Linux Contract Job Trends in Newcastle upon Tyne

Linux
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne requiring Linux skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 27 15
Rank change year-on-year -30 -12 +6
Contract jobs citing Linux 22 6 13
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 3.41% 2.84% 7.98%
As % of the Operating Systems category 45.83% 26.09% 59.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 3 4
10th Percentile - £385 £451
25th Percentile £400 £456 £515
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -22.78% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £489 - £613
90th Percentile £526 - £635
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £463 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -19.57% +4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £50.00 - -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £50.00 - -

All Operating Systems
Newcastle upon Tyne

Linux falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring operating system skills in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 48 23 22
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 7.44% 10.90% 13.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 13 11
10th Percentile £187 £200 £188
25th Percentile £381 £250 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £340 £475
Median % change year-on-year +32.35% -28.42% +8.57%
75th Percentile £475 £500 £525
90th Percentile £526 £575 £600
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £438 £340 £463
% change year-on-year +28.75% -26.49% +15.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £14.00 - -
Median hourly rate £26.66 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £40.66 - -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £17.39 - -

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Linux relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Linux job vacancy trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Linux
Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Linux.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Linux

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in Newcastle upon Tyne

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in Newcastle upon Tyne over the 6 months to 12 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in Newcastle upon Tyne

Linux
Hourly Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Linux.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Linux

Linux
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (9.09%) Apache
1 2 (9.09%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (9.09%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 2 (9.09%) WebLogic
2 1 (4.55%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (4.55%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 12 (54.55%) AWS
2 5 (22.73%) Azure
3 4 (18.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 4 (18.18%) GitHub
3 4 (18.18%) OCI
4 3 (13.64%) Amazon ECS
4 3 (13.64%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (13.64%) Serverless
4 3 (13.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (9.09%) Amazon S3
5 2 (9.09%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (9.09%) Power Platform
6 1 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (4.55%) Azure Pipelines
6 1 (4.55%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.09%) DNS
1 2 (9.09%) HTTP
1 2 (9.09%) SSL
1 2 (9.09%) TCP/IP
2 1 (4.55%) Network Security
2 1 (4.55%) Software-Defined Radio
2 1 (4.55%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (31.82%) Oracle Database
2 4 (18.18%) Oracle Exadata
2 4 (18.18%) RDBMS
2 4 (18.18%) Relational Database
3 2 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (9.09%) DynamoDB
3 2 (9.09%) MongoDB
3 2 (9.09%) Power BI
4 1 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (4.55%) PowerCenter
4 1 (4.55%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 9 (40.91%) GitLab
2 5 (22.73%) Git
3 2 (9.09%) Jenkins
3 2 (9.09%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (4.55%) IntelliJ
4 1 (4.55%) JIRA
4 1 (4.55%) Mockito
4 1 (4.55%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 9 (40.91%) Public Sector
2 5 (22.73%) Social Skills
3 3 (13.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (31.82%) Senior
2 6 (27.27%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) AWS DevOps
3 4 (18.18%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) AWS Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) Developer
3 4 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) Data Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Analyst
5 2 (9.09%) Data Analyst
5 2 (9.09%) Java Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Administrator
6 1 (4.55%) Architect
6 1 (4.55%) DBA
6 1 (4.55%) Lead Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Oracle DBA
6 1 (4.55%) Senior Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Senior Manager
6 1 (4.55%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (45.45%) Terraform
2 4 (18.18%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 2 (9.09%) cloud-init
3 2 (9.09%) Kafka
3 2 (9.09%) Middleware
3 2 (9.09%) OpenID
3 2 (9.09%) REST
3 2 (9.09%) SAML
3 2 (9.09%) SOAP
4 1 (4.55%) ActiveMQ
4 1 (4.55%) JAX-RS
4 1 (4.55%) Play Framework
4 1 (4.55%) React
4 1 (4.55%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) Public Cloud
2 2 (9.09%) Operational Technology
2 2 (9.09%) SCADA
3 1 (4.55%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.55%) Data Structures
3 1 (4.55%) Device Driver
3 1 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.55%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.55%) MicroBlaze
3 1 (4.55%) PKI
3 1 (4.55%) RISC-V
3 1 (4.55%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 9 (40.91%) Unix
2 4 (18.18%) AIX
3 2 (9.09%) Ubuntu
3 2 (9.09%) Windows
4 1 (4.55%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (4.55%) Mac OS
4 1 (4.55%) Mac OS X
4 1 (4.55%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
4 1 (4.55%) VMS
4 1 (4.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (40.91%) Migration
2 8 (36.36%) Infrastructure as Code
3 7 (31.82%) Agile
4 6 (27.27%) CI/CD
4 6 (27.27%) DevOps
5 5 (22.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 4 (18.18%) Configuration Management
6 4 (18.18%) Data Migration
6 4 (18.18%) Microservices
6 4 (18.18%) Test Automation
7 3 (13.64%) AI
7 3 (13.64%) Containerisation
7 3 (13.64%) Data Pipeline
7 3 (13.64%) High Availability
7 3 (13.64%) Observability
7 3 (13.64%) Performance Tuning
7 3 (13.64%) Release Management
7 3 (13.64%) Root Cause Analysis
7 3 (13.64%) TDD
8 2 (9.09%) Knowledge Transfer
Programming Languages
1 6 (27.27%) Python
2 4 (18.18%) Bash
3 3 (13.64%) Shell Script
3 3 (13.64%) SQL
4 2 (9.09%) Go
4 2 (9.09%) Groovy
4 2 (9.09%) Java
5 1 (4.55%) C
5 1 (4.55%) C++
5 1 (4.55%) PL/SQL
5 1 (4.55%) Scala
Qualifications
1 14 (63.64%) Security Cleared
2 11 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (18.18%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) Accessibility
1 1 (4.55%) Data Quality
1 1 (4.55%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (18.18%) Docker
1 4 (18.18%) Oracle RAC
2 2 (9.09%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (4.55%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (4.55%) Firmware
3 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 1 (4.55%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (4.55%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 8 (36.36%) Ansible
2 6 (27.27%) Data Guard
2 6 (27.27%) Kubernetes
2 6 (27.27%) Oracle RMAN
3 4 (18.18%) Grafana
3 4 (18.18%) Prometheus
4 2 (9.09%) Consul
4 2 (9.09%) Packer
4 2 (9.09%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (9.09%) VxRail
4 2 (9.09%) ZABBIX
5 1 (4.55%) Control-M
5 1 (4.55%) McAfee ePO
5 1 (4.55%) Nessus
Vendors
1 7 (31.82%) Oracle
2 2 (9.09%) Databricks
2 2 (9.09%) Dell
2 2 (9.09%) Dynatrace
2 2 (9.09%) Fortinet
2 2 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.09%) Splunk
2 2 (9.09%) VMware
3 1 (4.55%) Carbon Black
3 1 (4.55%) Informatica
3 1 (4.55%) McAfee
3 1 (4.55%) Tenable