Linux Jobs in Berkshire

Linux
South East > Berkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for Linux skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Linux over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 27 27 15
Rank change year-on-year 0 -12 +15
Permanent jobs citing Linux 223 256 395
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 7.13% 8.31% 11.37%
As % of the Operating Systems category 47.05% 46.21% 58.61%
Number of salaries quoted 178 162 260
10th Percentile £34,925 £32,625 £35,875
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £70,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.71% +21.74% -4.17%
75th Percentile £71,000 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,875 £89,750 £81,250
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% +5.00%

All Operating Systems
Berkshire

Linux is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 474 554 674
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 15.16% 17.98% 19.41%
Number of salaries quoted 391 325 490
10th Percentile £26,750 £24,500 £29,750
25th Percentile £34,750 £30,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £60,025 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £71,000 £86,500 £77,500
South East median annual salary £42,500 £43,250 £47,500
% change year-on-year -1.73% -8.95% -

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 23 May 2024.

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 23 May 2024. 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
Reading +1 144 £59,000 -12.59% 37
Bracknell +1 27 £42,500 -39.29% 8
Slough +8 6 £52,500 +79.49% 5
Wokingham +3 5 £72,500 +20.83% 3
Newbury -8 3 £60,000 -14.29% 2
Thatcham - 1 £50,000 - 3
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 23 (10.31%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (8.07%) WebLogic
3 15 (6.73%) IIS
4 14 (6.28%) Oracle Service Bus
5 9 (4.04%) nginx
6 7 (3.14%) Apache
7 4 (1.79%) ArcGIS
7 4 (1.79%) Confluence
7 4 (1.79%) GeoServer
7 4 (1.79%) SharePoint
7 4 (1.79%) WordPress
8 1 (0.45%) Tomcat
Applications
1 15 (6.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (6.28%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (6.28%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 14 (6.28%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (1.79%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 78 (34.98%) Azure
2 35 (15.70%) AWS
3 26 (11.66%) Microsoft 365
4 17 (7.62%) Azure Monitor
5 15 (6.73%) Azure Storage
5 15 (6.73%) Entra ID
6 12 (5.38%) OCI
7 10 (4.48%) Amazon S3
8 6 (2.69%) GitHub
8 6 (2.69%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (2.24%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (2.24%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (1.79%) Amazon ELB
10 4 (1.79%) Amazon SQS
10 4 (1.79%) GCP
10 4 (1.79%) OneDrive
10 4 (1.79%) Serverless
10 4 (1.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 3 (1.35%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (1.35%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 56 (25.11%) Firewall
2 49 (21.97%) DNS
3 39 (17.49%) DHCP
4 21 (9.42%) SAN
5 20 (8.97%) VPN
6 16 (7.17%) SNMP
7 14 (6.28%) Wireless
8 9 (4.04%) Internet
9 8 (3.59%) LAN
9 8 (3.59%) NAS
9 8 (3.59%) WAN
10 7 (3.14%) IPsec
11 6 (2.69%) BGP
11 6 (2.69%) TCP/IP
12 5 (2.24%) MQTT
12 5 (2.24%) Wireshark
13 4 (1.79%) Fibre Channel
13 4 (1.79%) iSCSI
13 4 (1.79%) Network Security
13 4 (1.79%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (8.52%) MySQL
2 18 (8.07%) Oracle Database
3 14 (6.28%) Oracle Database 10g
3 14 (6.28%) Oracle Database 11g
3 14 (6.28%) VLDB
4 10 (4.48%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (4.04%) Amazon RDS
6 8 (3.59%) Relational Database
7 6 (2.69%) GIS
7 6 (2.69%) SQL Server
8 5 (2.24%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (2.24%) MongoDB
8 5 (2.24%) RDBMS
9 4 (1.79%) NoSQL
9 4 (1.79%) QGIS
10 3 (1.35%) Hadoop
11 2 (0.90%) Big Data
11 2 (0.90%) Redis
12 1 (0.45%) Azure SQL Database
12 1 (0.45%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 14 (6.28%) Jenkins
2 8 (3.59%) JIRA
3 6 (2.69%) Git
4 4 (1.79%) GitLab
5 2 (0.90%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.90%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.45%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.45%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.45%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.45%) Gradle
6 1 (0.45%) JUnit
6 1 (0.45%) SonarQube
General
1 58 (26.01%) Social Skills
2 25 (11.21%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (4.04%) Finance
4 5 (2.24%) Aerospace
4 5 (2.24%) Public Sector
5 4 (1.79%) Electronics
5 4 (1.79%) Manufacturing
6 3 (1.35%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.45%) Games
7 1 (0.45%) Legal
7 1 (0.45%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 44 (19.73%) Senior
2 38 (17.04%) Software Engineer
3 31 (13.90%) Senior Software Engineer
4 27 (12.11%) Applications Support
5 23 (10.31%) DevOps Engineer
5 23 (10.31%) Embedded Engineer
5 23 (10.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 22 (9.87%) Support Engineer
7 21 (9.42%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 21 (9.42%) Senior Embedded Engineer
8 20 (8.97%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
9 16 (7.17%) Analyst
10 15 (6.73%) Active Directory Specialist
10 15 (6.73%) Active Directory Support
10 15 (6.73%) Azure Specialist
10 15 (6.73%) Support Specialist
11 14 (6.28%) Oracle Analyst
11 14 (6.28%) Oracle Support Analyst
11 14 (6.28%) SQL Analyst
11 14 (6.28%) SQL Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (6.73%) ARM Templates
2 11 (4.93%) React
3 10 (4.48%) RabbitMQ
4 6 (2.69%) Django
4 6 (2.69%) OpenMP
4 6 (2.69%) Qt
5 5 (2.24%) Elastic Stack
5 5 (2.24%) Spring Boot
5 5 (2.24%) YAML
6 4 (1.79%) GraphQL
6 4 (1.79%) Kafka
6 4 (1.79%) LAMP
6 4 (1.79%) Leaflet
6 4 (1.79%) LEMP Stack
6 4 (1.79%) Node.js
6 4 (1.79%) PostGIS
6 4 (1.79%) React Native
6 4 (1.79%) RESTful
6 4 (1.79%) Spring
6 4 (1.79%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (10.76%) Data Centre
2 21 (9.42%) Self-Motivation
3 20 (8.97%) Algorithms
4 18 (8.07%) PKI
5 17 (7.62%) IoT
6 14 (6.28%) Product Ownership
7 12 (5.38%) Linux Command Line
8 11 (4.93%) CMDB
9 6 (2.69%) CUDA
9 6 (2.69%) Replication
10 4 (1.79%) Embedded Systems
10 4 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.79%) Mobile App
10 4 (1.79%) Public Cloud
11 3 (1.35%) Arduino
11 3 (1.35%) Raspberry Pi
12 2 (0.90%) Virtual Team
13 1 (0.45%) Cloud Native
13 1 (0.45%) Cyberattack
13 1 (0.45%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 83 (37.22%) Windows
2 49 (21.97%) Windows Server
3 35 (15.70%) Unix
4 34 (15.25%) Windows Server 2016
5 32 (14.35%) Windows Server 2019
6 27 (12.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 21 (9.42%) Embedded Linux
8 18 (8.07%) Windows Server 2012
9 14 (6.28%) CentOS
9 14 (6.28%) Solaris
10 13 (5.83%) Windows 10
11 12 (5.38%) Ubuntu
11 12 (5.38%) Windows XP
12 6 (2.69%) VMS
13 5 (2.24%) Data ONTAP
14 3 (1.35%) Debian
14 3 (1.35%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (27.80%) Agile
2 55 (24.66%) DevOps
3 47 (21.08%) Software Engineering
4 38 (17.04%) CI/CD
4 38 (17.04%) Release Management
5 37 (16.59%) Problem-Solving
6 31 (13.90%) Actionable Insight
6 31 (13.90%) ITIL
7 28 (12.56%) Software Testing
8 27 (12.11%) Performance Monitoring
8 27 (12.11%) Performance Tuning
9 23 (10.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 22 (9.87%) Mathematics
10 22 (9.87%) Physics
11 21 (9.42%) Configuration Management
11 21 (9.42%) Project Management
12 20 (8.97%) Computer Science
13 19 (8.52%) Analytics
13 19 (8.52%) Artificial Intelligence
13 19 (8.52%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 58 (26.01%) Python
2 47 (21.08%) SQL
3 39 (17.49%) PowerShell
4 26 (11.66%) Bash
5 25 (11.21%) PL/SQL
6 22 (9.87%) C++
7 20 (8.97%) C
8 19 (8.52%) Fortran
9 18 (8.07%) C#
10 16 (7.17%) VBScript
11 15 (6.73%) Bicep
11 15 (6.73%) VB
12 14 (6.28%) JavaScript
13 13 (5.83%) Java
14 12 (5.38%) Groovy
15 7 (3.14%) Perl
16 5 (2.24%) Embedded C
17 4 (1.79%) Go
17 4 (1.79%) R
17 4 (1.79%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 127 (56.95%) Security Cleared
2 87 (39.01%) SC Cleared
3 83 (37.22%) Degree
4 54 (24.22%) DV Cleared
5 19 (8.52%) PhD
6 16 (7.17%) CCNA
6 16 (7.17%) Cisco Certification
7 15 (6.73%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 14 (6.28%) Master's Degree
9 12 (5.38%) AWS Certification
9 12 (5.38%) CCNP
10 8 (3.59%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (1.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (1.79%) Azure Certification
11 4 (1.79%) MCSE
11 4 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.45%) MCP
12 1 (0.45%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.73%) SLA
2 2 (0.90%) QA
3 1 (0.45%) GDPR
3 1 (0.45%) NIST
System Software
1 51 (22.87%) Active Directory
2 34 (15.25%) Docker
3 30 (13.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (6.73%) Virtual Desktop
4 15 (6.73%) Virtual Machines
4 15 (6.73%) VMware ESXi
5 14 (6.28%) Hyper-V
5 14 (6.28%) Oracle RAC
6 6 (2.69%) vSphere
7 2 (0.90%) KVM
7 2 (0.90%) QEMU
7 2 (0.90%) Xen
Systems Management
1 52 (23.32%) Kubernetes
2 38 (17.04%) SCOM
3 31 (13.90%) SCCM
4 30 (13.45%) Ansible
5 29 (13.00%) WSUS
6 24 (10.76%) Terraform
7 20 (8.97%) vCenter Server
8 19 (8.52%) Microsoft Intune
9 15 (6.73%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 14 (6.28%) Data Guard
10 14 (6.28%) NetBackup
10 14 (6.28%) Oracle RMAN
11 12 (5.38%) EMC NetWorker
12 10 (4.48%) Rancher
13 5 (2.24%) Prometheus
14 4 (1.79%) Kibana
15 2 (0.90%) Grafana
15 2 (0.90%) Kustomize
15 2 (0.90%) Nessus
15 2 (0.90%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 74 (33.18%) Microsoft
2 39 (17.49%) VMware
3 32 (14.35%) Oracle
4 21 (9.42%) Palo Alto
5 17 (7.62%) Dell
6 16 (7.17%) Cisco
6 16 (7.17%) Red Hat
6 16 (7.17%) Veeam
7 14 (6.28%) Juniper
7 14 (6.28%) Remedy
7 14 (6.28%) Sun
8 13 (5.83%) 3PAR
8 13 (5.83%) HP
9 12 (5.38%) EMC
9 12 (5.38%) Extreme Networks
9 12 (5.38%) Symantec
10 11 (4.93%) Dynatrace
11 5 (2.24%) NetApp
11 5 (2.24%) SolidFire
12 4 (1.79%) Sparx