Linux Command Line Contracts in England

Linux/Unix Command Line Interface (CLI)
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Linux Command Line in contract job vacancies advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Linux Command Line over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 413 500 544
Rank change year-on-year +87 +44 -24
Contract jobs citing Linux Command Line 124 151 234
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.34% 0.31% 0.33%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.11% 0.93% 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 105 131
10th Percentile £409 £350 £375
25th Percentile £488 £490 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £540
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -0.46% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £619 £625
90th Percentile £738 £710 £703
UK median daily rate £550 £538 £550
% change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 3
10th Percentile £69.25 £20.00 £42.10
25th Percentile - £33.75 £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 - £79.00 £50.62
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £75.00 £46.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +63.04% -

All Generic Skills
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 11,131 16,221 23,822
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.59% 33.66% 33.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,299 11,282 16,987
10th Percentile £268 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £571 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +3.77% +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £695 £675
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 810 575 635
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.14 £10.63 £17.42
Median hourly rate £34.21 £22.49 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +52.15% -16.72% +2.99%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.50 £49.67
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.77
UK median hourly rate £31.38 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +39.54% -18.24% +4.05%

Linux Command Line
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Command Line in England

Linux Command Line
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Linux Command Line in England

Linux Command Line
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux Command Line in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux Command Line in England

Linux Command Line
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux Command Line in England

Linux Command Line
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 16 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
London +62 50 £570 +8.16% 32
South East +24 24 £575 +0.66% 12
South West +10 18 £550 -8.33% 8
Midlands +35 17 £550 +69.23% 5
West Midlands +38 15 £550 +3.77% 3
North of England +26 7 £445 -24.26% 4
Yorkshire +17 5 £445 -37.54% 2
East of England +8 3 £625 +2.04% 4
North West +17 2 £513 +7.89% 2
East Midlands +9 2 £509 +56.62% 2
Linux Command Line
UK

Linux Command Line
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 6 (4.84%) Confluence
2 4 (3.23%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.42%) IIS
3 3 (2.42%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.42%) WordPress
4 1 (0.81%) Apache
4 1 (0.81%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.81%) Red Hat Fuse
Business Applications
1 7 (5.65%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (4.03%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 23 (18.55%) Azure
2 22 (17.74%) GitHub
3 15 (12.10%) AWS
4 11 (8.87%) Serverless
5 9 (7.26%) Amazon EC2
5 9 (7.26%) Amazon S3
6 8 (6.45%) AWS Lambda
6 8 (6.45%) OpenShift
7 6 (4.84%) IaaS
8 5 (4.03%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (4.03%) Azure Storage
8 5 (4.03%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (3.23%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (2.42%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (2.42%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (2.42%) OneDrive
10 3 (2.42%) WhatsApp
11 2 (1.61%) Amazon ECR
11 2 (1.61%) Entra ID
11 2 (1.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.45%) SSH
2 7 (5.65%) Firewall
3 6 (4.84%) DNS
3 6 (4.84%) Network Security
3 6 (4.84%) SAN
4 5 (4.03%) AMQP
5 3 (2.42%) BGP
5 3 (2.42%) Cisco IOS
5 3 (2.42%) Fibre Channel
5 3 (2.42%) IOS XR
5 3 (2.42%) iSCSI
5 3 (2.42%) NAS
5 3 (2.42%) VPN
5 3 (2.42%) Wireless
6 2 (1.61%) DHCP
6 2 (1.61%) FTP
6 2 (1.61%) LAN
6 2 (1.61%) SNMP
6 2 (1.61%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.61%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (16.13%) Relational Database
2 17 (13.71%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (13.71%) SQL Server
3 12 (9.68%) Elasticsearch
4 11 (8.87%) MongoDB
5 10 (8.06%) RDBMS
5 10 (8.06%) Sybase ASE
6 8 (6.45%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (5.65%) MySQL
8 6 (4.84%) InfluxDB
8 6 (4.84%) Oracle Database
9 5 (4.03%) DB2
10 4 (3.23%) Redis
11 2 (1.61%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (1.61%) Data Mart
11 2 (1.61%) Flink
12 1 (0.81%) Amazon Athena
12 1 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.81%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.81%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 27 (21.77%) JIRA
2 23 (18.55%) GitLab
3 19 (15.32%) Git
3 19 (15.32%) Jenkins
4 8 (6.45%) GoogleTest
4 8 (6.45%) JUnit
5 7 (5.65%) Cucumber
6 5 (4.03%) Pylint
7 4 (3.23%) Gradle
7 4 (3.23%) Selenium
8 3 (2.42%) Artifactory
8 3 (2.42%) Subversion
9 2 (1.61%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.81%) Ant
10 1 (0.81%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.81%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.81%) GoCD
10 1 (0.81%) Maven
10 1 (0.81%) Poetry
General
1 28 (22.58%) Finance
2 25 (20.16%) Social Skills
3 18 (14.52%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (8.87%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.03%) Banking
5 5 (4.03%) Telecoms
6 4 (3.23%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.42%) Military
8 2 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.61%) Electronics
8 2 (1.61%) Front Office
8 2 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.61%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.61%) Marketing
8 2 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.81%) Fire and Rescue
9 1 (0.81%) Law
9 1 (0.81%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.81%) Police
Job Titles
1 18 (14.52%) Linux Engineer
2 17 (13.71%) Developer
3 14 (11.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 14 (11.29%) Senior
4 12 (9.68%) SIEM Engineer
5 10 (8.06%) DBA
5 10 (8.06%) Java Developer
5 10 (8.06%) Network Engineer
5 10 (8.06%) Software Engineer
6 9 (7.26%) Sybase DBA
7 8 (6.45%) Database Specialist
7 8 (6.45%) Java Engineer
7 8 (6.45%) Java Software Engineer
8 7 (5.65%) Azure Engineer
8 7 (5.65%) Support Engineer
9 6 (4.84%) Applications Engineer
9 6 (4.84%) Applications Support
9 6 (4.84%) Applications Support Engineer
9 6 (4.84%) Platform Engineer
9 6 (4.84%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (16.94%) REST
2 15 (12.10%) JSON
3 12 (9.68%) Web Services
3 12 (9.68%) YAML
4 11 (8.87%) Elastic Stack
4 11 (8.87%) pytest
5 10 (8.06%) Qt
5 10 (8.06%) Spring
6 9 (7.26%) HTML
7 8 (6.45%) Kafka
8 7 (5.65%) Hibernate
8 7 (5.65%) J2EE
8 7 (5.65%) JPA
8 7 (5.65%) SOAP
8 7 (5.65%) WebSockets
8 7 (5.65%) XML
9 6 (4.84%) React
10 5 (4.03%) RabbitMQ
11 4 (3.23%) Django
11 4 (3.23%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 23 (18.55%) Replication
2 10 (8.06%) Enterprise Software
2 10 (8.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 8 (6.45%) Clustering
4 7 (5.65%) Data Centre
5 5 (4.03%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (3.23%) Public Cloud
7 3 (2.42%) ASIC
7 3 (2.42%) FPGA
7 3 (2.42%) Smart Meter
7 3 (2.42%) Verilog
8 2 (1.61%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.61%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.61%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.61%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (1.61%) Solar Panel
9 1 (0.81%) Genomics
9 1 (0.81%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.81%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 112 (90.32%) Linux
2 33 (26.61%) Unix
3 21 (16.94%) Windows
4 19 (15.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 14 (11.29%) Ubuntu
6 10 (8.06%) VMS
7 6 (4.84%) Windows Server
8 4 (3.23%) Alpine Linux
9 3 (2.42%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (2.42%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (1.61%) Android
10 2 (1.61%) Apple iOS
10 2 (1.61%) CentOS
11 1 (0.81%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (40.32%) CI/CD
2 36 (29.03%) DevOps
3 30 (24.19%) Agile
4 23 (18.55%) Problem-Solving
5 22 (17.74%) Migration
5 22 (17.74%) Task Automation
6 19 (15.32%) Software Engineering
7 18 (14.52%) SDLC
8 17 (13.71%) Mentoring
8 17 (13.71%) Scrum
9 15 (12.10%) Containerisation
10 14 (11.29%) Continuous Integration
10 14 (11.29%) Infrastructure as Code
10 14 (11.29%) Infrastructure Monitoring
10 14 (11.29%) ITIL
11 13 (10.48%) Data Migration
11 13 (10.48%) Open Source
12 12 (9.68%) SIEM
12 12 (9.68%) Storage Management
13 11 (8.87%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 63 (50.81%) Python
2 39 (31.45%) SQL
3 36 (29.03%) Java
4 32 (25.81%) Bash
5 22 (17.74%) Perl
5 22 (17.74%) Shell Script
6 13 (10.48%) C++
6 13 (10.48%) PowerShell
7 11 (8.87%) JavaScript
8 10 (8.06%) T-SQL
9 8 (6.45%) R
10 7 (5.65%) C
10 7 (5.65%) Go
11 3 (2.42%) Assembly Language
11 3 (2.42%) SystemVerilog
11 3 (2.42%) Tcl
12 1 (0.81%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 43 (34.68%) Security Cleared
2 32 (25.81%) SC Cleared
3 11 (8.87%) DV Cleared
4 2 (1.61%) CCNA
4 2 (1.61%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.61%) Degree
5 1 (0.81%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.81%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (10.48%) QA
2 10 (8.06%) MISRA
3 2 (1.61%) SLA
4 1 (0.81%) Data Quality
System Software
1 27 (21.77%) Docker
2 19 (15.32%) vSphere
3 16 (12.90%) Active Directory
3 16 (12.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (7.26%) iptables
4 9 (7.26%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (5.65%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 5 (4.03%) VMware NSX
7 4 (3.23%) Hyper-V
8 2 (1.61%) Ceph
8 2 (1.61%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.81%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 41 (33.06%) Ansible
2 34 (27.42%) Kubernetes
3 28 (22.58%) Terraform
4 13 (10.48%) Grafana
5 12 (9.68%) Kibana
5 12 (9.68%) Prometheus
6 11 (8.87%) logstash
7 8 (6.45%) Progress Chef
8 7 (5.65%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 7 (5.65%) Packer
8 7 (5.65%) vRealize
9 5 (4.03%) Docker Swarm
10 4 (3.23%) Red Hat Satellite
11 3 (2.42%) Microsoft Intune
11 3 (2.42%) SCCM
12 2 (1.61%) Nmap
12 2 (1.61%) OpenNMS
12 2 (1.61%) Pacemaker
12 2 (1.61%) Puppet
12 2 (1.61%) Salt
Vendors
1 24 (19.35%) Oracle
2 23 (18.55%) VMware
3 21 (16.94%) Red Hat
4 12 (9.68%) SAP
5 11 (8.87%) Google
6 10 (8.06%) Microsoft
6 10 (8.06%) Sybase
6 10 (8.06%) Veritas
7 9 (7.26%) Cisco
7 9 (7.26%) SolarWinds
8 7 (5.65%) Sun
9 6 (4.84%) Atlassian
10 5 (4.03%) Arqiva
10 5 (4.03%) EMC
10 5 (4.03%) IBM
10 5 (4.03%) Palo Alto
10 5 (4.03%) ServiceNow
10 5 (4.03%) Veeam
11 3 (2.42%) Dell
11 3 (2.42%) TOWER Software