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 10 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 594 543 635
Rank change year-on-year -51 +92 -9
Permanent jobs citing Linux Command Line 88 71 179
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.12% 0.19% 0.22%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.40% 0.50% 0.63%
Number of salaries quoted 48 53 132
10th Percentile £36,450 £37,300 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,375 £45,000 £40,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% -19.23%
75th Percentile £76,885 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £86,625 £90,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £58,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +3.45% +10.48% -12.50%

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 21,956 14,135 28,440
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 29.66% 38.68% 35.44%
Number of salaries quoted 11,418 8,189 20,566
10th Percentile £29,750 £31,750 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,773 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £98,750
UK median annual salary £58,099 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.17% +9.09% -15.38%

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 10 April 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 10 April 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
London -3 34 £68,750 +12.24% 13
East of England -23 23 £45,000 -18.18% 8
South East -38 11 £45,000 -12.20% 7
North of England -66 11 £48,445 +7.65% 4
North West -35 4 £51,722 +25.39% 2
South West -47 4 £91,000 +19.34% 7
Yorkshire - 4 £42,222 - 2
North East -28 3 £61,123 +11.13%
Midlands -51 3 £47,500 -29.89% 7
West Midlands -17 2 £43,250 -44.19% 5
East Midlands -53 1 £50,000 -13.79% 2
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 4 (4.55%) Tomcat
1 4 (4.55%) WebSphere
1 4 (4.55%) WebSphere Application Server
2 2 (2.27%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.27%) WordPress
3 1 (1.14%) Apache
3 1 (1.14%) Confluence
3 1 (1.14%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.14%) Magento
1 1 (1.14%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 32 (36.36%) AWS
2 27 (30.68%) Azure
3 12 (13.64%) GCP
4 10 (11.36%) Entra ID
5 9 (10.23%) Amazon ECS
6 7 (7.95%) Amazon ECR
6 7 (7.95%) AWS CloudFormation
6 7 (7.95%) OCI
7 6 (6.82%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (6.82%) Amazon S3
7 6 (6.82%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (6.82%) Serverless
8 5 (5.68%) Amazon ElastiCache
8 5 (5.68%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 5 (5.68%) dbt
8 5 (5.68%) PaaS
8 5 (5.68%) Pulumi
8 5 (5.68%) Sentry
8 5 (5.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 4 (4.55%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 15 (17.05%) TCP/IP
2 10 (11.36%) VPN
3 7 (7.95%) DNS
3 7 (7.95%) Firewall
4 4 (4.55%) SSL
5 3 (3.41%) DHCP
6 2 (2.27%) 2G
6 2 (2.27%) 4G
6 2 (2.27%) 5G
6 2 (2.27%) HTTP
6 2 (2.27%) ICMP
6 2 (2.27%) Kerberos
6 2 (2.27%) Software-Defined Radio
6 2 (2.27%) VLAN
7 1 (1.14%) BGP
7 1 (1.14%) Network Security
7 1 (1.14%) NGFW
7 1 (1.14%) OSPF
7 1 (1.14%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (1.14%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (13.64%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (11.36%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (9.09%) Elasticsearch
3 8 (9.09%) MySQL
4 6 (6.82%) Electronic Patient Records
5 5 (5.68%) Redis
5 5 (5.68%) SQL Server
6 4 (4.55%) DB2
7 3 (3.41%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (2.27%) Apache Hive
8 2 (2.27%) Big Data
8 2 (2.27%) Hadoop
9 1 (1.14%) DynamoDB
9 1 (1.14%) Oracle Database
9 1 (1.14%) Power BI
9 1 (1.14%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 4 (4.55%) IDA Disassembler
1 4 (4.55%) JIRA
2 3 (3.41%) Jenkins
2 3 (3.41%) Octopus Deploy
3 2 (2.27%) Git
3 2 (2.27%) GitLab
4 1 (1.14%) Browser DevTools
4 1 (1.14%) CircleCI
4 1 (1.14%) git-flow
4 1 (1.14%) Maven
4 1 (1.14%) Selenium
4 1 (1.14%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (1.14%) TeamCity
4 1 (1.14%) WebDriver
4 1 (1.14%) webpack
General
1 15 (17.05%) German Language
2 12 (13.64%) Social Skills
3 8 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (7.95%) Finance
4 7 (7.95%) Public Sector
5 6 (6.82%) Health Technology
6 4 (4.55%) Banking
7 3 (3.41%) Advertising
7 3 (3.41%) Games
7 3 (3.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (3.41%) Investment Banking
7 3 (3.41%) Law
7 3 (3.41%) Legal
8 2 (2.27%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.14%) Billing
9 1 (1.14%) Electronics
9 1 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.14%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 8 (9.09%) Applications Support
1 8 (9.09%) IT Engineer
1 8 (9.09%) Senior
2 7 (7.95%) Analyst
2 7 (7.95%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
2 7 (7.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (7.95%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (6.82%) Consultant
3 6 (6.82%) EPR Consultant
3 6 (6.82%) Platform Engineer
3 6 (6.82%) Technical Consultant
4 5 (5.68%) Senior Platform Engineer
5 4 (4.55%) Developer
5 4 (4.55%) Linux Support
5 4 (4.55%) Support Analyst
6 3 (3.41%) Applications Support Analyst
6 3 (3.41%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (3.41%) Linux Engineer
6 3 (3.41%) Network Engineer
6 3 (3.41%) Unix Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (40.91%) JSON
2 31 (35.23%) HTML
3 29 (32.95%) Regular Expression
3 29 (32.95%) XML
4 6 (6.82%) FHIR
4 6 (6.82%) LDAP
5 5 (5.68%) Django
6 4 (4.55%) LAPP Stack
6 4 (4.55%) WebSphere MQ
7 3 (3.41%) Loki
7 3 (3.41%) OpenTelemetry
7 3 (3.41%) YAML
8 2 (2.27%) CSS
8 2 (2.27%) Flash
8 2 (2.27%) OAuth
8 2 (2.27%) OAuth2
9 1 (1.14%) .NET
9 1 (1.14%) JDBC
9 1 (1.14%) ODBC
9 1 (1.14%) RSS
Miscellaneous
1 39 (44.32%) Onboarding
2 7 (7.95%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (6.82%) NHS
4 4 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (3.41%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (3.41%) Management Information System
5 3 (3.41%) Security Operations Centre
5 3 (3.41%) Virtual Team
6 2 (2.27%) Arduino
6 2 (2.27%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (2.27%) Data Centre
6 2 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.27%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (2.27%) Life Science
6 2 (2.27%) Raspberry Pi
7 1 (1.14%) ARM Cortex
7 1 (1.14%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.14%) Digital Signage
7 1 (1.14%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (1.14%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 46 (52.27%) Linux
2 45 (51.14%) Unix
3 11 (12.50%) Windows
4 5 (5.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (5.68%) Windows Server
5 4 (4.55%) Ubuntu
6 3 (3.41%) CentOS
6 3 (3.41%) Windows 10
7 1 (1.14%) Debian
7 1 (1.14%) Mac OS
7 1 (1.14%) Mac OS X
7 1 (1.14%) SUSE
7 1 (1.14%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (39.77%) AI
2 30 (34.09%) Data Analysis
3 29 (32.95%) LLM
4 20 (22.73%) Infrastructure as Code
5 14 (15.91%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (15.91%) User Acceptance Testing
6 13 (14.77%) CI/CD
7 12 (13.64%) Migration
8 11 (12.50%) DevOps
9 10 (11.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 9 (10.23%) ITIL
10 9 (10.23%) Mentoring
10 9 (10.23%) Prototyping
11 8 (9.09%) Containerisation
11 8 (9.09%) Observability
12 7 (7.95%) Business Intelligence
12 7 (7.95%) Coaching
12 7 (7.95%) Privileged Access Management
12 7 (7.95%) RBAC
12 7 (7.95%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 61 (69.32%) Python
2 19 (21.59%) SQL
3 14 (15.91%) Bash
4 13 (14.77%) PowerShell
5 9 (10.23%) JavaScript
6 6 (6.82%) Java
6 6 (6.82%) Shell Script
7 4 (4.55%) C
7 4 (4.55%) C++
8 2 (2.27%) C#
8 2 (2.27%) PHP
9 1 (1.14%) Groovy
9 1 (1.14%) Perl
9 1 (1.14%) Ruby
9 1 (1.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 39 (44.32%) Degree
2 18 (20.45%) Security Cleared
3 12 (13.64%) DV Cleared
4 9 (10.23%) SC Cleared
5 6 (6.82%) AWS Certification
6 4 (4.55%) ITIL Certification
7 3 (3.41%) Azure Certification
7 3 (3.41%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 2 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (1.14%) CCNP
9 1 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.82%) HL7
2 4 (4.55%) SLA
3 1 (1.14%) GDPR
3 1 (1.14%) QA
System Software
1 14 (15.91%) Active Directory
2 12 (13.64%) Docker
3 2 (2.27%) KVM
3 2 (2.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.14%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 13 (14.77%) Terraform
2 7 (7.95%) Single Sign-On
3 6 (6.82%) Ansible
4 5 (5.68%) AWS Copilot
5 3 (3.41%) Grafana
5 3 (3.41%) Kubernetes
5 3 (3.41%) Prometheus
5 3 (3.41%) Scalr
6 1 (1.14%) Kibana
6 1 (1.14%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 9 (10.23%) Google
1 9 (10.23%) Red Hat
2 7 (7.95%) CyberArk
3 6 (6.82%) ServiceNow
4 5 (5.68%) Oracle
5 4 (4.55%) IBM
5 4 (4.55%) Microsoft
6 3 (3.41%) Splunk
7 2 (2.27%) Apple
7 2 (2.27%) Dell
7 2 (2.27%) VMware
8 1 (1.14%) New Relic
8 1 (1.14%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.14%) SAP