Linux Jobs in Tyne and Wear

Linux
North East > Tyne and Wear

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Tyne and Wear with a requirement for Linux skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Linux over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 63 54 7
Rank change year-on-year -9 -47 -1
Permanent jobs citing Linux 37 38 146
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 2.69% 4.17% 13.58%
As % of the Operating Systems category 23.87% 38.38% 60.83%
Number of salaries quoted 28 32 84
10th Percentile £37,026 £31,538 £32,725
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,219 £33,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,672 £48,750
Median % change year-on-year +10.13% -2.21% -2.50%
75th Percentile £67,968 £65,000 £58,750
90th Percentile - £79,875 £62,125
North East median annual salary £52,500 £41,750 £40,000
% change year-on-year +25.75% +4.38% -20.00%

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 permanent job vacancies advertised in Tyne and Wear with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 155 99 240
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 11.29% 10.87% 22.33%
Number of salaries quoted 140 84 175
10th Percentile £23,500 £26,075 £21,500
25th Percentile £27,500 £31,438 £28,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £43,500 £38,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.79% +14.47% -15.56%
75th Percentile £50,313 £60,313 £56,875
90th Percentile £63,047 £68,125 £58,750
North East median annual salary £37,500 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% - -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
Salary Trend in Tyne and Wear

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

Salary trend for Linux in Tyne and Wear

Linux
Salary Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Linux in Tyne and Wear

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Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 23 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Newcastle upon Tyne -8 28 £50,000 +4.88% 4
Sunderland - 3 £55,000 -
Gateshead 0 1 £55,000 +69.23% 1
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 6 (16.22%) Confluence
2 2 (5.41%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 20 (54.05%) AWS
2 8 (21.62%) Azure
3 4 (10.81%) Amazon ECS
3 4 (10.81%) SaaS
4 2 (5.41%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (5.41%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (5.41%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (5.41%) Slack
4 2 (5.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (2.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (2.70%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.41%) DHCP
1 2 (5.41%) DNS
1 2 (5.41%) Firewall
1 2 (5.41%) HTTPS
1 2 (5.41%) SSL
1 2 (5.41%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.70%) Network Security
2 1 (2.70%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.41%) MongoDB
1 2 (5.41%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (5.41%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.70%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (24.32%) GitLab
2 6 (16.22%) JIRA
3 5 (13.51%) Artifactory
4 2 (5.41%) Git
General
1 11 (29.73%) Public Sector
2 3 (8.11%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (5.41%) Social Skills
4 1 (2.70%) Aerospace
4 1 (2.70%) Automotive
4 1 (2.70%) Electronics
4 1 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.70%) Police
Job Titles
1 14 (37.84%) Senior
2 10 (27.03%) Linux Engineer
3 7 (18.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (18.92%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (16.22%) DevOps Engineer
4 6 (16.22%) Embedded Engineer
4 6 (16.22%) Embedded Linux Engineer
4 6 (16.22%) Senior Embedded Engineer
4 6 (16.22%) Senior Linux Engineer
4 6 (16.22%) Systems Engineer
4 6 (16.22%) Unix Engineer
5 5 (13.51%) Cloud Engineer
5 5 (13.51%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (13.51%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 4 (10.81%) Lead
6 4 (10.81%) Unix Linux Engineer
7 3 (8.11%) Support Engineer
8 2 (5.41%) Lead DevOps Engineer
8 2 (5.41%) Team Leader
8 2 (5.41%) Unix Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.81%) AWS CDK
1 4 (10.81%) Lambda Expressions
2 2 (5.41%) .NET
2 2 (5.41%) LAPP Stack
2 2 (5.41%) REST
2 2 (5.41%) SOAP
2 2 (5.41%) Web Services
3 1 (2.70%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.51%) Hybrid Cloud
1 5 (13.51%) Public Cloud
2 4 (10.81%) Greenfield Project
2 4 (10.81%) Private Cloud
3 2 (5.41%) Data Centre
3 2 (5.41%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (5.41%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (5.41%) Robotics
4 1 (2.70%) Client/Server
4 1 (2.70%) Cyber Security Posture
4 1 (2.70%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (27.03%) Windows
2 9 (24.32%) Unix
3 7 (18.92%) Embedded Linux
4 4 (10.81%) AIX
5 3 (8.11%) Windows Server
6 2 (5.41%) Amazon Linux
6 2 (5.41%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (2.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (2.70%) SUSE
7 1 (2.70%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (2.70%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (32.43%) Infrastructure as Code
2 10 (27.03%) Coaching
2 10 (27.03%) Mentoring
3 8 (21.62%) CI/CD
3 8 (21.62%) Continuous Integration
3 8 (21.62%) DevOps
3 8 (21.62%) Service Management
4 7 (18.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 7 (18.92%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 6 (16.22%) ITIL
5 6 (16.22%) Migration
6 5 (13.51%) Operational Stability
6 5 (13.51%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (10.81%) Agile
7 4 (10.81%) Community of Practice
7 4 (10.81%) Containerisation
7 4 (10.81%) Continuous Deployment
7 4 (10.81%) Resource Management
7 4 (10.81%) Software Testing
7 4 (10.81%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (8.11%) C
1 3 (8.11%) C++
1 3 (8.11%) Python
2 2 (5.41%) Bash
2 2 (5.41%) C#
2 2 (5.41%) VB
3 1 (2.70%) PowerShell
3 1 (2.70%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 1 (2.70%) SC Cleared
1 1 (2.70%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (10.81%) Docker
2 1 (2.70%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.70%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (2.70%) Firmware
2 1 (2.70%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 9 (24.32%) Terraform
2 6 (16.22%) Ansible
3 4 (10.81%) Kubernetes
4 2 (5.41%) Grafana
4 2 (5.41%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.70%) SCCM
5 1 (2.70%) SCOM
5 1 (2.70%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 3 (8.11%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.41%) IBM
2 2 (5.41%) Oracle
2 2 (5.41%) Red Hat
3 1 (2.70%) BMC
3 1 (2.70%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (2.70%) Dynatrace
3 1 (2.70%) Google
3 1 (2.70%) PagerDuty
3 1 (2.70%) VMware