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

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 32 37
Rank change year-on-year -1 +5 -6
Contract jobs citing Linux 114 72 100
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 6.19% 6.30% 4.83%
As % of the Operating Systems category 43.68% 43.11% 34.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 43 68
10th Percentile £265 £360 £400
25th Percentile £375 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £408 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -18.50% -9.09% +7.32%
75th Percentile £500 £538 £608
90th Percentile £580 £608 £623
South East median daily rate £500 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -9.09% +3.77% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 5
10th Percentile £71.20 - £59.75
25th Percentile £73.00 - £65.00
Median hourly rate £79.50 - £66.50
75th Percentile £84.50 - £68.63
90th Percentile £85.40 - £68.70
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -24.00% - -3.85%

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 261 167 294
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 14.18% 14.62% 14.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 110 212
10th Percentile £204 £210 £205
25th Percentile £350 £383 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £414 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -17.20% +17.65% -17.48%
75th Percentile £500 £638 £575
90th Percentile £575 £700 £615
South East median daily rate £475 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 2 11
10th Percentile £17.79 £27.78 £56.25
25th Percentile £20.72 £32.46 £56.50
Median hourly rate £21.40 £40.70 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year -47.44% -33.92% +8.31%
75th Percentile £61.50 £49.38 £67.94
90th Percentile £81.00 £54.32 £68.63
South East median hourly rate £22.00 £28.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year -21.43% -34.88% -10.42%

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 3 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 3 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
Wokingham -11 49 £425 -15.00% 10
Reading +4 43 £403 -10.56% 13
Windsor +3 9 £208 -58.50%
Bracknell -3 9 £600 +25.00% 8
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 2 (1.75%) Appian
1 2 (1.75%) IBM HTTP Server
1 2 (1.75%) Oracle HTTP Server
1 2 (1.75%) WebSphere
1 2 (1.75%) WebSphere Application Server
1 2 (1.75%) WebSphere Portal
2 1 (0.88%) Apache
Applications
1 3 (2.63%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 25 (21.93%) AWS
2 23 (20.18%) Azure
3 21 (18.42%) OpenShift
4 8 (7.02%) IaaS
5 7 (6.14%) GCP
6 4 (3.51%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (2.63%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (2.63%) Amazon S3
7 3 (2.63%) Azure Storage
8 2 (1.75%) OCI
8 2 (1.75%) PaaS
8 2 (1.75%) SaaS
9 1 (0.88%) Datadog
9 1 (0.88%) GitHub
9 1 (0.88%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 12 (10.53%) DNS
1 12 (10.53%) Firewall
2 6 (5.26%) SAN
2 6 (5.26%) TCP/IP
3 5 (4.39%) NAS
4 4 (3.51%) DHCP
4 4 (3.51%) Wireshark
5 3 (2.63%) Network Security
6 2 (1.75%) HTTP
6 2 (1.75%) Intrusion Detection
6 2 (1.75%) SSL
6 2 (1.75%) Wireless
7 1 (0.88%) Asterisk PBX
7 1 (0.88%) Internet
7 1 (0.88%) Intranet
7 1 (0.88%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (12.28%) MySQL
2 12 (10.53%) Relational Database
3 9 (7.89%) SQL Server
4 7 (6.14%) Oracle Database
5 4 (3.51%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (3.51%) Oracle Reports
6 3 (2.63%) Oracle Database 12c
6 3 (2.63%) RDBMS
7 2 (1.75%) Electronic Patient Records
7 2 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.75%) SAP HANA
7 2 (1.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.88%) GIS
8 1 (0.88%) Oracle Database 11g
8 1 (0.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 15 (13.16%) Jenkins
2 8 (7.02%) JIRA
3 7 (6.14%) Burp Suite
4 5 (4.39%) Git
5 4 (3.51%) Eclipse
5 4 (3.51%) Maven
5 4 (3.51%) Metasploit
5 4 (3.51%) Subversion
6 2 (1.75%) GitLab
6 2 (1.75%) Introscope
General
1 31 (27.19%) Social Skills
2 16 (14.04%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (10.53%) Public Sector
4 9 (7.89%) Military
5 2 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (1.75%) Legal
5 2 (1.75%) Telecoms
6 1 (0.88%) Advertising
6 1 (0.88%) Aerospace
6 1 (0.88%) Law
6 1 (0.88%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (0.88%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (13.16%) Tester
2 14 (12.28%) Senior
3 13 (11.40%) Architect
4 12 (10.53%) Analyst
5 9 (7.89%) Technical Support
6 8 (7.02%) DBA
7 7 (6.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (5.26%) Administrator
8 6 (5.26%) Developer
8 6 (5.26%) Oracle DBA
8 6 (5.26%) Penetration Tester
8 6 (5.26%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (4.39%) Linux Engineer
9 5 (4.39%) Site Engineer
9 5 (4.39%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 5 (4.39%) SOC Analyst
9 5 (4.39%) Solutions Architect
9 5 (4.39%) Test Analyst
10 4 (3.51%) Applications Developer
10 4 (3.51%) SIEM Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.02%) Loki
2 4 (3.51%) XML
3 3 (2.63%) .NET
3 3 (2.63%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (1.75%) J2EE
4 2 (1.75%) JDBC
4 2 (1.75%) JMS
4 2 (1.75%) Kafka
4 2 (1.75%) Middleware
4 2 (1.75%) Oracle GoldenGate
4 2 (1.75%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (1.75%) REST
4 2 (1.75%) WebSphere MQ
5 1 (0.88%) FreeSWITCH
5 1 (0.88%) LAMP
5 1 (0.88%) MERN Stack
5 1 (0.88%) Node.js
5 1 (0.88%) SOAP
5 1 (0.88%) WebSockets
5 1 (0.88%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (14.91%) Cloud Native
2 9 (7.89%) Replication
3 8 (7.02%) Virtual Team
4 7 (6.14%) Security Posture
5 4 (3.51%) Clustering
5 4 (3.51%) Data Centre
5 4 (3.51%) Management Information System
5 4 (3.51%) Onboarding
5 4 (3.51%) PKI
5 4 (3.51%) Security Operations Centre
6 3 (2.63%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.75%) Operational Technology
7 2 (1.75%) SCADA
8 1 (0.88%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.88%) Cyber Security Posture
8 1 (0.88%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.88%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (0.88%) HP Storage
8 1 (0.88%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 53 (46.49%) Windows
2 30 (26.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 13 (11.40%) Unix
4 7 (6.14%) Kali Linux
5 4 (3.51%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
6 2 (1.75%) Oracle Linux
6 2 (1.75%) SUSE
6 2 (1.75%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.88%) CentOS
7 1 (0.88%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.88%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (36.84%) CI/CD
2 25 (21.93%) DevOps
3 20 (17.54%) Agile
3 20 (17.54%) Problem-Solving
4 18 (15.79%) Cybersecurity
5 15 (13.16%) Containerisation
5 15 (13.16%) ITIL
6 14 (12.28%) SIEM
7 13 (11.40%) Infrastructure as Code
7 13 (11.40%) Migration
8 12 (10.53%) DevSecOps
8 12 (10.53%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 11 (9.65%) Computer Science
9 11 (9.65%) OO
10 10 (8.77%) Incident Response
10 10 (8.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 9 (7.89%) High Availability
11 9 (7.89%) Observability
11 9 (7.89%) OOP
11 9 (7.89%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 47 (41.23%) Python
2 27 (23.68%) Bash
3 23 (20.18%) PowerShell
4 20 (17.54%) SQL
5 13 (11.40%) Java
5 13 (11.40%) Perl
6 10 (8.77%) JavaScript
7 5 (4.39%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.75%) Jython
8 2 (1.75%) Korn
8 2 (1.75%) PHP
9 1 (0.88%) C#
9 1 (0.88%) Delphi
9 1 (0.88%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.88%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 76 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 57 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 14 (12.28%) Degree
3 14 (12.28%) DV Cleared
4 11 (9.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (7.02%) CISSP
6 7 (6.14%) RHCE
7 6 (5.26%) AWS Certification
7 6 (5.26%) CEH
8 5 (4.39%) GCFA
8 5 (4.39%) GCIA
8 5 (4.39%) GCIH
8 5 (4.39%) OSCP
9 4 (3.51%) Azure Certification
9 4 (3.51%) CFCE
9 4 (3.51%) GIAC
9 4 (3.51%) GPEN
9 4 (3.51%) OCP
9 4 (3.51%) Oracle Certification
10 3 (2.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.26%) GDPR
1 6 (5.26%) NIST
2 4 (3.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.75%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.88%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.88%) NIST 800
4 1 (0.88%) QA
System Software
1 22 (19.30%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (12.28%) vSphere
3 11 (9.65%) Active Directory
3 11 (9.65%) Docker
4 6 (5.26%) VMware NSX
5 4 (3.51%) Hyper-V
6 3 (2.63%) Firmware
6 3 (2.63%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (1.75%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 25 (21.93%) Ansible
1 25 (21.93%) Kubernetes
2 16 (14.04%) Terraform
3 14 (12.28%) Argo
4 10 (8.77%) Grafana
4 10 (8.77%) Prometheus
5 8 (7.02%) Kustomize
5 8 (7.02%) Red Hat Satellite
6 7 (6.14%) Nmap
6 7 (6.14%) Oracle RMAN
7 6 (5.26%) vCenter Server
8 5 (4.39%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 4 (3.51%) Data Guard
10 2 (1.75%) CA Wily
10 2 (1.75%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 2 (1.75%) Nessus
10 2 (1.75%) systemd
10 2 (1.75%) Tivoli
11 1 (0.88%) Kibana
11 1 (0.88%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 40 (35.09%) Red Hat
2 32 (28.07%) VMware
3 22 (19.30%) Oracle
4 16 (14.04%) Microsoft
5 6 (5.26%) Pure Storage
5 6 (5.26%) Splunk
6 4 (3.51%) ArcSight
6 4 (3.51%) Atlassian
6 4 (3.51%) NetApp
6 4 (3.51%) ServiceNow
6 4 (3.51%) Tanium
7 3 (2.63%) HP
7 3 (2.63%) LogRhythm
7 3 (2.63%) Veritas
8 2 (1.75%) AppDynamics
8 2 (1.75%) CrowdStrike
8 2 (1.75%) Dell
8 2 (1.75%) IBM
8 2 (1.75%) SAP
9 1 (0.88%) EMC