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

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 398 320 351
Rank change year-on-year -78 +31 +63
Contract jobs citing Linux Command Line 26 34 49
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.13% 0.26% 0.28%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.37% 0.72% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 30 29
10th Percentile £400 £289 £417
25th Percentile £460 £433 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £554 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.19% +0.68% +4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £709 £650
90th Percentile £644 £775 £745
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.07%

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 6,999 4,742 5,831
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 36.32% 36.78% 33.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,417 3,129 4,094
10th Percentile £355 £331 £315
25th Percentile £450 £449 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £738 £738
90th Percentile £800 £838 £850
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 147 98 143
10th Percentile £19.03 £15.84 £15.44
25th Percentile £25.25 £22.50 £18.02
Median hourly rate £37.50 £30.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +11.11% -22.86%
75th Percentile £63.75 £47.06 £49.50
90th Percentile £88.75 £64.30 £71.25
England median hourly rate £43.96 £33.00 £37.00
% change year-on-year +33.21% -10.81% +56.48%

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 1 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 1 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 -16 1 £475 -36.67% 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 1 (3.85%) OpenStack
1 1 (3.85%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 10 (38.46%) Azure
2 7 (26.92%) AWS
2 7 (26.92%) GitHub
3 4 (15.38%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (11.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (11.54%) Amazon S3
4 3 (11.54%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (11.54%) AWS CloudTrail
4 3 (11.54%) AWS KMS
4 3 (11.54%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (11.54%) AWS Step Functions
4 3 (11.54%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (11.54%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 3 (11.54%) Azure Monitor
4 3 (11.54%) Azure Stack
4 3 (11.54%) Datadog
4 3 (11.54%) SaaS
4 3 (11.54%) Serverless
4 3 (11.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (23.08%) Firewall
2 4 (15.38%) VLAN
2 4 (15.38%) WAN
3 3 (11.54%) HTTPS
3 3 (11.54%) Network Security
3 3 (11.54%) SSH
3 3 (11.54%) VPN
3 3 (11.54%) VSAN
4 2 (7.69%) DNS
5 1 (3.85%) BGP
5 1 (3.85%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (3.85%) SD-WAN
5 1 (3.85%) SSL
5 1 (3.85%) TCP/IP
5 1 (3.85%) VXLAN
5 1 (3.85%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (19.23%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (15.38%) SQL Server
3 2 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (7.69%) Metadata
4 1 (3.85%) Apache Hive
4 1 (3.85%) Base SAS
4 1 (3.85%) Big Data
4 1 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (3.85%) Hadoop
4 1 (3.85%) SAS Data Integration Studio
4 1 (3.85%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 6 (23.08%) Jenkins
2 4 (15.38%) JIRA
3 3 (11.54%) Git
4 2 (7.69%) Selenium
5 1 (3.85%) Cucumber
5 1 (3.85%) GitLab
5 1 (3.85%) Gradle
5 1 (3.85%) Maven
General
1 6 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 5 (19.23%) Finance
3 2 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (7.69%) Back Office
3 2 (7.69%) Banking
4 1 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.85%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (19.23%) Azure Engineer
1 5 (19.23%) Developer
2 4 (15.38%) Applications Developer
2 4 (15.38%) Cloud Engineer
2 4 (15.38%) Migration Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Automation Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) CyberArk Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Network Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Architect
4 2 (7.69%) Cloud Network Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Data Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Python Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Analyst
5 1 (3.85%) Applications Support
5 1 (3.85%) Applications Support Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (3.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (3.85%) Support Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (15.38%) PyTorch
2 2 (7.69%) Node.js
2 2 (7.69%) REST
3 1 (3.85%) ADO
3 1 (3.85%) Apache Avro
3 1 (3.85%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (3.85%) Gherkin
3 1 (3.85%) JSON
3 1 (3.85%) Kafka
3 1 (3.85%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (3.85%) Protocol Buffers
3 1 (3.85%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (3.85%) RESTful
3 1 (3.85%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (15.38%) Cloud Native
1 4 (15.38%) Replication
2 3 (11.54%) Clustering
2 3 (11.54%) Onboarding
3 2 (7.69%) Enterprise Cloud
3 2 (7.69%) Public Cloud
4 1 (3.85%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.85%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 20 (76.92%) Linux
2 11 (42.31%) Windows
3 6 (23.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (15.38%) VMS
5 3 (11.54%) SUSE
5 3 (11.54%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (7.69%) Unix
7 1 (3.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (34.62%) Validation
2 7 (26.92%) CI/CD
3 6 (23.08%) Migration
4 5 (19.23%) Agile
4 5 (19.23%) AI
4 5 (19.23%) DevOps
4 5 (19.23%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (19.23%) Machine Learning
5 4 (15.38%) Change Management
5 4 (15.38%) LLM
5 4 (15.38%) Natural Language Processing
5 4 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (15.38%) Service Management
5 4 (15.38%) Test Automation
6 3 (11.54%) Data Pipeline
6 3 (11.54%) High Availability
6 3 (11.54%) Infrastructure Automation
6 3 (11.54%) Runbook
6 3 (11.54%) Server Management
6 3 (11.54%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 16 (61.54%) Python
2 13 (50.00%) PowerShell
3 7 (26.92%) SQL
4 5 (19.23%) Bash
5 1 (3.85%) Apex Code
5 1 (3.85%) Bicep
5 1 (3.85%) C
5 1 (3.85%) Groovy
5 1 (3.85%) Java
5 1 (3.85%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.85%) SAS Macro
5 1 (3.85%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (26.92%) Security Cleared
2 4 (15.38%) Azure Certification
2 4 (15.38%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.85%) CCNA
3 1 (3.85%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.85%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.69%) QA
2 1 (3.85%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.85%) GMP
2 1 (3.85%) NIST
2 1 (3.85%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (23.08%) Docker
2 5 (19.23%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (15.38%) Hyper-V
3 4 (15.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (11.54%) Firmware
4 3 (11.54%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (11.54%) vSphere
5 1 (3.85%) Active Directory
5 1 (3.85%) Squid
Systems Management
1 8 (30.77%) Kubernetes
2 7 (26.92%) Terraform
3 4 (15.38%) Ansible
4 3 (11.54%) Failover Clustering
4 3 (11.54%) Microsoft Clustering
4 3 (11.54%) Packer
4 3 (11.54%) Puppet
4 3 (11.54%) vCenter Server
4 3 (11.54%) VxRail
5 2 (7.69%) Prometheus
6 1 (3.85%) Control-M
6 1 (3.85%) Grafana
6 1 (3.85%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 4 (15.38%) Microsoft
1 4 (15.38%) Red Hat
1 4 (15.38%) VMware
2 3 (11.54%) CyberArk
2 3 (11.54%) Dell
2 3 (11.54%) Oracle
2 3 (11.54%) PagerDuty
2 3 (11.54%) ServiceNow
3 1 (3.85%) Cisco
3 1 (3.85%) HP
3 1 (3.85%) OpenAI
3 1 (3.85%) Salesforce
3 1 (3.85%) Splunk
3 1 (3.85%) Trend Micro