Linux Command Line Contract Job Trends 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 20 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 124 133
Rank change year-on-year -22 +9 +25
Contract jobs citing Linux Command Line 12 1 3
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.40% 0.050% 0.11%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.22% 0.17% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 3
10th Percentile - - £469
25th Percentile £566 - £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £610 - £513
Median % change year-on-year - - +20.31%
75th Percentile £617 - £531
90th Percentile £619 - -
England median daily rate £488 £550 £513
% change year-on-year -11.36% +7.32% -3.30%

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 983 585 765
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 32.45% 29.15% 27.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 658 379 523
10th Percentile £200 £203 £297
25th Percentile £358 £360 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £551 £583 £578
90th Percentile £625 £658 £656
England median daily rate £513 £545 £545
% change year-on-year -5.96% - -5.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 45 78
10th Percentile £19.75 £20.51 £13.00
25th Percentile £28.50 £22.98 £15.00
Median hourly rate £45.46 £28.75 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +58.12% +10.58% -25.71%
75th Percentile £70.00 £33.75 £43.75
90th Percentile £76.00 £43.39 £49.58
England median hourly rate £37.50 £33.00 £28.00
% change year-on-year +13.64% +17.86% +17.70%

Linux Command Line
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Linux Command Line relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Linux Command Line job vacancy trend in the North West

Linux Command Line
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Linux Command Line.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Linux Command Line

Linux Command Line
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Linux Command Line.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Linux Command Line

Linux Command Line
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 20 March 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
Manchester - 5 £596 - 1
Lancashire - 4 - -
Cheshire - 3 £621 -
Linux Command Line
England

Linux Command Line
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 5 (41.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) AWS
2 5 (41.67%) Azure
2 5 (41.67%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (58.33%) SQL Server
2 6 (50.00%) DB2
3 1 (8.33%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (8.33%) MongoDB
3 1 (8.33%) NoSQL
3 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (8.33%) RDBMS
3 1 (8.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (41.67%) JIRA
General
1 6 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Technical Specialist
2 5 (41.67%) Security Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Data Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Storage Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) Cloud Native
1 5 (41.67%) Security Posture
2 4 (33.33%) Cloud Security Posture
2 4 (33.33%) Management Information System
3 1 (8.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 12 (100.00%) Linux
2 7 (58.33%) Unix
3 6 (50.00%) AIX
3 6 (50.00%) Windows
3 6 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Asset Management
1 6 (50.00%) Virtual Environments
2 5 (41.67%) Data Loss Prevention
2 5 (41.67%) Data Privacy
2 5 (41.67%) Data Security
2 5 (41.67%) SIEM
2 5 (41.67%) Vulnerability Management
3 4 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
3 4 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 4 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 4 (33.33%) Data Discovery
3 4 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 4 (33.33%) Product Roadmap
3 4 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 4 (33.33%) Security Architecture
3 4 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (16.67%) Agile
5 1 (8.33%) Kanban
5 1 (8.33%) Risk Management
5 1 (8.33%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 11 (91.67%) SQL
2 7 (58.33%) Bash
2 7 (58.33%) PowerShell
3 5 (41.67%) Python
4 1 (8.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) CISSP
1 1 (8.33%) Degree
1 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (33.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 4 (33.33%) GDPR
1 4 (33.33%) HIPAA
2 1 (8.33%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (50.00%) Hyper-V
1 6 (50.00%) KVM
1 6 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (33.33%) Docker
3 1 (8.33%) GPFS
3 1 (8.33%) NFS
3 1 (8.33%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (8.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (50.00%) IBM BigFix
1 6 (50.00%) vCenter Server
2 5 (41.67%) Kubernetes
3 1 (8.33%) vRealize
3 1 (8.33%) VxRail
Vendors
1 7 (58.33%) IBM
2 4 (33.33%) Varonis
3 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
4 1 (8.33%) Cisco
4 1 (8.33%) CyberArk
4 1 (8.33%) Oracle
4 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow
4 1 (8.33%) VMware