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 18 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 32 36
Rank change year-on-year -6 +4 -6
Contract jobs citing Linux 105 76 97
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 5.69% 6.55% 4.76%
As % of the Operating Systems category 43.03% 45.78% 34.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 47 69
10th Percentile £204 £371 £400
25th Percentile £375 £441 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £403 £488 £550
Median % change year-on-year -17.44% -11.36% +10.00%
75th Percentile £456 £538 £608
90th Percentile £600 £627 -
South East median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £71.20 - £57.13
25th Percentile £73.00 - £58.44
Median hourly rate £79.50 - £63.75
75th Percentile £84.50 - £67.81
90th Percentile £85.40 - £68.38
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £57.75 £62.00
% change year-on-year -17.75% -6.85% -4.62%

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 244 166 280
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 13.22% 14.31% 13.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 108 201
10th Percentile £204 £229 £205
25th Percentile £350 £400 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -17.50% +17.65% -17.48%
75th Percentile £494 £641 £575
90th Percentile £575 £700 £608
South East median daily rate £475 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -7.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 8
10th Percentile £20.79 - £45.06
25th Percentile £25.93 - £56.44
Median hourly rate £55.50 £24.66 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +125.06% -59.97% +8.31%
75th Percentile £78.00 - £62.45
90th Percentile £82.40 - £66.13
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £28.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +69.64% -20.00% -27.69%

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 18 April 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 18 April 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
Reading -1 41 £403 -15.26% 20
Wokingham -16 40 £414 -17.20% 3
Windsor +4 9 £208 -58.50% 1
Bracknell +3 8 £600 +24.74% 6
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 4 (3.81%) WebSphere
1 4 (3.81%) WebSphere Application Server
2 2 (1.90%) Appian
2 2 (1.90%) IBM HTTP Server
2 2 (1.90%) JBoss
2 2 (1.90%) OpenStack
2 2 (1.90%) Oracle HTTP Server
2 2 (1.90%) WebSphere Portal
3 1 (0.95%) Apache
Applications
1 3 (2.86%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 20 (19.05%) AWS
2 19 (18.10%) Azure
3 15 (14.29%) OpenShift
4 7 (6.67%) GCP
5 4 (3.81%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (2.86%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (2.86%) Amazon S3
6 3 (2.86%) Azure Storage
6 3 (2.86%) IaaS
7 2 (1.90%) OCI
7 2 (1.90%) PaaS
7 2 (1.90%) SaaS
8 1 (0.95%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (0.95%) Datadog
8 1 (0.95%) GitHub
8 1 (0.95%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (0.95%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 12 (11.43%) Firewall
2 7 (6.67%) DNS
3 6 (5.71%) SAN
3 6 (5.71%) TCP/IP
4 5 (4.76%) NAS
5 4 (3.81%) DHCP
6 3 (2.86%) Wireshark
7 2 (1.90%) 5G
7 2 (1.90%) Diameter Protocol
7 2 (1.90%) HTTP
7 2 (1.90%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (1.90%) LTE
7 2 (1.90%) Radio Access Network
7 2 (1.90%) SSL
7 2 (1.90%) VoLTE
7 2 (1.90%) VoWiFi
7 2 (1.90%) Wireless
8 1 (0.95%) Internet
8 1 (0.95%) Intranet
8 1 (0.95%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (13.33%) MySQL
2 11 (10.48%) Relational Database
3 8 (7.62%) SQL Server
4 7 (6.67%) Oracle Database
5 4 (3.81%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (3.81%) Oracle Reports
6 3 (2.86%) Oracle Database 12c
7 2 (1.90%) Electronic Patient Records
7 2 (1.90%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.90%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.95%) Oracle Database 11g
8 1 (0.95%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 11 (10.48%) Jenkins
2 8 (7.62%) JIRA
3 5 (4.76%) Git
4 4 (3.81%) Burp Suite
4 4 (3.81%) Eclipse
4 4 (3.81%) Maven
4 4 (3.81%) Subversion
5 2 (1.90%) GitLab
5 2 (1.90%) Introscope
6 1 (0.95%) Metasploit
General
1 22 (20.95%) Social Skills
2 12 (11.43%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (8.57%) Military
3 9 (8.57%) Public Sector
4 3 (2.86%) Telecoms
5 2 (1.90%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (0.95%) Advertising
6 1 (0.95%) Aerospace
6 1 (0.95%) Law
6 1 (0.95%) Legal
6 1 (0.95%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (0.95%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (0.95%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (11.43%) Tester
2 11 (10.48%) Senior
3 10 (9.52%) Analyst
4 9 (8.57%) Linux Engineer
4 9 (8.57%) Technical Support
5 8 (7.62%) Architect
5 8 (7.62%) DBA
6 6 (5.71%) Administrator
6 6 (5.71%) Developer
6 6 (5.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (5.71%) Oracle DBA
7 5 (4.76%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
7 5 (4.76%) Test Analyst
8 4 (3.81%) Applications Developer
8 4 (3.81%) Middleware Engineer
8 4 (3.81%) Project Manager
8 4 (3.81%) SIEM Engineer
9 3 (2.86%) DV Cleared Test Analyst
9 3 (2.86%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.81%) Elastic Stack
1 4 (3.81%) Loki
1 4 (3.81%) Middleware
1 4 (3.81%) XML
2 3 (2.86%) .NET
3 2 (1.90%) J2EE
3 2 (1.90%) JDBC
3 2 (1.90%) JMS
3 2 (1.90%) Kafka
3 2 (1.90%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 2 (1.90%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (1.90%) WebSphere MQ
4 1 (0.95%) LAMP
4 1 (0.95%) MERN Stack
4 1 (0.95%) REST
4 1 (0.95%) WebSockets
4 1 (0.95%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (12.38%) Cloud Native
2 8 (7.62%) Replication
3 5 (4.76%) Security Posture
4 4 (3.81%) Data Centre
4 4 (3.81%) Onboarding
4 4 (3.81%) PKI
4 4 (3.81%) Virtual Team
5 3 (2.86%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (2.86%) Clustering
5 3 (2.86%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.86%) Security Operations Centre
6 2 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.95%) Cyber Security Posture
7 1 (0.95%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (0.95%) HP Storage
7 1 (0.95%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.95%) Life Science
7 1 (0.95%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.95%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 50 (47.62%) Windows
2 29 (27.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 15 (14.29%) Unix
4 4 (3.81%) Kali Linux
5 3 (2.86%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
6 2 (1.90%) Oracle Linux
6 2 (1.90%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.95%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.95%) OpenVMS
7 1 (0.95%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (32.38%) CI/CD
2 21 (20.00%) DevOps
3 19 (18.10%) Problem-Solving
4 16 (15.24%) Agile
5 15 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
5 15 (14.29%) ITIL
6 13 (12.38%) SIEM
7 12 (11.43%) DevSecOps
7 12 (11.43%) Migration
8 11 (10.48%) OO
9 10 (9.52%) Computer Science
9 10 (9.52%) Containerisation
9 10 (9.52%) High Availability
10 9 (8.57%) Infrastructure as Code
10 9 (8.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 9 (8.57%) OOP
10 9 (8.57%) Platform Engineering
10 9 (8.57%) Process Improvement
10 9 (8.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 8 (7.62%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 39 (37.14%) Python
2 20 (19.05%) PowerShell
3 19 (18.10%) Bash
3 19 (18.10%) SQL
4 14 (13.33%) Perl
5 13 (12.38%) Java
6 10 (9.52%) JavaScript
7 7 (6.67%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.90%) Jython
8 2 (1.90%) Korn
8 2 (1.90%) PHP
9 1 (0.95%) C#
9 1 (0.95%) Delphi
9 1 (0.95%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 67 (63.81%) Security Cleared
2 48 (45.71%) SC Cleared
3 14 (13.33%) DV Cleared
4 13 (12.38%) Degree
5 10 (9.52%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (7.62%) RHCE
7 6 (5.71%) AWS Certification
7 6 (5.71%) CISSP
8 4 (3.81%) Azure Certification
8 4 (3.81%) OCP
8 4 (3.81%) Oracle Certification
9 3 (2.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (2.86%) CEH
9 3 (2.86%) GCFA
9 3 (2.86%) GCIA
9 3 (2.86%) GCIH
9 3 (2.86%) GIAC
9 3 (2.86%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 2 (1.90%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (1.90%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.81%) GDPR
1 4 (3.81%) NIST
2 2 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.90%) SLA
3 1 (0.95%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (0.95%) HIPAA
3 1 (0.95%) NIST 800
3 1 (0.95%) QA
System Software
1 14 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (10.48%) Active Directory
3 6 (5.71%) Docker
4 5 (4.76%) vSphere
5 4 (3.81%) Hyper-V
6 3 (2.86%) Firmware
6 3 (2.86%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (1.90%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.95%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 22 (20.95%) Ansible
2 19 (18.10%) Kubernetes
3 11 (10.48%) Terraform
4 8 (7.62%) Red Hat Satellite
5 7 (6.67%) Oracle RMAN
6 6 (5.71%) Grafana
6 6 (5.71%) Prometheus
7 5 (4.76%) Argo
7 5 (4.76%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 4 (3.81%) Data Guard
8 4 (3.81%) Kustomize
8 4 (3.81%) Nmap
9 2 (1.90%) CA Wily
9 2 (1.90%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
9 2 (1.90%) Nessus
9 2 (1.90%) systemd
9 2 (1.90%) Tivoli
10 1 (0.95%) Kibana
10 1 (0.95%) NetBackup
10 1 (0.95%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 37 (35.24%) Red Hat
2 23 (21.90%) VMware
3 22 (20.95%) Oracle
4 14 (13.33%) Microsoft
5 5 (4.76%) Splunk
6 4 (3.81%) ArcSight
6 4 (3.81%) Atlassian
6 4 (3.81%) IBM
6 4 (3.81%) NetApp
6 4 (3.81%) ServiceNow
6 4 (3.81%) Tanium
7 3 (2.86%) HP
7 3 (2.86%) Veritas
8 2 (1.90%) AppDynamics
8 2 (1.90%) BT
8 2 (1.90%) Dell
8 2 (1.90%) Ericsson
8 2 (1.90%) Huawei
8 2 (1.90%) LogRhythm
8 2 (1.90%) Nokia