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 28 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 648 332 562
Rank change year-on-year -316 +230 +7
Permanent jobs citing Linux Command Line 117 341 200
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.11% 0.79% 0.30%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.43% 1.89% 0.91%
Number of salaries quoted 64 64 127
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,800 £30,000
25th Percentile £43,438 £38,500 £38,620
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £52,030 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £62,500 £95,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.64% - -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 26,978 18,038 21,890
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 26.08% 41.90% 32.39%
Number of salaries quoted 17,545 9,141 11,141
10th Percentile £31,083 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £44,371
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -6.98%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £57,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.64% -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 28 September 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 28 September 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 -180 38 £47,000 -14.55% 18
Yorkshire -11 21 £43,500 -3.33% 6
London -60 21 £50,000 -41.18% 65
Midlands -60 19 £47,500 +21.79% 13
South East -90 17 £51,359 -20.99% 19
East of England -41 15 £51,359 +31.69% 18
West Midlands -38 12 £47,500 +21.79% 10
North East -57 11 £47,000 -14.55% 2
East Midlands -46 7 £22,500 - 3
North West -161 6 £48,445 - 10
South West -89 5 £55,000 -21.43% 18
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 (5.13%) Confluence
2 3 (2.56%) WordPress
3 1 (0.85%) Apache
3 1 (0.85%) nginx
3 1 (0.85%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 3 (2.56%) Magento
1 3 (2.56%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 65 (55.56%) AWS
2 48 (41.03%) Azure
3 34 (29.06%) GCP
4 30 (25.64%) Cloud Computing
5 17 (14.53%) Amazon EC2
6 16 (13.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 16 (13.68%) AWS CloudFormation
6 16 (13.68%) GitHub
7 15 (12.82%) Amazon S3
7 15 (12.82%) Serverless
7 15 (12.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 14 (11.97%) Amazon ECS
8 14 (11.97%) AWS Lambda
8 14 (11.97%) GitHub Actions
9 13 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
10 12 (10.26%) Entra ID
11 8 (6.84%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (5.98%) Datadog
12 7 (5.98%) Microsoft 365
13 6 (5.13%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 31 (26.50%) Internet
2 20 (17.09%) TCP/IP
3 16 (13.68%) Firewall
4 12 (10.26%) VPN
5 7 (5.98%) DNS
6 6 (5.13%) DHCP
6 6 (5.13%) SSH
7 4 (3.42%) Kerberos
8 3 (2.56%) SSL
9 2 (1.71%) BGP
9 2 (1.71%) Ethernet
9 2 (1.71%) SMTP
9 2 (1.71%) VoIP
10 1 (0.85%) Cisco IOS
10 1 (0.85%) LAN
10 1 (0.85%) Network Security
10 1 (0.85%) OSPF
10 1 (0.85%) WAN
10 1 (0.85%) Wireless
10 1 (0.85%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (12.82%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (5.13%) MySQL
3 5 (4.27%) Power BI
4 4 (3.42%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (2.56%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.71%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (1.71%) Power Query
7 1 (0.85%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.85%) Redis
7 1 (0.85%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 43 (36.75%) Git
2 9 (7.69%) Jenkins
3 8 (6.84%) JIRA
4 3 (2.56%) GitLab
5 2 (1.71%) Ant
5 2 (1.71%) Apache Ivy
5 2 (1.71%) IBM UrbanCode
5 2 (1.71%) Maven
5 2 (1.71%) Subversion
6 1 (0.85%) CMake
6 1 (0.85%) GDB
6 1 (0.85%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 47 (40.17%) Analytical Skills
2 29 (24.79%) Social Skills
3 22 (18.80%) Finance
4 21 (17.95%) Law
5 9 (7.69%) Legal
6 6 (5.13%) Banking
7 5 (4.27%) Public Sector
7 5 (4.27%) Retail
8 4 (3.42%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.71%) Automotive
9 2 (1.71%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.71%) Electronics
9 2 (1.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.85%) Military
10 1 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 36 (30.77%) DevOps Engineer
2 30 (25.64%) Trainee
3 17 (14.53%) Cloud Engineer
4 14 (11.97%) AWS Engineer
5 12 (10.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 9 (7.69%) Analyst
7 8 (6.84%) Lead
7 8 (6.84%) Network Engineer
8 6 (5.13%) Applications Support
8 6 (5.13%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (5.13%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (5.13%) Desktop Analyst
8 6 (5.13%) Desktop Support
8 6 (5.13%) Desktop Support Analyst
8 6 (5.13%) Linux Support
8 6 (5.13%) Support Analyst
8 6 (5.13%) Windows Support Analyst
9 5 (4.27%) ICT Technician
9 5 (4.27%) IT Support
9 5 (4.27%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (25.64%) Terraform
2 8 (6.84%) YAML
3 6 (5.13%) React
4 5 (4.27%) CSS
4 5 (4.27%) HTML
4 5 (4.27%) Node.js
5 4 (3.42%) OAuth
5 4 (3.42%) OAuth2
5 4 (3.42%) OpenID
5 4 (3.42%) SAML
6 3 (2.56%) Loki
6 3 (2.56%) OpenTelemetry
6 3 (2.56%) RESTful
6 3 (2.56%) Web Services
7 2 (1.71%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (1.71%) Vue
8 1 (0.85%) ARM Templates
8 1 (0.85%) LAPP Stack
8 1 (0.85%) LEMP Stack
8 1 (0.85%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 15 (12.82%) Hybrid Cloud
2 10 (8.55%) Onboarding
3 7 (5.98%) Life Science
4 6 (5.13%) Cyber Threat
4 6 (5.13%) Hedge funds
4 6 (5.13%) Video Conferencing
5 5 (4.27%) Robotics
6 4 (3.42%) Cloud Native
6 4 (3.42%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (3.42%) PKI
7 3 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.71%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.71%) FPGA
8 2 (1.71%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.85%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.85%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.85%) Driving Licence
9 1 (0.85%) Fibre Optics
9 1 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.85%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 94 (80.34%) Linux
2 15 (12.82%) Windows
3 10 (8.55%) Unix
4 8 (6.84%) Ubuntu
5 7 (5.98%) Windows 10
6 3 (2.56%) CentOS
6 3 (2.56%) Debian
6 3 (2.56%) Robot Operating System
6 3 (2.56%) Windows Server
7 2 (1.71%) Solaris
8 1 (0.85%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.85%) Kali Linux
8 1 (0.85%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.85%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (51.28%) CI/CD
2 58 (49.57%) DevOps
3 55 (47.01%) Infrastructure as Code
4 49 (41.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 47 (40.17%) Problem-Solving
6 46 (39.32%) Cloud Security
7 42 (35.90%) Containerisation
8 36 (30.77%) Software Deployment
9 35 (29.91%) Mentoring
10 34 (29.06%) Platform Engineering
11 33 (28.21%) Configuration Management
12 32 (27.35%) Continuous Delivery
12 32 (27.35%) Continuous Integration
12 32 (27.35%) DevSecOps
12 32 (27.35%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 30 (25.64%) Analytical Thinking
13 30 (25.64%) Cloud Operations
13 30 (25.64%) Continuous Deployment
13 30 (25.64%) Incident Management
13 30 (25.64%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 58 (49.57%) Python
2 40 (34.19%) Bash
3 38 (32.48%) Shell Script
4 19 (16.24%) PowerShell
5 17 (14.53%) SQL
6 7 (5.98%) JavaScript
7 6 (5.13%) Java
8 3 (2.56%) C++
8 3 (2.56%) Groovy
8 3 (2.56%) PHP
8 3 (2.56%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (1.71%) Go
9 2 (1.71%) Ruby
9 2 (1.71%) SystemVerilog
10 1 (0.85%) Bicep
10 1 (0.85%) C
10 1 (0.85%) C#
10 1 (0.85%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 15 (12.82%) Degree
2 9 (7.69%) Security Cleared
3 6 (5.13%) A+ Certification
3 6 (5.13%) Network+ Certification
4 5 (4.27%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (4.27%) HNC
4 5 (4.27%) HND
5 4 (3.42%) DV Cleared
5 4 (3.42%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.71%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.71%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.71%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.85%) CCNP
7 1 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.27%) QA
2 3 (2.56%) GDPR
2 3 (2.56%) SLA
3 1 (0.85%) Def Stans
System Software
1 63 (53.85%) Docker
2 12 (10.26%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.71%) Samba
4 1 (0.85%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.85%) Snort
4 1 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.85%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.85%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 10 (8.55%) Ansible
2 9 (7.69%) Grafana
3 8 (6.84%) Prometheus
4 6 (5.13%) Kubernetes
5 5 (4.27%) Progress Chef
6 2 (1.71%) Puppet
7 1 (0.85%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.85%) Nagios
7 1 (0.85%) Scalr
Vendors
1 47 (40.17%) Microsoft
2 31 (26.50%) Google
3 6 (5.13%) Atlassian
4 5 (4.27%) Oracle
5 4 (3.42%) CyberArk
5 4 (3.42%) New Relic
5 4 (3.42%) Red Hat
6 3 (2.56%) NVIDIA
6 3 (2.56%) VMware
7 2 (1.71%) Cisco
7 2 (1.71%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.85%) Arista
8 1 (0.85%) Brocade
8 1 (0.85%) Carbon Black
8 1 (0.85%) CrowdStrike
8 1 (0.85%) Dell
8 1 (0.85%) Juniper
8 1 (0.85%) SonicWALL
8 1 (0.85%) Splunk
8 1 (0.85%) Ubiquiti