Linux Command Line Contracts in Edinburgh

Linux/Unix Command Line Interface (CLI)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Linux Command Line in contract job vacancies in Edinburgh. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Linux Command Line over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 71 95
Rank change year-on-year +7 +24 +27
Contract jobs citing Linux Command Line 3 1 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.48% 0.12% 1.30%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.26% 0.37% 3.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 17
10th Percentile £501 - £485
25th Percentile £503 - £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 - £513
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.82%
75th Percentile £528 - £554
90th Percentile £534 - £562
Scotland median daily rate £425 £738 £513
% change year-on-year -42.37% +43.76% -2.29%

All Generic Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 239 273 467
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 38.24% 33.50% 35.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 147 327
10th Percentile £208 £334 £242
25th Percentile £413 £420 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £510 £479
Median % change year-on-year -4.12% +6.47% -4.20%
75th Percentile £554 £600 £538
90th Percentile £638 £675 £625
Scotland median daily rate £467 £475 £488
% change year-on-year -1.68% -2.56% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 16 3
10th Percentile - £14.88 £21.34
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £21.47
Median hourly rate £22.00 £20.57 £21.67
Median % change year-on-year +6.95% -5.08% -54.38%
75th Percentile £24.38 £60.19 £37.71
90th Percentile £42.00 £60.75 £47.33
Scotland median hourly rate £22.00 £18.14 £12.30
% change year-on-year +21.31% +47.44% -71.40%

Linux Command Line
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Command Line in Edinburgh

Linux Command Line
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Linux Command Line in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Linux Command Line in Edinburgh

Linux Command Line
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
1 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Monitor
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Copilot
1 2 (66.67%) Power Automate
1 2 (66.67%) Power Platform
2 1 (33.33%) Azure AKS
2 1 (33.33%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) MongoDB
2 2 (66.67%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (66.67%) MariaDB
2 2 (66.67%) MySQL
2 2 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (66.67%) Power Query
2 2 (66.67%) Redis
3 1 (33.33%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Unix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) ARM Templates
1 2 (66.67%) HTML5 Canvas
1 2 (66.67%) JSON
1 2 (66.67%) YAML
2 1 (33.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Data ONTAP
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Unix
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Kanban
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Design Patterns
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Log Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) Security Hardening
3 1 (33.33%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Bash
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) Bicep
2 2 (66.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 2 (66.67%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) Perl
3 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (33.33%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
1 1 (33.33%) KVM
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
1 3 (100.00%) Grafana
2 2 (66.67%) Progress Chef
2 2 (66.67%) Prometheus
2 2 (66.67%) Terraform
3 1 (33.33%) HAProxy
3 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (33.33%) Nagios
3 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Commvault
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) NetApp
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle
1 1 (33.33%) Palo Alto
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat