Linux Command Line Contracts in London

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

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Linux Command Line in contract job vacancies advertised in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Linux Command Line over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 348 399 469
Rank change year-on-year +51 +70 -54
Contract jobs citing Linux Command Line 46 96 136
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.26% 0.35% 0.35%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.79% 0.99% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 66 72
10th Percentile £378 £476 £414
25th Percentile £488 £500 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £538 £571
Median % change year-on-year +5.12% -5.78% +6.14%
75th Percentile £650 £573 £661
90th Percentile £755 £650 £738
England median daily rate £550 £538 £525
% change year-on-year +2.33% +2.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 1
10th Percentile - £20.00 -
25th Percentile - £47.50 £42.00
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £46.00
Median % change year-on-year - +63.04% -
75th Percentile - £79.00 £50.00
90th Percentile - £95.80 -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £75.00 £46.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +63.04% -

All Generic Skills
London

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 London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,852 9,722 14,221
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 33.04% 35.90% 36.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,137 6,983 10,364
10th Percentile £300 £375 £400
25th Percentile £450 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +10.34%
75th Percentile £725 £745 £700
90th Percentile £850 £838 £800
England median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 161 113 196
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.93 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.93 £21.24 £23.91
Median hourly rate £26.00 £35.00 £44.15
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% -20.72% +35.85%
75th Percentile £46.86 £64.50 £53.16
90th Percentile £67.00 £83.60 £71.55
England median hourly rate £30.00 £22.50 £26.98
% change year-on-year +33.33% -16.60% +1.24%

Linux Command Line
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Command Line in London

Linux Command Line
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Linux Command Line in London

Linux Command Line
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux Command Line in London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux Command Line in London

Linux Command Line
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux Command Line in London

Linux Command Line
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 27 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
Central London +41 11 £600 +10.34% 6
South London +11 1 £475 -20.83% 2
Linux Command Line
England

Linux Command Line
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (10.87%) Confluence
2 3 (6.52%) Apache
2 3 (6.52%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (4.35%) IIS
3 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (2.17%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (2.17%) SharePoint
4 1 (2.17%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 5 (10.87%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 12 (26.09%) Azure
2 7 (15.22%) AWS
3 6 (13.04%) GitHub
4 5 (10.87%) Amazon S3
5 3 (6.52%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (6.52%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (6.52%) Amazon Kinesis
5 3 (6.52%) Dagster
5 3 (6.52%) dbt
5 3 (6.52%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (6.52%) OpenShift
5 3 (6.52%) Serverless
5 3 (6.52%) WhatsApp
6 2 (4.35%) Amazon ECR
6 2 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (4.35%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (4.35%) Entra ID
6 2 (4.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (13.04%) SSH
2 4 (8.70%) DNS
3 2 (4.35%) DHCP
3 2 (4.35%) Firewall
3 2 (4.35%) LAN
3 2 (4.35%) Radio Access Network
3 2 (4.35%) SNMP
3 2 (4.35%) TCP/IP
3 2 (4.35%) tcpdump
3 2 (4.35%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (4.35%) Wireshark
4 1 (2.17%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (2.17%) iSCSI
4 1 (2.17%) MQTT
4 1 (2.17%) NAS
4 1 (2.17%) Network Security
4 1 (2.17%) SAN
4 1 (2.17%) SSL
4 1 (2.17%) VPN
4 1 (2.17%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (19.57%) SQL Server
1 9 (19.57%) Sybase ASE
2 4 (8.70%) Amazon Redshift
2 4 (8.70%) DB2
2 4 (8.70%) Flink
2 4 (8.70%) Oracle Database
2 4 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (8.70%) RDBMS
2 4 (8.70%) Relational Database
3 3 (6.52%) Amazon Athena
3 3 (6.52%) Big Data
3 3 (6.52%) DynamoDB
4 2 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (4.35%) Data Mart
4 2 (4.35%) MongoDB
4 2 (4.35%) MySQL
5 1 (2.17%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (2.17%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.17%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (23.91%) JIRA
2 9 (19.57%) Git
3 6 (13.04%) JUnit
4 5 (10.87%) Cucumber
4 5 (10.87%) Pylint
5 4 (8.70%) Gradle
6 3 (6.52%) Artifactory
6 3 (6.52%) GitLab
6 3 (6.52%) Poetry
7 2 (4.35%) SonarQube
8 1 (2.17%) Ant
8 1 (2.17%) GoCD
8 1 (2.17%) Jenkins
8 1 (2.17%) Maven
General
1 18 (39.13%) Finance
1 18 (39.13%) Social Skills
2 14 (30.43%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (4.35%) Banking
3 2 (4.35%) Front Office
3 2 (4.35%) Investment Banking
3 2 (4.35%) Military
3 2 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (26.09%) Developer
2 8 (17.39%) DBA
2 8 (17.39%) Senior
2 8 (17.39%) Sybase DBA
3 6 (13.04%) Java Developer
3 6 (13.04%) Linux Engineer
4 5 (10.87%) Applications Engineer
4 5 (10.87%) Applications Support
4 5 (10.87%) Applications Support Engineer
4 5 (10.87%) Support Engineer
5 4 (8.70%) JIRA Engineer
5 4 (8.70%) Senior Developer
6 3 (6.52%) Administrator
6 3 (6.52%) Azure Engineer
6 3 (6.52%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (6.52%) Linux/Unix DevOps
6 3 (6.52%) Machine Learning Engineer
6 3 (6.52%) Network Engineer
6 3 (6.52%) Senior DBA
6 3 (6.52%) Senior Sybase DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (21.74%) REST
2 9 (19.57%) Web Services
3 8 (17.39%) HTML
3 8 (17.39%) Kafka
3 8 (17.39%) Spring
4 7 (15.22%) JSON
4 7 (15.22%) pytest
4 7 (15.22%) WebSockets
5 6 (13.04%) React
6 5 (10.87%) Hibernate
6 5 (10.87%) J2EE
6 5 (10.87%) JPA
6 5 (10.87%) SOAP
6 5 (10.87%) XML
7 3 (6.52%) Lambda Expressions
7 3 (6.52%) LAPP Stack
7 3 (6.52%) Pandas
7 3 (6.52%) scikit-learn
7 3 (6.52%) Seaborn
7 3 (6.52%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 10 (21.74%) Replication
2 6 (13.04%) Data Centre
3 5 (10.87%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (10.87%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (6.52%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (4.35%) Algorithms
5 2 (4.35%) Data Structures
5 2 (4.35%) Management Information System
5 2 (4.35%) Renewable Energy
5 2 (4.35%) Solar Panel
6 1 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.17%) Derivative
6 1 (2.17%) Interest Rate Derivative
6 1 (2.17%) Mobile App
6 1 (2.17%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 44 (95.65%) Linux
2 19 (41.30%) Unix
3 5 (10.87%) Windows
4 4 (8.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (4.35%) CentOS
5 2 (4.35%) VMS
6 1 (2.17%) Android
6 1 (2.17%) Apple iOS
6 1 (2.17%) Ubuntu
6 1 (2.17%) Windows Mobile
6 1 (2.17%) Windows Server
6 1 (2.17%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (2.17%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (39.13%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (32.61%) CI/CD
3 13 (28.26%) DevOps
3 13 (28.26%) SDLC
4 10 (21.74%) Migration
4 10 (21.74%) Open Source
5 9 (19.57%) Agile
5 9 (19.57%) Software Architecture
5 9 (19.57%) Software Engineering
5 9 (19.57%) Task Automation
6 8 (17.39%) Scrum
6 8 (17.39%) TDD
7 7 (15.22%) Containerisation
7 7 (15.22%) CQRS
7 7 (15.22%) ITIL
7 7 (15.22%) Root Cause Analysis
8 6 (13.04%) Incident Management
8 6 (13.04%) Operational Acceptance Testing
9 5 (10.87%) Business Analysis
9 5 (10.87%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 27 (58.70%) Python
1 27 (58.70%) SQL
2 16 (34.78%) Perl
3 15 (32.61%) Java
4 8 (17.39%) Shell Script
5 7 (15.22%) JavaScript
6 6 (13.04%) PowerShell
6 6 (13.04%) T-SQL
7 3 (6.52%) Bash
8 1 (2.17%) Go
8 1 (2.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (8.70%) SC Cleared
1 4 (8.70%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.35%) CCNA
2 2 (4.35%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (4.35%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (19.57%) QA
2 3 (6.52%) Data Quality
3 2 (4.35%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (34.78%) Docker
2 4 (8.70%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 3 (6.52%) Active Directory
4 2 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (2.17%) Firmware
5 1 (2.17%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (2.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (36.96%) Kubernetes
2 5 (10.87%) Ansible
2 5 (10.87%) Terraform
3 2 (4.35%) Grafana
3 2 (4.35%) Nmap
3 2 (4.35%) OpenNMS
3 2 (4.35%) Progress Chef
3 2 (4.35%) Puppet
3 2 (4.35%) Salt
3 2 (4.35%) SCCM
4 1 (2.17%) Kibana
4 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (2.17%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.17%) yum
Vendors
1 9 (19.57%) SAP
1 9 (19.57%) Sybase
2 8 (17.39%) Oracle
3 5 (10.87%) Atlassian
4 4 (8.70%) Cisco
4 4 (8.70%) IBM
4 4 (8.70%) ServiceNow
4 4 (8.70%) Sun
4 4 (8.70%) Veritas
5 3 (6.52%) Microsoft
5 3 (6.52%) Red Hat
5 3 (6.52%) VMware
6 2 (4.35%) Qualys
6 2 (4.35%) SaltStack
7 1 (2.17%) Aruba
7 1 (2.17%) Palo Alto
7 1 (2.17%) ProCurve
7 1 (2.17%) Synology
7 1 (2.17%) Veeam
7 1 (2.17%) Zerto