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 15 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 397 331 351
Rank change year-on-year -66 +20 +77
Contract jobs citing Linux Command Line 32 35 46
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.16% 0.26% 0.26%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.44% 0.70% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 31 26
10th Percentile £400 £289 £405
25th Percentile £462 £440 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £573 £538
Median % change year-on-year -7.86% +6.51% -
75th Percentile £575 £706 £617
90th Percentile £673 £775 £756
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +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 7,229 5,006 5,858
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 36.61% 37.00% 33.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,531 3,295 4,093
10th Percentile £354 £332 £315
25th Percentile £450 £447 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £728 £738
90th Percentile £800 £838 £850
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 109 129
10th Percentile £19.10 £15.84 £15.50
25th Percentile £23.68 £22.50 £21.22
Median hourly rate £37.50 £30.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% - -14.29%
75th Percentile £63.75 £47.50 £50.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £64.11 £71.25
England median hourly rate £43.96 £33.47 £40.00
% change year-on-year +31.35% -16.33% +15.54%

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 15 July 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 15 July 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 -12 2 £484 -35.53% 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 3 (9.38%) Confluence
1 3 (9.38%) nginx
1 3 (9.38%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.13%) OpenStack
2 1 (3.13%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 12 (37.50%) Azure
2 11 (34.38%) AWS
3 9 (28.13%) GitHub
4 7 (21.88%) Amazon EC2
5 6 (18.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 5 (15.63%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (9.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (9.38%) Amazon S3
8 3 (9.38%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (9.38%) AWS CloudTrail
8 3 (9.38%) AWS KMS
8 3 (9.38%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (9.38%) AWS Step Functions
8 3 (9.38%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 3 (9.38%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (9.38%) Azure Stack
8 3 (9.38%) Datadog
8 3 (9.38%) SaaS
8 3 (9.38%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (21.88%) Firewall
1 7 (21.88%) TCP/IP
2 6 (18.75%) SSH
3 5 (15.63%) DNS
3 5 (15.63%) VLAN
4 4 (12.50%) HTTPS
4 4 (12.50%) Network Security
4 4 (12.50%) VPN
4 4 (12.50%) WAN
5 3 (9.38%) BGP
5 3 (9.38%) OpenVPN
5 3 (9.38%) SSL
5 3 (9.38%) VSAN
6 2 (6.25%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 2 (6.25%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 2 (6.25%) HTTP
7 1 (3.13%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (3.13%) DHCP
7 1 (3.13%) SD-WAN
7 1 (3.13%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (18.75%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (12.50%) SQL Server
3 2 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (6.25%) Metadata
4 1 (3.13%) Apache Hive
4 1 (3.13%) Base SAS
4 1 (3.13%) Big Data
4 1 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (3.13%) Hadoop
4 1 (3.13%) SAS Data Integration Studio
4 1 (3.13%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 8 (25.00%) Git
2 7 (21.88%) Jenkins
3 4 (12.50%) JIRA
4 2 (6.25%) GitLab
4 2 (6.25%) Selenium
5 1 (3.13%) Cucumber
5 1 (3.13%) Gradle
5 1 (3.13%) Maven
General
1 8 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (18.75%) Finance
3 4 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (9.38%) Banking
5 2 (6.25%) Back Office
5 2 (6.25%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.13%) Automotive
6 1 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 5 (15.63%) Azure Engineer
1 5 (15.63%) Developer
1 5 (15.63%) Network Engineer
2 4 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
2 4 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
2 4 (12.50%) Migration Engineer
3 3 (9.38%) Applications Developer
3 3 (9.38%) Automation Engineer
3 3 (9.38%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 3 (9.38%) CyberArk Engineer
3 3 (9.38%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) Architect
4 2 (6.25%) Cloud Network Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) Data Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) Python Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) Senior
5 1 (3.13%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (3.13%) Cloud Native Developer
5 1 (3.13%) DevOps Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.38%) boto
1 3 (9.38%) PyTorch
1 3 (9.38%) REST
2 2 (6.25%) Kafka
2 2 (6.25%) Node.js
2 2 (6.25%) RESTful
3 1 (3.13%) .NET
3 1 (3.13%) .NET Core
3 1 (3.13%) 802.1X
3 1 (3.13%) ADO
3 1 (3.13%) Apache Avro
3 1 (3.13%) ASP.NET
3 1 (3.13%) ASP.NET Core
3 1 (3.13%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (3.13%) Gherkin
3 1 (3.13%) JSON
3 1 (3.13%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (3.13%) Protocol Buffers
3 1 (3.13%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (3.13%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.63%) Cloud Native
2 4 (12.50%) Replication
3 3 (9.38%) Client/Server
3 3 (9.38%) Clustering
3 3 (9.38%) Onboarding
3 3 (9.38%) Public Cloud
4 2 (6.25%) Distributed Applications
4 2 (6.25%) Enterprise Cloud
4 2 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (6.25%) PKI
5 1 (3.13%) Data Centre
5 1 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (3.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (3.13%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 26 (81.25%) Linux
2 12 (37.50%) Windows
3 8 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (12.50%) VMS
5 3 (9.38%) SUSE
5 3 (9.38%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (6.25%) Unix
7 1 (3.13%) Ubuntu
7 1 (3.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (31.25%) CI/CD
1 10 (31.25%) DevOps
1 10 (31.25%) Validation
2 8 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 7 (21.88%) Migration
4 6 (18.75%) Agile
4 6 (18.75%) Infrastructure Automation
5 5 (15.63%) AI
5 5 (15.63%) Change Management
5 5 (15.63%) Machine Learning
5 5 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 4 (12.50%) Secrets Management
6 4 (12.50%) Server Management
6 4 (12.50%) Service Management
6 4 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (12.50%) Test Automation
7 3 (9.38%) Containerisation
7 3 (9.38%) Data Pipeline
7 3 (9.38%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 18 (56.25%) Python
2 13 (40.63%) PowerShell
3 8 (25.00%) SQL
4 6 (18.75%) Bash
5 4 (12.50%) Java
6 3 (9.38%) Shell Script
7 1 (3.13%) Apex Code
7 1 (3.13%) Bicep
7 1 (3.13%) C
7 1 (3.13%) C#
7 1 (3.13%) Groovy
7 1 (3.13%) JavaScript
7 1 (3.13%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 9 (28.13%) Security Cleared
2 4 (12.50%) Azure Certification
3 3 (9.38%) DV Cleared
3 3 (9.38%) SC Cleared
4 2 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (3.13%) CCNA
5 1 (3.13%) CCNP
5 1 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (3.13%) Degree
5 1 (3.13%) JNCIP
5 1 (3.13%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.25%) QA
2 1 (3.13%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.13%) GMP
2 1 (3.13%) NIST
2 1 (3.13%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (18.75%) Docker
2 5 (15.63%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (15.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (12.50%) Hyper-V
4 3 (9.38%) Firmware
4 3 (9.38%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (9.38%) vSphere
5 1 (3.13%) Active Directory
5 1 (3.13%) Squid
Systems Management
1 12 (37.50%) Terraform
2 10 (31.25%) Ansible
3 9 (28.13%) Kubernetes
4 3 (9.38%) Failover Clustering
4 3 (9.38%) Microsoft Clustering
4 3 (9.38%) Packer
4 3 (9.38%) Puppet
4 3 (9.38%) SELinux
4 3 (9.38%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (9.38%) vCenter Server
4 3 (9.38%) VxRail
5 2 (6.25%) Prometheus
6 1 (3.13%) Control-M
6 1 (3.13%) Grafana
6 1 (3.13%) HP ALM
6 1 (3.13%) systemd
Vendors
1 8 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (21.88%) Red Hat
3 6 (18.75%) ServiceNow
4 5 (15.63%) VMware
5 4 (12.50%) Cisco
6 3 (9.38%) CyberArk
6 3 (9.38%) Dell
6 3 (9.38%) Oracle
6 3 (9.38%) PagerDuty
7 2 (6.25%) Arista
7 2 (6.25%) F5
8 1 (3.13%) HP
8 1 (3.13%) Juniper
8 1 (3.13%) MikroTik
8 1 (3.13%) OpenAI
8 1 (3.13%) Salesforce
8 1 (3.13%) Splunk
8 1 (3.13%) Trend Micro