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 9 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 414 320 346
Rank change year-on-year -94 +26 +61
Contract jobs citing Linux Command Line 40 47 43
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.20% 0.35% 0.27%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.52% 0.91% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 37 23
10th Percentile £415 £289 £525
25th Percentile £461 £506 £529
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £650 £565
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +15.04% -1.74%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £650
90th Percentile £788 £713 £738
England median daily rate £500 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% +0.92%

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 7,690 5,142 5,446
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 37.82% 38.36% 33.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,826 3,342 3,640
10th Percentile £350 £335 £325
25th Percentile £450 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -2.17% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £738
90th Percentile £788 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 183 120 72
10th Percentile £18.50 £15.84 £17.25
25th Percentile £22.50 £24.24 £22.00
Median hourly rate £33.60 £28.60 £30.11
Median % change year-on-year +17.49% -5.01% -13.99%
75th Percentile £56.25 £46.81 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £68.63 £71.25
England median hourly rate £37.50 £33.00 £57.35
% change year-on-year +13.64% -42.46% +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 9 September 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 9 September 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 -22 3 £492 -25.45% 2
East London +3 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 4 (10.00%) Confluence
1 4 (10.00%) nginx
1 4 (10.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.50%) OpenStack
2 1 (2.50%) SAS
Business Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 21 (52.50%) Azure
2 15 (37.50%) AWS
3 9 (22.50%) GitHub
3 9 (22.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 8 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (17.50%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (15.00%) Azure Monitor
6 6 (15.00%) Serverless
7 5 (12.50%) Amazon S3
7 5 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (10.00%) Azure AKS
8 4 (10.00%) GCP
9 3 (7.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (7.50%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (7.50%) AWS KMS
9 3 (7.50%) AWS Step Functions
9 3 (7.50%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 3 (7.50%) Azure Functions
9 3 (7.50%) Azure Stack
9 3 (7.50%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 12 (30.00%) TCP/IP
2 10 (25.00%) DNS
2 10 (25.00%) Firewall
3 8 (20.00%) VLAN
4 7 (17.50%) Network Security
4 7 (17.50%) SSH
4 7 (17.50%) VPN
5 4 (10.00%) BGP
5 4 (10.00%) DHCP
5 4 (10.00%) HTTPS
5 4 (10.00%) OpenVPN
5 4 (10.00%) SSL
5 4 (10.00%) WAN
6 3 (7.50%) HTTP
6 3 (7.50%) VSAN
7 2 (5.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 2 (5.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 2 (5.00%) Kerberos
7 2 (5.00%) SAN
8 1 (2.50%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (17.50%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (10.00%) SQL Server
3 3 (7.50%) Metadata
4 2 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (5.00%) Flink
4 2 (5.00%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.50%) Apache Hive
5 1 (2.50%) Base SAS
5 1 (2.50%) Big Data
5 1 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.50%) Hadoop
5 1 (2.50%) SAS Data Integration Studio
5 1 (2.50%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 13 (32.50%) Git
2 8 (20.00%) Jenkins
3 4 (10.00%) GitLab
3 4 (10.00%) JIRA
4 1 (2.50%) Selenium
4 1 (2.50%) SonarQube
General
1 12 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (17.50%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (17.50%) Finance
3 4 (10.00%) Automotive
4 2 (5.00%) Back Office
4 2 (5.00%) Banking
5 1 (2.50%) Front Office
5 1 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.50%) Law
5 1 (2.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (20.00%) Network Engineer
2 7 (17.50%) Azure Engineer
3 5 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
3 5 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) Automation Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) Developer
4 4 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) Lead
4 4 (10.00%) Migration Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) Senior
4 4 (10.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) Senior Network Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) .NET Developer
5 3 (7.50%) AWS Developer
5 3 (7.50%) CyberArk Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (60.00%) Terraform
2 6 (15.00%) Kafka
2 6 (15.00%) REST
3 4 (10.00%) 802.1X
3 4 (10.00%) boto
3 4 (10.00%) OpenTofu
3 4 (10.00%) YAML
4 3 (7.50%) .NET
4 3 (7.50%) .NET Core
4 3 (7.50%) ARM Templates
4 3 (7.50%) ASP.NET
4 3 (7.50%) ASP.NET Core
4 3 (7.50%) Node.js
5 2 (5.00%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (5.00%) JDBC
5 2 (5.00%) JMX
5 2 (5.00%) OpenTelemetry
5 2 (5.00%) React
5 2 (5.00%) RESTful
6 1 (2.50%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.50%) Cloud Native
2 6 (15.00%) Public Cloud
2 6 (15.00%) Replication
3 5 (12.50%) PKI
4 4 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (10.00%) Onboarding
4 4 (10.00%) Robotics
5 3 (7.50%) Client/Server
5 3 (7.50%) Clustering
5 3 (7.50%) Data Centre
5 3 (7.50%) Distributed Applications
6 2 (5.00%) Equities
7 1 (2.50%) Derivative
7 1 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (2.50%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (2.50%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 34 (85.00%) Linux
2 16 (40.00%) Windows
3 10 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (17.50%) VMS
5 4 (10.00%) Ubuntu
6 3 (7.50%) SUSE
6 3 (7.50%) Windows Server
6 3 (7.50%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (5.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (50.00%) DevOps
2 16 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 14 (35.00%) CI/CD
4 13 (32.50%) Infrastructure Automation
5 10 (25.00%) Validation
6 9 (22.50%) Agile
6 9 (22.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 9 (22.50%) Migration
7 8 (20.00%) Change Management
7 8 (20.00%) Containerisation
7 8 (20.00%) High Availability
7 8 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
8 6 (15.00%) RBAC
8 6 (15.00%) Test Automation
9 5 (12.50%) AI
9 5 (12.50%) Analytics
9 5 (12.50%) GitOps
9 5 (12.50%) Machine Learning
9 5 (12.50%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (57.50%) Python
2 17 (42.50%) PowerShell
3 14 (35.00%) Bash
3 14 (35.00%) SQL
4 5 (12.50%) Java
5 4 (10.00%) Bicep
6 3 (7.50%) C#
6 3 (7.50%) Shell Script
7 2 (5.00%) Go
7 2 (5.00%) TypeScript
8 1 (2.50%) Apex Code
8 1 (2.50%) C
8 1 (2.50%) Groovy
8 1 (2.50%) JavaScript
8 1 (2.50%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 9 (22.50%) Security Cleared
2 6 (15.00%) SC Cleared
3 5 (12.50%) Azure Certification
3 5 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (10.00%) CCNP
4 4 (10.00%) JNCIP
4 4 (10.00%) JNCIS
5 2 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (5.00%) Degree
6 1 (2.50%) CCNA
6 1 (2.50%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.50%) QA
2 2 (5.00%) GDPR
2 2 (5.00%) HIPAA
2 2 (5.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (5.00%) SLA
3 1 (2.50%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.50%) NIST
3 1 (2.50%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 9 (22.50%) Docker
2 5 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (10.00%) Hyper-V
4 3 (7.50%) Firmware
4 3 (7.50%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (7.50%) vSphere
5 2 (5.00%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (2.50%) Active Directory
6 1 (2.50%) Squid
Systems Management
1 16 (40.00%) Ansible
2 12 (30.00%) Kubernetes
3 6 (15.00%) systemd
4 5 (12.50%) Grafana
5 4 (10.00%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (7.50%) Failover Clustering
6 3 (7.50%) Microsoft Clustering
6 3 (7.50%) Packer
6 3 (7.50%) Puppet
6 3 (7.50%) SELinux
6 3 (7.50%) vCenter Server
6 3 (7.50%) VxRail
7 2 (5.00%) Prometheus
8 1 (2.50%) Control-M
8 1 (2.50%) HP ALM
8 1 (2.50%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 15 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 9 (22.50%) Red Hat
3 7 (17.50%) Cisco
3 7 (17.50%) ServiceNow
4 5 (12.50%) VMware
5 4 (10.00%) Juniper
5 4 (10.00%) MikroTik
6 3 (7.50%) CyberArk
6 3 (7.50%) Dell
6 3 (7.50%) Oracle
6 3 (7.50%) PagerDuty
7 2 (5.00%) Arista
7 2 (5.00%) Confluent
7 2 (5.00%) F5
8 1 (2.50%) Checkmarx
8 1 (2.50%) Databricks
8 1 (2.50%) Dynatrace
8 1 (2.50%) OpenAI
8 1 (2.50%) Splunk
8 1 (2.50%) Trend Micro