Linux Contracts in Berkshire

Linux
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring Linux skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Linux over the 6 months leading up to 10 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 33 25
Rank change year-on-year +3 -8 +15
Contract jobs citing Linux 73 94 131
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 6.27% 4.86% 7.46%
As % of the Operating Systems category 45.63% 35.88% 54.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 69 79
10th Percentile £378 £400 £320
25th Percentile £450 £495 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £605 £488
Median % change year-on-year -17.36% +24.10% -2.50%
75th Percentile £528 £608 £610
90th Percentile £663 - £626
South East median daily rate £550 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 7
10th Percentile - £57.13 £24.86
25th Percentile - £58.44 £41.94
Median hourly rate - £63.75 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -8.93% -6.67%
75th Percentile - £67.81 £78.19
90th Percentile - £68.38 £83.82
South East median hourly rate £57.75 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -7.60% -3.85% +22.91%

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 160 262 241
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 13.75% 13.55% 13.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 186 158
10th Percentile £213 £205 £270
25th Percentile £400 £268 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £438 £511
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -14.43% +4.87%
75th Percentile £663 £588 £618
90th Percentile £700 £608 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £463 £475
% change year-on-year +8.11% -2.63% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 11
10th Percentile - £56.40 £21.65
25th Percentile - £56.50 £37.25
Median hourly rate £24.66 £61.60 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -59.97% +12.00% -17.40%
75th Percentile - £63.30 £72.50
90th Percentile - £66.50 £81.37
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £53.75
% change year-on-year -41.05% -11.63% +168.75%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Linux in Berkshire.

Daily rate trend for Linux in Berkshire

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in Berkshire over the 6 months to 10 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in Berkshire

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Linux in Berkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Linux in Berkshire

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 10 May 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
Wokingham +8 26 £500 +25.00% 4
Slough - 17 £450 - 7
Reading -9 16 £500 -17.36% 43
Bracknell +6 6 £482 +28.53% 3
Windsor - 6 £500 -
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 6 (8.22%) Apache
2 1 (1.37%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.37%) IIS
2 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.37%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 14 (19.18%) AWS
2 13 (17.81%) Azure
3 6 (8.22%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (5.48%) GitHub
5 3 (4.11%) AWS Data Pipeline
6 2 (2.74%) Azure Storage
6 2 (2.74%) Entra ID
6 2 (2.74%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (2.74%) npm
7 1 (1.37%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.37%) Amazon ELB
7 1 (1.37%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.37%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (1.37%) AWS KMS
7 1 (1.37%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.37%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (1.37%) IaaS
7 1 (1.37%) PaaS
7 1 (1.37%) Route 53
7 1 (1.37%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (24.66%) VPN
2 17 (23.29%) MPLS
3 16 (21.92%) ATM
3 16 (21.92%) Ethernet
3 16 (21.92%) Frame Relay
3 16 (21.92%) GPRS
3 16 (21.92%) GSM
3 16 (21.92%) LAN
3 16 (21.92%) LTE
3 16 (21.92%) SAN
3 16 (21.92%) SDH
3 16 (21.92%) UMTS
3 16 (21.92%) WAN
3 16 (21.92%) Wireshark
4 11 (15.07%) DHCP
4 11 (15.07%) DNS
5 6 (8.22%) FTP
5 6 (8.22%) SMTP
5 6 (8.22%) Telnet
6 5 (6.85%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (9.59%) Big Data
2 4 (5.48%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (4.11%) Data Lake
3 3 (4.11%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.74%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (2.74%) GIS
4 2 (2.74%) Hadoop
4 2 (2.74%) Oracle Database
4 2 (2.74%) Oracle Database 12c
4 2 (2.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (1.37%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.37%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.37%) Apache Hive
5 1 (1.37%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.37%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.37%) HBase
5 1 (1.37%) Impala
5 1 (1.37%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.37%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.37%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (12.33%) Git
2 6 (8.22%) Jenkins
3 5 (6.85%) JIRA
4 1 (1.37%) Bitbucket Server
4 1 (1.37%) Burp Suite
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%) Metasploit
4 1 (1.37%) Mockito
4 1 (1.37%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (1.37%) SonarQube
General
1 26 (35.62%) Social Skills
2 18 (24.66%) Telecoms
3 5 (6.85%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (6.85%) Finance
4 4 (5.48%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.74%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (2.74%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.37%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (24.66%) Test Engineer
2 15 (20.55%) IP Engineer
3 8 (10.96%) Architect
4 7 (9.59%) Lead
5 6 (8.22%) Network Engineer
6 5 (6.85%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 5 (6.85%) Developer
6 5 (6.85%) IP Network Engineer
6 5 (6.85%) Platform Engineer
6 5 (6.85%) Tester
7 4 (5.48%) Administrator
7 4 (5.48%) AWS Engineer
7 4 (5.48%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 4 (5.48%) Consultant
7 4 (5.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (5.48%) Linux Engineer
7 4 (5.48%) Support Engineer
8 3 (4.11%) Data Architect
8 3 (4.11%) Linux Administrator
8 3 (4.11%) SCADA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.48%) SOAP
2 3 (4.11%) LDAP
3 2 (2.74%) ARM Templates
3 2 (2.74%) CSS
3 2 (2.74%) HTML
3 2 (2.74%) Material-UI
3 2 (2.74%) Next.js
3 2 (2.74%) Node.js
3 2 (2.74%) OpenAPI
3 2 (2.74%) React
3 2 (2.74%) REST
3 2 (2.74%) Swagger
4 1 (1.37%) NETCONF
4 1 (1.37%) OpenVINO
4 1 (1.37%) PySpark
4 1 (1.37%) PyTorch
4 1 (1.37%) RESTCONF
4 1 (1.37%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.37%) YANG
4 1 (1.37%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 21 (28.77%) Self-Motivation
2 9 (12.33%) SCADA
3 7 (9.59%) Data Centre
4 6 (8.22%) Product Ownership
5 5 (6.85%) Operational Technology
6 4 (5.48%) Enterprise Storage
7 2 (2.74%) Cloud Native
7 2 (2.74%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (2.74%) PKI
7 2 (2.74%) Replication
8 1 (1.37%) Algorithms
8 1 (1.37%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (1.37%) Device Driver
8 1 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (1.37%) IoT
8 1 (1.37%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.37%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.37%) Security Posture
8 1 (1.37%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 36 (49.32%) Windows
2 21 (28.77%) Unix
3 12 (16.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (15.07%) Windows Server
5 5 (6.85%) Ubuntu
5 5 (6.85%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (2.74%) Mac OS
6 2 (2.74%) VMS
7 1 (1.37%) Android
7 1 (1.37%) CentOS
7 1 (1.37%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (1.37%) Kali Linux
7 1 (1.37%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (39.73%) Problem-Solving
2 22 (30.14%) Test Strategy
3 17 (23.29%) Project Management
3 17 (23.29%) Regression Testing
4 16 (21.92%) Fault Management
5 14 (19.18%) High Availability
6 10 (13.70%) DevOps
6 10 (13.70%) Migration
6 10 (13.70%) Performance Tuning
7 9 (12.33%) Open Source
8 8 (10.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 7 (9.59%) ITIL
9 7 (9.59%) Vulnerability Management
10 6 (8.22%) DevSecOps
10 6 (8.22%) Platform Engineering
11 5 (6.85%) Cartography
11 5 (6.85%) Continuous Delivery
11 5 (6.85%) Customer-Centric Approach
11 5 (6.85%) Customer-Centricity
11 5 (6.85%) Server Building
Programming Languages
1 17 (23.29%) Java
2 16 (21.92%) Python
3 15 (20.55%) SQL
4 10 (13.70%) Perl
5 9 (12.33%) PL/SQL
5 9 (12.33%) PowerShell
6 5 (6.85%) Bash
7 2 (2.74%) C#
7 2 (2.74%) C++
7 2 (2.74%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.74%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.37%) Bicep
8 1 (1.37%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.37%) VB
8 1 (1.37%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 22 (30.14%) Security Cleared
2 19 (26.03%) SC Cleared
3 17 (23.29%) Cisco Certification
4 16 (21.92%) CCNP
4 16 (21.92%) ISEB
4 16 (21.92%) ISTQB
4 16 (21.92%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 5 (6.85%) Degree
6 3 (4.11%) DV Cleared
7 2 (2.74%) CISSP
8 1 (1.37%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.37%) CCNA
8 1 (1.37%) CEH
8 1 (1.37%) CFCE
8 1 (1.37%) CISA
8 1 (1.37%) GCIH
8 1 (1.37%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (1.37%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.74%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.37%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 6 (8.22%) NFS
1 6 (8.22%) Samba
2 4 (5.48%) Docker
2 4 (5.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.74%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.74%) Oracle RAC
3 2 (2.74%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.37%) Apache Flume
4 1 (1.37%) Postfix
4 1 (1.37%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (1.37%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.37%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.37%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (16.44%) Ansible
2 8 (10.96%) yum
3 7 (9.59%) Terraform
4 6 (8.22%) Kubernetes
5 4 (5.48%) NetBackup
6 2 (2.74%) BMC PATROL
6 2 (2.74%) Data Guard
6 2 (2.74%) Oracle RMAN
6 2 (2.74%) Progress Chef
6 2 (2.74%) Puppet
7 1 (1.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (1.37%) Grafana
7 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (1.37%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.37%) SCCM
7 1 (1.37%) SCOM
7 1 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.37%) WSUS
Vendors
1 28 (38.36%) Microsoft
2 18 (24.66%) Cisco
3 16 (21.92%) Juniper
4 12 (16.44%) Red Hat
4 12 (16.44%) VMware
5 7 (9.59%) Databricks
5 7 (9.59%) HP
6 5 (6.85%) Dell
7 4 (5.48%) 3PAR
7 4 (5.48%) Veritas
8 3 (4.11%) Oracle
9 2 (2.74%) BMC
9 2 (2.74%) F5
9 2 (2.74%) Google
9 2 (2.74%) Splunk
10 1 (1.37%) Amdocs
10 1 (1.37%) Atlassian
10 1 (1.37%) IBM
10 1 (1.37%) Jaspersoft
10 1 (1.37%) Symantec