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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 31 28
Rank change year-on-year -13 -3 +2
Contract jobs citing Linux 15 71 77
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 2.75% 6.00% 7.48%
As % of the Operating Systems category 24.19% 45.51% 56.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 67 57
10th Percentile £325 £413 £400
25th Percentile £413 £507 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £605 £575
Median % change year-on-year -17.36% +5.22% +9.52%
75th Percentile £569 £608 £623
90th Percentile £663 - £693
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £605 £488
% change year-on-year -17.36% +24.10% -8.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £71.14
25th Percentile - £56.25 £72.84
Median hourly rate - £62.50 £75.69
Median % change year-on-year - -17.42% -
75th Percentile - £68.75 £78.53
90th Percentile - - £80.23
Berkshire median hourly rate - £62.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year - -10.71% -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 62 156 137
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 11.38% 13.19% 13.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 132 104
10th Percentile £216 £205 £352
25th Percentile £425 £264 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -6.38% +11.90%
75th Percentile £700 £608 £638
90th Percentile - - £700
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £514
% change year-on-year +5.26% -7.54% +2.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 3
10th Percentile - £56.30 £52.00
25th Percentile - £56.38 £58.75
Median hourly rate - £58.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -17.14% -
75th Percentile - £64.13 £75.69
90th Percentile - £66.90 £79.10
Berkshire median hourly rate £24.66 £61.60 £58.75
% change year-on-year -59.97% +4.85% -11.76%

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 29 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 3 (20.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 6 (40.00%) AWS
2 4 (26.67%) Azure
3 2 (13.33%) npm
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon S3
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (6.67%) AWS KMS
4 1 (6.67%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) GIS
1 2 (13.33%) SQL Server
1 2 (13.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (6.67%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (6.67%) DynamoDB
2 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Git
2 1 (6.67%) Bitbucket Server
2 1 (6.67%) Burp Suite
2 1 (6.67%) CMake
2 1 (6.67%) DbUnit
2 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.67%) jMock
2 1 (6.67%) JUnit
2 1 (6.67%) Maven
2 1 (6.67%) Metasploit
2 1 (6.67%) Mockito
2 1 (6.67%) SonarQube
General
1 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Telecoms
3 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
4 1 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Developer
2 3 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Support Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Cloud Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Consultant
3 2 (13.33%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) React Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Solutions Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) AWS Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Java Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Penetration Tester
4 1 (6.67%) Security Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Front-End Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior React Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (20.00%) SOAP
2 2 (13.33%) CSS
2 2 (13.33%) HTML
2 2 (13.33%) Material-UI
2 2 (13.33%) Next.js
2 2 (13.33%) Node.js
2 2 (13.33%) OpenAPI
2 2 (13.33%) React
2 2 (13.33%) Swagger
3 1 (6.67%) CNTK
3 1 (6.67%) OpenVINO
3 1 (6.67%) PowerMock
3 1 (6.67%) PyTorch
3 1 (6.67%) REST
3 1 (6.67%) Spring Batch
3 1 (6.67%) Spring Boot
3 1 (6.67%) Spring Cloud
3 1 (6.67%) Spring Integration
3 1 (6.67%) TensorFlow
3 1 (6.67%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Cloud Native
1 2 (13.33%) Operational Technology
1 2 (13.33%) Product Ownership
1 2 (13.33%) Replication
1 2 (13.33%) SCADA
2 1 (6.67%) Algorithms
2 1 (6.67%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (6.67%) Device Driver
2 1 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (6.67%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (6.67%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 7 (46.67%) Windows
2 1 (6.67%) Android
2 1 (6.67%) Embedded Linux
2 1 (6.67%) Kali Linux
2 1 (6.67%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (33.33%) DevOps
1 5 (33.33%) Open Source
2 3 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (20.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (20.00%) Microservices
2 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (13.33%) API Development
3 2 (13.33%) Cartography
3 2 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (13.33%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (13.33%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 2 (13.33%) DevSecOps
3 2 (13.33%) Front End Development
3 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Automation
3 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (13.33%) SIEM
3 2 (13.33%) Software Engineering
3 2 (13.33%) Test Strategy
3 2 (13.33%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 7 (46.67%) Python
2 5 (33.33%) Bash
3 3 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 3 (20.00%) SQL
4 2 (13.33%) C++
4 2 (13.33%) JavaScript
4 2 (13.33%) Perl
4 2 (13.33%) PL/SQL
4 2 (13.33%) TypeScript
5 1 (6.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (13.33%) CISSP
3 1 (6.67%) CCNA
3 1 (6.67%) CEH
3 1 (6.67%) CFCE
3 1 (6.67%) CISA
3 1 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (6.67%) Degree
3 1 (6.67%) GCIH
3 1 (6.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) Docker
1 3 (20.00%) vSphere
2 1 (6.67%) Postfix
2 1 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (33.33%) Ansible
1 5 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (13.33%) Progress Chef
2 2 (13.33%) Puppet
2 2 (13.33%) Terraform
3 1 (6.67%) Grafana
3 1 (6.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.67%) Atlassian
2 1 (6.67%) Jaspersoft
2 1 (6.67%) Splunk
2 1 (6.67%) VMware