Linux Command Line Contracts in the Thames Valley

Linux/Unix Command Line Interface (CLI)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Linux Command Line in contract job vacancies in the Thames Valley. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Linux Command Line over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 133 140 162
Rank change year-on-year +7 +22 -35
Contract jobs citing Linux Command Line 4 7 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.15% 0.24% 0.31%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.52% 0.75% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 7 7
10th Percentile £615 £355 £333
25th Percentile £638 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% +5.26% +13.10%
75th Percentile - £688 £500
90th Percentile - £763 £528
South East median daily rate £575 £546 £513
% change year-on-year +5.26% +6.59% +7.89%

All Generic Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 775 935 1,077
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 28.90% 32.50% 30.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 457 619 680
10th Percentile £205 £303 £226
25th Percentile £313 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £664
South East median daily rate £500 £501 £500
% change year-on-year -0.10% +0.10% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 24 33
10th Percentile £11.79 £18.08 £16.12
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.50 £17.50
Median hourly rate £28.00 £60.88 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -54.00% +204.38% -42.03%
75th Percentile £59.57 £73.69 £29.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £77.93 £67.47
South East median hourly rate £54.00 £54.37 £21.50
% change year-on-year -0.68% +152.88% -40.45%

Linux Command Line
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Command Line in the Thames Valley

Linux Command Line
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Linux Command Line in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Linux Command Line in the Thames Valley

Linux Command Line
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Linux Command Line in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Linux Command Line in the Thames Valley

Linux Command Line
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
Berkshire -7 4 £650 -1.33%
Linux Command Line
South East

Linux Command Line
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (50.00%) MongoDB
2 2 (50.00%) Oracle Database
3 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) GitLab
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Database Specialist
1 2 (50.00%) Linux Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) DBA
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) SQL DBA
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server DBA
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Specialist
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Unix
1 2 (50.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Capacity Management
1 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (50.00%) Data Migration
1 2 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (50.00%) Migration
1 2 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
1 2 (50.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Bash
2 2 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
1 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (50.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Ansible
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (50.00%) Packer
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
1 2 (50.00%) vRealize
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (50.00%) Oracle
2 2 (50.00%) VMware
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) SolarWinds