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 26 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 362 343 354
Rank change year-on-year -19 +11 +61
Contract jobs citing Linux Command Line 29 24 45
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.18% 0.18% 0.25%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.50% 0.51% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 15 31
10th Percentile £458 £482 £308
25th Percentile £517 £534 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £700 £500
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +40.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £586 £763 £625
90th Percentile £650 £813 £713
England median daily rate £520 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -5.45% +15.79% -9.52%

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 5,854 4,667 5,935
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 36.96% 34.67% 32.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,820 2,996 4,174
10th Percentile £350 £320 £300
25th Percentile £433 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -5.74%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £700
90th Percentile £800 £844 £813
England median daily rate £513 £540 £548
% change year-on-year -5.09% -1.50% -4.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 63 178
10th Percentile £17.50 £20.84 £15.50
25th Percentile £20.00 £25.88 £18.93
Median hourly rate £28.72 £39.00 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -26.37% +48.57% -19.70%
75th Percentile £55.81 £59.75 £47.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.75 £65.53
England median hourly rate £33.09 £37.00 £31.50
% change year-on-year -10.58% +17.46% +40.00%

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 26 February 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 26 February 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 +2 2 £575 -10.16% 4
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 2 (6.90%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 10 (34.48%) Azure
2 7 (24.14%) GitHub
3 6 (20.69%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (17.24%) AWS
4 5 (17.24%) Azure AKS
4 5 (17.24%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 5 (17.24%) Entra ID
5 1 (3.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (3.45%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.90%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (37.93%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (13.79%) Data Lake
2 4 (13.79%) Delta Lake
2 4 (13.79%) SQL Server
2 4 (13.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (6.90%) ImageNet
4 1 (3.45%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 7 (24.14%) GitLab
2 6 (20.69%) Git
3 2 (6.90%) Cucumber
3 2 (6.90%) Jenkins
3 2 (6.90%) JIRA
3 2 (6.90%) JUnit
3 2 (6.90%) Postman
3 2 (6.90%) SonarQube
4 1 (3.45%) Cypress.io
4 1 (3.45%) Gatling
4 1 (3.45%) Hamcrest
4 1 (3.45%) Selenium
4 1 (3.45%) Serenity BDD
General
1 6 (20.69%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (17.24%) Social Skills
3 2 (6.90%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.45%) Finance
4 1 (3.45%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 18 (62.07%) Developer
2 6 (20.69%) Applications Developer
3 5 (17.24%) Senior
4 4 (13.79%) Cloud Developer
4 4 (13.79%) Data Engineer
4 4 (13.79%) Senior Data Engineer
4 4 (13.79%) Senior Developer
5 3 (10.34%) Analyst
5 3 (10.34%) Pensions Analyst
5 3 (10.34%) Platform Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Deployment Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) Architect
7 1 (3.45%) Azure Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) Cloud Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) Java Developer
7 1 (3.45%) Linux Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) Low Latency Java Developer
7 1 (3.45%) Python Developer
7 1 (3.45%) Scala Developer
7 1 (3.45%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (20.69%) PyTorch
2 2 (6.90%) WireMock
2 2 (6.90%) YAML
3 1 (3.45%) ADO
3 1 (3.45%) Apache Avro
3 1 (3.45%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (3.45%) JSON
3 1 (3.45%) Kafka
3 1 (3.45%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (3.45%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.90%) NHS
1 2 (6.90%) Onboarding
1 2 (6.90%) PACS
2 1 (3.45%) Algorithms
2 1 (3.45%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (3.45%) Clustering
2 1 (3.45%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (3.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (3.45%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 17 (58.62%) Linux
2 5 (17.24%) Unix
3 2 (6.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (6.90%) Windows
4 1 (3.45%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (31.03%) DevOps
2 7 (24.14%) AI
2 7 (24.14%) Analytics
2 7 (24.14%) CI/CD
3 6 (20.69%) LLM
3 6 (20.69%) Machine Learning
3 6 (20.69%) Natural Language Processing
3 6 (20.69%) Use Case
4 5 (17.24%) Data Pipeline
4 5 (17.24%) ETL
4 5 (17.24%) Task Automation
4 5 (17.24%) Test Automation
5 4 (13.79%) Clean Code
5 4 (13.79%) Data Architecture
5 4 (13.79%) Data Science
5 4 (13.79%) Decision-Making
5 4 (13.79%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (10.34%) Agile
6 3 (10.34%) High Availability
6 3 (10.34%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 12 (41.38%) Bash
1 12 (41.38%) Python
2 7 (24.14%) SQL
3 6 (20.69%) PowerShell
4 5 (17.24%) Java
5 2 (6.90%) PHP
6 1 (3.45%) C#
6 1 (3.45%) Scala
6 1 (3.45%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (34.48%) Security Cleared
2 6 (20.69%) DV Cleared
3 2 (6.90%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.79%) Data Quality
2 3 (10.34%) GMP
3 1 (3.45%) QA
System Software
1 7 (24.14%) Docker
2 4 (13.79%) zsh
3 2 (6.90%) Active Directory
3 2 (6.90%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (6.90%) Xen
Systems Management
1 12 (41.38%) Kubernetes
2 3 (10.34%) Ansible
3 1 (3.45%) Prometheus
3 1 (3.45%) Puppet
3 1 (3.45%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 8 (27.59%) Microsoft
2 4 (13.79%) Databricks
2 4 (13.79%) Red Hat
2 4 (13.79%) Splunk