Linux Command Line Contract Job Trends in South Lanarkshire

Linux/Unix Command Line Interface (CLI)
Scotland > South Lanarkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Linux Command Line in contract job vacancies in South Lanarkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Linux Command Line over the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 - 12
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Linux Command Line 2 0 6
As % of all contract jobs in South Lanarkshire 8.33% - 17.14%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 15.38% - 31.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 5
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £750
Scotland median daily rate £425 £454 £750
% change year-on-year -6.39% -39.47% +36.36%

All Generic Skills
South Lanarkshire

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 South Lanarkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 13 0 19
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Lanarkshire 54.17% - 54.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 13
10th Percentile - - £435
25th Percentile - - £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - £750
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £463
% change year-on-year - -2.70% -7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £18.85 - -
25th Percentile £20.12 - -
Median hourly rate £22.24 - -
75th Percentile £24.36 - -
90th Percentile £25.63 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £32.00 £21.86 £18.38
% change year-on-year +46.39% +18.97% -4.20%

Linux Command Line
Job Vacancy Trend in South Lanarkshire

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

Linux Command Line job vacancy trend in South Lanarkshire

Linux Command Line
Daily Rate Trend in South Lanarkshire

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

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

Linux Command Line
Contract Job Locations in South Lanarkshire

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 Lanarkshire region over the 6 months to 18 September 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
East Kilbride - 2 - -
Linux Command Line
Scotland

Linux Command Line
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Lanarkshire 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 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) RTP
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Automation Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
1 1 (50.00%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Acoustics
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (100.00%) Zero Trust
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Privileged Access Management
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft