Linux Command Line Job Trends in Cardiff

Linux/Unix Command Line Interface (CLI)
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Linux Command Line in permanent job vacancies in Cardiff. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Linux Command Line over the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Linux Command Line 3 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Cardiff 0.79% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.90% - -
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £68,813 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 - -
75th Percentile £78,790 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South Wales median annual salary £73,801 - -

All Generic Skills
Cardiff

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 Cardiff.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 77 135 129
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cardiff 20.37% 34.09% 39.69%
Number of salaries quoted 51 107 118
10th Percentile £27,500 £23,750 £33,426
25th Percentile £45,000 £31,250 £38,657
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £37,500 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -30.23% +5.39%
75th Percentile £67,500 £56,599 £69,800
90th Percentile £82,241 £69,650 £73,400
South Wales median annual salary £55,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +22.22% -10.00% +9.90%

Linux Command Line
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Linux Command Line job vacancy trend in Cardiff

Linux Command Line
Salary Trend in Cardiff

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing Linux Command Line

Linux Command Line
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cardiff 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 1 (33.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon ECR
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon ElastiCache
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 2 (66.67%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) dbt
2 2 (66.67%) GCP
2 2 (66.67%) PaaS
2 2 (66.67%) Pulumi
2 2 (66.67%) Sentry
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon ELB
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (66.67%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (66.67%) Redis
2 1 (33.33%) Delta Lake
2 1 (33.33%) DynamoDB
2 1 (33.33%) Metadata
2 1 (33.33%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) MLflow
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Platform Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
1 2 (66.67%) Senior Platform Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Django
2 1 (33.33%) Keras
2 1 (33.33%) Lambda Expressions
2 1 (33.33%) Metaflow
2 1 (33.33%) NumPy
2 1 (33.33%) Pandas
2 1 (33.33%) PySpark
2 1 (33.33%) PyTorch
2 1 (33.33%) scikit-learn
2 1 (33.33%) TensorFlow
2 1 (33.33%) YAML
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Unix
2 2 (66.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Clean Code
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Observability
2 2 (66.67%) Open Source
2 2 (66.67%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Prototyping
2 2 (66.67%) Service-Level Objective
2 2 (66.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) AI
3 1 (33.33%) Information Security
3 1 (33.33%) OO
3 1 (33.33%) OOP
3 1 (33.33%) OWASP
3 1 (33.33%) Time Management
3 1 (33.33%) Unit Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (66.67%) AWS Copilot
3 1 (33.33%) Kubeflow
3 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Google
2 1 (33.33%) Databricks