Linux Command Line Contract Job Trends in Taunton

Linux/Unix Command Line Interface (CLI)
Somerset > Taunton

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Linux Command Line in contract job vacancies in Taunton. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Linux Command Line over the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Linux Command Line 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Taunton 1.69% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.35% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
Somerset median daily rate £450 - -

All Generic Skills
Taunton

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 Taunton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 23 3 8
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Taunton 38.98% 33.33% 26.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 3 5
10th Percentile £403 £604 -
25th Percentile £431 £610 £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £620 £600
Median % change year-on-year -28.43% +3.33% -9.06%
75th Percentile £450 - £606
90th Percentile £574 - £655
Somerset median daily rate £525 £620 £500
% change year-on-year -15.32% +24.00% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £12.50
Median hourly rate - - £13.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -28.77%
75th Percentile - - £13.50
90th Percentile - - -
Somerset median hourly rate £14.00 £21.01 £40.00
% change year-on-year -33.37% -47.48% +55.34%

Linux Command Line
Job Vacancy Trend in Taunton

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

Linux Command Line job vacancy trend in Taunton

Linux Command Line
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Taunton 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) QA Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) QA Test Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Principle of Least Privilege
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) VirtualBox
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) VMware