Linux Command Line Contract Job Trends in the South East

Linux/Unix Command Line Interface (CLI)
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Linux Command Line in contract job vacancies in the South East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Linux Command Line over the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 156 163 206
Rank change year-on-year +7 +43 +26
Contract jobs citing Linux Command Line 5 21 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.14% 0.46% 0.14%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.45% 1.56% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 8 8
10th Percentile £428 £462 £200
25th Percentile £450 £498 £217
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £548 £355
Median % change year-on-year -8.68% +54.23% -33.33%
75th Percentile £550 £653 £472
90th Percentile £573 £681 £621
England median daily rate £600 £550 £535
% change year-on-year +9.09% +2.80% -1.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56.25 £26.25 -
Median hourly rate £57.50 £27.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +109.09% - -
75th Percentile £58.75 £28.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £57.50 £70.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -17.86% +250.00% -58.23%

All Generic Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,101 1,344 1,776
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 31.62% 29.27% 31.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 691 770 1,212
10th Percentile £204 £236 £205
25th Percentile £350 £380 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% - -1.96%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £619
90th Percentile £664 £690 £700
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -2.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 110 102
10th Percentile £15.13 £13.13 £16.25
25th Percentile £16.95 £32.19 £21.25
Median hourly rate £33.05 £57.35 £54.69
Median % change year-on-year -42.37% +4.87% +130.79%
75th Percentile £58.00 £70.00 £67.42
90th Percentile £70.16 £75.16 £77.40
England median hourly rate £33.05 £57.35 £45.88
% change year-on-year -42.37% +25.00% +76.46%

Linux Command Line
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Command Line in the South East

Linux Command Line
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Linux Command Line.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Linux Command Line

Linux Command Line
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux Command Line in the South East over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Linux Command Line in the South East

Linux Command Line
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Linux Command Line.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Linux Command Line

Linux Command Line
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 17 September 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
Hampshire +2 3 - - 1
Surrey -1 1 £425 -33.33% 1
Thames Valley - 1 £575 - 6
Berkshire - 1 £575 - 2
Linux Command Line
England

Linux Command Line
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (40.00%) GitHub
1 2 (40.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (20.00%) IaaS
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) HTTP
1 2 (40.00%) SNMP
1 2 (40.00%) Software-Defined Radio
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (20.00%) Firewall
2 1 (20.00%) VoIP
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Git
2 2 (40.00%) GoogleTest
2 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (40.00%) JIRA
2 2 (40.00%) Robot Framework
General
1 1 (20.00%) Electronics
1 1 (20.00%) Military
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Software Test Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Test Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Data Analytics Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Embedded Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Python Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) CSS
1 2 (40.00%) HTML
1 2 (40.00%) Node.js
2 1 (20.00%) ADO
2 1 (20.00%) PySpark
2 1 (20.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (40.00%) Integration Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Scrum
2 2 (40.00%) Software Testing
2 2 (40.00%) SysML
2 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (40.00%) UML
2 2 (40.00%) Validation
2 2 (40.00%) Verification and Validation
3 1 (20.00%) Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Clean Code
3 1 (20.00%) Code Quality
3 1 (20.00%) Data Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Data Governance
3 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) RBAC
3 1 (20.00%) Requirements Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) Bash
2 1 (20.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Def Stans
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Firmware
2 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco
2 1 (20.00%) Databricks