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 26 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 181 152 190
Rank change year-on-year -29 +38 +27
Contract jobs citing Linux Command Line 9 5 13
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.20% 0.16% 0.24%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.67% 0.47% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 8
10th Percentile £453 - £240
25th Percentile £500 - £291
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 - £310
Median % change year-on-year - - -40.95%
75th Percentile £547 - £396
90th Percentile £569 - £506
England median daily rate £520 £565 £500
% change year-on-year -7.96% +13.00% -4.76%

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 1,335 1,053 1,636
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 29.87% 32.67% 30.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 898 603 1,002
10th Percentile £205 £237 £205
25th Percentile £363 £381 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £488
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 38 116
10th Percentile £12.50 £19.53 £15.48
25th Percentile £15.65 £24.30 £23.53
Median hourly rate £22.75 £35.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.00% -26.32% +26.67%
75th Percentile £59.69 £61.06 £61.90
90th Percentile £81.50 £72.34 £76.53
England median hourly rate £30.05 £37.50 £34.61
% change year-on-year -19.86% +8.37% +53.90%

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
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 26 January 2026.

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 26 January 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
Berkshire - 4 £494 - 4
Thames Valley - 4 £494 - 8
Hampshire - 3 £500 - 1
Surrey -9 2 £538 - 1
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:

Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) Azure
1 4 (44.44%) Azure DevOps
1 4 (44.44%) Entra ID
1 4 (44.44%) GitHub
1 4 (44.44%) GitHub Actions
2 3 (33.33%) Azure API Management
2 3 (33.33%) Azure Functions
2 3 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
2 3 (33.33%) Serverless
3 1 (11.11%) AWS
3 1 (11.11%) IaaS
3 1 (11.11%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) Firewall
2 2 (22.22%) BGP
2 2 (22.22%) Ethernet VPN
2 2 (22.22%) LAN
2 2 (22.22%) Network Security
2 2 (22.22%) OSPF
2 2 (22.22%) SSL
2 2 (22.22%) VPN
2 2 (22.22%) WAN
3 1 (11.11%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (11.11%) VoIP
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Billing
3 1 (11.11%) Electronics
3 1 (11.11%) Military
3 1 (11.11%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Active Directory Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Network Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Pensions Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Senior
3 2 (22.22%) Senior Active Directory Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Senior DevOps
3 2 (22.22%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Data Analytics Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) .NET
1 3 (33.33%) .NET Core
1 3 (33.33%) ARM Templates
1 3 (33.33%) GraphQL
1 3 (33.33%) OAuth
1 3 (33.33%) OAuth2
1 3 (33.33%) OpenID
1 3 (33.33%) REST
1 3 (33.33%) SAML
2 2 (22.22%) .NET Framework
2 2 (22.22%) ASP.NET
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Data Centre
2 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (11.11%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) Linux
2 2 (22.22%) Unix
3 1 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Analytics
1 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
1 4 (44.44%) DevOps
1 4 (44.44%) Identity Management
1 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (44.44%) RBAC
1 4 (44.44%) Test Automation
2 3 (33.33%) AI
2 3 (33.33%) API Management
2 3 (33.33%) B2C
2 3 (33.33%) Data Governance
2 3 (33.33%) DevSecOps
2 3 (33.33%) Log Analytics
2 3 (33.33%) MLOps
2 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (33.33%) User Experience
3 2 (22.22%) CRM
3 2 (22.22%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (22.22%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) Python
2 4 (44.44%) PowerShell
3 3 (33.33%) Bash
3 3 (33.33%) C#
3 3 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 3 (33.33%) PHP
3 3 (33.33%) SQL
4 2 (22.22%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) CCNP
1 2 (22.22%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (11.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (11.11%) Def Stans
2 1 (11.11%) GMP
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (66.67%) Terraform
2 2 (22.22%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (22.22%) Mellanox
2 2 (22.22%) NVIDIA
3 1 (11.11%) Cisco
3 1 (11.11%) Databricks