Linux Jobs in Reading

Linux
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 24 26
Rank change year-on-year -18 +2 -2
Permanent jobs citing Linux 24 142 153
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 4.66% 8.18% 9.81%
As % of the Operating Systems category 25.81% 46.41% 46.50%
Number of salaries quoted 16 102 80
10th Percentile £40,000 £34,000 £34,875
25th Percentile £45,313 £39,938 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,565 £59,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.82% -12.59% -3.57%
75th Percentile £72,813 £72,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £92,500
Berkshire median annual salary £50,000 £59,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -15.25% -15.71% +21.74%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring operating system skills in Reading.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 93 306 329
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 18.06% 17.62% 21.09%
Number of salaries quoted 68 231 169
10th Percentile £33,175 £26,000 £23,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £34,000 £31,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £51,350 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.37% -6.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £48,750 £59,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £61,698 £75,000 £85,000
Berkshire median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -9.09%

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

Linux
Salary Trend in Reading

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

Salary trend for Linux in Reading

Linux
Salary Histogram in Reading

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux in Reading over the 6 months to 21 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Linux in Reading

Linux
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 (12.50%) Confluence
2 2 (8.33%) OpenStack
3 1 (4.17%) Apache
3 1 (4.17%) IIS
3 1 (4.17%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 4 (16.67%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 13 (54.17%) AWS
2 9 (37.50%) Amazon S3
3 8 (33.33%) AWS KMS
4 5 (20.83%) Amazon EC2
4 5 (20.83%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (20.83%) Serverless
5 4 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (16.67%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 4 (16.67%) Amazon SQS
5 4 (16.67%) Azure
5 4 (16.67%) Route 53
5 4 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (8.33%) GitHub
6 2 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (4.17%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (4.17%) GCP
7 1 (4.17%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (20.83%) Firewall
2 4 (16.67%) SSL
3 3 (12.50%) DNS
4 2 (8.33%) DHCP
4 2 (8.33%) TCP/IP
5 1 (4.17%) iSCSI
5 1 (4.17%) NAS
5 1 (4.17%) SAN
5 1 (4.17%) SMTP
5 1 (4.17%) VLAN
5 1 (4.17%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.67%) Amazon Aurora
1 4 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (16.67%) DynamoDB
1 4 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (8.33%) Metadata
2 2 (8.33%) RDBMS
2 2 (8.33%) Relational Database
2 2 (8.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.17%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (4.17%) MySQL
3 1 (4.17%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 10 (41.67%) Jenkins
2 8 (33.33%) Bitbucket Server
3 7 (29.17%) Git
4 5 (20.83%) JIRA
4 5 (20.83%) JUnit
4 5 (20.83%) SonarQube
5 4 (16.67%) DbUnit
5 4 (16.67%) jMock
5 4 (16.67%) Maven
5 4 (16.67%) Mockito
6 1 (4.17%) Artifactory
6 1 (4.17%) Cucumber
6 1 (4.17%) SoapUI
General
1 5 (20.83%) Social Skills
2 4 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 2 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.33%) Electronics
3 2 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Health Technology
4 1 (4.17%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (25.00%) Developer
1 6 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 6 (25.00%) Senior
2 4 (16.67%) Java Developer
2 4 (16.67%) Lead
3 3 (12.50%) Lead Developer
3 3 (12.50%) Lead Java Developer
3 3 (12.50%) Senior Developer
4 2 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Embedded Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Scientific Software Developer
4 2 (8.33%) Senior Embedded Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Senior Software Developer
4 2 (8.33%) Senior Software Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Software Developer
4 2 (8.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (20.83%) REST
1 5 (20.83%) Spring
2 4 (16.67%) ActiveMQ
2 4 (16.67%) AngularJS
2 4 (16.67%) Bootstrap
2 4 (16.67%) Hibernate
2 4 (16.67%) JPA
2 4 (16.67%) PowerMock
2 4 (16.67%) RESTful
2 4 (16.67%) SOAP
2 4 (16.67%) Spring Batch
2 4 (16.67%) Spring Boot
2 4 (16.67%) Spring Integration
2 4 (16.67%) Web Services
3 2 (8.33%) GraphQL
4 1 (4.17%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (4.17%) Middleware
4 1 (4.17%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (4.17%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (4.17%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 3 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (8.33%) Acoustics
3 2 (8.33%) Clustering
3 2 (8.33%) Data Structures
3 2 (8.33%) Distributed Architecture
3 2 (8.33%) Replication
3 2 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (4.17%) Cloud Native
4 1 (4.17%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (4.17%) IBM Mainframe
4 1 (4.17%) Mainframe
4 1 (4.17%) Mobile App
4 1 (4.17%) NHS
4 1 (4.17%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (20.83%) Ubuntu
1 5 (20.83%) Windows
2 4 (16.67%) Unix
3 3 (12.50%) Mac OS
4 1 (4.17%) AIX
4 1 (4.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (4.17%) SUSE
4 1 (4.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (37.50%) Agile
2 7 (29.17%) DevOps
3 6 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
4 5 (20.83%) Containerisation
4 5 (20.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 5 (20.83%) Microservices
4 5 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (20.83%) TDD
5 4 (16.67%) BDD
5 4 (16.67%) Capacity Management
5 4 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
5 4 (16.67%) Kanban
5 4 (16.67%) Key Management
5 4 (16.67%) Open Source
5 4 (16.67%) Patch Management
5 4 (16.67%) Scrum
5 4 (16.67%) Software Engineering
6 3 (12.50%) Computer Science
6 3 (12.50%) Migration
6 3 (12.50%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 12 (50.00%) Python
2 7 (29.17%) Java
3 5 (20.83%) Shell Script
3 5 (20.83%) SQL
4 4 (16.67%) C++
5 2 (8.33%) Bash
5 2 (8.33%) C
5 2 (8.33%) Fortran
5 2 (8.33%) PowerShell
6 1 (4.17%) Groovy
6 1 (4.17%) Perl
Qualifications
1 9 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 6 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (12.50%) Degree
4 2 (8.33%) Master's Degree
4 2 (8.33%) PhD
5 1 (4.17%) DV Cleared
5 1 (4.17%) VCAP
5 1 (4.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) QA
2 1 (4.17%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (50.00%) Docker
2 5 (20.83%) Active Directory
2 5 (20.83%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (16.67%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (8.33%) NFS
4 2 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (4.17%) Hyper-V
5 1 (4.17%) Postfix
5 1 (4.17%) vCloud
5 1 (4.17%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (4.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (29.17%) Ansible
1 7 (29.17%) Terraform
2 4 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 4 (16.67%) Nessus
2 4 (16.67%) Proxmox
3 2 (8.33%) Failover Clustering
3 2 (8.33%) Grafana
3 2 (8.33%) Prometheus
4 1 (4.17%) Packer
4 1 (4.17%) PowerCLI
4 1 (4.17%) vCenter Server
4 1 (4.17%) vRealize
Vendors
1 5 (20.83%) Atlassian
2 4 (16.67%) Juniper
3 3 (12.50%) VMware
4 2 (8.33%) Cisco
4 2 (8.33%) IBM
4 2 (8.33%) Jaspersoft
4 2 (8.33%) Microsoft
5 1 (4.17%) AppDynamics
5 1 (4.17%) Oracle
5 1 (4.17%) Red Hat
5 1 (4.17%) SAP