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 have cited Linux Command Line over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 453 515 545
Rank change year-on-year +62 +30 -11
Contract jobs citing Linux Command Line 139 206 322
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.32% 0.35% 0.36%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.06% 1.05% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 144 179
10th Percentile £428 £387 £363
25th Percentile £488 £484 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £534 £540
Median % change year-on-year +3.04% -1.16% +0.93%
75th Percentile £644 £615 £638
90th Percentile £750 £693 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £545 £525
% change year-on-year +1.01% +3.71% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 7 3
10th Percentile £30.63 £20.00 £42.10
25th Percentile £60.16 £33.87 £42.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £75.00 £46.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +63.04% -
75th Percentile - - £50.39
90th Percentile - £78.20 £50.62
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 £47.73 £47.89
% change year-on-year +46.66% -0.32% -

All Generic Skills
UK

Linux Command Line is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 13,085 19,696 29,368
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.32% 33.30% 33.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,418 13,533 20,480
10th Percentile £263 £308 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.23% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £656 £678 £656
90th Percentile £798 £800 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 902 642 725
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £30.14 £22.49 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +34.04% -18.24% +4.05%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.44 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.25 £22.00 £20.07
% change year-on-year +28.41% +9.64% -16.40%

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 May 2024.

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 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Linux Command Line in the UK

Linux Command Line
Top 15 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 May 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
England +67 120 £550 +2.33% 67
UK excluding London +60 80 £550 +1.01% 41
London +57 48 £565 +6.15% 27
Work from Home +91 33 £500 -9.09% 41
South East +28 25 £575 +4.55% 10
Midlands +37 17 £550 +69.23% 5
West Midlands +37 15 £550 +3.77% 3
South West +16 14 £550 -8.33% 9
Scotland +28 12 £738 +40.48% 6
North of England +25 7 £445 -6.32% 5
Yorkshire +24 5 £445 -37.54% 1
East of England +9 3 £625 -13.79% 6
East Midlands +19 2 £509 +56.62% 2
North West +16 2 £513 +20.31% 4
Northern Ireland +7 2 - -

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 (9.35%) Confluence
2 8 (5.76%) IIS
3 4 (2.88%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (2.16%) Apache
4 3 (2.16%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (2.16%) SharePoint
4 3 (2.16%) WordPress
5 1 (0.72%) Red Hat Fuse
Business Applications
1 7 (5.04%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (3.60%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 31 (22.30%) Azure
2 22 (15.83%) GitHub
3 19 (13.67%) AWS
4 13 (9.35%) Azure DevOps
5 11 (7.91%) Amazon S3
5 11 (7.91%) Serverless
6 9 (6.47%) Amazon EC2
7 8 (5.76%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (5.76%) OpenShift
8 7 (5.04%) Azure Monitor
8 7 (5.04%) Entra ID
9 6 (4.32%) IaaS
10 5 (3.60%) Azure Storage
10 5 (3.60%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (3.60%) Microsoft 365
11 4 (2.88%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (2.16%) Amazon EKS
12 3 (2.16%) Amazon Kinesis
12 3 (2.16%) GCP
12 3 (2.16%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 12 (8.63%) Firewall
2 11 (7.91%) DNS
2 11 (7.91%) Network Security
3 7 (5.04%) SAN
4 6 (4.32%) SSH
5 5 (3.60%) AMQP
5 5 (3.60%) SSL
6 3 (2.16%) BGP
6 3 (2.16%) Cisco IOS
6 3 (2.16%) Fibre Channel
6 3 (2.16%) IOS XR
6 3 (2.16%) iSCSI
6 3 (2.16%) NAS
6 3 (2.16%) TCP/IP
6 3 (2.16%) VPN
6 3 (2.16%) Wireless
7 2 (1.44%) Cisco ISE
7 2 (1.44%) Radio Access Network
7 2 (1.44%) tcpdump
7 2 (1.44%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (15.83%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (13.67%) Relational Database
3 17 (12.23%) SQL Server
4 12 (8.63%) Elasticsearch
4 12 (8.63%) MongoDB
5 9 (6.47%) RDBMS
5 9 (6.47%) Sybase ASE
6 8 (5.76%) Amazon RDS
6 8 (5.76%) MySQL
7 6 (4.32%) InfluxDB
7 6 (4.32%) Oracle Database
8 5 (3.60%) Redis
9 4 (2.88%) Amazon Redshift
9 4 (2.88%) DB2
9 4 (2.88%) Flink
10 3 (2.16%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (2.16%) Big Data
10 3 (2.16%) DynamoDB
11 2 (1.44%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (1.44%) Data Mart
Development Applications
1 28 (20.14%) JIRA
2 23 (16.55%) Git
2 23 (16.55%) GitLab
3 16 (11.51%) Jenkins
4 6 (4.32%) GoogleTest
4 6 (4.32%) JUnit
5 5 (3.60%) Cucumber
5 5 (3.60%) Gradle
5 5 (3.60%) Pylint
6 4 (2.88%) Selenium
7 3 (2.16%) Artifactory
7 3 (2.16%) Poetry
7 3 (2.16%) Subversion
8 2 (1.44%) Maven
8 2 (1.44%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.72%) Ant
9 1 (0.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.72%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.72%) gulp
9 1 (0.72%) TeamCity
General
1 30 (21.58%) Social Skills
2 26 (18.71%) Finance
3 16 (11.51%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (8.63%) Public Sector
5 6 (4.32%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (3.60%) Telecoms
7 4 (2.88%) Electronics
7 4 (2.88%) Manufacturing
7 4 (2.88%) Military
8 3 (2.16%) Banking
8 3 (2.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.16%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.44%) Front Office
9 2 (1.44%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.44%) Marketing
9 2 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.44%) Wearables
10 1 (0.72%) Fire and Rescue
10 1 (0.72%) Law
10 1 (0.72%) Police
Job Titles
1 20 (14.39%) Linux Engineer
2 17 (12.23%) DevOps Engineer
3 14 (10.07%) Developer
3 14 (10.07%) Senior
4 12 (8.63%) SIEM Engineer
5 11 (7.91%) Applications Engineer
5 11 (7.91%) Support Engineer
6 10 (7.19%) Applications Support
6 10 (7.19%) Applications Support Engineer
6 10 (7.19%) JIRA Engineer
6 10 (7.19%) Network Engineer
7 9 (6.47%) Azure Engineer
7 9 (6.47%) DBA
8 8 (5.76%) Database Specialist
8 8 (5.76%) Software Engineer
8 8 (5.76%) Sybase DBA
9 6 (4.32%) Java Developer
9 6 (4.32%) Java Engineer
9 6 (4.32%) Java Software Engineer
9 6 (4.32%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (17.27%) REST
2 15 (10.79%) Web Services
3 13 (9.35%) JSON
4 12 (8.63%) YAML
5 11 (7.91%) Elastic Stack
5 11 (7.91%) pytest
6 9 (6.47%) HTML
7 8 (5.76%) Kafka
7 8 (5.76%) Spring
8 7 (5.04%) ARM Templates
8 7 (5.04%) WebSockets
9 6 (4.32%) Qt
9 6 (4.32%) React
10 5 (3.60%) Hibernate
10 5 (3.60%) J2EE
10 5 (3.60%) JPA
10 5 (3.60%) RabbitMQ
10 5 (3.60%) SOAP
10 5 (3.60%) XML
11 4 (2.88%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 22 (15.83%) Replication
2 12 (8.63%) Data Centre
3 8 (5.76%) Clustering
3 8 (5.76%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (4.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 5 (3.60%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (3.60%) FPGA
6 4 (2.88%) Public Cloud
7 3 (2.16%) ASIC
7 3 (2.16%) Genomics
7 3 (2.16%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (2.16%) Smart Meter
7 3 (2.16%) Verilog
8 2 (1.44%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.44%) Life Science
8 2 (1.44%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.44%) NHS
8 2 (1.44%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.44%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 124 (89.21%) Linux
2 30 (21.58%) Unix
3 26 (18.71%) Windows
4 19 (13.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 15 (10.79%) Ubuntu
5 15 (10.79%) VMS
6 6 (4.32%) Windows Server
7 4 (2.88%) Alpine Linux
8 3 (2.16%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (2.16%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (1.44%) Android
9 2 (1.44%) Apple iOS
9 2 (1.44%) CentOS
10 1 (0.72%) Debian
10 1 (0.72%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (38.13%) CI/CD
2 42 (30.22%) DevOps
3 31 (22.30%) Agile
4 30 (21.58%) Migration
5 24 (17.27%) Problem-Solving
6 23 (16.55%) Task Automation
7 21 (15.11%) Software Engineering
8 18 (12.95%) Data Migration
8 18 (12.95%) Mentoring
9 17 (12.23%) Infrastructure as Code
9 17 (12.23%) Storage Management
10 16 (11.51%) RBAC
10 16 (11.51%) SDLC
10 16 (11.51%) Service Management
11 15 (10.79%) Containerisation
11 15 (10.79%) Open Source
11 15 (10.79%) Scrum
12 14 (10.07%) Continuous Integration
12 14 (10.07%) Data Pipeline
12 14 (10.07%) Infrastructure Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 68 (48.92%) Python
2 44 (31.65%) SQL
3 35 (25.18%) Bash
4 31 (22.30%) Java
5 24 (17.27%) Shell Script
6 21 (15.11%) Perl
7 19 (13.67%) PowerShell
8 12 (8.63%) JavaScript
9 9 (6.47%) C++
9 9 (6.47%) T-SQL
10 8 (5.76%) Go
10 8 (5.76%) R
11 7 (5.04%) C
12 3 (2.16%) Assembly Language
12 3 (2.16%) Ruby
12 3 (2.16%) SystemVerilog
12 3 (2.16%) Tcl
13 2 (1.44%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.72%) C#
14 1 (0.72%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 45 (32.37%) Security Cleared
2 32 (23.02%) SC Cleared
3 12 (8.63%) DV Cleared
4 4 (2.88%) Degree
5 2 (1.44%) CCNA
5 2 (1.44%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (1.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.44%) HND
6 1 (0.72%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.72%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.19%) QA
2 6 (4.32%) MISRA
3 3 (2.16%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.44%) SLA
5 1 (0.72%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 32 (23.02%) Docker
2 21 (15.11%) Active Directory
3 19 (13.67%) vSphere
4 16 (11.51%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (6.47%) iptables
5 9 (6.47%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (4.32%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 5 (3.60%) VMware NSX
8 4 (2.88%) Hyper-V
9 3 (2.16%) Firmware
10 2 (1.44%) Ceph
10 2 (1.44%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 46 (33.09%) Ansible
2 39 (28.06%) Kubernetes
3 33 (23.74%) Terraform
4 16 (11.51%) Grafana
5 15 (10.79%) Prometheus
6 12 (8.63%) Kibana
7 11 (7.91%) logstash
7 11 (7.91%) Progress Chef
8 8 (5.76%) SCCM
9 7 (5.04%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 7 (5.04%) Packer
9 7 (5.04%) vRealize
10 5 (3.60%) Docker Swarm
11 4 (2.88%) Puppet
11 4 (2.88%) Red Hat Satellite
12 3 (2.16%) Microsoft Intune
13 2 (1.44%) Pacemaker
13 2 (1.44%) Podman
13 2 (1.44%) Salt
13 2 (1.44%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 24 (17.27%) VMware
2 23 (16.55%) Oracle
3 22 (15.83%) Red Hat
4 13 (9.35%) Atlassian
5 11 (7.91%) SAP
6 9 (6.47%) Cisco
6 9 (6.47%) Microsoft
6 9 (6.47%) SolarWinds
6 9 (6.47%) Sybase
6 9 (6.47%) Veritas
7 7 (5.04%) EMC
7 7 (5.04%) Google
8 6 (4.32%) Sun
9 5 (3.60%) Arqiva
9 5 (3.60%) Palo Alto
9 5 (3.60%) Veeam
10 4 (2.88%) IBM
10 4 (2.88%) ServiceNow
11 3 (2.16%) Cadence
11 3 (2.16%) Dell
79 Linux Command Line jobs Nationwide