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 14 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 327 361 395
Rank change year-on-year +34 +34 +70
Contract jobs citing Linux Command Line 46 30 34
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.33% 0.19% 0.17%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.83% 0.56% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 15 25
10th Percentile £459 £529 £306
25th Percentile £514 £553 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +14.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £613
90th Percentile £708 £745 £657
England median daily rate £554 £565 £500
% change year-on-year -1.99% +13.00% -6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £17.30
Median hourly rate - - £18.24
75th Percentile - - £19.18
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £32.50 £70.00 £18.24
% change year-on-year -53.57% +283.77% -77.31%

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 5,512 5,321 6,882
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 39.16% 33.84% 34.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,518 3,398 4,928
10th Percentile £337 £325 £327
25th Percentile £440 £450 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £595
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -3.36% -0.83%
75th Percentile £688 £713 £725
90th Percentile £825 £850 £825
England median daily rate £520 £543 £550
% change year-on-year -4.15% -1.36% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 140 63 102
10th Percentile £17.07 £17.30 £18.59
25th Percentile £19.95 £24.15 £19.99
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £30.75
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% +13.82% +19.60%
75th Percentile £43.74 £56.00 £49.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.75 £67.71
England median hourly rate £28.00 £46.18 £44.50
% change year-on-year -39.37% +3.78% +50.85%

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 14 November 2025.

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 14 November 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 +6 4 £631 +11.73% 12
West London - 1 - -
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 (4.35%) CMS
1 2 (4.35%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.17%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.17%) OmniGraffle
Cloud Services
1 18 (39.13%) Azure
2 13 (28.26%) AWS
3 7 (15.22%) Azure AKS
4 5 (10.87%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (10.87%) Entra ID
5 3 (6.52%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (4.35%) GitHub
6 2 (4.35%) IaaS
6 2 (4.35%) PaaS
7 1 (2.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (2.17%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (2.17%) Amazon S3
7 1 (2.17%) Datadog
7 1 (2.17%) GCP
7 1 (2.17%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 7 (15.22%) Firewall
2 4 (8.70%) SSL
2 4 (8.70%) tcpdump
3 3 (6.52%) HTTPS
3 3 (6.52%) SSH
3 3 (6.52%) VPN
4 2 (4.35%) HTTP
4 2 (4.35%) TCP/IP
5 1 (2.17%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (2.17%) Cisco Wireless
5 1 (2.17%) Ethernet
5 1 (2.17%) FTP
5 1 (2.17%) Network Security
5 1 (2.17%) NX-OS
5 1 (2.17%) RTP
5 1 (2.17%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (30.43%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (21.74%) SQL Server
3 5 (10.87%) Data Lake
3 5 (10.87%) Delta Lake
3 5 (10.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 4 (8.70%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.17%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.17%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 18 (39.13%) Git
2 6 (13.04%) GitLab
3 5 (10.87%) Jenkins
4 3 (6.52%) SonarQube
5 2 (4.35%) Maven
5 2 (4.35%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (2.17%) Cucumber
6 1 (2.17%) Cypress.io
6 1 (2.17%) Gatling
6 1 (2.17%) Hamcrest
6 1 (2.17%) JIRA
6 1 (2.17%) JUnit
6 1 (2.17%) Postman
6 1 (2.17%) Selenium
6 1 (2.17%) Serenity BDD
General
1 17 (36.96%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (23.91%) Finance
3 7 (15.22%) Social Skills
4 4 (8.70%) Banking
5 3 (6.52%) Financial Institution
6 2 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.17%) Front Office
7 1 (2.17%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 25 (54.35%) Developer
2 13 (28.26%) Python Developer
3 6 (13.04%) Senior
4 5 (10.87%) Data Engineer
4 5 (10.87%) Senior Data Engineer
4 5 (10.87%) Senior Developer
5 3 (6.52%) Analyst
5 3 (6.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) Linux Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) Python Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Architect
6 2 (4.35%) Automation Specialist
6 2 (4.35%) Azure Architect
6 2 (4.35%) Campaign Manager
6 2 (4.35%) Cloud Developer
6 2 (4.35%) Data Modeller
6 2 (4.35%) Infrastructure Architect
6 2 (4.35%) IT Manager
6 2 (4.35%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Pensions Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (10.87%) RESTful
2 2 (4.35%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (4.35%) PyTorch
2 2 (4.35%) Regular Expression
2 2 (4.35%) REST
3 1 (2.17%) .NET
3 1 (2.17%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (2.17%) LAMP
3 1 (2.17%) web3js
3 1 (2.17%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.04%) Data Structures
2 4 (8.70%) Algorithms
3 3 (6.52%) Management Information System
4 2 (4.35%) BYOD
4 2 (4.35%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.17%) Blockchain
5 1 (2.17%) Clustering
5 1 (2.17%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.17%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (2.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (2.17%) Private Cloud
5 1 (2.17%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 37 (80.43%) Linux
2 9 (19.57%) Unix
3 4 (8.70%) Windows
4 2 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (41.30%) CI/CD
2 16 (34.78%) Infrastructure as Code
3 13 (28.26%) Clean Code
3 13 (28.26%) Software Engineering
4 12 (26.09%) DevOps
4 12 (26.09%) Use Case
5 10 (21.74%) Agile
5 10 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (21.74%) Test Automation
6 7 (15.22%) Analytics
6 7 (15.22%) OOP
7 6 (13.04%) Data Ingestion
7 6 (13.04%) Electronic Trading
7 6 (13.04%) Low Latency
7 6 (13.04%) Task Automation
8 5 (10.87%) Configuration Management
8 5 (10.87%) Data Architecture
8 5 (10.87%) ETL
8 5 (10.87%) Pair Programming
8 5 (10.87%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 25 (54.35%) Python
2 17 (36.96%) Bash
3 16 (34.78%) SQL
4 6 (13.04%) PowerShell
5 5 (10.87%) Shell Script
6 4 (8.70%) Go
7 3 (6.52%) Java
7 3 (6.52%) Perl
8 1 (2.17%) C
8 1 (2.17%) C#
8 1 (2.17%) C++
8 1 (2.17%) Rust
8 1 (2.17%) Scala
Qualifications
1 7 (15.22%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.52%) DV Cleared
2 3 (6.52%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.35%) Azure Certification
3 2 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.35%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (21.74%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.35%) GMP
3 1 (2.17%) QA
System Software
1 10 (21.74%) zsh
2 5 (10.87%) Docker
3 2 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.17%) KVM
4 1 (2.17%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (2.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (28.26%) Ansible
2 10 (21.74%) Kubernetes
3 4 (8.70%) Terraform
4 2 (4.35%) Grafana
4 2 (4.35%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.17%) Puppet
5 1 (2.17%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 10 (21.74%) Databricks
2 5 (10.87%) Microsoft
3 4 (8.70%) Splunk
4 3 (6.52%) Red Hat
5 2 (4.35%) CyberArk
5 2 (4.35%) F5
5 2 (4.35%) VMware
6 1 (2.17%) Atlassian
6 1 (2.17%) Cisco
6 1 (2.17%) Oracle