Linux Command Line Contract Job Trends in the City of London

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

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Linux Command Line in contract job vacancies in the City of 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 21 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 124 149
Rank change year-on-year +8 +25 +33
Contract jobs citing Linux Command Line 5 5 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.29% 0.24% 0.13%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.76% 0.79% 0.41%
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
Central London median daily rate £650 £568 £588
% change year-on-year +14.54% -3.40% -2.08%

All Generic Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 662 632 983
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 38.24% 29.98% 32.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 460 385 647
10th Percentile £349 £361 £313
25th Percentile £450 £481 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £593 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.27% -1.25% -
75th Percentile £694 £725 £738
90th Percentile £801 £838 £838
Central London median daily rate £575 £588 £600
% change year-on-year -2.13% -2.08% +3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 9
10th Percentile £16.96 £18.40 £16.92
25th Percentile £19.79 £22.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £27.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -22.86% -26.32%
75th Percentile £65.57 - £42.32
90th Percentile £91.00 £66.30 £56.15
Central London median hourly rate £26.45 £25.79 £31.25
% change year-on-year +2.56% -17.47% -34.21%

Linux Command Line
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Command Line in the City of London

Linux Command Line
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Linux Command Line.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Linux Command Line

Linux Command Line
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux Command Line in the City of London over the 6 months to 21 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Linux Command Line in the City of London

Linux Command Line
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Linux Command Line.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Linux Command Line

Linux Command Line
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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