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 23 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 661 356 633
Rank change year-on-year -305 +277 +10
Permanent jobs citing Linux Command Line 68 331 167
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.076% 0.76% 0.21%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.30% 1.83% 0.62%
Number of salaries quoted 57 58 135
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,350 £30,400
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,445 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.11% -9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £60,266 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £79,315 £96,250 £87,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -8.33%

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 22,730 18,112 26,909
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.55% 41.85% 33.30%
Number of salaries quoted 15,024 9,099 17,481
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.48% +4.55% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,750 £101,250
UK median annual salary £58,446 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.65% +4.55% -15.14%

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 23 July 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 23 July 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 -176 21 £47,000 +1.62% 10
Yorkshire -19 14 £40,000 - 5
London -53 14 £62,717 -26.22% 14
East of England -27 11 £51,359 +31.69% 5
South East -60 11 £60,000 +20.00% 6
Midlands -46 7 £47,500 -19.15% 7
West Midlands -31 5 £47,500 -19.15% 3
North East -52 4 £48,445 -11.92% 3
North West -137 3 £48,445 +29.19% 2
East Midlands -42 2 £22,500 - 4
South West -65 1 £55,000 -26.67% 7
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 (5.88%) WordPress
2 1 (1.47%) Apache
2 1 (1.47%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.47%) nginx
2 1 (1.47%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 3 (4.41%) Magento
1 3 (4.41%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 34 (50.00%) AWS
2 30 (44.12%) Azure
3 11 (16.18%) Entra ID
3 11 (16.18%) GCP
3 11 (16.18%) GitHub
3 11 (16.18%) GitHub Actions
4 10 (14.71%) Amazon EC2
4 10 (14.71%) Amazon ECS
4 10 (14.71%) Datadog
5 9 (13.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 9 (13.24%) Amazon S3
5 9 (13.24%) AWS CloudFormation
5 9 (13.24%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (11.76%) AWS Lambda
6 8 (11.76%) Serverless
6 8 (11.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 6 (8.82%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (7.35%) PaaS
9 4 (5.88%) Amazon ECR
9 4 (5.88%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 18 (26.47%) Firewall
2 16 (23.53%) TCP/IP
3 6 (8.82%) SSH
3 6 (8.82%) VPN
4 5 (7.35%) Kerberos
5 3 (4.41%) BGP
5 3 (4.41%) SSL
6 2 (2.94%) LAN
6 2 (2.94%) Network Security
6 2 (2.94%) NGFW
6 2 (2.94%) OSPF
6 2 (2.94%) SMTP
6 2 (2.94%) Software-Defined Networking
6 2 (2.94%) WAN
7 1 (1.47%) DNS
7 1 (1.47%) Internet
7 1 (1.47%) VoIP
7 1 (1.47%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (16.18%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (10.29%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (10.29%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (5.88%) MySQL
3 4 (5.88%) Power BI
4 3 (4.41%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (4.41%) Redis
4 3 (4.41%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.47%) Apache Hive
5 1 (1.47%) Big Data
5 1 (1.47%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.47%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.47%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.47%) Power Query
5 1 (1.47%) SAP HANA
5 1 (1.47%) Trino
Development Applications
1 8 (11.76%) Jenkins
2 5 (7.35%) Git
3 4 (5.88%) JIRA
4 3 (4.41%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (2.94%) Maven
6 1 (1.47%) Ant
6 1 (1.47%) Apache Ivy
6 1 (1.47%) Browser DevTools
6 1 (1.47%) CircleCI
6 1 (1.47%) git-flow
6 1 (1.47%) IBM UrbanCode
6 1 (1.47%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.47%) TeamCity
6 1 (1.47%) webpack
General
1 26 (38.24%) Social Skills
2 17 (25.00%) Finance
3 12 (17.65%) Law
4 9 (13.24%) Legal
4 9 (13.24%) Public Sector
5 6 (8.82%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (7.35%) Retail
7 4 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (4.41%) Games
9 2 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.47%) Advertising
10 1 (1.47%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 10 (14.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 10 (14.71%) Network Engineer
2 9 (13.24%) Cloud Engineer
3 8 (11.76%) Applications Support
4 7 (10.29%) DevOps Engineer
4 7 (10.29%) Senior
5 6 (8.82%) Platform Engineer
6 5 (7.35%) Analyst
6 5 (7.35%) Application Support Team Leader
6 5 (7.35%) AWS Engineer
6 5 (7.35%) ICT Support
6 5 (7.35%) ICT Support Technician
6 5 (7.35%) ICT Technician
6 5 (7.35%) IT Support
6 5 (7.35%) Lead
6 5 (7.35%) Security Technician
6 5 (7.35%) Support Team Leader
6 5 (7.35%) Support Technician
6 5 (7.35%) Team Leader
7 4 (5.88%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (14.71%) YAML
2 6 (8.82%) CSS
2 6 (8.82%) HTML
3 5 (7.35%) Loki
3 5 (7.35%) OAuth
3 5 (7.35%) OAuth2
3 5 (7.35%) OpenTelemetry
4 4 (5.88%) OpenID
4 4 (5.88%) SAML
5 3 (4.41%) Django
5 3 (4.41%) React
5 3 (4.41%) RESTful
6 2 (2.94%) Node.js
6 2 (2.94%) Vue
6 2 (2.94%) Web Services
7 1 (1.47%) JDBC
7 1 (1.47%) LAMP
7 1 (1.47%) LDAP
7 1 (1.47%) ODBC
7 1 (1.47%) RSS
Miscellaneous
1 11 (16.18%) Onboarding
2 8 (11.76%) Enterprise Software
2 8 (11.76%) Life Science
3 5 (7.35%) Cyber Threat
4 4 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (5.88%) PKI
5 3 (4.41%) Cloud Native
5 3 (4.41%) Data Centre
6 2 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.47%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (1.47%) Fibre Optics
7 1 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.47%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (1.47%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 49 (72.06%) Linux
2 10 (14.71%) Windows
3 9 (13.24%) Unix
4 5 (7.35%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.47%) CentOS
5 1 (1.47%) Mac OS
5 1 (1.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.47%) Solaris
5 1 (1.47%) SUSE
5 1 (1.47%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
5 1 (1.47%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.47%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (45.59%) Problem-Solving
2 23 (33.82%) DevOps
3 21 (30.88%) Infrastructure as Code
4 20 (29.41%) CI/CD
5 15 (22.06%) Containerisation
6 13 (19.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 13 (19.12%) Migration
7 11 (16.18%) Infrastructure Automation
8 10 (14.71%) Continuous Improvement
8 10 (14.71%) Secrets Management
8 10 (14.71%) Task Automation
9 9 (13.24%) Computer Science
9 9 (13.24%) Incident Response
9 9 (13.24%) Mentoring
9 9 (13.24%) Observability
10 8 (11.76%) Agile
10 8 (11.76%) Coaching
10 8 (11.76%) Privileged Access Management
10 8 (11.76%) RBAC
11 7 (10.29%) Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 39 (57.35%) Python
2 27 (39.71%) Bash
3 17 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 17 (25.00%) SQL
4 10 (14.71%) Java
5 8 (11.76%) JavaScript
5 8 (11.76%) Shell Script
6 4 (5.88%) PHP
6 4 (5.88%) TypeScript
7 3 (4.41%) Groovy
8 2 (2.94%) Ruby
9 1 (1.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (1.47%) Perl
Qualifications
1 12 (17.65%) Security Cleared
2 9 (13.24%) Degree
2 9 (13.24%) SC Cleared
3 7 (10.29%) DV Cleared
4 5 (7.35%) HNC
4 5 (7.35%) HND
5 3 (4.41%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (2.94%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.94%) CCNP
6 2 (2.94%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.47%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.41%) GDPR
2 1 (1.47%) SLA
System Software
1 24 (35.29%) Docker
2 13 (19.12%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.94%) Samba
4 1 (1.47%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.47%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 25 (36.76%) Terraform
2 12 (17.65%) Ansible
3 9 (13.24%) Grafana
3 9 (13.24%) Prometheus
4 4 (5.88%) Kubernetes
4 4 (5.88%) Progress Chef
4 4 (5.88%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (4.41%) AWS Copilot
5 3 (4.41%) Scalr
6 1 (1.47%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (1.47%) Kibana
6 1 (1.47%) Puppet
Vendors
1 9 (13.24%) Microsoft
2 8 (11.76%) CyberArk
2 8 (11.76%) Oracle
3 6 (8.82%) Google
4 5 (7.35%) New Relic
5 4 (5.88%) ServiceNow
6 3 (4.41%) Red Hat
7 2 (2.94%) Dell
7 2 (2.94%) VMware
8 1 (1.47%) Apple
8 1 (1.47%) Arista
8 1 (1.47%) Brocade
8 1 (1.47%) Cisco
8 1 (1.47%) Juniper
8 1 (1.47%) QNAP
8 1 (1.47%) SAP
8 1 (1.47%) SonicWALL
8 1 (1.47%) Splunk
8 1 (1.47%) Synology
8 1 (1.47%) Ubiquiti