Linux Command Line Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Linux/Unix Command Line Interface (CLI)
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Linux Command Line in contract job vacancies in Sheffield. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Linux Command Line over the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 - 47
Rank change year-on-year - - +4
Contract jobs citing Linux Command Line 3 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.30% - 1.34%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.74% - 3.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £377
25th Percentile £605 - £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £610 - £445
Median % change year-on-year - - -38.62%
75th Percentile £615 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £610 £675 £445
% change year-on-year -9.63% +51.69% -38.62%

All Generic Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 403 123 132
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 40.46% 38.80% 35.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 263 76 75
10th Percentile £366 £306 £394
25th Percentile £425 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £472
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +0.64% -21.33%
75th Percentile £575 £613 £588
90th Percentile £688 £650 £633
South Yorkshire median daily rate £492 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +3.58% +5.56% -25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 9
10th Percentile £15.74 - -
25th Percentile £16.34 - £10.90
Median hourly rate £18.01 - £22.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +12.50%
75th Percentile £19.01 - £23.75
90th Percentile £19.21 - £27.38
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.01 - £13.38
% change year-on-year - - +25.82%

Linux Command Line
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Linux Command Line job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Linux Command Line
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

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

Linux Command Line
Hourly Rate Trend in Sheffield

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Linux Command Line.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Linux Command Line

Linux Command Line
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) OpenShift
General
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (33.33%) Law
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
1 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Clustering
1 1 (33.33%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Windows
3 1 (33.33%) CoreOS
3 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (33.33%) VMS
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (33.33%) Change Management
1 1 (33.33%) Chaos Engineering
1 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) GitOps
1 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
1 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (33.33%) ITIL
1 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
1 1 (33.33%) Migration
1 1 (33.33%) Observability
1 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (33.33%) Privileged Access Management
1 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (33.33%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
3 1 (33.33%) Bash
3 1 (33.33%) Go
3 1 (33.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
1 1 (33.33%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) HIPAA
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (33.33%) PCI DSS
1 1 (33.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
2 1 (33.33%) Ceph
2 1 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (66.67%) Ansible
3 1 (33.33%) Argo
3 1 (33.33%) Grafana
3 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
3 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Commvault
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat
1 1 (33.33%) Veeam
1 1 (33.33%) VMware
41 Linux Command Line jobs in England