Linux Contracts in Reading

Linux
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 32 29
Rank change year-on-year -12 -3 +3
Contract jobs citing Linux 16 65 72
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 2.68% 5.45% 6.92%
As % of the Operating Systems category 25.40% 39.88% 54.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 60 53
10th Percentile £339 £413 £333
25th Percentile £398 £501 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £605 £575
Median % change year-on-year -18.39% +5.22% +9.94%
75th Percentile £578 £608 £623
90th Percentile £657 - £780
Berkshire median daily rate £494 £570 £500
% change year-on-year -13.38% +14.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
10th Percentile - £57.13 £71.14
25th Percentile - £58.44 £72.84
Median hourly rate - £63.75 £75.69
Median % change year-on-year - -15.77% -
75th Percentile - £67.81 £78.53
90th Percentile - £68.38 £80.23
Berkshire median hourly rate - £63.75 £70.00
% change year-on-year - -8.93% -6.67%

All Operating Systems
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 63 163 132
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 10.55% 13.67% 12.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 140 101
10th Percentile £228 £205 £325
25th Percentile £400 £213 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £542 £588
Median % change year-on-year +15.42% -7.83% +11.90%
75th Percentile £700 £608 £638
90th Percentile - - £763
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £425 £514
% change year-on-year +17.65% -17.27% +4.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 4
10th Percentile - £56.33 £49.00
25th Percentile - £56.44 £51.25
Median hourly rate - £60.25 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year - -3.60% -
75th Percentile - £65.94 £72.84
90th Percentile - £67.63 £77.96
Berkshire median hourly rate £24.66 £61.60 £55.00
% change year-on-year -59.97% +12.00% -16.03%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Reading

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Linux in Reading

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in Reading over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in Reading

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux in Reading

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 1 (6.25%) Apache Spark
1 1 (6.25%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 7 (43.75%) AWS
2 6 (37.50%) Azure
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon ELB
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon S3
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (6.25%) AWS KMS
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Functions
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Storage
3 1 (6.25%) npm
3 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
3 1 (6.25%) Route 53
3 1 (6.25%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) Firewall
2 1 (6.25%) BGP
2 1 (6.25%) Ethernet VPN
2 1 (6.25%) MPLS
2 1 (6.25%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) SQL Server
2 2 (12.50%) GIS
2 2 (12.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (6.25%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (6.25%) Apache Hive
3 1 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (6.25%) Big Data
3 1 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (6.25%) DynamoDB
3 1 (6.25%) Hadoop
3 1 (6.25%) HBase
3 1 (6.25%) HDInsight
3 1 (6.25%) Impala
3 1 (6.25%) Metadata
3 1 (6.25%) MongoDB
3 1 (6.25%) NoSQL
3 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (6.25%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Git
2 1 (6.25%) Bitbucket Server
2 1 (6.25%) Burp Suite
2 1 (6.25%) CMake
2 1 (6.25%) DbUnit
2 1 (6.25%) GitLab
2 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.25%) JIRA
2 1 (6.25%) jMock
2 1 (6.25%) JUnit
2 1 (6.25%) Maven
2 1 (6.25%) Metasploit
2 1 (6.25%) Mockito
2 1 (6.25%) Octopus Deploy
2 1 (6.25%) SonarQube
General
1 5 (31.25%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Consultant
3 2 (12.50%) Solutions Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Applications Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Applications Support
4 1 (6.25%) Applications Support Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Cloud Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 1 (6.25%) Java Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Network Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Penetration Tester
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Front-End Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Support Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Test Automation Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Test Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (25.00%) SOAP
2 2 (12.50%) REST
3 1 (6.25%) ActiveMQ
3 1 (6.25%) AngularJS
3 1 (6.25%) Bootstrap
3 1 (6.25%) CSS
3 1 (6.25%) Hibernate
3 1 (6.25%) HTML
3 1 (6.25%) JPA
3 1 (6.25%) JSON
3 1 (6.25%) Kafka
3 1 (6.25%) Node.js
3 1 (6.25%) PowerMock
3 1 (6.25%) RESTful
3 1 (6.25%) Spring
3 1 (6.25%) Spring Batch
3 1 (6.25%) Spring Integration
3 1 (6.25%) Web Services
3 1 (6.25%) XML
3 1 (6.25%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Product Ownership
2 2 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 2 (12.50%) Operational Technology
2 2 (12.50%) Replication
2 2 (12.50%) SCADA
3 1 (6.25%) Algorithms
3 1 (6.25%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (6.25%) Device Driver
3 1 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (6.25%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (6.25%) IoT
3 1 (6.25%) Management Information System
3 1 (6.25%) Public Cloud
3 1 (6.25%) Security Posture
3 1 (6.25%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 10 (62.50%) Windows
2 4 (25.00%) Unix
3 2 (12.50%) AIX
4 1 (6.25%) Android
4 1 (6.25%) CentOS
4 1 (6.25%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (6.25%) Kali Linux
4 1 (6.25%) Mac OS
4 1 (6.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 4 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (18.75%) Containerisation
2 3 (18.75%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (18.75%) DevOps
2 3 (18.75%) Microservices
3 2 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (12.50%) Cartography
3 2 (12.50%) CI/CD
3 2 (12.50%) Coaching
3 2 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (12.50%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 2 (12.50%) Machine Learning
3 2 (12.50%) Open Source
3 2 (12.50%) SIEM
3 2 (12.50%) Software Engineering
3 2 (12.50%) System Testing
3 2 (12.50%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 5 (31.25%) Python
1 5 (31.25%) SQL
2 3 (18.75%) Perl
2 3 (18.75%) PowerShell
3 2 (12.50%) Bash
3 2 (12.50%) C++
3 2 (12.50%) PL/SQL
4 1 (6.25%) C#
4 1 (6.25%) Java
4 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
4 1 (6.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (12.50%) CISSP
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Certification
3 1 (6.25%) CCNA
3 1 (6.25%) CEH
3 1 (6.25%) CFCE
3 1 (6.25%) CISA
3 1 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (6.25%) Degree
3 1 (6.25%) GCIH
3 1 (6.25%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) NIST
2 1 (6.25%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (6.25%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (31.25%) Docker
2 2 (12.50%) Hyper-V
2 2 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (6.25%) Apache Flume
3 1 (6.25%) Postfix
3 1 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (25.00%) Ansible
1 4 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (25.00%) Progress Chef
1 4 (25.00%) Puppet
2 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (12.50%) SCCM
2 2 (12.50%) Terraform
3 1 (6.25%) Grafana
3 1 (6.25%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (18.75%) VMware
3 1 (6.25%) Atlassian
3 1 (6.25%) Cisco
3 1 (6.25%) Databricks
3 1 (6.25%) Google
3 1 (6.25%) Jaspersoft
3 1 (6.25%) Splunk
3 1 (6.25%) StreamSets