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 28 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 189 145 180
Rank change year-on-year -44 +35 +23
Contract jobs citing Linux Command Line 11 2 22
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.20% 0.068% 0.39%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.66% 0.20% 1.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 2 16
10th Percentile £421 - £305
25th Percentile £500 £438 £528
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £575
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -17.39% +4.55%
75th Percentile £550 £513 £650
90th Percentile - - £688
England median daily rate £500 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -9.09% +2.33% +0.70%

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 1,658 1,014 1,656
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 30.31% 34.26% 29.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,100 632 942
10th Percentile £250 £213 £205
25th Percentile £400 £369 £332
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £514 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.68% +2.75% -2.91%
75th Percentile £600 £616 £608
90th Percentile £696 £663 £688
England median daily rate £513 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -5.96% -0.91% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 120 60 145
10th Percentile £15.23 £16.95 £11.79
25th Percentile £20.79 £23.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £68.75 £33.75 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +103.70% -18.67% -12.63%
75th Percentile £88.00 £62.62 £61.30
90th Percentile - £79.07 £65.00
England median hourly rate £43.60 £34.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year +25.47% +26.36% +20.88%

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 28 March 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 28 March 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
Surrey -12 4 £550 +15.79%
Thames Valley - 4 £469 - 2
Berkshire - 4 £469 -
Hampshire - 3 £500 - 3
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (9.09%) Apache
Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) Azure
2 3 (27.27%) Azure API Management
2 3 (27.27%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (27.27%) Azure Functions
2 3 (27.27%) Azure Monitor
2 3 (27.27%) Entra ID
2 3 (27.27%) GitHub
2 3 (27.27%) GitHub Actions
2 3 (27.27%) Serverless
3 1 (9.09%) AWS
3 1 (9.09%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (27.27%) BGP
1 3 (27.27%) Ethernet VPN
1 3 (27.27%) Firewall
1 3 (27.27%) LAN
1 3 (27.27%) Network Security
1 3 (27.27%) OSPF
1 3 (27.27%) VPN
1 3 (27.27%) WAN
2 2 (18.18%) SSL
3 1 (9.09%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Billing
2 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Analyst
1 4 (36.36%) Pensions Analyst
2 3 (27.27%) Active Directory Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Azure Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Network Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Senior
3 2 (18.18%) Senior Active Directory Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Senior DevOps
3 2 (18.18%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) .NET
1 3 (27.27%) .NET Core
1 3 (27.27%) ARM Templates
1 3 (27.27%) GraphQL
1 3 (27.27%) OAuth
1 3 (27.27%) OAuth2
1 3 (27.27%) OpenID
1 3 (27.27%) REST
1 3 (27.27%) SAML
2 2 (18.18%) .NET Framework
2 2 (18.18%) ASP.NET
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (9.09%) LAMP
3 1 (9.09%) MERN Stack
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Data Centre
1 3 (27.27%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (36.36%) Linux
1 4 (36.36%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Test Automation
2 3 (27.27%) AI
2 3 (27.27%) Analytics
2 3 (27.27%) API Management
2 3 (27.27%) B2C
2 3 (27.27%) CI/CD
2 3 (27.27%) Data Governance
2 3 (27.27%) DevOps
2 3 (27.27%) DevSecOps
2 3 (27.27%) Identity Management
2 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (27.27%) Log Analytics
2 3 (27.27%) MLOps
2 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (27.27%) RBAC
2 3 (27.27%) User Experience
3 2 (18.18%) Analytical Thinking
3 2 (18.18%) Critical Thinking
3 2 (18.18%) Knowledge Transfer
3 2 (18.18%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 7 (63.64%) Python
2 4 (36.36%) JavaScript
2 4 (36.36%) PHP
2 4 (36.36%) SQL
3 3 (27.27%) Bash
3 3 (27.27%) C#
3 3 (27.27%) PowerShell
4 2 (18.18%) Java
5 1 (9.09%) Perl
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) SC Cleared
1 4 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 3 (27.27%) CCNP
2 3 (27.27%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Certification
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) Data Quality
2 1 (9.09%) GMP
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Active Directory
2 1 (9.09%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (54.55%) Terraform
2 3 (27.27%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Mellanox
1 3 (27.27%) NVIDIA
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
3 1 (9.09%) Cisco
3 1 (9.09%) VMware