Linux Contracts in the North East

Linux
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North East 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 25 25 26
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 -8
Contract jobs citing Linux 13 13 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 4.06% 3.85% 8.04%
As % of the Operating Systems category 28.89% 32.50% 40.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 28
10th Percentile £358 £417 £500
25th Percentile £424 £431 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £675
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -18.52% +22.73%
75th Percentile £574 £600 £725
90th Percentile £645 £630 £759
England median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +4.35%

All Operating Systems
North East

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 the North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 45 40 83
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 14.06% 11.83% 19.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 28 64
10th Percentile £180 £171 £205
25th Percentile £188 £190 £231
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £408 £525
Median % change year-on-year -20.25% -22.38% +85.84%
75th Percentile £488 £550 £747
90th Percentile £615 £650 £775
England median daily rate £475 £463 £513
% change year-on-year +2.70% -9.76% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £18.13 £16.25 £31.25
Median hourly rate £18.75 £17.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -46.15% +116.67%
75th Percentile £19.38 £18.75 £33.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £24.18 £22.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year +9.91% -42.11% +76.74%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Job postings citing Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Job vacancy trend for Linux in the North East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Linux in the North East.

Daily rate trend for Linux in the North East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in the North East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in the North East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Linux in the North East.

Hourly rate trend for Linux in the North East

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Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the North East region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Tyne and Wear -5 13 £525 -4.55% 28
Linux
England

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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