Linux Command Line Contract Job Trends 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 4 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 127 111 127
Rank change year-on-year -16 +16 +25
Contract jobs citing Linux Command Line 1 23 27
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.047% 0.96% 0.86%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.15% 3.54% 2.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 20
10th Percentile - £117 £458
25th Percentile £538 £193 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £334 £500
Median % change year-on-year +72.28% -33.25% +6.38%
75th Percentile £613 £486 £538
90th Percentile - £569 £775
England median daily rate £575 £550 £488
% change year-on-year +4.55% +12.82% -9.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 16 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
England median hourly rate £32.50 £70.00 £18.24
% change year-on-year -53.57% +283.77% -77.31%

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 681 649 911
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 32.00% 27.09% 29.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 409 364 646
10th Percentile £220 £208 £258
25th Percentile £350 £431 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £672 £669
90th Percentile £715 £720 £725
England median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.82% -1.77% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 56 62
10th Percentile £6.00 £15.01 £15.20
25th Percentile £15.48 £35.94 £32.04
Median hourly rate £23.50 £70.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -66.43% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £63.75 - £83.40
90th Percentile £73.00 £75.00 -
England median hourly rate £28.56 £47.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -39.87% +6.74% +65.89%

Linux Command Line
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Linux Command Line job vacancy trend in the South West

Linux Command Line
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

Linux Command Line
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Linux Command Line.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Linux Command Line

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 4 November 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
Gloucestershire -5 1 £575 -4.17% 2
Linux Command Line
England

Linux Command Line
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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:

Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) JSON Schema
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (100.00%) Public Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Domain-Driven Design
1 1 (100.00%) ERD
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) Product Backlog
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Go
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared