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 22 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 168 165 204
Rank change year-on-year -3 +39 +32
Contract jobs citing Linux Command Line 2 16 11
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.055% 0.38% 0.20%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.18% 1.23% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 10
10th Percentile - £472 £211
25th Percentile £563 £486 £239
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £520 £310
Median % change year-on-year +10.58% +67.74% -40.95%
75th Percentile £588 £590 £373
90th Percentile - £626 £446
England median daily rate £600 £565 £500
% change year-on-year +6.19% +13.00% -6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £27.50 -
England median hourly rate £32.50 £70.00 £19.12
% change year-on-year -53.57% +266.11% -62.34%

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 1,127 1,297 1,744
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 31.00% 30.44% 31.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 718 739 1,167
10th Percentile £204 £250 £205
25th Percentile £363 £375 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - -1.96%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £613
90th Percentile £675 £688 £700
England median daily rate £525 £546 £550
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.73% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 79 107
10th Percentile £13.08 £14.83 £16.40
25th Percentile £15.94 £26.63 £23.62
Median hourly rate £25.00 £53.00 £53.50
Median % change year-on-year -52.83% -0.93% +85.12%
75th Percentile £54.00 £75.00 £64.88
90th Percentile £69.65 £75.16 £78.00
England median hourly rate £27.36 £52.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -47.90% +16.67% +73.71%

Linux Command Line
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Linux Command Line job vacancy trend 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
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 22 October 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 +3 1 - - 1
Thames Valley - 1 £575 - 9
Berkshire - 1 £575 - 7
Linux Command Line
England

Linux Command Line
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (50.00%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) VoIP
General
1 1 (50.00%) Electronics
1 1 (50.00%) Military
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Data Analytics Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (50.00%) Customer Requirements
1 1 (50.00%) Data Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Privileged Identity Management
1 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) RBAC
1 1 (50.00%) Requirements Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Runbook
1 1 (50.00%) Server Patching
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Def Stans
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft