Linux Command Line Contracts in the South West

Linux/Unix Command Line Interface (CLI)
England > South West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Linux Command Line in contract job vacancies in the South West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Linux Command Line over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 145 146
Rank change year-on-year +37 +1 +14
Contract jobs citing Linux Command Line 3 12 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.18% 0.38% 0.58%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.61% 1.14% 2.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 6 17
10th Percentile - £474 £484
25th Percentile - £520 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +14.29%
75th Percentile - £575 £669
90th Percentile - - £691
England median daily rate £550 £550 £538
% change year-on-year - +2.33% +1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
England median hourly rate £57.50 £70.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year -17.86% -6.67% +63.04%

All Generic Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 489 1,056 1,016
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 29.14% 33.01% 28.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 321 647 702
10th Percentile £263 £300 £263
25th Percentile £400 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.83% -0.91% +10.11%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £656
90th Percentile £676 £694 £725
England median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 166 138
10th Percentile £18.51 £13.69 -
25th Percentile £18.87 £15.65 -
Median hourly rate £50.00 £45.00 £9.80
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +359.18% -80.30%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £83.34
England median hourly rate £33.00 £30.16 £22.50
% change year-on-year +9.42% +34.04% -16.67%

Linux Command Line
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Linux Command Line as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Linux Command Line in the South West

Linux Command Line
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Linux Command Line in the South West

Linux Command Line
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux Command Line in the South West

Linux Command Line
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Bristol +16 3 - - 3
Linux Command Line
England

Linux Command Line
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) DNS
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Administrator
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps Administrator
1 3 (100.00%) Linux Administrator
1 3 (100.00%) Linux DevOps Administrator
1 3 (100.00%) Linux/Unix DevOps
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (100.00%) GitOps
1 3 (100.00%) High Availability
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) Security Hardening
1 3 (100.00%) Task Automation
1 3 (100.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Bash
1 3 (100.00%) Perl
1 3 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
1 3 (100.00%) Grafana
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) VMware