Linux Engineer Contracts in Wokingham

Linux Engineer
Berkshire > Wokingham

The median Linux Engineer daily rate in Wokingham is £463, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wokingham 2.26% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 2.67% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £411 - -
25th Percentile £428 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 - -
75th Percentile £503 - -
90th Percentile £524 - -
Berkshire median daily rate £463 £650 £425
% change year-on-year -28.85% +52.94% -5.56%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Wokingham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Wokingham. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Wokingham with a recognized job title 150 69 66
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 84.75% 98.57% 91.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 56 39
10th Percentile £325 £310 £300
25th Percentile £381 £400 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £638
90th Percentile £662 £675 £758
Berkshire median daily rate £504 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -1.76% -2.38% +7.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £34.10
25th Percentile - - £46.06
Median hourly rate £14.30 - £66.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £63.37 £59.50 £56.89
% change year-on-year +6.51% +4.60% +170.88%

Linux Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Wokingham

Job postings that featured Linux Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wokingham.

Job vacancy trend for Linux Engineer in Wokingham

Linux Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wokingham

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

Daily rate trend for Linux Engineer in Wokingham

Linux Engineer Skill Set
Top 24 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wokingham

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Linux Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Wokingham region featuring Linux Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (75.00%) Red Hat
2 3 (75.00%) High Availability
2 3 (75.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (50.00%) Bash
3 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (50.00%) F5
3 2 (50.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 2 (50.00%) Python
3 2 (50.00%) SSL
3 2 (50.00%) BIG-IP
3 2 (50.00%) Load Balancing
3 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
4 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (25.00%) VMware
4 1 (25.00%) Network Monitoring
4 1 (25.00%) Ansible
4 1 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Management
4 1 (25.00%) yum

Linux Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wokingham 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) BIG-IP
1 2 (50.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 2 (50.00%) SSL
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (75.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) High Availability
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Load Balancing
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (25.00%) Network Monitoring
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Bash
1 2 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) yum
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (50.00%) F5
3 1 (25.00%) VMware