Linux Contracts in Tyne and Wear

Linux
North East > Tyne and Wear

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Tyne and Wear with a requirement for Linux skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Linux over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 20 23 15
Rank change year-on-year +3 -8 +14
Contract jobs citing Linux 13 30 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 5.35% 9.35% 10.54%
As % of the Operating Systems category 40.63% 46.15% 43.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 25 28
10th Percentile £417 - £444
25th Percentile £431 £500 £496
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £650 £538
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +20.93% +2.38%
75th Percentile £600 £725 £650
90th Percentile £630 £757 £691
North East median daily rate £550 £675 £525
% change year-on-year -18.52% +28.57% +16.67%

All Operating Systems
Tyne and Wear

Linux is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Tyne and Wear with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 32 65 94
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 13.17% 20.25% 24.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 50 73
10th Percentile £188 £204 £140
25th Percentile £400 £500 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £625 £450
Median % change year-on-year -26.00% +38.89% +5.88%
75th Percentile £588 £760 £550
90th Percentile £650 £837 £650
North East median daily rate £415 £525 £413
% change year-on-year -20.95% +27.27% +3.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile - - £11.94
25th Percentile £16.25 - £13.11
Median hourly rate £17.50 - £15.86
Median % change year-on-year - - +19.70%
75th Percentile £18.75 - £16.84
90th Percentile - - £16.94
North East median hourly rate £17.50 £32.50 £15.00
% change year-on-year -46.15% +116.67% +11.11%

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 8 May 2024.

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 8 May 2024. 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 +2 10 £600 -7.69% 6
Sunderland - 3 £423 -
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 4 (30.77%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 4 (30.77%) AWS
2 3 (23.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 3 (23.08%) Azure
3 2 (15.38%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (30.77%) 5G
1 4 (30.77%) Diameter Protocol
1 4 (30.77%) LTE
2 3 (23.08%) AMQP
2 3 (23.08%) Firewall
2 3 (23.08%) MQTT
3 2 (15.38%) DMZ
3 2 (15.38%) Modbus
3 2 (15.38%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (38.46%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (30.77%) MySQL
3 2 (15.38%) Tableau
4 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (30.77%) GitLab
2 1 (7.69%) Gradle
2 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.69%) Liquibase
2 1 (7.69%) SonarQube
2 1 (7.69%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (23.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (15.38%) Manufacturing
3 1 (7.69%) Legal
3 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (23.08%) DevOps Engineer
1 3 (23.08%) Operations Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Build Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Linux Build Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Linux Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Linux Server Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Penetration Tester
2 2 (15.38%) Server Build Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Server Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Tester
2 2 (15.38%) Windows Build Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Windows Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Windows Server Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) 3rd Line Support
3 1 (7.69%) Applications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (61.54%) JSON
2 4 (30.77%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (30.77%) Web Services
3 3 (23.08%) Apache NiFi
3 3 (23.08%) XML
3 3 (23.08%) XSLT
4 1 (7.69%) jQuery
4 1 (7.69%) Keycloak
4 1 (7.69%) Middleware
4 1 (7.69%) Node.js
4 1 (7.69%) RESTful
4 1 (7.69%) SOAP
4 1 (7.69%) Spring
4 1 (7.69%) Spring Boot
4 1 (7.69%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Legacy Systems
1 3 (23.08%) PKI
2 2 (15.38%) IoT
2 2 (15.38%) Mobile App
2 2 (15.38%) Operational Technology
3 1 (7.69%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (7.69%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 6 (46.15%) Windows
2 4 (30.77%) Oracle Linux
2 4 (30.77%) Windows Server
3 3 (23.08%) Unix
4 1 (7.69%) Ubuntu
4 1 (7.69%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (30.77%) CI/CD
2 3 (23.08%) Agile
2 3 (23.08%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (23.08%) CRUD
2 3 (23.08%) DevOps
2 3 (23.08%) Migration
2 3 (23.08%) Scrum
3 2 (15.38%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (15.38%) Data Analysis
3 2 (15.38%) Data Engineering
3 2 (15.38%) Data Visualisation
3 2 (15.38%) Ethical Hacking
3 2 (15.38%) Penetration Testing
3 2 (15.38%) Performance Management
3 2 (15.38%) Red Team
3 2 (15.38%) Reverse Engineering
3 2 (15.38%) Security Management
3 2 (15.38%) Server Building
3 2 (15.38%) Use Case
3 2 (15.38%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) JavaScript
1 4 (30.77%) Python
1 4 (30.77%) Shell Script
2 3 (23.08%) SQL
3 2 (15.38%) C++
3 2 (15.38%) PowerShell
4 1 (7.69%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 2 (15.38%) CEH
2 2 (15.38%) CREST Certified
2 2 (15.38%) GIAC
2 2 (15.38%) GPEN
2 2 (15.38%) OSCP
2 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) Degree
3 1 (7.69%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (61.54%) Docker
2 3 (23.08%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (69.23%) Grafana
2 8 (61.54%) Ansible
3 7 (53.85%) Prometheus
3 7 (53.85%) Terraform
4 4 (30.77%) Kubernetes
4 4 (30.77%) yum
5 1 (7.69%) Anchore
5 1 (7.69%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (7.69%) Kibana
5 1 (7.69%) Packer
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Oracle
2 3 (23.08%) PagerDuty
3 2 (15.38%) Microsoft