Linux Contracts in Newcastle upon Tyne

Linux
Tyne and Wear > 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 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 21 22 24
Rank change year-on-year +1 +2 +7
Contract jobs citing Linux 10 30 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 4.76% 9.17% 6.39%
As % of the Operating Systems category 34.48% 49.18% 37.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 25 13
10th Percentile £560 - £406
25th Percentile £575 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +18.18% +2.33%
75th Percentile £625 £725 £688
90th Percentile £640 £757 £698
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £550 £650 £550
% change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% +2.33%

All Operating Systems
Newcastle upon Tyne

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 Newcastle upon Tyne with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 29 61 61
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 13.81% 18.65% 16.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 46 44
10th Percentile £193 £241 £147
25th Percentile £400 £500 £180
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £688 £425
Median % change year-on-year -29.09% +61.76% -1.45%
75th Percentile £628 £760 £503
90th Percentile £650 £842 £635
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £441 £625 £400
% change year-on-year -29.52% +56.25% -7.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile - - £11.56
25th Percentile £16.25 - £12.14
Median hourly rate £17.50 - £13.82
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.37%
75th Percentile £18.75 - £15.61
90th Percentile - - £16.25
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £17.50 - £15.86
% change year-on-year - - +9.27%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Job postings citing Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Newcastle upon Tyne

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Linux in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Daily rate trend for Linux in Newcastle upon Tyne

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Linux in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Hourly rate trend for Linux in Newcastle upon Tyne

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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 (40.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) AWS
2 3 (30.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 3 (30.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) 5G
1 4 (40.00%) Diameter Protocol
1 4 (40.00%) LTE
2 2 (20.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (40.00%) MySQL
3 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) GitLab
2 1 (10.00%) Gradle
2 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (10.00%) Liquibase
2 1 (10.00%) SonarQube
2 1 (10.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (30.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (10.00%) Legal
2 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 3 (30.00%) Operations Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Penetration Tester
2 2 (20.00%) Tester
3 1 (10.00%) Applications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (50.00%) JSON
2 4 (40.00%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (10.00%) jQuery
3 1 (10.00%) Keycloak
3 1 (10.00%) Node.js
3 1 (10.00%) RESTful
3 1 (10.00%) SOAP
3 1 (10.00%) Spring
3 1 (10.00%) Spring Boot
3 1 (10.00%) Swagger
3 1 (10.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (20.00%) Mobile App
2 2 (20.00%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) Oracle Linux
2 3 (30.00%) Unix
2 3 (30.00%) Windows
3 1 (10.00%) Ubuntu
3 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (30.00%) Agile
2 3 (30.00%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (30.00%) DevOps
2 3 (30.00%) Migration
2 3 (30.00%) Scrum
3 2 (20.00%) Application Security
3 2 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (20.00%) Ethical Hacking
3 2 (20.00%) Offensive Security
3 2 (20.00%) Penetration Testing
3 2 (20.00%) Red Team
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) Shell Script
2 2 (20.00%) C++
2 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (20.00%) Python
3 1 (10.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) CEH
2 2 (20.00%) CREST Certified
2 2 (20.00%) GIAC
2 2 (20.00%) GPEN
2 2 (20.00%) OSCP
2 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (50.00%) Docker
2 3 (30.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (80.00%) Ansible
2 7 (70.00%) Grafana
2 7 (70.00%) Prometheus
2 7 (70.00%) Terraform
3 4 (40.00%) Kubernetes
3 4 (40.00%) yum
4 1 (10.00%) Anchore
4 1 (10.00%) Docker Swarm
4 1 (10.00%) Kibana
4 1 (10.00%) Packer
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Oracle
2 3 (30.00%) PagerDuty