Linux Command Line Contracts in the UK excluding London

Linux/Unix Command Line Interface (CLI)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Linux Command Line in contract job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Linux Command Line over the 6 months leading up to 21 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 294 368 400
Rank change year-on-year +74 +32 -23
Contract jobs citing Linux Command Line 108 62 104
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.51% 0.27% 0.34%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.78% 0.85% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 45 70
10th Percentile £462 £313 £342
25th Percentile £510 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £518 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.28% -1.43% +5.00%
75th Percentile £650 £631 £575
90th Percentile £750 £758 £626
UK median daily rate £550 £526 £550
% change year-on-year +4.56% -4.36% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 1 2
10th Percentile £30.63 - £43.33
25th Percentile - - £44.57
Median hourly rate £70.00 £47.73 £47.89
Median % change year-on-year +46.66% -0.32% -
75th Percentile - - £49.95
90th Percentile - - £50.44
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £20.00 £46.00
% change year-on-year +250.00% -56.52% -

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 6,066 7,275 9,769
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 28.45% 32.06% 32.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,573 4,875 6,837
10th Percentile £210 £220 £208
25th Percentile £375 £381 £368
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +11.43%
75th Percentile £600 £602 £586
90th Percentile £688 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 764 409 422
10th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £12.90
25th Percentile £14.36 £10.63 £16.25
Median hourly rate £35.25 £22.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +60.23% +2.33% -4.44%
75th Percentile £62.81 £62.50 £45.00
90th Percentile £70.13 £74.40 £61.50
UK median hourly rate £35.65 £22.26 £27.00
% change year-on-year +60.15% -17.56% +8.00%

Linux Command Line
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Linux Command Line as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Linux Command Line in the UK excluding London

Linux Command Line
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Linux Command Line in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Linux Command Line in the UK excluding London

Linux Command Line
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux Command Line in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 21 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux Command Line in the UK excluding London

Linux Command Line
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Linux Command Line in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Linux Command Line in the UK excluding London

Linux Command Line
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Linux Command Line in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 21 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Linux Command Line in the UK excluding London

Linux Command Line
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 21 June 2024. 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
South West +25 33 £550 +1.85% 11
South East +33 29 £575 +5.26% 14
Midlands +30 22 £544 +67.31% 7
West Midlands +31 16 £550 +3.77% 4
Scotland +37 11 £750 +42.86% 5
North of England +19 8 £479 -18.51% 12
Yorkshire +18 6 £445 -37.54% 8
East Midlands +7 6 £520 +60.00% 3
East of England +6 3 £625 -17.36% 6
North West +14 2 £513 +7.89% 3
Northern Ireland -2 2 - -
Linux Command Line
UK

Linux Command Line
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 8 (7.41%) Confluence
2 2 (1.85%) IIS
2 2 (1.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.85%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.85%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 6 (5.56%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.93%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 31 (28.70%) GitHub
2 11 (10.19%) Azure
3 8 (7.41%) AWS
4 7 (6.48%) Amazon EC2
4 7 (6.48%) Amazon S3
4 7 (6.48%) AWS Lambda
4 7 (6.48%) Serverless
5 6 (5.56%) IaaS
5 6 (5.56%) OpenShift
6 4 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.85%) Azure Storage
8 2 (1.85%) OneDrive
9 1 (0.93%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.93%) Azure App Service
9 1 (0.93%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (0.93%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (0.93%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.93%) PaaS
9 1 (0.93%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 9 (8.33%) Firewall
2 7 (6.48%) Network Security
3 6 (5.56%) AMQP
4 5 (4.63%) SAN
5 3 (2.78%) BGP
5 3 (2.78%) Cisco IOS
5 3 (2.78%) DNS
5 3 (2.78%) IOS XR
6 2 (1.85%) Cisco ISE
6 2 (1.85%) Fibre Channel
6 2 (1.85%) FTP
6 2 (1.85%) iSCSI
6 2 (1.85%) NAS
6 2 (1.85%) VPN
6 2 (1.85%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (13.89%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (12.96%) Relational Database
3 12 (11.11%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (6.48%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (6.48%) InfluxDB
4 7 (6.48%) MongoDB
4 7 (6.48%) SQL Server
5 4 (3.70%) MySQL
5 4 (3.70%) RDBMS
6 3 (2.78%) Oracle Database
7 2 (1.85%) Redis
8 1 (0.93%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 35 (32.41%) JIRA
2 31 (28.70%) Jenkins
3 25 (23.15%) GitLab
4 22 (20.37%) GoogleTest
5 7 (6.48%) Git
6 3 (2.78%) Subversion
7 2 (1.85%) Selenium
General
1 9 (8.33%) Public Sector
2 7 (6.48%) Finance
2 7 (6.48%) Social Skills
3 5 (4.63%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (3.70%) Electronics
4 4 (3.70%) Manufacturing
4 4 (3.70%) Telecoms
5 2 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (1.85%) Marketing
5 2 (1.85%) Military
6 1 (0.93%) Aerospace
6 1 (0.93%) Banking
6 1 (0.93%) Fire and Rescue
6 1 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (0.93%) Police
Job Titles
1 20 (18.52%) Java Engineer
1 20 (18.52%) Java Software Engineer
1 20 (18.52%) Software Engineer
2 13 (12.04%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 13 (12.04%) Systems Administrator
3 12 (11.11%) Linux Engineer
3 12 (11.11%) SIEM Engineer
4 10 (9.26%) C++ Software Engineer
5 8 (7.41%) Applications Engineer
5 8 (7.41%) Database Specialist
5 8 (7.41%) JIRA Engineer
5 8 (7.41%) Support Engineer
6 7 (6.48%) Applications Support
6 7 (6.48%) Applications Support Engineer
6 7 (6.48%) DevOps Engineer
6 7 (6.48%) Network Engineer
6 7 (6.48%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 6 (5.56%) Platform Specialist
8 5 (4.63%) Platform Engineer
9 4 (3.70%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (22.22%) Qt
2 16 (14.81%) REST
3 11 (10.19%) Elastic Stack
4 8 (7.41%) Web Services
5 7 (6.48%) YAML
6 6 (5.56%) JSON
6 6 (5.56%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (2.78%) Django
7 3 (2.78%) RESTful
7 3 (2.78%) YANG
8 2 (1.85%) 802.1X
8 2 (1.85%) LAMP
8 2 (1.85%) pytest
9 1 (0.93%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 24 (22.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 11 (10.19%) Replication
3 8 (7.41%) Data Centre
4 7 (6.48%) Clustering
5 5 (4.63%) FPGA
6 3 (2.78%) ASIC
6 3 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.78%) Public Cloud
6 3 (2.78%) Smart Meter
6 3 (2.78%) Verilog
7 2 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.93%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 100 (92.59%) Linux
2 21 (19.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 20 (18.52%) Windows
4 13 (12.04%) Unix
5 12 (11.11%) Ubuntu
6 8 (7.41%) VMS
7 5 (4.63%) Windows Server
8 2 (1.85%) Alpine Linux
8 2 (1.85%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (1.85%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.93%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (45.37%) CI/CD
2 37 (34.26%) DevOps
3 30 (27.78%) Agile
4 26 (24.07%) Software Engineering
5 19 (17.59%) Storage Management
6 18 (16.67%) Service Management
7 16 (14.81%) Data Migration
7 16 (14.81%) Migration
8 13 (12.04%) Infrastructure Monitoring
9 12 (11.11%) High Availability
9 12 (11.11%) SIEM
10 11 (10.19%) Task Automation
11 10 (9.26%) ITIL
11 10 (9.26%) Mentoring
11 10 (9.26%) RBAC
11 10 (9.26%) Visualisation
12 9 (8.33%) Build Automation
12 9 (8.33%) Capacity Management
12 9 (8.33%) Disaster Recovery
12 9 (8.33%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 50 (46.30%) Python
2 34 (31.48%) Java
3 27 (25.00%) C++
3 27 (25.00%) Shell Script
4 25 (23.15%) Bash
5 14 (12.96%) SQL
6 9 (8.33%) PowerShell
7 8 (7.41%) R
8 7 (6.48%) C
8 7 (6.48%) Go
9 5 (4.63%) Perl
10 3 (2.78%) Assembly Language
10 3 (2.78%) JavaScript
10 3 (2.78%) SystemVerilog
10 3 (2.78%) Tcl
10 3 (2.78%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.93%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 51 (47.22%) Security Cleared
2 35 (32.41%) SC Cleared
3 12 (11.11%) DV Cleared
4 3 (2.78%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (1.85%) Degree
5 2 (1.85%) HND
6 1 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.93%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (0.93%) RHCE
6 1 (0.93%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (22.22%) MISRA
2 3 (2.78%) ISO 9001
2 3 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 3 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 19 (17.59%) Docker
2 16 (14.81%) Active Directory
2 16 (14.81%) vSphere
3 13 (12.04%) Hyper-V
3 13 (12.04%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (8.33%) iptables
5 7 (6.48%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (4.63%) VMware NSX
7 2 (1.85%) Ceph
7 2 (1.85%) Firmware
7 2 (1.85%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 2 (1.85%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.93%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 46 (42.59%) Ansible
2 21 (19.44%) Terraform
3 16 (14.81%) Kubernetes
4 13 (12.04%) Red Hat Satellite
5 12 (11.11%) Grafana
5 12 (11.11%) Prometheus
6 11 (10.19%) Kibana
6 11 (10.19%) logstash
7 7 (6.48%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 7 (6.48%) Progress Chef
8 6 (5.56%) Docker Swarm
8 6 (5.56%) Packer
8 6 (5.56%) vRealize
9 2 (1.85%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (1.85%) Pacemaker
9 2 (1.85%) Podman
9 2 (1.85%) SCCM
9 2 (1.85%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.93%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.93%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 26 (24.07%) Red Hat
2 24 (22.22%) Google
3 18 (16.67%) VMware
4 13 (12.04%) Oracle
5 9 (8.33%) SolarWinds
6 8 (7.41%) Atlassian
7 7 (6.48%) EMC
8 6 (5.56%) Microsoft
9 5 (4.63%) Cisco
10 4 (3.70%) Arqiva
10 4 (3.70%) Palo Alto
10 4 (3.70%) Veeam
10 4 (3.70%) Veritas
11 3 (2.78%) Cadence
11 3 (2.78%) Dell
11 3 (2.78%) Remedy
11 3 (2.78%) ServiceNow
11 3 (2.78%) Synopsys
11 3 (2.78%) TOWER Software
11 3 (2.78%) Xilinx