Linux Command Line Contract Job Trends in Shropshire

Linux/Unix Command Line Interface (CLI)
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Linux Command Line in contract job vacancies in Shropshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Linux Command Line over the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Linux Command Line 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 0.31% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.67% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £554 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £558 - -
75th Percentile £561 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £314 £525 -
% change year-on-year -40.14% - -

All Generic Skills
Shropshire

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 Shropshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 60 25 18
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 18.46% 20.16% 34.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 16 10
10th Percentile £243 £147 £391
25th Percentile £400 £180 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £314 £480
Median % change year-on-year +54.46% -34.58% -4.00%
75th Percentile £508 £497 £499
90th Percentile £556 £584 £509
West Midlands median daily rate £488 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -11.36% +10.00% +2.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £23.60 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £25.00 £30.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +30.43% +23.11%

Linux Command Line
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

Linux Command Line job vacancy trend in Shropshire

Linux Command Line
Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

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

Linux Command Line
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

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 Shropshire region over the 6 months to 13 December 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
Telford - 1 £558 - 1
Linux Command Line
West Midlands

Linux Command Line
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Shropshire 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 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Platform Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) ARM Templates
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Commercial Awareness
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Software Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Consul
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) OpenAI
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk