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 1 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 35 34
Rank change year-on-year -9 -1 -12
Contract jobs citing Linux 85 60 93
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 4.48% 5.22% 4.74%
As % of the Operating Systems category 38.81% 40.54% 42.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 38 62
10th Percentile £305 £386 £413
25th Percentile £378 £450 £504
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £414 £500 £605
Median % change year-on-year -17.20% -17.36% +24.10%
75th Percentile £494 £573 £608
90th Percentile £606 £666 -
South East median daily rate £518 £525 £532
% change year-on-year -1.43% -1.22% +2.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £56.25
Median hourly rate - - £62.50
75th Percentile - - £68.75
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £57.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -13.04% -17.86% +7.69%

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 219 148 217
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 11.54% 12.88% 11.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 90 135
10th Percentile £266 £246 £208
25th Percentile £375 £400 £291
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £500 £501
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% -0.20% +1.47%
75th Percentile £500 £675 £608
90th Percentile £598 £700 £611
South East median daily rate £475 £490 £475
% change year-on-year -3.06% +3.16% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 3 8
10th Percentile £19.25 - £56.43
25th Percentile £29.69 - £56.50
Median hourly rate £32.50 £18.87 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +72.23% -69.37% +13.29%
75th Percentile £37.43 £21.77 £63.39
90th Percentile £56.00 £23.50 £69.03
South East median hourly rate £32.50 £18.82 £47.50
% change year-on-year +72.69% -60.38% -13.64%

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 1 July 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 1 July 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 38 £414 -17.20% 1
Reading -13 32 £414 -17.30% 7
Bracknell +8 7 £600 -14.29% 3
Windsor +3 4 £208 -58.50% 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 (7.06%) OpenStack
2 4 (4.71%) WebSphere
2 4 (4.71%) WebSphere Application Server
3 2 (2.35%) Appian
3 2 (2.35%) IBM HTTP Server
3 2 (2.35%) JBoss
3 2 (2.35%) Oracle HTTP Server
3 2 (2.35%) WebSphere Portal
4 1 (1.18%) Apache
Applications
1 3 (3.53%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 9 (10.59%) OpenShift
2 7 (8.24%) AWS
2 7 (8.24%) Azure
3 2 (2.35%) SaaS
4 1 (1.18%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (1.18%) Datadog
4 1 (1.18%) GitHub
4 1 (1.18%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (1.18%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.18%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.24%) Wireshark
2 6 (7.06%) 5G
2 6 (7.06%) Diameter Protocol
2 6 (7.06%) Firewall
2 6 (7.06%) LTE
2 6 (7.06%) Radio Access Network
2 6 (7.06%) VoLTE
2 6 (7.06%) VoWiFi
3 4 (4.71%) SAN
4 3 (3.53%) NAS
5 2 (2.35%) DNS
5 2 (2.35%) HTTP
5 2 (2.35%) SSL
5 2 (2.35%) TCP/IP
6 1 (1.18%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (10.59%) Oracle Database
2 8 (9.41%) MySQL
3 7 (8.24%) SQL Server
4 5 (5.88%) Oracle Database 12c
4 5 (5.88%) Relational Database
5 3 (3.53%) Oracle Database 11g
6 2 (2.35%) Electronic Patient Records
6 2 (2.35%) RDBMS
6 2 (2.35%) Vitess
7 1 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.18%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (1.18%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (1.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (10.59%) Jenkins
2 6 (7.06%) JIRA
3 4 (4.71%) Eclipse
3 4 (4.71%) Maven
3 4 (4.71%) Subversion
4 2 (2.35%) Burp Suite
4 2 (2.35%) GitLab
4 2 (2.35%) Introscope
5 1 (1.18%) Metasploit
5 1 (1.18%) MSI
General
1 18 (21.18%) Social Skills
2 11 (12.94%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (10.59%) Public Sector
4 3 (3.53%) Military
4 3 (3.53%) Telecoms
5 2 (2.35%) Retail
6 1 (1.18%) Advertising
6 1 (1.18%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.18%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 12 (14.12%) Linux Engineer
2 10 (11.76%) DBA
3 9 (10.59%) Platform Engineer
4 6 (7.06%) Administrator
4 6 (7.06%) Developer
4 6 (7.06%) Oracle DBA
4 6 (7.06%) Senior
5 5 (5.88%) Tester
6 4 (4.71%) Applications Developer
6 4 (4.71%) Cloud Engineer
6 4 (4.71%) Middleware Engineer
6 4 (4.71%) Project Manager
7 3 (3.53%) Analyst
7 3 (3.53%) Technical Support
8 2 (2.35%) Infrastructure Analyst
8 2 (2.35%) Migration Engineer
8 2 (2.35%) Network Administrator
8 2 (2.35%) Senior Oracle DBA
8 2 (2.35%) SQL DBA
8 2 (2.35%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.71%) Middleware
1 4 (4.71%) XML
2 3 (3.53%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (2.35%) .NET
3 2 (2.35%) J2EE
3 2 (2.35%) JDBC
3 2 (2.35%) JMS
3 2 (2.35%) Kafka
3 2 (2.35%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 2 (2.35%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (2.35%) WebSphere MQ
4 1 (1.18%) LAMP
4 1 (1.18%) MERN Stack
4 1 (1.18%) Software Packaging
4 1 (1.18%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.06%) Replication
2 4 (4.71%) Data Centre
2 4 (4.71%) Security Posture
3 3 (3.53%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (3.53%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.35%) Clustering
4 2 (2.35%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.35%) EPoS
4 2 (2.35%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.35%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.35%) Operational Technology
4 2 (2.35%) SCADA
5 1 (1.18%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (1.18%) HP Storage
5 1 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.18%) Life Science
5 1 (1.18%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.18%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 32 (37.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 29 (34.12%) Windows
3 17 (20.00%) Unix
4 2 (2.35%) Debian
4 2 (2.35%) Kali Linux
4 2 (2.35%) Oracle Linux
4 2 (2.35%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
4 2 (2.35%) Ubuntu
4 2 (2.35%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.18%) Mac OS
5 1 (1.18%) OpenVMS
5 1 (1.18%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (21.18%) ITIL
1 18 (21.18%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (17.65%) CI/CD
2 15 (17.65%) High Availability
3 13 (15.29%) DevOps
3 13 (15.29%) Platform Engineering
4 12 (14.12%) Migration
5 11 (12.94%) Architectural Design
5 11 (12.94%) Performance Tuning
6 10 (11.76%) DevSecOps
7 9 (10.59%) Root Cause Analysis
7 9 (10.59%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 7 (8.24%) Agile
8 7 (8.24%) Runbook
9 6 (7.06%) Cybersecurity
9 6 (7.06%) Disaster Recovery
9 6 (7.06%) Service Delivery
10 5 (5.88%) OO
10 5 (5.88%) Performance Optimisation
10 5 (5.88%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 31 (36.47%) Python
2 20 (23.53%) PowerShell
3 17 (20.00%) Bash
4 13 (15.29%) SQL
5 8 (9.41%) Perl
6 7 (8.24%) Java
7 5 (5.88%) JavaScript
7 5 (5.88%) Shell Script
8 3 (3.53%) PL/SQL
9 2 (2.35%) Jython
9 2 (2.35%) Korn
9 2 (2.35%) VBScript
10 1 (1.18%) PHP
Qualifications
1 53 (62.35%) Security Cleared
2 41 (48.24%) SC Cleared
3 9 (10.59%) DV Cleared
4 7 (8.24%) RHCE
5 5 (5.88%) Degree
6 4 (4.71%) AWS Certification
7 3 (3.53%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.18%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (1.18%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.18%) CFCE
8 1 (1.18%) CISSP
8 1 (1.18%) GPEN
8 1 (1.18%) ISTQB
8 1 (1.18%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.18%) OSCP
8 1 (1.18%) PMI Certification
8 1 (1.18%) PMP
8 1 (1.18%) SANS
8 1 (1.18%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.06%) SLA
2 1 (1.18%) NIST
2 1 (1.18%) NIST 800
System Software
1 6 (7.06%) Active Directory
2 5 (5.88%) Oracle RAC
2 5 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (3.53%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 17 (20.00%) Ansible
2 15 (17.65%) Kubernetes
3 11 (12.94%) Red Hat Satellite
4 9 (10.59%) Oracle RMAN
5 4 (4.71%) Data Guard
6 3 (3.53%) Terraform
7 2 (2.35%) CA Wily
7 2 (2.35%) Grafana
7 2 (2.35%) Nmap
7 2 (2.35%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 2 (2.35%) Progress Chef
7 2 (2.35%) Prometheus
7 2 (2.35%) Puppet
7 2 (2.35%) Tivoli
8 1 (1.18%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 1 (1.18%) Nessus
8 1 (1.18%) NetBackup
8 1 (1.18%) SCCM
Vendors
1 34 (40.00%) Red Hat
2 18 (21.18%) Oracle
3 15 (17.65%) VMware
4 9 (10.59%) Microsoft
5 6 (7.06%) BT
5 6 (7.06%) Ericsson
5 6 (7.06%) Huawei
5 6 (7.06%) Nokia
6 4 (4.71%) Atlassian
6 4 (4.71%) IBM
7 3 (3.53%) ServiceNow
7 3 (3.53%) Veritas
8 2 (2.35%) AppDynamics
8 2 (2.35%) ArcSight
8 2 (2.35%) Dell
8 2 (2.35%) HP
8 2 (2.35%) NetApp
8 2 (2.35%) Splunk
8 2 (2.35%) Tanium
9 1 (1.18%) EMC