Linux Command Line Job Trends in the East Midlands

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

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Linux Command Line in permanent job vacancies in the East Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Linux Command Line over the 6 months leading up to 10 November 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

	6 months to 10 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	181	125	154
Rank change year-on-year	-56	+29	-
Permanent jobs citing Linux Command Line	7	6	2
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands	0.10%	0.28%	0.059%
As % of the Miscellaneous category	0.39%	0.74%	0.24%
Number of salaries quoted	2	2	0
10^th Percentile	-	£45,750	-
25^th Percentile	£21,750	£46,875	-
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£22,500	£52,500	-
Median % change year-on-year	-57.14%	-	-
75^th Percentile	£23,250	£56,875	-
90^th Percentile	-	£57,250	-
England median annual salary	£47,500	£67,500	£55,000
% change year-on-year	-29.63%	+22.73%	-12.00%

All Generic Skills
East 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 permanent job vacancies citing generic IT skills in the East Midlands.

	6 months to 10 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies citing generic IT skills	1,805	809	824
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands	25.80%	37.18%	24.16%
Number of salaries quoted	1,110	458	315
10^th Percentile	£28,500	£25,625	£31,000
25^th Percentile	£35,000	£28,750	£37,500
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£48,500	£37,500	£50,500
Median % change year-on-year	+29.33%	-25.74%	-3.81%
75^th Percentile	£62,000	£55,000	£62,500
90^th Percentile	£75,000	£74,125	£78,557
England median annual salary	£55,000	£53,750	£60,000
% change year-on-year	+2.33%	-10.42%	-4.00%

Linux Command Line Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Linux Command Line Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Linux Command Line.

Linux Command Line Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 10 November 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	Job Ads Past 6 Months	Median Salary Past 6 Months	Median Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Jobs
Nottinghamshire	-22	5	£22,500	-57.14%	3
Leicestershire	-40	2	-	-	1
Linux Command Line England

Linux Command Line Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands

For the 6 months to 10 November 2026, job vacancies citing Linux Command Line also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the East Midlands region citing Linux Command Line.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Linux	100.0%	7
2	Analytical Thinking	71.4%	5
2	AWS	71.4%	5
2	Azure	71.4%	5
2	CI/CD	71.4%	5
2	Cloud Computing	71.4%	5
2	Cloud Operations	71.4%	5
2	Cloud Security	71.4%	5
2	Configuration Management	71.4%	5
2	Containerisation	71.4%	5
2	Continuous Delivery	71.4%	5
2	Continuous Deployment	71.4%	5
2	Continuous Integration	71.4%	5
2	DevOps	71.4%	5
2	DevSecOps	71.4%	5
2	Docker	71.4%	5
2	GCP	71.4%	5
2	Git	71.4%	5
2	Google	71.4%	5
2	Incident Management	71.4%	5
2	Infrastructure as Code	71.4%	5
2	Infrastructure Engineering	71.4%	5
2	Internet	71.4%	5
2	Mentoring	71.4%	5
2	Microsoft	71.4%	5
2	Platform Engineering	71.4%	5
2	SDLC	71.4%	5
2	Shell Script	71.4%	5
2	Site Reliability Engineering	71.4%	5
2	Software Deployment	71.4%	5

Linux Command Line Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Operating Systems

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Linux	100.0%	7