Linux Command Line Contracts

Linux/Unix Command Line Interface (CLI)
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Linux Command Line in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Linux Command Line over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 423 514 532
Rank change year-on-year +91 +18 +36
Contract jobs citing Linux Command Line 152 169 332
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.35% 0.30% 0.38%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.17% 0.90% 1.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 118 201
10th Percentile £430 £372 £400
25th Percentile £510 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% +5.52%
75th Percentile £650 £625 £645
90th Percentile £750 £713 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £535 £525
% change year-on-year +2.80% +1.90% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 5 3
10th Percentile £28.88 £18.38 £42.10
25th Percentile £66.25 - £42.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £20.00 £46.00
Median % change year-on-year +250.00% -56.52% -
75th Percentile - £47.73 £50.39
90th Percentile - £68.89 £50.62
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 £47.73 £47.89
% change year-on-year +46.66% -0.32% -

All Generic Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 12,955 18,685 29,032
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.09% 33.33% 33.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,317 12,877 20,364
10th Percentile £270 £313 £315
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.18% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £663 £678 £663
90th Percentile £800 £800 £770
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +11.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 922 612 691
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.18 £10.63 £17.19
Median hourly rate £35.00 £22.13 £26.98
Median % change year-on-year +58.19% -17.99% +5.80%
75th Percentile £61.30 £60.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £71.25 £74.93 £65.76
UK excluding London median hourly rate £34.61 £22.00 £21.25
% change year-on-year +57.30% +3.53% -7.61%

Linux Command Line
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Command Line in the UK

Linux Command Line
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Linux Command Line in the UK

Linux Command Line
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux Command Line over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux Command Line in the UK

Linux Command Line
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux Command Line in the UK

Linux Command Line
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Linux Command Line over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Linux Command Line in the UK

Linux Command Line
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 1 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
England +91 137 £550 +2.09% 88
UK excluding London +70 94 £550 +2.80% 62
London +59 51 £558 +4.74% 31
Work from Home +89 29 £550 -1.26% 39
South East +28 28 £575 -2.95% 18
South West +18 23 £550 -16.98% 11
Midlands +33 19 £544 +67.31% 6
West Midlands +26 15 £550 +3.77% 4
Scotland +27 11 £750 +46.34% 6
North of England +25 8 £479 -18.51% 16
Yorkshire +22 6 £445 -37.54% 7
East Midlands +10 4 £520 +60.00% 2
East of England +5 3 £625 -17.36% 6
North West +20 2 £513 +7.89% 8
Northern Ireland +3 2 - - 1

Linux Command Line
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 14 (9.21%) Confluence
2 3 (1.97%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.32%) IIS
3 2 (1.32%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.32%) WordPress
4 1 (0.66%) Red Hat Fuse
Business Applications
1 7 (4.61%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (3.29%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 28 (18.42%) GitHub
2 25 (16.45%) Azure
3 18 (11.84%) AWS
4 12 (7.89%) Serverless
5 10 (6.58%) Amazon EC2
6 9 (5.92%) Amazon S3
6 9 (5.92%) AWS Lambda
6 9 (5.92%) OpenShift
7 8 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (5.26%) IaaS
8 5 (3.29%) Azure Storage
9 4 (2.63%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (2.63%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (1.97%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (1.97%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (1.97%) GCP
10 3 (1.97%) WhatsApp
11 2 (1.32%) Azure App Service
11 2 (1.32%) PaaS
11 2 (1.32%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 10 (6.58%) SSH
2 8 (5.26%) Firewall
3 7 (4.61%) Network Security
4 6 (3.95%) AMQP
4 6 (3.95%) DNS
5 5 (3.29%) SAN
6 3 (1.97%) BGP
6 3 (1.97%) Cisco IOS
6 3 (1.97%) IOS XR
7 2 (1.32%) Cisco ISE
7 2 (1.32%) DHCP
7 2 (1.32%) Fibre Channel
7 2 (1.32%) iSCSI
7 2 (1.32%) LAN
7 2 (1.32%) NAS
7 2 (1.32%) Radio Access Network
7 2 (1.32%) tcpdump
7 2 (1.32%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (1.32%) Wireless
7 2 (1.32%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (13.82%) Relational Database
2 20 (13.16%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (10.53%) SQL Server
4 12 (7.89%) Elasticsearch
5 11 (7.24%) MongoDB
6 10 (6.58%) RDBMS
6 10 (6.58%) Sybase ASE
7 9 (5.92%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (4.61%) InfluxDB
8 7 (4.61%) MySQL
9 6 (3.95%) Oracle Database
10 5 (3.29%) DB2
11 4 (2.63%) Redis
12 2 (1.32%) Data Mart
12 2 (1.32%) Power BI
13 1 (0.66%) Apache Cassandra
13 1 (0.66%) Azure SQL Database
13 1 (0.66%) Data Warehouse
13 1 (0.66%) Flink
13 1 (0.66%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 41 (26.97%) JIRA
2 28 (18.42%) GitLab
3 24 (15.79%) Jenkins
4 20 (13.16%) Git
5 12 (7.89%) GoogleTest
6 10 (6.58%) JUnit
7 9 (5.92%) Cucumber
8 5 (3.29%) Pylint
9 4 (2.63%) Gradle
9 4 (2.63%) Selenium
10 3 (1.97%) Artifactory
10 3 (1.97%) Subversion
11 2 (1.32%) SonarQube
12 1 (0.66%) Ant
12 1 (0.66%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.66%) Bitbucket
12 1 (0.66%) GoCD
12 1 (0.66%) Maven
General
1 30 (19.74%) Finance
2 28 (18.42%) Social Skills
3 22 (14.47%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (9.87%) Public Sector
5 7 (4.61%) Banking
6 6 (3.95%) Investment Banking
7 4 (2.63%) Electronics
7 4 (2.63%) Manufacturing
7 4 (2.63%) Military
7 4 (2.63%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.97%) Front Office
8 3 (1.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.97%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.32%) Marketing
9 2 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.32%) Wearables
10 1 (0.66%) Fire and Rescue
10 1 (0.66%) Law
10 1 (0.66%) Police
Job Titles
1 21 (13.82%) Linux Engineer
2 19 (12.50%) Developer
3 16 (10.53%) DevOps Engineer
4 14 (9.21%) Applications Engineer
4 14 (9.21%) Senior
4 14 (9.21%) Software Engineer
4 14 (9.21%) Support Engineer
5 13 (8.55%) Applications Support
5 13 (8.55%) Applications Support Engineer
5 13 (8.55%) JIRA Engineer
6 12 (7.89%) Java Developer
6 12 (7.89%) Java Engineer
6 12 (7.89%) Java Software Engineer
6 12 (7.89%) SIEM Engineer
7 10 (6.58%) DBA
8 9 (5.92%) Linux Systems Administrator
8 9 (5.92%) Network Engineer
8 9 (5.92%) Sybase DBA
8 9 (5.92%) Systems Administrator
9 8 (5.26%) Database Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (21.05%) REST
2 22 (14.47%) Web Services
3 17 (11.18%) JSON
4 14 (9.21%) Qt
5 12 (7.89%) Spring
5 12 (7.89%) YAML
6 11 (7.24%) Elastic Stack
6 11 (7.24%) pytest
7 9 (5.92%) Hibernate
7 9 (5.92%) J2EE
7 9 (5.92%) JPA
7 9 (5.92%) Kafka
7 9 (5.92%) SOAP
7 9 (5.92%) XML
8 8 (5.26%) HTML
9 7 (4.61%) WebSockets
10 6 (3.95%) RabbitMQ
10 6 (3.95%) React
11 4 (2.63%) Django
11 4 (2.63%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 22 (14.47%) Replication
2 15 (9.87%) Data Centre
3 14 (9.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 12 (7.89%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (5.26%) Clustering
6 5 (3.29%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (3.29%) FPGA
7 4 (2.63%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.97%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.97%) ASIC
8 3 (1.97%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.97%) Genomics
8 3 (1.97%) Smart Meter
8 3 (1.97%) Verilog
9 2 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.32%) Life Science
9 2 (1.32%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.32%) NHS
9 2 (1.32%) Renewable Energy
9 2 (1.32%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 138 (90.79%) Linux
2 37 (24.34%) Unix
3 24 (15.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 23 (15.13%) Windows
5 12 (7.89%) Ubuntu
6 9 (5.92%) VMS
7 5 (3.29%) Windows Server
8 4 (2.63%) Alpine Linux
9 2 (1.32%) CentOS
9 2 (1.32%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (1.32%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.66%) Android
10 1 (0.66%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.66%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (39.47%) CI/CD
2 42 (27.63%) DevOps
3 39 (25.66%) Agile
4 31 (20.39%) Migration
5 28 (18.42%) Software Engineering
6 26 (17.11%) Problem-Solving
7 25 (16.45%) Task Automation
8 22 (14.47%) Service Management
9 20 (13.16%) Data Migration
9 20 (13.16%) SDLC
10 19 (12.50%) Scrum
11 18 (11.84%) Continuous Integration
11 18 (11.84%) Infrastructure as Code
12 17 (11.18%) Mentoring
13 16 (10.53%) Containerisation
13 16 (10.53%) ITIL
13 16 (10.53%) Storage Management
14 15 (9.87%) Open Source
15 14 (9.21%) Infrastructure Monitoring
16 13 (8.55%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 75 (49.34%) Python
2 43 (28.29%) Java
3 42 (27.63%) SQL
4 34 (22.37%) Bash
5 28 (18.42%) Shell Script
6 23 (15.13%) Perl
7 17 (11.18%) C++
8 13 (8.55%) PowerShell
9 10 (6.58%) JavaScript
9 10 (6.58%) T-SQL
10 8 (5.26%) C
10 8 (5.26%) Go
10 8 (5.26%) R
11 3 (1.97%) Assembly Language
11 3 (1.97%) SystemVerilog
11 3 (1.97%) Tcl
12 2 (1.32%) Ruby
13 1 (0.66%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.66%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 58 (38.16%) Security Cleared
2 40 (26.32%) SC Cleared
3 12 (7.89%) DV Cleared
4 4 (2.63%) Degree
5 2 (1.32%) CCNA
5 2 (1.32%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.32%) HND
5 2 (1.32%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.66%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.66%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (0.66%) RHCE
6 1 (0.66%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (9.21%) MISRA
1 14 (9.21%) QA
2 2 (1.32%) ISO 9001
2 2 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 2 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.32%) SLA
System Software
1 34 (22.37%) Docker
2 18 (11.84%) vSphere
3 17 (11.18%) Active Directory
4 16 (10.53%) VMware Infrastructure
5 10 (6.58%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (5.92%) Hyper-V
6 9 (5.92%) iptables
7 7 (4.61%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 5 (3.29%) VMware NSX
9 3 (1.97%) Firmware
10 2 (1.32%) Ceph
10 2 (1.32%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 52 (34.21%) Ansible
2 37 (24.34%) Kubernetes
3 31 (20.39%) Terraform
4 17 (11.18%) Grafana
5 16 (10.53%) Prometheus
6 12 (7.89%) Kibana
7 11 (7.24%) logstash
7 11 (7.24%) Progress Chef
8 9 (5.92%) Red Hat Satellite
9 7 (4.61%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 7 (4.61%) Packer
9 7 (4.61%) vRealize
10 6 (3.95%) Docker Swarm
11 4 (2.63%) Puppet
12 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (1.32%) Nmap
12 2 (1.32%) OpenNMS
12 2 (1.32%) Pacemaker
12 2 (1.32%) SCCM
12 2 (1.32%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 26 (17.11%) Red Hat
2 23 (15.13%) Oracle
3 22 (14.47%) VMware
4 15 (9.87%) Google
5 14 (9.21%) Atlassian
6 12 (7.89%) SAP
7 11 (7.24%) Microsoft
8 10 (6.58%) Sybase
8 10 (6.58%) Veritas
9 9 (5.92%) Cisco
9 9 (5.92%) SolarWinds
10 7 (4.61%) EMC
10 7 (4.61%) ServiceNow
10 7 (4.61%) Sun
11 5 (3.29%) Arqiva
11 5 (3.29%) IBM
12 4 (2.63%) Palo Alto
12 4 (2.63%) Veeam
13 3 (1.97%) Synopsys
13 3 (1.97%) Xilinx
99 Linux Command Line jobs Nationwide