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 advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Linux Command Line over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 419 486 555
Rank change year-on-year +67 +69 -33
Contract jobs citing Linux Command Line 120 163 239
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.33% 0.33% 0.34%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.06% 0.97% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 113 127
10th Percentile £409 £330 £383
25th Percentile £488 £484 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £530
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% +1.42% +0.62%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £625
90th Percentile £730 £709 £714
UK median daily rate £550 £534 £540
% change year-on-year +3.04% -1.16% +0.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 6 3
10th Percentile - £20.00 £42.10
25th Percentile - £33.75 £42.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £75.00 £46.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +63.04% -
75th Percentile - - £50.39
90th Percentile - £79.00 £50.62
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £75.00 £46.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +63.04% -

All Generic Skills
England

Linux Command Line is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 11,329 16,843 24,134
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.73% 33.68% 33.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,438 11,694 17,131
10th Percentile £263 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £695 £675
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.23% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 818 591 642
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.63 £16.53
Median hourly rate £31.50 £22.50 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -15.09% +1.50%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £65.76
UK median hourly rate £30.14 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +34.04% -18.24% +4.05%

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 4 May 2024.

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 4 May 2024. 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 +57 48 £565 +6.15% 28
South East +28 25 £575 +4.55% 10
Midlands +37 17 £550 +69.23% 5
West Midlands +37 15 £550 +3.77% 3
South West +16 14 £550 -8.33% 9
North of England +25 7 £445 -6.32% 5
Yorkshire +24 5 £445 -37.54% 1
East of England +9 3 £625 -13.79% 6
East Midlands +19 2 £509 +56.62% 2
North West +16 2 £513 +20.31% 4
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 5 (4.17%) Confluence
1 5 (4.17%) IIS
2 4 (3.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.50%) Apache
3 3 (2.50%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (2.50%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.50%) WordPress
4 1 (0.83%) Red Hat Fuse
Business Applications
1 7 (5.83%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (4.17%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 25 (20.83%) Azure
2 20 (16.67%) GitHub
3 17 (14.17%) AWS
4 11 (9.17%) Amazon S3
4 11 (9.17%) Serverless
5 9 (7.50%) Amazon EC2
6 8 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
6 8 (6.67%) OpenShift
7 7 (5.83%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (5.00%) IaaS
9 5 (4.17%) Azure Storage
9 5 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (3.33%) Entra ID
11 3 (2.50%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (2.50%) Amazon Kinesis
11 3 (2.50%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (2.50%) Dagster
11 3 (2.50%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (2.50%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 9 (7.50%) Firewall
2 8 (6.67%) DNS
2 8 (6.67%) Network Security
3 7 (5.83%) SAN
4 6 (5.00%) SSH
5 5 (4.17%) AMQP
6 3 (2.50%) BGP
6 3 (2.50%) Cisco IOS
6 3 (2.50%) Fibre Channel
6 3 (2.50%) IOS XR
6 3 (2.50%) iSCSI
6 3 (2.50%) NAS
6 3 (2.50%) TCP/IP
6 3 (2.50%) VPN
6 3 (2.50%) Wireless
7 2 (1.67%) Cisco ISE
7 2 (1.67%) DHCP
7 2 (1.67%) FTP
7 2 (1.67%) SNMP
7 2 (1.67%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (15.83%) PostgreSQL
1 19 (15.83%) Relational Database
2 17 (14.17%) SQL Server
3 12 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
4 11 (9.17%) MongoDB
5 9 (7.50%) RDBMS
5 9 (7.50%) Sybase ASE
6 8 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (5.83%) MySQL
8 6 (5.00%) InfluxDB
8 6 (5.00%) Oracle Database
9 4 (3.33%) Amazon Redshift
9 4 (3.33%) DB2
9 4 (3.33%) Flink
9 4 (3.33%) Redis
10 3 (2.50%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (2.50%) Big Data
10 3 (2.50%) DynamoDB
11 2 (1.67%) Data Mart
12 1 (0.83%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 23 (19.17%) GitLab
2 21 (17.50%) Git
3 20 (16.67%) JIRA
4 15 (12.50%) Jenkins
5 6 (5.00%) GoogleTest
5 6 (5.00%) JUnit
6 5 (4.17%) Cucumber
6 5 (4.17%) Pylint
7 4 (3.33%) Gradle
7 4 (3.33%) Selenium
8 3 (2.50%) Artifactory
8 3 (2.50%) Poetry
8 3 (2.50%) Subversion
9 2 (1.67%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.83%) Ant
10 1 (0.83%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.83%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.83%) GoCD
10 1 (0.83%) Maven
General
1 26 (21.67%) Finance
1 26 (21.67%) Social Skills
2 16 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (8.33%) Public Sector
4 5 (4.17%) Telecoms
5 4 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.50%) Banking
6 3 (2.50%) Military
7 2 (1.67%) Electronics
7 2 (1.67%) Front Office
7 2 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.67%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.67%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.67%) Marketing
7 2 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.83%) Fire and Rescue
8 1 (0.83%) Law
8 1 (0.83%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.83%) Police
Job Titles
1 17 (14.17%) Linux Engineer
2 14 (11.67%) Developer
2 14 (11.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 14 (11.67%) Senior
3 12 (10.00%) SIEM Engineer
4 10 (8.33%) Network Engineer
5 9 (7.50%) DBA
6 8 (6.67%) Database Specialist
6 8 (6.67%) Software Engineer
6 8 (6.67%) Sybase DBA
7 7 (5.83%) Azure Engineer
8 6 (5.00%) Java Developer
8 6 (5.00%) Java Engineer
8 6 (5.00%) Java Software Engineer
8 6 (5.00%) Platform Engineer
8 6 (5.00%) Platform Specialist
8 6 (5.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 6 (5.00%) Support Engineer
9 5 (4.17%) Applications Engineer
9 5 (4.17%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (15.00%) REST
2 13 (10.83%) JSON
3 12 (10.00%) YAML
4 11 (9.17%) Elastic Stack
4 11 (9.17%) pytest
5 9 (7.50%) HTML
5 9 (7.50%) Web Services
6 8 (6.67%) Kafka
6 8 (6.67%) Spring
7 7 (5.83%) WebSockets
8 6 (5.00%) Qt
8 6 (5.00%) React
9 5 (4.17%) Hibernate
9 5 (4.17%) J2EE
9 5 (4.17%) JPA
9 5 (4.17%) RabbitMQ
9 5 (4.17%) SOAP
9 5 (4.17%) XML
10 4 (3.33%) Django
10 4 (3.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 22 (18.33%) Replication
2 8 (6.67%) Clustering
2 8 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (5.00%) Data Centre
3 6 (5.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 5 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (3.33%) Public Cloud
6 3 (2.50%) ASIC
6 3 (2.50%) FPGA
6 3 (2.50%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (2.50%) Smart Meter
6 3 (2.50%) Verilog
7 2 (1.67%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.67%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.67%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.67%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (1.67%) Solar Panel
8 1 (0.83%) Genomics
8 1 (0.83%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 108 (90.00%) Linux
2 30 (25.00%) Unix
3 23 (19.17%) Windows
4 19 (15.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 15 (12.50%) Ubuntu
6 12 (10.00%) VMS
7 6 (5.00%) Windows Server
8 4 (3.33%) Alpine Linux
9 3 (2.50%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (2.50%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (1.67%) Android
10 2 (1.67%) Apple iOS
10 2 (1.67%) CentOS
11 1 (0.83%) Debian
11 1 (0.83%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (39.17%) CI/CD
2 36 (30.00%) DevOps
3 27 (22.50%) Agile
4 22 (18.33%) Migration
4 22 (18.33%) Problem-Solving
5 21 (17.50%) Task Automation
6 17 (14.17%) Mentoring
7 16 (13.33%) SDLC
7 16 (13.33%) Software Engineering
8 15 (12.50%) Containerisation
8 15 (12.50%) Scrum
9 14 (11.67%) Infrastructure as Code
9 14 (11.67%) Infrastructure Monitoring
9 14 (11.67%) ITIL
9 14 (11.67%) Storage Management
10 13 (10.83%) Data Migration
10 13 (10.83%) Open Source
10 13 (10.83%) RBAC
11 12 (10.00%) Data Pipeline
11 12 (10.00%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 60 (50.00%) Python
2 40 (33.33%) SQL
3 32 (26.67%) Bash
4 30 (25.00%) Java
5 24 (20.00%) Shell Script
6 21 (17.50%) Perl
7 15 (12.50%) PowerShell
8 11 (9.17%) JavaScript
9 9 (7.50%) C++
9 9 (7.50%) T-SQL
10 8 (6.67%) R
11 7 (5.83%) C
11 7 (5.83%) Go
12 3 (2.50%) Assembly Language
12 3 (2.50%) SystemVerilog
12 3 (2.50%) Tcl
13 1 (0.83%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 41 (34.17%) Security Cleared
2 30 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 12 (10.00%) DV Cleared
4 2 (1.67%) CCNA
4 2 (1.67%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.67%) Degree
5 1 (0.83%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.83%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.33%) QA
2 6 (5.00%) MISRA
3 3 (2.50%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.67%) SLA
System Software
1 29 (24.17%) Docker
2 19 (15.83%) vSphere
3 18 (15.00%) Active Directory
4 16 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (7.50%) iptables
5 9 (7.50%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (5.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 5 (4.17%) VMware NSX
8 4 (3.33%) Hyper-V
9 2 (1.67%) Ceph
9 2 (1.67%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.83%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 40 (33.33%) Ansible
2 36 (30.00%) Kubernetes
3 30 (25.00%) Terraform
4 12 (10.00%) Grafana
4 12 (10.00%) Kibana
5 11 (9.17%) logstash
5 11 (9.17%) Prometheus
6 8 (6.67%) Progress Chef
7 7 (5.83%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 7 (5.83%) Packer
7 7 (5.83%) vRealize
8 5 (4.17%) Docker Swarm
8 5 (4.17%) SCCM
9 4 (3.33%) Red Hat Satellite
10 3 (2.50%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (1.67%) Nmap
11 2 (1.67%) Pacemaker
11 2 (1.67%) Podman
11 2 (1.67%) Salt
11 2 (1.67%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 24 (20.00%) VMware
2 23 (19.17%) Oracle
3 22 (18.33%) Red Hat
4 11 (9.17%) SAP
5 9 (7.50%) Cisco
5 9 (7.50%) Microsoft
5 9 (7.50%) SolarWinds
5 9 (7.50%) Sybase
5 9 (7.50%) Veritas
6 7 (5.83%) Google
7 6 (5.00%) Sun
8 5 (4.17%) Arqiva
8 5 (4.17%) Atlassian
8 5 (4.17%) EMC
8 5 (4.17%) Palo Alto
8 5 (4.17%) Veeam
9 4 (3.33%) IBM
9 4 (3.33%) ServiceNow
10 3 (2.50%) Dell
10 3 (2.50%) TOWER Software