Linux Command Line Contracts 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 advertised in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Linux Command Line over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 352 398 468
Rank change year-on-year +46 +70 -40
Contract jobs citing Linux Command Line 48 90 136
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.27% 0.34% 0.35%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.82% 0.96% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 60 73
10th Percentile £378 £457 £415
25th Percentile £488 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £526 £566
Median % change year-on-year +7.41% -7.07% +5.30%
75th Percentile £650 £572 £660
90th Percentile £755 £626 £738
England median daily rate £550 £538 £535
% change year-on-year +2.33% +0.47% +1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 1
10th Percentile - £20.00 -
25th Percentile - £33.75 £42.00
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £46.00
Median % change year-on-year - +63.04% -
75th Percentile - - £50.00
90th Percentile - £79.00 -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £75.00 £46.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +63.04% -

All Generic Skills
London

Linux Command Line is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,883 9,412 14,032
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 33.27% 35.84% 36.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,164 6,764 10,223
10th Percentile £313 £375 £400
25th Percentile £450 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £586 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.29% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £725 £744 £713
90th Percentile £850 £838 £800
England median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 150 111 197
10th Percentile £15.49 £18.93 £18.50
25th Percentile £17.64 £21.46 £23.91
Median hourly rate £26.00 £35.00 £43.80
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% -20.09% +32.73%
75th Percentile £49.88 £65.00 £55.25
90th Percentile £69.00 £85.00 £71.85
England median hourly rate £32.75 £22.49 £26.98
% change year-on-year +45.65% -16.66% +2.92%

Linux Command Line
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Linux Command Line as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Linux Command Line in London

Linux Command Line
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Linux Command Line in London.

Daily rate trend for Linux Command Line in London

Linux Command Line
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux Command Line in London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux Command Line in London

Linux Command Line
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Linux Command Line in London.

Hourly rate trend for Linux Command Line in London

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 9 May 2024. 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 +47 11 £600 +10.34% 2
South London +6 1 £475 -20.83% 2
Linux Command Line
England

Linux Command Line
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (10.42%) Confluence
2 2 (4.17%) Apache
2 2 (4.17%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (4.17%) IIS
2 2 (4.17%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.08%) Red Hat Fuse
3 1 (2.08%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.08%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 5 (10.42%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 12 (25.00%) Azure
2 7 (14.58%) AWS
3 5 (10.42%) GitHub
3 5 (10.42%) Serverless
4 4 (8.33%) Amazon S3
5 3 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (6.25%) OpenShift
5 3 (6.25%) WhatsApp
6 2 (4.17%) Amazon ECR
6 2 (4.17%) Amazon Kinesis
6 2 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (4.17%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (4.17%) Dagster
6 2 (4.17%) dbt
6 2 (4.17%) Entra ID
6 2 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (4.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (14.58%) SSH
2 4 (8.33%) DNS
3 2 (4.17%) DHCP
3 2 (4.17%) Firewall
3 2 (4.17%) LAN
3 2 (4.17%) Radio Access Network
3 2 (4.17%) SNMP
3 2 (4.17%) TCP/IP
3 2 (4.17%) tcpdump
3 2 (4.17%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (4.17%) Wireshark
4 1 (2.08%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (2.08%) iSCSI
4 1 (2.08%) MQTT
4 1 (2.08%) NAS
4 1 (2.08%) Network Security
4 1 (2.08%) SAN
4 1 (2.08%) SSL
4 1 (2.08%) VPN
4 1 (2.08%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (18.75%) SQL Server
1 9 (18.75%) Sybase ASE
2 4 (8.33%) DB2
2 4 (8.33%) Oracle Database
2 4 (8.33%) RDBMS
2 4 (8.33%) Relational Database
3 3 (6.25%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (6.25%) Flink
3 3 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (4.17%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (4.17%) Big Data
4 2 (4.17%) Data Mart
4 2 (4.17%) DynamoDB
4 2 (4.17%) MongoDB
4 2 (4.17%) MySQL
5 1 (2.08%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (2.08%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (2.08%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.08%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 12 (25.00%) JIRA
2 9 (18.75%) Git
3 7 (14.58%) JUnit
4 6 (12.50%) Cucumber
5 5 (10.42%) Pylint
6 4 (8.33%) Gradle
7 3 (6.25%) Artifactory
7 3 (6.25%) GitLab
8 2 (4.17%) Jenkins
8 2 (4.17%) Poetry
8 2 (4.17%) SonarQube
9 1 (2.08%) Ant
9 1 (2.08%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (2.08%) Bitbucket
9 1 (2.08%) GoCD
9 1 (2.08%) Maven
General
1 20 (41.67%) Finance
1 20 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 15 (31.25%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (6.25%) Banking
3 3 (6.25%) Investment Banking
4 2 (4.17%) Front Office
4 2 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (4.17%) Military
4 2 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.08%) Law
5 1 (2.08%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (27.08%) Developer
2 8 (16.67%) DBA
2 8 (16.67%) Senior
2 8 (16.67%) Sybase DBA
3 7 (14.58%) Java Developer
3 7 (14.58%) Linux Engineer
4 5 (10.42%) Applications Engineer
4 5 (10.42%) Applications Support
4 5 (10.42%) Applications Support Engineer
4 5 (10.42%) Support Engineer
5 4 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (8.33%) JIRA Engineer
5 4 (8.33%) Linux DevOps Engineer
5 4 (8.33%) Linux/Unix DevOps
5 4 (8.33%) Senior Developer
6 3 (6.25%) Administrator
6 3 (6.25%) Azure Engineer
6 3 (6.25%) Network Engineer
6 3 (6.25%) Senior DBA
6 3 (6.25%) Senior Sybase DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (22.92%) REST
2 10 (20.83%) Web Services
3 9 (18.75%) Spring
4 8 (16.67%) HTML
4 8 (16.67%) JSON
4 8 (16.67%) Kafka
5 7 (14.58%) pytest
5 7 (14.58%) WebSockets
6 6 (12.50%) Hibernate
6 6 (12.50%) J2EE
6 6 (12.50%) JPA
6 6 (12.50%) React
6 6 (12.50%) SOAP
6 6 (12.50%) XML
7 3 (6.25%) Spring Boot
7 3 (6.25%) YAML
8 2 (4.17%) FIX Protocol
8 2 (4.17%) Pandas
8 2 (4.17%) scikit-learn
8 2 (4.17%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 10 (20.83%) Replication
2 6 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 6 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (10.42%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (4.17%) Algorithms
4 2 (4.17%) Data Structures
4 2 (4.17%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (4.17%) Management Information System
4 2 (4.17%) Renewable Energy
4 2 (4.17%) Solar Panel
5 1 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.08%) Derivative
5 1 (2.08%) Interest Rate Derivative
5 1 (2.08%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.08%) PKI
5 1 (2.08%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 45 (93.75%) Linux
2 21 (43.75%) Unix
3 5 (10.42%) Windows
4 4 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (4.17%) CentOS
5 2 (4.17%) VMS
6 1 (2.08%) Android
6 1 (2.08%) Apple iOS
6 1 (2.08%) Ubuntu
6 1 (2.08%) Windows Mobile
6 1 (2.08%) Windows Server
6 1 (2.08%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (2.08%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (39.58%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 14 (29.17%) SDLC
4 13 (27.08%) DevOps
5 12 (25.00%) Migration
6 11 (22.92%) Agile
7 10 (20.83%) Open Source
7 10 (20.83%) Software Architecture
7 10 (20.83%) Task Automation
8 9 (18.75%) Scrum
8 9 (18.75%) Software Engineering
8 9 (18.75%) TDD
9 8 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
10 7 (14.58%) Containerisation
10 7 (14.58%) CQRS
10 7 (14.58%) ITIL
10 7 (14.58%) Root Cause Analysis
11 6 (12.50%) Acceptance Criteria
11 6 (12.50%) Requirements Gathering
11 6 (12.50%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 28 (58.33%) Python
2 27 (56.25%) SQL
3 16 (33.33%) Java
3 16 (33.33%) Perl
4 7 (14.58%) JavaScript
4 7 (14.58%) Shell Script
5 6 (12.50%) PowerShell
5 6 (12.50%) T-SQL
6 4 (8.33%) Bash
7 1 (2.08%) Go
7 1 (2.08%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (8.33%) SC Cleared
1 4 (8.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.17%) CCNA
2 2 (4.17%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (4.17%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (20.83%) QA
2 2 (4.17%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.17%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (31.25%) Docker
2 4 (8.33%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 3 (6.25%) Active Directory
4 2 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (2.08%) Firmware
5 1 (2.08%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (2.08%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (35.42%) Kubernetes
2 6 (12.50%) Ansible
2 6 (12.50%) Terraform
3 2 (4.17%) Grafana
3 2 (4.17%) Nmap
3 2 (4.17%) OpenNMS
3 2 (4.17%) Progress Chef
3 2 (4.17%) Puppet
3 2 (4.17%) Salt
3 2 (4.17%) SCCM
4 1 (2.08%) Kibana
4 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (2.08%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.08%) yum
Vendors
1 9 (18.75%) SAP
1 9 (18.75%) Sybase
2 8 (16.67%) Oracle
3 5 (10.42%) Atlassian
4 4 (8.33%) Cisco
4 4 (8.33%) IBM
4 4 (8.33%) Microsoft
4 4 (8.33%) ServiceNow
4 4 (8.33%) Sun
4 4 (8.33%) Veritas
5 3 (6.25%) Red Hat
5 3 (6.25%) VMware
6 2 (4.17%) Qualys
6 2 (4.17%) SaltStack
7 1 (2.08%) Aruba
7 1 (2.08%) Palo Alto
7 1 (2.08%) ProCurve
7 1 (2.08%) Synology
7 1 (2.08%) Veeam
7 1 (2.08%) Zerto