Linux Command Line Contract Job Trends 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 19 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 123 125 157
Rank change year-on-year +2 +32 +31
Contract jobs citing Linux Command Line 5 5 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.26% 0.22% 0.19%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.69% 0.70% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 2
10th Percentile £618 £532 £534
25th Percentile £625 £542 £547
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £568 £588
Median % change year-on-year +14.54% -3.40% -2.08%
75th Percentile £680 £676 £622
90th Percentile £737 £735 £631
London median daily rate £645 £565 £575
% change year-on-year +14.20% -1.74% -4.17%

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 727 719 1,085
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 37.44% 30.92% 33.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 519 454 725
10th Percentile £350 £357 £313
25th Percentile £446 £481 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £591 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.75% -1.46% +3.00%
75th Percentile £688 £723 £731
90th Percentile £800 £838 £839
London median daily rate £560 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -2.61% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 7 10
10th Percentile £17.08 £19.60 £16.96
25th Percentile £20.89 £22.90 £19.25
Median hourly rate £26.45 £25.79 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -17.47% -36.22%
75th Percentile £50.79 £27.00 £40.87
90th Percentile £88.75 £53.20 £54.58
London median hourly rate £27.50 £31.62 £29.50
% change year-on-year -13.03% +7.19% -0.42%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

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

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 19 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Linux Command Line in Central London

Linux Command Line
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

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

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 19 September 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 +11 5 £650 +14.54% 2
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 (40.00%) Apache
1 2 (40.00%) Apache Spark
1 2 (40.00%) Jupyter
2 1 (20.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) SSH
1 2 (40.00%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Apache Hive
1 2 (40.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (40.00%) Delta Lake
1 2 (40.00%) Power BI
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Git
2 3 (60.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (60.00%) JIRA
3 2 (40.00%) RStudio
4 1 (20.00%) Cucumber
4 1 (20.00%) Cypress.io
4 1 (20.00%) Gatling
4 1 (20.00%) GitLab
4 1 (20.00%) Hamcrest
4 1 (20.00%) JUnit
4 1 (20.00%) Postman
4 1 (20.00%) Selenium
4 1 (20.00%) Serenity BDD
4 1 (20.00%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Data Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Python Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Backend Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) JSON
1 2 (40.00%) pydantic
1 2 (40.00%) PySpark
1 2 (40.00%) RESTful
1 2 (40.00%) YAML
2 1 (20.00%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Data Structures
1 2 (40.00%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
2 4 (80.00%) Scrum
3 3 (60.00%) Software Engineering
3 3 (60.00%) TDD
4 2 (40.00%) Data Ingestion
4 2 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (40.00%) Data Security
4 2 (40.00%) Electronic Trading
4 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Management
4 2 (40.00%) Kanban
4 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (40.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 2 (40.00%) Unit Testing
5 1 (20.00%) Acceptance Criteria
5 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 1 (20.00%) Exploratory Testing
5 1 (20.00%) Test Assurance
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) Bash
2 2 (40.00%) Scala
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Databricks
2 1 (20.00%) Splunk