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 12 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 40 49
Rank change year-on-year -9 +9 -29
Contract jobs citing Linux 80 63 70
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 4.15% 5.27% 4.02%
As % of the Operating Systems category 40.40% 43.75% 38.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 37 47
10th Percentile £324 £325 £393
25th Percentile £403 £393 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £450 £605
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -25.62% +29.27%
75th Percentile £538 £519 £608
90th Percentile £638 £630 -
South East median daily rate £525 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +3.96% -3.81% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £62.09 - -
25th Percentile £62.62 - £56.25
Median hourly rate £67.00 - £62.50
75th Percentile £70.97 - £68.75
90th Percentile £71.24 - -
South East median hourly rate £60.00 £55.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +9.09% -21.43% +17.89%

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 198 144 181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 10.26% 12.04% 10.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 88 108
10th Percentile £300 £219 £213
25th Percentile £376 £364 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £437 £500 £498
Median % change year-on-year -12.60% +0.50% +10.56%
75th Percentile £500 £672 £608
90th Percentile £600 £700 £641
South East median daily rate £478 £475 £474
% change year-on-year +0.63% +0.21% +11.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 2 5
10th Percentile £20.25 - £57.15
25th Percentile £29.69 - £58.49
Median hourly rate £32.50 £18.87 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +72.23% -69.37% +23.20%
75th Percentile £55.00 - £68.75
90th Percentile £70.59 - £69.31
South East median hourly rate £42.71 £18.87 £57.25
% change year-on-year +126.31% -67.04% +4.09%

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 12 August 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 12 August 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 35 £425 -5.56% 4
Reading -16 32 £550 +10.00% 24
Bracknell -3 5 £600 -14.29% 7
Windsor 0 1 £225 +1.12%
Slough -5 1 £325 -27.78% 2
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 (7.50%) OpenStack
2 4 (5.00%) WebSphere
2 4 (5.00%) WebSphere Application Server
3 2 (2.50%) IBM HTTP Server
3 2 (2.50%) JBoss
3 2 (2.50%) Oracle HTTP Server
3 2 (2.50%) WebSphere Portal
4 1 (1.25%) Oracle Service Bus
4 1 (1.25%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (3.75%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.25%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 18 (22.50%) Azure
2 16 (20.00%) OpenShift
3 10 (12.50%) AWS
4 2 (2.50%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (2.50%) Rubrik
4 2 (2.50%) SaaS
5 1 (1.25%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.25%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (1.25%) Datadog
5 1 (1.25%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.25%) GitHub
5 1 (1.25%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (1.25%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.25%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 12 (15.00%) Firewall
2 11 (13.75%) DNS
3 9 (11.25%) TCP/IP
4 7 (8.75%) DHCP
4 7 (8.75%) LTE
4 7 (8.75%) VPN
5 6 (7.50%) 5G
5 6 (7.50%) Diameter Protocol
5 6 (7.50%) Radio Access Network
5 6 (7.50%) VoLTE
5 6 (7.50%) VoWiFi
5 6 (7.50%) Wireshark
6 3 (3.75%) NAS
6 3 (3.75%) SAN
7 2 (2.50%) BGP
7 2 (2.50%) HTTP
7 2 (2.50%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (2.50%) Software-Defined Networking
7 2 (2.50%) SSL
8 1 (1.25%) 4G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (13.75%) Oracle Database
2 6 (7.50%) Oracle Database 12c
2 6 (7.50%) SQL Server
3 5 (6.25%) Oracle Database 11g
4 2 (2.50%) Electronic Patient Records
4 2 (2.50%) MySQL
4 2 (2.50%) Oracle Database 10g
4 2 (2.50%) Vitess
5 1 (1.25%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.25%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (1.25%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (1.25%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 12 (15.00%) Jenkins
2 6 (7.50%) JIRA
3 3 (3.75%) GitLab
4 2 (2.50%) Eclipse
4 2 (2.50%) Introscope
4 2 (2.50%) Maven
4 2 (2.50%) Subversion
5 1 (1.25%) Git
5 1 (1.25%) MSI
General
1 23 (28.75%) Social Skills
2 16 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (8.75%) Public Sector
4 4 (5.00%) Aerospace
5 3 (3.75%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.50%) Retail
7 1 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.25%) Finance
7 1 (1.25%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.25%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 12 (15.00%) DBA
1 12 (15.00%) Linux Engineer
2 10 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
3 8 (10.00%) Oracle DBA
3 8 (10.00%) Senior
4 6 (7.50%) Systems Engineer
5 5 (6.25%) Administrator
5 5 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
6 4 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (5.00%) Middleware Engineer
6 4 (5.00%) Project Manager
6 4 (5.00%) SQL DBA
7 3 (3.75%) Azure Engineer
7 3 (3.75%) Developer
7 3 (3.75%) Senior Systems Engineer
8 2 (2.50%) Architect
8 2 (2.50%) DV Cleared DBA
8 2 (2.50%) SC Cleared DBA
8 2 (2.50%) SC Cleared Project Manager
8 2 (2.50%) Senior Middleware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.00%) Middleware
2 2 (2.50%) ARM Templates
2 2 (2.50%) JDBC
2 2 (2.50%) JMS
2 2 (2.50%) Kafka
2 2 (2.50%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 2 (2.50%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (2.50%) WebSphere MQ
2 2 (2.50%) XML
2 2 (2.50%) YAML
3 1 (1.25%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.25%) HTML
3 1 (1.25%) LDAP
3 1 (1.25%) REST
3 1 (1.25%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.75%) Cloud Native
2 6 (7.50%) Replication
3 4 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (5.00%) Operational Technology
3 4 (5.00%) SCADA
4 3 (3.75%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.50%) Clustering
5 2 (2.50%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.50%) EPoS
5 2 (2.50%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.50%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.25%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.25%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.25%) IoT
6 1 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.25%) Life Science
6 1 (1.25%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.25%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 32 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 26 (32.50%) Windows
3 17 (21.25%) Unix
4 7 (8.75%) Windows Server
5 2 (2.50%) Debian
5 2 (2.50%) Oracle Linux
5 2 (2.50%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
5 2 (2.50%) Ubuntu
5 2 (2.50%) Windows 10
6 1 (1.25%) Mac OS
6 1 (1.25%) OpenVMS
6 1 (1.25%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (28.75%) ITIL
2 20 (25.00%) DevOps
3 17 (21.25%) Platform Engineering
4 16 (20.00%) High Availability
5 15 (18.75%) CI/CD
5 15 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (16.25%) Performance Tuning
7 12 (15.00%) Migration
8 11 (13.75%) Infrastructure as Code
9 10 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
9 10 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
9 10 (12.50%) Runbook
9 10 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 8 (10.00%) Agile
10 8 (10.00%) Architectural Design
10 8 (10.00%) DevSecOps
10 8 (10.00%) Observability
10 8 (10.00%) Service Delivery
11 7 (8.75%) Deployment Automation
12 6 (7.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 33 (41.25%) Python
2 27 (33.75%) PowerShell
3 26 (32.50%) Bash
4 10 (12.50%) SQL
5 6 (7.50%) Shell Script
6 5 (6.25%) PL/SQL
7 4 (5.00%) Perl
8 3 (3.75%) Java
9 2 (2.50%) Bicep
9 2 (2.50%) Jython
9 2 (2.50%) Korn
9 2 (2.50%) VBScript
10 1 (1.25%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 48 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 41 (51.25%) SC Cleared
3 7 (8.75%) RHCE
4 6 (7.50%) DV Cleared
5 4 (5.00%) AWS Certification
5 4 (5.00%) Degree
6 2 (2.50%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.50%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (2.50%) Oracle Certification
6 2 (2.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.25%) CCNA
7 1 (1.25%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.25%) OCP
7 1 (1.25%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.25%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.75%) SLA
2 1 (1.25%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.25%) NIST
2 1 (1.25%) NIST 800
System Software
1 11 (13.75%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (10.00%) Active Directory
3 7 (8.75%) Hyper-V
3 7 (8.75%) Oracle RAC
4 3 (3.75%) Docker
5 2 (2.50%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (1.25%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 25 (31.25%) Kubernetes
2 22 (27.50%) Ansible
3 11 (13.75%) Oracle RMAN
4 10 (12.50%) Terraform
5 8 (10.00%) Red Hat Satellite
6 6 (7.50%) Data Guard
6 6 (7.50%) Grafana
6 6 (7.50%) Prometheus
7 3 (3.75%) Progress Chef
7 3 (3.75%) Puppet
7 3 (3.75%) SCCM
7 3 (3.75%) SCOM
8 2 (2.50%) CA Wily
8 2 (2.50%) Istio
8 2 (2.50%) NetBackup
8 2 (2.50%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 2 (2.50%) Tivoli
9 1 (1.25%) Amdocs OSS
9 1 (1.25%) Rancher
9 1 (1.25%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 35 (43.75%) Red Hat
2 21 (26.25%) VMware
3 16 (20.00%) Oracle
4 15 (18.75%) Microsoft
5 7 (8.75%) Nokia
6 6 (7.50%) BT
6 6 (7.50%) Ericsson
6 6 (7.50%) Huawei
7 5 (6.25%) ServiceNow
7 5 (6.25%) Splunk
8 4 (5.00%) IBM
9 3 (3.75%) CyberArk
9 3 (3.75%) SolarWinds
10 2 (2.50%) AppDynamics
10 2 (2.50%) Atlassian
10 2 (2.50%) Citrix
10 2 (2.50%) Veritas
11 1 (1.25%) BMC
11 1 (1.25%) Commvault
11 1 (1.25%) NetApp