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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 54 19
Rank change year-on-year +23 -35 +20
Contract jobs citing Linux 73 61 158
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 6.30% 3.62% 8.78%
As % of the Operating Systems category 57.94% 39.87% 51.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 39 90
10th Percentile £231 £393 £308
25th Percentile £339 £456 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £605 £456
Median % change year-on-year -25.62% +32.60% -20.20%
75th Percentile £500 £608 £615
90th Percentile £663 - £700
South East median daily rate £483 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -7.21% +4.00% -6.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £30.85
25th Percentile - - £40.61
Median hourly rate - - £58.75
75th Percentile - - £60.94
90th Percentile - - £61.13
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £70.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -21.43% +12.00% +4.17%

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 126 153 307
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 10.87% 9.09% 17.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 97 196
10th Percentile £198 £232 £159
25th Percentile £306 £338 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £450 £418
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +7.78% -16.50%
75th Percentile £509 £608 £603
90th Percentile £643 £638 £639
South East median daily rate £465 £450 £415
% change year-on-year +3.33% +8.43% -7.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 10
10th Percentile - £56.40 £45.18
25th Percentile - £57.18 £48.40
Median hourly rate £18.87 £58.49 £49.87
Median % change year-on-year -67.74% +17.30% -44.59%
75th Percentile £22.01 £64.09 £56.05
90th Percentile £23.89 £67.45 £60.69
South East median hourly rate £18.87 £57.00 £56.78
% change year-on-year -66.89% +0.38% +234.00%

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
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 16 September 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 16 September 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 +9 27 £500 -17.36% 9
Wokingham +12 19 £350 -53.33% 5
Slough +5 11 £450 -5.26% 11
Bracknell +6 9 £425 +13.33% 1
Maidenhead - 3 - - 1
Windsor -11 1 £223 -44.38% 4
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 (6.85%) OpenStack
2 3 (4.11%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.37%) Anypoint
3 1 (1.37%) Apache
3 1 (1.37%) Gunicorn
3 1 (1.37%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (2.74%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 20 (27.40%) AWS
2 14 (19.18%) Azure
3 5 (6.85%) AWS CloudFormation
3 5 (6.85%) AWS Lambda
3 5 (6.85%) OCI
3 5 (6.85%) Serverless
4 3 (4.11%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (2.74%) Entra ID
5 2 (2.74%) GCP
5 2 (2.74%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 2 (2.74%) Google Workspace
5 2 (2.74%) IaaS
5 2 (2.74%) npm
5 2 (2.74%) PaaS
6 1 (1.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (1.37%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (1.37%) AWS KMS
6 1 (1.37%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (1.37%) Azure Pipelines
6 1 (1.37%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 18 (24.66%) SAN
2 11 (15.07%) DNS
2 11 (15.07%) MPLS
2 11 (15.07%) VPN
3 10 (13.70%) ATM
3 10 (13.70%) DHCP
3 10 (13.70%) Ethernet
3 10 (13.70%) Frame Relay
3 10 (13.70%) GPRS
3 10 (13.70%) GSM
3 10 (13.70%) LAN
3 10 (13.70%) LTE
3 10 (13.70%) SDH
3 10 (13.70%) TCP/IP
3 10 (13.70%) UMTS
3 10 (13.70%) WAN
3 10 (13.70%) Wireshark
4 8 (10.96%) VLAN
5 2 (2.74%) Network Security
6 1 (1.37%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (9.59%) NoSQL
2 6 (8.22%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (6.85%) Amazon Redshift
3 5 (6.85%) Couchbase
4 3 (4.11%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.74%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (2.74%) GIS
5 2 (2.74%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.74%) Oracle Database
5 2 (2.74%) Oracle Database 12c
5 2 (2.74%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.74%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (1.37%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (1.37%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.37%) MySQL
6 1 (1.37%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.37%) Redis
Development Applications
1 8 (10.96%) Git
2 6 (8.22%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.74%) JIRA
3 2 (2.74%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.37%) Bitbucket Server
4 1 (1.37%) CMake
4 1 (1.37%) DbUnit
4 1 (1.37%) GitLab
4 1 (1.37%) jMock
4 1 (1.37%) JUnit
4 1 (1.37%) Maven
4 1 (1.37%) Mockito
4 1 (1.37%) SonarQube
General
1 30 (41.10%) Social Skills
2 15 (20.55%) Telecoms
3 13 (17.81%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (10.96%) Public Sector
5 6 (8.22%) Legal
6 2 (2.74%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.37%) French Language
7 1 (1.37%) German Language
7 1 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.37%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (27.40%) Support Engineer
2 14 (19.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 12 (16.44%) Infrastructure Support
3 12 (16.44%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 9 (12.33%) IP Engineer
5 8 (10.96%) Test Engineer
6 7 (9.59%) Administrator
6 7 (9.59%) Backup Administrator
6 7 (9.59%) Developer
6 7 (9.59%) Storage Administrator
6 7 (9.59%) Storage and Backup Administrator
7 6 (8.22%) Analyst
7 6 (8.22%) Consultant
7 6 (8.22%) SOC Analyst
8 5 (6.85%) Cloud Engineer
8 5 (6.85%) Data Engineer
8 5 (6.85%) IP Network Engineer
8 5 (6.85%) Network Engineer
8 5 (6.85%) Platform Engineer
9 4 (5.48%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (9.59%) Kafka
2 4 (5.48%) SOAP
3 3 (4.11%) Middleware
4 2 (2.74%) Bootstrap
4 2 (2.74%) CSS
4 2 (2.74%) HTML
4 2 (2.74%) Jinja
4 2 (2.74%) Material-UI
4 2 (2.74%) Next.js
4 2 (2.74%) Node.js
4 2 (2.74%) OpenAPI
4 2 (2.74%) React
4 2 (2.74%) REST
4 2 (2.74%) Swagger
5 1 (1.37%) ARM Templates
5 1 (1.37%) CNTK
5 1 (1.37%) OpenVINO
5 1 (1.37%) Spring Boot
5 1 (1.37%) Spring Cloud
5 1 (1.37%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 11 (15.07%) Self-Motivation
2 8 (10.96%) Analytical Mindset
2 8 (10.96%) Management Information System
3 7 (9.59%) Enterprise Storage
3 7 (9.59%) Replication
4 4 (5.48%) Cyber Threat
4 4 (5.48%) Security Operations Centre
5 3 (4.11%) Data Centre
5 3 (4.11%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (4.11%) HP Storage
5 3 (4.11%) SCADA
5 3 (4.11%) Security Posture
6 2 (2.74%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (2.74%) IoT
6 2 (2.74%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.37%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.37%) PKI
7 1 (1.37%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 38 (52.05%) Windows
2 20 (27.40%) Unix
3 14 (19.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (6.85%) Windows Server 2016
4 5 (6.85%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (5.48%) Mac OS
5 4 (5.48%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (4.11%) CentOS
6 3 (4.11%) VMS
7 2 (2.74%) Ubuntu
7 2 (2.74%) Windows Server
8 1 (1.37%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (45.21%) Problem-Solving
2 19 (26.03%) ITIL
3 17 (23.29%) Disaster Recovery
4 16 (21.92%) CI/CD
5 14 (19.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 13 (17.81%) Test Strategy
7 12 (16.44%) DevOps
8 10 (13.70%) Fault Management
8 10 (13.70%) Project Management
8 10 (13.70%) Regression Testing
9 9 (12.33%) Service Management
10 8 (10.96%) High Availability
10 8 (10.96%) Incident Response
10 8 (10.96%) Performance Tuning
10 8 (10.96%) Preventative Maintenance
10 8 (10.96%) Virtual Infrastructure
11 7 (9.59%) Containerisation
11 7 (9.59%) Infrastructure as Code
11 7 (9.59%) Security Operations
12 6 (8.22%) Forensic Analysis
Programming Languages
1 22 (30.14%) Python
2 15 (20.55%) Shell Script
3 14 (19.18%) Java
4 8 (10.96%) Bash
4 8 (10.96%) PowerShell
5 7 (9.59%) SQL
6 4 (5.48%) Perl
7 3 (4.11%) C#
7 3 (4.11%) JavaScript
7 3 (4.11%) PL/SQL
8 2 (2.74%) Ada
8 2 (2.74%) Assembly Language
8 2 (2.74%) C
8 2 (2.74%) MATLAB
8 2 (2.74%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.37%) Bicep
9 1 (1.37%) C++
9 1 (1.37%) VB
9 1 (1.37%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 24 (32.88%) Security Cleared
2 18 (24.66%) SC Cleared
3 12 (16.44%) Cisco Certification
4 10 (13.70%) CCNP
4 10 (13.70%) ISEB
4 10 (13.70%) ISTQB
4 10 (13.70%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 8 (10.96%) Azure Certification
5 8 (10.96%) CISSP
5 8 (10.96%) GCIH
5 8 (10.96%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (10.96%) Network+ Certification
5 8 (10.96%) Server+ Certification
6 7 (9.59%) GCFA
7 6 (8.22%) CFCE
7 6 (8.22%) Degree
8 5 (6.85%) GCIA
9 4 (5.48%) GIAC
10 3 (4.11%) DV Cleared
11 2 (2.74%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.22%) GDPR
2 5 (6.85%) HIPAA
2 5 (6.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (6.85%) NIST
3 2 (2.74%) QA
4 1 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 17025
4 1 (1.37%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 11 (15.07%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (10.96%) Hyper-V
3 7 (9.59%) vSphere
4 6 (8.22%) Docker
5 5 (6.85%) Active Directory
6 2 (2.74%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (2.74%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (1.37%) NFS
7 1 (1.37%) Postfix
7 1 (1.37%) Samba
7 1 (1.37%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (1.37%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 12 (16.44%) Kubernetes
2 11 (15.07%) Ansible
3 7 (9.59%) Terraform
4 6 (8.22%) NetBackup
5 4 (5.48%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
5 4 (5.48%) Red Hat Satellite
6 2 (2.74%) Data Guard
6 2 (2.74%) EnCase
6 2 (2.74%) FTK
6 2 (2.74%) logstash
6 2 (2.74%) Oracle RMAN
6 2 (2.74%) SCCM
6 2 (2.74%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (1.37%) Grafana
7 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (1.37%) SCOM
7 1 (1.37%) vCenter Server
7 1 (1.37%) WSUS
7 1 (1.37%) yum
Vendors
1 30 (41.10%) Microsoft
2 16 (21.92%) VMware
3 13 (17.81%) Red Hat
4 11 (15.07%) Cisco
5 10 (13.70%) Juniper
6 7 (9.59%) 3PAR
6 7 (9.59%) CrowdStrike
6 7 (9.59%) HP
6 7 (9.59%) Veritas
7 6 (8.22%) IBM
7 6 (8.22%) NetApp
7 6 (8.22%) Nimble Storage
7 6 (8.22%) Splunk
8 5 (6.85%) ArcSight
8 5 (6.85%) Confluent
8 5 (6.85%) LogRhythm
9 3 (4.11%) Dell
9 3 (4.11%) Oracle
10 2 (2.74%) Darktrace
10 2 (2.74%) Google