Linux Command Line Contract Job Trends in Reading

Linux/Unix Command Line Interface (CLI)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Linux Command Line in contract job vacancies in Reading. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Linux Command Line over the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Linux Command Line 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.17% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.49% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £563 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
75th Percentile £588 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median daily rate £575 - -

All Generic Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 203 323 329
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 35.00% 29.05% 29.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 159 228
10th Percentile £350 £337 £212
25th Percentile £443 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £580 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.59% +5.45% +7.32%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £664 £702 £700
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £540 £520
% change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 6
10th Percentile £31.44 £42.05 £40.13
25th Percentile £45.63 £56.25 £62.27
Median hourly rate £56.50 £60.60 £66.44
Median % change year-on-year -6.77% -8.79% -
75th Percentile £58.00 £65.37 £72.44
90th Percentile - £71.76 £76.60
Berkshire median hourly rate £58.00 £52.37 £64.31
% change year-on-year +10.75% -18.57% -24.34%

Linux Command Line
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Command Line in Reading

Linux Command Line
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Linux Command Line.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Linux Command Line

Linux Command Line
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analytics Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Privileged Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) Server Patching
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft