Linux Contracts in Tyne and Wear

Linux
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Tyne and Wear 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 25 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 18 21
Rank change year-on-year -5 +3 -9
Contract jobs citing Linux 11 13 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 4.56% 5.80% 9.39%
As % of the Operating Systems category 33.33% 41.94% 44.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 21
10th Percentile £353 £467 -
25th Percentile £413 £520 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.22% +9.52% -
75th Percentile £574 £613 £725
90th Percentile £575 £635 £756
North East median daily rate £545 £575 £544
% change year-on-year -5.22% +5.75% +3.57%

All Operating Systems
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 33 31 58
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 13.69% 13.84% 20.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 20 43
10th Percentile £188 £187 £189
25th Percentile £203 £347 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £463 £550
Median % change year-on-year -24.32% -15.91% +22.22%
75th Percentile £564 £609 £760
90th Percentile £600 £650 £845
North East median daily rate £340 £400 £525
% change year-on-year -15.00% -23.81% +31.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £17.50 -
North East median hourly rate £18.75 £17.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +7.14% -46.15% +116.67%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Job postings citing Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Tyne and Wear

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Linux in Tyne and Wear.

Daily rate trend for Linux in Tyne and Wear

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 25 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in Tyne and Wear

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Linux in Tyne and Wear.

Hourly rate trend for Linux in Tyne and Wear

Linux
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 25 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
Newcastle upon Tyne -3 11 £545 -9.17% 114
Linux
North East

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 (18.18%) Documentum
1 2 (18.18%) FileNet
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) Amazon EC2
1 3 (27.27%) AWS
1 3 (27.27%) Azure
2 2 (18.18%) Amazon SQS
2 2 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (18.18%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 5 (45.45%) GitLab
2 2 (18.18%) Selenium
3 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (45.45%) Organisational Skills
1 5 (45.45%) Pharmaceutical
1 5 (45.45%) Public Sector
2 1 (9.09%) Electronics
2 1 (9.09%) Finance
2 1 (9.09%) Manufacturing
2 1 (9.09%) Marketing
2 1 (9.09%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 5 (45.45%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
1 5 (45.45%) Security Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) IT Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) IT Security Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Documentum Developer
4 1 (9.09%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Lead DevOps
4 1 (9.09%) Lead DevOps Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Linux Support
4 1 (9.09%) Linux Support Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) pytest
2 1 (9.09%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) Data Protection Act
1 5 (45.45%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (27.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle Linux
2 1 (9.09%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Data Protection
1 5 (45.45%) Information Security
1 5 (45.45%) Information Security Management
1 5 (45.45%) ISMS
1 5 (45.45%) Security Management
1 5 (45.45%) Zero Trust
2 3 (27.27%) DevOps
2 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (18.18%) Agile
3 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
3 2 (18.18%) Content Management
4 1 (9.09%) Antivirus Management
4 1 (9.09%) API Management
4 1 (9.09%) Decision-Making
4 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (9.09%) Proactive Monitoring
4 1 (9.09%) Project Delivery
4 1 (9.09%) Server Migrations
4 1 (9.09%) SFIA
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) Python
2 2 (18.18%) Bash
2 2 (18.18%) Java
2 2 (18.18%) Rust
3 1 (9.09%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (45.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Docker
2 1 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (45.45%) Terraform
2 4 (36.36%) Ansible
3 3 (27.27%) Kubernetes
4 1 (9.09%) Grafana
4 1 (9.09%) Packer
4 1 (9.09%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) Microsoft
1 6 (54.55%) VMware
2 5 (45.45%) Cisco
2 5 (45.45%) Fortinet
2 5 (45.45%) HP
2 5 (45.45%) Veeam
3 3 (27.27%) Oracle
4 1 (9.09%) OpenText
4 1 (9.09%) SAP
4 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow