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 19 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 22 24
Rank change year-on-year -15 +2 -13
Contract jobs citing Linux 6 10 2
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 2.07% 5.49% 1.18%
As % of the Operating Systems category 17.65% 34.48% 8.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 1
10th Percentile £370 £423 -
25th Percentile £419 £443 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £502 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.40% +5.68% -26.92%
75th Percentile £550 £619 -
90th Percentile £580 £698 -
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £500 £454 £445
% change year-on-year +10.13% +2.02% -31.01%

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 34 29 23
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 11.72% 15.93% 13.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 15 15
10th Percentile £103 £141 £131
25th Percentile £107 £166 £136
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £175 £320 £175
Median % change year-on-year -45.31% +82.86% -68.18%
75th Percentile £197 £405 £388
90th Percentile £340 £527 £455
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £175 £325 £190
% change year-on-year -46.15% +71.05% -65.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £21.25 - £15.50
Median hourly rate £22.50 - £16.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +30.61%
75th Percentile £23.75 - £16.50
90th Percentile - - -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £22.50 - £16.00
% change year-on-year - - +30.61%

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 19 November 2025.

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 1 (16.67%) CMS
1 1 (16.67%) Documentum
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (16.67%) GitHub
1 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (16.67%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Mockito
2 2 (33.33%) GitLab
3 1 (16.67%) Artifactory
3 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
3 1 (16.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Developer
2 3 (50.00%) Java Developer
2 3 (50.00%) Senior
2 3 (50.00%) Senior Developer
2 3 (50.00%) Senior Java Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Lead
3 1 (16.67%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Software Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) ActiveMQ
1 3 (50.00%) JAX-RS
1 3 (50.00%) Kafka
2 1 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Unix
2 3 (50.00%) Mac OS X
3 2 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (16.67%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Test Automation
2 4 (66.67%) Continuous Deployment
2 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (50.00%) Agile
3 3 (50.00%) BDD
3 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (50.00%) Microservices
3 3 (50.00%) Pair Programming
3 3 (50.00%) Responsive Web Design
3 3 (50.00%) TDD
3 3 (50.00%) Web Design
3 3 (50.00%) Web Development
4 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (16.67%) API Design
5 1 (16.67%) Case Management
5 1 (16.67%) DevOps
5 1 (16.67%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
5 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
5 1 (16.67%) Observability
5 1 (16.67%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Java
2 2 (33.33%) Bash
2 2 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (16.67%) Groovy
3 1 (16.67%) Rust
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Ansible
1 2 (33.33%) Terraform
2 1 (16.67%) Argo
2 1 (16.67%) Grafana
2 1 (16.67%) Istio
2 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Red Hat