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 25 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 21 28
Rank change year-on-year -22 +7 -4
Contract jobs citing Linux 7 15 1
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 1.67% 6.82% 0.49%
As % of the Operating Systems category 19.44% 38.46% 4.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 1
10th Percentile £400 £358 -
25th Percentile £419 £424 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -12.50% -14.29%
75th Percentile £584 £574 -
90th Percentile £619 £645 -
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £513 £525 £431
% change year-on-year -2.38% +21.81% -33.69%
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 36 39 22
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 8.61% 17.73% 10.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 23 17
10th Percentile £103 £156 £131
25th Percentile £110 £206 £163
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £178 £350 £400
Median % change year-on-year -49.29% -12.50% -42.86%
75th Percentile £456 £555 £600
90th Percentile £540 £625 £650
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £180 £340 £208
% change year-on-year -47.06% +63.86% -63.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile £22.25 - £15.65
25th Percentile £23.75 - £15.88
Median hourly rate £27.50 - £17.50
75th Percentile £39.38 - £18.75
90th Percentile £45.75 - -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £27.50 - £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

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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 25 March 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) AWS
2 3 (42.86%) Amazon EKS
2 3 (42.86%) Azure
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon S3
3 2 (28.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (14.29%) Azure AKS
4 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) GitHub
4 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (14.29%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Software-Defined Radio
1 1 (14.29%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) GitLab
2 4 (57.14%) Jenkins
3 1 (14.29%) Artifactory
3 1 (14.29%) Sonatype Nexus
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Senior
2 2 (28.57%) Senior DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) C++ Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (14.29%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Data Centre
2 1 (14.29%) Device Driver
2 1 (14.29%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (14.29%) MicroBlaze
2 1 (14.29%) RISC-V
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (14.29%) Embedded Linux
2 1 (14.29%) Unix
2 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) DevOps
2 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
3 3 (42.86%) Observability
4 2 (28.57%) Agile
4 2 (28.57%) Coaching
4 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (28.57%) Mentoring
4 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (14.29%) Batch Processing
5 1 (14.29%) Code Quality
5 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
5 1 (14.29%) Digital Signal Processing
5 1 (14.29%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Knowledge Transfer
5 1 (14.29%) Migration
5 1 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
5 1 (14.29%) Signal Processing
5 1 (14.29%) Static Application Security Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Bash
2 2 (28.57%) C
3 1 (14.29%) C++
3 1 (14.29%) Groovy
3 1 (14.29%) PL/SQL
3 1 (14.29%) ProC
3 1 (14.29%) Python
3 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 7 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Docker
2 1 (14.29%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (14.29%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) Ansible
1 5 (71.43%) Kubernetes
1 5 (71.43%) Terraform
2 2 (28.57%) Packer
3 1 (14.29%) Argo
3 1 (14.29%) Grafana
3 1 (14.29%) Istio
3 1 (14.29%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Dynatrace
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) Red Hat