Linux Command Line Contract Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Linux/Unix Command Line Interface (CLI)
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Linux Command Line in contract job vacancies in Gloucestershire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Linux Command Line over the 6 months leading up to 29 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 - 47
Rank change year-on-year - - +11
Contract jobs citing Linux Command Line 1 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in Gloucestershire 0.30% - 1.19%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.96% - 5.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £521
25th Percentile £538 - £523
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.38%
75th Percentile £613 - £575
90th Percentile - - -
South West median daily rate £575 - £538
% change year-on-year - - -8.51%

All Generic Skills
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 104 76 94
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 30.77% 27.44% 22.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 62 59
10th Percentile £160 £357 £218
25th Percentile £340 £456 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £548 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.24% -0.45% +2.33%
75th Percentile £575 £660 £660
90th Percentile £675 £700 £730
South West median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 3 10
10th Percentile - £27.20 -
25th Percentile £31.25 £28.81 £14.00
Median hourly rate £33.00 £33.00 £18.45
Median % change year-on-year - +78.91% -77.86%
75th Percentile £72.22 £35.25 £52.13
90th Percentile £87.78 £35.70 £83.40
South West median hourly rate £61.25 £55.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +11.36% +37.50% +207.93%

Linux Command Line
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Linux Command Line job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

Linux Command Line
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

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

Linux Command Line
Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Linux Command Line.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Linux Command Line

Linux Command Line
Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 29 March 2026. 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
Cheltenham - 1 £575 - 1
Linux Command Line
South West

Linux Command Line
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) AMQP
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) InfluxDB
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Site Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Docker Swarm
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform