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 advertised in Scotland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Linux Command Line over the 6 months to 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 117 135 153
Rank change year-on-year +18 +18 -3
Contract jobs citing Linux Command Line 12 28 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.54% 0.98% 0.51%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.64% 2.70% 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 21 13
10th Percentile £600 - £453
25th Percentile £628 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £738 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +43.76% -2.29% -6.67%
75th Percentile £750 £554 £575
90th Percentile - £564 £600
UK median daily rate £550 £534 £540
% change year-on-year +3.04% -1.16% +0.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £47.73 -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £75.00 £46.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +63.04% -

All Generic Skills
Scotland

Linux Command Line is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 732 1,037 1,182
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 33.02% 36.23% 33.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 426 712 815
10th Percentile £203 £250 £240
25th Percentile £400 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +2.63% +11.76%
75th Percentile £588 £560 £550
90th Percentile £675 £675 £633
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 23 23
10th Percentile £13.75 - £15.53
25th Percentile £16.25 £10.63 £18.90
Median hourly rate £18.14 £12.30 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +47.44% -71.40% -4.44%
75th Percentile £38.25 £28.81 £53.75
90th Percentile £60.38 £52.55 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +33.42% -18.24% +3.19%

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 30 April 2024.

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 30 April 2024. 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
South Lanarkshire - 6 £750 -
Glasgow -2 5 £725 +16.82% 2
Edinburgh +24 1 - - 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:

Application Platforms
1 8 (66.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (8.33%) Azure
1 1 (8.33%) Azure AKS
1 1 (8.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
1 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (8.33%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (8.33%) npm
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (8.33%) MariaDB
1 1 (8.33%) MongoDB
1 1 (8.33%) MySQL
1 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (8.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 8 (66.67%) JIRA
2 1 (8.33%) CircleCI
2 1 (8.33%) Gradle
2 1 (8.33%) gulp
2 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (8.33%) Maven
2 1 (8.33%) Octopus Deploy
2 1 (8.33%) TeamCity
2 1 (8.33%) Travis CI
General
1 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (8.33%) Military
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Applications Engineer
1 6 (50.00%) JIRA Engineer
2 5 (41.67%) Applications Support
2 5 (41.67%) Applications Support Engineer
2 5 (41.67%) Support Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Linux Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Python Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Administrator
4 2 (16.67%) Linux Administrator
4 2 (16.67%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 2 (16.67%) Operations Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Systems Administrator
5 1 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (50.00%) REST
1 6 (50.00%) Web Services
2 1 (8.33%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 6 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 11 (91.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Analytics
1 6 (50.00%) Service Management
1 6 (50.00%) Workflow
2 5 (41.67%) Data Migration
2 5 (41.67%) Kalman Filter
2 5 (41.67%) Migration
2 5 (41.67%) Performance Metrics
3 4 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 3 (25.00%) Observability
4 3 (25.00%) Software Engineering
5 2 (16.67%) Agile
5 2 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
5 2 (16.67%) Due Diligence
5 2 (16.67%) Project Management
5 2 (16.67%) Roadmaps
5 2 (16.67%) Technology Roadmap
6 1 (8.33%) Design Patterns
6 1 (8.33%) DevOps
6 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
6 1 (8.33%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (8.33%) Bash
2 1 (8.33%) C#
2 1 (8.33%) Go
2 1 (8.33%) Groovy
2 1 (8.33%) Java
2 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (8.33%) PHP
2 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (8.33%) Ruby
2 1 (8.33%) SQL
2 1 (8.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) Ansible
1 4 (33.33%) Grafana
1 4 (33.33%) Prometheus
2 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (8.33%) Progress Chef
2 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (66.67%) Atlassian