Linux Command Line Contracts in the Midlands

Linux/Unix Command Line Interface (CLI)
England > Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Linux Command Line in contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Linux Command Line over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 120 154 175
Rank change year-on-year +34 +21 -18
Contract jobs citing Linux Command Line 17 9 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.62% 0.26% 0.47%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.02% 0.82% 1.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 7 18
10th Percentile £510 - £380
25th Percentile £513 £313 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £325 £484
Median % change year-on-year +69.23% -32.78% +30.68%
75th Percentile - £338 £540
90th Percentile £955 £415 £602
England median daily rate £550 £538 £525
% change year-on-year +2.33% +2.38% -

All Generic Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 841 1,095 1,478
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 30.66% 31.66% 29.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 548 736 1,077
10th Percentile £218 £254 £213
25th Percentile £350 £373 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - +17.28%
75th Percentile £610 £600 £575
90th Percentile £750 £700 £675
England median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 41 58
10th Percentile £10.42 £16.70 £12.27
25th Percentile £13.91 £18.13 £14.66
Median hourly rate £20.00 £22.50 £16.37
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +37.43% +2.33%
75th Percentile £28.88 £53.75 £19.94
90th Percentile £58.75 £65.00 £22.90
England median hourly rate £30.00 £22.50 £26.50
% change year-on-year +33.33% -15.09% +1.92%

Linux Command Line
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Command Line in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Linux Command Line in the Midlands

Linux Command Line
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux Command Line in the Midlands over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux Command Line in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux Command Line in the Midlands

Linux Command Line
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 25 April 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
West Midlands +40 15 £550 +3.77% 5
East Midlands +14 2 £509 +56.62% 2
Linux Command Line
England

Linux Command Line
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 2 (11.76%) IIS
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (11.76%) SharePoint
1 2 (11.76%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 2 (11.76%) Azure
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (11.76%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) DNS
1 2 (11.76%) Fibre Channel
1 2 (11.76%) Firewall
1 2 (11.76%) iSCSI
1 2 (11.76%) NAS
1 2 (11.76%) SAN
1 2 (11.76%) VPN
1 2 (11.76%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (70.59%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (11.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) GitLab
General
1 3 (17.65%) Public Sector
2 1 (5.88%) Finance
2 1 (5.88%) Fire and Rescue
2 1 (5.88%) Military
2 1 (5.88%) Police
Job Titles
1 12 (70.59%) SIEM Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Elasticsearch Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 2 (11.76%) Network Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (5.88%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) DevOps Automation Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (64.71%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (11.76%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 17 (100.00%) Linux
2 13 (76.47%) Windows
3 12 (70.59%) Ubuntu
4 2 (11.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (11.76%) VMS
4 2 (11.76%) Windows Server
4 2 (11.76%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (11.76%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (76.47%) Infrastructure Monitoring
2 12 (70.59%) SIEM
3 10 (58.82%) RBAC
3 10 (58.82%) Visualisation
4 8 (47.06%) Data Pipeline
4 8 (47.06%) DataOps
5 5 (29.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (11.76%) Mentoring
7 1 (5.88%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (5.88%) Dashboard Development
7 1 (5.88%) Data Visualisation
7 1 (5.88%) DevOps
7 1 (5.88%) Project Management
7 1 (5.88%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (47.06%) R
2 2 (11.76%) PowerShell
2 2 (11.76%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (47.06%) Security Cleared
2 6 (35.29%) SC Cleared
3 4 (23.53%) DV Cleared
4 1 (5.88%) CTC Cleared
System Software
1 12 (70.59%) Active Directory
2 9 (52.94%) iptables
3 2 (11.76%) Hyper-V
3 2 (11.76%) vSphere
4 1 (5.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (64.71%) Kibana
1 11 (64.71%) logstash
2 2 (11.76%) Ansible
2 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (11.76%) Red Hat Satellite
2 2 (11.76%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) Aruba
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
1 2 (11.76%) Palo Alto
1 2 (11.76%) ProCurve
1 2 (11.76%) Red Hat
1 2 (11.76%) Synology
1 2 (11.76%) Veeam
1 2 (11.76%) VMware
1 2 (11.76%) Zerto