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 5 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 27 25 15
Rank change year-on-year -2 -10 +13
Permanent jobs citing Linux 227 259 411
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 6.91% 8.74% 11.30%
As % of the Operating Systems category 47.89% 46.84% 58.63%
Number of salaries quoted 170 164 266
10th Percentile £37,250 £31,800 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,313 £42,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.71% +16.67% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £89,250 £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 474 553 701
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 14.42% 18.66% 19.27%
Number of salaries quoted 376 325 499
10th Percentile £27,125 £24,525 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,750 £31,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £59,000 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £71,000 £87,500 £77,500
South East median annual salary £45,000 £43,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +3.45% -8.42% -

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 5 June 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 5 June 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 0 152 £59,000 -15.71% 25
Bracknell +1 24 £42,500 -42.95% 5
Wokingham +4 7 £72,500 +20.83% 2
Slough +1 6 £52,500 +79.49% 4
Thatcham - 3 £50,000 - 3
Newbury -5 2 £60,000 -14.29%
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 25 (11.01%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (7.93%) WebLogic
3 14 (6.17%) IIS
3 14 (6.17%) Oracle Service Bus
4 9 (3.96%) nginx
5 7 (3.08%) Apache
6 4 (1.76%) ArcGIS
6 4 (1.76%) GeoServer
6 4 (1.76%) SharePoint
6 4 (1.76%) WordPress
7 3 (1.32%) Confluence
8 1 (0.44%) CMS
8 1 (0.44%) Tomcat
Applications
1 15 (6.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (6.17%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (6.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 14 (6.17%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (1.76%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 81 (35.68%) Azure
2 34 (14.98%) AWS
3 28 (12.33%) Microsoft 365
4 19 (8.37%) Azure Monitor
5 18 (7.93%) Azure Storage
5 18 (7.93%) Entra ID
6 12 (5.29%) OCI
7 10 (4.41%) Amazon S3
8 6 (2.64%) GitHub
8 6 (2.64%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (2.20%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (2.20%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (2.20%) SaaS
10 4 (1.76%) Amazon ELB
10 4 (1.76%) Amazon SQS
10 4 (1.76%) GCP
10 4 (1.76%) OneDrive
10 4 (1.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 3 (1.32%) Serverless
12 2 (0.88%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 57 (25.11%) Firewall
2 50 (22.03%) DNS
3 41 (18.06%) DHCP
4 20 (8.81%) SAN
5 18 (7.93%) VPN
6 15 (6.61%) SNMP
7 14 (6.17%) Wireless
8 8 (3.52%) Internet
9 7 (3.08%) LAN
9 7 (3.08%) NAS
9 7 (3.08%) WAN
10 6 (2.64%) IPsec
10 6 (2.64%) TCP/IP
11 5 (2.20%) BGP
11 5 (2.20%) MQTT
12 4 (1.76%) Fibre Channel
12 4 (1.76%) iSCSI
12 4 (1.76%) Reverse Proxy
12 4 (1.76%) SSL
12 4 (1.76%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (7.93%) MySQL
1 18 (7.93%) Oracle Database
2 14 (6.17%) Oracle Database 10g
2 14 (6.17%) Oracle Database 11g
2 14 (6.17%) VLDB
3 10 (4.41%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (3.96%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (3.52%) Relational Database
6 6 (2.64%) GIS
6 6 (2.64%) SQL Server
7 5 (2.20%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (2.20%) MongoDB
7 5 (2.20%) RDBMS
8 4 (1.76%) NoSQL
8 4 (1.76%) QGIS
9 3 (1.32%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.88%) Big Data
10 2 (0.88%) Redis
11 1 (0.44%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.44%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 11 (4.85%) Jenkins
2 8 (3.52%) JIRA
3 5 (2.20%) Git
4 4 (1.76%) GitLab
5 2 (0.88%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.88%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.44%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.44%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.44%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.44%) Gradle
6 1 (0.44%) JUnit
6 1 (0.44%) SonarQube
General
1 63 (27.75%) Social Skills
2 25 (11.01%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (3.52%) Finance
4 6 (2.64%) Manufacturing
5 5 (2.20%) Aerospace
5 5 (2.20%) Public Sector
6 4 (1.76%) Electronics
7 3 (1.32%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.44%) Legal
8 1 (0.44%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 49 (21.59%) Software Engineer
2 48 (21.15%) Senior
3 36 (15.86%) Senior Software Engineer
4 28 (12.33%) Applications Support
5 23 (10.13%) Embedded Engineer
6 22 (9.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 21 (9.25%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 21 (9.25%) Senior Embedded Engineer
8 20 (8.81%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
9 19 (8.37%) DevOps Engineer
10 18 (7.93%) Active Directory Specialist
10 18 (7.93%) Active Directory Support
10 18 (7.93%) Azure Specialist
10 18 (7.93%) Support Engineer
10 18 (7.93%) Support Specialist
11 17 (7.49%) Analyst
12 14 (6.17%) Oracle Analyst
12 14 (6.17%) Oracle Support Analyst
12 14 (6.17%) SQL Analyst
12 14 (6.17%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (7.93%) ARM Templates
2 12 (5.29%) React
3 10 (4.41%) RabbitMQ
4 6 (2.64%) Django
4 6 (2.64%) OpenMP
5 5 (2.20%) CSS
5 5 (2.20%) Elastic Stack
5 5 (2.20%) HTML
5 5 (2.20%) Qt
5 5 (2.20%) YAML
6 4 (1.76%) GraphQL
6 4 (1.76%) gRPC
6 4 (1.76%) Knex.js
6 4 (1.76%) LAMP
6 4 (1.76%) LEMP Stack
6 4 (1.76%) OpenLayers
6 4 (1.76%) React Native
6 4 (1.76%) RESTful
6 4 (1.76%) Sequelize
6 4 (1.76%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 29 (12.78%) Algorithms
2 24 (10.57%) Self-Motivation
3 23 (10.13%) Data Centre
4 20 (8.81%) PKI
5 16 (7.05%) IoT
6 12 (5.29%) Linux Command Line
7 11 (4.85%) Product Ownership
8 10 (4.41%) CMDB
9 6 (2.64%) CUDA
9 6 (2.64%) Replication
10 5 (2.20%) Mobile App
11 4 (1.76%) Embedded Systems
11 4 (1.76%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (1.76%) Public Cloud
12 3 (1.32%) Arduino
12 3 (1.32%) NHS
12 3 (1.32%) Raspberry Pi
13 1 (0.44%) Device Driver
13 1 (0.44%) FPGA
13 1 (0.44%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 82 (36.12%) Windows
2 49 (21.59%) Windows Server
3 45 (19.82%) Unix
4 37 (16.30%) Windows Server 2016
5 35 (15.42%) Windows Server 2019
6 22 (9.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 21 (9.25%) Embedded Linux
8 17 (7.49%) Windows Server 2012
9 14 (6.17%) Solaris
10 13 (5.73%) Windows 10
11 12 (5.29%) Ubuntu
11 12 (5.29%) Windows XP
12 10 (4.41%) CentOS
13 5 (2.20%) Data ONTAP
13 5 (2.20%) VMS
14 3 (1.32%) Debian
14 3 (1.32%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (26.43%) Agile
2 56 (24.67%) DevOps
2 56 (24.67%) Software Engineering
3 41 (18.06%) Release Management
4 38 (16.74%) CI/CD
4 38 (16.74%) Problem-Solving
5 35 (15.42%) Software Testing
6 34 (14.98%) ITIL
7 31 (13.66%) Mathematics
7 31 (13.66%) Physics
8 30 (13.22%) Actionable Insight
9 28 (12.33%) Computer Science
9 28 (12.33%) Open Source
10 27 (11.89%) Performance Monitoring
10 27 (11.89%) Performance Tuning
11 23 (10.13%) SDLC
12 22 (9.69%) Analytics
12 22 (9.69%) Configuration Management
12 22 (9.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 21 (9.25%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 67 (29.52%) Python
2 43 (18.94%) SQL
3 39 (17.18%) PowerShell
4 38 (16.74%) Bash
5 29 (12.78%) C
5 29 (12.78%) C++
6 28 (12.33%) Fortran
7 23 (10.13%) PL/SQL
8 21 (9.25%) C#
9 18 (7.93%) Bicep
9 18 (7.93%) VB
9 18 (7.93%) VBScript
10 14 (6.17%) JavaScript
11 11 (4.85%) Java
12 9 (3.96%) Groovy
13 7 (3.08%) Perl
14 5 (2.20%) Embedded C
15 4 (1.76%) Go
15 4 (1.76%) R
15 4 (1.76%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 131 (57.71%) Security Cleared
2 93 (40.97%) Degree
3 81 (35.68%) SC Cleared
4 52 (22.91%) DV Cleared
5 28 (12.33%) PhD
6 23 (10.13%) Master's Degree
7 18 (7.93%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 15 (6.61%) CCNA
8 15 (6.61%) Cisco Certification
9 12 (5.29%) AWS Certification
9 12 (5.29%) CCNP
10 8 (3.52%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (1.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (1.76%) Azure Certification
12 3 (1.32%) MCSE
12 3 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.44%) MCP
13 1 (0.44%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.61%) SLA
2 2 (0.88%) QA
3 1 (0.44%) GDPR
3 1 (0.44%) NIST
System Software
1 50 (22.03%) Active Directory
2 33 (14.54%) Docker
3 27 (11.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (7.93%) Virtual Desktop
4 18 (7.93%) Virtual Machines
5 14 (6.17%) Oracle RAC
6 13 (5.73%) Hyper-V
6 13 (5.73%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (2.64%) vSphere
8 2 (0.88%) KVM
8 2 (0.88%) QEMU
8 2 (0.88%) Xen
Systems Management
1 52 (22.91%) Kubernetes
2 40 (17.62%) SCOM
3 34 (14.98%) SCCM
4 31 (13.66%) WSUS
5 24 (10.57%) Ansible
6 22 (9.69%) Microsoft Intune
7 20 (8.81%) Terraform
8 19 (8.37%) vCenter Server
9 18 (7.93%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 14 (6.17%) Data Guard
10 14 (6.17%) NetBackup
10 14 (6.17%) Oracle RMAN
11 12 (5.29%) EMC NetWorker
12 8 (3.52%) Rancher
13 5 (2.20%) Prometheus
14 4 (1.76%) Kibana
15 2 (0.88%) Kustomize
16 1 (0.44%) Grafana
16 1 (0.44%) Packer
16 1 (0.44%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 87 (38.33%) Microsoft
2 36 (15.86%) VMware
3 32 (14.10%) Oracle
4 21 (9.25%) Palo Alto
5 16 (7.05%) Dell
5 16 (7.05%) Red Hat
5 16 (7.05%) Veeam
6 15 (6.61%) Cisco
7 14 (6.17%) Remedy
7 14 (6.17%) Sun
8 13 (5.73%) 3PAR
8 13 (5.73%) HP
8 13 (5.73%) Juniper
9 12 (5.29%) EMC
9 12 (5.29%) Extreme Networks
9 12 (5.29%) Symantec
10 10 (4.41%) Dynatrace
11 5 (2.20%) NetApp
11 5 (2.20%) SolidFire
12 4 (1.76%) Sparx