Linux Command Line Contracts in London

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

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Linux Command Line in contract job vacancies advertised in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Linux Command Line over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 345 387 471
Rank change year-on-year +42 +84 -45
Contract jobs citing Linux Command Line 50 93 136
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.29% 0.36% 0.35%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.86% 1.00% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 61 75
10th Percentile £382 £463 £405
25th Percentile £494 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £527 £563
Median % change year-on-year +8.16% -6.31% +4.65%
75th Percentile £650 £573 £655
90th Percentile £780 £638 £733
England median daily rate £550 £538 £535
% change year-on-year +2.33% +0.47% +1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 1
10th Percentile - £18.92 -
25th Percentile - £20.00 £42.00
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £46.00
Median % change year-on-year - +63.04% -
75th Percentile - - £50.00
90th Percentile - £78.20 -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £75.00 £46.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +63.04% -

All Generic Skills
London

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 London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,826 9,269 14,071
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 33.34% 35.88% 36.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,122 6,675 10,261
10th Percentile £313 £375 £400
25th Percentile £450 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £725 £743 £713
90th Percentile £850 £838 £800
England median daily rate £550 £572 £550
% change year-on-year -3.89% +4.05% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 148 116 201
10th Percentile £15.48 £18.93 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.41 £21.57 £23.91
Median hourly rate £26.00 £35.00 £43.74
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% -19.98% +30.57%
75th Percentile £49.13 £64.31 £51.75
90th Percentile £69.50 £84.38 £68.75
England median hourly rate £34.21 £22.49 £26.98
% change year-on-year +52.15% -16.66% +3.77%

Linux Command Line
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Command Line in London

Linux Command Line
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Linux Command Line in London

Linux Command Line
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux Command Line in London over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux Command Line in London

Linux Command Line
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux Command Line in London

Linux Command Line
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 17 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
Central London +53 11 £600 +10.34% 5
South London +2 1 £475 -20.83%
Linux Command Line
England

Linux Command Line
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (12.00%) Confluence
2 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.00%) Apache
3 1 (2.00%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.00%) IIS
3 1 (2.00%) Red Hat Fuse
3 1 (2.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.00%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 5 (10.00%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 11 (22.00%) Azure
2 6 (12.00%) AWS
3 5 (10.00%) Serverless
4 4 (8.00%) GitHub
5 3 (6.00%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (6.00%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (6.00%) Amazon S3
5 3 (6.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (6.00%) OpenShift
5 3 (6.00%) WhatsApp
6 2 (4.00%) Amazon ECR
6 2 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (4.00%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (4.00%) Route 53
6 2 (4.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (2.00%) Entra ID
7 1 (2.00%) IaaS
7 1 (2.00%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (2.00%) PaaS
7 1 (2.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (16.00%) SSH
2 3 (6.00%) DNS
3 2 (4.00%) DHCP
3 2 (4.00%) LAN
3 2 (4.00%) Radio Access Network
3 2 (4.00%) SNMP
3 2 (4.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (4.00%) tcpdump
3 2 (4.00%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (4.00%) Wireshark
4 1 (2.00%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (2.00%) Firewall
4 1 (2.00%) iSCSI
4 1 (2.00%) MQTT
4 1 (2.00%) NAS
4 1 (2.00%) SAN
4 1 (2.00%) VPN
4 1 (2.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (20.00%) Sybase ASE
2 9 (18.00%) SQL Server
3 5 (10.00%) DB2
3 5 (10.00%) RDBMS
3 5 (10.00%) Relational Database
4 4 (8.00%) Oracle Database
5 2 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (4.00%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (4.00%) Data Mart
5 2 (4.00%) Flink
5 2 (4.00%) MongoDB
5 2 (4.00%) MySQL
5 2 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (2.00%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (2.00%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (2.00%) Big Data
6 1 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (2.00%) DynamoDB
6 1 (2.00%) NoSQL
6 1 (2.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 14 (28.00%) JIRA
2 8 (16.00%) Git
2 8 (16.00%) JUnit
3 7 (14.00%) Cucumber
4 5 (10.00%) Pylint
5 4 (8.00%) Gradle
6 3 (6.00%) Artifactory
6 3 (6.00%) GitLab
7 2 (4.00%) Jenkins
7 2 (4.00%) SonarQube
8 1 (2.00%) Ant
8 1 (2.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (2.00%) Bitbucket
8 1 (2.00%) GoCD
8 1 (2.00%) Maven
8 1 (2.00%) Poetry
General
1 21 (42.00%) Finance
2 20 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 16 (32.00%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (8.00%) Banking
4 4 (8.00%) Investment Banking
5 2 (4.00%) Front Office
5 2 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (4.00%) Military
5 2 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (4.00%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 14 (28.00%) Developer
2 9 (18.00%) DBA
2 9 (18.00%) Sybase DBA
3 8 (16.00%) Java Developer
3 8 (16.00%) Linux Engineer
3 8 (16.00%) Senior
4 6 (12.00%) Applications Engineer
4 6 (12.00%) Applications Support
4 6 (12.00%) Applications Support Engineer
4 6 (12.00%) Support Engineer
5 5 (10.00%) JIRA Engineer
6 4 (8.00%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (8.00%) Linux DevOps Engineer
6 4 (8.00%) Linux/Unix DevOps
6 4 (8.00%) Senior Developer
7 3 (6.00%) Administrator
7 3 (6.00%) Azure Engineer
7 3 (6.00%) Network Engineer
7 3 (6.00%) Senior DBA
7 3 (6.00%) Senior Sybase DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (26.00%) REST
2 12 (24.00%) Web Services
3 10 (20.00%) Spring
4 9 (18.00%) JSON
5 8 (16.00%) HTML
5 8 (16.00%) Kafka
6 7 (14.00%) Hibernate
6 7 (14.00%) J2EE
6 7 (14.00%) JPA
6 7 (14.00%) pytest
6 7 (14.00%) SOAP
6 7 (14.00%) WebSockets
6 7 (14.00%) XML
7 6 (12.00%) React
8 3 (6.00%) Spring Boot
8 3 (6.00%) YAML
9 2 (4.00%) CSS
9 2 (4.00%) FIX Protocol
9 2 (4.00%) NETCONF
10 1 (2.00%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 11 (22.00%) Replication
2 7 (14.00%) Data Centre
2 7 (14.00%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (4.00%) Algorithms
4 2 (4.00%) Data Structures
4 2 (4.00%) Management Information System
4 2 (4.00%) Renewable Energy
4 2 (4.00%) Solar Panel
5 1 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.00%) Derivative
5 1 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.00%) Interest Rate Derivative
5 1 (2.00%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.00%) PKI
5 1 (2.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 47 (94.00%) Linux
2 23 (46.00%) Unix
3 4 (8.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (8.00%) Windows
4 2 (4.00%) CentOS
5 1 (2.00%) Android
5 1 (2.00%) Apple iOS
5 1 (2.00%) Ubuntu
5 1 (2.00%) VMS
5 1 (2.00%) Windows Mobile
5 1 (2.00%) Windows Server
5 1 (2.00%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (2.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (32.00%) CI/CD
3 15 (30.00%) SDLC
4 12 (24.00%) Agile
4 12 (24.00%) Migration
5 11 (22.00%) DevOps
5 11 (22.00%) Software Architecture
5 11 (22.00%) Task Automation
6 10 (20.00%) Open Source
6 10 (20.00%) Scrum
6 10 (20.00%) Software Engineering
6 10 (20.00%) TDD
7 9 (18.00%) Continuous Integration
8 8 (16.00%) ITIL
8 8 (16.00%) Root Cause Analysis
9 7 (14.00%) BDD
9 7 (14.00%) CQRS
9 7 (14.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
9 7 (14.00%) Performance Optimisation
9 7 (14.00%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 29 (58.00%) Python
2 27 (54.00%) SQL
3 17 (34.00%) Java
3 17 (34.00%) Perl
4 7 (14.00%) JavaScript
4 7 (14.00%) T-SQL
5 6 (12.00%) Shell Script
6 5 (10.00%) PowerShell
7 4 (8.00%) Bash
8 1 (2.00%) Go
8 1 (2.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.00%) CCNA
2 2 (4.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (4.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (24.00%) QA
2 2 (4.00%) SLA
3 1 (2.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 14 (28.00%) Docker
2 5 (10.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 2 (4.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.00%) Firmware
4 1 (2.00%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (2.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (32.00%) Kubernetes
2 7 (14.00%) Ansible
3 5 (10.00%) Terraform
4 3 (6.00%) Grafana
5 2 (4.00%) Nmap
5 2 (4.00%) OpenNMS
5 2 (4.00%) Progress Chef
5 2 (4.00%) Prometheus
5 2 (4.00%) Puppet
5 2 (4.00%) Salt
6 1 (2.00%) Kibana
6 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (2.00%) SCCM
6 1 (2.00%) yum
Vendors
1 10 (20.00%) SAP
1 10 (20.00%) Sybase
2 9 (18.00%) Oracle
3 6 (12.00%) Atlassian
4 5 (10.00%) IBM
4 5 (10.00%) Microsoft
4 5 (10.00%) ServiceNow
4 5 (10.00%) Sun
4 5 (10.00%) Veritas
5 4 (8.00%) Cisco
6 3 (6.00%) Red Hat
6 3 (6.00%) VMware
7 2 (4.00%) Qualys
7 2 (4.00%) SaltStack
8 1 (2.00%) Aruba
8 1 (2.00%) Palo Alto
8 1 (2.00%) ProCurve
8 1 (2.00%) Synology
8 1 (2.00%) Veeam
8 1 (2.00%) Zerto