Linux Command Line Contracts in Central London

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

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Linux Command Line in contract job vacancies in Central London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Linux Command Line over the 6 months leading up to 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 125 164
Rank change year-on-year +1 +39 +10
Contract jobs citing Linux Command Line 6 9 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.31% 0.38% 0.24%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.89% 1.22% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 5
10th Percentile £648 £405 £521
25th Percentile £660 £450 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% +2.27% -1.12%
75th Percentile £751 £650 £625
90th Percentile £765 £713 £633
London median daily rate £554 £550 £525
% change year-on-year +0.68% +4.76% -7.98%

All Generic Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 676 739 1,286
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 34.54% 31.50% 34.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 447 501 866
10th Percentile £350 £313 £313
25th Percentile £463 £445 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £616
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -6.66% +7.13%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £750
90th Percentile £800 £850 £850
London median daily rate £575 £575 £600
% change year-on-year - -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 8 17
10th Percentile £17.08 £12.75 £18.78
25th Percentile £23.52 £15.19 £35.00
Median hourly rate £29.07 £23.40 £39.83
Median % change year-on-year +24.23% -41.25% -14.34%
75th Percentile £50.79 £27.00 £83.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £33.98 £88.30
London median hourly rate £30.00 £27.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +11.11% -22.86% -13.58%

Linux Command Line
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Command Line in Central London

Linux Command Line
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Linux Command Line in Central London

Linux Command Line
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux Command Line in Central London over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Linux Command Line in Central London

Linux Command Line
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux Command Line in Central London

Linux Command Line
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 1 July 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
City of London 0 6 £750 +33.33% 20
Linux Command Line
London

Linux Command Line
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 2 (33.33%) Apache
1 2 (33.33%) Apache Spark
1 2 (33.33%) Jupyter
2 1 (16.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) AWS
3 2 (33.33%) Azure AKS
3 2 (33.33%) Azure Event Grid
3 2 (33.33%) Azure Logic Apps
3 2 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (33.33%) Entra ID
3 2 (33.33%) GCP
3 2 (33.33%) IaaS
3 2 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (33.33%) PaaS
3 2 (33.33%) Power Platform
3 2 (33.33%) SaaS
3 2 (33.33%) Serverless
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) SSH
2 1 (16.67%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (33.33%) Apache Hive
2 2 (33.33%) Delta Lake
2 2 (33.33%) Power BI
2 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Git
1 3 (50.00%) JIRA
2 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 2 (33.33%) RStudio
3 1 (16.67%) Cucumber
3 1 (16.67%) Cypress.io
3 1 (16.67%) Gatling
3 1 (16.67%) GitLab
3 1 (16.67%) Hamcrest
3 1 (16.67%) JUnit
3 1 (16.67%) Postman
3 1 (16.67%) Selenium
3 1 (16.67%) Serenity BDD
3 1 (16.67%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Azure Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Cloud Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Data Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft 365 Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Senior
1 2 (33.33%) Senior Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Senior Cloud Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Automation Tester
2 1 (16.67%) Backend Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Python Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) ARM Templates
1 2 (33.33%) Azure Blueprints
1 2 (33.33%) JSON
1 2 (33.33%) pydantic
1 2 (33.33%) PySpark
1 2 (33.33%) YAML
2 1 (16.67%) RESTful
2 1 (16.67%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Data Structures
1 2 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (33.33%) Reference Data
1 2 (33.33%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (50.00%) Windows
3 2 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Agile
1 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (66.67%) Scrum
2 3 (50.00%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 2 (33.33%) Cost Management
3 2 (33.33%) Data Ingestion
3 2 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (33.33%) Data Protection
3 2 (33.33%) Data Security
3 2 (33.33%) High Availability
3 2 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (33.33%) Migration
3 2 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) TDD
3 2 (33.33%) Zero Trust
4 1 (16.67%) Electronic Trading
4 1 (16.67%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) SQL
2 3 (50.00%) Python
3 2 (33.33%) Bash
3 2 (33.33%) Bicep
3 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 2 (33.33%) Scala
4 1 (16.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) GDPR
2 2 (33.33%) SOC 2
3 1 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 2 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Terraform
2 1 (16.67%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Databricks
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Splunk