Linux Contracts in the North East

Linux
England > North East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North East with a requirement for Linux skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Linux over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 24 26 32
Rank change year-on-year +2 +6 -7
Contract jobs citing Linux 13 34 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 3.81% 8.04% 5.35%
As % of the Operating Systems category 30.95% 40.96% 27.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 28 17
10th Percentile £417 £500 £370
25th Percentile £431 £509 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £675 £500
Median % change year-on-year -18.52% +35.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £725 £650
90th Percentile £630 £759 £693
England median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +15.00%

All Operating Systems
North East

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 42 83 100
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 12.32% 19.62% 19.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 64 73
10th Percentile £146 £205 £122
25th Percentile £190 £231 £145
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £525 £275
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% +90.91% -31.25%
75th Percentile £550 £747 £485
90th Percentile £650 £775 £575
England median daily rate £463 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -10.11% +2.90% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 6
10th Percentile - - £12.00
25th Percentile £16.25 £31.25 £13.12
Median hourly rate £17.50 £32.50 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -46.15% +116.67% +1.57%
75th Percentile £18.75 £33.75 £16.51
90th Percentile - - £16.84
England median hourly rate £22.00 £35.06 £21.50
% change year-on-year -37.24% +63.05% +20.21%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Job postings citing Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Job vacancy trend for Linux in the North East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Linux in the North East.

Daily rate trend for Linux in the North East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in the North East over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in the North East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Linux in the North East.

Hourly rate trend for Linux in the North East

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Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the North East region over the 6 months to 26 April 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Tyne and Wear +5 13 £550 -15.38% 7
Linux
England

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 4 (30.77%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 4 (30.77%) AWS
2 3 (23.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 3 (23.08%) Azure
3 2 (15.38%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (30.77%) 5G
1 4 (30.77%) Diameter Protocol
1 4 (30.77%) LTE
2 3 (23.08%) AMQP
2 3 (23.08%) Firewall
2 3 (23.08%) MQTT
3 2 (15.38%) DMZ
3 2 (15.38%) Modbus
3 2 (15.38%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (38.46%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (30.77%) MySQL
3 2 (15.38%) Tableau
4 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (30.77%) GitLab
2 1 (7.69%) Gradle
2 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.69%) Liquibase
2 1 (7.69%) SonarQube
2 1 (7.69%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (23.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (15.38%) Manufacturing
3 1 (7.69%) Legal
3 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (23.08%) DevOps Engineer
1 3 (23.08%) Operations Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Build Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Linux Build Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Linux Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Linux Server Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Penetration Tester
2 2 (15.38%) Server Build Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Server Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Tester
2 2 (15.38%) Windows Build Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Windows Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Windows Server Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) 3rd Line Support
3 1 (7.69%) Applications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (61.54%) JSON
2 4 (30.77%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (30.77%) Web Services
3 3 (23.08%) Apache NiFi
3 3 (23.08%) XML
3 3 (23.08%) XSLT
4 1 (7.69%) jQuery
4 1 (7.69%) Keycloak
4 1 (7.69%) Middleware
4 1 (7.69%) Node.js
4 1 (7.69%) RESTful
4 1 (7.69%) SOAP
4 1 (7.69%) Spring
4 1 (7.69%) Spring Boot
4 1 (7.69%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Legacy Systems
1 3 (23.08%) PKI
2 2 (15.38%) IoT
2 2 (15.38%) Mobile App
2 2 (15.38%) Operational Technology
3 1 (7.69%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (7.69%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 6 (46.15%) Windows
2 4 (30.77%) Oracle Linux
2 4 (30.77%) Windows Server
3 3 (23.08%) Unix
4 1 (7.69%) Ubuntu
4 1 (7.69%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (30.77%) CI/CD
2 3 (23.08%) Agile
2 3 (23.08%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (23.08%) CRUD
2 3 (23.08%) DevOps
2 3 (23.08%) Migration
2 3 (23.08%) Scrum
3 2 (15.38%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (15.38%) Data Analysis
3 2 (15.38%) Data Engineering
3 2 (15.38%) Data Visualisation
3 2 (15.38%) Ethical Hacking
3 2 (15.38%) Penetration Testing
3 2 (15.38%) Performance Management
3 2 (15.38%) Red Team
3 2 (15.38%) Reverse Engineering
3 2 (15.38%) Security Management
3 2 (15.38%) Server Building
3 2 (15.38%) Use Case
3 2 (15.38%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) JavaScript
1 4 (30.77%) Python
1 4 (30.77%) Shell Script
2 3 (23.08%) SQL
3 2 (15.38%) C++
3 2 (15.38%) PowerShell
4 1 (7.69%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 2 (15.38%) CEH
2 2 (15.38%) CREST Certified
2 2 (15.38%) GIAC
2 2 (15.38%) GPEN
2 2 (15.38%) OSCP
2 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) Degree
3 1 (7.69%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (61.54%) Docker
2 3 (23.08%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (69.23%) Grafana
2 8 (61.54%) Ansible
3 7 (53.85%) Prometheus
3 7 (53.85%) Terraform
4 4 (30.77%) Kubernetes
4 4 (30.77%) yum
5 1 (7.69%) Anchore
5 1 (7.69%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (7.69%) Kibana
5 1 (7.69%) Packer
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Oracle
2 3 (23.08%) PagerDuty
3 2 (15.38%) Microsoft