Ubuntu Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Ubuntu Linux
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Ubuntu skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 94 105
Rank change year-on-year -21 +11 +10
Contract jobs citing Ubuntu 3 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.16% 0.16% 0.062%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.92% 1.34% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £446 - -
25th Percentile £478 £525 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £550 £375
Median % change year-on-year +6.82% +46.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £728 £575 £388
90th Percentile £779 - -
South East median daily rate £275 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -42.11% -5.00% -3.29%

All Operating Systems
Berkshire

Ubuntu 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 156 149 169
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 8.57% 12.26% 10.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 102 101
10th Percentile £260 £213 £200
25th Percentile £407 £255 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £417 £425
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% -1.91% +4.94%
75th Percentile £588 £500 £608
90th Percentile £640 £586 £685
South East median daily rate £481 £436 £450
% change year-on-year +10.26% -3.06% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 6 5
10th Percentile £16.38 £17.56 -
25th Percentile £18.63 £18.87 £55.87
Median hourly rate £32.50 £19.83 £56.75
Median % change year-on-year +63.89% -65.05% +4.00%
75th Percentile £35.22 £22.82 £58.49
90th Percentile £69.07 £24.33 £65.21
South East median hourly rate £32.50 £18.87 £57.87
% change year-on-year +72.23% -67.39% +0.64%

Ubuntu
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Ubuntu relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Ubuntu job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Ubuntu
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Ubuntu.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Ubuntu

Ubuntu
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ubuntu in Berkshire over the 6 months to 13 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Ubuntu in Berkshire

Ubuntu
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Ubuntu.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Ubuntu

Ubuntu
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 Ubuntu within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 13 October 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 - 2 £725 - 1
Bracknell - 1 £450 -
Ubuntu
South East

Ubuntu
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) OpenShift
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (33.33%) MSI
General
1 2 (66.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) EPoS Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Linux DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Linux/Unix DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Software Packaging
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Debian
2 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) Windows 10
3 1 (33.33%) CentOS
3 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (66.67%) Operational Stability
1 2 (66.67%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Business Continuity
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Observability
2 1 (33.33%) Proactive Monitoring
2 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
1 2 (66.67%) VBScript
2 1 (33.33%) Bash
2 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) SCCM