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 17 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
17 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 24 16
Rank change year-on-year -24 -8 +5
Contract jobs citing Linux 18 6 12
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 3.06% 2.82% 6.90%
As % of the Operating Systems category 47.37% 28.57% 52.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 4 3
10th Percentile - £342 £560
25th Percentile £400 £366 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £446 £478 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% -20.42% +14.29%
75th Percentile £528 £575 £625
90th Percentile £537 - £640
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £446 £478 £600
% change year-on-year -6.54% -20.42% +14.29%
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 38 21 23
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 6.45% 9.86% 13.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 17 12
10th Percentile £253 £200 -
25th Percentile £400 £250 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £350 £475
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% -26.32% -20.83%
75th Percentile £507 £500 £563
90th Percentile £545 £575 £634
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £340 £463
% change year-on-year +32.35% -26.49% -11.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £16.25
Median hourly rate £26.66 - £17.50
75th Percentile £38.33 - £18.75
90th Percentile £45.33 - -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £17.39 - £17.50

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in Newcastle upon Tyne

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in Newcastle upon Tyne over the 6 months to 17 July 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 (11.11%) Apache
1 2 (11.11%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (11.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 2 (11.11%) WebLogic
2 1 (5.56%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (5.56%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 11 (61.11%) AWS
2 6 (33.33%) Azure
3 4 (22.22%) OCI
4 3 (16.67%) GitHub
5 2 (11.11%) Power Platform
6 1 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (5.56%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (5.56%) Amazon S3
6 1 (5.56%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (5.56%) Azure AKS
6 1 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (5.56%) Serverless
6 1 (5.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) DNS
1 1 (5.56%) HTTP
1 1 (5.56%) Software-Defined Radio
1 1 (5.56%) SSL
1 1 (5.56%) TCP/IP
1 1 (5.56%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (44.44%) Oracle Database
2 4 (22.22%) Oracle Exadata
2 4 (22.22%) RDBMS
2 4 (22.22%) Relational Database
3 2 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (11.11%) DynamoDB
3 2 (11.11%) MongoDB
3 2 (11.11%) Power BI
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (5.56%) PowerCenter
4 1 (5.56%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 9 (50.00%) GitLab
2 3 (16.67%) Git
3 2 (11.11%) Jenkins
4 1 (5.56%) Mockito
4 1 (5.56%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (22.22%) Public Sector
2 2 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (5.56%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (38.89%) Senior
2 5 (27.78%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) Developer
3 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) Data Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Analyst
5 2 (11.11%) AWS DevOps
5 2 (11.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Data Analyst
5 2 (11.11%) Java Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Senior DevOps
5 2 (11.11%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Administrator
6 1 (5.56%) C++ Developer
6 1 (5.56%) DBA
6 1 (5.56%) Oracle DBA
6 1 (5.56%) Oracle Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (22.22%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 2 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (11.11%) Middleware
2 2 (11.11%) REST
2 2 (11.11%) SOAP
3 1 (5.56%) ActiveMQ
3 1 (5.56%) cloud-init
3 1 (5.56%) JAX-RS
3 1 (5.56%) Kafka
3 1 (5.56%) OpenID
3 1 (5.56%) SAML
3 1 (5.56%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Public Cloud
2 2 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (5.56%) Data Structures
3 1 (5.56%) Device Driver
3 1 (5.56%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (5.56%) MicroBlaze
3 1 (5.56%) RISC-V
Operating Systems
1 7 (38.89%) Unix
2 4 (22.22%) AIX
3 2 (11.11%) Ubuntu
4 1 (5.56%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (5.56%) Mac OS X
4 1 (5.56%) VMS
4 1 (5.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) Migration
2 6 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (27.78%) DevOps
4 4 (22.22%) Agile
4 4 (22.22%) Data Migration
4 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 4 (22.22%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (16.67%) CI/CD
5 3 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
5 3 (16.67%) Observability
5 3 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (16.67%) Test Automation
6 2 (11.11%) AI
6 2 (11.11%) BDD
6 2 (11.11%) Coaching
6 2 (11.11%) High Availability
6 2 (11.11%) Mentoring
6 2 (11.11%) Microservices
6 2 (11.11%) Pair Programming
6 2 (11.11%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 5 (27.78%) Bash
1 5 (27.78%) Python
2 4 (22.22%) SQL
3 2 (11.11%) C
3 2 (11.11%) Java
3 2 (11.11%) PL/SQL
3 2 (11.11%) Shell Script
4 1 (5.56%) C++
4 1 (5.56%) Go
4 1 (5.56%) Groovy
4 1 (5.56%) ProC
Qualifications
1 11 (61.11%) Security Cleared
2 8 (44.44%) SC Cleared
3 2 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (22.22%) Oracle RAC
2 3 (16.67%) Docker
3 1 (5.56%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (5.56%) Firmware
3 1 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (50.00%) Terraform
2 7 (38.89%) Ansible
3 6 (33.33%) Data Guard
3 6 (33.33%) Oracle RMAN
4 5 (27.78%) Kubernetes
5 3 (16.67%) Packer
6 1 (5.56%) Consul
6 1 (5.56%) Control-M
6 1 (5.56%) Grafana
6 1 (5.56%) Prometheus
6 1 (5.56%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (5.56%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 8 (44.44%) Oracle
2 3 (16.67%) Dynatrace
3 2 (11.11%) Databricks
4 1 (5.56%) Informatica
4 1 (5.56%) Splunk
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