Linux Command Line Contracts 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 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 320 351 414
Rank change year-on-year +31 +63 +47
Contract jobs citing Linux Command Line 34 49 73
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.26% 0.28% 0.29%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.72% 0.84% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 29 48
10th Percentile £289 £417 £445
25th Percentile £433 £525 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £554 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.68% +4.76% -7.98%
75th Percentile £709 £650 £614
90th Percentile £775 £745 £679
England median daily rate £550 £550 £529
% change year-on-year - +4.07% -3.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £18.11
25th Percentile - - £19.33
Median hourly rate - - £20.00
75th Percentile - - £35.75
90th Percentile - - £64.10
England median hourly rate £57.50 £70.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -17.86% +250.00% -56.52%

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 4,734 5,814 9,026
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 36.71% 33.27% 35.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,124 4,084 6,533
10th Percentile £331 £315 £363
25th Percentile £449 £450 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -
75th Percentile £738 £738 £743
90th Percentile £838 £850 £838
England median daily rate £525 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 143 98
10th Percentile £15.84 £15.44 £18.65
25th Percentile £22.50 £18.02 £22.49
Median hourly rate £30.00 £27.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -22.86% -13.58%
75th Percentile £47.06 £49.50 £58.44
90th Percentile £64.30 £71.25 £85.99
England median hourly rate £32.81 £37.00 £23.33
% change year-on-year -11.32% +58.63% -11.98%

Linux Command Line
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Command Line in London

Linux Command Line
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Linux Command Line in London

Linux Command Line
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Linux Command Line in London

Linux Command Line
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux Command Line in London

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 1 July 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
Central London +1 6 £750 +33.33% 20
East London - 1 £675 -
Linux Command Line
England

Linux Command Line
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 6 (17.65%) Apache
1 6 (17.65%) Apache Spark
2 5 (14.71%) CMS
3 4 (11.76%) Jupyter
4 1 (2.94%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 16 (47.06%) Azure
2 7 (20.59%) AWS
3 6 (17.65%) Azure AKS
3 6 (17.65%) Entra ID
3 6 (17.65%) IaaS
3 6 (17.65%) PaaS
3 6 (17.65%) Power Platform
4 4 (11.76%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (8.82%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (8.82%) Azure Event Grid
5 3 (8.82%) Azure Logic Apps
5 3 (8.82%) Azure Sentinel
5 3 (8.82%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (8.82%) SaaS
5 3 (8.82%) Serverless
6 2 (5.88%) GCP
7 1 (2.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (2.94%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (2.94%) AWS Direct Connect
7 1 (2.94%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 9 (26.47%) Firewall
2 5 (14.71%) VPN
3 4 (11.76%) SSH
4 3 (8.82%) HTTPS
4 3 (8.82%) SSL
5 1 (2.94%) BGP
5 1 (2.94%) Ethernet
5 1 (2.94%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (2.94%) FTP
5 1 (2.94%) Junos
5 1 (2.94%) MPLS
5 1 (2.94%) Network Security
5 1 (2.94%) SNMP
5 1 (2.94%) tcpdump
5 1 (2.94%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (26.47%) Azure SQL Database
2 8 (23.53%) SQL Server
3 6 (17.65%) Apache Hive
3 6 (17.65%) Delta Lake
3 6 (17.65%) Power BI
3 6 (17.65%) Relational Database
4 3 (8.82%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.94%) Big Data
5 1 (2.94%) Metadata
5 1 (2.94%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.94%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 13 (38.24%) Git
2 8 (23.53%) JIRA
3 4 (11.76%) RStudio
3 4 (11.76%) SonarQube
4 3 (8.82%) Cucumber
5 2 (5.88%) GitLab
5 2 (5.88%) Jenkins
5 2 (5.88%) JUnit
6 1 (2.94%) Cypress.io
6 1 (2.94%) Gatling
6 1 (2.94%) Gradle
6 1 (2.94%) Hamcrest
6 1 (2.94%) Maven
6 1 (2.94%) Mercurial
6 1 (2.94%) Mockito
6 1 (2.94%) Postman
6 1 (2.94%) Selenium
6 1 (2.94%) Serenity BDD
General
1 11 (32.35%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (23.53%) Finance
3 6 (17.65%) Social Skills
4 5 (14.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (8.82%) Financial Institution
6 2 (5.88%) Banking
6 2 (5.88%) Investment Banking
6 2 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (26.47%) Developer
2 8 (23.53%) Python Developer
3 6 (17.65%) Architect
3 6 (17.65%) Azure Architect
3 6 (17.65%) Data Engineer
4 5 (14.71%) Campaign Manager
4 5 (14.71%) IT Manager
4 5 (14.71%) Senior
5 3 (8.82%) Automation Tester
5 3 (8.82%) Cloud Architect
5 3 (8.82%) Infrastructure Architect
5 3 (8.82%) Tester
6 2 (5.88%) Backend Developer
6 2 (5.88%) Microsoft 365 Architect
6 2 (5.88%) Senior Architect
6 2 (5.88%) Senior Cloud Architect
6 2 (5.88%) Senior Developer
6 2 (5.88%) Senior Python Developer
7 1 (2.94%) Linux Support
7 1 (2.94%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (17.65%) JSON
1 6 (17.65%) pydantic
1 6 (17.65%) PySpark
1 6 (17.65%) YAML
2 3 (8.82%) ARM Templates
2 3 (8.82%) Azure Blueprints
2 3 (8.82%) REST
2 3 (8.82%) RESTful
3 1 (2.94%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (2.94%) gRPC
3 1 (2.94%) LAMP
3 1 (2.94%) LDAP
3 1 (2.94%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 10 (29.41%) Data Structures
2 6 (17.65%) Reference Data
3 5 (14.71%) Algorithms
3 5 (14.71%) Management Information System
4 3 (8.82%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (5.88%) Reinsurance
5 2 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (2.94%) Cloud Native
6 1 (2.94%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 29 (85.29%) Linux
2 5 (14.71%) Unix
2 5 (14.71%) Windows
3 3 (8.82%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.94%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (44.12%) Agile
2 13 (38.24%) DevOps
3 12 (35.29%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (26.47%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (23.53%) CI/CD
5 8 (23.53%) Data Ingestion
5 8 (23.53%) Data Protection
6 7 (20.59%) Test Automation
7 6 (17.65%) Cloud Security
7 6 (17.65%) Computer Science
7 6 (17.65%) Release Management
7 6 (17.65%) Scrum
7 6 (17.65%) Software Engineering
8 5 (14.71%) Configuration Management
8 5 (14.71%) CRM
8 5 (14.71%) Data Security
8 5 (14.71%) High Availability
8 5 (14.71%) Information Security
8 5 (14.71%) Project Management
8 5 (14.71%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 18 (52.94%) SQL
2 17 (50.00%) Python
3 12 (35.29%) Bash
4 8 (23.53%) PowerShell
5 6 (17.65%) Scala
6 4 (11.76%) Java
7 3 (8.82%) Bicep
7 3 (8.82%) Shell Script
8 1 (2.94%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 12 (35.29%) Security Cleared
2 11 (32.35%) SC Cleared
3 5 (14.71%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (14.71%) Degree
4 3 (8.82%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.94%) CCIE
5 1 (2.94%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.94%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.94%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (23.53%) GDPR
2 3 (8.82%) Data Quality
2 3 (8.82%) QA
2 3 (8.82%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (11.76%) Active Directory
2 3 (8.82%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (5.88%) Docker
3 2 (5.88%) zsh
4 1 (2.94%) NFS
Systems Management
1 7 (20.59%) Ansible
1 7 (20.59%) Terraform
2 4 (11.76%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.94%) Grafana
3 1 (2.94%) Progress Chef
3 1 (2.94%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.94%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (23.53%) Databricks
2 3 (8.82%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.88%) Splunk
4 1 (2.94%) Atlassian
4 1 (2.94%) Informatica
4 1 (2.94%) Juniper
4 1 (2.94%) Mellanox
4 1 (2.94%) NVIDIA
4 1 (2.94%) Oracle