Linux Command Line Contracts in the South East

Linux/Unix Command Line Interface (CLI)
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Linux Command Line in contract job vacancies advertised in the South East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Linux Command Line over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 174 204 236
Rank change year-on-year +30 +32 -44
Contract jobs citing Linux Command Line 25 20 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.45% 0.34% 0.40%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.58% 1.01% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 11 14
10th Percentile £462 £450 £355
25th Percentile £520 £488 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +7.32% +70.83%
75th Percentile £650 £644 £540
90th Percentile £681 £763 £617
England median daily rate £550 £538 £525
% change year-on-year +2.33% +2.38% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £50.77
England median hourly rate £70.00 £75.00 £46.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +63.04% -

All Generic Skills
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,581 1,979 2,640
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 28.49% 33.92% 34.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 923 1,339 1,698
10th Percentile £205 £213 £213
25th Percentile £359 £381 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £608 £639 £600
90th Percentile £688 £725 £675
England median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 153 90 121
10th Percentile £11.73 £18.25 £16.11
25th Percentile £18.35 £20.48 £17.50
Median hourly rate £47.50 £51.25 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% +138.37% -28.33%
75th Percentile £61.30 £67.41 £48.75
90th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £63.25
England median hourly rate £30.00 £22.50 £26.50
% change year-on-year +33.33% -15.09% +0.88%

Linux Command Line
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Command Line in the South East

Linux Command Line
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Linux Command Line in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Linux Command Line in the South East

Linux Command Line
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux Command Line in the South East over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux Command Line in the South East

Linux Command Line
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Linux Command Line in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Linux Command Line in the South East

Linux Command Line
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 26 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
Hampshire +1 8 £474 -13.82% 5
West Sussex - 8 £575 -
Thames Valley +11 6 £650 +18.99% 4
Berkshire -6 5 £650 -1.33%
Surrey +8 3 £650 - 2
Buckinghamshire +29 1 £550 +4.76% 4
Linux Command Line
England

Linux Command Line
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Business Applications
1 7 (28.00%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 8 (32.00%) GitHub
2 5 (20.00%) IaaS
3 4 (16.00%) Azure
4 1 (4.00%) AWS
4 1 (4.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (4.00%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.00%) BGP
1 3 (12.00%) Cisco IOS
1 3 (12.00%) IOS XR
2 2 (8.00%) Firewall
2 2 (8.00%) SAN
3 1 (4.00%) DNS
3 1 (4.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (60.00%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (36.00%) MongoDB
2 9 (36.00%) Relational Database
3 6 (24.00%) SQL Server
4 5 (20.00%) MySQL
4 5 (20.00%) RDBMS
5 2 (8.00%) Oracle Database
6 1 (4.00%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 15 (60.00%) GitLab
2 6 (24.00%) Git
General
1 3 (12.00%) Social Skills
1 3 (12.00%) Telecoms
2 2 (8.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (36.00%) Linux Engineer
2 8 (32.00%) Database Specialist
3 6 (24.00%) Platform Engineer
3 6 (24.00%) Platform Specialist
4 3 (12.00%) Automation Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) Network Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Developer
5 2 (8.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 2 (8.00%) Python Developer
5 2 (8.00%) Systems Administrator
6 1 (4.00%) Analyst
6 1 (4.00%) Database Analyst
6 1 (4.00%) DBA
6 1 (4.00%) Full Stack Developer
6 1 (4.00%) PostgreSQL Specialist
6 1 (4.00%) Python Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) SQL DBA
6 1 (4.00%) SQL Server DBA
6 1 (4.00%) SQL Server Specialist
6 1 (4.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.00%) Django
2 3 (12.00%) JSON
2 3 (12.00%) REST
2 3 (12.00%) RESTful
2 3 (12.00%) YANG
3 2 (8.00%) YAML
4 1 (4.00%) CSS
4 1 (4.00%) HTML
4 1 (4.00%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 8 (32.00%) Clustering
1 8 (32.00%) Replication
2 3 (12.00%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (12.00%) Public Cloud
2 3 (12.00%) Smart Meter
3 1 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 21 (84.00%) Linux
2 9 (36.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (28.00%) Unix
3 7 (28.00%) VMS
4 2 (8.00%) Ubuntu
5 1 (4.00%) Android
5 1 (4.00%) Apple iOS
5 1 (4.00%) Debian
5 1 (4.00%) Windows
5 1 (4.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (44.00%) Agile
2 10 (40.00%) Capacity Management
2 10 (40.00%) Data Migration
2 10 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 10 (40.00%) High Availability
2 10 (40.00%) Migration
2 10 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
2 10 (40.00%) Task Automation
3 9 (36.00%) Storage Management
4 8 (32.00%) CI/CD
4 8 (32.00%) Containerisation
4 8 (32.00%) Database Security
4 8 (32.00%) Platform Engineering
4 8 (32.00%) Project Delivery
5 7 (28.00%) Runbook
5 7 (28.00%) Scrum
6 5 (20.00%) Build Automation
6 5 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (20.00%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 19 (76.00%) Bash
2 12 (48.00%) Python
3 6 (24.00%) Shell Script
3 6 (24.00%) SQL
4 4 (16.00%) JavaScript
5 3 (12.00%) Java
5 3 (12.00%) T-SQL
6 1 (4.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 19 (76.00%) SC Cleared
1 19 (76.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.00%) QA
System Software
1 16 (64.00%) vSphere
2 12 (48.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (16.00%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (12.00%) Docker
4 3 (12.00%) VMware NSX
5 2 (8.00%) Ceph
5 2 (8.00%) Hyper-V
5 2 (8.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 1 (4.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 21 (84.00%) Ansible
2 12 (48.00%) Terraform
3 7 (28.00%) Kubernetes
3 7 (28.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 7 (28.00%) Packer
3 7 (28.00%) vRealize
4 2 (8.00%) Pacemaker
4 2 (8.00%) Podman
4 2 (8.00%) Red Hat Satellite
5 1 (4.00%) VxRail
Vendors
1 17 (68.00%) Red Hat
1 17 (68.00%) VMware
2 15 (60.00%) Oracle
3 9 (36.00%) SolarWinds
4 5 (20.00%) Arqiva
4 5 (20.00%) Veritas
5 3 (12.00%) Cisco
5 3 (12.00%) TOWER Software
6 2 (8.00%) Microsoft
6 2 (8.00%) Sun
7 1 (4.00%) Dell