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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 17 22
Rank change year-on-year -6 +5 -5
Contract jobs citing Linux 13 10 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 5.83% 4.76% 9.17%
As % of the Operating Systems category 38.24% 37.04% 49.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 25
10th Percentile £358 £560 -
25th Percentile £424 £575 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -7.69% +18.18%
75th Percentile £574 £625 £725
90th Percentile £645 £640 £757
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £525 £550 £650
% change year-on-year -4.55% -15.38% +18.18%

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 27 61
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 15.25% 12.86% 18.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 17 46
10th Percentile £181 £328 £241
25th Percentile £206 £400 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £500 £688
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% -27.27% +52.78%
75th Percentile £555 £638 £760
90th Percentile £625 £650 £842
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £340 £450 £625
% change year-on-year -24.44% -28.00% +47.06%
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 1 May 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 (15.38%) nginx
1 2 (15.38%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 4 (30.77%) Azure
2 3 (23.08%) AWS
2 3 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (15.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (15.38%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (15.38%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (15.38%) AWS Fargate
3 2 (15.38%) Entra ID
3 2 (15.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) DNS
1 2 (15.38%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 6 (46.15%) GitLab
2 3 (23.08%) Jenkins
2 3 (23.08%) Selenium
General
1 5 (38.46%) Organisational Skills
1 5 (38.46%) Pharmaceutical
2 4 (30.77%) Public Sector
3 2 (15.38%) Electronics
3 2 (15.38%) Finance
3 2 (15.38%) Manufacturing
3 2 (15.38%) Marketing
3 2 (15.38%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) DevOps Engineer
1 5 (38.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 5 (38.46%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
1 5 (38.46%) Security Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) Senior
2 4 (30.77%) Senior DevOps
3 3 (23.08%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) IT Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) IT Security Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Lead DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Linux Support
4 1 (7.69%) Linux Support Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Network Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) pytest
2 2 (15.38%) cloud-init
2 2 (15.38%) Kafka
2 2 (15.38%) Keycloak
3 1 (7.69%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Data Protection Act
1 5 (38.46%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (15.38%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 5 (38.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (15.38%) CentOS
2 2 (15.38%) Unix
3 1 (7.69%) Alpine Linux
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle Linux
3 1 (7.69%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) DevOps
2 5 (38.46%) CI/CD
2 5 (38.46%) Data Protection
2 5 (38.46%) Information Security
2 5 (38.46%) Information Security Management
2 5 (38.46%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (38.46%) ISMS
2 5 (38.46%) Security Management
2 5 (38.46%) Zero Trust
3 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (15.38%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (15.38%) Cloud Security
4 2 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (15.38%) Digital Marketing
4 2 (15.38%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
4 2 (15.38%) Identity Management
4 2 (15.38%) Observability
4 2 (15.38%) Programme Management
4 2 (15.38%) Secrets Management
4 2 (15.38%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) Python
2 4 (30.77%) Bash
3 2 (15.38%) Go
4 1 (7.69%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) Security Cleared
2 2 (15.38%) AWS Certification
2 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (7.69%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (38.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (15.38%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) Docker
2 1 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (46.15%) Kubernetes
1 6 (46.15%) Terraform
2 4 (30.77%) Grafana
2 4 (30.77%) Prometheus
3 3 (23.08%) Packer
4 2 (15.38%) Ansible
4 2 (15.38%) Consul
4 2 (15.38%) HAProxy
4 2 (15.38%) Istio
4 2 (15.38%) Jamf Pro
4 2 (15.38%) linkerd
4 2 (15.38%) Rancher
4 2 (15.38%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 6 (46.15%) HP
1 6 (46.15%) Microsoft
1 6 (46.15%) VMware
2 5 (38.46%) Cisco
2 5 (38.46%) Fortinet
2 5 (38.46%) Veeam
3 2 (15.38%) Apple
3 2 (15.38%) ESET
3 2 (15.38%) Okta
3 2 (15.38%) SAP
3 2 (15.38%) Splunk
4 1 (7.69%) F5
4 1 (7.69%) Juniper
4 1 (7.69%) Oracle
4 1 (7.69%) Red Hat
4 1 (7.69%) ServiceNow