Linux Command Line Contract Job Trends in Somerset

Linux/Unix Command Line Interface (CLI)
South West > Somerset

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Linux Command Line in contract job vacancies in Somerset. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Linux Command Line over the 6 months leading up to 5 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Linux Command Line 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Somerset 0.22% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.83% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
South West median daily rate £540 - £550
% change year-on-year - - +7.32%

All Generic Skills
Somerset

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 Somerset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 120 59 38
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 26.67% 35.98% 21.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 40 20
10th Percentile £400 £356 £160
25th Percentile £431 £546 £253
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £633 £450
Median % change year-on-year -17.19% +40.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £674 £675 £622
90th Percentile £730 £678 £713
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 2 6
10th Percentile £14.00 £24.66 -
25th Percentile £14.31 £30.13 £12.50
Median hourly rate £20.69 £43.01 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -51.89% +126.34% -45.71%
75th Percentile £98.82 £59.63 £41.88
90th Percentile £99.65 £67.35 £57.50
South West median hourly rate £43.13 £18.87 £70.00
% change year-on-year +128.56% -73.04% -2.08%

Linux Command Line
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

Linux Command Line job vacancy trend in Somerset

Linux Command Line
Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

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

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

Linux Command Line
Contract Job Locations in Somerset

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 Somerset region over the 6 months to 5 August 2026. 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
Taunton - 1 £450 - 2
Linux Command Line
South West

Linux Command Line
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Somerset 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%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) QA Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) QA Test Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Principle of Least Privilege
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) VirtualBox
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) VMware