Linux Command Line Contracts in the West Midlands

Linux/Unix Command Line Interface (CLI)
England > West Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Linux Command Line in contract job vacancies in the West Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Linux Command Line over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 95 126 163
Rank change year-on-year +31 +37 -27
Contract jobs citing Linux Command Line 16 3 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.78% 0.14% 0.39%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.55% 0.41% 1.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 1 10
10th Percentile £513 - £359
25th Percentile £536 - £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £530 £520
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% +1.92% -0.95%
75th Percentile - - £570
90th Percentile £1,000 - £655
England median daily rate £550 £525 £540
% change year-on-year +4.76% -2.78% +2.86%

All Generic Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 628 736 1,027
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 30.75% 33.26% 28.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 388 478 734
10th Percentile £271 £263 £275
25th Percentile £363 £413 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% +2.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £646 £638 £588
90th Percentile £750 £700 £700
England median daily rate £550 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 22 18
10th Percentile £10.42 £17.77 £13.95
25th Percentile £14.71 £21.54 £15.06
Median hourly rate £23.58 £27.50 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.27% +61.76% +3.37%
75th Percentile £40.38 £30.00 £23.25
90th Percentile £58.75 £57.13 £36.58
England median hourly rate £36.50 £22.49 £26.50
% change year-on-year +62.33% -15.15% +6.00%

Linux Command Line
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Command Line in the West Midlands

Linux Command Line
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Linux Command Line in the West Midlands

Linux Command Line
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux Command Line in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux Command Line in the West Midlands

Linux Command Line
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux Command Line in the West Midlands

Linux Command Line
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 12 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
Herefordshire - 13 £550 -
Birmingham - 2 £1,000 - 2
Linux Command Line
England

Linux Command Line
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 2 (12.50%) IIS
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (12.50%) SharePoint
1 2 (12.50%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 2 (12.50%) Azure
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (12.50%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) DNS
1 2 (12.50%) Fibre Channel
1 2 (12.50%) Firewall
1 2 (12.50%) iSCSI
1 2 (12.50%) NAS
1 2 (12.50%) SAN
1 2 (12.50%) VPN
1 2 (12.50%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (75.00%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (12.50%) SQL Server
3 1 (6.25%) Oracle Database
3 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
General
1 3 (18.75%) Public Sector
2 1 (6.25%) Finance
2 1 (6.25%) Fire and Rescue
2 1 (6.25%) Military
2 1 (6.25%) Police
Job Titles
1 12 (75.00%) SIEM Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Elasticsearch Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Network Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Database Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) DevOps Automation Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Oracle Database Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (68.75%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (12.50%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Replication
2 1 (6.25%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 16 (100.00%) Linux
2 13 (81.25%) Windows
3 12 (75.00%) Ubuntu
4 2 (12.50%) VMS
4 2 (12.50%) Windows Server
4 2 (12.50%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (12.50%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (6.25%) Solaris
5 1 (6.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (81.25%) Infrastructure Monitoring
2 12 (75.00%) SIEM
3 10 (62.50%) RBAC
3 10 (62.50%) Visualisation
4 8 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
4 8 (50.00%) DataOps
5 5 (31.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (12.50%) Mentoring
7 1 (6.25%) Configuration Management
7 1 (6.25%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (6.25%) Customer Requirements
7 1 (6.25%) Dashboard Development
7 1 (6.25%) Data Visualisation
7 1 (6.25%) DevOps
7 1 (6.25%) ITIL
7 1 (6.25%) Performance Monitoring
7 1 (6.25%) Problem-Solving
7 1 (6.25%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (50.00%) R
2 2 (12.50%) PowerShell
3 1 (6.25%) Shell Script
3 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 4 (25.00%) DV Cleared
2 4 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) CTC Cleared
System Software
1 12 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 9 (56.25%) iptables
3 2 (12.50%) vSphere
4 1 (6.25%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 11 (68.75%) Kibana
1 11 (68.75%) logstash
2 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (12.50%) SCCM
3 1 (6.25%) Ansible
3 1 (6.25%) Data Guard
3 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
3 1 (6.25%) Nagios
3 1 (6.25%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (6.25%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Aruba
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
1 2 (12.50%) Palo Alto
1 2 (12.50%) ProCurve
1 2 (12.50%) Synology
1 2 (12.50%) Veeam
1 2 (12.50%) VMware
1 2 (12.50%) Zerto
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle