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

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 323 345 396
Rank change year-on-year +22 +51 +67
Contract jobs citing Linux Command Line 50 36 40
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.37% 0.23% 0.19%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.96% 0.67% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 19 27
10th Percentile £289 £525 £307
25th Percentile £506 £530 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year +15.04% +2.73% -0.05%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £631
90th Percentile £713 £740 £658
England median daily rate £600 £565 £500
% change year-on-year +6.19% +13.00% -6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £17.57
25th Percentile - - £17.98
Median hourly rate - - £19.12
75th Percentile - - £19.80
90th Percentile - - £19.92
England median hourly rate £32.50 £70.00 £19.12
% change year-on-year -53.57% +266.11% -62.34%

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 5,220 5,384 7,176
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 38.98% 34.00% 34.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,342 3,457 5,181
10th Percentile £350 £325 £350
25th Percentile £447 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £695 £725 £725
90th Percentile £825 £850 £825
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 128 68 93
10th Percentile £17.05 £17.43 £18.61
25th Percentile £22.50 £23.80 £20.00
Median hourly rate £26.30 £35.00 £29.72
Median % change year-on-year -24.86% +17.77% +10.16%
75th Percentile £46.81 £57.81 £50.75
90th Percentile £74.38 £79.35 £71.75
England median hourly rate £27.52 £52.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -47.59% +16.67% +75.03%

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 21 October 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 21 October 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 +6 3 £650 +14.79% 4
East London - 1 £675 -
West London - 1 - - 2
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 (10.00%) CMS
2 2 (4.00%) Confluence
3 1 (2.00%) Apache
3 1 (2.00%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.00%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.00%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.00%) OmniGraffle
Cloud Services
1 22 (44.00%) Azure
2 14 (28.00%) AWS
3 8 (16.00%) Azure AKS
4 6 (12.00%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (12.00%) Entra ID
5 3 (6.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 3 (6.00%) IaaS
5 3 (6.00%) PaaS
6 1 (2.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (2.00%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (2.00%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.00%) AWS Direct Connect
6 1 (2.00%) Azure AI
6 1 (2.00%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (2.00%) Datadog
6 1 (2.00%) GCP
6 1 (2.00%) OpenShift
6 1 (2.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 12 (24.00%) Firewall
2 6 (12.00%) VPN
3 5 (10.00%) SSL
4 4 (8.00%) HTTPS
4 4 (8.00%) SSH
4 4 (8.00%) tcpdump
5 2 (4.00%) Ethernet
5 2 (4.00%) HTTP
5 2 (4.00%) Network Security
5 2 (4.00%) TCP/IP
6 1 (2.00%) BGP
6 1 (2.00%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (2.00%) FTP
6 1 (2.00%) Junos
6 1 (2.00%) MPLS
6 1 (2.00%) NX-OS
6 1 (2.00%) RTP
6 1 (2.00%) SNMP
6 1 (2.00%) VXLAN
6 1 (2.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (28.00%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (22.00%) SQL Server
3 6 (12.00%) Delta Lake
4 5 (10.00%) Data Lake
4 5 (10.00%) Relational Database
4 5 (10.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (2.00%) Apache Hive
5 1 (2.00%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (2.00%) Big Data
5 1 (2.00%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.00%) MySQL
5 1 (2.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 19 (38.00%) Git
2 7 (14.00%) GitLab
3 5 (10.00%) Jenkins
4 4 (8.00%) SonarQube
5 3 (6.00%) JIRA
6 2 (4.00%) Cucumber
6 2 (4.00%) Maven
6 2 (4.00%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (2.00%) Cypress.io
7 1 (2.00%) Gatling
7 1 (2.00%) Hamcrest
7 1 (2.00%) JUnit
7 1 (2.00%) Postman
7 1 (2.00%) RStudio
7 1 (2.00%) Selenium
7 1 (2.00%) Serenity BDD
General
1 17 (34.00%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (20.00%) Finance
3 7 (14.00%) Social Skills
4 5 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (8.00%) Banking
6 3 (6.00%) Financial Institution
7 2 (4.00%) Public Sector
8 1 (2.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 22 (44.00%) Developer
2 13 (26.00%) Python Developer
3 7 (14.00%) Senior
4 6 (12.00%) Data Engineer
5 5 (10.00%) Campaign Manager
5 5 (10.00%) IT Manager
5 5 (10.00%) Senior Data Engineer
5 5 (10.00%) Senior Developer
6 3 (6.00%) Analyst
6 3 (6.00%) Architect
6 3 (6.00%) Azure Architect
6 3 (6.00%) Infrastructure Architect
6 3 (6.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) Python Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) Automation Specialist
7 2 (4.00%) Cloud Developer
7 2 (4.00%) Data Modeller
7 2 (4.00%) Linux Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) Pensions Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (10.00%) RESTful
2 3 (6.00%) REST
3 2 (4.00%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (4.00%) Regular Expression
4 1 (2.00%) .NET
4 1 (2.00%) gRPC
4 1 (2.00%) JSON
4 1 (2.00%) LAMP
4 1 (2.00%) pydantic
4 1 (2.00%) PySpark
4 1 (2.00%) web3js
4 1 (2.00%) WireMock
4 1 (2.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.00%) Data Structures
2 6 (12.00%) Management Information System
3 3 (6.00%) Algorithms
4 2 (4.00%) BYOD
4 2 (4.00%) Data Centre
4 2 (4.00%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.00%) Blockchain
5 1 (2.00%) Clustering
5 1 (2.00%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.00%) Private Cloud
5 1 (2.00%) Reference Data
5 1 (2.00%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 41 (82.00%) Linux
2 9 (18.00%) Unix
3 4 (8.00%) Windows
4 1 (2.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (38.00%) CI/CD
2 17 (34.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 14 (28.00%) DevOps
4 13 (26.00%) Clean Code
4 13 (26.00%) Software Engineering
5 12 (24.00%) Agile
5 12 (24.00%) Use Case
6 11 (22.00%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (22.00%) Test Automation
7 7 (14.00%) Analytics
7 7 (14.00%) Data Ingestion
7 7 (14.00%) Information Security
7 7 (14.00%) OOP
7 7 (14.00%) Patch Management
8 6 (12.00%) Configuration Management
8 6 (12.00%) Data Pipeline
8 6 (12.00%) Data Science
8 6 (12.00%) Low Latency
8 6 (12.00%) Task Automation
9 5 (10.00%) DataOps
Programming Languages
1 26 (52.00%) Python
2 19 (38.00%) SQL
3 18 (36.00%) Bash
4 7 (14.00%) PowerShell
5 4 (8.00%) Go
5 4 (8.00%) Shell Script
6 3 (6.00%) Java
6 3 (6.00%) Perl
7 2 (4.00%) Scala
8 1 (2.00%) C
8 1 (2.00%) C++
8 1 (2.00%) Rust
Qualifications
1 8 (16.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (12.00%) SC Cleared
3 5 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (10.00%) Degree
4 3 (6.00%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.00%) CCIE
5 1 (2.00%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.00%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.00%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (20.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.00%) GMP
3 1 (2.00%) GDPR
3 1 (2.00%) QA
System Software
1 10 (20.00%) zsh
2 3 (6.00%) Docker
3 2 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.00%) KVM
4 1 (2.00%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (2.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (28.00%) Ansible
2 9 (18.00%) Kubernetes
3 6 (12.00%) Terraform
4 2 (4.00%) Grafana
4 2 (4.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (22.00%) Databricks
2 4 (8.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (8.00%) Splunk
3 2 (4.00%) CyberArk
3 2 (4.00%) F5
3 2 (4.00%) Red Hat
3 2 (4.00%) VMware
4 1 (2.00%) Atlassian
4 1 (2.00%) Cisco
4 1 (2.00%) Juniper
4 1 (2.00%) Mellanox
4 1 (2.00%) NVIDIA
4 1 (2.00%) Oracle