Linux Command Line Contracts

Linux/Unix Command Line Interface (CLI)
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Linux Command Line in contract job vacancies. 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 445 483 547
Rank change year-on-year +38 +64 -37
Contract jobs citing Linux Command Line 134 221 322
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.31% 0.37% 0.36%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.01% 1.11% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 156 181
10th Percentile £428 £401 £363
25th Percentile £488 £488 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £534 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.04% +1.67% -0.33%
75th Percentile £647 £613 £625
90th Percentile £750 £676 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £530 £500
% change year-on-year +3.77% +6.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 8 3
10th Percentile £30.63 £20.00 £42.10
25th Percentile £40.47 £40.80 £42.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £75.00 £46.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +63.04% -
75th Percentile - £77.00 £50.39
90th Percentile - £92.60 £50.62
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 £47.73 £47.89
% change year-on-year +46.66% -0.32% -

All Generic Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 13,235 19,964 29,268
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.39% 33.29% 32.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,477 13,730 20,414
10th Percentile £263 £306 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £656 £680 £650
90th Percentile £788 £800 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 910 654 727
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £13.89
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.75 £16.75
Median hourly rate £30.00 £22.49 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.42% -16.72% +2.16%
75th Percentile £60.00 £64.50 £49.88
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £22.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +27.27% +10.00% -16.67%

Linux Command Line
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Command Line in the UK

Linux Command Line
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Linux Command Line in the UK

Linux Command Line
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Linux Command Line in the UK

Linux Command Line
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux Command Line in the UK

Linux Command Line
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Linux Command Line over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Linux Command Line in the UK

Linux Command Line
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 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
England +57 115 £550 +2.33% 64
UK excluding London +53 77 £550 +3.77% 42
London +61 46 £565 +5.12% 25
Work from Home +74 33 £500 -9.09% 45
South East +30 25 £575 +4.55% 11
Midlands +36 17 £550 +69.23% 9
West Midlands +43 15 £550 +3.77% 5
Scotland +17 12 £738 +43.76% 6
South West +13 12 £550 -8.33% 4
North of England +25 7 £445 -1.22% 6
Yorkshire +23 5 £445 -37.54% 1
East Midlands +18 2 £509 +56.62% 4
North West +16 2 £513 +20.31% 4
East of England +11 2 £625 -13.79% 7
Northern Ireland +9 2 - -

Linux Command Line
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 13 (9.70%) Confluence
2 8 (5.97%) IIS
3 4 (2.99%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (2.24%) Apache
4 3 (2.24%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (2.24%) SharePoint
4 3 (2.24%) WordPress
5 1 (0.75%) Red Hat Fuse
Business Applications
1 7 (5.22%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (3.73%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 31 (23.13%) Azure
2 20 (14.93%) GitHub
3 18 (13.43%) AWS
4 13 (9.70%) Azure DevOps
5 11 (8.21%) Amazon S3
6 9 (6.72%) Amazon EC2
6 9 (6.72%) Serverless
7 8 (5.97%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (5.97%) OpenShift
8 7 (5.22%) Azure Monitor
8 7 (5.22%) Entra ID
9 5 (3.73%) Azure Storage
9 5 (3.73%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (3.73%) IaaS
9 5 (3.73%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (2.24%) Amazon Kinesis
10 3 (2.24%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (2.24%) Dagster
10 3 (2.24%) dbt
10 3 (2.24%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 12 (8.96%) Firewall
2 11 (8.21%) DNS
2 11 (8.21%) Network Security
3 7 (5.22%) SAN
4 6 (4.48%) SSH
5 5 (3.73%) AMQP
5 5 (3.73%) SSL
6 3 (2.24%) BGP
6 3 (2.24%) Cisco IOS
6 3 (2.24%) Fibre Channel
6 3 (2.24%) IOS XR
6 3 (2.24%) iSCSI
6 3 (2.24%) NAS
6 3 (2.24%) TCP/IP
6 3 (2.24%) VPN
6 3 (2.24%) Wireless
7 2 (1.49%) DHCP
7 2 (1.49%) FTP
7 2 (1.49%) LAN
7 2 (1.49%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (16.42%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (14.18%) Relational Database
3 17 (12.69%) SQL Server
4 12 (8.96%) Elasticsearch
4 12 (8.96%) MongoDB
5 9 (6.72%) RDBMS
5 9 (6.72%) Sybase ASE
6 8 (5.97%) Amazon RDS
6 8 (5.97%) MySQL
7 6 (4.48%) InfluxDB
7 6 (4.48%) Oracle Database
8 5 (3.73%) Redis
9 4 (2.99%) Amazon Redshift
9 4 (2.99%) DB2
9 4 (2.99%) Flink
10 3 (2.24%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (2.24%) Big Data
10 3 (2.24%) DynamoDB
11 2 (1.49%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (1.49%) Data Mart
Development Applications
1 25 (18.66%) JIRA
2 23 (17.16%) GitLab
3 21 (15.67%) Git
4 13 (9.70%) Jenkins
5 6 (4.48%) JUnit
6 5 (3.73%) Cucumber
6 5 (3.73%) Gradle
6 5 (3.73%) Pylint
7 4 (2.99%) GoogleTest
7 4 (2.99%) Selenium
8 3 (2.24%) Artifactory
8 3 (2.24%) Poetry
9 2 (1.49%) Maven
9 2 (1.49%) SonarQube
9 2 (1.49%) Subversion
10 1 (0.75%) Ant
10 1 (0.75%) gulp
10 1 (0.75%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.75%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.75%) Travis CI
General
1 28 (20.90%) Social Skills
2 25 (18.66%) Finance
3 16 (11.94%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (8.96%) Public Sector
5 6 (4.48%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (3.73%) Telecoms
7 4 (2.99%) Electronics
7 4 (2.99%) Manufacturing
7 4 (2.99%) Military
8 3 (2.24%) Banking
8 3 (2.24%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.49%) Front Office
9 2 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.49%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.49%) Marketing
9 2 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.49%) Wearables
10 1 (0.75%) Fire and Rescue
10 1 (0.75%) Police
Job Titles
1 19 (14.18%) Linux Engineer
2 16 (11.94%) DevOps Engineer
3 14 (10.45%) Developer
3 14 (10.45%) Senior
4 12 (8.96%) SIEM Engineer
5 11 (8.21%) Applications Engineer
5 11 (8.21%) Support Engineer
6 10 (7.46%) Applications Support
6 10 (7.46%) Applications Support Engineer
6 10 (7.46%) JIRA Engineer
6 10 (7.46%) Network Engineer
7 9 (6.72%) Azure Engineer
7 9 (6.72%) DBA
8 8 (5.97%) Database Specialist
8 8 (5.97%) Sybase DBA
9 6 (4.48%) Java Developer
9 6 (4.48%) Linux Systems Administrator
9 6 (4.48%) Platform Engineer
9 6 (4.48%) Software Engineer
9 6 (4.48%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (17.91%) REST
2 15 (11.19%) Web Services
3 12 (8.96%) JSON
4 11 (8.21%) Elastic Stack
4 11 (8.21%) pytest
4 11 (8.21%) YAML
5 9 (6.72%) HTML
6 8 (5.97%) Kafka
6 8 (5.97%) Spring
7 7 (5.22%) ARM Templates
7 7 (5.22%) WebSockets
8 6 (4.48%) React
9 5 (3.73%) Hibernate
9 5 (3.73%) J2EE
9 5 (3.73%) JPA
9 5 (3.73%) RabbitMQ
9 5 (3.73%) SOAP
9 5 (3.73%) XML
10 4 (2.99%) Django
10 4 (2.99%) Qt
Miscellaneous
1 22 (16.42%) Replication
2 12 (8.96%) Data Centre
3 8 (5.97%) Clustering
3 8 (5.97%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (3.73%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (2.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (2.99%) FPGA
6 3 (2.24%) Genomics
6 3 (2.24%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (2.24%) Public Cloud
6 3 (2.24%) Smart Meter
7 2 (1.49%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.49%) ASIC
7 2 (1.49%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.49%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.49%) NHS
7 2 (1.49%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.49%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.49%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 120 (89.55%) Linux
2 28 (20.90%) Unix
3 26 (19.40%) Windows
4 19 (14.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 15 (11.19%) Ubuntu
5 15 (11.19%) VMS
6 6 (4.48%) Windows Server
7 4 (2.99%) Alpine Linux
8 3 (2.24%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (2.24%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (1.49%) Android
9 2 (1.49%) Apple iOS
9 2 (1.49%) CentOS
10 1 (0.75%) Debian
10 1 (0.75%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (36.57%) CI/CD
2 39 (29.10%) DevOps
3 29 (21.64%) Migration
4 28 (20.90%) Agile
5 22 (16.42%) Problem-Solving
5 22 (16.42%) Task Automation
6 19 (14.18%) Software Engineering
7 18 (13.43%) Data Migration
8 17 (12.69%) Mentoring
8 17 (12.69%) Storage Management
9 16 (11.94%) RBAC
9 16 (11.94%) SDLC
9 16 (11.94%) Service Management
10 15 (11.19%) Containerisation
10 15 (11.19%) Infrastructure as Code
10 15 (11.19%) Open Source
10 15 (11.19%) Scrum
11 14 (10.45%) Data Pipeline
11 14 (10.45%) Infrastructure Monitoring
11 14 (10.45%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 63 (47.01%) Python
2 44 (32.84%) SQL
3 33 (24.63%) Bash
4 29 (21.64%) Java
5 23 (17.16%) Shell Script
6 21 (15.67%) Perl
7 19 (14.18%) PowerShell
8 12 (8.96%) JavaScript
9 9 (6.72%) T-SQL
10 8 (5.97%) Go
10 8 (5.97%) R
11 6 (4.48%) C
11 6 (4.48%) C++
12 3 (2.24%) Ruby
13 2 (1.49%) Assembly Language
13 2 (1.49%) SystemVerilog
13 2 (1.49%) Tcl
13 2 (1.49%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.75%) C#
14 1 (0.75%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 45 (33.58%) Security Cleared
2 32 (23.88%) SC Cleared
3 12 (8.96%) DV Cleared
4 4 (2.99%) Degree
5 2 (1.49%) CCNA
5 2 (1.49%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.49%) HND
6 1 (0.75%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.75%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.46%) QA
2 4 (2.99%) MISRA
3 3 (2.24%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.49%) SLA
5 1 (0.75%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 32 (23.88%) Docker
2 21 (15.67%) Active Directory
3 19 (14.18%) vSphere
4 16 (11.94%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (6.72%) iptables
5 9 (6.72%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (4.48%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 5 (3.73%) VMware NSX
8 4 (2.99%) Hyper-V
9 3 (2.24%) Firmware
10 2 (1.49%) Ceph
10 2 (1.49%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 45 (33.58%) Ansible
2 38 (28.36%) Kubernetes
3 31 (23.13%) Terraform
4 16 (11.94%) Grafana
5 15 (11.19%) Prometheus
6 12 (8.96%) Kibana
7 11 (8.21%) logstash
7 11 (8.21%) Progress Chef
8 8 (5.97%) SCCM
9 7 (5.22%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 7 (5.22%) Packer
9 7 (5.22%) vRealize
10 5 (3.73%) Docker Swarm
11 4 (2.99%) Puppet
11 4 (2.99%) Red Hat Satellite
12 3 (2.24%) Microsoft Intune
13 2 (1.49%) Nmap
13 2 (1.49%) OpenNMS
13 2 (1.49%) Salt
13 2 (1.49%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 24 (17.91%) VMware
2 23 (17.16%) Oracle
3 22 (16.42%) Red Hat
4 13 (9.70%) Atlassian
5 11 (8.21%) SAP
6 9 (6.72%) Cisco
6 9 (6.72%) Microsoft
6 9 (6.72%) SolarWinds
6 9 (6.72%) Sybase
6 9 (6.72%) Veritas
7 7 (5.22%) EMC
8 6 (4.48%) Sun
9 5 (3.73%) Arqiva
9 5 (3.73%) Palo Alto
9 5 (3.73%) Veeam
10 4 (2.99%) Google
10 4 (2.99%) IBM
10 4 (2.99%) ServiceNow
11 3 (2.24%) Dell
11 3 (2.24%) TOWER Software