Linux Command Line Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

Linux/Unix Command Line Interface (CLI)
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Linux Command Line in permanent job vacancies in Buckinghamshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Linux Command Line over the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 94 96
Rank change year-on-year +14 +2 -
Permanent jobs citing Linux Command Line 10 5 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Buckinghamshire 0.75% 0.52% 0.089%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.13% 1.36% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 10 5 1
10th Percentile £37,500 - -
25th Percentile £45,000 £53,750 £34,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £58,000 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year +29.31% +65.71% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £62,000 £35,500
90th Percentile - - -
South East median annual salary £45,000 £57,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -21.74% +35.29% +13.31%

All Generic Skills
Buckinghamshire

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 permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Buckinghamshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 320 367 395
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 23.86% 37.95% 35.02%
Number of salaries quoted 212 158 200
10th Percentile £20,000 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £33,500 £50,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £63,125 £73,833 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £87,500 £77,500
South East median annual salary £45,000 £57,000 £54,500
% change year-on-year -21.05% +4.59% -0.91%

Linux Command Line
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Linux Command Line relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire.

Linux Command Line job vacancy trend in Buckinghamshire

Linux Command Line
Salary Trend in Buckinghamshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Linux Command Line.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Linux Command Line

Linux Command Line
Salary Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux Command Line in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Linux Command Line in Buckinghamshire

Linux Command Line
Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. 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
Bletchley +5 3 £75,000 +29.87%
High Wycombe - 2 £45,000 -
Milton Keynes -12 1 £75,000 +23.97% 3
Linux Command Line
South East

Linux Command Line
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Buckinghamshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (40.00%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) Azure
1 6 (60.00%) Azure DevOps
1 6 (60.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 6 (60.00%) Entra ID
1 6 (60.00%) GitHub
1 6 (60.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 6 (60.00%) Git
1 6 (60.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (40.00%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Lead
1 6 (60.00%) Platform Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Technical Support
3 2 (20.00%) Support Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Applications Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Applications Support
4 1 (10.00%) Applications Support Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Technical Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (60.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 6 (60.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 6 (60.00%) VMS
2 4 (40.00%) Linux
2 4 (40.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (60.00%) Containerisation
1 6 (60.00%) DevOps
1 6 (60.00%) Matrix Management
1 6 (60.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 6 (60.00%) Observability
1 6 (60.00%) Platform Engineering
1 6 (60.00%) RBAC
1 6 (60.00%) Resource Management
1 6 (60.00%) Servant Leadership
1 6 (60.00%) Task Automation
1 6 (60.00%) Technical Leadership
2 4 (40.00%) Data Analysis
2 4 (40.00%) ITIL
2 4 (40.00%) Service Management
3 2 (20.00%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) Bash
1 6 (60.00%) PowerShell
2 4 (40.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) A+ Certification
2 2 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (20.00%) Degree
System Software
1 6 (60.00%) Active Directory
1 6 (60.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (60.00%) Kubernetes
1 6 (60.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Microsoft