Linux Contract Job Trends in the North East

Linux
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Linux skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 22 30
Rank change year-on-year -12 +8 -21
Contract jobs citing Linux 7 15 2
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 2.37% 5.30% 0.86%
As % of the Operating Systems category 19.44% 42.86% 8.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 1
10th Percentile £386 £350 -
25th Percentile £459 £388 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £432 £475
Median % change year-on-year +24.57% -9.16% -15.56%
75th Percentile £575 £478 -
90th Percentile - £521 -
England median daily rate £524 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.77% -4.35% -1.29%

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 36 35 24
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 12.20% 12.37% 10.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 16 16
10th Percentile £180 £161 £173
25th Percentile £189 £190 £224
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £375 £388
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% -3.23% -26.19%
75th Percentile £431 £478 £438
90th Percentile £560 £494 £595
England median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £15.58
25th Percentile - - £15.69
Median hourly rate - - £16.75
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.61%
75th Percentile - - £18.19
90th Percentile - - £18.53
England median hourly rate £25.15 £59.25 £47.50
% change year-on-year -57.55% +24.73% +97.92%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Linux relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Linux job vacancy trend in the North East

Linux
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Linux.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Linux

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in the North East over the 6 months to 3 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in the North East

Linux
Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Linux.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Linux

Linux
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 3 October 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 -17 7 £538 +24.57% 13
Linux
England

Linux
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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 3 (42.86%) Documentum
2 2 (28.57%) FileNet
3 1 (14.29%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon SQS
2 2 (28.57%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) GitLab
1 3 (42.86%) Mockito
General
1 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Developer
2 3 (42.86%) Java Developer
2 3 (42.86%) Senior
2 3 (42.86%) Senior Developer
2 3 (42.86%) Senior Java Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Documentum Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Lead
4 1 (14.29%) Software Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) ActiveMQ
1 3 (42.86%) JAX-RS
1 3 (42.86%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Unix
2 3 (42.86%) Mac OS X
2 3 (42.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (14.29%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Agile
2 4 (57.14%) Continuous Deployment
2 4 (57.14%) Test Automation
3 3 (42.86%) BDD
3 3 (42.86%) Content Management
3 3 (42.86%) Microservices
3 3 (42.86%) Pair Programming
3 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (42.86%) Responsive Web Design
3 3 (42.86%) TDD
3 3 (42.86%) Web Design
3 3 (42.86%) Web Development
4 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
5 1 (14.29%) API Design
5 1 (14.29%) Case Management
5 1 (14.29%) Configuration Management
5 1 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (14.29%) Migration
5 1 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
5 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Java
2 3 (42.86%) Rust
3 1 (14.29%) Bash
3 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Ansible
1 3 (42.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) OpenText