Linux Command Line Contracts 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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 152 168 204
Rank change year-on-year +16 +36 +31
Contract jobs citing Linux Command Line 5 30 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.16% 0.53% 0.19%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.48% 1.83% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 18 8
10th Percentile £418 £463 £360
25th Percentile £425 £520 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £575 £546
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% +5.26% +1.16%
75th Percentile £513 £650 £669
90th Percentile - £681 £763
England median daily rate £550 £550 £529
% change year-on-year - +4.07% -3.91%
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% -56.52%

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 1,040 1,642 1,933
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 32.25% 28.75% 33.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 631 962 1,319
10th Percentile £210 £213 £213
25th Percentile £350 £371 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £594 £618 £629
90th Percentile £660 £690 £721
England median daily rate £525 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 99 173 97
10th Percentile £15.13 £11.79 £16.94
25th Percentile £16.95 £17.64 £20.50
Median hourly rate £33.89 £55.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.39% +4.76% +153.68%
75th Percentile £61.12 £61.30 £66.21
90th Percentile £85.50 £75.16 £75.00
England median hourly rate £32.77 £37.50 £23.50
% change year-on-year -12.61% +59.57% -11.32%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Linux Command Line in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Linux Command Line in the South East

Linux Command Line
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Linux Command Line in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Linux Command Line in the South East

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 3 July 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
Surrey +27 3 £475 -26.92% 5
Hampshire +20 2 - - 6
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:

Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (20.00%) GitHub
1 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) HTTP
1 2 (40.00%) SNMP
1 2 (40.00%) Software-Defined Radio
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
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Pensions Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Software Test Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Test Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Embedded Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Python 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 2 (40.00%) Virtual Team
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
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%) UML
2 2 (40.00%) Validation
2 2 (40.00%) Verification and Validation
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Clean Code
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Operations
3 1 (20.00%) Code Quality
3 1 (20.00%) Data Governance
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) Bash
3 1 (20.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) GMP
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft