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

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 28 25 14
Rank change year-on-year -3 -11 +15
Permanent jobs citing Linux 225 266 419
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 6.78% 9.06% 11.33%
As % of the Operating Systems category 47.97% 47.93% 58.77%
Number of salaries quoted 166 165 270
10th Percentile £37,500 £29,175 £35,875
25th Percentile £41,313 £42,500 £49,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £70,000 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year -15.71% +19.15% -2.08%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £89,000 £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 469 555 713
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 14.12% 18.90% 19.28%
Number of salaries quoted 370 323 504
10th Percentile £26,700 £24,500 £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 £70,313
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 9 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 9 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 +3 153 £59,000 -9.23% 29
Bracknell 0 23 £42,500 -42.95% 5
Wokingham +4 7 £72,500 +20.83% 3
Slough +1 6 £52,500 +82.21% 4
Thatcham - 4 £50,000 - 3
Newbury -7 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 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (7.56%) WebLogic
3 13 (5.78%) IIS
3 13 (5.78%) Oracle Service Bus
4 9 (4.00%) nginx
5 7 (3.11%) Apache
6 4 (1.78%) SharePoint
6 4 (1.78%) WordPress
7 3 (1.33%) ArcGIS
7 3 (1.33%) Confluence
7 3 (1.33%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.44%) CMS
8 1 (0.44%) Tomcat
Applications
1 14 (6.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (5.78%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (5.78%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 13 (5.78%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (1.78%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 79 (35.11%) Azure
2 33 (14.67%) AWS
3 28 (12.44%) Microsoft 365
4 19 (8.44%) Azure Monitor
5 18 (8.00%) Azure Storage
5 18 (8.00%) Entra ID
6 12 (5.33%) OCI
7 10 (4.44%) Amazon S3
8 6 (2.67%) GitHub
8 6 (2.67%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (2.22%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (2.22%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (2.22%) SaaS
10 4 (1.78%) Amazon ELB
10 4 (1.78%) Amazon SQS
10 4 (1.78%) GCP
10 4 (1.78%) OneDrive
10 4 (1.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 3 (1.33%) Serverless
12 2 (0.89%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 56 (24.89%) Firewall
2 49 (21.78%) DNS
3 40 (17.78%) DHCP
4 20 (8.89%) SAN
5 18 (8.00%) VPN
6 14 (6.22%) SNMP
6 14 (6.22%) Wireless
7 8 (3.56%) Internet
8 7 (3.11%) LAN
8 7 (3.11%) NAS
8 7 (3.11%) WAN
9 6 (2.67%) IPsec
9 6 (2.67%) TCP/IP
10 5 (2.22%) BGP
10 5 (2.22%) MQTT
11 4 (1.78%) Fibre Channel
11 4 (1.78%) iSCSI
11 4 (1.78%) Reverse Proxy
11 4 (1.78%) SSL
11 4 (1.78%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (8.00%) MySQL
2 17 (7.56%) Oracle Database
3 13 (5.78%) Oracle Database 10g
3 13 (5.78%) Oracle Database 11g
3 13 (5.78%) VLDB
4 9 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (3.56%) Relational Database
6 6 (2.67%) SQL Server
7 5 (2.22%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (2.22%) GIS
7 5 (2.22%) MongoDB
7 5 (2.22%) RDBMS
8 4 (1.78%) NoSQL
9 3 (1.33%) Hadoop
9 3 (1.33%) QGIS
10 2 (0.89%) Big Data
10 2 (0.89%) Redis
11 1 (0.44%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.44%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 11 (4.89%) Jenkins
2 8 (3.56%) JIRA
3 5 (2.22%) Git
4 4 (1.78%) GitLab
5 2 (0.89%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.89%) 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 64 (28.44%) Social Skills
2 25 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (3.56%) Finance
4 6 (2.67%) Manufacturing
5 5 (2.22%) Aerospace
5 5 (2.22%) Public Sector
6 4 (1.78%) Electronics
7 3 (1.33%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.44%) Legal
8 1 (0.44%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 52 (23.11%) Software Engineer
2 48 (21.33%) Senior
3 36 (16.00%) Senior Software Engineer
4 27 (12.00%) Applications Support
5 24 (10.67%) Embedded Engineer
6 22 (9.78%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 22 (9.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 21 (9.33%) Senior Embedded Engineer
8 20 (8.89%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
9 18 (8.00%) Active Directory Specialist
9 18 (8.00%) Active Directory Support
9 18 (8.00%) Azure Specialist
9 18 (8.00%) Support Engineer
9 18 (8.00%) Support Specialist
10 17 (7.56%) DevOps Engineer
11 16 (7.11%) Analyst
12 13 (5.78%) Applications Support Analyst
12 13 (5.78%) Oracle Analyst
12 13 (5.78%) Oracle Support Analyst
12 13 (5.78%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (8.00%) ARM Templates
2 11 (4.89%) React
3 10 (4.44%) RabbitMQ
4 6 (2.67%) OpenMP
5 5 (2.22%) CSS
5 5 (2.22%) Django
5 5 (2.22%) Elastic Stack
5 5 (2.22%) HTML
5 5 (2.22%) Qt
5 5 (2.22%) YAML
6 4 (1.78%) GraphQL
6 4 (1.78%) gRPC
6 4 (1.78%) Knex.js
6 4 (1.78%) LEMP Stack
6 4 (1.78%) Node.js
6 4 (1.78%) React Native
6 4 (1.78%) RESTful
6 4 (1.78%) Sequelize
6 4 (1.78%) Spring Boot
6 4 (1.78%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 32 (14.22%) Algorithms
2 24 (10.67%) Self-Motivation
3 23 (10.22%) Data Centre
4 20 (8.89%) PKI
5 16 (7.11%) IoT
6 12 (5.33%) Linux Command Line
7 11 (4.89%) Product Ownership
8 9 (4.00%) CMDB
9 6 (2.67%) CUDA
9 6 (2.67%) Replication
10 5 (2.22%) Embedded Systems
10 5 (2.22%) Mobile App
11 4 (1.78%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (1.78%) Public Cloud
12 3 (1.33%) Arduino
12 3 (1.33%) NHS
12 3 (1.33%) Raspberry Pi
13 1 (0.44%) Device Driver
13 1 (0.44%) FPGA
13 1 (0.44%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 81 (36.00%) Windows
2 48 (21.33%) Windows Server
3 46 (20.44%) Unix
4 37 (16.44%) Windows Server 2016
5 35 (15.56%) Windows Server 2019
6 21 (9.33%) Embedded Linux
7 20 (8.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 17 (7.56%) Windows Server 2012
9 13 (5.78%) Solaris
9 13 (5.78%) Windows 10
10 12 (5.33%) Windows XP
11 11 (4.89%) Ubuntu
12 8 (3.56%) CentOS
13 5 (2.22%) Data ONTAP
13 5 (2.22%) VMS
14 3 (1.33%) Debian
14 3 (1.33%) Mac OS
15 1 (0.44%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (26.22%) Software Engineering
2 58 (25.78%) Agile
3 53 (23.56%) DevOps
4 40 (17.78%) Release Management
5 38 (16.89%) CI/CD
5 38 (16.89%) Problem-Solving
6 37 (16.44%) Software Testing
7 34 (15.11%) ITIL
8 33 (14.67%) Mathematics
8 33 (14.67%) Physics
9 31 (13.78%) Computer Science
10 30 (13.33%) Open Source
11 28 (12.44%) Actionable Insight
12 26 (11.56%) Performance Monitoring
12 26 (11.56%) Performance Tuning
13 25 (11.11%) SDLC
14 22 (9.78%) Analytics
14 22 (9.78%) Configuration Management
14 22 (9.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 21 (9.33%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 69 (30.67%) Python
2 41 (18.22%) Bash
2 41 (18.22%) SQL
3 39 (17.33%) PowerShell
4 33 (14.67%) C++
5 32 (14.22%) C
6 30 (13.33%) Fortran
7 22 (9.78%) PL/SQL
8 21 (9.33%) C#
9 18 (8.00%) Bicep
9 18 (8.00%) VB
9 18 (8.00%) VBScript
10 13 (5.78%) JavaScript
11 11 (4.89%) Java
12 9 (4.00%) Groovy
13 7 (3.11%) Perl
14 6 (2.67%) Embedded C
15 4 (1.78%) Go
15 4 (1.78%) R
15 4 (1.78%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 128 (56.89%) Security Cleared
2 95 (42.22%) Degree
3 74 (32.89%) SC Cleared
4 49 (21.78%) DV Cleared
5 30 (13.33%) PhD
6 25 (11.11%) Master's Degree
7 18 (8.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 15 (6.67%) CCNA
8 15 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
9 12 (5.33%) AWS Certification
9 12 (5.33%) CCNP
10 9 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (1.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (1.78%) Azure Certification
12 3 (1.33%) MCSE
12 3 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.44%) HND
13 1 (0.44%) MCP
13 1 (0.44%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.22%) SLA
2 2 (0.89%) QA
3 1 (0.44%) GDPR
3 1 (0.44%) NIST
System Software
1 49 (21.78%) Active Directory
2 33 (14.67%) Docker
3 27 (12.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (8.00%) Virtual Desktop
4 18 (8.00%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (5.78%) Hyper-V
5 13 (5.78%) Oracle RAC
5 13 (5.78%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (2.67%) vSphere
7 2 (0.89%) KVM
7 2 (0.89%) QEMU
7 2 (0.89%) Xen
Systems Management
1 50 (22.22%) Kubernetes
2 39 (17.33%) SCOM
3 34 (15.11%) SCCM
4 31 (13.78%) WSUS
5 22 (9.78%) Microsoft Intune
6 20 (8.89%) Ansible
7 19 (8.44%) vCenter Server
8 18 (8.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 18 (8.00%) Terraform
9 14 (6.22%) NetBackup
10 13 (5.78%) Data Guard
10 13 (5.78%) Oracle RMAN
11 12 (5.33%) EMC NetWorker
12 6 (2.67%) Rancher
13 5 (2.22%) Prometheus
14 4 (1.78%) Kibana
15 2 (0.89%) Kustomize
16 1 (0.44%) Grafana
16 1 (0.44%) Packer
16 1 (0.44%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 89 (39.56%) Microsoft
2 36 (16.00%) VMware
3 31 (13.78%) Oracle
4 21 (9.33%) Palo Alto
5 16 (7.11%) Dell
5 16 (7.11%) Red Hat
5 16 (7.11%) Veeam
6 15 (6.67%) Cisco
7 13 (5.78%) 3PAR
7 13 (5.78%) HP
7 13 (5.78%) Juniper
7 13 (5.78%) Remedy
7 13 (5.78%) Sun
8 12 (5.33%) EMC
8 12 (5.33%) Extreme Networks
8 12 (5.33%) Symantec
9 9 (4.00%) Dynatrace
10 5 (2.22%) NetApp
10 5 (2.22%) SolidFire
11 4 (1.78%) ProCurve