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 7 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 24 13
Rank change year-on-year -31 -11 +13
Contract jobs citing Linux 20 4 12
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 3.26% 2.11% 7.69%
As % of the Operating Systems category 48.78% 22.22% 50.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 2 3
10th Percentile - - £560
25th Percentile £400 - £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -23.91% -4.17% +14.29%
75th Percentile £507 - £625
90th Percentile £536 - £640
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £438 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -23.91% -4.17% +14.29%
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 41 18 24
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 6.68% 9.47% 15.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 14 14
10th Percentile £245 £200 £251
25th Percentile £400 £213 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £340 £463
Median % change year-on-year +32.35% -26.49% -11.90%
75th Percentile £483 £500 £538
90th Percentile £537 £575 £626
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £325 £450
% change year-on-year +38.46% -27.78% -14.29%
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 7 August 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 (10.00%) Apache
1 2 (10.00%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (10.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 2 (10.00%) WebLogic
2 1 (5.00%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (5.00%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 13 (65.00%) AWS
2 7 (35.00%) Azure
3 4 (20.00%) GitHub
3 4 (20.00%) OCI
4 3 (15.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (15.00%) Amazon ECS
4 3 (15.00%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (15.00%) Serverless
4 3 (15.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (10.00%) Amazon S3
5 2 (10.00%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (10.00%) Power Platform
6 1 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (5.00%) Azure AKS
6 1 (5.00%) Azure Pipelines
6 1 (5.00%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) DNS
1 2 (10.00%) HTTP
1 2 (10.00%) SSL
1 2 (10.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (5.00%) Software-Defined Radio
2 1 (5.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (35.00%) Oracle Database
2 4 (20.00%) Oracle Exadata
2 4 (20.00%) RDBMS
2 4 (20.00%) Relational Database
3 2 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (10.00%) DynamoDB
3 2 (10.00%) MongoDB
3 2 (10.00%) Power BI
4 1 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (5.00%) PowerCenter
4 1 (5.00%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 10 (50.00%) GitLab
2 4 (20.00%) Git
3 3 (15.00%) Jenkins
4 2 (10.00%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (5.00%) JIRA
5 1 (5.00%) Mockito
General
1 7 (35.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (45.00%) Senior
2 7 (35.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) AWS DevOps
4 3 (15.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) AWS Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Data Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Developer
4 3 (15.00%) Senior DevOps
4 3 (15.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Analyst
5 2 (10.00%) Data Analyst
5 2 (10.00%) Java Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Administrator
6 1 (5.00%) C++ Developer
6 1 (5.00%) DBA
6 1 (5.00%) Oracle DBA
6 1 (5.00%) Senior Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (20.00%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 2 (10.00%) cloud-init
2 2 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (10.00%) Kafka
2 2 (10.00%) Middleware
2 2 (10.00%) OpenID
2 2 (10.00%) REST
2 2 (10.00%) SAML
2 2 (10.00%) SOAP
3 1 (5.00%) ActiveMQ
3 1 (5.00%) JAX-RS
3 1 (5.00%) React
3 1 (5.00%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (5.00%) Device Driver
2 1 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (5.00%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (5.00%) MicroBlaze
2 1 (5.00%) RISC-V
Operating Systems
1 8 (40.00%) Unix
2 4 (20.00%) AIX
3 2 (10.00%) Ubuntu
4 1 (5.00%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (5.00%) Mac OS X
4 1 (5.00%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
4 1 (5.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 8 (40.00%) Migration
2 7 (35.00%) DevOps
3 5 (25.00%) Agile
3 5 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 5 (25.00%) Observability
4 4 (20.00%) Data Migration
4 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 4 (20.00%) Test Automation
5 3 (15.00%) AI
5 3 (15.00%) Coaching
5 3 (15.00%) Configuration Management
5 3 (15.00%) Containerisation
5 3 (15.00%) Data Pipeline
5 3 (15.00%) High Availability
5 3 (15.00%) Mentoring
5 3 (15.00%) Microservices
5 3 (15.00%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (15.00%) Release Management
5 3 (15.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 6 (30.00%) Bash
1 6 (30.00%) Python
2 3 (15.00%) Shell Script
2 3 (15.00%) SQL
3 2 (10.00%) Go
3 2 (10.00%) Groovy
3 2 (10.00%) Java
4 1 (5.00%) C
4 1 (5.00%) C++
4 1 (5.00%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (65.00%) Security Cleared
2 10 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (15.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (5.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (5.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (25.00%) Docker
2 4 (20.00%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (5.00%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (5.00%) Firmware
3 1 (5.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (55.00%) Terraform
2 9 (45.00%) Ansible
3 7 (35.00%) Kubernetes
4 6 (30.00%) Data Guard
4 6 (30.00%) Oracle RMAN
5 4 (20.00%) Packer
6 3 (15.00%) Grafana
6 3 (15.00%) Prometheus
7 2 (10.00%) Consul
7 2 (10.00%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (10.00%) ZABBIX
8 1 (5.00%) Control-M
Vendors
1 7 (35.00%) Oracle
2 4 (20.00%) Dynatrace
3 2 (10.00%) Databricks
3 2 (10.00%) Splunk
4 1 (5.00%) Informatica