Linux Command Line Contract Job Trends in Coventry

Linux/Unix Command Line Interface (CLI)
West Midlands > Coventry

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Linux Command Line in contract job vacancies in Coventry. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Linux Command Line over the 6 months leading up to 2 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 - 29
Rank change year-on-year - - 0
Contract jobs citing Linux Command Line 17 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in Coventry 9.50% - 1.40%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 22.08% - 5.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 0 0
10th Percentile £290 - -
25th Percentile £298 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £313 - -
75th Percentile £322 - -
90th Percentile £419 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £316 £525 -
% change year-on-year -39.81% - -

All Generic Skills
Coventry

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 Coventry.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 77 22 53
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Coventry 43.02% 21.15% 24.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 15 34
10th Percentile £276 £375 £391
25th Percentile £305 £388 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £429 £500 £471
Median % change year-on-year -14.25% +6.16% +17.75%
75th Percentile £502 £626 £550
90th Percentile £534 - £650
West Midlands median daily rate £488 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -11.27% +10.00% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 1
10th Percentile £19.19 - -
25th Percentile £24.35 £15.50 £26.00
Median hourly rate £27.21 £17.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +60.06% -37.04% -8.47%
75th Percentile - £18.50 £28.00
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £25.00 £30.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +30.43% +21.05%

Linux Command Line
Job Vacancy Trend in Coventry

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

Linux Command Line job vacancy trend in Coventry

Linux Command Line
Daily Rate Trend in Coventry

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

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

Linux Command Line
Daily Rate Histogram in Coventry

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux Command Line in Coventry over the 6 months to 2 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Linux Command Line in Coventry

Linux Command Line
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Coventry 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 3 (17.65%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (17.65%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 17 (100.00%) AWS
2 8 (47.06%) Azure
2 8 (47.06%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 7 (41.18%) VSAN
General
1 5 (29.41%) Finance
2 4 (23.53%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (17.65%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (76.47%) Analyst
2 12 (70.59%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 8 (47.06%) Storage Analyst
4 4 (23.53%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (52.94%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 9 (52.94%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 17 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (100.00%) Agile
2 5 (29.41%) Ticket Management
3 3 (17.65%) Capacity Planning
3 3 (17.65%) Decision-Making
3 3 (17.65%) Mentoring
3 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (5.88%) Continuous Improvement
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 16 (94.12%) VMware Infrastructure
1 16 (94.12%) vSphere
2 9 (52.94%) GPFS
2 9 (52.94%) NFS
2 9 (52.94%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 16 (94.12%) vRealize
2 7 (41.18%) VxRail
Vendors
1 17 (100.00%) Cisco
1 17 (100.00%) IBM
2 16 (94.12%) VMware
3 9 (52.94%) Oracle
3 9 (52.94%) ServiceNow
4 8 (47.06%) AppDynamics
4 8 (47.06%) Commvault
4 8 (47.06%) SolarWinds
5 7 (41.18%) Dell
6 6 (35.29%) HP
7 1 (5.88%) Microsoft