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

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 327 343 398
Rank change year-on-year +16 +55 +64
Contract jobs citing Linux Command Line 26 48 95
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.21% 0.27% 0.35%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.58% 0.81% 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 29 65
10th Percentile £425 £378 £474
25th Percentile £506 £488 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £573 £565 £538
Median % change year-on-year +1.33% +5.12% -5.04%
75th Percentile £751 £650 £573
90th Percentile £775 £755 £645
England median daily rate £550 £550 £538
% change year-on-year - +2.33% +1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - £20.00
25th Percentile - - £33.75
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £79.00
England median hourly rate £57.50 £70.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year -17.86% -6.67% +63.04%

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 4,516 5,909 9,701
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 35.99% 33.14% 35.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,054 4,182 6,966
10th Percentile £325 £301 £375
25th Percentile £451 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £583 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.29% -2.92% -
75th Percentile £738 £725 £750
90th Percentile £850 £850 £838
England median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 160 109
10th Percentile £15.84 £15.50 £18.93
25th Percentile £22.60 £18.93 £21.24
Median hourly rate £34.50 £26.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.69% -25.71% -21.35%
75th Percentile £50.31 £47.81 £64.50
90th Percentile £80.05 £66.78 £83.15
England median hourly rate £33.00 £30.16 £22.50
% change year-on-year +9.42% +34.04% -16.67%

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 May 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 May 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 0 7 £655 +9.21% 6
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 8 (30.77%) Apache
1 8 (30.77%) Apache Spark
2 6 (23.08%) Jupyter
3 3 (11.54%) OpenStack
4 1 (3.85%) CMS
4 1 (3.85%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 12 (46.15%) Azure
2 8 (30.77%) Power Platform
3 5 (19.23%) AWS
4 4 (15.38%) Azure Sentinel
4 4 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (15.38%) Serverless
5 3 (11.54%) Azure AKS
5 3 (11.54%) Azure Event Grid
5 3 (11.54%) Azure Logic Apps
5 3 (11.54%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (11.54%) Entra ID
5 3 (11.54%) IaaS
5 3 (11.54%) OpenShift
5 3 (11.54%) PaaS
5 3 (11.54%) SaaS
6 2 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (7.69%) GCP
7 1 (3.85%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 6 (23.08%) SSH
2 3 (11.54%) BGP
2 3 (11.54%) Ethernet VPN
2 3 (11.54%) Multicast
2 3 (11.54%) OSPF
2 3 (11.54%) TCP/IP
2 3 (11.54%) VXLAN
3 2 (7.69%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (7.69%) Firewall
3 2 (7.69%) NX-OS
4 1 (3.85%) FTP
4 1 (3.85%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (42.31%) Azure SQL Database
2 8 (30.77%) Apache Hive
2 8 (30.77%) Delta Lake
2 8 (30.77%) Power BI
2 8 (30.77%) SQL Server
3 2 (7.69%) Relational Database
4 1 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (3.85%) Metadata
4 1 (3.85%) Oracle Database
4 1 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (42.31%) Git
2 9 (34.62%) JIRA
3 6 (23.08%) RStudio
4 3 (11.54%) Cucumber
5 2 (7.69%) Jenkins
5 2 (7.69%) JUnit
5 2 (7.69%) Maven
5 2 (7.69%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (3.85%) Cypress.io
6 1 (3.85%) Gatling
6 1 (3.85%) GitLab
6 1 (3.85%) Gradle
6 1 (3.85%) Hamcrest
6 1 (3.85%) Mercurial
6 1 (3.85%) Mockito
6 1 (3.85%) Postman
6 1 (3.85%) Selenium
6 1 (3.85%) Serenity BDD
6 1 (3.85%) SonarQube
6 1 (3.85%) Subversion
General
1 9 (34.62%) Social Skills
2 8 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (19.23%) Finance
4 4 (15.38%) Public Sector
5 3 (11.54%) Banking
5 3 (11.54%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (11.54%) Investment Banking
6 1 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 8 (30.77%) Data Engineer
2 5 (19.23%) Senior
3 4 (15.38%) Developer
4 3 (11.54%) Architect
4 3 (11.54%) Automation Tester
4 3 (11.54%) Azure Architect
4 3 (11.54%) Cloud Architect
4 3 (11.54%) Consultant
4 3 (11.54%) Network Consultant
4 3 (11.54%) Tester
5 2 (7.69%) Cisco Consultant
5 2 (7.69%) Cisco Network Consultant
5 2 (7.69%) Microsoft 365 Architect
5 2 (7.69%) Python Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Senior Architect
5 2 (7.69%) Senior Cloud Architect
5 2 (7.69%) Senior Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Senior Python Developer
6 1 (3.85%) Java Developer
6 1 (3.85%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (30.77%) JSON
1 8 (30.77%) pydantic
1 8 (30.77%) PySpark
1 8 (30.77%) YAML
2 3 (11.54%) ARM Templates
2 3 (11.54%) Azure Blueprints
3 2 (7.69%) RESTful
4 1 (3.85%) EJB
4 1 (3.85%) Hibernate
4 1 (3.85%) Java EE
4 1 (3.85%) JSP
4 1 (3.85%) LDAP
4 1 (3.85%) Node.js
4 1 (3.85%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 9 (34.62%) Data Structures
2 8 (30.77%) Reference Data
3 3 (11.54%) Data Centre
4 2 (7.69%) Algorithms
4 2 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (7.69%) Reinsurance
4 2 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (3.85%) Cloud Native
5 1 (3.85%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (3.85%) Management Information System
5 1 (3.85%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 18 (69.23%) Linux
2 6 (23.08%) Windows
3 3 (11.54%) Windows Server
4 1 (3.85%) Android
4 1 (3.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (38.46%) Agile
1 10 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (30.77%) Data Ingestion
3 7 (26.92%) Data Pipeline
3 7 (26.92%) Data Security
3 7 (26.92%) DevOps
3 7 (26.92%) Scrum
4 6 (23.08%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 6 (23.08%) Test Automation
5 5 (19.23%) Data Protection
5 5 (19.23%) High Availability
6 4 (15.38%) CI/CD
6 4 (15.38%) Cloud Security
6 4 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (15.38%) Migration
7 3 (11.54%) Analytics
7 3 (11.54%) Cost Management
7 3 (11.54%) Customer Service
7 3 (11.54%) User Stories
7 3 (11.54%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 15 (57.69%) Python
2 14 (53.85%) SQL
3 11 (42.31%) Bash
4 8 (30.77%) Scala
5 6 (23.08%) Java
6 5 (19.23%) PowerShell
7 3 (11.54%) Bicep
8 1 (3.85%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 12 (46.15%) Security Cleared
2 11 (42.31%) SC Cleared
3 2 (7.69%) CCIE
3 2 (7.69%) CCIE Data Center
3 2 (7.69%) CCNP
3 2 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (3.85%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.85%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (42.31%) GDPR
2 3 (11.54%) QA
2 3 (11.54%) SOC 2
3 1 (3.85%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.85%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (15.38%) Active Directory
1 4 (15.38%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (11.54%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (11.54%) vSphere
3 2 (7.69%) Docker
4 1 (3.85%) NFS
Systems Management
1 6 (23.08%) Ansible
2 5 (19.23%) Terraform
3 4 (15.38%) Progress Chef
4 1 (3.85%) Kubernetes
4 1 (3.85%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (30.77%) Databricks
2 4 (15.38%) Red Hat
3 3 (11.54%) Cisco
3 3 (11.54%) Microsoft
3 3 (11.54%) VMware
4 2 (7.69%) Splunk
5 1 (3.85%) Arista
5 1 (3.85%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (3.85%) Exabeam
5 1 (3.85%) Informatica
5 1 (3.85%) Oracle
5 1 (3.85%) Palo Alto