Linux Command Line Contracts in the North of England

Linux/Unix Command Line Interface (CLI)
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Linux Command Line in contract job vacancies in the North of England. 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 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 145 178 212
Rank change year-on-year +33 +34 +15
Contract jobs citing Linux Command Line 21 7 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.64% 0.15% 0.14%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.08% 0.54% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 5 7
10th Percentile £513 £394 £426
25th Percentile £525 - £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £445 £475
Median % change year-on-year +23.60% -6.32% +104.30%
75th Percentile £575 £531 £756
90th Percentile - - £763
England median daily rate £550 £550 £538
% change year-on-year - +2.33% +1.90%

All Generic Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,008 1,302 1,799
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 30.59% 27.31% 30.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 647 801 1,220
10th Percentile £220 £263 £285
25th Percentile £367 £400 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £582 £584 £623
90th Percentile £665 £653 £688
England median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 154 88
10th Percentile £21.00 £12.15 £9.80
25th Percentile £24.25 £13.00 £10.63
Median hourly rate £30.88 £15.14 £18.62
Median % change year-on-year +104.00% -18.70% +0.11%
75th Percentile £44.08 £26.62 £45.00
90th Percentile £74.00 £47.98 £66.00
England median hourly rate £33.00 £30.16 £22.50
% change year-on-year +9.42% +34.04% -16.67%

Linux Command Line
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Command Line in the North of England

Linux Command Line
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Linux Command Line in the North of England

Linux Command Line
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux Command Line in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Linux Command Line in the North of England

Linux Command Line
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux Command Line in the North of England

Linux Command Line
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Yorkshire +23 20 £550 +23.60% 4
North West +16 1 - - 7
Linux Command Line
England

Linux Command Line
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 16 (76.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
Cloud Services
1 1 (4.76%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (4.76%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (4.76%) AWS
1 1 (4.76%) Azure
1 1 (4.76%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 16 (76.19%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (85.71%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Git
1 1 (4.76%) Jenkins
1 1 (4.76%) Subversion
General
1 14 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (9.52%) Public Sector
2 2 (9.52%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (47.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 9 (42.86%) Engineering Specialist
2 9 (42.86%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 5 (23.81%) IT Engineer
3 5 (23.81%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (19.05%) Linux Engineer
4 4 (19.05%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (19.05%) Network Engineer
4 4 (19.05%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) IP Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Active Directory Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) IP Network Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Migration Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Senior
6 1 (4.76%) Senior DevOps
6 1 (4.76%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Windows Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (4.76%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (4.76%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 20 (95.24%) Windows
2 19 (90.48%) Linux
2 19 (90.48%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (90.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 18 (85.71%) Agile
2 18 (85.71%) Microservices
3 17 (80.95%) Security Management
4 16 (76.19%) SOA
5 13 (61.90%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (61.90%) Server Management
6 8 (38.10%) Roadmaps
6 8 (38.10%) Technology Roadmap
7 7 (33.33%) Migration
8 3 (14.29%) Technical Architecture
9 1 (4.76%) Code Quality
9 1 (4.76%) Continuous Improvement
9 1 (4.76%) DevOps
9 1 (4.76%) Privileged Access Management
9 1 (4.76%) Project Planning
9 1 (4.76%) RBAC
9 1 (4.76%) User Experience
9 1 (4.76%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (95.24%) Bash
2 17 (80.95%) PowerShell
2 17 (80.95%) SQL
3 16 (76.19%) PL/SQL
4 15 (71.43%) Perl
Qualifications
1 21 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 18 (85.71%) Cisco Certification
3 17 (80.95%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 18 (85.71%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.76%) Ansible
1 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes
1 1 (4.76%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (4.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (85.71%) Cisco
1 18 (85.71%) Oracle
2 1 (4.76%) CyberArk
2 1 (4.76%) Red Hat