Linux Command Line Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

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

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Linux Command Line in contract job vacancies in Cambridgeshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Linux Command Line over the 6 months leading up to 13 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 41 -
Rank change year-on-year +3 - -
Contract jobs citing Linux Command Line 6 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 1.64% 0.74% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.65% 3.66% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 £625 -
Median % change year-on-year -60.00% - -
East of England median daily rate £438 £625 £625
% change year-on-year -30.00% - +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £31.25 - -
Median hourly rate £32.50 - -
75th Percentile £33.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £32.50 £40.00 -
% change year-on-year -18.75% - -

All Generic Skills
Cambridgeshire

Linux Command Line falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 129 82 148
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 35.25% 20.15% 28.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 36 75
10th Percentile £251 £287 £198
25th Percentile £381 £417 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +10.53% -
75th Percentile £647 £600 £539
90th Percentile £740 £641 £598
East of England median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 11 11
10th Percentile £14.75 £26.25 £22.00
25th Percentile £20.51 £46.25 £37.88
Median hourly rate £30.00 £57.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.83% -4.17% +116.22%
75th Percentile £61.56 £64.38 £77.50
90th Percentile £69.75 £75.00 -
East of England median hourly rate £42.50 £60.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -29.17% - +47.31%

Linux Command Line
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Linux Command Line relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire.

Linux Command Line job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

Linux Command Line
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Linux Command Line.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Linux Command Line

Linux Command Line
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Linux Command Line.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Linux Command Line

Linux Command Line
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 13 October 2025. 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
Cambridge 0 6 £250 -60.00% 4
Linux Command Line
East of England

Linux Command Line
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (66.67%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (16.67%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) AWS
1 4 (66.67%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 5 (83.33%) DNS
1 5 (83.33%) iSCSI
1 5 (83.33%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 5 (83.33%) JIRA
2 4 (66.67%) GitLab
2 4 (66.67%) TeamCity
General
1 5 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Multimedia
2 1 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Administrator
1 5 (83.33%) Linux Administrator
2 3 (50.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 3 (50.00%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (16.67%) Audio Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) Data Centre
1 5 (83.33%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (16.67%) Acoustics
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
2 5 (83.33%) CentOS
2 5 (83.33%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Containerisation
1 5 (83.33%) ITSM
2 4 (66.67%) Computer Science
3 2 (33.33%) Data Science
4 1 (16.67%) Data Collection
4 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (16.67%) Motion Capture
4 1 (16.67%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Python
2 5 (83.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (83.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Active Directory
1 4 (66.67%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) ServiceNow
2 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 4 (66.67%) VMware