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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 405 507 554
Rank change year-on-year +102 +47 -35
Contract jobs citing Linux Command Line 137 132 242
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.37% 0.28% 0.34%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.22% 0.82% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 92 142
10th Percentile £427 £328 £364
25th Percentile £497 £498 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £539 £540
Median % change year-on-year +2.09% -0.23% +2.86%
75th Percentile £628 £625 £625
90th Percentile £734 £724 £698
UK median daily rate £550 £540 £550
% change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% +5.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 4 3
10th Percentile £42.25 £18.11 £42.10
25th Percentile - £19.33 £42.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £20.00 £46.00
Median % change year-on-year +250.00% -56.52% -
75th Percentile - £35.75 £50.39
90th Percentile - £64.10 £50.62
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £20.00 £46.00
% change year-on-year +250.00% -56.52% -

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 11,251 16,100 23,959
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.47% 33.72% 33.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,318 11,239 17,150
10th Percentile £270 £313 £313
25th Percentile £415 £450 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £570 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% +3.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £695 £675
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.18% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 835 556 608
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.21 £10.63 £17.38
Median hourly rate £36.00 £22.49 £26.39
Median % change year-on-year +60.11% -14.78% +3.47%
75th Percentile £62.50 £61.27 £49.25
90th Percentile £71.88 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £22.00 £26.98
% change year-on-year +59.09% -18.46% +5.80%

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 2 June 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Linux Command Line in England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram 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 2 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
London +65 51 £558 +4.74% 35
South East +27 28 £575 -2.95% 20
South West +22 23 £550 -16.98% 11
Midlands +35 19 £544 +67.31% 6
West Midlands +27 15 £550 +3.77% 4
North of England +31 8 £479 -18.51% 16
Yorkshire +25 6 £445 -37.54% 7
East Midlands +8 4 £520 +60.00% 2
East of England +8 3 £625 -17.36% 8
North West +15 2 £513 +7.89% 8
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 (4.38%) Confluence
2 3 (2.19%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.46%) IIS
3 2 (1.46%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.46%) WordPress
4 1 (0.73%) Red Hat Fuse
Business Applications
1 7 (5.11%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (3.65%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 26 (18.98%) GitHub
2 23 (16.79%) Azure
3 16 (11.68%) AWS
4 12 (8.76%) Serverless
5 10 (7.30%) Amazon EC2
6 9 (6.57%) Amazon S3
6 9 (6.57%) AWS Lambda
6 9 (6.57%) OpenShift
7 8 (5.84%) IaaS
8 6 (4.38%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (3.65%) Azure Storage
10 4 (2.92%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (2.92%) Microsoft 365
11 3 (2.19%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (2.19%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (2.19%) WhatsApp
12 2 (1.46%) Azure App Service
12 2 (1.46%) Azure Monitor
12 2 (1.46%) PaaS
12 2 (1.46%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 10 (7.30%) SSH
2 8 (5.84%) Firewall
3 7 (5.11%) Network Security
4 6 (4.38%) AMQP
4 6 (4.38%) DNS
5 5 (3.65%) SAN
6 3 (2.19%) BGP
6 3 (2.19%) Cisco IOS
6 3 (2.19%) IOS XR
7 2 (1.46%) Cisco ISE
7 2 (1.46%) DHCP
7 2 (1.46%) Fibre Channel
7 2 (1.46%) FTP
7 2 (1.46%) iSCSI
7 2 (1.46%) NAS
7 2 (1.46%) Radio Access Network
7 2 (1.46%) tcpdump
7 2 (1.46%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (1.46%) Wireless
7 2 (1.46%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (15.33%) Relational Database
2 18 (13.14%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (11.68%) SQL Server
4 12 (8.76%) Elasticsearch
5 11 (8.03%) MongoDB
6 10 (7.30%) RDBMS
6 10 (7.30%) Sybase ASE
7 9 (6.57%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (5.11%) InfluxDB
8 7 (5.11%) MySQL
9 6 (4.38%) Oracle Database
10 5 (3.65%) DB2
11 4 (2.92%) Redis
12 2 (1.46%) Data Mart
12 2 (1.46%) Power BI
13 1 (0.73%) Amazon Redshift
13 1 (0.73%) Apache Cassandra
13 1 (0.73%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
13 1 (0.73%) Flink
13 1 (0.73%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 33 (24.09%) JIRA
2 28 (20.44%) GitLab
3 24 (17.52%) Jenkins
4 18 (13.14%) Git
5 12 (8.76%) GoogleTest
6 10 (7.30%) JUnit
7 9 (6.57%) Cucumber
8 5 (3.65%) Pylint
9 4 (2.92%) Gradle
9 4 (2.92%) Selenium
10 3 (2.19%) Artifactory
10 3 (2.19%) Subversion
11 2 (1.46%) SonarQube
12 1 (0.73%) Ant
12 1 (0.73%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.73%) Bitbucket
12 1 (0.73%) GoCD
12 1 (0.73%) Maven
General
1 30 (21.90%) Finance
2 26 (18.98%) Social Skills
3 22 (16.06%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (10.22%) Public Sector
5 7 (5.11%) Banking
6 6 (4.38%) Investment Banking
7 4 (2.92%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.19%) Front Office
8 3 (2.19%) Military
9 2 (1.46%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.46%) Electronics
9 2 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.46%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.46%) Marketing
9 2 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.73%) Fire and Rescue
10 1 (0.73%) Law
10 1 (0.73%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.73%) Police
Job Titles
1 19 (13.87%) Developer
2 18 (13.14%) Linux Engineer
3 14 (10.22%) DevOps Engineer
3 14 (10.22%) Senior
3 14 (10.22%) Software Engineer
4 12 (8.76%) Java Developer
4 12 (8.76%) Java Engineer
4 12 (8.76%) Java Software Engineer
4 12 (8.76%) SIEM Engineer
5 10 (7.30%) DBA
6 9 (6.57%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 9 (6.57%) Network Engineer
6 9 (6.57%) Sybase DBA
6 9 (6.57%) Systems Administrator
7 8 (5.84%) Database Specialist
8 7 (5.11%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 7 (5.11%) Support Engineer
9 6 (4.38%) Azure Engineer
9 6 (4.38%) Platform Engineer
9 6 (4.38%) Platform Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (17.52%) REST
2 17 (12.41%) JSON
3 14 (10.22%) Qt
3 14 (10.22%) Web Services
4 12 (8.76%) Spring
4 12 (8.76%) YAML
5 11 (8.03%) Elastic Stack
5 11 (8.03%) pytest
6 9 (6.57%) Hibernate
6 9 (6.57%) J2EE
6 9 (6.57%) JPA
6 9 (6.57%) Kafka
6 9 (6.57%) SOAP
6 9 (6.57%) XML
7 8 (5.84%) HTML
8 7 (5.11%) WebSockets
9 6 (4.38%) RabbitMQ
9 6 (4.38%) React
10 4 (2.92%) Django
10 4 (2.92%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 22 (16.06%) Replication
2 14 (10.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 12 (8.76%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (5.84%) Clustering
5 7 (5.11%) Data Centre
6 5 (3.65%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (2.92%) Public Cloud
8 3 (2.19%) Algorithms
8 3 (2.19%) ASIC
8 3 (2.19%) Data Structures
8 3 (2.19%) FPGA
8 3 (2.19%) Smart Meter
8 3 (2.19%) Verilog
9 2 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.46%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.46%) Renewable Energy
9 2 (1.46%) Solar Panel
10 1 (0.73%) Derivative
10 1 (0.73%) Genomics
10 1 (0.73%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 125 (91.24%) Linux
2 37 (27.01%) Unix
3 24 (17.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 23 (16.79%) Windows
5 12 (8.76%) Ubuntu
6 9 (6.57%) VMS
7 5 (3.65%) Windows Server
8 4 (2.92%) Alpine Linux
9 2 (1.46%) CentOS
9 2 (1.46%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (1.46%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.73%) Android
10 1 (0.73%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.73%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (40.15%) CI/CD
2 40 (29.20%) DevOps
3 37 (27.01%) Agile
4 24 (17.52%) Migration
4 24 (17.52%) Problem-Solving
5 23 (16.79%) Software Engineering
5 23 (16.79%) Task Automation
6 20 (14.60%) SDLC
7 19 (13.87%) Scrum
8 17 (12.41%) Mentoring
9 16 (11.68%) Containerisation
9 16 (11.68%) Continuous Integration
9 16 (11.68%) Infrastructure as Code
9 16 (11.68%) ITIL
9 16 (11.68%) Storage Management
10 14 (10.22%) Infrastructure Monitoring
10 14 (10.22%) Service Management
11 13 (9.49%) Data Migration
11 13 (9.49%) Open Source
11 13 (9.49%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 68 (49.64%) Python
2 43 (31.39%) Java
3 42 (30.66%) SQL
4 32 (23.36%) Bash
5 28 (20.44%) Shell Script
6 23 (16.79%) Perl
7 17 (12.41%) C++
8 13 (9.49%) PowerShell
9 10 (7.30%) JavaScript
9 10 (7.30%) T-SQL
10 8 (5.84%) C
10 8 (5.84%) Go
10 8 (5.84%) R
11 3 (2.19%) Assembly Language
11 3 (2.19%) SystemVerilog
11 3 (2.19%) Tcl
12 1 (0.73%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.73%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 52 (37.96%) Security Cleared
2 38 (27.74%) SC Cleared
3 12 (8.76%) DV Cleared
4 2 (1.46%) CCNA
4 2 (1.46%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (1.46%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.46%) Degree
4 2 (1.46%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (0.73%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.73%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (0.73%) RHCE
5 1 (0.73%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (10.22%) MISRA
1 14 (10.22%) QA
2 2 (1.46%) ISO 9001
2 2 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 2 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.46%) SLA
System Software
1 32 (23.36%) Docker
2 18 (13.14%) vSphere
3 17 (12.41%) Active Directory
4 16 (11.68%) VMware Infrastructure
5 10 (7.30%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (6.57%) Hyper-V
6 9 (6.57%) iptables
7 7 (5.11%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 5 (3.65%) VMware NSX
9 2 (1.46%) Ceph
9 2 (1.46%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.73%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 47 (34.31%) Ansible
2 35 (25.55%) Kubernetes
3 29 (21.17%) Terraform
4 14 (10.22%) Grafana
5 13 (9.49%) Prometheus
6 12 (8.76%) Kibana
7 11 (8.03%) logstash
8 9 (6.57%) Progress Chef
8 9 (6.57%) Red Hat Satellite
9 7 (5.11%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 7 (5.11%) Packer
9 7 (5.11%) vRealize
10 6 (4.38%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (1.46%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (1.46%) OpenNMS
11 2 (1.46%) Pacemaker
11 2 (1.46%) Podman
11 2 (1.46%) Puppet
11 2 (1.46%) Salt
11 2 (1.46%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 26 (18.98%) Red Hat
2 23 (16.79%) Oracle
3 22 (16.06%) VMware
4 15 (10.95%) Google
5 12 (8.76%) SAP
6 11 (8.03%) Microsoft
7 10 (7.30%) Sybase
7 10 (7.30%) Veritas
8 9 (6.57%) Cisco
8 9 (6.57%) SolarWinds
9 7 (5.11%) ServiceNow
9 7 (5.11%) Sun
10 6 (4.38%) Atlassian
11 5 (3.65%) Arqiva
11 5 (3.65%) EMC
11 5 (3.65%) IBM
12 4 (2.92%) Palo Alto
12 4 (2.92%) Veeam
13 3 (2.19%) Synopsys
13 3 (2.19%) Xilinx