Linux Command Line Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Linux/Unix Command Line Interface (CLI)
England > West Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Linux Command Line in contract job vacancies in the West Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Linux Command Line over the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 102 114
Rank change year-on-year -3 +12 +52
Contract jobs citing Linux Command Line 31 8 3
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 1.40% 0.44% 0.16%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.85% 1.57% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 3 0
10th Percentile £290 - -
25th Percentile £300 £513 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £314 £525 -
Median % change year-on-year -40.14% - -
75th Percentile £384 £544 -
90th Percentile £504 £548 -
England median daily rate £544 £565 £488
% change year-on-year -3.76% +15.90% -9.30%

All Generic Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 806 511 694
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 36.47% 28.26% 36.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 487 309 440
10th Percentile £250 £213 £275
25th Percentile £400 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.36% +10.00% +2.30%
75th Percentile £588 £635 £625
90th Percentile £653 £725 £725
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.68% - -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 19 39
10th Percentile £18.50 £15.44 £17.01
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.40 £17.86
Median hourly rate £25.00 £30.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +30.43% +23.11%
75th Percentile £40.46 £41.15 £67.50
90th Percentile £50.00 £55.65 £67.75
England median hourly rate £27.21 £38.54 £43.92
% change year-on-year -29.39% -12.26% +25.49%

Linux Command Line
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Linux Command Line job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Linux Command Line
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Linux Command Line.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Linux Command Line

Linux Command Line
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux Command Line in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Linux Command Line in the West Midlands

Linux Command Line
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Linux Command Line.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Linux Command Line

Linux Command Line
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 December 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
Coventry - 21 £310 - 2
Warwickshire -7 2 - - 1
Shropshire - 1 £558 - 1
Linux Command Line
England

Linux Command Line
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (22.58%) Confluence
2 2 (6.45%) Drupal
Applications
1 7 (22.58%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 30 (96.77%) AWS
2 19 (61.29%) Azure
3 14 (45.16%) Datadog
4 2 (6.45%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (6.45%) GCP
5 1 (3.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (3.23%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (3.23%) Amazon EventBridge
5 1 (3.23%) Amazon S3
5 1 (3.23%) AWS CloudTrail
5 1 (3.23%) AWS KMS
5 1 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (3.23%) Azure AKS
5 1 (3.23%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (3.23%) Route 53
5 1 (3.23%) Serverless
5 1 (3.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 14 (45.16%) VSAN
2 1 (3.23%) DHCP
2 1 (3.23%) DNS
2 1 (3.23%) Firewall
2 1 (3.23%) iSCSI
2 1 (3.23%) LAN
2 1 (3.23%) VLAN
2 1 (3.23%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.45%) MongoDB
1 2 (6.45%) MySQL
1 2 (6.45%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.23%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (3.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (6.45%) Git
1 2 (6.45%) JIRA
General
1 8 (25.81%) Finance
2 6 (19.35%) Presentation Skills
3 4 (12.90%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (9.68%) Social Skills
5 2 (6.45%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (70.97%) Analyst
2 21 (67.74%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 12 (38.71%) Storage Analyst
4 4 (12.90%) Storage Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Backend Developer
5 2 (6.45%) Developer
6 1 (3.23%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) Azure Platform Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) Drupal Developer
6 1 (3.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) PHP Developer
6 1 (3.23%) PHP Drupal Developer
6 1 (3.23%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) Security Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) SIEM Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (38.71%) Flash
2 2 (6.45%) Drush
2 2 (6.45%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (6.45%) Node.js
2 2 (6.45%) RESTful
2 2 (6.45%) Web Services
3 1 (3.23%) ARM Templates
3 1 (3.23%) Lucene
Miscellaneous
1 13 (41.94%) Replication
2 1 (3.23%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.23%) MISP
2 1 (3.23%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 31 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (3.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (3.23%) SUSE
2 1 (3.23%) Ubuntu
2 1 (3.23%) Windows
2 1 (3.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (90.32%) Agile
2 10 (32.26%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (25.81%) Ticket Management
4 4 (12.90%) Capacity Planning
4 4 (12.90%) Decision-Making
4 4 (12.90%) Mentoring
5 3 (9.68%) Containerisation
5 3 (9.68%) Microservices
6 2 (6.45%) Collaborative Working
6 2 (6.45%) Data Modelling
6 2 (6.45%) DevOps
6 2 (6.45%) OO
6 2 (6.45%) OOP
6 2 (6.45%) Scrum
7 1 (3.23%) AI
7 1 (3.23%) Change Management
7 1 (3.23%) Configuration Management
7 1 (3.23%) Ethical Hacking
7 1 (3.23%) Migration
7 1 (3.23%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (9.68%) Python
2 2 (6.45%) Java
2 2 (6.45%) PHP
2 2 (6.45%) Ruby
3 1 (3.23%) Bash
3 1 (3.23%) PowerShell
3 1 (3.23%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (12.90%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (9.68%) Degree
2 3 (9.68%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.23%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.23%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
3 1 (3.23%) CEH
3 1 (3.23%) CISSP
3 1 (3.23%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.23%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.23%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (3.23%) NIST
System Software
1 25 (80.65%) VMware Infrastructure
1 25 (80.65%) vSphere
2 12 (38.71%) GPFS
2 12 (38.71%) NFS
2 12 (38.71%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (9.68%) Docker
4 1 (3.23%) Active Directory
4 1 (3.23%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (3.23%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (3.23%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 25 (80.65%) vRealize
2 13 (41.94%) VxRail
3 3 (9.68%) Kubernetes
4 1 (3.23%) Ansible
4 1 (3.23%) Consul
4 1 (3.23%) Fluentd
4 1 (3.23%) Kibana
4 1 (3.23%) logstash
4 1 (3.23%) PowerCLI
4 1 (3.23%) Rsyslog
4 1 (3.23%) Terraform
4 1 (3.23%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 26 (83.87%) Cisco
1 26 (83.87%) IBM
1 26 (83.87%) VMware
2 14 (45.16%) AppDynamics
2 14 (45.16%) Commvault
2 14 (45.16%) SolarWinds
3 12 (38.71%) Dell
3 12 (38.71%) HP
3 12 (38.71%) Oracle
3 12 (38.71%) ServiceNow
4 2 (6.45%) Google
4 2 (6.45%) Microsoft
5 1 (3.23%) OpenAI
5 1 (3.23%) Splunk
5 1 (3.23%) Veeam