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 24 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
24 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 32 15
Rank change year-on-year -17 -17 +8
Contract jobs citing Linux 26 7 14
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 4.06% 3.02% 8.64%
As % of the Operating Systems category 52.00% 28.00% 58.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 4 4
10th Percentile - £386 £423
25th Percentile £400 £459 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £538 £502
Median % change year-on-year -13.95% +7.07% +5.68%
75th Percentile £501 £575 £575
90th Percentile £648 - £620
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £466 £538 £454
% change year-on-year -13.26% +18.39% -4.42%
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 50 25 24
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 7.81% 10.78% 14.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 14 12
10th Percentile £200 £200 £140
25th Percentile £400 £213 £347
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £340 £452
Median % change year-on-year +32.35% -24.78% +20.53%
75th Percentile £475 £500 £491
90th Percentile £590 £553 £545
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £340 £450
% change year-on-year +32.35% -24.44% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £14.00 - -
Median hourly rate £26.66 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £40.66 - -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £17.39 - -

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 24 September 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 (7.69%) Apache
1 2 (7.69%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (7.69%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 2 (7.69%) WebLogic
2 1 (3.85%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.85%) SAS
2 1 (3.85%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.85%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 14 (53.85%) AWS
2 6 (23.08%) Azure
3 5 (19.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (15.38%) GitHub
4 4 (15.38%) OCI
5 3 (11.54%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (11.54%) Amazon S3
5 3 (11.54%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (11.54%) Power Platform
5 3 (11.54%) Serverless
5 3 (11.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (7.69%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (3.85%) Amazon EMR
7 1 (3.85%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (3.85%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (3.85%) Azure Pipelines
7 1 (3.85%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.69%) DNS
1 2 (7.69%) HTTP
1 2 (7.69%) Network Security
1 2 (7.69%) SSL
1 2 (7.69%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.85%) Firewall
2 1 (3.85%) Software-Defined Radio
2 1 (3.85%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (26.92%) Oracle Database
2 4 (15.38%) Oracle Exadata
2 4 (15.38%) RDBMS
2 4 (15.38%) Relational Database
3 3 (11.54%) MongoDB
3 3 (11.54%) Power BI
4 2 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (7.69%) DynamoDB
5 1 (3.85%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (3.85%) Apache Hive
5 1 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (3.85%) Hadoop
5 1 (3.85%) Impala
5 1 (3.85%) NoSQL
5 1 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (3.85%) PowerCenter
5 1 (3.85%) Redis
5 1 (3.85%) SQL Server
5 1 (3.85%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 10 (38.46%) GitLab
2 5 (19.23%) Git
3 2 (7.69%) Jenkins
3 2 (7.69%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (3.85%) IntelliJ
4 1 (3.85%) JIRA
4 1 (3.85%) Mockito
4 1 (3.85%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 9 (34.62%) Public Sector
2 7 (26.92%) Social Skills
3 4 (15.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (26.92%) DevOps Engineer
1 7 (26.92%) Senior
2 5 (19.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) AWS DevOps
3 4 (15.38%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) AWS Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) Data Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) Developer
4 3 (11.54%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Analyst
5 2 (7.69%) Architect
5 2 (7.69%) Data Analyst
5 2 (7.69%) Java Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Technical Architect
6 1 (3.85%) Administrator
6 1 (3.85%) DBA
6 1 (3.85%) Lead Developer
6 1 (3.85%) Oracle DBA
6 1 (3.85%) Senior Developer
6 1 (3.85%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (42.31%) Terraform
2 4 (15.38%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 3 (11.54%) Kafka
3 3 (11.54%) REST
4 2 (7.69%) cloud-init
4 2 (7.69%) Middleware
4 2 (7.69%) OpenID
4 2 (7.69%) SAML
4 2 (7.69%) SOAP
5 1 (3.85%) ActiveMQ
5 1 (3.85%) JAX-RS
5 1 (3.85%) Play Framework
5 1 (3.85%) React
5 1 (3.85%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 4 (15.38%) Operational Technology
1 4 (15.38%) Public Cloud
1 4 (15.38%) SCADA
2 2 (7.69%) PKI
3 1 (3.85%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.85%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.85%) Device Driver
3 1 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.85%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.85%) MicroBlaze
3 1 (3.85%) RISC-V
3 1 (3.85%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 10 (38.46%) Unix
2 4 (15.38%) AIX
3 3 (11.54%) Windows
4 2 (7.69%) Ubuntu
4 2 (7.69%) Windows Server
5 1 (3.85%) CentOS
5 1 (3.85%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (3.85%) Mac OS
5 1 (3.85%) Mac OS X
5 1 (3.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (3.85%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
5 1 (3.85%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (42.31%) Migration
2 9 (34.62%) Infrastructure as Code
3 7 (26.92%) Agile
3 7 (26.92%) CI/CD
3 7 (26.92%) DevOps
4 6 (23.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 5 (19.23%) Data Migration
5 5 (19.23%) Microservices
6 4 (15.38%) Configuration Management
6 4 (15.38%) Containerisation
6 4 (15.38%) Observability
6 4 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (15.38%) Root Cause Analysis
6 4 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (15.38%) Test Automation
7 3 (11.54%) Data Pipeline
7 3 (11.54%) High Availability
7 3 (11.54%) Knowledge Transfer
7 3 (11.54%) Performance Tuning
7 3 (11.54%) Server Building
Programming Languages
1 7 (26.92%) Python
2 5 (19.23%) Bash
2 5 (19.23%) SQL
3 4 (15.38%) Shell Script
4 2 (7.69%) Go
4 2 (7.69%) Groovy
4 2 (7.69%) Java
5 1 (3.85%) C
5 1 (3.85%) C++
5 1 (3.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (3.85%) PL/SQL
5 1 (3.85%) Scala
Qualifications
1 17 (65.38%) Security Cleared
2 14 (53.85%) SC Cleared
3 4 (15.38%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.69%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.85%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.85%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (19.23%) Docker
2 4 (15.38%) Oracle RAC
2 4 (15.38%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (15.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (11.54%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 1 (3.85%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (3.85%) Firmware
5 1 (3.85%) HDFS
5 1 (3.85%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (30.77%) Ansible
2 7 (26.92%) Kubernetes
3 6 (23.08%) Data Guard
3 6 (23.08%) Oracle RMAN
4 5 (19.23%) Grafana
4 5 (19.23%) Prometheus
5 4 (15.38%) VxRail
6 2 (7.69%) Consul
6 2 (7.69%) McAfee ePO
6 2 (7.69%) Nessus
6 2 (7.69%) Packer
6 2 (7.69%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (7.69%) ZABBIX
7 1 (3.85%) Control-M
7 1 (3.85%) Istio
7 1 (3.85%) Kibana
Vendors
1 8 (30.77%) Oracle
2 4 (15.38%) Dell
2 4 (15.38%) Fortinet
2 4 (15.38%) VMware
3 3 (11.54%) Microsoft
4 2 (7.69%) Carbon Black
4 2 (7.69%) Databricks
4 2 (7.69%) Dynatrace
4 2 (7.69%) Informatica
4 2 (7.69%) McAfee
4 2 (7.69%) Splunk
4 2 (7.69%) Tenable
5 1 (3.85%) Cloudera
28 Linux jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne