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 14 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 622 361 673
Rank change year-on-year -261 +312 -52
Permanent jobs citing Linux Command Line 63 309 154
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.078% 0.80% 0.18%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.29% 1.88% 0.52%
Number of salaries quoted 38 52 126
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,150 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £41,500 £40,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,222 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.87% +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £68,750 £79,063 £72,125
90th Percentile £80,559 £95,750 £86,250
UK median annual salary £52,500 £56,250 £52,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -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 21,683 16,438 29,460
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 26.86% 42.31% 35.07%
Number of salaries quoted 12,369 8,245 20,802
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,750 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £76,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +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 14 May 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 14 May 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 -22 22 £62,500 -21.88% 19
East of England -23 15 £42,500 -22.73% 2
North of England -168 12 £48,445 -11.92% 5
South East -60 8 £52,500 - 4
Yorkshire - 6 £42,222 - 1
North West -128 4 £51,722 +37.93% 3
West Midlands -25 3 £47,500 -38.71%
Midlands -49 3 £47,500 -29.89% 4
North East -35 2 £48,445 -11.92% 1
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 (6.35%) WordPress
2 1 (1.59%) Apache
2 1 (1.59%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.59%) Confluence
2 1 (1.59%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (4.76%) Magento
1 3 (4.76%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 22 (34.92%) AWS
2 19 (30.16%) Azure
3 10 (15.87%) Entra ID
4 7 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
4 7 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
4 7 (11.11%) GCP
4 7 (11.11%) OCI
5 6 (9.52%) Amazon S3
5 6 (9.52%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (7.94%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (7.94%) GitHub
6 5 (7.94%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (7.94%) Serverless
6 5 (7.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 4 (6.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (6.35%) Amazon ECR
7 4 (6.35%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (6.35%) Datadog
7 4 (6.35%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (4.76%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (12.70%) VPN
2 7 (11.11%) TCP/IP
3 4 (6.35%) Firewall
4 2 (3.17%) DNS
5 1 (1.59%) BGP
5 1 (1.59%) DHCP
5 1 (1.59%) Kerberos
5 1 (1.59%) LAN
5 1 (1.59%) Network Security
5 1 (1.59%) NGFW
5 1 (1.59%) OSPF
5 1 (1.59%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (1.59%) SSL
5 1 (1.59%) WAN
5 1 (1.59%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (15.87%) MySQL
2 8 (12.70%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (9.52%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (9.52%) Electronic Patient Records
5 3 (4.76%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (4.76%) Power BI
5 3 (4.76%) Redis
5 3 (4.76%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.59%) Apache Hive
6 1 (1.59%) Big Data
6 1 (1.59%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.59%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.59%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 4 (6.35%) Jenkins
1 4 (6.35%) JIRA
2 3 (4.76%) Git
2 3 (4.76%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (1.59%) Browser DevTools
3 1 (1.59%) CircleCI
3 1 (1.59%) git-flow
3 1 (1.59%) GitLab
3 1 (1.59%) Maven
3 1 (1.59%) Selenium
3 1 (1.59%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (1.59%) TeamCity
3 1 (1.59%) WebDriver
3 1 (1.59%) webpack
General
1 12 (19.05%) Social Skills
2 10 (15.87%) German Language
3 8 (12.70%) Finance
3 8 (12.70%) Public Sector
4 6 (9.52%) Health Technology
5 3 (4.76%) Advertising
5 3 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (4.76%) Games
5 3 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (4.76%) Legal
6 2 (3.17%) Law
7 1 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.59%) Electronics
7 1 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.59%) Publishing
7 1 (1.59%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (12.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 8 (12.70%) IT Engineer
2 7 (11.11%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (9.52%) Consultant
3 6 (9.52%) EPR Consultant
3 6 (9.52%) Technical Consultant
4 5 (7.94%) Analyst
4 5 (7.94%) Platform Engineer
4 5 (7.94%) Senior
5 4 (6.35%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
5 4 (6.35%) Developer
5 4 (6.35%) Support Analyst
6 3 (4.76%) Applications Support
6 3 (4.76%) Applications Support Analyst
6 3 (4.76%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (4.76%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (4.76%) IT Manager
6 3 (4.76%) Linux Engineer
6 3 (4.76%) Network Engineer
6 3 (4.76%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (39.68%) JSON
2 23 (36.51%) HTML
3 18 (28.57%) Regular Expression
3 18 (28.57%) XML
4 6 (9.52%) FHIR
5 5 (7.94%) CSS
6 4 (6.35%) YAML
7 3 (4.76%) Django
7 3 (4.76%) Loki
7 3 (4.76%) OpenTelemetry
7 3 (4.76%) RESTful
8 2 (3.17%) React
8 2 (3.17%) Web Services
9 1 (1.59%) FIX Protocol
9 1 (1.59%) JDBC
9 1 (1.59%) LDAP
9 1 (1.59%) Node.js
9 1 (1.59%) OAuth
9 1 (1.59%) ODBC
9 1 (1.59%) RSS
Miscellaneous
1 28 (44.44%) Onboarding
2 7 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (9.52%) NHS
4 2 (3.17%) Data Centre
4 2 (3.17%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (3.17%) Life Science
4 2 (3.17%) Security Operations Centre
4 2 (3.17%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.59%) Digital Signage
5 1 (1.59%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.59%) IoT
5 1 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.59%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 33 (52.38%) Linux
2 25 (39.68%) Unix
3 5 (7.94%) Windows
4 3 (4.76%) Windows Server
5 2 (3.17%) CentOS
5 2 (3.17%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.59%) Mac OS
6 1 (1.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.59%) SUSE
6 1 (1.59%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
6 1 (1.59%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (34.92%) AI
2 19 (30.16%) Data Analysis
2 19 (30.16%) Infrastructure as Code
3 18 (28.57%) LLM
4 12 (19.05%) CI/CD
5 10 (15.87%) DevOps
6 9 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
6 9 (14.29%) Containerisation
6 9 (14.29%) Migration
6 9 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
7 8 (12.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 8 (12.70%) Mentoring
8 7 (11.11%) Coaching
8 7 (11.11%) Privileged Access Management
8 7 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (11.11%) RBAC
8 7 (11.11%) Secrets Management
9 6 (9.52%) Observability
10 5 (7.94%) Incident Response
10 5 (7.94%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 41 (65.08%) Python
2 19 (30.16%) SQL
3 13 (20.63%) Bash
4 11 (17.46%) PowerShell
5 8 (12.70%) JavaScript
6 5 (7.94%) Java
6 5 (7.94%) Shell Script
7 3 (4.76%) Groovy
7 3 (4.76%) PHP
8 2 (3.17%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.59%) C#
9 1 (1.59%) Perl
Qualifications
1 23 (36.51%) Degree
2 10 (15.87%) Security Cleared
3 7 (11.11%) SC Cleared
4 6 (9.52%) DV Cleared
5 3 (4.76%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (1.59%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.59%) CCNP
6 1 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.52%) HL7
2 3 (4.76%) GDPR
3 1 (1.59%) QA
System Software
1 13 (20.63%) Docker
2 11 (17.46%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.59%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 10 (15.87%) Terraform
2 7 (11.11%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (4.76%) Ansible
3 3 (4.76%) AWS Copilot
3 3 (4.76%) Grafana
3 3 (4.76%) Kubernetes
3 3 (4.76%) Progress Chef
3 3 (4.76%) Prometheus
3 3 (4.76%) Scalr
4 1 (1.59%) Kibana
Vendors
1 7 (11.11%) CyberArk
1 7 (11.11%) Google
2 5 (7.94%) Microsoft
3 3 (4.76%) Oracle
3 3 (4.76%) Red Hat
3 3 (4.76%) ServiceNow
4 2 (3.17%) Apple
4 2 (3.17%) Splunk
5 1 (1.59%) Dell
5 1 (1.59%) New Relic
5 1 (1.59%) SAP