Linux Command Line Contract Job Trends in Surrey

Linux/Unix Command Line Interface (CLI)
South East > Surrey

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Linux Command Line in contract job vacancies in Surrey. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Linux Command Line over the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 53 71
Rank change year-on-year +4 +18 +5
Contract jobs citing Linux Command Line 1 6 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Surrey 0.28% 1.11% 0.52%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.22% 3.64% 1.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 4
10th Percentile - - £176
25th Percentile £413 £588 £203
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £625 £235
Median % change year-on-year -32.00% +166.27% +39.72%
75th Percentile £438 £663 £280
90th Percentile - - £331
South East median daily rate £500 £520 £350
% change year-on-year -3.85% +48.57% -35.19%

All Generic Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 82 165 266
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 23.03% 30.61% 34.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 113 223
10th Percentile £204 £207 £208
25th Percentile £204 £350 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -11.84% -9.52% -
75th Percentile £500 £575 £638
90th Percentile £604 £663 £750
South East median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 14 12
10th Percentile £29.91 £11.71 £23.54
25th Percentile £32.77 £12.10 £32.25
Median hourly rate £52.50 £54.00 £51.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +4.86% +196.29%
75th Percentile £70.16 £75.00 £77.72
90th Percentile - £78.50 £82.91
South East median hourly rate £33.05 £57.35 £55.00
% change year-on-year -42.37% +4.27% +135.14%

Linux Command Line
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Command Line in Surrey

Linux Command Line
Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

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

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

Linux Command Line
Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Linux Command Line.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Linux Command Line

Linux Command Line
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

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 Surrey region over the 6 months to 20 September 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
Staines +5 1 £425 -32.00%
Linux Command Line
South East

Linux Command Line
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Purview
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) ADO
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
1 1 (100.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Operations
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft