Rocky Contract Job Trends in Reading

Rocky Linux
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Rocky skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Rocky 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.28% - -
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.84% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £770 - -
25th Percentile £781 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £825 - -
75th Percentile £881 - -
90th Percentile £900 - -
Berkshire median daily rate £825 - -

All Operating Systems
Reading

Rocky 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 51 83
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 5.74% 8.70% 7.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 31 51
10th Percentile £201 £325 £313
25th Percentile £383 £360 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £549 £536 £605
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% -11.40% +24.10%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £608
90th Percentile £775 - £638
Berkshire median daily rate £450 £450 £450
% change year-on-year - - +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 0 1
10th Percentile £25.00 - -
25th Percentile £31.25 - £69.06
Median hourly rate £35.22 - £69.38
Median % change year-on-year - - +26.14%
75th Percentile £67.36 - £69.69
90th Percentile £70.50 - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £32.50 £18.87 £58.49
% change year-on-year +72.23% -67.74% +16.98%

Rocky
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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:

Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Linux Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Administrator
2 1 (33.33%) Linux Administrator
2 1 (33.33%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 1 (33.33%) Linux Systems Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Linux Administrator
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Linux Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Systems Administrator
2 1 (33.33%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (33.33%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Security Hardening
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Patch Management
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Monitoring
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Resource Allocation
2 1 (33.33%) Storage Management
2 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Bash
2 2 (66.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) DV Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
1 3 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 3 (100.00%) vSphere
2 1 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
1 3 (100.00%) Podman
2 2 (66.67%) Check_MK
2 2 (66.67%) Grafana
2 2 (66.67%) Prometheus
3 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) Red Hat