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 20 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 20 25
Rank change year-on-year -13 +5 -16
Contract jobs citing Linux 7 9 2
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 2.89% 5.14% 1.31%
As % of the Operating Systems category 24.14% 37.50% 10.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 1
10th Percentile £386 £414 -
25th Percentile £459 £420 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £432 £475
Median % change year-on-year +24.57% -9.16% -13.64%
75th Percentile £575 £443 -
90th Percentile - £450 -
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £538 £409 £475
% change year-on-year +31.42% -13.89% -13.64%

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 29 24 19
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 11.98% 13.71% 12.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 10 12
10th Percentile £103 £135 £141
25th Percentile £170 £159 £158
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £323 £275
Median % change year-on-year -37.98% +17.27% -50.00%
75th Percentile £466 £385 £425
90th Percentile £523 £414 £470
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £200 £325 £350
% change year-on-year -38.46% -7.14% -33.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £21.25 - £15.50
Median hourly rate £22.50 - £16.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +30.61%
75th Percentile £23.75 - £16.50
90th Percentile - - -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £22.50 - £16.00
% change year-on-year - - +30.61%

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 20 October 2025.

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 3 (42.86%) Documentum
2 2 (28.57%) FileNet
3 1 (14.29%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon SQS
2 2 (28.57%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) GitLab
1 3 (42.86%) Mockito
General
1 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Developer
2 3 (42.86%) Java Developer
2 3 (42.86%) Senior
2 3 (42.86%) Senior Developer
2 3 (42.86%) Senior Java Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Documentum Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Lead
4 1 (14.29%) Software Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) ActiveMQ
1 3 (42.86%) JAX-RS
1 3 (42.86%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Unix
2 3 (42.86%) Mac OS X
2 3 (42.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (14.29%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Agile
2 4 (57.14%) Continuous Deployment
2 4 (57.14%) Test Automation
3 3 (42.86%) BDD
3 3 (42.86%) Content Management
3 3 (42.86%) Microservices
3 3 (42.86%) Pair Programming
3 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (42.86%) Responsive Web Design
3 3 (42.86%) TDD
3 3 (42.86%) Web Design
3 3 (42.86%) Web Development
4 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
5 1 (14.29%) API Design
5 1 (14.29%) Case Management
5 1 (14.29%) Configuration Management
5 1 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (14.29%) Migration
5 1 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
5 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Java
2 3 (42.86%) Rust
3 1 (14.29%) Bash
3 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Ansible
1 3 (42.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) OpenText