Linux Command Line Contracts in Scotland

Linux/Unix Command Line Interface (CLI)
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Linux Command Line in contract job vacancies in Scotland. 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 100 117 135
Rank change year-on-year +17 +18 +18
Contract jobs citing Linux Command Line 16 12 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.98% 0.54% 0.98%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.59% 1.64% 2.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 6 21
10th Percentile £388 £600 -
25th Percentile £413 £628 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £738 £513
Median % change year-on-year -42.37% +43.76% -2.29%
75th Percentile £484 £750 £554
90th Percentile £519 - £564
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £534
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.04% -1.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £47.73
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £70.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year -17.86% -6.67% +63.04%

All Generic Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 618 732 1,037
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 38.03% 33.02% 36.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 316 426 712
10th Percentile £221 £203 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year -1.68% -2.56% +2.63%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £560
90th Percentile £600 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 36 23
10th Percentile - £13.75 -
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £10.63
Median hourly rate £22.00 £18.14 £12.30
Median % change year-on-year +21.31% +47.44% -71.40%
75th Percentile £24.66 £38.25 £28.81
90th Percentile £42.00 £60.38 £52.55
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%

Linux Command Line
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Command Line in Scotland

Linux Command Line
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Linux Command Line in Scotland

Linux Command Line
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for Linux Command Line in Scotland

Linux Command Line
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland 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
Glasgow +11 13 £425 -41.38%
Edinburgh +7 3 £513 - 1
Linux Command Line
UK

Linux Command Line
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 2 (12.50%) Azure
1 2 (12.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
1 2 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Copilot
1 2 (12.50%) Power Automate
1 2 (12.50%) Power Platform
2 1 (6.25%) Azure AKS
2 1 (6.25%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (25.00%) Network Security
1 4 (25.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) MongoDB
2 2 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (12.50%) MariaDB
2 2 (12.50%) MySQL
2 2 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (12.50%) Power Query
2 2 (12.50%) Redis
3 1 (6.25%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
1 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (56.25%) Developer
1 9 (56.25%) Java Developer
1 9 (56.25%) Linux Developer
2 8 (50.00%) SQL Developer
3 4 (25.00%) Python Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Unix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (50.00%) Spring
2 2 (12.50%) ARM Templates
2 2 (12.50%) HTML5 Canvas
2 2 (12.50%) JSON
2 2 (12.50%) YAML
3 1 (6.25%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 5 (31.25%) Algorithms
2 4 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (25.00%) Mainframe
3 2 (12.50%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 14 (87.50%) Linux
2 5 (31.25%) Windows
3 1 (6.25%) Data ONTAP
3 1 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (6.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) DevOps
2 6 (37.50%) CI/CD
2 6 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (25.00%) Data Analysis
4 4 (25.00%) Data Encryption
4 4 (25.00%) Data Extraction
4 4 (25.00%) Inventory Management
4 4 (25.00%) Time Management
5 3 (18.75%) Design Patterns
5 3 (18.75%) Kanban
6 2 (12.50%) Analytics
6 2 (12.50%) Log Analytics
6 2 (12.50%) Mentoring
7 1 (6.25%) Agile
7 1 (6.25%) Concurrent Programming
7 1 (6.25%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (6.25%) Multithreading
7 1 (6.25%) Performance Tuning
7 1 (6.25%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 15 (93.75%) SQL
2 11 (68.75%) Java
3 7 (43.75%) Python
4 3 (18.75%) Bash
5 2 (12.50%) Bicep
5 2 (12.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (12.50%) PowerShell
6 1 (6.25%) Perl
6 1 (6.25%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (6.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (6.25%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 5 (31.25%) Docker
2 1 (6.25%) KVM
2 1 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (31.25%) Kubernetes
2 3 (18.75%) Ansible
2 3 (18.75%) Grafana
3 2 (12.50%) Progress Chef
3 2 (12.50%) Prometheus
3 2 (12.50%) Terraform
4 1 (6.25%) HAProxy
4 1 (6.25%) Nagios
4 1 (6.25%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 1 (6.25%) Commvault
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft
1 1 (6.25%) NetApp
1 1 (6.25%) Oracle
1 1 (6.25%) Palo Alto
1 1 (6.25%) Red Hat