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

6 months to
15 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 437 507 548
Rank change year-on-year +70 +41 -7
Contract jobs citing Linux Command Line 137 194 320
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.32% 0.34% 0.37%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.06% 1.02% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 138 186
10th Percentile £427 £402 £381
25th Percentile £494 £493 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
75th Percentile £650 £618 £658
90th Percentile £750 £700 £735
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £547 £525
% change year-on-year +0.55% +4.19% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 7 3
10th Percentile £30.63 £20.00 £42.10
25th Percentile - £33.87 £42.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £75.00 £46.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +63.04% -
75th Percentile - - £50.39
90th Percentile - £78.20 £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 12,885 18,988 28,967
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.28% 33.25% 33.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,301 13,052 20,257
10th Percentile £269 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £674 £676 £660
90th Percentile £800 £800 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 890 627 724
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.14 £10.63 £17.23
Median hourly rate £31.25 £22.49 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +38.98% -18.24% +4.05%
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.50 £22.00 £21.04
% change year-on-year +29.55% +4.56% -12.33%

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 15 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 15 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 15 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 +65 121 £550 +2.09% 70
UK excluding London +54 82 £550 +0.55% 40
London +59 48 £570 +8.16% 31
Work from Home +89 28 £550 - 30
South East +31 24 £575 +0.66% 12
Midlands +40 17 £550 +69.23% 5
South West +15 17 £550 -8.33% 8
West Midlands +31 15 £550 +3.77% 3
Scotland +35 12 £750 +42.86% 5
North of England +21 7 £445 -24.26% 6
Yorkshire +23 5 £445 -37.54% 2
East of England +11 3 £625 -13.79% 3
North West +17 2 £513 +7.89% 4
East Midlands +11 2 £509 +56.62% 2
Northern Ireland +7 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 26 (18.98%) Azure
2 23 (16.79%) 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%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (5.84%) OpenShift
7 6 (4.38%) IaaS
8 5 (3.65%) Azure Storage
8 5 (3.65%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (2.92%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (2.19%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (2.19%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (2.19%) GCP
10 3 (2.19%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (2.19%) OneDrive
10 3 (2.19%) WhatsApp
11 2 (1.46%) Azure Monitor
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%) LAN
6 2 (1.46%) Radio Access Network
6 2 (1.46%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (14.60%) PostgreSQL
1 20 (14.60%) Relational Database
2 17 (12.41%) SQL Server
3 12 (8.76%) Elasticsearch
3 12 (8.76%) MongoDB
4 10 (7.30%) RDBMS
4 10 (7.30%) Sybase ASE
5 8 (5.84%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (5.84%) MySQL
6 6 (4.38%) InfluxDB
6 6 (4.38%) Oracle Database
7 5 (3.65%) DB2
7 5 (3.65%) Redis
8 2 (1.46%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (1.46%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.46%) Data Mart
8 2 (1.46%) Flink
9 1 (0.73%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.73%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.73%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 33 (24.09%) JIRA
2 23 (16.79%) GitLab
3 21 (15.33%) 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%) Gradle
7 5 (3.65%) Pylint
8 4 (2.92%) Selenium
9 3 (2.19%) Artifactory
9 3 (2.19%) Subversion
10 2 (1.46%) Maven
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%) gulp
11 1 (0.73%) Octopus Deploy
11 1 (0.73%) TeamCity
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
5 5 (3.65%) Telecoms
6 4 (2.92%) Electronics
6 4 (2.92%) Investment Banking
6 4 (2.92%) Manufacturing
6 4 (2.92%) Military
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 20 (14.60%) Linux Engineer
2 17 (12.41%) DevOps Engineer
3 16 (11.68%) Developer
4 14 (10.22%) Senior
5 12 (8.76%) Applications Engineer
5 12 (8.76%) SIEM Engineer
5 12 (8.76%) Support Engineer
6 11 (8.03%) Applications Support
6 11 (8.03%) Applications Support Engineer
6 11 (8.03%) JIRA Engineer
7 10 (7.30%) DBA
7 10 (7.30%) Network Engineer
7 10 (7.30%) Software Engineer
8 9 (6.57%) Azure Engineer
8 9 (6.57%) Java Developer
8 9 (6.57%) Sybase DBA
9 8 (5.84%) Database Specialist
9 8 (5.84%) Java Engineer
9 8 (5.84%) Java Software Engineer
10 6 (4.38%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (19.71%) REST
2 18 (13.14%) 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%) Spring
7 9 (6.57%) HTML
7 9 (6.57%) Qt
8 8 (5.84%) Kafka
9 7 (5.11%) Hibernate
9 7 (5.11%) J2EE
9 7 (5.11%) JPA
9 7 (5.11%) SOAP
9 7 (5.11%) WebSockets
9 7 (5.11%) XML
10 6 (4.38%) React
11 5 (3.65%) RabbitMQ
12 4 (2.92%) Django
12 4 (2.92%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 23 (16.79%) Replication
2 13 (9.49%) Data Centre
3 10 (7.30%) Enterprise Software
4 9 (6.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 8 (5.84%) Clustering
6 5 (3.65%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (3.65%) FPGA
7 4 (2.92%) Public Cloud
8 3 (2.19%) ASIC
8 3 (2.19%) Genomics
8 3 (2.19%) Smart Meter
8 3 (2.19%) Verilog
9 2 (1.46%) Cloud Native
9 2 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.46%) Life Science
9 2 (1.46%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.46%) NHS
9 2 (1.46%) Renewable Energy
9 2 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.46%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 122 (89.05%) Linux
2 33 (24.09%) Unix
3 21 (15.33%) Windows
4 19 (13.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 14 (10.22%) 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%) Android
10 2 (1.46%) Apple iOS
10 2 (1.46%) CentOS
11 1 (0.73%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (39.42%) CI/CD
2 38 (27.74%) DevOps
3 33 (24.09%) Agile
4 28 (20.44%) Migration
5 25 (18.25%) Problem-Solving
6 24 (17.52%) Task Automation
7 23 (16.79%) Software Engineering
8 19 (13.87%) Data Migration
9 18 (13.14%) Mentoring
9 18 (13.14%) SDLC
10 17 (12.41%) Infrastructure as Code
10 17 (12.41%) Scrum
10 17 (12.41%) Service Management
11 16 (11.68%) Continuous Integration
12 15 (10.95%) Containerisation
12 15 (10.95%) Open Source
13 14 (10.22%) Infrastructure Monitoring
13 14 (10.22%) ITIL
14 12 (8.76%) Data Pipeline
14 12 (8.76%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 69 (50.36%) Python
2 40 (29.20%) SQL
3 36 (26.28%) Java
4 35 (25.55%) Bash
5 22 (16.06%) Perl
5 22 (16.06%) Shell Script
6 14 (10.22%) PowerShell
7 12 (8.76%) C++
7 12 (8.76%) JavaScript
8 10 (7.30%) T-SQL
9 8 (5.84%) Go
9 8 (5.84%) R
10 7 (5.11%) C
11 3 (2.19%) Assembly Language
11 3 (2.19%) Ruby
11 3 (2.19%) SystemVerilog
11 3 (2.19%) Tcl
12 2 (1.46%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.73%) C#
13 1 (0.73%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 46 (33.58%) Security Cleared
2 32 (23.36%) 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 13 (9.49%) QA
2 9 (6.57%) MISRA
3 2 (1.46%) SLA
4 1 (0.73%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.73%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 30 (21.90%) 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 37 (27.01%) Kubernetes
3 31 (22.63%) Terraform
4 16 (11.68%) Grafana
5 15 (10.95%) Prometheus
6 12 (8.76%) Kibana
7 11 (8.03%) logstash
7 11 (8.03%) Progress Chef
8 7 (5.11%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 7 (5.11%) Packer
8 7 (5.11%) vRealize
9 5 (3.65%) Docker Swarm
10 4 (2.92%) Puppet
10 4 (2.92%) Red Hat Satellite
11 3 (2.19%) Microsoft Intune
11 3 (2.19%) SCCM
12 2 (1.46%) Pacemaker
12 2 (1.46%) Podman
12 2 (1.46%) Salt
12 2 (1.46%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 24 (17.52%) Oracle
2 23 (16.79%) VMware
3 21 (15.33%) Red Hat
4 13 (9.49%) Atlassian
5 12 (8.76%) SAP
6 10 (7.30%) 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
87 Linux Command Line jobs Nationwide