Hybrid/Remote Linux Command Line Contract Job Trends

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 13 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 273 310 370
Rank change year-on-year +37 +60 +12
Contract jobs citing Linux Command Line 38 23 40
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.40% 0.19% 0.21%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.12% 0.60% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 4 26
10th Percentile £289 £489 £246
25th Percentile £370 £528 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £573 £588 £381
Median % change year-on-year -2.55% +54.10% -30.68%
75th Percentile £625 £644 £547
90th Percentile £688 £655 £638
UK median daily rate £600 £565 £510
% change year-on-year +6.19% +10.78% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £17.30
Median hourly rate - - £18.24
75th Percentile - - £19.18
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £70.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -53.57% +250.00% -60.61%

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 3,391 3,819 5,931
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 35.37% 30.86% 31.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,180 2,443 4,227
10th Percentile £333 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £649 £688 £675
90th Percentile £790 £850 £775
UK median daily rate £515 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -2.81% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 85 136
10th Percentile £14.60 £18.94 £19.99
25th Percentile £21.81 £27.84 £22.93
Median hourly rate £38.50 £60.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.83% +14.29% -2.78%
75th Percentile £65.00 £72.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.16 £82.50 £77.13
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £46.18 £45.11
% change year-on-year -40.45% +2.38% +74.45%

Linux Command Line
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Linux Command Line and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Linux Command Line job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Linux Command Line
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Linux Command Line.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Linux Command Line

Linux Command Line
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Linux Command Line over the 6 months to 13 October 2025.

Linux Command Line daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Linux Command Line
Hourly Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Linux Command Line.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Linux Command Line

Linux Command Line
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 5 (13.16%) CMS
2 1 (2.63%) Apache
2 1 (2.63%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.63%) Confluence
2 1 (2.63%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 7 (18.42%) AWS
1 7 (18.42%) Azure
2 6 (15.79%) Azure DevOps
2 6 (15.79%) Entra ID
3 5 (13.16%) IaaS
4 4 (10.53%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (10.53%) Azure AKS
4 4 (10.53%) GitHub
4 4 (10.53%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (7.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (7.89%) Amazon S3
5 3 (7.89%) PaaS
6 2 (5.26%) Datadog
6 2 (5.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (2.63%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (2.63%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (2.63%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 10 (26.32%) Firewall
2 5 (13.16%) VPN
3 4 (10.53%) SSL
4 3 (7.89%) HTTP
4 3 (7.89%) HTTPS
4 3 (7.89%) TCP/IP
5 2 (5.26%) DNS
6 1 (2.63%) SSH
6 1 (2.63%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (5.26%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (5.26%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.63%) Apache Hive
2 1 (2.63%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (2.63%) Delta Lake
2 1 (2.63%) MySQL
2 1 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.63%) Power BI
2 1 (2.63%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.63%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (13.16%) Jenkins
2 4 (10.53%) GitLab
2 4 (10.53%) SonarQube
3 3 (7.89%) Git
4 2 (5.26%) JIRA
5 1 (2.63%) Cucumber
5 1 (2.63%) Cypress.io
5 1 (2.63%) Gatling
5 1 (2.63%) Hamcrest
5 1 (2.63%) JUnit
5 1 (2.63%) Postman
5 1 (2.63%) RStudio
5 1 (2.63%) Selenium
5 1 (2.63%) Serenity BDD
5 1 (2.63%) Subversion
General
1 5 (13.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 5 (13.16%) Social Skills
2 3 (7.89%) Finance
3 2 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.63%) Banking
4 1 (2.63%) Investment Banking
4 1 (2.63%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 19 (50.00%) Developer
2 14 (36.84%) Java Developer
2 14 (36.84%) Linux Developer
2 14 (36.84%) SQL Developer
3 5 (13.16%) Campaign Manager
3 5 (13.16%) IT Manager
4 3 (7.89%) Architect
4 3 (7.89%) Azure Architect
4 3 (7.89%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (7.89%) Infrastructure Architect
4 3 (7.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (7.89%) Linux Engineer
4 3 (7.89%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) Lead
5 2 (5.26%) Senior
5 2 (5.26%) Technical Leader
6 1 (2.63%) Analyst
6 1 (2.63%) Applications Support Analyst
6 1 (2.63%) Linux Support
6 1 (2.63%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (36.84%) Spring
2 5 (13.16%) REST
3 2 (5.26%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (5.26%) Kafka
3 2 (5.26%) SOAP
4 1 (2.63%) JSON
4 1 (2.63%) LAMP
4 1 (2.63%) pydantic
4 1 (2.63%) PySpark
4 1 (2.63%) Regular Expression
4 1 (2.63%) RESTful
4 1 (2.63%) WireMock
4 1 (2.63%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.16%) Management Information System
2 2 (5.26%) Data Structures
2 2 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (5.26%) Replication
2 2 (5.26%) Security Operations Centre
2 2 (5.26%) Security Posture
3 1 (2.63%) BYOD
3 1 (2.63%) Distributed Applications
3 1 (2.63%) Private Cloud
3 1 (2.63%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 36 (94.74%) Linux
2 4 (10.53%) Unix
3 3 (7.89%) Windows
4 1 (2.63%) CentOS
4 1 (2.63%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (2.63%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (28.95%) DevOps
2 7 (18.42%) Cybersecurity
2 7 (18.42%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (13.16%) Agile
3 5 (13.16%) Analytics
3 5 (13.16%) CI/CD
3 5 (13.16%) Computer Science
3 5 (13.16%) CRM
3 5 (13.16%) Data Protection
3 5 (13.16%) Information Security
3 5 (13.16%) Mobile Device Management
3 5 (13.16%) Patch Management
3 5 (13.16%) Project Management
3 5 (13.16%) Vulnerability Management
4 4 (10.53%) Configuration Management
4 4 (10.53%) Incident Response
4 4 (10.53%) Low Latency
4 4 (10.53%) Release Management
5 3 (7.89%) Cloud Security
5 3 (7.89%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 17 (44.74%) Java
1 17 (44.74%) SQL
2 9 (23.68%) Python
3 7 (18.42%) PowerShell
4 4 (10.53%) Shell Script
5 2 (5.26%) Bash
5 2 (5.26%) Go
5 2 (5.26%) Scala
5 2 (5.26%) Search Processing Language
6 1 (2.63%) Perl
Qualifications
1 8 (21.05%) SC Cleared
1 8 (21.05%) Security Cleared
2 5 (13.16%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (13.16%) Degree
3 3 (7.89%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.26%) Disclosure Scotland
1 2 (5.26%) QA
1 2 (5.26%) SLA
2 1 (2.63%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (10.53%) Docker
2 3 (7.89%) Active Directory
3 2 (5.26%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (23.68%) Terraform
2 7 (18.42%) Ansible
2 7 (18.42%) Kubernetes
3 2 (5.26%) Argo
3 2 (5.26%) Grafana
3 2 (5.26%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (13.16%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.89%) Databricks
2 3 (7.89%) Splunk
3 2 (5.26%) ArcSight
3 2 (5.26%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.63%) F5
4 1 (2.63%) Oracle