Linux Command Line Contracts

Linux/Unix Command Line Interface (CLI)
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Linux Command Line in contract job vacancies. 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 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 457 416 554
Rank change year-on-year -41 +138 -18
Contract jobs citing Linux Command Line 96 154 128
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.29% 0.39% 0.24%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.84% 1.29% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 78 73
10th Percentile £321 £462 £335
25th Percentile £451 £514 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £675 £650 £638
90th Percentile £713 £741 £676
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.90% +2.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 28 5
10th Percentile - £30.63 £18.38
25th Percentile £56.25 £69.06 -
Median hourly rate £57.50 £70.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% +250.00% -58.66%
75th Percentile £65.63 - £47.73
90th Percentile £69.75 - £68.89
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.50 £70.00 £47.73
% change year-on-year -17.86% +46.66% -5.99%

All Generic Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 11,476 11,948 17,297
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.84% 30.48% 32.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,055 7,666 11,929
10th Percentile £303 £300 £306
25th Percentile £406 £425 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £640 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £820 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 554 619 432
10th Percentile £15.03 £12.30 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.59 £18.12 £20.00
Median hourly rate £29.42 £44.74 £36.88
Median % change year-on-year -34.25% +21.33% +39.15%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.88 £65.00
90th Percentile £76.25 £75.00 £79.07
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.67 £45.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -34.08% +1.12% +106.98%

Linux Command Line
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Command Line in the UK

Linux Command Line
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Linux Command Line.

Daily rate trend for Linux Command Line in the UK

Linux Command Line
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux Command Line over the 6 months to 4 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Linux Command Line in the UK

Linux Command Line
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Linux Command Line.

Hourly rate trend for Linux Command Line in the UK

Linux Command Line
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Linux Command Line over the 6 months to 4 August 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Linux Command Line in the UK

Linux Command Line
Top 12 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 4 August 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
England -52 77 £550 - 96
UK excluding London -49 51 £525 -4.55% 64
London 0 43 £580 +6.42% 44
Work from Home +42 38 £475 -24.00% 57
Scotland +7 18 £500 -33.33% 1
Yorkshire +3 16 £550 +7.32% 4
North of England -2 16 £550 +7.32% 5
East of England +8 7 £325 -48.00% 15
South East +4 5 £475 -17.39% 23
South West -8 3 - - 4
West Midlands -15 2 £461 -16.14% 8
Midlands -25 2 £461 -13.18% 13

Linux Command Line
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 13 (13.54%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 6 (6.25%) Apache
2 6 (6.25%) Apache Spark
3 5 (5.21%) CMS
4 4 (4.17%) Jupyter
4 4 (4.17%) OpenStack
5 1 (1.04%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 25 (26.04%) Azure
2 18 (18.75%) AWS
3 9 (9.38%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (9.38%) Power Platform
4 8 (8.33%) Azure AKS
5 6 (6.25%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (4.17%) Azure Monitor
6 4 (4.17%) Entra ID
6 4 (4.17%) IaaS
6 4 (4.17%) PaaS
7 3 (3.13%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (3.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 3 (3.13%) Microsoft Copilot
7 3 (3.13%) Power Automate
8 2 (2.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (2.08%) Amazon S3
8 2 (2.08%) Serverless
9 1 (1.04%) AWS CloudTrail
9 1 (1.04%) GCP
9 1 (1.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 22 (22.92%) DNS
2 12 (12.50%) Firewall
3 6 (6.25%) iSCSI
3 6 (6.25%) SAN
3 6 (6.25%) SSH
4 5 (5.21%) SSL
4 5 (5.21%) VPN
5 4 (4.17%) HTTP
6 3 (3.13%) HTTPS
6 3 (3.13%) SNMP
6 3 (3.13%) tcpdump
7 2 (2.08%) Software-Defined Radio
7 2 (2.08%) TCP/IP
8 1 (1.04%) BGP
8 1 (1.04%) DHCP
8 1 (1.04%) Ethernet
8 1 (1.04%) FTP
8 1 (1.04%) LAN
8 1 (1.04%) MPLS
8 1 (1.04%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (14.58%) Oracle Database
2 12 (12.50%) SQL Server
3 10 (10.42%) Azure SQL Database
4 8 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (6.25%) Apache Hive
5 6 (6.25%) Delta Lake
5 6 (6.25%) MongoDB
5 6 (6.25%) Power BI
5 6 (6.25%) Relational Database
6 4 (4.17%) MySQL
7 3 (3.13%) MariaDB
7 3 (3.13%) Power Query
7 3 (3.13%) Redis
8 1 (1.04%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (1.04%) Big Data
8 1 (1.04%) InfluxDB
8 1 (1.04%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 22 (22.92%) Git
2 15 (15.63%) JIRA
3 11 (11.46%) Jenkins
4 8 (8.33%) GitLab
5 4 (4.17%) RStudio
5 4 (4.17%) SonarQube
5 4 (4.17%) TeamCity
6 3 (3.13%) Cucumber
6 3 (3.13%) Maven
7 2 (2.08%) GoogleTest
7 2 (2.08%) JUnit
7 2 (2.08%) Robot Framework
7 2 (2.08%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (1.04%) Cypress.io
8 1 (1.04%) Gatling
8 1 (1.04%) Gradle
8 1 (1.04%) Hamcrest
8 1 (1.04%) Mockito
8 1 (1.04%) Postman
8 1 (1.04%) Serenity BDD
General
1 26 (27.08%) Social Skills
2 15 (15.63%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (11.46%) Finance
4 6 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (5.21%) Banking
5 5 (5.21%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.13%) Financial Institution
7 2 (2.08%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.04%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 26 (27.08%) Developer
2 14 (14.58%) Java Developer
2 14 (14.58%) Linux Developer
3 13 (13.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 13 (13.54%) SQL Developer
4 11 (11.46%) Python Developer
5 9 (9.38%) Administrator
6 8 (8.33%) Linux Administrator
7 7 (7.29%) Linux Engineer
7 7 (7.29%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (6.25%) Data Engineer
8 6 (6.25%) Engineering Specialist
8 6 (6.25%) Infrastructure Specialist
8 6 (6.25%) Network Engineer
9 5 (5.21%) Campaign Manager
9 5 (5.21%) IT Manager
9 5 (5.21%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (5.21%) Senior
10 4 (4.17%) Azure Architect
10 4 (4.17%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (13.54%) Spring
2 11 (11.46%) YAML
3 9 (9.38%) JSON
4 7 (7.29%) PySpark
5 6 (6.25%) ARM Templates
5 6 (6.25%) pydantic
6 5 (5.21%) RESTful
7 4 (4.17%) REST
8 3 (3.13%) HTML5 Canvas
9 2 (2.08%) CSS
9 2 (2.08%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (2.08%) HTML
9 2 (2.08%) Node.js
9 2 (2.08%) Regular Expression
10 1 (1.04%) ADO
10 1 (1.04%) Azure Blueprints
10 1 (1.04%) gRPC
10 1 (1.04%) LAMP
10 1 (1.04%) LDAP
10 1 (1.04%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 12 (12.50%) Data Structures
2 7 (7.29%) Data Centre
3 6 (6.25%) Reference Data
4 5 (5.21%) Algorithms
4 5 (5.21%) Enterprise Storage
4 5 (5.21%) Management Information System
5 3 (3.13%) Low-Code
6 2 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (2.08%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.04%) BYOD
7 1 (1.04%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.04%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (1.04%) PKI
7 1 (1.04%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.04%) Reinsurance
7 1 (1.04%) Replication
7 1 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 82 (85.42%) Linux
2 23 (23.96%) Windows
3 18 (18.75%) Windows Server
4 10 (10.42%) Unix
5 7 (7.29%) CentOS
6 6 (6.25%) Ubuntu
7 2 (2.08%) Oracle Linux
7 2 (2.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (2.08%) SUSE
8 1 (1.04%) Android
8 1 (1.04%) Data ONTAP
8 1 (1.04%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (33.33%) Agile
2 27 (28.13%) Problem-Solving
3 23 (23.96%) DevOps
4 22 (22.92%) CI/CD
5 20 (20.83%) Infrastructure as Code
6 19 (19.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 17 (17.71%) Microservices
8 14 (14.58%) Test Automation
9 13 (13.54%) Security Management
9 13 (13.54%) Server Management
9 13 (13.54%) SOA
9 13 (13.54%) Software Engineering
10 11 (11.46%) Containerisation
11 10 (10.42%) Computer Science
11 10 (10.42%) Data Ingestion
12 9 (9.38%) Configuration Management
12 9 (9.38%) Migration
12 9 (9.38%) Scrum
13 8 (8.33%) Clean Code
13 8 (8.33%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 53 (55.21%) SQL
2 41 (42.71%) Python
3 39 (40.63%) Bash
4 25 (26.04%) PowerShell
5 22 (22.92%) Java
6 17 (17.71%) Perl
7 13 (13.54%) PL/SQL
8 12 (12.50%) Shell Script
9 6 (6.25%) Scala
10 5 (5.21%) Bicep
11 4 (4.17%) Go
12 3 (3.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (1.04%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 34 (35.42%) Security Cleared
2 28 (29.17%) SC Cleared
3 15 (15.63%) Cisco Certification
4 9 (9.38%) Degree
5 5 (5.21%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (3.13%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.04%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.04%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (1.04%) CCIE
7 1 (1.04%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.04%) JNCIE
7 1 (1.04%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.25%) GDPR
2 5 (5.21%) Data Quality
2 5 (5.21%) PCI DSS
3 4 (4.17%) QA
4 2 (2.08%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (2.08%) GMP
5 1 (1.04%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.04%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (1.04%) SOC 2
System Software
1 23 (23.96%) Active Directory
2 8 (8.33%) Docker
3 4 (4.17%) Hyper-V
3 4 (4.17%) zsh
4 3 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (2.08%) Firmware
6 1 (1.04%) Btrfs
6 1 (1.04%) KVM
6 1 (1.04%) NFS
6 1 (1.04%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (1.04%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 28 (29.17%) Ansible
2 17 (17.71%) Terraform
3 12 (12.50%) Kubernetes
4 8 (8.33%) Grafana
5 7 (7.29%) Prometheus
6 4 (4.17%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.04%) Consul
7 1 (1.04%) HAProxy
7 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (1.04%) Nagios
7 1 (1.04%) PowerCLI
7 1 (1.04%) Red Hat Satellite
7 1 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.04%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 18 (18.75%) Oracle
2 14 (14.58%) Cisco
3 10 (10.42%) Databricks
4 8 (8.33%) Microsoft
4 8 (8.33%) VMware
5 5 (5.21%) ServiceNow
6 4 (4.17%) Red Hat
7 3 (3.13%) Splunk
8 2 (2.08%) CyberArk
8 2 (2.08%) F5
9 1 (1.04%) Atlassian
9 1 (1.04%) Commvault
9 1 (1.04%) Informatica
9 1 (1.04%) Juniper
9 1 (1.04%) Mellanox
9 1 (1.04%) NetApp
9 1 (1.04%) NVIDIA
9 1 (1.04%) OpenAI
9 1 (1.04%) Palo Alto
9 1 (1.04%) Veeam