Linux Contracts in Newcastle upon Tyne

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne with a requirement for Linux skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Linux over the 3 months to 27 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Linux Tyne and Wear / Newcastle upon Tyne
Location	3 months to 27 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	7	9	12
Rank change year-on-year	+2	+3
Contract jobs citing Linux	52	251	56
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne	14.90%	18.55%	9.84%
As % of the Operating Systems category	53.06%	38.20%	32.94%
Number of daily rates quoted	45	172	35
Median daily rate	£350	£310	£338
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+12.90%	-8.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£310	£230	£250
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£475	£450	£470
UK excluding London median daily rate	£425	£400	£375
% change year-on-year	+6.25%	+6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted	1	6	1
Median hourly rate	£55.00	£27.00	£42.50
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+103.70%	-36.47%
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£40.00	£40.00	£37.50
% change year-on-year	-	+6.66%

Linux is in the operating system skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract Operating System Skills Newcastle upon Tyne
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills	98	657	170
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne	28.08%	48.56%	29.88%
Number of daily rates quoted	74	430	97
Median daily rate	£330	£280	£295
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+17.85%	-5.08%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£198	£218	£125
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£450	£385	£500
UK excluding London median daily rate	£375	£363	£350
% change year-on-year	+3.44%	+3.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted	9	45	20
Median hourly rate	£14.00	£28.00	£13.50
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-50.00%	+107.40%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£9.50	£20.00	£11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£55.00	£37.00	£39.35
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£15.50	£17.50	£16.50
% change year-on-year	-11.42%	+6.06%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

The job posting trend of jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Linux as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the Operating Systems category.

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Newcastle upon Tyne

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing Linux in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Contractor daily rate trend for Linux in Newcastle upon Tyne

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Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in Newcastle upon Tyne

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Linux in Newcastle upon Tyne over the 3 months to 27 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for Linux in Newcastle upon Tyne

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Contractor hourly rate trend for Linux in Newcastle upon Tyne

Linux
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in Newcastle upon Tyne

For the 6 months to 27 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing Linux also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads across the Newcastle upon Tyne region with a requirement for Linux.

1	67 (43.79%)	Agile Software Development
2	64 (41.83%)	Git (software)
3	63 (41.18%)	Security Cleared
3	63 (41.18%)	DevOps
4	62 (40.52%)	Unix
5	60 (39.22%)	Windows
6	57 (37.25%)	Oracle
6	57 (37.25%)	Jenkins
7	55 (35.95%)	Red Hat
8	54 (35.29%)	SC Cleared
9	47 (30.72%)	Continuous Integration
9	47 (30.72%)	Configuration Management
10	45 (29.41%)	WebLogic
11	44 (28.76%)	JIRA
12	43 (28.10%)	Microsoft Azure

12	43 (28.10%)	HP
13	42 (27.45%)	Open Source
14	40 (26.14%)	Confluence
15	39 (25.49%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15	39 (25.49%)	Spring
16	36 (23.53%)	Ruby
16	36 (23.53%)	Scala
17	35 (22.88%)	Solaris
17	35 (22.88%)	Java
18	34 (22.22%)	AIX
18	34 (22.22%)	Cisco
18	34 (22.22%)	Ansible
18	34 (22.22%)	Windows Server
19	33 (21.57%)	Sonatype Nexus
20	32 (20.92%)	Amazon AWS

Linux
Co-occurring IT Skills in Newcastle upon Tyne by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	45 (29.41%)	WebLogic
2	40 (26.14%)	Confluence
3	16 (10.46%)	JBoss
4	14 (9.15%)	Apache
4	14 (9.15%)	iPlanet
4	14 (9.15%)	Tomcat
5	13 (8.50%)	Oracle Application Server
6	4 (2.61%)	BizTalk Server
6	4 (2.61%)	MQSeries
6	4 (2.61%)	OpenStack
6	4 (2.61%)	SharePoint
7	3 (1.96%)	WebLogic Portal
7	3 (1.96%)	WebSphere
8	2 (1.31%)	WebSphere Application Server
9	1 (0.65%)	SAS

Applications
1	4 (2.61%)	Microsoft Office
1	4 (2.61%)	Microsoft Project

Business Applications
1	5 (3.27%)	Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2	2 (1.31%)	IBM Operational Decision Manager

Cloud Services
1	43 (28.10%)	Microsoft Azure
2	32 (20.92%)	Amazon AWS
3	17 (11.11%)	Trello
4	3 (1.96%)	AWS CloudFormation
4	3 (1.96%)	GitHub
5	2 (1.31%)	Amazon EC2
5	2 (1.31%)	Amazon S3
5	2 (1.31%)	Route 53
6	1 (0.65%)	Amazon ELB

Communications & Networking
1	21 (13.73%)	HTTP
2	19 (12.42%)	TCP/IP
3	18 (11.76%)	SAN
4	14 (9.15%)	Firewall
5	12 (7.84%)	Fibre Channel
6	4 (2.61%)	LDAP
6	4 (2.61%)	NAS
7	3 (1.96%)	DNS
7	3 (1.96%)	FCoE
7	3 (1.96%)	IP Telephony
7	3 (1.96%)	iSCSI
7	3 (1.96%)	SSL
7	3 (1.96%)	WAN
8	2 (1.31%)	HTTPS
8	2 (1.31%)	VLAN
9	1 (0.65%)	Internet
9	1 (0.65%)	LAN
9	1 (0.65%)	Network Security

Database & Business Intelligence
1	27 (17.65%)	BusinessObjects
2	19 (12.42%)	Relational Database
3	16 (10.46%)	Oracle Database
4	13 (8.50%)	MongoDB
5	12 (7.84%)	PostgreSQL
6	9 (5.88%)	Apache Cassandra
6	9 (5.88%)	MySQL
6	9 (5.88%)	NoSQL
7	6 (3.92%)	BODI
8	3 (1.96%)	Neo4j
9	2 (1.31%)	SQL Server
10	1 (0.65%)	Oracle Reports

Development Applications
1	64 (41.83%)	Git (software)
2	57 (37.25%)	Jenkins
3	44 (28.76%)	JIRA
4	33 (21.57%)	Sonatype Nexus
5	21 (13.73%)	GitLab
6	15 (9.80%)	Subversion
7	13 (8.50%)	Cucumber
8	12 (7.84%)	JUnit
9	9 (5.88%)	Selenium
10	6 (3.92%)	Oracle APEX
10	6 (3.92%)	Oracle Forms
11	2 (1.31%)	MSI
12	1 (0.65%)	Eclipse
12	1 (0.65%)	git-flow
12	1 (0.65%)	IntelliJ
12	1 (0.65%)	Xcode

General
1	1 (0.65%)	Finance
1	1 (0.65%)	Games

Job Titles
1	42 (27.45%)	Developer
2	40 (26.14%)	DevOps Engineer
3	21 (13.73%)	Java Developer
4	17 (11.11%)	Architect
4	17 (11.11%)	Scala Developer
5	16 (10.46%)	Cloud Engineer
6	12 (7.84%)	Administrator
6	12 (7.84%)	Backup Engineer
6	12 (7.84%)	Java Scala Developer
7	11 (7.19%)	Front End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8	9 (5.88%)	Solutions Architect
8	9 (5.88%)	Unix Engineer
9	8 (5.23%)	Azure DevOps
9	8 (5.23%)	Azure DevOps Engineer
9	8 (5.23%)	Azure Engineer
9	8 (5.23%)	Systems Administrator
10	7 (4.58%)	Linux Developer
10	7 (4.58%)	Storage and Backup Engineer
10	7 (4.58%)	Storage Engineer
10	7 (4.58%)	Unix Administrator

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	39 (25.49%)	Spring
2	29 (18.95%)	Software Packaging
2	29 (18.95%)	Spring MVC
3	28 (18.30%)	HTML
3	28 (18.30%)	Play Framework
4	27 (17.65%)	CSS
4	27 (17.65%)	REST
5	26 (16.99%)	JSON
6	25 (16.34%)	Ruby on Rails
7	23 (15.03%)	Ajax
8	22 (14.38%)	Django
9	21 (13.73%)	HTML5
10	20 (13.07%)	CSS3
11	16 (10.46%)	.NET
11	16 (10.46%)	ASP.NET
11	16 (10.46%)	ASP.NET MVC
11	16 (10.46%)	RESTful
12	13 (8.50%)	Guice
12	13 (8.50%)	J2EE
13	11 (7.19%)	Web Services

Miscellaneous
1	24 (15.69%)	Analytical Skills
2	15 (9.80%)	Clustering
3	10 (6.54%)	Linux Command Line
4	8 (5.23%)	Replication
5	6 (3.92%)	Enterprise Software
5	6 (3.92%)	HP Storage
6	5 (3.27%)	User Experience
7	4 (2.61%)	Data Centre
7	4 (2.61%)	Grid Computing
8	2 (1.31%)	Embedded Systems
8	2 (1.31%)	Public Cloud
9	1 (0.65%)	Device Driver
9	1 (0.65%)	Fintech
9	1 (0.65%)	iPad
9	1 (0.65%)	Mobile App
9	1 (0.65%)	Private Cloud
9	1 (0.65%)	Smartphone
9	1 (0.65%)	Tandem

Operating Systems
1	62 (40.52%)	Unix
2	60 (39.22%)	Windows
3	39 (25.49%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4	35 (22.88%)	Solaris
5	34 (22.22%)	AIX
5	34 (22.22%)	Windows Server
6	22 (14.38%)	HPUX
7	16 (10.46%)	SUSE
8	8 (5.23%)	Windows Server 2003
8	8 (5.23%)	Windows Server 2008
9	4 (2.61%)	Mac OS X
9	4 (2.61%)	Ubuntu
10	3 (1.96%)	Windows Server 2012
11	2 (1.31%)	Android
11	2 (1.31%)	Debian
11	2 (1.31%)	Windows 10
11	2 (1.31%)	Windows 7
11	2 (1.31%)	Windows XP
12	1 (0.65%)	Apple iOS

Processes & Methodologies
1	67 (43.79%)	Agile Software Development
2	63 (41.18%)	DevOps
3	47 (30.72%)	Configuration Management
3	47 (30.72%)	Continuous Integration
4	42 (27.45%)	Open Source
5	31 (20.26%)	MVC
6	28 (18.30%)	Test Automation
7	26 (16.99%)	Change Control
8	23 (15.03%)	ITIL
9	21 (13.73%)	TDD
10	19 (12.42%)	Scrum
11	18 (11.76%)	Microservices
12	17 (11.11%)	Responsive Web Design
12	17 (11.11%)	Web Design
13	16 (10.46%)	High Availability
14	15 (9.80%)	OWASP
15	14 (9.15%)	Migration
16	13 (8.50%)	Load Balancing
16	13 (8.50%)	Unit Testing
17	9 (5.88%)	Quality Management

Programming Languages
1	36 (23.53%)	Ruby
1	36 (23.53%)	Scala
2	35 (22.88%)	Java
3	31 (20.26%)	PowerShell
4	21 (13.73%)	C#
5	20 (13.07%)	Python
6	14 (9.15%)	JavaScript
7	10 (6.54%)	SQL
8	7 (4.58%)	Perl
8	7 (4.58%)	Shell Script
9	6 (3.92%)	VB
10	3 (1.96%)	Bash Shell
10	3 (1.96%)	C-shell
10	3 (1.96%)	Korn
10	3 (1.96%)	PHP
10	3 (1.96%)	PL/SQL
11	2 (1.31%)	C++
11	2 (1.31%)	REXX
11	2 (1.31%)	Tcl
12	1 (0.65%)	C

Qualifications
1	63 (41.18%)	Security Cleared
2	54 (35.29%)	SC Cleared
3	4 (2.61%)	DV Cleared
4	2 (1.31%)	Degree

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	2 (1.31%)	QA

System Software
1	23 (15.03%)	Active Directory
2	14 (9.15%)	Docker
2	14 (9.15%)	Veritas Volume Manager
3	12 (7.84%)	VMware Infrastructure
4	9 (5.88%)	LXC
5	5 (3.27%)	Hyper-V
5	5 (3.27%)	KVM
6	4 (2.61%)	Oracle RAC
7	3 (1.96%)	Samba
8	1 (0.65%)	Firmware

Systems Management
1	34 (22.22%)	Ansible
2	24 (15.69%)	Puppet
3	22 (14.38%)	Dollar Universe
4	18 (11.76%)	Opscode Chef
5	12 (7.84%)	EMC NetWorker
5	12 (7.84%)	HP Data Protector
5	12 (7.84%)	NetBackup
6	10 (6.54%)	Backup Exec
7	9 (5.88%)	Tivoli Storage Manager
8	8 (5.23%)	Symantec Enterprise Vault
9	4 (2.61%)	HP SiteScope
9	4 (2.61%)	OpenView
10	3 (1.96%)	Terraform
11	2 (1.31%)	Kubernetes
11	2 (1.31%)	Mesos
11	2 (1.31%)	OpenView Configuration Management
12	1 (0.65%)	MOM
12	1 (0.65%)	Oracle RMAN
12	1 (0.65%)	SCOM
12	1 (0.65%)	Tivoli

Vendors
1	57 (37.25%)	Oracle
2	55 (35.95%)	Red Hat
3	43 (28.10%)	HP
4	34 (22.22%)	Cisco
5	28 (18.30%)	TIBCO
6	22 (14.38%)	Veritas
7	19 (12.42%)	Atlassian
7	19 (12.42%)	F5
8	15 (9.80%)	Sun
9	13 (8.50%)	Google
9	13 (8.50%)	VMware
10	12 (7.84%)	Brocade
10	12 (7.84%)	EMC
10	12 (7.84%)	Symantec
11	11 (7.19%)	IBM
12	8 (5.23%)	Veeam
13	5 (3.27%)	PlateSpin
13	5 (3.27%)	Siebel
14	4 (2.61%)	Cognos
14	4 (2.61%)	Opsware