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 in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Linux Command Line over the 6 months leading up to 27 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 390 523 543
Rank change year-on-year +133 +20 +15
Contract jobs citing Linux Command Line 155 114 245
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.42% 0.24% 0.34%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.36% 0.73% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 80 149
10th Percentile £431 £325 £373
25th Percentile £510 £472 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £526 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.56% -4.36% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £633 £638
90th Percentile £738 £751 £703
UK median daily rate £550 £540 £550
% change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 4 3
10th Percentile £43.50 £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 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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 11,394 15,722 24,227
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.54% 33.33% 34.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,334 10,963 17,332
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £418 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.31% +2.36% +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £695 £675
90th Percentile £825 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 842 524 598
10th Percentile £12.24 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.39 £11.87 £17.44
Median hourly rate £37.50 £23.33 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +60.77% -10.29% +4.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £62.62 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.03 £65.46
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £22.50 £26.50
% change year-on-year +62.22% -15.09% +6.00%

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 27 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 27 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 27 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 +70 49 £550 +4.76% 26
South West +30 35 £550 -8.52% 9
South East +26 31 £575 +5.26% 11
Midlands +26 22 £544 +67.31% 7
West Midlands +27 16 £550 +3.77% 4
North of England +32 10 £475 -32.14% 14
Yorkshire +21 9 £460 -35.44% 10
East Midlands +10 6 £520 +60.00% 3
East of England +4 4 £625 - 5
North West +9 1 £513 +7.89% 3
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 7 (4.52%) Confluence
2 3 (1.94%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.29%) IIS
3 2 (1.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (1.29%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.29%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Doxygen
Business Applications
1 6 (3.87%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (3.23%) Endur
3 2 (1.29%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 39 (25.16%) GitHub
2 22 (14.19%) Azure
3 16 (10.32%) AWS
4 12 (7.74%) Serverless
5 10 (6.45%) Amazon EC2
6 9 (5.81%) Amazon S3
6 9 (5.81%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (5.16%) IaaS
7 8 (5.16%) OpenShift
8 5 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (2.58%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (2.58%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (1.94%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (1.94%) Azure Storage
10 3 (1.94%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (1.94%) PaaS
11 2 (1.29%) Azure App Service
11 2 (1.29%) Azure Monitor
11 2 (1.29%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (1.29%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (7.10%) Firewall
2 10 (6.45%) SSH
3 8 (5.16%) DNS
4 7 (4.52%) Network Security
5 6 (3.87%) AMQP
6 5 (3.23%) SAN
7 3 (1.94%) BGP
7 3 (1.94%) Cisco IOS
7 3 (1.94%) IOS XR
7 3 (1.94%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (1.29%) Cisco ISE
8 2 (1.29%) DHCP
8 2 (1.29%) Fibre Channel
8 2 (1.29%) iSCSI
8 2 (1.29%) LAN
8 2 (1.29%) NAS
8 2 (1.29%) Radio Access Network
8 2 (1.29%) tcpdump
8 2 (1.29%) Wireless
8 2 (1.29%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (11.61%) Relational Database
2 17 (10.97%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (9.68%) SQL Server
4 12 (7.74%) Elasticsearch
5 9 (5.81%) Amazon RDS
6 8 (5.16%) MongoDB
6 8 (5.16%) Sybase ASE
7 7 (4.52%) InfluxDB
7 7 (4.52%) Oracle Database
7 7 (4.52%) RDBMS
8 5 (3.23%) MySQL
9 3 (1.94%) DB2
10 2 (1.29%) Power BI
10 2 (1.29%) Redis
11 1 (0.65%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (0.65%) Apache Cassandra
11 1 (0.65%) Data Mart
11 1 (0.65%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.65%) Flink
11 1 (0.65%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 46 (29.68%) JIRA
2 37 (23.87%) Jenkins
3 28 (18.06%) GitLab
4 24 (15.48%) GoogleTest
5 18 (11.61%) Git
6 9 (5.81%) Cucumber
6 9 (5.81%) JUnit
7 5 (3.23%) Pylint
8 3 (1.94%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.94%) Gradle
8 3 (1.94%) SonarQube
8 3 (1.94%) Subversion
9 2 (1.29%) Bitbucket
9 2 (1.29%) Selenium
10 1 (0.65%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.65%) GCC
10 1 (0.65%) GoCD
10 1 (0.65%) Inno Setup
10 1 (0.65%) Maven
10 1 (0.65%) Visual Studio
General
1 28 (18.06%) Finance
2 26 (16.77%) Social Skills
3 24 (15.48%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (9.68%) Public Sector
5 7 (4.52%) Banking
6 6 (3.87%) Investment Banking
7 4 (2.58%) Military
7 4 (2.58%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.94%) Front Office
9 2 (1.29%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.29%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.29%) Electronics
9 2 (1.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.29%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.29%) Marketing
9 2 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.65%) Fire and Rescue
10 1 (0.65%) Law
10 1 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.65%) Police
Job Titles
1 23 (14.84%) Software Engineer
2 21 (13.55%) Developer
2 21 (13.55%) Java Engineer
2 21 (13.55%) Java Software Engineer
3 16 (10.32%) Linux Engineer
4 15 (9.68%) Java Developer
5 13 (8.39%) DevOps Engineer
5 13 (8.39%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 13 (8.39%) Senior
5 13 (8.39%) Systems Administrator
6 12 (7.74%) SIEM Engineer
7 11 (7.10%) C++ Software Engineer
8 9 (5.81%) DBA
8 9 (5.81%) Network Engineer
9 8 (5.16%) Database Specialist
9 8 (5.16%) Support Engineer
9 8 (5.16%) Sybase DBA
10 7 (4.52%) Applications Engineer
10 7 (4.52%) Applications Support
10 7 (4.52%) Applications Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (16.77%) Qt
1 26 (16.77%) REST
2 19 (12.26%) JSON
3 16 (10.32%) Web Services
4 12 (7.74%) Elastic Stack
5 11 (7.10%) Spring
6 10 (6.45%) XML
6 10 (6.45%) YAML
7 9 (5.81%) Hibernate
7 9 (5.81%) J2EE
7 9 (5.81%) JPA
7 9 (5.81%) Kafka
7 9 (5.81%) pytest
7 9 (5.81%) SOAP
8 8 (5.16%) HTML
9 7 (4.52%) WebSockets
10 6 (3.87%) RabbitMQ
10 6 (3.87%) React
11 4 (2.58%) Django
11 4 (2.58%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 26 (16.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 19 (12.26%) Replication
3 12 (7.74%) Enterprise Software
4 9 (5.81%) Data Centre
5 7 (4.52%) Clustering
6 5 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (2.58%) Data Structures
7 4 (2.58%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.94%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.94%) ASIC
8 3 (1.94%) FPGA
8 3 (1.94%) Smart Meter
8 3 (1.94%) Verilog
9 2 (1.29%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.29%) Renewable Energy
9 2 (1.29%) Solar Panel
10 1 (0.65%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.65%) Genomics
10 1 (0.65%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 143 (92.26%) Linux
2 36 (23.23%) Unix
3 29 (18.71%) Windows
4 25 (16.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (7.74%) Ubuntu
6 8 (5.16%) VMS
7 7 (4.52%) Windows Server
8 2 (1.29%) Alpine Linux
8 2 (1.29%) CentOS
8 2 (1.29%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (1.29%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.65%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (41.29%) CI/CD
2 51 (32.90%) DevOps
3 49 (31.61%) Agile
4 34 (21.94%) Software Engineering
5 26 (16.77%) Migration
6 24 (15.48%) Problem-Solving
7 20 (12.90%) Task Automation
8 19 (12.26%) SDLC
8 19 (12.26%) Storage Management
9 18 (11.61%) Service Management
10 17 (10.97%) Continuous Integration
11 16 (10.32%) ITIL
11 16 (10.32%) Mentoring
11 16 (10.32%) Scrum
12 15 (9.68%) Containerisation
13 14 (9.03%) Infrastructure as Code
13 14 (9.03%) Infrastructure Monitoring
14 13 (8.39%) Data Migration
14 13 (8.39%) Open Source
14 13 (8.39%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 76 (49.03%) Python
2 53 (34.19%) Java
3 42 (27.10%) SQL
4 35 (22.58%) Bash
5 31 (20.00%) Shell Script
6 29 (18.71%) C++
7 23 (14.84%) Perl
8 16 (10.32%) PowerShell
9 10 (6.45%) JavaScript
10 9 (5.81%) Go
11 8 (5.16%) C
11 8 (5.16%) R
11 8 (5.16%) T-SQL
12 3 (1.94%) Assembly Language
12 3 (1.94%) SystemVerilog
12 3 (1.94%) Tcl
13 2 (1.29%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.65%) Bicep
14 1 (0.65%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.65%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 59 (38.06%) Security Cleared
2 46 (29.68%) SC Cleared
3 12 (7.74%) DV Cleared
4 4 (2.58%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (2.58%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (1.29%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.29%) CCNA
6 1 (0.65%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.65%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.65%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (0.65%) Degree
6 1 (0.65%) RHCE
6 1 (0.65%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (16.77%) MISRA
2 12 (7.74%) QA
3 4 (2.58%) ISO 9001
3 4 (2.58%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 4 (2.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.29%) SLA
System Software
1 35 (22.58%) Docker
2 21 (13.55%) Active Directory
3 16 (10.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (10.32%) vSphere
4 13 (8.39%) Hyper-V
5 9 (5.81%) iptables
6 8 (5.16%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (3.23%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 5 (3.23%) VMware NSX
8 2 (1.29%) Ceph
8 2 (1.29%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.65%) Firmware
9 1 (0.65%) LXC
9 1 (0.65%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 51 (32.90%) Ansible
2 32 (20.65%) Kubernetes
3 28 (18.06%) Terraform
4 13 (8.39%) Grafana
4 13 (8.39%) Red Hat Satellite
5 12 (7.74%) Kibana
5 12 (7.74%) Prometheus
6 11 (7.10%) logstash
7 9 (5.81%) Progress Chef
8 7 (4.52%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 6 (3.87%) Docker Swarm
9 6 (3.87%) Packer
9 6 (3.87%) vRealize
10 4 (2.58%) Puppet
11 2 (1.29%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (1.29%) Nmap
11 2 (1.29%) OpenNMS
11 2 (1.29%) Pacemaker
11 2 (1.29%) Salt
11 2 (1.29%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 28 (18.06%) Red Hat
2 27 (17.42%) Google
3 21 (13.55%) VMware
4 20 (12.90%) Oracle
5 12 (7.74%) Microsoft
6 11 (7.10%) Cisco
7 10 (6.45%) SAP
7 10 (6.45%) SolarWinds
8 8 (5.16%) Sybase
9 7 (4.52%) Atlassian
9 7 (4.52%) ServiceNow
9 7 (4.52%) Veritas
10 5 (3.23%) EMC
10 5 (3.23%) Sun
11 4 (2.58%) Arqiva
11 4 (2.58%) Palo Alto
11 4 (2.58%) Remedy
11 4 (2.58%) Veeam
12 3 (1.94%) Synopsys
12 3 (1.94%) TOWER Software