Linux Command Line Contracts in England

Linux/Unix Command Line Interface (CLI)
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Linux Command Line in contract job vacancies advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Linux Command Line over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 423 487 547
Rank change year-on-year +64 +60 -35
Contract jobs citing Linux Command Line 115 169 238
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.31% 0.33% 0.33%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.01% 1.00% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 117 125
10th Percentile £405 £340 £393
25th Percentile £484 £490 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% +2.38% -
75th Percentile £625 £614 £625
90th Percentile £731 £692 £718
UK median daily rate £550 £534 £540
% change year-on-year +3.04% -1.16% +0.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 3
10th Percentile - £20.00 £42.10
25th Percentile - £33.75 £42.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £75.00 £46.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +63.04% -
75th Percentile - - £50.39
90th Percentile - £79.00 £50.62
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £75.00 £46.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +63.04% -

All Generic Skills
England

Linux Command Line is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 11,373 16,983 24,061
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.76% 33.65% 33.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,428 11,801 17,096
10th Percentile £263 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £695 £675
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 820 591 641
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.16 £10.63 £16.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £22.50 £26.98
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -16.60% +2.08%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.77
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +28.97% -18.24% +3.19%

Linux Command Line
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Linux Command Line as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Linux Command Line in England

Linux Command Line
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Linux Command Line in England.

Daily rate trend for Linux Command Line in England

Linux Command Line
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux Command Line in England over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux Command Line in England

Linux Command Line
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Linux Command Line in England.

Hourly rate trend for Linux Command Line in England

Linux Command Line
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux Command Line within the England region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
London +58 46 £565 +5.12% 25
South East +25 25 £575 +4.55% 11
Midlands +35 17 £550 +69.23% 9
West Midlands +43 15 £550 +3.77% 5
South West +6 12 £550 -8.33% 4
North of England +31 7 £445 -6.32% 7
Yorkshire +26 5 £445 -37.54% 1
North West +20 2 £513 +20.31% 5
East Midlands +15 2 £509 +56.62% 4
East of England +7 2 £625 -13.79% 8
Linux Command Line
UK

Linux Command Line
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 5 (4.35%) Confluence
1 5 (4.35%) IIS
2 4 (3.48%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.61%) Apache
3 3 (2.61%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (2.61%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.61%) WordPress
4 1 (0.87%) Red Hat Fuse
Business Applications
1 7 (6.09%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (4.35%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 25 (21.74%) Azure
2 18 (15.65%) GitHub
3 16 (13.91%) AWS
4 11 (9.57%) Amazon S3
5 9 (7.83%) Amazon EC2
5 9 (7.83%) Serverless
6 8 (6.96%) AWS Lambda
6 8 (6.96%) OpenShift
7 7 (6.09%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (4.35%) Azure Storage
8 5 (4.35%) IaaS
8 5 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (3.48%) Entra ID
10 3 (2.61%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (2.61%) Amazon Kinesis
10 3 (2.61%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (2.61%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (2.61%) dbt
10 3 (2.61%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (2.61%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 9 (7.83%) Firewall
2 8 (6.96%) DNS
2 8 (6.96%) Network Security
3 7 (6.09%) SAN
4 6 (5.22%) SSH
5 5 (4.35%) AMQP
6 3 (2.61%) BGP
6 3 (2.61%) Cisco IOS
6 3 (2.61%) Fibre Channel
6 3 (2.61%) IOS XR
6 3 (2.61%) iSCSI
6 3 (2.61%) NAS
6 3 (2.61%) TCP/IP
6 3 (2.61%) VPN
6 3 (2.61%) Wireless
7 2 (1.74%) Cisco ISE
7 2 (1.74%) DHCP
7 2 (1.74%) FTP
7 2 (1.74%) SNMP
7 2 (1.74%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (16.52%) PostgreSQL
1 19 (16.52%) Relational Database
2 17 (14.78%) SQL Server
3 12 (10.43%) Elasticsearch
4 11 (9.57%) MongoDB
5 9 (7.83%) RDBMS
5 9 (7.83%) Sybase ASE
6 8 (6.96%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (6.09%) MySQL
8 6 (5.22%) InfluxDB
8 6 (5.22%) Oracle Database
9 4 (3.48%) Amazon Redshift
9 4 (3.48%) DB2
9 4 (3.48%) Flink
9 4 (3.48%) Redis
10 3 (2.61%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (2.61%) Big Data
10 3 (2.61%) DynamoDB
11 2 (1.74%) Data Mart
12 1 (0.87%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 23 (20.00%) GitLab
2 19 (16.52%) Git
3 17 (14.78%) JIRA
4 12 (10.43%) Jenkins
5 6 (5.22%) JUnit
6 5 (4.35%) Cucumber
6 5 (4.35%) Pylint
7 4 (3.48%) GoogleTest
7 4 (3.48%) Gradle
7 4 (3.48%) Selenium
8 3 (2.61%) Artifactory
8 3 (2.61%) Poetry
9 2 (1.74%) SonarQube
9 2 (1.74%) Subversion
10 1 (0.87%) Ant
10 1 (0.87%) GoCD
10 1 (0.87%) Maven
General
1 25 (21.74%) Finance
2 24 (20.87%) Social Skills
3 16 (13.91%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (8.70%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.35%) Telecoms
6 4 (3.48%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.61%) Banking
7 3 (2.61%) Military
8 2 (1.74%) Electronics
8 2 (1.74%) Front Office
8 2 (1.74%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.74%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.74%) Marketing
8 2 (1.74%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.87%) Fire and Rescue
9 1 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.87%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.87%) Police
Job Titles
1 16 (13.91%) Linux Engineer
2 14 (12.17%) Developer
2 14 (12.17%) Senior
3 13 (11.30%) DevOps Engineer
4 12 (10.43%) SIEM Engineer
5 10 (8.70%) Network Engineer
6 9 (7.83%) DBA
7 8 (6.96%) Database Specialist
7 8 (6.96%) Sybase DBA
8 7 (6.09%) Azure Engineer
9 6 (5.22%) Java Developer
9 6 (5.22%) Platform Engineer
9 6 (5.22%) Platform Specialist
9 6 (5.22%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 6 (5.22%) Software Engineer
9 6 (5.22%) Support Engineer
10 5 (4.35%) Applications Engineer
10 5 (4.35%) Applications Support
10 5 (4.35%) Applications Support Engineer
10 5 (4.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (15.65%) REST
2 12 (10.43%) JSON
3 11 (9.57%) Elastic Stack
3 11 (9.57%) pytest
3 11 (9.57%) YAML
4 9 (7.83%) HTML
4 9 (7.83%) Web Services
5 8 (6.96%) Kafka
5 8 (6.96%) Spring
6 7 (6.09%) WebSockets
7 6 (5.22%) React
8 5 (4.35%) Hibernate
8 5 (4.35%) J2EE
8 5 (4.35%) JPA
8 5 (4.35%) RabbitMQ
8 5 (4.35%) SOAP
8 5 (4.35%) XML
9 4 (3.48%) Django
9 4 (3.48%) Qt
9 4 (3.48%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 22 (19.13%) Replication
2 8 (6.96%) Clustering
2 8 (6.96%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (5.22%) Data Centre
4 5 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (3.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (2.61%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (2.61%) Public Cloud
6 3 (2.61%) Smart Meter
7 2 (1.74%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.74%) ASIC
7 2 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.74%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.74%) FPGA
7 2 (1.74%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.74%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (1.74%) Solar Panel
7 2 (1.74%) Verilog
8 1 (0.87%) Derivative
8 1 (0.87%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 104 (90.43%) Linux
2 28 (24.35%) Unix
3 23 (20.00%) Windows
4 19 (16.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 15 (13.04%) Ubuntu
6 12 (10.43%) VMS
7 6 (5.22%) Windows Server
8 4 (3.48%) Alpine Linux
9 3 (2.61%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (2.61%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (1.74%) Android
10 2 (1.74%) Apple iOS
10 2 (1.74%) CentOS
11 1 (0.87%) Debian
11 1 (0.87%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (37.39%) CI/CD
2 33 (28.70%) DevOps
3 24 (20.87%) Agile
4 21 (18.26%) Migration
5 20 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
5 20 (17.39%) Task Automation
6 16 (13.91%) Mentoring
6 16 (13.91%) SDLC
7 15 (13.04%) Containerisation
7 15 (13.04%) Scrum
8 14 (12.17%) Infrastructure Monitoring
8 14 (12.17%) ITIL
8 14 (12.17%) Software Engineering
8 14 (12.17%) Storage Management
9 13 (11.30%) Data Migration
9 13 (11.30%) Open Source
9 13 (11.30%) RBAC
10 12 (10.43%) Data Pipeline
10 12 (10.43%) Infrastructure as Code
10 12 (10.43%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 55 (47.83%) Python
2 40 (34.78%) SQL
3 30 (26.09%) Bash
4 28 (24.35%) Java
5 23 (20.00%) Shell Script
6 21 (18.26%) Perl
7 15 (13.04%) PowerShell
8 11 (9.57%) JavaScript
9 9 (7.83%) T-SQL
10 8 (6.96%) R
11 7 (6.09%) Go
12 6 (5.22%) C
12 6 (5.22%) C++
13 2 (1.74%) Assembly Language
13 2 (1.74%) SystemVerilog
13 2 (1.74%) Tcl
14 1 (0.87%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 41 (35.65%) Security Cleared
2 30 (26.09%) SC Cleared
3 12 (10.43%) DV Cleared
4 2 (1.74%) CCNA
4 2 (1.74%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.74%) Degree
5 1 (0.87%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.87%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.70%) QA
2 4 (3.48%) MISRA
3 3 (2.61%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.74%) SLA
System Software
1 29 (25.22%) Docker
2 19 (16.52%) vSphere
3 18 (15.65%) Active Directory
4 16 (13.91%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (7.83%) iptables
5 9 (7.83%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (5.22%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 5 (4.35%) VMware NSX
8 4 (3.48%) Hyper-V
9 2 (1.74%) Ceph
9 2 (1.74%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.87%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 39 (33.91%) Ansible
2 35 (30.43%) Kubernetes
3 28 (24.35%) Terraform
4 12 (10.43%) Grafana
4 12 (10.43%) Kibana
5 11 (9.57%) logstash
5 11 (9.57%) Prometheus
6 8 (6.96%) Progress Chef
7 7 (6.09%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 7 (6.09%) Packer
7 7 (6.09%) vRealize
8 5 (4.35%) Docker Swarm
8 5 (4.35%) SCCM
9 4 (3.48%) Red Hat Satellite
10 3 (2.61%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (1.74%) Pacemaker
11 2 (1.74%) Podman
11 2 (1.74%) Puppet
11 2 (1.74%) Salt
11 2 (1.74%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 24 (20.87%) VMware
2 23 (20.00%) Oracle
3 22 (19.13%) Red Hat
4 11 (9.57%) SAP
5 9 (7.83%) Cisco
5 9 (7.83%) Microsoft
5 9 (7.83%) SolarWinds
5 9 (7.83%) Sybase
5 9 (7.83%) Veritas
6 6 (5.22%) Sun
7 5 (4.35%) Arqiva
7 5 (4.35%) Atlassian
7 5 (4.35%) EMC
7 5 (4.35%) Palo Alto
7 5 (4.35%) Veeam
8 4 (3.48%) Google
8 4 (3.48%) IBM
8 4 (3.48%) ServiceNow
9 3 (2.61%) Dell
9 3 (2.61%) TOWER Software