Linux Command Line Contract Job Trends in London

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

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Linux Command Line in contract job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Linux Command Line over the 6 months leading up to 13 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 373 332 350
Rank change year-on-year -41 +18 +53
Contract jobs citing Linux Command Line 25 21 43
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.15% 0.16% 0.24%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.42% 0.46% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 15 29
10th Percentile £411 £482 £311
25th Percentile £494 £534 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £700 £500
Median % change year-on-year -23.21% +40.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £575 £763 £625
90th Percentile £643 £813 £735
England median daily rate £500 £550 £513
% change year-on-year -9.09% +7.32% -2.38%

All Generic Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,996 4,526 5,949
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 36.93% 35.04% 32.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,897 2,997 4,200
10th Percentile £350 £325 £300
25th Percentile £441 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £702
90th Percentile £800 £850 £825
England median daily rate £513 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -5.96% -0.91% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 68 176
10th Percentile £17.65 £20.02 £15.50
25th Percentile £20.98 £24.66 £18.93
Median hourly rate £29.02 £35.70 £27.75
Median % change year-on-year -18.70% +28.63% -20.71%
75th Percentile £57.38 £57.81 £47.02
90th Percentile £73.38 £80.75 £64.77
England median hourly rate £36.32 £34.00 £28.13
% change year-on-year +6.82% +20.89% +25.00%

Linux Command Line
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Linux Command Line job vacancy trend in London

Linux Command Line
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Linux Command Line
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux Command Line in London over the 6 months to 13 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Linux Command Line in London

Linux Command Line
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

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

Linux Command Line
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 13 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
Central London -17 2 £575 -10.16% 6
Linux Command Line
England

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

Application Platforms
1 2 (8.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 7 (28.00%) GitHub
2 5 (20.00%) Azure
3 4 (16.00%) AWS
4 3 (12.00%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (8.00%) Azure AKS
5 2 (8.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (8.00%) Entra ID
6 1 (4.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (4.00%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (4.00%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (4.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (28.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (8.00%) Data Lake
2 2 (8.00%) Delta Lake
2 2 (8.00%) ImageNet
2 2 (8.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (8.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (4.00%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 5 (20.00%) GitLab
2 4 (16.00%) Git
2 4 (16.00%) Jenkins
3 3 (12.00%) Cucumber
4 2 (8.00%) JIRA
4 2 (8.00%) JUnit
4 2 (8.00%) Postman
4 2 (8.00%) Selenium
4 2 (8.00%) SonarQube
5 1 (4.00%) Cypress.io
5 1 (4.00%) Gatling
5 1 (4.00%) Gradle
5 1 (4.00%) Hamcrest
5 1 (4.00%) Maven
5 1 (4.00%) Serenity BDD
General
1 5 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (16.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.00%) Finance
3 2 (8.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.00%) Banking
4 1 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.00%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 14 (56.00%) Developer
2 6 (24.00%) Applications Developer
3 4 (16.00%) Senior
4 2 (8.00%) Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) Cloud Developer
4 2 (8.00%) Data Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Deployment Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Pensions Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Senior Data Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Senior Developer
5 1 (4.00%) Applications Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Applications Support
5 1 (4.00%) Applications Support Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Architect
5 1 (4.00%) DevOps Architect
5 1 (4.00%) Java Developer
5 1 (4.00%) Linux Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Scala Developer
5 1 (4.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (24.00%) PyTorch
2 2 (8.00%) FIX Protocol
2 2 (8.00%) WireMock
2 2 (8.00%) YAML
3 1 (4.00%) ADO
3 1 (4.00%) Apache Avro
3 1 (4.00%) Gherkin
3 1 (4.00%) JSON
3 1 (4.00%) Kafka
3 1 (4.00%) Node.js
3 1 (4.00%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (4.00%) Protocol Buffers
3 1 (4.00%) REST
3 1 (4.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 2 (8.00%) NHS
1 2 (8.00%) Onboarding
1 2 (8.00%) PACS
2 1 (4.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (4.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (4.00%) Clustering
2 1 (4.00%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 17 (68.00%) Linux
2 5 (20.00%) Unix
3 2 (8.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (8.00%) Windows
4 1 (4.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (28.00%) AI
1 7 (28.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (24.00%) DevOps
2 6 (24.00%) LLM
2 6 (24.00%) Machine Learning
2 6 (24.00%) Natural Language Processing
3 5 (20.00%) Analytics
3 5 (20.00%) Test Automation
4 4 (16.00%) Task Automation
4 4 (16.00%) Use Case
5 3 (12.00%) Agile
5 3 (12.00%) Data Pipeline
5 3 (12.00%) ETL
5 3 (12.00%) High Availability
5 3 (12.00%) Observability
5 3 (12.00%) OOP
5 3 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (12.00%) Validation
6 2 (8.00%) Process Improvement
6 2 (8.00%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 10 (40.00%) Python
2 7 (28.00%) Bash
3 6 (24.00%) Java
4 5 (20.00%) SQL
5 3 (12.00%) PowerShell
6 2 (8.00%) PHP
6 2 (8.00%) Shell Script
7 1 (4.00%) C#
7 1 (4.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 10 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (24.00%) DV Cleared
3 2 (8.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.00%) Data Quality
1 2 (8.00%) GMP
1 2 (8.00%) QA
System Software
1 7 (28.00%) Docker
2 2 (8.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (8.00%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (8.00%) Xen
2 2 (8.00%) zsh
Systems Management
1 9 (36.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (12.00%) Ansible
3 2 (8.00%) Prometheus
4 1 (4.00%) Grafana
4 1 (4.00%) Puppet
4 1 (4.00%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 5 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (16.00%) Red Hat
2 4 (16.00%) Splunk
3 2 (8.00%) Databricks