Linux Command Line Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Linux/Unix Command Line Interface (CLI)
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Linux Command Line in remote or hybrid contract work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Linux Command Line over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 276 312 399
Rank change year-on-year +36 +87 +78
Contract jobs citing Linux Command Line 28 33 78
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.28% 0.22% 0.30%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.86% 0.75% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 15 56
10th Percentile £425 £407 £428
25th Percentile £456 £451 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -9.09% +1.85%
75th Percentile £750 £625 £625
90th Percentile £751 £700 £676
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £534
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.04% -1.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67.50 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
75th Percentile £72.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £70.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year -17.86% -6.67% +63.04%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 3,272 4,408 8,138
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 33.03% 28.73% 31.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,222 2,974 5,725
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £431 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% - +2.33%
75th Percentile £680 £675 £688
90th Percentile £825 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 199 151
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.48 £19.00
25th Percentile £26.25 £25.50 £31.38
Median hourly rate £41.75 £51.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.14% -11.30% +29.21%
75th Percentile £64.57 £65.02 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.13 £72.50 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%

Linux Command Line
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Linux Command Line as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Linux Command Line trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Linux Command Line
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Linux Command Line.

Linux Command Line daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Linux Command Line
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Linux Command Line over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Linux Command Line daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Linux Command Line
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Linux Command Line.

Linux Command Line hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Linux Command Line
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 2 (7.14%) OpenStack
2 1 (3.57%) Apache
2 1 (3.57%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.57%) CMS
2 1 (3.57%) Confluence
2 1 (3.57%) Jupyter
2 1 (3.57%) Mattermost
Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 8 (28.57%) Azure
2 7 (25.00%) AWS
3 4 (14.29%) Azure AKS
3 4 (14.29%) PaaS
3 4 (14.29%) SaaS
4 3 (10.71%) Azure Event Grid
4 3 (10.71%) Azure Logic Apps
4 3 (10.71%) Azure Sentinel
4 3 (10.71%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (10.71%) Entra ID
4 3 (10.71%) GCP
4 3 (10.71%) IaaS
4 3 (10.71%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (10.71%) Serverless
5 2 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (7.14%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (7.14%) GitHub
5 2 (7.14%) OpenShift
5 2 (7.14%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.71%) TCP/IP
2 2 (7.14%) BGP
2 2 (7.14%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (7.14%) Ethernet VPN
2 2 (7.14%) Firewall
2 2 (7.14%) Multicast
2 2 (7.14%) NX-OS
2 2 (7.14%) OSPF
2 2 (7.14%) SSH
2 2 (7.14%) VPN
2 2 (7.14%) VXLAN
3 1 (3.57%) DHCP
3 1 (3.57%) DNS
3 1 (3.57%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.86%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (10.71%) MongoDB
3 2 (7.14%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.57%) Apache Hive
4 1 (3.57%) Delta Lake
4 1 (3.57%) InfluxDB
4 1 (3.57%) MariaDB
4 1 (3.57%) MySQL
4 1 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.57%) Power BI
4 1 (3.57%) Power Query
4 1 (3.57%) Redis
Development Applications
1 5 (17.86%) Git
2 4 (14.29%) Jenkins
3 2 (7.14%) GitLab
3 2 (7.14%) JIRA
3 2 (7.14%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (7.14%) Subversion
4 1 (3.57%) Cucumber
4 1 (3.57%) Cypress.io
4 1 (3.57%) Gatling
4 1 (3.57%) Hamcrest
4 1 (3.57%) JUnit
4 1 (3.57%) Postman
4 1 (3.57%) RStudio
4 1 (3.57%) Selenium
4 1 (3.57%) Serenity BDD
4 1 (3.57%) SonarQube
General
1 6 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 4 (14.29%) Finance
3 3 (10.71%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (7.14%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.57%) Banking
5 1 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.57%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (39.29%) Developer
2 9 (32.14%) Java Developer
2 9 (32.14%) Linux Developer
3 8 (28.57%) SQL Developer
4 6 (21.43%) Senior
5 3 (10.71%) Architect
5 3 (10.71%) Azure Architect
5 3 (10.71%) Cloud Architect
5 3 (10.71%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Microsoft 365 Architect
5 3 (10.71%) Senior Architect
5 3 (10.71%) Senior Cloud Architect
6 2 (7.14%) Analyst
6 2 (7.14%) Consultant
6 2 (7.14%) Network Consultant
6 2 (7.14%) Pensions Analyst
6 2 (7.14%) Python Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Senior DevOps
6 2 (7.14%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (28.57%) Spring
2 5 (17.86%) ARM Templates
3 4 (14.29%) YAML
4 3 (10.71%) Azure Blueprints
5 2 (7.14%) JSON
5 2 (7.14%) PySpark
6 1 (3.57%) ADO
6 1 (3.57%) Django
6 1 (3.57%) HTML5 Canvas
6 1 (3.57%) pydantic
6 1 (3.57%) React
6 1 (3.57%) REST
6 1 (3.57%) RESTful
6 1 (3.57%) Web Services
6 1 (3.57%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.71%) Algorithms
1 3 (10.71%) Data Centre
1 3 (10.71%) Data Structures
1 3 (10.71%) Hybrid Cloud
1 3 (10.71%) Reinsurance
2 2 (7.14%) Virtual Team
3 1 (3.57%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.57%) e-Learning
3 1 (3.57%) Low-Code
3 1 (3.57%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.57%) Reference Data
3 1 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 20 (71.43%) Linux
2 6 (21.43%) Windows
3 3 (10.71%) Unix
3 3 (10.71%) Windows Server
4 1 (3.57%) CentOS
4 1 (3.57%) Data ONTAP
4 1 (3.57%) Mac OS
4 1 (3.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (3.57%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (32.14%) DevOps
2 7 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (14.29%) CI/CD
4 4 (14.29%) Data Protection
4 4 (14.29%) High Availability
4 4 (14.29%) Test Automation
5 3 (10.71%) Agile
5 3 (10.71%) Analytics
5 3 (10.71%) Cloud Security
5 3 (10.71%) Cost Management
5 3 (10.71%) Design Patterns
5 3 (10.71%) Identity Access Management
5 3 (10.71%) Migration
5 3 (10.71%) Scrum
5 3 (10.71%) Zero Trust
6 2 (7.14%) Data Security
6 2 (7.14%) Decision-Making
6 2 (7.14%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (7.14%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (60.71%) SQL
2 12 (42.86%) Java
3 10 (35.71%) Python
4 6 (21.43%) Bash
5 5 (17.86%) Bicep
5 5 (17.86%) PowerShell
6 2 (7.14%) Shell Script
7 1 (3.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (3.57%) Perl
7 1 (3.57%) Scala
7 1 (3.57%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 5 (17.86%) SC Cleared
3 2 (7.14%) CCIE
3 2 (7.14%) CCIE Data Center
3 2 (7.14%) CCNP
3 2 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.57%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (17.86%) GDPR
2 3 (10.71%) SOC 2
3 2 (7.14%) GMP
4 1 (3.57%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (3.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (3.57%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (3.57%) QA
System Software
1 4 (14.29%) Docker
1 4 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (10.71%) Active Directory
3 2 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (7.14%) vSphere
4 1 (3.57%) KVM
Systems Management
1 9 (32.14%) Terraform
2 7 (25.00%) Ansible
3 3 (10.71%) Kubernetes
3 3 (10.71%) Progress Chef
4 2 (7.14%) Grafana
5 1 (3.57%) HAProxy
5 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (3.57%) Nagios
5 1 (3.57%) Prometheus
5 1 (3.57%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 6 (21.43%) Red Hat
2 5 (17.86%) Microsoft
3 2 (7.14%) Cisco
3 2 (7.14%) VMware
4 1 (3.57%) Commvault
4 1 (3.57%) Databricks
4 1 (3.57%) NetApp
4 1 (3.57%) Oracle
4 1 (3.57%) Palo Alto
4 1 (3.57%) Splunk