Linux/Unix Command Line Interface (CLI)
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Linux Command Line in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Linux Command Line over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 749 678 493
Rank change year-on-year -71 -185 -13
Permanent jobs citing Linux Command Line 166 281 1,156
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.29% 0.69%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.47% 0.67% 1.44%
Number of salaries quoted 133 194 326
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,250 £41,875 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £71,000 £70,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 35,381 41,658 80,546
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.48% 42.79% 48.24%
Number of salaries quoted 23,078 22,714 34,326
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,738 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,070 £46,350 £45,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £86,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Linux Command Line.

Salary trend for Linux Command Line in the UK

Linux Command Line
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux Command Line over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Linux Command Line in the UK

Linux Command Line
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux Command Line within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -10 161 £52,500 -12.50% 85
UK excluding London -71 103 £50,000 -4.76% 57
Work from Home +8 68 £67,500 +22.73% 32
London +95 58 £70,000 +11.11% 30
South East +17 40 £42,500 - 17
South West -18 28 £52,500 +40.00% 11
North of England +3 13 £50,000 -4.76% 12
Midlands -13 13 £50,000 -9.09% 6
West Midlands +10 11 £50,000 +17.65% 5
East of England -3 9 £43,500 -38.95% 5
Yorkshire +47 8 £61,250 -12.50% 6
North West -4 4 £50,000 +33.33% 5
East Midlands -18 2 £40,000 -23.81% 1
Wales +1 1 £50,000 +11.11% 1
North East -9 1 - - 1

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 12 (7.23%) SharePoint
2 11 (6.63%) nginx
3 10 (6.02%) IIS
3 10 (6.02%) WordPress
4 9 (5.42%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (1.81%) Confluence
6 2 (1.20%) Apache
7 1 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.60%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.60%) CMS
7 1 (0.60%) Drupal
7 1 (0.60%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (4.22%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (3.01%) GNU Octave
2 5 (3.01%) MS Visio
3 4 (2.41%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (4.82%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.60%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.60%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.60%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 56 (33.73%) AWS
2 43 (25.90%) Azure
3 26 (15.66%) OpenShift
4 19 (11.45%) Microsoft 365
5 16 (9.64%) Azure Monitor
6 15 (9.04%) Cloud Computing
7 14 (8.43%) Azure DevOps
8 12 (7.23%) Serverless
9 11 (6.63%) AWS Lambda
10 10 (6.02%) Amazon EC2
10 10 (6.02%) Amazon S3
10 10 (6.02%) Entra ID
11 9 (5.42%) OneDrive
12 8 (4.82%) Azure AKS
12 8 (4.82%) Azure Storage
12 8 (4.82%) GitHub
13 7 (4.22%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 7 (4.22%) Datadog
13 7 (4.22%) Pulumi
14 6 (3.61%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 49 (29.52%) Firewall
2 15 (9.04%) Wireless
3 13 (7.83%) DNS
4 12 (7.23%) Network Security
4 12 (7.23%) TCP/IP
4 12 (7.23%) VPN
5 9 (5.42%) Fibre Channel
5 9 (5.42%) iSCSI
5 9 (5.42%) NAS
5 9 (5.42%) SAN
6 6 (3.61%) LAN
6 6 (3.61%) SSH
7 5 (3.01%) AMQP
7 5 (3.01%) Internet
7 5 (3.01%) Multicast
7 5 (3.01%) OSPF
7 5 (3.01%) WAN
7 5 (3.01%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (2.41%) VLAN
8 4 (2.41%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (20.48%) MySQL
2 23 (13.86%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (7.23%) SQL Server
4 10 (6.02%) Amazon RDS
4 10 (6.02%) MongoDB
5 8 (4.82%) Azure SQL Database
5 8 (4.82%) MariaDB
6 7 (4.22%) Redis
7 6 (3.61%) Relational Database
8 5 (3.01%) InfluxDB
8 5 (3.01%) Power BI
9 4 (2.41%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (2.41%) NoSQL
10 3 (1.81%) Oracle Database
11 2 (1.20%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (1.20%) BusinessObjects
11 2 (1.20%) Neo4j
11 2 (1.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 1 (0.60%) Big Data
12 1 (0.60%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 52 (31.33%) Git
2 31 (18.67%) Jenkins
3 24 (14.46%) JIRA
4 13 (7.83%) Robot Framework
5 12 (7.23%) Subversion
6 10 (6.02%) GitLab
6 10 (6.02%) GNU Toolchain
7 7 (4.22%) Team Foundation Server
8 5 (3.01%) DTrace
8 5 (3.01%) GDB
9 4 (2.41%) JUnit
9 4 (2.41%) Rational DOORS
10 3 (1.81%) Bitbucket
10 3 (1.81%) Cucumber
11 2 (1.20%) Artifactory
11 2 (1.20%) Gradle
12 1 (0.60%) CMake
12 1 (0.60%) Cypress.io
12 1 (0.60%) PHPUnit
12 1 (0.60%) SonarQube
General
1 32 (19.28%) Social Skills
2 21 (12.65%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (10.84%) Aerospace
4 15 (9.04%) Finance
5 11 (6.63%) Law
6 7 (4.22%) Retail
7 5 (3.01%) Aviation
7 5 (3.01%) Banking
8 3 (1.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.81%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.20%) Legal
9 2 (1.20%) Music Industry
9 2 (1.20%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.60%) Advertising
10 1 (0.60%) Back Office
10 1 (0.60%) Front Office
10 1 (0.60%) Games
10 1 (0.60%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.60%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 33 (19.88%) Azure Engineer
2 32 (19.28%) Developer
3 18 (10.84%) Cloud Engineer
3 18 (10.84%) Platform Engineer
4 17 (10.24%) Network Engineer
5 16 (9.64%) Linux Engineer
6 15 (9.04%) Support Engineer
7 14 (8.43%) Consultant
7 14 (8.43%) DevOps Engineer
7 14 (8.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 13 (7.83%) Administrator
8 13 (7.83%) Linux Administrator
8 13 (7.83%) Software Consultant
9 12 (7.23%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 10 (6.02%) Automation Engineer
10 10 (6.02%) Linux Developer
10 10 (6.02%) Linux Systems Administrator
10 10 (6.02%) Senior
11 9 (5.42%) AWS Engineer
11 9 (5.42%) Unix Linux Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (13.25%) HTML
2 18 (10.84%) XML
3 17 (10.24%) Node.js
4 11 (6.63%) React
5 10 (6.02%) LAMP
5 10 (6.02%) POSIX
6 9 (5.42%) ARM Templates
6 9 (5.42%) CSS
7 8 (4.82%) REST
7 8 (4.82%) RESTful
8 7 (4.22%) JSON
8 7 (4.22%) Laravel
9 5 (3.01%) NETCONF
9 5 (3.01%) NumPy
9 5 (3.01%) RabbitMQ
9 5 (3.01%) SOAP
9 5 (3.01%) Spring
9 5 (3.01%) Vue
10 4 (2.41%) Akka
10 4 (2.41%) RESTCONF
Miscellaneous
1 11 (6.63%) Embedded Systems
1 11 (6.63%) Replication
2 8 (4.82%) Public Cloud
3 7 (4.22%) Client/Server
3 7 (4.22%) Product Ownership
4 6 (3.61%) Clustering
4 6 (3.61%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (3.01%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.41%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.20%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.20%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.20%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.60%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.60%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.60%) FPGA
8 1 (0.60%) Hedge funds
8 1 (0.60%) Music Streaming
8 1 (0.60%) PKI
8 1 (0.60%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 143 (86.14%) Linux
2 42 (25.30%) Windows
3 40 (24.10%) Unix
4 26 (15.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 22 (13.25%) Windows Server
6 21 (12.65%) CentOS
7 19 (11.45%) CoreOS
8 14 (8.43%) Windows Server 2016
9 12 (7.23%) Ubuntu
10 11 (6.63%) VMS
11 10 (6.02%) Windows Server 2019
12 7 (4.22%) Windows 10
13 2 (1.20%) Android
13 2 (1.20%) Apple iOS
13 2 (1.20%) Debian
14 1 (0.60%) Fedora
14 1 (0.60%) Mac OS
14 1 (0.60%) openSUSE
14 1 (0.60%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (42.17%) DevOps
2 47 (28.31%) CI/CD
3 41 (24.70%) Agile
4 40 (24.10%) Configuration Management
4 40 (24.10%) Problem-Solving
5 37 (22.29%) Time Management
6 27 (16.27%) Infrastructure as Code
7 25 (15.06%) Change Management
8 24 (14.46%) ITIL
9 23 (13.86%) Software Testing
10 22 (13.25%) Containerisation
10 22 (13.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 21 (12.65%) Customer Service
11 21 (12.65%) Platform Engineering
12 20 (12.05%) Analytics
13 18 (10.84%) Continuous Improvement
13 18 (10.84%) Open Source
14 17 (10.24%) Collaborative Working
14 17 (10.24%) Deployment Automation
14 17 (10.24%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 89 (53.61%) Python
2 80 (48.19%) Bash
3 44 (26.51%) SQL
4 37 (22.29%) PowerShell
5 30 (18.07%) Java
6 21 (12.65%) PHP
7 18 (10.84%) JavaScript
8 16 (9.64%) C
8 16 (9.64%) Go
9 14 (8.43%) Shell Script
10 12 (7.23%) C++
11 11 (6.63%) Perl
12 10 (6.02%) C#
12 10 (6.02%) Ruby
12 10 (6.02%) TypeScript
13 8 (4.82%) PL/SQL
14 7 (4.22%) Groovy
15 5 (3.01%) MATLAB
15 5 (3.01%) OCaml
15 5 (3.01%) SystemTap
Qualifications
1 33 (19.88%) Degree
2 26 (15.66%) Security Cleared
3 17 (10.24%) Azure Certification
4 15 (9.04%) SC Cleared
5 7 (4.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (4.22%) DV Cleared
6 5 (3.01%) AWS Certification
6 5 (3.01%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (2.41%) Chartered Engineer
7 4 (2.41%) HNC
7 4 (2.41%) HND
8 3 (1.81%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (1.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.60%) CCNA
10 1 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.60%) MCSA
10 1 (0.60%) MCSE
10 1 (0.60%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.60%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.01%) QA
2 2 (1.20%) GDPR
2 2 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (0.60%) HIPAA
3 1 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (0.60%) NIST
3 1 (0.60%) SLA
3 1 (0.60%) SOC 2
System Software
1 44 (26.51%) Docker
2 21 (12.65%) Active Directory
3 10 (6.02%) vSphere
4 4 (2.41%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.81%) VirtualBox
6 2 (1.20%) Firmware
7 1 (0.60%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.60%) Samba
7 1 (0.60%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 48 (28.92%) Kubernetes
2 41 (24.70%) Ansible
3 37 (22.29%) Puppet
4 30 (18.07%) Terraform
5 19 (11.45%) Progress Chef
6 17 (10.24%) Grafana
7 13 (7.83%) Prometheus
8 10 (6.02%) Microsoft Intune
9 9 (5.42%) SCCM
10 6 (3.61%) Salt
11 5 (3.01%) Docker Swarm
12 3 (1.81%) Kibana
13 2 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
13 2 (1.20%) ZABBIX
14 1 (0.60%) Jamf Pro
14 1 (0.60%) Nmap
14 1 (0.60%) OpenNMS
14 1 (0.60%) SCOM
14 1 (0.60%) systemd
14 1 (0.60%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 28 (16.87%) Microsoft
2 23 (13.86%) Red Hat
3 14 (8.43%) Cisco
3 14 (8.43%) ServiceNow
4 13 (7.83%) Palo Alto
5 12 (7.23%) Remedy
6 10 (6.02%) VMware
7 9 (5.42%) Aruba
7 9 (5.42%) ProCurve
7 9 (5.42%) Synology
7 9 (5.42%) Veeam
7 9 (5.42%) Zerto
8 8 (4.82%) BMC
9 7 (4.22%) New Relic
9 7 (4.22%) SaltStack
10 6 (3.61%) Oracle
11 4 (2.41%) Google
11 4 (2.41%) Progress
11 4 (2.41%) SolarWinds
11 4 (2.41%) Thales