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

6 months to
20 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 443 507 548
Rank change year-on-year +64 +41 +1
Contract jobs citing Linux Command Line 137 188 331
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.32% 0.33% 0.37%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.06% 0.99% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 133 193
10th Percentile £427 £401 £390
25th Percentile £494 £490 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% +7.32%
75th Percentile £650 £614 £650
90th Percentile £750 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £540 £525
% change year-on-year +1.85% +2.86% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 6 3
10th Percentile £30.63 £18.65 £42.10
25th Percentile £68.13 £20.00 £42.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £33.87 £46.00
Median % change year-on-year +106.70% -26.38% -
75th Percentile - £68.18 £50.39
90th Percentile - £79.00 £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 12,902 19,052 29,287
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.33% 33.27% 33.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,318 13,115 20,490
10th Percentile £267 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £663 £680 £660
90th Percentile £800 £800 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 897 626 721
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £31.50 £22.26 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.54% -17.57% +3.85%
75th Percentile £61.30 £62.25 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.76
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £22.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year +36.36% +4.76% -10.83%

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 20 May 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 20 May 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 20 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
England +92 123 £550 +2.33% 86
UK excluding London +58 80 £550 +1.85% 53
London +61 50 £570 +7.09% 43
Work from Home +81 29 £550 - 37
South East +31 23 £575 +0.66% 18
South West +12 18 £550 -9.28% 10
Midlands +26 17 £550 +69.23% 7
West Midlands +33 15 £550 +3.77% 5
Scotland +27 10 £750 +42.86% 5
North of England +30 7 £445 -24.26% 7
Yorkshire +22 5 £445 -37.54% 2
East of England +9 3 £625 +2.04% 4
North West +14 2 £513 +7.89% 5
East Midlands +13 2 £509 +56.62% 2
Northern Ireland +4 2 - -

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 13 (9.49%) Confluence
2 4 (2.92%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.19%) IIS
3 3 (2.19%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.19%) WordPress
4 1 (0.73%) Apache
4 1 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.73%) Red Hat Fuse
Business Applications
1 7 (5.11%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (3.65%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 25 (18.25%) Azure
2 24 (17.52%) GitHub
3 17 (12.41%) AWS
4 11 (8.03%) Serverless
5 9 (6.57%) Amazon EC2
5 9 (6.57%) Amazon S3
6 8 (5.84%) AWS Lambda
6 8 (5.84%) OpenShift
7 7 (5.11%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (4.38%) IaaS
9 5 (3.65%) Azure Storage
9 5 (3.65%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (2.92%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (2.19%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (2.19%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (2.19%) GCP
11 3 (2.19%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (2.19%) OneDrive
11 3 (2.19%) WhatsApp
12 2 (1.46%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.84%) SSH
2 7 (5.11%) Firewall
3 6 (4.38%) DNS
3 6 (4.38%) Network Security
3 6 (4.38%) SAN
4 5 (3.65%) AMQP
5 3 (2.19%) BGP
5 3 (2.19%) Cisco IOS
5 3 (2.19%) Fibre Channel
5 3 (2.19%) IOS XR
5 3 (2.19%) iSCSI
5 3 (2.19%) NAS
5 3 (2.19%) VPN
5 3 (2.19%) Wireless
6 2 (1.46%) Cisco ISE
6 2 (1.46%) DHCP
6 2 (1.46%) FTP
6 2 (1.46%) Radio Access Network
6 2 (1.46%) SNMP
6 2 (1.46%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (13.87%) PostgreSQL
1 19 (13.87%) Relational Database
2 17 (12.41%) SQL Server
3 12 (8.76%) Elasticsearch
4 11 (8.03%) MongoDB
5 10 (7.30%) RDBMS
5 10 (7.30%) Sybase ASE
6 8 (5.84%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (5.11%) MySQL
8 6 (4.38%) InfluxDB
8 6 (4.38%) Oracle Database
9 5 (3.65%) DB2
10 4 (2.92%) Redis
11 2 (1.46%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (1.46%) Data Mart
11 2 (1.46%) Flink
12 1 (0.73%) Apache Cassandra
12 1 (0.73%) Azure SQL Database
12 1 (0.73%) Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.73%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 34 (24.82%) JIRA
2 23 (16.79%) GitLab
3 20 (14.60%) Git
4 19 (13.87%) Jenkins
5 8 (5.84%) GoogleTest
5 8 (5.84%) JUnit
6 7 (5.11%) Cucumber
7 5 (3.65%) Pylint
8 4 (2.92%) Gradle
8 4 (2.92%) Selenium
9 3 (2.19%) Artifactory
9 3 (2.19%) Subversion
10 2 (1.46%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.73%) Ant
11 1 (0.73%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.73%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.73%) GoCD
11 1 (0.73%) Maven
11 1 (0.73%) Poetry
General
1 28 (20.44%) Finance
2 27 (19.71%) Social Skills
3 18 (13.14%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (8.76%) Public Sector
5 5 (3.65%) Banking
6 4 (2.92%) Electronics
6 4 (2.92%) Investment Banking
6 4 (2.92%) Manufacturing
6 4 (2.92%) Military
6 4 (2.92%) Telecoms
7 3 (2.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.19%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.46%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.46%) Front Office
8 2 (1.46%) Marketing
8 2 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.46%) Wearables
9 1 (0.73%) Fire and Rescue
9 1 (0.73%) Law
9 1 (0.73%) Police
Job Titles
1 21 (15.33%) Linux Engineer
2 16 (11.68%) Developer
2 16 (11.68%) DevOps Engineer
3 14 (10.22%) Senior
4 13 (9.49%) Applications Engineer
4 13 (9.49%) Support Engineer
5 12 (8.76%) Applications Support
5 12 (8.76%) Applications Support Engineer
5 12 (8.76%) JIRA Engineer
5 12 (8.76%) SIEM Engineer
6 10 (7.30%) DBA
6 10 (7.30%) Java Developer
6 10 (7.30%) Network Engineer
6 10 (7.30%) Software Engineer
7 9 (6.57%) Azure Engineer
7 9 (6.57%) Sybase DBA
8 8 (5.84%) Database Specialist
8 8 (5.84%) Java Engineer
8 8 (5.84%) Java Software Engineer
9 7 (5.11%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (20.44%) REST
2 19 (13.87%) Web Services
3 15 (10.95%) JSON
4 12 (8.76%) YAML
5 11 (8.03%) Elastic Stack
5 11 (8.03%) pytest
6 10 (7.30%) Qt
6 10 (7.30%) Spring
7 8 (5.84%) HTML
7 8 (5.84%) Kafka
8 7 (5.11%) Hibernate
8 7 (5.11%) J2EE
8 7 (5.11%) JPA
8 7 (5.11%) SOAP
8 7 (5.11%) WebSockets
8 7 (5.11%) XML
9 6 (4.38%) React
10 5 (3.65%) RabbitMQ
11 4 (2.92%) RESTful
12 3 (2.19%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 23 (16.79%) Replication
2 14 (10.22%) Data Centre
3 10 (7.30%) Enterprise Software
3 10 (7.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 8 (5.84%) Clustering
5 5 (3.65%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (3.65%) FPGA
6 4 (2.92%) Public Cloud
7 3 (2.19%) ASIC
7 3 (2.19%) Genomics
7 3 (2.19%) Smart Meter
7 3 (2.19%) Verilog
8 2 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.46%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.46%) Life Science
8 2 (1.46%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.46%) NHS
8 2 (1.46%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.46%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 123 (89.78%) Linux
2 33 (24.09%) Unix
3 21 (15.33%) Windows
4 19 (13.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (9.49%) Ubuntu
6 10 (7.30%) VMS
7 6 (4.38%) Windows Server
8 4 (2.92%) Alpine Linux
9 3 (2.19%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (2.19%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (1.46%) CentOS
11 1 (0.73%) Android
11 1 (0.73%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.73%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (40.15%) CI/CD
2 38 (27.74%) DevOps
3 32 (23.36%) Agile
4 28 (20.44%) Migration
5 25 (18.25%) Problem-Solving
6 24 (17.52%) Software Engineering
6 24 (17.52%) Task Automation
7 19 (13.87%) Data Migration
8 18 (13.14%) SDLC
8 18 (13.14%) Service Management
9 17 (12.41%) Mentoring
9 17 (12.41%) Scrum
10 16 (11.68%) Continuous Integration
10 16 (11.68%) Infrastructure as Code
11 15 (10.95%) Open Source
12 14 (10.22%) Containerisation
12 14 (10.22%) Infrastructure Monitoring
12 14 (10.22%) ITIL
13 12 (8.76%) SIEM
13 12 (8.76%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 69 (50.36%) Python
2 39 (28.47%) SQL
3 36 (26.28%) Java
4 34 (24.82%) Bash
5 22 (16.06%) Perl
5 22 (16.06%) Shell Script
6 13 (9.49%) C++
6 13 (9.49%) PowerShell
7 10 (7.30%) JavaScript
7 10 (7.30%) T-SQL
8 8 (5.84%) R
9 7 (5.11%) C
9 7 (5.11%) Go
10 3 (2.19%) Assembly Language
10 3 (2.19%) SystemVerilog
10 3 (2.19%) Tcl
11 2 (1.46%) Ruby
12 1 (0.73%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 48 (35.04%) Security Cleared
2 34 (24.82%) SC Cleared
3 11 (8.03%) DV Cleared
4 4 (2.92%) Degree
5 2 (1.46%) CCNA
5 2 (1.46%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (1.46%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.46%) HND
6 1 (0.73%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.73%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (8.76%) QA
2 10 (7.30%) MISRA
3 2 (1.46%) SLA
4 1 (0.73%) Data Quality
System Software
1 29 (21.17%) Docker
2 19 (13.87%) vSphere
3 16 (11.68%) Active Directory
3 16 (11.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (6.57%) iptables
4 9 (6.57%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (5.11%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 5 (3.65%) VMware NSX
7 4 (2.92%) Hyper-V
8 3 (2.19%) Firmware
9 2 (1.46%) Ceph
9 2 (1.46%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 46 (33.58%) Ansible
2 36 (26.28%) Kubernetes
3 30 (21.90%) Terraform
4 16 (11.68%) Grafana
5 15 (10.95%) Prometheus
6 12 (8.76%) Kibana
7 11 (8.03%) logstash
8 10 (7.30%) Progress Chef
9 7 (5.11%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 7 (5.11%) Packer
9 7 (5.11%) vRealize
10 5 (3.65%) Docker Swarm
11 4 (2.92%) Puppet
11 4 (2.92%) Red Hat Satellite
12 3 (2.19%) Microsoft Intune
12 3 (2.19%) SCCM
13 2 (1.46%) Pacemaker
13 2 (1.46%) Podman
13 2 (1.46%) Salt
13 2 (1.46%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 23 (16.79%) Oracle
1 23 (16.79%) VMware
2 21 (15.33%) Red Hat
3 13 (9.49%) Atlassian
4 12 (8.76%) SAP
5 11 (8.03%) Google
6 10 (7.30%) Microsoft
6 10 (7.30%) Sybase
6 10 (7.30%) Veritas
7 9 (6.57%) Cisco
7 9 (6.57%) SolarWinds
8 7 (5.11%) EMC
8 7 (5.11%) Sun
9 5 (3.65%) Arqiva
9 5 (3.65%) IBM
9 5 (3.65%) Palo Alto
9 5 (3.65%) ServiceNow
9 5 (3.65%) Veeam
10 3 (2.19%) Synology
10 3 (2.19%) Zerto
102 Linux Command Line jobs Nationwide