Linux Command Line Contracts in England

Linux/Unix Command Line Interface (CLI)
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Linux Command Line in contract job vacancies in 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 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 429 426 485
Rank change year-on-year -3 +59 +62
Contract jobs citing Linux Command Line 56 116 169
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.23% 0.31% 0.33%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.67% 1.01% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 76 117
10th Percentile £434 £405 £340
25th Percentile £512 £484 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year - +2.33% +1.90%
75th Percentile £670 £625 £614
90th Percentile £758 £731 £692
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £534
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.04% -1.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 6
10th Percentile - - £20.00
25th Percentile £56.25 - £33.75
Median hourly rate £57.50 £70.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% -6.67% +63.04%
75th Percentile £58.75 - -
90th Percentile - - £79.00
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £70.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year -17.86% -6.67% +63.04%

All Generic Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 8,317 11,465 17,000
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.15% 30.83% 33.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,436 7,505 11,795
10th Percentile £300 £263 £313
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £695
90th Percentile £788 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 327 827 591
10th Percentile £15.84 £12.25 £9.80
25th Percentile £21.01 £15.17 £10.63
Median hourly rate £33.00 £30.16 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.42% +34.04% -16.67%
75th Percentile £64.63 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £84.40 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%

Linux Command Line
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Command Line in England

Linux Command Line
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Linux Command Line in England

Linux Command Line
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux Command Line in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Linux Command Line in England

Linux Command Line
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux Command Line in England

Linux Command Line
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
London +16 26 £573 +1.33% 60
North of England +33 21 £550 +23.60% 12
Yorkshire +23 20 £550 +23.60% 4
South East +27 5 £475 -17.39% 30
South West +37 3 - - 7
East of England +29 1 £751 +20.16% 8
North West +16 1 - - 7
Linux Command Line
UK

Linux Command Line
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 16 (28.57%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 8 (14.29%) Apache
2 8 (14.29%) Apache Spark
3 6 (10.71%) Jupyter
4 3 (5.36%) OpenStack
5 1 (1.79%) CMS
5 1 (1.79%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 15 (26.79%) Azure
2 10 (17.86%) AWS
3 8 (14.29%) Power Platform
4 5 (8.93%) Azure Sentinel
4 5 (8.93%) Entra ID
4 5 (8.93%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (8.93%) Serverless
5 4 (7.14%) Azure AKS
5 4 (7.14%) Azure Event Grid
5 4 (7.14%) Azure Logic Apps
5 4 (7.14%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (7.14%) IaaS
5 4 (7.14%) PaaS
5 4 (7.14%) SaaS
6 3 (5.36%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (5.36%) GCP
6 3 (5.36%) OpenShift
7 2 (3.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (3.57%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (1.79%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 19 (33.93%) DNS
2 6 (10.71%) SSH
3 5 (8.93%) Firewall
4 3 (5.36%) BGP
4 3 (5.36%) Ethernet VPN
4 3 (5.36%) Multicast
4 3 (5.36%) OSPF
4 3 (5.36%) TCP/IP
4 3 (5.36%) VXLAN
5 2 (3.57%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (3.57%) HTTP
5 2 (3.57%) NX-OS
5 2 (3.57%) SNMP
5 2 (3.57%) Software-Defined Radio
6 1 (1.79%) FTP
6 1 (1.79%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (33.93%) Oracle Database
2 12 (21.43%) Azure SQL Database
3 8 (14.29%) Apache Hive
3 8 (14.29%) Delta Lake
3 8 (14.29%) Power BI
3 8 (14.29%) SQL Server
4 2 (3.57%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.79%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.79%) Metadata
5 1 (1.79%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 15 (26.79%) Git
2 11 (19.64%) JIRA
3 8 (14.29%) Jenkins
4 6 (10.71%) RStudio
5 3 (5.36%) Cucumber
6 2 (3.57%) GoogleTest
6 2 (3.57%) JUnit
6 2 (3.57%) Maven
6 2 (3.57%) Robot Framework
6 2 (3.57%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (3.57%) Subversion
7 1 (1.79%) Cypress.io
7 1 (1.79%) Gatling
7 1 (1.79%) GitLab
7 1 (1.79%) Gradle
7 1 (1.79%) Hamcrest
7 1 (1.79%) Mercurial
7 1 (1.79%) Mockito
7 1 (1.79%) Selenium
7 1 (1.79%) SonarQube
General
1 24 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 8 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (10.71%) Finance
3 6 (10.71%) Public Sector
4 3 (5.36%) Banking
4 3 (5.36%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (5.36%) Investment Banking
5 2 (3.57%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 10 (17.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 9 (16.07%) Engineering Specialist
2 9 (16.07%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 8 (14.29%) Data Engineer
4 7 (12.50%) Senior
5 6 (10.71%) IT Engineer
6 5 (8.93%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (7.14%) Administrator
7 4 (7.14%) Architect
7 4 (7.14%) Azure Architect
7 4 (7.14%) Cloud Architect
7 4 (7.14%) Developer
7 4 (7.14%) Linux Engineer
7 4 (7.14%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (7.14%) Network Engineer
7 4 (7.14%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (5.36%) Consultant
8 3 (5.36%) Network Consultant
8 3 (5.36%) Senior Cloud Architect
8 3 (5.36%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (16.07%) PySpark
1 9 (16.07%) YAML
2 8 (14.29%) JSON
2 8 (14.29%) pydantic
3 4 (7.14%) ARM Templates
3 4 (7.14%) Azure Blueprints
4 3 (5.36%) Node.js
5 2 (3.57%) CSS
5 2 (3.57%) HTML
5 2 (3.57%) RESTful
6 1 (1.79%) ADO
6 1 (1.79%) EJB
6 1 (1.79%) Hibernate
6 1 (1.79%) Java EE
6 1 (1.79%) JSP
6 1 (1.79%) LDAP
6 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Graph
6 1 (1.79%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 9 (16.07%) Data Structures
2 8 (14.29%) Reference Data
3 4 (7.14%) Data Centre
3 4 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (5.36%) Reinsurance
5 2 (3.57%) Algorithms
5 2 (3.57%) Cloud Native
5 2 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (3.57%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.79%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.79%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.79%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.79%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 43 (76.79%) Linux
2 27 (48.21%) Windows
3 23 (41.07%) Windows Server
4 3 (5.36%) Unix
5 1 (1.79%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (53.57%) Agile
2 24 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
3 19 (33.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 19 (33.93%) Microservices
4 17 (30.36%) Security Management
5 16 (28.57%) SOA
6 13 (23.21%) DevOps
6 13 (23.21%) Server Management
7 12 (21.43%) Migration
8 10 (17.86%) Test Automation
9 9 (16.07%) High Availability
9 9 (16.07%) Infrastructure as Code
9 9 (16.07%) Scrum
10 8 (14.29%) CI/CD
10 8 (14.29%) Data Ingestion
10 8 (14.29%) Roadmaps
10 8 (14.29%) Technology Roadmap
11 7 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
11 7 (12.50%) Data Security
12 6 (10.71%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 35 (62.50%) Bash
2 34 (60.71%) SQL
3 23 (41.07%) PowerShell
3 23 (41.07%) Python
4 18 (32.14%) Perl
5 16 (28.57%) PL/SQL
6 8 (14.29%) Scala
7 7 (12.50%) Java
8 4 (7.14%) Bicep
9 1 (1.79%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 39 (69.64%) Security Cleared
2 31 (55.36%) SC Cleared
3 20 (35.71%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (3.57%) CCIE
4 2 (3.57%) CCIE Data Center
4 2 (3.57%) CCNP
5 1 (1.79%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.79%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (1.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.79%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (21.43%) GDPR
2 4 (7.14%) QA
2 4 (7.14%) SOC 2
3 2 (3.57%) GMP
4 1 (1.79%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.79%) NIST
System Software
1 23 (41.07%) Active Directory
2 6 (10.71%) Docker
3 5 (8.93%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (5.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (5.36%) vSphere
5 2 (3.57%) Firmware
6 1 (1.79%) NFS
Systems Management
1 11 (19.64%) Terraform
2 10 (17.86%) Ansible
3 5 (8.93%) Kubernetes
4 4 (7.14%) Progress Chef
5 3 (5.36%) Grafana
5 3 (5.36%) Prometheus
6 2 (3.57%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 21 (37.50%) Cisco
2 19 (33.93%) Oracle
3 8 (14.29%) Databricks
4 6 (10.71%) VMware
5 5 (8.93%) Microsoft
5 5 (8.93%) Red Hat
6 2 (3.57%) Splunk
7 1 (1.79%) Arista
7 1 (1.79%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (1.79%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.79%) Exabeam
7 1 (1.79%) Informatica
7 1 (1.79%) Palo Alto