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 17 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 311 345 404
Rank change year-on-year +34 +59 +88
Contract jobs citing Linux Command Line 51 43 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.38% 0.27% 0.19%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.00% 0.79% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 23 23
10th Percentile £289 £525 £325
25th Percentile £506 £529 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £641 £565 £575
Median % change year-on-year +13.36% -1.74% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £694
England median daily rate £600 £550 £535
% change year-on-year +9.09% +2.80% -1.83%
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% -58.23%

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 5,123 5,440 7,717
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 38.14% 33.69% 35.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,316 3,605 5,587
10th Percentile £334 £325 £350
25th Percentile £438 £450 £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.26% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £700 £738 £725
90th Percentile £825 £850 £825
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -2.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 118 68 84
10th Percentile £16.30 £17.25 £17.27
25th Percentile £23.71 £23.35 £19.99
Median hourly rate £27.50 £31.31 £29.75
Median % change year-on-year -12.17% +5.24% -2.46%
75th Percentile £46.55 £54.06 £53.38
90th Percentile £70.88 £71.44 £74.60
England median hourly rate £33.05 £57.35 £45.88
% change year-on-year -42.37% +25.00% +76.46%

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
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 17 September 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 17 September 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 +3 5 £650 +14.54% 2
East London - 1 £675 -
West London - 1 - - 1
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 (11.76%) Apache
1 6 (11.76%) Apache Spark
2 5 (9.80%) CMS
3 4 (7.84%) Jupyter
4 2 (3.92%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.96%) MS Visio
1 1 (1.96%) OmniGraffle
Cloud Services
1 25 (49.02%) Azure
2 12 (23.53%) AWS
3 8 (15.69%) Azure AKS
4 6 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (11.76%) Entra ID
4 6 (11.76%) Power Platform
5 3 (5.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 3 (5.88%) IaaS
5 3 (5.88%) PaaS
6 1 (1.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (1.96%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.96%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.96%) AWS Direct Connect
6 1 (1.96%) Azure AI
6 1 (1.96%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.96%) Datadog
6 1 (1.96%) GCP
6 1 (1.96%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 10 (19.61%) Firewall
2 7 (13.73%) SSH
3 6 (11.76%) VPN
4 5 (9.80%) SSL
5 4 (7.84%) HTTPS
5 4 (7.84%) tcpdump
6 2 (3.92%) Ethernet
6 2 (3.92%) FTP
6 2 (3.92%) HTTP
6 2 (3.92%) Network Security
6 2 (3.92%) TCP/IP
7 1 (1.96%) BGP
7 1 (1.96%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (1.96%) Cisco Wireless
7 1 (1.96%) Junos
7 1 (1.96%) MPLS
7 1 (1.96%) RTP
7 1 (1.96%) SNMP
7 1 (1.96%) VXLAN
7 1 (1.96%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (27.45%) SQL Server
2 12 (23.53%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (17.65%) Delta Lake
4 6 (11.76%) Apache Hive
4 6 (11.76%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (11.76%) Power BI
4 6 (11.76%) Relational Database
5 3 (5.88%) Data Lake
5 3 (5.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.96%) Big Data
6 1 (1.96%) Metadata
6 1 (1.96%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.96%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 22 (43.14%) Git
2 8 (15.69%) JIRA
3 7 (13.73%) GitLab
4 5 (9.80%) Jenkins
5 4 (7.84%) RStudio
5 4 (7.84%) SonarQube
6 3 (5.88%) Cucumber
7 2 (3.92%) Maven
7 2 (3.92%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (1.96%) Cypress.io
8 1 (1.96%) Gatling
8 1 (1.96%) Hamcrest
8 1 (1.96%) JUnit
8 1 (1.96%) Postman
8 1 (1.96%) Selenium
8 1 (1.96%) Serenity BDD
General
1 20 (39.22%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (19.61%) Finance
3 9 (17.65%) Social Skills
4 5 (9.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (7.84%) Banking
6 3 (5.88%) Financial Institution
7 2 (3.92%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.96%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 17 (33.33%) Developer
2 13 (25.49%) Python Developer
3 9 (17.65%) Data Engineer
4 5 (9.80%) Campaign Manager
4 5 (9.80%) IT Manager
4 5 (9.80%) Senior
5 3 (5.88%) Architect
5 3 (5.88%) Azure Architect
5 3 (5.88%) Infrastructure Architect
5 3 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (5.88%) Python Engineer
5 3 (5.88%) Senior Data Engineer
5 3 (5.88%) Senior Developer
6 2 (3.92%) Automation Specialist
6 2 (3.92%) Automation Tester
6 2 (3.92%) Cloud Developer
6 2 (3.92%) Data Modeller
6 2 (3.92%) Linux Engineer
6 2 (3.92%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (3.92%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (11.76%) JSON
1 6 (11.76%) pydantic
1 6 (11.76%) PySpark
1 6 (11.76%) YAML
2 5 (9.80%) RESTful
3 3 (5.88%) REST
4 2 (3.92%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (3.92%) Regular Expression
5 1 (1.96%) .NET
5 1 (1.96%) gRPC
5 1 (1.96%) LAMP
5 1 (1.96%) LDAP
5 1 (1.96%) web3js
5 1 (1.96%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 11 (21.57%) Data Structures
2 6 (11.76%) Management Information System
2 6 (11.76%) Reference Data
3 3 (5.88%) Algorithms
4 2 (3.92%) BYOD
4 2 (3.92%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.96%) Blockchain
5 1 (1.96%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (1.96%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.96%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.96%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 41 (80.39%) Linux
2 8 (15.69%) Unix
3 2 (3.92%) Windows
4 1 (1.96%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (35.29%) CI/CD
2 16 (31.37%) Agile
2 16 (31.37%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (29.41%) Infrastructure as Code
4 14 (27.45%) DevOps
5 13 (25.49%) Software Engineering
6 11 (21.57%) Clean Code
6 11 (21.57%) Data Ingestion
6 11 (21.57%) Test Automation
7 8 (15.69%) Data Pipeline
7 8 (15.69%) Use Case
8 7 (13.73%) Configuration Management
8 7 (13.73%) Information Security
8 7 (13.73%) OOP
8 7 (13.73%) Patch Management
9 6 (11.76%) Scrum
10 5 (9.80%) Data Protection
10 5 (9.80%) Electronic Trading
10 5 (9.80%) Pair Programming
10 5 (9.80%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 29 (56.86%) Python
2 22 (43.14%) SQL
3 21 (41.18%) Bash
4 7 (13.73%) PowerShell
5 6 (11.76%) Scala
6 4 (7.84%) Go
6 4 (7.84%) Java
6 4 (7.84%) Shell Script
7 3 (5.88%) Perl
8 1 (1.96%) C
8 1 (1.96%) C++
8 1 (1.96%) Rust
Qualifications
1 12 (23.53%) Security Cleared
2 11 (21.57%) SC Cleared
3 5 (9.80%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (9.80%) Degree
4 3 (5.88%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.96%) CCIE
5 1 (1.96%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.96%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.96%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (17.65%) Data Quality
2 5 (9.80%) GDPR
3 2 (3.92%) QA
4 1 (1.96%) GMP
System Software
1 8 (15.69%) zsh
2 3 (5.88%) Docker
3 2 (3.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.96%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.96%) KVM
4 1 (1.96%) NFS
4 1 (1.96%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.96%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (27.45%) Ansible
2 9 (17.65%) Kubernetes
3 6 (11.76%) Terraform
4 2 (3.92%) Grafana
4 2 (3.92%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.96%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.96%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (27.45%) Databricks
2 4 (7.84%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.92%) CyberArk
3 2 (3.92%) F5
3 2 (3.92%) Splunk
3 2 (3.92%) VMware
4 1 (1.96%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.96%) Cisco
4 1 (1.96%) Informatica
4 1 (1.96%) Juniper
4 1 (1.96%) Mellanox
4 1 (1.96%) NVIDIA
4 1 (1.96%) Oracle