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 7 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 412 317 341
Rank change year-on-year -95 +24 +58
Contract jobs citing Linux Command Line 37 52 41
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.18% 0.39% 0.26%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.47% 1.00% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 40 22
10th Percentile £410 £289 £525
25th Percentile £460 £506 £533
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £645 £566
Median % change year-on-year -16.78% +13.95% +0.67%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £753 £713 £738
England median daily rate £518 £600 £558
% change year-on-year -13.75% +7.62% +7.21%

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 7,797 5,208 5,386
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 38.30% 38.87% 33.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,958 3,355 3,481
10th Percentile £355 £350 £325
25th Percentile £450 £447 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £555 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.90% -3.48% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £725
90th Percentile £788 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £525 £543
% change year-on-year - -3.23% -1.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 205 121 70
10th Percentile £16.79 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £21.50 £24.50 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.00 £26.50 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year +32.08% -19.08% +11.02%
75th Percentile £58.75 £47.00 £55.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £78.75 £78.44
England median hourly rate £33.99 £30.00 £56.93
% change year-on-year +13.30% -47.30% +23.67%

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 7 October 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 7 October 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 -31 2 £532 -17.55% 13
East London +1 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 5 (13.51%) nginx
2 4 (10.81%) Confluence
2 4 (10.81%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.70%) Apache
3 1 (2.70%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.70%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 19 (51.35%) Azure
2 15 (40.54%) AWS
3 10 (27.03%) GitHub
4 9 (24.32%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (24.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 7 (18.92%) Amazon EC2
5 7 (18.92%) Serverless
6 6 (16.22%) Amazon S3
7 5 (13.51%) Azure AKS
7 5 (13.51%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (10.81%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (10.81%) Azure Functions
8 4 (10.81%) Azure Monitor
8 4 (10.81%) GCP
9 3 (8.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (8.11%) Amazon SQS
9 3 (8.11%) AWS CloudTrail
9 3 (8.11%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (8.11%) Datadog
9 3 (8.11%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (32.43%) TCP/IP
2 11 (29.73%) DNS
3 8 (21.62%) Firewall
4 7 (18.92%) SSH
5 5 (13.51%) Network Security
5 5 (13.51%) VLAN
6 4 (10.81%) BGP
6 4 (10.81%) DHCP
6 4 (10.81%) HTTPS
6 4 (10.81%) OpenVPN
6 4 (10.81%) SSL
6 4 (10.81%) VPN
6 4 (10.81%) WAN
7 3 (8.11%) HTTP
8 2 (5.41%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 2 (5.41%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 2 (5.41%) Kerberos
8 2 (5.41%) Reverse Proxy
8 2 (5.41%) SAN
9 1 (2.70%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (18.92%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (10.81%) SQL Server
3 3 (8.11%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (8.11%) Metadata
4 2 (5.41%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (5.41%) Flink
4 2 (5.41%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.70%) Big Data
5 1 (2.70%) Data Lake
5 1 (2.70%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 13 (35.14%) Git
2 8 (21.62%) Jenkins
3 4 (10.81%) GitLab
4 3 (8.11%) JIRA
5 1 (2.70%) Selenium
5 1 (2.70%) SonarQube
General
1 11 (29.73%) Social Skills
2 7 (18.92%) Finance
3 6 (16.22%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (10.81%) Automotive
5 2 (5.41%) Back Office
6 1 (2.70%) Banking
6 1 (2.70%) Front Office
6 1 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.70%) Law
6 1 (2.70%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (21.62%) Network Engineer
2 6 (16.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (13.51%) AWS Engineer
3 5 (13.51%) Azure Engineer
4 4 (10.81%) Automation Engineer
4 4 (10.81%) Cloud Engineer
4 4 (10.81%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 4 (10.81%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (10.81%) Lead
4 4 (10.81%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (10.81%) Platform Engineer
4 4 (10.81%) Senior
4 4 (10.81%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (10.81%) Senior Network Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) .NET Developer
5 3 (8.11%) AWS Developer
5 3 (8.11%) CyberArk Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) Developer
5 3 (8.11%) Python Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Cloud Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (67.57%) Terraform
2 7 (18.92%) Kafka
3 6 (16.22%) REST
4 4 (10.81%) 802.1X
4 4 (10.81%) boto
4 4 (10.81%) OpenTofu
4 4 (10.81%) YAML
5 3 (8.11%) .NET
5 3 (8.11%) .NET Core
5 3 (8.11%) ARM Templates
5 3 (8.11%) ASP.NET
5 3 (8.11%) ASP.NET Core
5 3 (8.11%) Node.js
6 2 (5.41%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (5.41%) JDBC
6 2 (5.41%) JMX
6 2 (5.41%) OpenTelemetry
6 2 (5.41%) React
6 2 (5.41%) RESTful
7 1 (2.70%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 7 (18.92%) Cloud Native
2 6 (16.22%) Public Cloud
3 5 (13.51%) PKI
4 4 (10.81%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (10.81%) Onboarding
4 4 (10.81%) Robotics
5 3 (8.11%) Client/Server
5 3 (8.11%) Data Centre
5 3 (8.11%) Distributed Applications
5 3 (8.11%) Replication
6 2 (5.41%) Equities
7 1 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (2.70%) Derivative
7 1 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (2.70%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (2.70%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (2.70%) NVMe
Operating Systems
1 31 (83.78%) Linux
2 14 (37.84%) Windows
3 7 (18.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (10.81%) Ubuntu
4 4 (10.81%) VMS
5 3 (8.11%) Windows Server
5 3 (8.11%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (5.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (56.76%) DevOps
2 17 (45.95%) Infrastructure as Code
3 15 (40.54%) CI/CD
4 13 (35.14%) Infrastructure Automation
5 10 (27.03%) Agile
5 10 (27.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 9 (24.32%) Change Management
7 8 (21.62%) Containerisation
7 8 (21.62%) Stakeholder Management
8 7 (18.92%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (16.22%) AI
9 6 (16.22%) Analytics
9 6 (16.22%) Machine Learning
9 6 (16.22%) Migration
9 6 (16.22%) RBAC
9 6 (16.22%) Validation
10 5 (13.51%) GitOps
10 5 (13.51%) High Availability
10 5 (13.51%) Secrets Management
10 5 (13.51%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 24 (64.86%) Python
2 15 (40.54%) Bash
2 15 (40.54%) PowerShell
3 14 (37.84%) SQL
4 6 (16.22%) Java
5 4 (10.81%) Bicep
5 4 (10.81%) C#
6 3 (8.11%) Shell Script
7 2 (5.41%) Go
7 2 (5.41%) TypeScript
8 1 (2.70%) Apex Code
8 1 (2.70%) C
8 1 (2.70%) Groovy
8 1 (2.70%) JavaScript
8 1 (2.70%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 7 (18.92%) Security Cleared
2 6 (16.22%) SC Cleared
3 5 (13.51%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (10.81%) CCNP
4 4 (10.81%) JNCIP
4 4 (10.81%) JNCIS
5 2 (5.41%) Azure Certification
5 2 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (5.41%) Degree
6 1 (2.70%) CCNA
6 1 (2.70%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.70%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.11%) QA
2 2 (5.41%) GDPR
2 2 (5.41%) HIPAA
2 2 (5.41%) NIST
2 2 (5.41%) PCI DSS
2 2 (5.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (5.41%) SLA
3 1 (2.70%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.70%) GLBA
System Software
1 9 (24.32%) Docker
2 2 (5.41%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.41%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 2 (5.41%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (5.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.70%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.70%) Squid
Systems Management
1 17 (45.95%) Ansible
2 13 (35.14%) Kubernetes
3 6 (16.22%) Grafana
3 6 (16.22%) systemd
4 4 (10.81%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (8.11%) Packer
5 3 (8.11%) Prometheus
5 3 (8.11%) Puppet
5 3 (8.11%) SELinux
6 1 (2.70%) ITRS Geneos
6 1 (2.70%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 15 (40.54%) Microsoft
2 10 (27.03%) Red Hat
3 7 (18.92%) Cisco
3 7 (18.92%) ServiceNow
4 4 (10.81%) Juniper
4 4 (10.81%) MikroTik
5 3 (8.11%) CyberArk
5 3 (8.11%) Oracle
5 3 (8.11%) PagerDuty
6 2 (5.41%) Arista
6 2 (5.41%) Confluent
6 2 (5.41%) Databricks
6 2 (5.41%) F5
6 2 (5.41%) VMware
7 1 (2.70%) Checkmarx
7 1 (2.70%) Google
7 1 (2.70%) OpenAI
7 1 (2.70%) Salesforce
7 1 (2.70%) Splunk
7 1 (2.70%) Trend Micro