Linux Command Line Contracts in the North West

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

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Linux Command Line in contract job vacancies in the North West. 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 119 135 152
Rank change year-on-year +16 +17 +17
Contract jobs citing Linux Command Line 1 2 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.051% 0.073% 0.16%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.18% 0.27% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 4
10th Percentile - - £425
25th Percentile - £494 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £513 £426
Median % change year-on-year - +20.31% +91.46%
75th Percentile - £531 £510
90th Percentile - - £662
England median daily rate £550 £550 £538
% change year-on-year - +2.33% +1.90%

All Generic Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 560 742 1,080
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 28.46% 26.93% 33.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 377 493 722
10th Percentile £203 £289 £296
25th Percentile £360 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £580 £584 £625
90th Percentile £653 £672 £675
England median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 77 47
10th Percentile £22.05 £13.00 £16.85
25th Percentile £24.25 £15.00 £20.74
Median hourly rate £29.52 £25.25 £27.98
Median % change year-on-year +16.89% -9.76% +51.24%
75th Percentile £33.75 £37.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.75 £57.50 £70.00
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Command Line in the North West

Linux Command Line
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Linux Command Line in the North West

Linux Command Line
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux Command Line in the North West

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Privileged Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) CyberArk