Linux Command Line Contracts in the East of England

Linux/Unix Command Line Interface (CLI)
England > East of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Linux Command Line in contract job vacancies in the East of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Linux Command Line over the 6 months leading up to 5 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 98 117
Rank change year-on-year +10 +19 +13
Contract jobs citing Linux Command Line 7 4 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.55% 0.25% 0.15%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.58% 1.10% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 3
10th Percentile £265 - £598
25th Percentile £288 £613 £603
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year -48.00% - +13.64%
75th Percentile £363 £638 £769
90th Percentile £385 - £848
England median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £40.00 -
England median hourly rate £57.50 £70.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -17.86% +250.00% -58.66%

All Generic Skills
East of England

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 East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 443 364 606
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 35.10% 22.57% 30.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 207 180 346
10th Percentile £195 £184 £189
25th Percentile £387 £300 £307
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £594 £550 £584
90th Percentile £664 £650 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 72 48
10th Percentile £16.95 £25.10 £20.50
25th Percentile £27.74 £46.25 £32.71
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% +71.43%
75th Percentile £76.25 £65.00 £65.25
90th Percentile £87.50 £85.00 £73.75
England median hourly rate £30.90 £47.50 £42.00
% change year-on-year -34.94% +13.10% +61.54%

Linux Command Line
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Command Line in the East of England

Linux Command Line
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Linux Command Line in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Linux Command Line in the East of England

Linux Command Line
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux Command Line in the East of England over the 6 months to 5 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Linux Command Line in the East of England

Linux Command Line
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Linux Command Line in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Linux Command Line in the East of England

Linux Command Line
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 East of England region over the 6 months to 5 August 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
Cambridgeshire +4 5 £250 -60.00% 5
Suffolk - 2 £400 -
Linux Command Line
England

Linux Command Line
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 4 (57.14%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) AWS
1 4 (57.14%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 6 (85.71%) SAN
2 5 (71.43%) DNS
2 5 (71.43%) iSCSI
3 1 (14.29%) NAS
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) JIRA
2 4 (57.14%) GitLab
2 4 (57.14%) TeamCity
General
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Administrator
1 5 (71.43%) Linux Administrator
2 3 (42.86%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 3 (42.86%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (14.29%) Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Technical Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Windows Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Data Centre
1 5 (71.43%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) CentOS
1 7 (100.00%) Linux
2 5 (71.43%) Ubuntu
3 2 (28.57%) Oracle Linux
3 2 (28.57%) Windows
3 2 (28.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Containerisation
1 5 (71.43%) ITSM
2 4 (57.14%) Computer Science
3 2 (28.57%) Data Science
3 2 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (28.57%) ITIL
4 1 (14.29%) Computer Architecture
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Shell Script
2 5 (71.43%) Python
3 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (71.43%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (85.71%) Active Directory
2 4 (57.14%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) ServiceNow
2 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 4 (57.14%) VMware
3 2 (28.57%) Oracle
3 2 (28.57%) Red Hat