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 28 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 380 332 353
Rank change year-on-year -48 +21 +46
Contract jobs citing Linux Command Line 23 21 40
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.14% 0.17% 0.22%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.37% 0.47% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 17 26
10th Percentile £400 £448 £331
25th Percentile £500 £513 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £670 £513
Median % change year-on-year -19.78% +30.73% -4.65%
75th Percentile £575 £751 £644
90th Percentile £578 £800 £769
England median daily rate £500 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -9.09% +2.33% +0.70%

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 6,165 4,506 5,908
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 36.58% 35.67% 32.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,984 3,034 4,192
10th Percentile £350 £325 £300
25th Percentile £440 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £713
90th Percentile £800 £848 £825
England median daily rate £513 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -5.96% -0.91% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 119 74 164
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.43 £15.50
25th Percentile £20.82 £24.66 £18.90
Median hourly rate £33.12 £35.45 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.56% +24.37% -18.57%
75th Percentile £60.49 £55.56 £47.50
90th Percentile £79.50 £80.75 £64.86
England median hourly rate £43.60 £34.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year +25.47% +26.36% +20.88%

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 28 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 28 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 -16 2 £506 -22.71% 3
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 1 (4.35%) Confluence
1 1 (4.35%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 7 (30.43%) GitHub
2 6 (26.09%) Azure
3 3 (13.04%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (13.04%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 3 (13.04%) Azure Monitor
3 3 (13.04%) Azure Stack
4 2 (8.70%) Azure AKS
4 2 (8.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 2 (8.70%) Entra ID
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (4.35%) AWS
5 1 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (4.35%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.04%) Firewall
1 3 (13.04%) Network Security
1 3 (13.04%) VLAN
1 3 (13.04%) VPN
1 3 (13.04%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (21.74%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (8.70%) ImageNet
3 1 (4.35%) Apache Hive
3 1 (4.35%) Base SAS
3 1 (4.35%) Big Data
3 1 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (4.35%) Hadoop
3 1 (4.35%) Metadata
3 1 (4.35%) SAS Data Integration Studio
3 1 (4.35%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 4 (17.39%) GitLab
2 3 (13.04%) Jenkins
3 2 (8.70%) Cucumber
3 2 (8.70%) Git
3 2 (8.70%) JIRA
4 1 (4.35%) Gradle
4 1 (4.35%) JUnit
4 1 (4.35%) Maven
4 1 (4.35%) Postman
4 1 (4.35%) Selenium
4 1 (4.35%) SonarQube
General
1 5 (21.74%) Social Skills
2 3 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (13.04%) Finance
3 2 (8.70%) Banking
4 1 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Front Office
4 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (47.83%) Developer
2 6 (26.09%) Applications Developer
3 3 (13.04%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Migration Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Cloud Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Deployment Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Analyst
5 1 (4.35%) Applications Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Applications Support
5 1 (4.35%) Applications Support Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Automation Tester
5 1 (4.35%) DevOps Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Java Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Linux Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) SAS Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Scala Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Support Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (26.09%) PyTorch
2 2 (8.70%) FIX Protocol
2 2 (8.70%) YAML
3 1 (4.35%) ADO
3 1 (4.35%) Apache Avro
3 1 (4.35%) Gherkin
3 1 (4.35%) JSON
3 1 (4.35%) Kafka
3 1 (4.35%) Node.js
3 1 (4.35%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (4.35%) Protocol Buffers
3 1 (4.35%) REST
3 1 (4.35%) RESTful
3 1 (4.35%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) Clustering
1 3 (13.04%) Replication
2 2 (8.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (8.70%) NHS
2 2 (8.70%) PACS
3 1 (4.35%) Algorithms
3 1 (4.35%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (4.35%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (4.35%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 17 (73.91%) Linux
2 4 (17.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (17.39%) Unix
2 4 (17.39%) VMS
3 3 (13.04%) SUSE
3 3 (13.04%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (30.43%) Validation
2 6 (26.09%) AI
2 6 (26.09%) LLM
2 6 (26.09%) Machine Learning
2 6 (26.09%) Natural Language Processing
3 5 (21.74%) DevOps
4 4 (17.39%) CI/CD
4 4 (17.39%) High Availability
4 4 (17.39%) Migration
4 4 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (17.39%) Test Automation
5 3 (13.04%) Converged Infrastructure
5 3 (13.04%) Observability
5 3 (13.04%) Remediation Plan
5 3 (13.04%) Server Management
6 2 (8.70%) Agile
6 2 (8.70%) Deployment Automation
6 2 (8.70%) Mentoring
6 2 (8.70%) Platform Engineering
6 2 (8.70%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 8 (34.78%) Python
2 6 (26.09%) PowerShell
3 5 (21.74%) Bash
3 5 (21.74%) Java
4 3 (13.04%) SQL
5 2 (8.70%) PHP
5 2 (8.70%) Shell Script
6 1 (4.35%) C#
6 1 (4.35%) SAS Macro
6 1 (4.35%) Scala
Qualifications
1 10 (43.48%) Security Cleared
2 6 (26.09%) DV Cleared
3 3 (13.04%) Azure Certification
4 1 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.35%) Degree
4 1 (4.35%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.70%) QA
2 1 (4.35%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.35%) GMP
System Software
1 6 (26.09%) Docker
2 5 (21.74%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (13.04%) Firmware
3 3 (13.04%) Hyper-V
3 3 (13.04%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (13.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (13.04%) vSphere
4 2 (8.70%) Active Directory
4 2 (8.70%) Xen
Systems Management
1 9 (39.13%) Kubernetes
2 3 (13.04%) Ansible
2 3 (13.04%) Failover Clustering
2 3 (13.04%) Microsoft Clustering
2 3 (13.04%) vCenter Server
2 3 (13.04%) VxRail
3 2 (8.70%) Prometheus
4 1 (4.35%) Control-M
4 1 (4.35%) Grafana
4 1 (4.35%) HP ALM
4 1 (4.35%) Puppet
4 1 (4.35%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 5 (21.74%) Microsoft
2 3 (13.04%) Dell
2 3 (13.04%) VMware
3 2 (8.70%) Red Hat
4 1 (4.35%) HP
4 1 (4.35%) Splunk