Linux Command Line Contracts in the South East

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

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Linux Command Line in contract job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 173 200 224
Rank change year-on-year +27 +24 -22
Contract jobs citing Linux Command Line 28 11 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.50% 0.19% 0.42%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.77% 0.57% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 7 20
10th Percentile £462 £465 £162
25th Percentile £510 £513 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £593 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.95% +18.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £548
90th Percentile £681 £763 £593
England median daily rate £550 £539 £540
% change year-on-year +2.09% -0.23% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £26.25 - -
Median hourly rate £27.50 - £50.77
75th Percentile £28.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £20.00 £46.00
% change year-on-year +250.00% -56.52% -

All Generic Skills
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,579 1,928 2,567
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 27.96% 34.01% 33.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 946 1,307 1,657
10th Percentile £205 £205 £220
25th Percentile £363 £371 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% +7.30%
75th Percentile £618 £632 £600
90th Percentile £689 £721 £675
England median daily rate £550 £570 £550
% change year-on-year -3.51% +3.64% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 160 93 114
10th Percentile £11.78 £17.82 £13.73
25th Percentile £18.35 £20.47 £16.29
Median hourly rate £50.00 £52.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +144.19% -41.58%
75th Percentile £61.30 £67.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £75.16 £75.00 £62.22
England median hourly rate £36.00 £22.49 £26.39
% change year-on-year +60.11% -14.78% +3.47%

Linux Command Line
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Command Line in the South East

Linux Command Line
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Linux Command Line in the South East

Linux Command Line
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux Command Line in the South East over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux Command Line in the South East

Linux Command Line
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux Command Line in the South East

Linux Command Line
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East 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
Hampshire +7 13 £497 -15.40% 4
West Sussex - 8 £575 -
Thames Valley +22 4 £650 +9.70% 11
Berkshire -5 4 £650 -1.33%
Surrey +17 3 £650 - 2
Linux Command Line
England

Linux Command Line
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Business Applications
1 7 (25.00%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 8 (28.57%) GitHub
2 5 (17.86%) IaaS
3 4 (14.29%) Azure
4 1 (3.57%) AWS
4 1 (3.57%) Entra ID
4 1 (3.57%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 4 (14.29%) Firewall
2 3 (10.71%) BGP
2 3 (10.71%) Cisco IOS
2 3 (10.71%) IOS XR
3 1 (3.57%) DNS
3 1 (3.57%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (53.57%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (32.14%) MongoDB
3 8 (28.57%) Relational Database
4 6 (21.43%) SQL Server
5 5 (17.86%) MySQL
5 5 (17.86%) RDBMS
6 2 (7.14%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 17 (60.71%) GitLab
2 5 (17.86%) Git
General
1 3 (10.71%) Public Sector
1 3 (10.71%) Social Skills
2 2 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (7.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (32.14%) Linux Engineer
2 8 (28.57%) Database Specialist
3 6 (21.43%) Platform Engineer
3 6 (21.43%) Platform Specialist
4 5 (17.86%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 5 (17.86%) Systems Administrator
5 3 (10.71%) Analyst
5 3 (10.71%) Automation Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Network Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Service Analyst
6 2 (7.14%) Service Desk Analyst
7 1 (3.57%) Administrator
7 1 (3.57%) Database Analyst
7 1 (3.57%) DBA
7 1 (3.57%) Linux Administrator
7 1 (3.57%) Linux Support
7 1 (3.57%) SQL DBA
7 1 (3.57%) SQL Server DBA
7 1 (3.57%) SQL Server Specialist
7 1 (3.57%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.71%) Django
1 3 (10.71%) JSON
1 3 (10.71%) REST
1 3 (10.71%) RESTful
1 3 (10.71%) YANG
2 2 (7.14%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (28.57%) Clustering
1 8 (28.57%) Replication
2 3 (10.71%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (10.71%) Public Cloud
2 3 (10.71%) Smart Meter
3 1 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 24 (85.71%) Linux
2 12 (42.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (32.14%) Unix
4 7 (25.00%) VMS
5 3 (10.71%) Windows
6 1 (3.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (42.86%) High Availability
2 11 (39.29%) Storage Management
3 10 (35.71%) Agile
3 10 (35.71%) Capacity Management
3 10 (35.71%) Data Migration
3 10 (35.71%) Disaster Recovery
3 10 (35.71%) Migration
3 10 (35.71%) Performance Tuning
3 10 (35.71%) Task Automation
4 8 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 8 (28.57%) Database Security
4 8 (28.57%) Platform Engineering
5 7 (25.00%) Containerisation
5 7 (25.00%) Project Delivery
5 7 (25.00%) Runbook
5 7 (25.00%) Scrum
6 5 (17.86%) Build Automation
6 5 (17.86%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (17.86%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (17.86%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 19 (67.86%) Bash
2 10 (35.71%) Python
3 9 (32.14%) Shell Script
4 6 (21.43%) SQL
5 3 (10.71%) Java
5 3 (10.71%) JavaScript
5 3 (10.71%) T-SQL
6 1 (3.57%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 23 (82.14%) Security Cleared
2 21 (75.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (7.14%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.14%) ISO 9001
1 2 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 20000
1 2 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 16 (57.14%) vSphere
2 12 (42.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (17.86%) Docker
3 5 (17.86%) Hyper-V
4 4 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (10.71%) Active Directory
5 3 (10.71%) VMware NSX
6 2 (7.14%) Ceph
6 2 (7.14%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 24 (85.71%) Ansible
2 12 (42.86%) Terraform
3 7 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 7 (25.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 7 (25.00%) Packer
3 7 (25.00%) vRealize
4 5 (17.86%) Red Hat Satellite
5 2 (7.14%) Pacemaker
5 2 (7.14%) Podman
6 1 (3.57%) VxRail
Vendors
1 19 (67.86%) Red Hat
2 16 (57.14%) VMware
3 14 (50.00%) Oracle
4 9 (32.14%) SolarWinds
5 5 (17.86%) Arqiva
5 5 (17.86%) Veritas
6 3 (10.71%) Cisco
6 3 (10.71%) TOWER Software
7 2 (7.14%) Remedy
7 2 (7.14%) ServiceNow
7 2 (7.14%) Sun
8 1 (3.57%) Dell
8 1 (3.57%) Microsoft