Linux Command Line Contracts in the UK excluding London

Linux/Unix Command Line Interface (CLI)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Linux Command Line in contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Linux Command Line over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 307 363 414
Rank change year-on-year +56 +51 -53
Contract jobs citing Linux Command Line 83 80 93
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.41% 0.34% 0.31%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.39% 1.06% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 57 57
10th Percentile £445 £313 £355
25th Percentile £510 £484 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% +3.71% +5.00%
75th Percentile £644 £625 £550
90th Percentile £750 £750 £610
UK median daily rate £550 £534 £550
% change year-on-year +3.04% -2.95% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 2
10th Percentile £30.63 - £43.33
25th Percentile - - £44.57
Median hourly rate £70.00 £47.73 £47.89
Median % change year-on-year +46.66% -0.32% -
75th Percentile - - £49.95
90th Percentile - - £50.44
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £75.00 £46.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +63.04% -

All Generic Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,963 7,572 9,673
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.11% 32.41% 31.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,579 5,094 6,703
10th Percentile £208 £220 £205
25th Percentile £375 £388 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £613 £575
90th Percentile £688 £700 £672
UK median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 723 430 460
10th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £12.21
25th Percentile £14.06 £10.63 £15.50
Median hourly rate £28.50 £22.00 £21.02
Median % change year-on-year +29.55% +4.66% -12.42%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £62.16
UK median hourly rate £31.25 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +38.98% -18.24% +3.19%

Linux Command Line
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Command Line in the UK excluding London

Linux Command Line
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Linux Command Line in the UK excluding London

Linux Command Line
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux Command Line in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux Command Line in the UK excluding London

Linux Command Line
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux Command Line in the UK excluding London

Linux Command Line
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Linux Command Line in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Linux Command Line in the UK excluding London

Linux Command Line
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 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
South East +28 25 £575 +4.55% 11
Midlands +37 17 £550 +69.23% 5
South West +9 17 £550 -8.33% 7
West Midlands +28 15 £550 +3.77% 2
Scotland +31 12 £750 +42.86% 6
North of England +34 7 £445 -24.26% 3
Yorkshire +20 5 £445 -37.54% 1
East of England +12 3 £625 -13.79% 3
East Midlands +16 2 £509 +56.62% 3
North West +15 2 £513 +7.89% 2
Northern Ireland +7 2 - -
Linux Command Line
UK

Linux Command Line
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 8 (9.64%) Confluence
2 2 (2.41%) IIS
2 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.41%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.41%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 7 (8.43%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 17 (20.48%) GitHub
2 11 (13.25%) Azure
3 7 (8.43%) AWS
4 6 (7.23%) Amazon EC2
4 6 (7.23%) Amazon S3
4 6 (7.23%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (7.23%) Serverless
5 5 (6.02%) IaaS
5 5 (6.02%) OpenShift
6 4 (4.82%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (3.61%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (2.41%) Azure Storage
8 2 (2.41%) OneDrive
9 1 (1.20%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (1.20%) Azure AKS
9 1 (1.20%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (1.20%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (1.20%) Entra ID
9 1 (1.20%) npm
9 1 (1.20%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.23%) Firewall
1 6 (7.23%) Network Security
1 6 (7.23%) SAN
2 5 (6.02%) AMQP
3 3 (3.61%) BGP
3 3 (3.61%) Cisco IOS
3 3 (3.61%) DNS
3 3 (3.61%) IOS XR
4 2 (2.41%) Cisco ISE
4 2 (2.41%) Fibre Channel
4 2 (2.41%) FTP
4 2 (2.41%) iSCSI
4 2 (2.41%) NAS
4 2 (2.41%) VPN
4 2 (2.41%) Wireless
5 1 (1.20%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (19.28%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (18.07%) Relational Database
3 12 (14.46%) Elasticsearch
4 10 (12.05%) MongoDB
5 8 (9.64%) SQL Server
6 6 (7.23%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (7.23%) InfluxDB
6 6 (7.23%) MySQL
7 5 (6.02%) RDBMS
8 3 (3.61%) Redis
9 2 (2.41%) Oracle Database
10 1 (1.20%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (1.20%) MariaDB
10 1 (1.20%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 20 (24.10%) JIRA
2 18 (21.69%) GitLab
3 16 (19.28%) Jenkins
4 9 (10.84%) Git
5 8 (9.64%) GoogleTest
6 3 (3.61%) Subversion
7 2 (2.41%) Selenium
8 1 (1.20%) CircleCI
8 1 (1.20%) Gradle
8 1 (1.20%) gulp
8 1 (1.20%) Maven
8 1 (1.20%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (1.20%) TeamCity
8 1 (1.20%) Travis CI
General
1 7 (8.43%) Finance
1 7 (8.43%) Public Sector
1 7 (8.43%) Social Skills
2 5 (6.02%) Telecoms
3 4 (4.82%) Electronics
3 4 (4.82%) Manufacturing
4 2 (2.41%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.41%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (2.41%) Marketing
4 2 (2.41%) Military
5 1 (1.20%) Banking
5 1 (1.20%) Fire and Rescue
5 1 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.20%) Police
Job Titles
1 13 (15.66%) Linux Engineer
2 12 (14.46%) SIEM Engineer
3 8 (9.64%) Database Specialist
3 8 (9.64%) DevOps Engineer
3 8 (9.64%) Java Engineer
3 8 (9.64%) Java Software Engineer
3 8 (9.64%) Software Engineer
4 7 (8.43%) Applications Engineer
4 7 (8.43%) JIRA Engineer
4 7 (8.43%) Network Engineer
4 7 (8.43%) Support Engineer
5 6 (7.23%) Applications Support
5 6 (7.23%) Applications Support Engineer
5 6 (7.23%) Platform Engineer
5 6 (7.23%) Platform Specialist
5 6 (7.23%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 5 (6.02%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 5 (6.02%) Systems Administrator
7 4 (4.82%) Automation Engineer
7 4 (4.82%) C++ Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (18.07%) REST
2 11 (13.25%) Elastic Stack
3 9 (10.84%) Qt
4 7 (8.43%) Web Services
4 7 (8.43%) YAML
5 6 (7.23%) JSON
6 5 (6.02%) RabbitMQ
7 4 (4.82%) Django
8 3 (3.61%) RESTful
8 3 (3.61%) YANG
9 2 (2.41%) 802.1X
9 2 (2.41%) LAMP
9 2 (2.41%) pytest
10 1 (1.20%) ARM Templates
10 1 (1.20%) CSS
10 1 (1.20%) HTML
10 1 (1.20%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 12 (14.46%) Replication
2 9 (10.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 8 (9.64%) Clustering
4 7 (8.43%) Data Centre
5 5 (6.02%) FPGA
6 3 (3.61%) ASIC
6 3 (3.61%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (3.61%) Public Cloud
6 3 (3.61%) Smart Meter
6 3 (3.61%) Verilog
7 2 (2.41%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.20%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 73 (87.95%) Linux
2 16 (19.28%) Windows
3 14 (16.87%) Ubuntu
4 13 (15.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (12.05%) Unix
6 9 (10.84%) VMS
7 5 (6.02%) Windows Server
8 2 (2.41%) Alpine Linux
8 2 (2.41%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (2.41%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (1.20%) Android
9 1 (1.20%) Apple iOS
9 1 (1.20%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (40.96%) CI/CD
2 22 (26.51%) DevOps
3 20 (24.10%) Agile
4 16 (19.28%) Data Migration
4 16 (19.28%) Migration
5 13 (15.66%) Infrastructure Monitoring
5 13 (15.66%) Service Management
6 12 (14.46%) Mentoring
6 12 (14.46%) SIEM
6 12 (14.46%) Software Engineering
6 12 (14.46%) Storage Management
7 11 (13.25%) Task Automation
8 10 (12.05%) Build Automation
8 10 (12.05%) Capacity Management
8 10 (12.05%) Disaster Recovery
8 10 (12.05%) High Availability
8 10 (12.05%) Performance Tuning
8 10 (12.05%) RBAC
8 10 (12.05%) Visualisation
9 9 (10.84%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 38 (45.78%) Python
2 28 (33.73%) Bash
3 19 (22.89%) Java
4 16 (19.28%) Shell Script
5 13 (15.66%) SQL
6 12 (14.46%) C++
7 9 (10.84%) PowerShell
8 8 (9.64%) R
9 7 (8.43%) C
9 7 (8.43%) Go
10 5 (6.02%) JavaScript
10 5 (6.02%) Perl
11 3 (3.61%) Assembly Language
11 3 (3.61%) SystemVerilog
11 3 (3.61%) Tcl
11 3 (3.61%) T-SQL
12 1 (1.20%) Groovy
12 1 (1.20%) PHP
12 1 (1.20%) Ruby
12 1 (1.20%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 40 (48.19%) Security Cleared
2 28 (33.73%) SC Cleared
3 12 (14.46%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.41%) Degree
4 2 (2.41%) HND
5 1 (1.20%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.84%) MISRA
2 1 (1.20%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.20%) QA
System Software
1 18 (21.69%) vSphere
2 14 (16.87%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (15.66%) Active Directory
4 11 (13.25%) Docker
5 9 (10.84%) iptables
6 6 (7.23%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (6.02%) VMware NSX
8 4 (4.82%) Hyper-V
9 2 (2.41%) Ceph
9 2 (2.41%) Firmware
9 2 (2.41%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 2 (2.41%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 38 (45.78%) Ansible
2 21 (25.30%) Terraform
3 16 (19.28%) Kubernetes
4 12 (14.46%) Grafana
4 12 (14.46%) Prometheus
5 11 (13.25%) Kibana
5 11 (13.25%) logstash
6 7 (8.43%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 7 (8.43%) Packer
6 7 (8.43%) Progress Chef
6 7 (8.43%) vRealize
7 5 (6.02%) Docker Swarm
8 4 (4.82%) Red Hat Satellite
9 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (2.41%) Pacemaker
9 2 (2.41%) Podman
9 2 (2.41%) SCCM
9 2 (2.41%) vCenter Server
10 1 (1.20%) VxRail
Vendors
1 21 (25.30%) VMware
2 19 (22.89%) Red Hat
3 15 (18.07%) Oracle
4 9 (10.84%) Google
4 9 (10.84%) SolarWinds
5 8 (9.64%) Atlassian
6 7 (8.43%) EMC
7 6 (7.23%) Microsoft
8 5 (6.02%) Arqiva
8 5 (6.02%) Cisco
8 5 (6.02%) Veritas
9 4 (4.82%) Palo Alto
9 4 (4.82%) Veeam
10 3 (3.61%) Cadence
10 3 (3.61%) Dell
10 3 (3.61%) Synopsys
10 3 (3.61%) TOWER Software
10 3 (3.61%) Xilinx
11 2 (2.41%) CheckPoint
11 2 (2.41%) ProCurve
81 Linux Command Line jobs Nationwide