Linux Command Line Job Trends in England

Linux/Unix Command Line Interface (CLI)
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Linux Command Line in permanent job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Linux Command Line over the 6 months leading up to 13 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 636 364 521
Rank change year-on-year -272 +157 +36
Permanent jobs citing Linux Command Line 126 286 205
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.12% 0.67% 0.32%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.45% 1.61% 0.99%
Number of salaries quoted 71 72 126
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,600 £30,000
25th Percentile £43,125 £38,500 £40,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £58,750 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £94,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £48,445 £70,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -30.79% +27.27% -12.00%

All Generic Skills
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 27,728 17,783 20,801
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 26.63% 41.59% 32.51%
Number of salaries quoted 17,870 9,226 10,232
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,400 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.55% -8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £113,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -4.00%

Linux Command Line
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Linux Command Line job vacancy trend in England

Linux Command Line
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Linux Command Line

Linux Command Line
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux Command Line in England over the 6 months to 13 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Linux Command Line in England

Linux Command Line
Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 13 October 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
North of England -178 37 £47,000 -27.02% 16
London -58 29 £72,500 -12.12% 82
Yorkshire -18 20 £47,000 +4.44% 8
South East -44 19 £45,000 -18.18% 24
Midlands -54 18 £38,750 -0.64% 9
East of England -33 16 £51,359 +31.69% 5
West Midlands -44 11 £48,750 +25.00% 6
North East -61 11 £47,000 -27.02% 1
East Midlands -30 7 £22,500 -59.09% 3
North West -160 6 £48,445 -34.36% 7
South West -79 5 £55,000 -21.43% 13
Linux Command Line
UK

Linux Command Line
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 6 (4.76%) Confluence
2 1 (0.79%) Apache
2 1 (0.79%) nginx
2 1 (0.79%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.79%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (0.79%) Magento
1 1 (0.79%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 65 (51.59%) AWS
2 47 (37.30%) Azure
3 34 (26.98%) GCP
4 30 (23.81%) Cloud Computing
5 16 (12.70%) Amazon EC2
5 16 (12.70%) AWS CloudFormation
5 16 (12.70%) GitHub
6 15 (11.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 14 (11.11%) Amazon S3
7 14 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
7 14 (11.11%) Serverless
7 14 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 13 (10.32%) Amazon ECS
8 13 (10.32%) Amazon EKS
8 13 (10.32%) AWS Lambda
9 11 (8.73%) Entra ID
10 7 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (4.76%) Datadog
11 6 (4.76%) SaaS
11 6 (4.76%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 31 (24.60%) Internet
2 22 (17.46%) TCP/IP
3 16 (12.70%) Firewall
4 12 (9.52%) VPN
5 9 (7.14%) DNS
6 6 (4.76%) DHCP
6 6 (4.76%) SSH
7 4 (3.17%) Kerberos
7 4 (3.17%) SSL
8 2 (1.59%) BGP
8 2 (1.59%) Ethernet
8 2 (1.59%) SMTP
8 2 (1.59%) VoIP
8 2 (1.59%) Wireshark
9 1 (0.79%) BIG-IP
9 1 (0.79%) Cisco IOS
9 1 (0.79%) Network Security
9 1 (0.79%) NGFW
9 1 (0.79%) Software-Defined Networking
9 1 (0.79%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (7.94%) MySQL
3 9 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (5.56%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (4.76%) Redis
6 3 (2.38%) Power BI
7 2 (1.59%) Power Query
8 1 (0.79%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.79%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.79%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 50 (39.68%) Git
2 9 (7.14%) Jenkins
3 8 (6.35%) JIRA
4 4 (3.17%) GitLab
5 3 (2.38%) Subversion
6 2 (1.59%) Ant
6 2 (1.59%) Apache Ivy
6 2 (1.59%) IBM UrbanCode
6 2 (1.59%) Maven
7 1 (0.79%) CMake
7 1 (0.79%) GDB
General
1 49 (38.89%) Analytical Skills
2 30 (23.81%) Social Skills
3 24 (19.05%) Finance
4 20 (15.87%) Law
5 8 (6.35%) Legal
6 7 (5.56%) Banking
7 6 (4.76%) Retail
8 5 (3.97%) Public Sector
9 4 (3.17%) Manufacturing
10 3 (2.38%) Automotive
11 2 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.59%) Electronics
11 2 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.79%) Military
Job Titles
1 38 (30.16%) DevOps Engineer
2 30 (23.81%) Trainee
3 16 (12.70%) Cloud Engineer
4 14 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
5 12 (9.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 10 (7.94%) Administrator
6 10 (7.94%) Analyst
6 10 (7.94%) Senior
7 9 (7.14%) Lead
8 8 (6.35%) Applications Support
8 8 (6.35%) Linux Engineer
9 7 (5.56%) Network Engineer
10 6 (4.76%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
10 6 (4.76%) DBA
10 6 (4.76%) Desktop Analyst
10 6 (4.76%) Desktop Support
10 6 (4.76%) Desktop Support Analyst
10 6 (4.76%) Linux Support
10 6 (4.76%) Support Analyst
10 6 (4.76%) Windows Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (25.40%) Terraform
2 7 (5.56%) YAML
3 6 (4.76%) React
4 5 (3.97%) Node.js
5 4 (3.17%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (3.17%) OAuth
5 4 (3.17%) OAuth2
5 4 (3.17%) OpenID
5 4 (3.17%) SAML
6 3 (2.38%) CSS
6 3 (2.38%) HTML
6 3 (2.38%) Web Services
7 2 (1.59%) Loki
7 2 (1.59%) OpenTelemetry
7 2 (1.59%) Vue
8 1 (0.79%) .NET
8 1 (0.79%) ARM Templates
8 1 (0.79%) LAPP Stack
8 1 (0.79%) LEMP Stack
8 1 (0.79%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 15 (11.90%) Hybrid Cloud
2 10 (7.94%) Onboarding
3 7 (5.56%) Cyber Threat
4 6 (4.76%) Hedge funds
4 6 (4.76%) Life Science
4 6 (4.76%) Video Conferencing
5 5 (3.97%) Robotics
6 4 (3.17%) Cloud Native
6 4 (3.17%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (3.17%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (3.17%) PKI
7 3 (2.38%) FPGA
7 3 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.59%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.59%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.59%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.79%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.79%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.79%) Driving Licence
9 1 (0.79%) Fibre Optics
Operating Systems
1 104 (82.54%) Linux
2 17 (13.49%) Windows
3 10 (7.94%) Unix
4 8 (6.35%) Ubuntu
5 7 (5.56%) Windows 10
6 5 (3.97%) CentOS
7 3 (2.38%) Debian
7 3 (2.38%) Robot Operating System
7 3 (2.38%) Rocky
7 3 (2.38%) Windows Server
8 2 (1.59%) Kali Linux
8 2 (1.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (1.59%) Solaris
9 1 (0.79%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.79%) macOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (47.62%) CI/CD
2 59 (46.83%) DevOps
3 56 (44.44%) Infrastructure as Code
4 52 (41.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 46 (36.51%) Cloud Security
5 46 (36.51%) Problem-Solving
6 44 (34.92%) Containerisation
7 36 (28.57%) Platform Engineering
7 36 (28.57%) Software Deployment
8 35 (27.78%) Configuration Management
8 35 (27.78%) Mentoring
9 32 (25.40%) Continuous Delivery
9 32 (25.40%) Continuous Integration
9 32 (25.40%) DevSecOps
9 32 (25.40%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 30 (23.81%) Analytical Thinking
10 30 (23.81%) Cloud Operations
10 30 (23.81%) Continuous Deployment
10 30 (23.81%) Incident Management
10 30 (23.81%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 63 (50.00%) Python
2 42 (33.33%) Bash
3 39 (30.95%) Shell Script
4 21 (16.67%) SQL
5 19 (15.08%) PowerShell
6 7 (5.56%) JavaScript
7 6 (4.76%) Java
8 3 (2.38%) C++
8 3 (2.38%) Groovy
8 3 (2.38%) PHP
8 3 (2.38%) SystemVerilog
8 3 (2.38%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (1.59%) Go
9 2 (1.59%) Ruby
10 1 (0.79%) Bicep
10 1 (0.79%) C
10 1 (0.79%) C#
10 1 (0.79%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 16 (12.70%) Degree
2 9 (7.14%) Security Cleared
3 6 (4.76%) A+ Certification
3 6 (4.76%) Network+ Certification
4 5 (3.97%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (3.97%) HNC
4 5 (3.97%) HND
5 4 (3.17%) DV Cleared
5 4 (3.17%) SC Cleared
6 3 (2.38%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.59%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.79%) CCNP
8 1 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.76%) QA
2 3 (2.38%) SLA
3 1 (0.79%) Def Stans
3 1 (0.79%) GDPR
System Software
1 64 (50.79%) Docker
2 12 (9.52%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.59%) Samba
3 2 (1.59%) Snort
3 2 (1.59%) VMware Workstation
4 1 (0.79%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.79%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 15 (11.90%) Grafana
2 13 (10.32%) Ansible
3 9 (7.14%) Prometheus
4 8 (6.35%) Kubernetes
5 5 (3.97%) Progress Chef
6 3 (2.38%) Nagios
7 2 (1.59%) Puppet
8 1 (0.79%) Argo
8 1 (0.79%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 47 (37.30%) Microsoft
2 32 (25.40%) Google
3 7 (5.56%) Red Hat
4 6 (4.76%) Atlassian
5 5 (3.97%) Oracle
6 4 (3.17%) CyberArk
6 4 (3.17%) New Relic
6 4 (3.17%) VMware
7 3 (2.38%) NVIDIA
8 2 (1.59%) Carbon Black
8 2 (1.59%) Cisco
8 2 (1.59%) CrowdStrike
8 2 (1.59%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.59%) Splunk
9 1 (0.79%) Brocade
9 1 (0.79%) Dell
9 1 (0.79%) F5
9 1 (0.79%) Juniper
9 1 (0.79%) SonicWALL
9 1 (0.79%) Synology