Linux Command Line Contract Job Trends in Cheltenham

Linux/Unix Command Line Interface (CLI)
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Linux Command Line in contract job vacancies in Cheltenham. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Linux Command Line over the 6 months leading up to 29 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 - 23
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Linux Command Line 1 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in Cheltenham 0.84% - 3.25%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.08% - 20.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £521
25th Percentile £538 - £523
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £550
75th Percentile £613 - £575
90th Percentile - - -
Gloucestershire median daily rate £575 - £550
% change year-on-year - - -6.38%

All Generic Skills
Cheltenham

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 Cheltenham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 48 25 24
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham 40.34% 30.49% 15.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 23 20
10th Percentile £156 £525 £361
25th Percentile £315 £546 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £616 £676 £697
90th Percentile £750 - £753
Gloucestershire median daily rate £475 £548 £550
% change year-on-year -13.24% -0.45% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £35.45 - -
25th Percentile £49.25 - -
Median hourly rate £74.50 - £62.50
75th Percentile £86.50 - -
90th Percentile £92.35 - -
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £33.00 £33.00 £18.45
% change year-on-year - +78.91% -77.86%

Linux Command Line
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

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

Linux Command Line job vacancy trend in Cheltenham

Linux Command Line
Daily Rate Trend in Cheltenham

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

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

Linux Command Line
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheltenham 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) AMQP
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) InfluxDB
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Site Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Docker Swarm
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform