (1.32%) GitLab
4 1 (1.32%) jMock
4 1 (1.32%) JUnit
4 1 (1.32%) Maven
4 1 (1.32%) Metasploit
4 1 (1.32%) Mockito
4 1 (1.32%) MSI
4 1 (1.32%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (1.32%) SonarQube
General
1 27 (35.53%) Social Skills
2 17 (22.37%) Telecoms
3 7 (9.21%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (6.58%) Finance
5 4 (5.26%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.32%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (23.68%) Test Engineer
2 15 (19.74%) IP Engineer
3 8 (10.53%) Architect
4 7 (9.21%) Lead
5 6 (7.89%) Administrator
5 6 (7.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (7.89%) Network Engineer
6 5 (6.58%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 5 (6.58%) IP Network Engineer
6 5 (6.58%) Linux Administrator
6 5 (6.58%) Platform Engineer
6 5 (6.58%) Tester
7 4 (5.26%) AWS Engineer
7 4 (5.26%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 4 (5.26%) Consultant
7 4 (5.26%) Developer
7 4 (5.26%) Linux Engineer
8 3 (3.95%) Data Architect
8 3 (3.95%) SCADA Engineer
8 3 (3.95%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.58%) LDAP
2 4 (5.26%) SOAP
3 2 (2.63%) ARM Templates
3 2 (2.63%) REST
4 1 (1.32%) CNTK
4 1 (1.32%) Material-UI
4 1 (1.32%) NETCONF
4 1 (1.32%) Next.js
4 1 (1.32%) OpenAPI
4 1 (1.32%) OpenVINO
4 1 (1.32%) PySpark
4 1 (1.32%) PyTorch
4 1 (1.32%) React
4 1 (1.32%) RESTCONF
4 1 (1.32%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.32%) Spring Cloud
4 1 (1.32%) Swagger
4 1 (1.32%) TensorFlow
4 1 (1.32%) YANG
4 1 (1.32%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 21 (27.63%) Self-Motivation
2 9 (11.84%) SCADA
3 7 (9.21%) Data Centre
3 7 (9.21%) Product Ownership
4 5 (6.58%) Operational Technology
5 4 (5.26%) Enterprise Storage
6 2 (2.63%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.63%) PKI
6 2 (2.63%) Replication
7 1 (1.32%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.32%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (1.32%) Device Driver
7 1 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.32%) IoT
7 1 (1.32%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.32%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.32%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.32%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 38 (50.00%) Windows
2 23 (30.26%) Unix
3 14 (18.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (14.47%) Windows Server
5 5 (6.58%) Ubuntu
5 5 (6.58%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (2.63%) AIX
6 2 (2.63%) Mac OS
6 2 (2.63%) VMS
7 1 (1.32%) Android
7 1 (1.32%) CentOS
7 1 (1.32%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (1.32%) Kali Linux
7 1 (1.32%) Windows 10
7 1 (1.32%) Windows 7
7 1 (1.32%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (38.16%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (27.63%) Test Strategy
3 17 (22.37%) Project Management
3 17 (22.37%) Regression Testing
4 16 (21.05%) Fault Management
5 14 (18.42%) High Availability
6 11 (14.47%) Performance Tuning
7 10 (13.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 10 (13.16%) Migration
8 9 (11.84%) DevOps
9 8 (10.53%) Open Source
9 8 (10.53%) Vulnerability Management
10 7 (9.21%) Configuration Management
10 7 (9.21%) ITIL
11 6 (7.89%) Platform Engineering
11 6 (7.89%) Root Cause Analysis
12 5 (6.58%) Cartography
12 5 (6.58%) Continuous Delivery
12 5 (6.58%) DevSecOps
12 5 (6.58%) Server Building
Programming Languages
1 17 (22.37%) Java
2 15 (19.74%) Python
2 15 (19.74%) SQL
3 10 (13.16%) Perl
4 9 (11.84%) PL/SQL
4 9 (11.84%) PowerShell
5 4 (5.26%) Bash
6 2 (2.63%) C#
6 2 (2.63%) C++
7 1 (1.32%) Bicep
7 1 (1.32%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.32%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.32%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.32%) VB
7 1 (1.32%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 25 (32.89%) Security Cleared
2 21 (27.63%) SC Cleared
3 17 (22.37%) Cisco Certification
4 16 (21.05%) CCNP
4 16 (21.05%) ISEB
4 16 (21.05%) ISTQB
4 16 (21.05%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 5 (6.58%) Degree
6 3 (3.95%) DV Cleared
7 2 (2.63%) CISSP
8 1 (1.32%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.32%) CCNA
8 1 (1.32%) CEH
8 1 (1.32%) CFCE
8 1 (1.32%) CISA
8 1 (1.32%) GCIH
8 1 (1.32%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (1.32%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.63%) Data Quality
1 2 (2.63%) NIST
2 1 (1.32%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 8 (10.53%) NFS
1 8 (10.53%) Samba
2 5 (6.58%) Docker
2 5 (6.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (5.26%) Active Directory
4 2 (2.63%) Hyper-V
4 2 (2.63%) Oracle RAC
4 2 (2.63%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.32%) Apache Flume
5 1 (1.32%) Postfix
5 1 (1.32%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (1.32%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.32%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 14 (18.42%) Ansible
2 10 (13.16%) yum
3 7 (9.21%) Terraform
4 6 (7.89%) Kubernetes
5 4 (5.26%) NetBackup
5 4 (5.26%) Progress Chef
5 4 (5.26%) Puppet
5 4 (5.26%) SCCM
6 3 (3.95%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (2.63%) BMC PATROL
7 2 (2.63%) Data Guard
7 2 (2.63%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (1.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (1.32%) Grafana
8 1 (1.32%) Prometheus
8 1 (1.32%) SCOM
8 1 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.32%) WSUS
Vendors
1 30 (39.47%) Microsoft
2 18 (23.68%) Cisco
3 16 (21.05%) Juniper
3 16 (21.05%) VMware
4 14 (18.42%) Red Hat
5 8 (10.53%) HP
6 7 (9.21%) Databricks
7 5 (6.58%) Dell
8 4 (5.26%) 3PAR
8 4 (5.26%) Veritas
9 3 (3.95%) Oracle
10 2 (2.63%) BMC
10 2 (2.63%) F5
10 2 (2.63%) Google
10 2 (2.63%) Splunk
11 1 (1.32%) Amdocs
11 1 (1.32%) Atlassian
11 1 (1.32%) IBM
11 1 (1.32%) Jaspersoft
11 1 (1.32%) Symantec