Linux Jobs in Berkshire

Linux
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring Linux skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Linux over the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 24 29
Rank change year-on-year -40 +5 -14
Permanent jobs citing Linux 60 234 256
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 3.71% 7.61% 8.23%
As % of the Operating Systems category 32.97% 47.95% 46.46%
Number of salaries quoted 49 188 160
10th Percentile £40,000 £34,750 £27,875
25th Percentile £42,500 £39,500 £38,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £59,000 £65,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.25% -9.92% +13.91%
75th Percentile £58,750 £70,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £72,750 £81,250 £87,750
South East median annual salary £53,065 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.52% +10.00% -4.76%

All Operating Systems
Berkshire

Linux falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring operating system skills in Berkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 182 488 551
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 11.24% 15.86% 17.72%
Number of salaries quoted 146 404 330
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,500 £24,000
25th Percentile £34,000 £34,500 £29,281
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £48,850
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +2.35% -11.18%
75th Percentile £50,000 £60,025 £75,000
90th Percentile £63,125 £71,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £40,101 £42,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -5.65% - -10.53%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Berkshire

Linux
Salary Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Linux in Berkshire.

Salary trend for Linux in Berkshire

Linux
Salary Histogram in Berkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux in Berkshire over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Linux in Berkshire

Linux
Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 12 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Bracknell +19 21 £50,000 +17.65% 3
Reading -24 21 £55,565 -5.82% 42
Wokingham +2 1 £65,000 +4.00% 5
Linux
South East

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 (3.33%) Confluence
1 2 (3.33%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.67%) IIS
2 1 (1.67%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 4 (6.67%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 4 (6.67%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 14 (23.33%) AWS
2 8 (13.33%) Serverless
3 7 (11.67%) Amazon S3
3 7 (11.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 6 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
4 6 (10.00%) AWS KMS
4 6 (10.00%) Azure
5 5 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (6.67%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 4 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (5.00%) AWS CodeBuild
7 3 (5.00%) AWS CodeCommit
7 3 (5.00%) AWS CodeDeploy
7 3 (5.00%) AWS CodePipeline
7 3 (5.00%) GitHub
8 2 (3.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (3.33%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (3.33%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.33%) Firewall
1 5 (8.33%) VPN
2 4 (6.67%) SSL
3 3 (5.00%) DNS
4 2 (3.33%) Cisco ISE
4 2 (3.33%) DHCP
4 2 (3.33%) Ethernet
4 2 (3.33%) Internet
4 2 (3.33%) MPLS
4 2 (3.33%) SD-WAN
4 2 (3.33%) TCP/IP
4 2 (3.33%) WAN
5 1 (1.67%) iSCSI
5 1 (1.67%) NAS
5 1 (1.67%) SAN
5 1 (1.67%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (23.33%) MySQL
2 5 (8.33%) Relational Database
3 4 (6.67%) Metabase
4 2 (3.33%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (3.33%) DynamoDB
4 2 (3.33%) Metadata
4 2 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (3.33%) RDBMS
4 2 (3.33%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.67%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (1.67%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 11 (18.33%) Jenkins
2 6 (10.00%) Bitbucket Server
3 5 (8.33%) Git
4 4 (6.67%) JIRA
5 3 (5.00%) JUnit
5 3 (5.00%) SonarQube
6 2 (3.33%) DbUnit
6 2 (3.33%) jMock
6 2 (3.33%) Maven
6 2 (3.33%) Mockito
7 1 (1.67%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.67%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.67%) SoapUI
7 1 (1.67%) Visual Studio
General
1 13 (21.67%) Social Skills
2 4 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (5.00%) Electronics
4 2 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (3.33%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.67%) Advertising
5 1 (1.67%) Health Technology
5 1 (1.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (28.33%) Support Engineer
2 15 (25.00%) Technical Engineer
2 15 (25.00%) Technical Support
2 15 (25.00%) Technical Support Engineer
3 14 (23.33%) Senior
4 12 (20.00%) Applications Engineer
4 12 (20.00%) Applications Support
4 12 (20.00%) Applications Support Engineer
5 11 (18.33%) DevOps Engineer
5 11 (18.33%) Software Engineer
6 7 (11.67%) Senior Software Engineer
7 4 (6.67%) AWS DevOps
7 4 (6.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 4 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
7 4 (6.67%) Developer
7 4 (6.67%) Senior Support Engineer
7 4 (6.67%) Senior Technical Engineer
7 4 (6.67%) Senior Technical Support
7 4 (6.67%) Senior Technical Support Engineer
8 3 (5.00%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.67%) REST
2 3 (5.00%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (5.00%) Spring
3 2 (3.33%) ActiveMQ
3 2 (3.33%) AngularJS
3 2 (3.33%) Bootstrap
3 2 (3.33%) GraphQL
3 2 (3.33%) Hibernate
3 2 (3.33%) JPA
3 2 (3.33%) PowerMock
3 2 (3.33%) RESTful
3 2 (3.33%) SOAP
3 2 (3.33%) Spring Batch
3 2 (3.33%) Spring Boot
3 2 (3.33%) Spring Integration
3 2 (3.33%) Web Services
4 1 (1.67%) Middleware
4 1 (1.67%) OpenCV
4 1 (1.67%) OpenGL
4 1 (1.67%) SAP XI
Miscellaneous
1 9 (15.00%) Algorithms
2 6 (10.00%) Data Centre
3 5 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (6.67%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (3.33%) Acoustics
5 2 (3.33%) Clustering
5 2 (3.33%) Data Structures
5 2 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (3.33%) Fibre Optics
5 2 (3.33%) IoT
5 2 (3.33%) Replication
6 1 (1.67%) CUDA
6 1 (1.67%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.67%) FPGA
6 1 (1.67%) IBM Mainframe
6 1 (1.67%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.67%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.67%) NHS
6 1 (1.67%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.67%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 15 (25.00%) Unix
2 8 (13.33%) Windows
3 5 (8.33%) Ubuntu
4 4 (6.67%) Mac OS
5 3 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.67%) AIX
6 1 (1.67%) SUSE
6 1 (1.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (28.33%) Computer Science
2 14 (23.33%) Physics
3 13 (21.67%) Software Engineering
4 12 (20.00%) DevOps
4 12 (20.00%) Mathematics
5 10 (16.67%) Open Source
5 10 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (16.67%) Software Testing
6 9 (15.00%) SDLC
7 8 (13.33%) Parallel Programming
7 8 (13.33%) Performance Analysis
8 7 (11.67%) Agile
9 6 (10.00%) Microservices
9 6 (10.00%) Migration
10 5 (8.33%) CI/CD
10 5 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
10 5 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 4 (6.67%) Collaborative Working
11 4 (6.67%) Containerisation
11 4 (6.67%) Key Management
Programming Languages
1 30 (50.00%) Python
2 20 (33.33%) C++
3 19 (31.67%) SQL
4 12 (20.00%) Bash
5 11 (18.33%) PL/SQL
6 10 (16.67%) C
6 10 (16.67%) Fortran
7 7 (11.67%) Java
8 5 (8.33%) Shell Script
9 3 (5.00%) Go
9 3 (5.00%) MATLAB
10 2 (3.33%) PowerShell
11 1 (1.67%) Groovy
11 1 (1.67%) Perl
Qualifications
1 18 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 17 (28.33%) Degree
3 15 (25.00%) SC Cleared
4 10 (16.67%) DV Cleared
4 10 (16.67%) Master's Degree
4 10 (16.67%) PhD
5 4 (6.67%) A+ Certification
5 4 (6.67%) Dell Certification
5 4 (6.67%) MCP
5 4 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (5.00%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (1.67%) VCAP
7 1 (1.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.33%) QA
2 1 (1.67%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (18.33%) Docker
2 5 (8.33%) Active Directory
2 5 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (6.67%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.67%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.67%) NFS
4 1 (1.67%) Postfix
4 1 (1.67%) vCloud
4 1 (1.67%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (20.00%) Terraform
2 9 (15.00%) Ansible
3 6 (10.00%) Kubernetes
4 4 (6.67%) Nessus
4 4 (6.67%) Proxmox
5 2 (3.33%) Failover Clustering
5 2 (3.33%) FortiGate
5 2 (3.33%) Grafana
5 2 (3.33%) Kubespray
5 2 (3.33%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.67%) Packer
6 1 (1.67%) PowerCLI
6 1 (1.67%) vCenter Server
6 1 (1.67%) vRealize
Vendors
1 8 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 7 (11.67%) Cisco
3 6 (10.00%) Juniper
4 5 (8.33%) VMware
5 4 (6.67%) Dell
6 3 (5.00%) Atlassian
6 3 (5.00%) Red Hat
7 2 (3.33%) Arista
7 2 (3.33%) Extreme Networks
7 2 (3.33%) IBM
7 2 (3.33%) Palo Alto
7 2 (3.33%) SevOne
8 1 (1.67%) AppDynamics
8 1 (1.67%) Jaspersoft
8 1 (1.67%) Oracle
8 1 (1.67%) SAP