Linux Contracts in Wokingham

Linux
Berkshire > Wokingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wokingham 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 28 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 25 16
Rank change year-on-year +9 -9 -9
Contract jobs citing Linux 15 1 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wokingham 8.29% 1.45% 12.20%
As % of the Operating Systems category 53.57% 12.50% 40.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 1 5
10th Percentile £400 - -
25th Percentile £450 £580 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £590 £425
Median % change year-on-year -15.25% +38.82% -10.53%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £475
90th Percentile £655 - £490
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £605 £488
% change year-on-year -17.36% +24.10% -11.36%

All Operating Systems
Wokingham

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 Wokingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 28 8 25
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wokingham 15.47% 11.59% 30.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 7 13
10th Percentile £330 £315 -
25th Percentile £400 £338 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £425
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -5.88% -10.53%
75th Percentile £538 £525 £500
90th Percentile £575 £600 £588
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.53% +2.60% -

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Wokingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Wokingham

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wokingham

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

Daily rate trend for Linux in Wokingham

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Daily Rate Histogram in Wokingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in Wokingham over the 6 months to 28 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in Wokingham

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wokingham

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux in Wokingham

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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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (13.33%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.67%) Azure
1 1 (6.67%) Entra ID
1 1 (6.67%) IaaS
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (6.67%) PaaS
1 1 (6.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (40.00%) DHCP
1 6 (40.00%) DNS
2 5 (33.33%) TCP/IP
3 2 (13.33%) FTP
3 2 (13.33%) SMTP
3 2 (13.33%) Telnet
4 1 (6.67%) tcpdump
Development Applications
1 4 (26.67%) JIRA
General
1 1 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Lead
2 4 (26.67%) Tester
3 2 (13.33%) Administrator
3 2 (13.33%) Linux Administrator
4 1 (6.67%) Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Lead Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Lead Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) LDAP
1 1 (6.67%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Data Centre
2 4 (26.67%) Enterprise Storage
2 4 (26.67%) Product Ownership
2 4 (26.67%) SCADA
3 1 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (6.67%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 12 (80.00%) Windows
2 7 (46.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (26.67%) Windows Server
3 4 (26.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (40.00%) ITIL
3 5 (33.33%) High Availability
3 5 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
4 4 (26.67%) DevSecOps
4 4 (26.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 4 (26.67%) Technical Leadership
4 4 (26.67%) Test Assurance
4 4 (26.67%) Test Management
4 4 (26.67%) Test Strategy
4 4 (26.67%) Validation
5 3 (20.00%) Migration
5 3 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
5 3 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
6 2 (13.33%) Artificial Intelligence
6 2 (13.33%) Operational Stability
6 2 (13.33%) Operations Management
6 2 (13.33%) Performance Monitoring
6 2 (13.33%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (26.67%) Perl
1 4 (26.67%) PL/SQL
1 4 (26.67%) SQL
2 1 (6.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 10 (66.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) NFS
1 2 (13.33%) Samba
1 2 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) NetBackup
1 4 (26.67%) yum
2 3 (20.00%) Ansible
3 2 (13.33%) BMC PATROL
Vendors
1 8 (53.33%) VMware
2 7 (46.67%) Red Hat
3 6 (40.00%) HP
4 4 (26.67%) 3PAR
4 4 (26.67%) Dell
4 4 (26.67%) Veritas
5 2 (13.33%) BMC
6 1 (6.67%) Dynatrace
6 1 (6.67%) IBM
6 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
6 1 (6.67%) Oracle