Linux Contracts in Newcastle upon Tyne

Linux
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne requiring Linux skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Linux over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 16 20
Rank change year-on-year -9 +4 -9
Contract jobs citing Linux 7 12 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 3.06% 6.35% 8.71%
As % of the Operating Systems category 29.17% 48.00% 44.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 16
10th Percentile £342 £560 -
25th Percentile £366 £575 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -20.42% +14.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £730
90th Percentile - £640 £758
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £478 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -20.42% +14.29% -4.55%

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 24 25 47
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 10.48% 13.23% 19.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 13 32
10th Percentile £200 - £365
25th Percentile £281 £400 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £475 £698
Median % change year-on-year -26.32% -31.90% +39.50%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £775
90th Percentile £625 £648 £848
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £345 £463 £625
% change year-on-year -25.41% -26.00% +38.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £17.50 -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate - £17.50 -

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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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Daily Rate Histogram in Newcastle upon Tyne

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in Newcastle upon Tyne over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 2 (28.57%) Documentum
1 2 (28.57%) FileNet
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Amazon EC2
1 3 (42.86%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon SQS
2 2 (28.57%) Serverless
3 1 (14.29%) Azure
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) GitLab
2 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (57.14%) Public Sector
2 3 (42.86%) Organisational Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Security Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Documentum Developer
3 1 (14.29%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) IT Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) IT Security Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Linux Support
3 1 (14.29%) Linux Support Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Data Protection Act
1 3 (42.86%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle Linux
2 1 (14.29%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Data Protection
1 3 (42.86%) Information Security
1 3 (42.86%) Information Security Management
1 3 (42.86%) ISMS
1 3 (42.86%) Security Management
1 3 (42.86%) Zero Trust
2 2 (28.57%) Agile
2 2 (28.57%) Content Management
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) Antivirus Management
3 1 (14.29%) API Management
3 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Incident Management
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (14.29%) Migration
3 1 (14.29%) Proactive Monitoring
3 1 (14.29%) Project Delivery
3 1 (14.29%) Server Migrations
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Java
1 2 (28.57%) Rust
2 1 (14.29%) Bash
2 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
1 1 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Ansible
2 3 (42.86%) Terraform
3 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
3 1 (14.29%) Packer
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
1 4 (57.14%) VMware
2 3 (42.86%) Cisco
2 3 (42.86%) Fortinet
2 3 (42.86%) HP
2 3 (42.86%) Oracle
2 3 (42.86%) Veeam
3 1 (14.29%) OpenText
3 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow