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 23 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 297 279 381
Rank change year-on-year -18 +102 +27
Contract jobs citing Linux Command Line 56 113 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.41% 0.53% 0.26%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.22% 1.86% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 56 43
10th Percentile £413 £462 £313
25th Percentile £438 £510 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £575 £650 £634
90th Percentile - £750 £760
UK median daily rate £543 £550 £534
% change year-on-year -1.36% +3.04% -2.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 26 1
10th Percentile - £30.63 -
25th Percentile £56.25 £67.19 -
Median hourly rate £57.50 £70.00 £47.73
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% +46.66% -0.32%
75th Percentile £58.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £70.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -17.86% +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 4,600 6,076 7,274
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 34.01% 28.45% 31.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,745 3,560 4,887
10th Percentile £220 £213 £230
25th Percentile £363 £375 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.83%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £605
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £539 £550
% change year-on-year -2.51% -2.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 352 768 406
10th Percentile £15.13 £12.15 £9.80
25th Percentile £18.51 £14.21 £10.63
Median hourly rate £30.79 £35.25 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.65% +60.23% +2.33%
75th Percentile £60.56 £63.75 £62.50
90th Percentile £81.32 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £31.76 £35.65 £22.49
% change year-on-year -10.91% +58.55% -16.66%

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 23 June 2025.

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
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 23 June 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
North of England +27 21 £550 +15.79% 23
Yorkshire +15 20 £550 +23.60% 8
Scotland +12 19 £463 -38.33% 14
East of England +25 6 £501 -19.92% 28
South East +21 5 £475 -17.39% 41
South West +14 3 - - 14
North West +2 1 - - 14
West Midlands -4 1 £558 +1.36% 20
Midlands -14 1 £558 +2.53% 29
Wales - 1 - -
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 16 (28.57%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 4 (7.14%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 10 (17.86%) AWS
2 7 (12.50%) Azure
3 5 (8.93%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (8.93%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (5.36%) Azure AKS
4 3 (5.36%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 3 (5.36%) Azure Monitor
4 3 (5.36%) Microsoft Copilot
4 3 (5.36%) Power Automate
4 3 (5.36%) Power Platform
5 2 (3.57%) Entra ID
5 2 (3.57%) GitHub
5 2 (3.57%) PaaS
5 2 (3.57%) SaaS
6 1 (1.79%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.79%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (1.79%) GCP
6 1 (1.79%) IaaS
6 1 (1.79%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.79%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 25 (44.64%) DNS
2 5 (8.93%) iSCSI
2 5 (8.93%) SAN
3 4 (7.14%) Firewall
3 4 (7.14%) VPN
4 3 (5.36%) Network Security
5 2 (3.57%) HTTP
5 2 (3.57%) SNMP
5 2 (3.57%) Software-Defined Radio
6 1 (1.79%) DHCP
6 1 (1.79%) SSL
6 1 (1.79%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (32.14%) Oracle Database
2 4 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (7.14%) MongoDB
3 3 (5.36%) MariaDB
3 3 (5.36%) MySQL
3 3 (5.36%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (5.36%) Power Query
3 3 (5.36%) Redis
4 1 (1.79%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 7 (12.50%) Jenkins
1 7 (12.50%) JIRA
2 4 (7.14%) Git
2 4 (7.14%) GitLab
2 4 (7.14%) TeamCity
3 2 (3.57%) GoogleTest
3 2 (3.57%) Robot Framework
4 1 (1.79%) Subversion
General
1 23 (41.07%) Social Skills
2 5 (8.93%) Public Sector
3 3 (5.36%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (5.36%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (3.57%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.79%) Finance
Job Titles
1 12 (21.43%) Developer
1 12 (21.43%) Java Developer
1 12 (21.43%) Linux Developer
2 11 (19.64%) SQL Developer
3 10 (17.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 9 (16.07%) Administrator
4 9 (16.07%) Engineering Specialist
4 9 (16.07%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 8 (14.29%) Linux Administrator
6 5 (8.93%) IT Engineer
6 5 (8.93%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (7.14%) Linux Engineer
7 4 (7.14%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (7.14%) Network Engineer
7 4 (7.14%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (7.14%) Python Engineer
8 3 (5.36%) Linux Systems Administrator
8 3 (5.36%) Linux/Unix DevOps
8 3 (5.36%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (19.64%) Spring
2 5 (8.93%) ARM Templates
3 4 (7.14%) YAML
4 3 (5.36%) HTML5 Canvas
4 3 (5.36%) JSON
5 2 (3.57%) CSS
5 2 (3.57%) HTML
5 2 (3.57%) Node.js
6 1 (1.79%) ADO
6 1 (1.79%) Azure Blueprints
6 1 (1.79%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Graph
6 1 (1.79%) PySpark
6 1 (1.79%) REST
6 1 (1.79%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.71%) Data Centre
2 5 (8.93%) Enterprise Storage
3 4 (7.14%) Algorithms
4 3 (5.36%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (5.36%) Low-Code
4 3 (5.36%) Mainframe
5 2 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (3.57%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.79%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.79%) e-Learning
6 1 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.79%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.79%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 48 (85.71%) Linux
2 25 (44.64%) Windows
3 20 (35.71%) Windows Server
4 6 (10.71%) CentOS
4 6 (10.71%) Ubuntu
5 3 (5.36%) Unix
6 1 (1.79%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (1.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (37.50%) Agile
2 19 (33.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 19 (33.93%) Microservices
2 19 (33.93%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (30.36%) Security Management
4 16 (28.57%) SOA
5 14 (25.00%) DevOps
6 13 (23.21%) Server Management
7 12 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
8 11 (19.64%) CI/CD
9 9 (16.07%) Containerisation
10 8 (14.29%) Migration
10 8 (14.29%) Roadmaps
10 8 (14.29%) Technology Roadmap
11 5 (8.93%) Disaster Recovery
11 5 (8.93%) ITSM
11 5 (8.93%) Test Automation
12 4 (7.14%) Analytics
12 4 (7.14%) Computer Science
12 4 (7.14%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 38 (67.86%) SQL
2 29 (51.79%) Bash
3 21 (37.50%) PowerShell
4 20 (35.71%) Python
5 19 (33.93%) Perl
6 16 (28.57%) Java
6 16 (28.57%) PL/SQL
7 7 (12.50%) Shell Script
8 4 (7.14%) Bicep
9 3 (5.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 27 (48.21%) Security Cleared
2 20 (35.71%) SC Cleared
3 18 (32.14%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (7.14%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.93%) PCI DSS
2 2 (3.57%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (3.57%) GDPR
2 2 (3.57%) GMP
3 1 (1.79%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (1.79%) QA
3 1 (1.79%) SOC 2
System Software
1 23 (41.07%) Active Directory
2 9 (16.07%) Docker
3 4 (7.14%) Hyper-V
4 2 (3.57%) Firmware
4 2 (3.57%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.79%) KVM
5 1 (1.79%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 14 (25.00%) Ansible
2 10 (17.86%) Terraform
3 9 (16.07%) Kubernetes
4 7 (12.50%) Grafana
5 6 (10.71%) Prometheus
6 3 (5.36%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.79%) Consul
7 1 (1.79%) HAProxy
7 1 (1.79%) Nagios
7 1 (1.79%) Red Hat Satellite
7 1 (1.79%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 19 (33.93%) Oracle
2 18 (32.14%) Cisco
3 7 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 7 (12.50%) VMware
4 5 (8.93%) ServiceNow
5 3 (5.36%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.79%) Commvault
6 1 (1.79%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.79%) NetApp
6 1 (1.79%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.79%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.79%) Splunk