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 18 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 549 540 605
Rank change year-on-year -9 +65 +30
Permanent jobs citing Linux Command Line 101 83 176
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.15% 0.22% 0.24%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.49% 0.55% 0.66%
Number of salaries quoted 58 51 131
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £40,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.52% +9.52% -16.67%
75th Percentile £78,790 £74,375 £77,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £58,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +7.76% +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 20,629 14,998 26,678
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 31.16% 39.09% 35.70%
Number of salaries quoted 10,610 8,046 19,723
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £28,290
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £38,546
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,239 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.60% +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 18 March 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 18 March 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 +19 40 £73,151 +8.37% 14
East of England -3 23 £45,000 -18.18% 6
South East -22 13 £42,500 -17.07% 8
North of England -41 12 £48,445 +7.65% 4
Midlands -14 7 £39,000 -32.76% 8
West Midlands +3 5 £39,000 - 6
North West -20 5 £55,000 +22.22% 2
South West -33 4 £91,000 +25.52% 7
North East - 4 £73,801 - 1
Yorkshire -41 3 £48,445 - 1
East Midlands -34 2 £52,500 -9.48% 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 7 (6.93%) Tomcat
1 7 (6.93%) WebSphere
1 7 (6.93%) WebSphere Application Server
2 4 (3.96%) Apache
2 4 (3.96%) Apache Spark
2 4 (3.96%) IIS
3 1 (0.99%) Confluence
3 1 (0.99%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (3.96%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 40 (39.60%) AWS
2 34 (33.66%) Azure
3 18 (17.82%) GCP
4 11 (10.89%) Amazon ECR
4 11 (10.89%) AWS CloudFormation
5 10 (9.90%) Amazon ECS
6 9 (8.91%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 9 (8.91%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 9 (8.91%) dbt
6 9 (8.91%) Entra ID
6 9 (8.91%) PaaS
6 9 (8.91%) Pulumi
6 9 (8.91%) Sentry
7 7 (6.93%) OCI
8 6 (5.94%) SaaS
9 5 (4.95%) OpenShift
10 4 (3.96%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (3.96%) Amazon S3
10 4 (3.96%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (3.96%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 19 (18.81%) TCP/IP
2 10 (9.90%) VPN
3 8 (7.92%) DNS
4 7 (6.93%) SSL
5 6 (5.94%) Firewall
6 4 (3.96%) DHCP
6 4 (3.96%) Kerberos
7 3 (2.97%) VLAN
8 2 (1.98%) 2G
8 2 (1.98%) 4G
8 2 (1.98%) 5G
8 2 (1.98%) HTTP
8 2 (1.98%) ICMP
8 2 (1.98%) Software-Defined Radio
9 1 (0.99%) Cisco IOS
9 1 (0.99%) VoIP
9 1 (0.99%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (18.81%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (11.88%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (11.88%) Elasticsearch
3 10 (9.90%) MySQL
4 9 (8.91%) Redis
4 9 (8.91%) SQL Server
5 7 (6.93%) DB2
6 6 (5.94%) Electronic Patient Records
7 4 (3.96%) Apache Hive
7 4 (3.96%) Big Data
7 4 (3.96%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.99%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.99%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.99%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 4 (3.96%) IDA Disassembler
1 4 (3.96%) JIRA
2 3 (2.97%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.98%) Git
3 2 (1.98%) GitLab
4 1 (0.99%) Browser DevTools
4 1 (0.99%) CircleCI
4 1 (0.99%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (0.99%) Selenium
4 1 (0.99%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.99%) WebDriver
4 1 (0.99%) webpack
General
1 15 (14.85%) German Language
2 14 (13.86%) Social Skills
3 8 (7.92%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (6.93%) Banking
4 7 (6.93%) Public Sector
5 6 (5.94%) Health Technology
6 5 (4.95%) Investment Banking
7 4 (3.96%) Finance
8 3 (2.97%) Games
8 3 (2.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.97%) Law
9 2 (1.98%) Advertising
9 2 (1.98%) Electronics
9 2 (1.98%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.99%) Billing
10 1 (0.99%) Front Office
10 1 (0.99%) Legal
10 1 (0.99%) Military
10 1 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.99%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 14 (13.86%) Applications Support
1 14 (13.86%) Senior
2 11 (10.89%) Platform Engineer
3 9 (8.91%) Analyst
3 9 (8.91%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 8 (7.92%) IT Engineer
5 7 (6.93%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
5 7 (6.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 7 (6.93%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 7 (6.93%) Linux Support
6 6 (5.94%) Consultant
6 6 (5.94%) EPR Consultant
6 6 (5.94%) Technical Consultant
7 5 (4.95%) Developer
7 5 (4.95%) Infrastructure Support
7 5 (4.95%) Linux Engineer
7 5 (4.95%) Unix Support
8 4 (3.96%) Applications Support Specialist
8 4 (3.96%) Support Analyst
8 4 (3.96%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (35.64%) JSON
2 30 (29.70%) HTML
3 29 (28.71%) Regular Expression
3 29 (28.71%) XML
4 11 (10.89%) LDAP
5 9 (8.91%) Django
6 7 (6.93%) LAPP Stack
6 7 (6.93%) WebSphere MQ
7 6 (5.94%) FHIR
8 4 (3.96%) LAMP
8 4 (3.96%) OAuth
8 4 (3.96%) OAuth2
9 2 (1.98%) ARM Templates
9 2 (1.98%) Flash
9 2 (1.98%) JDBC
9 2 (1.98%) ODBC
9 2 (1.98%) Ruby on Rails
10 1 (0.99%) Loki
10 1 (0.99%) OpenTelemetry
10 1 (0.99%) RSS
Miscellaneous
1 40 (39.60%) Onboarding
2 7 (6.93%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (5.94%) NHS
4 5 (4.95%) Management Information System
4 5 (4.95%) Virtual Team
5 4 (3.96%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (3.96%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (2.97%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (2.97%) Security Operations Centre
7 2 (1.98%) Arduino
7 2 (1.98%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.98%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (1.98%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.98%) Embedded Systems
7 2 (1.98%) Raspberry Pi
8 1 (0.99%) ARM Cortex
8 1 (0.99%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.99%) Digital Signage
8 1 (0.99%) Smart City
8 1 (0.99%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 58 (57.43%) Linux
2 57 (56.44%) Unix
3 15 (14.85%) Windows
4 8 (7.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (5.94%) Windows Server
6 4 (3.96%) Ubuntu
6 4 (3.96%) Windows 10
7 3 (2.97%) CentOS
8 2 (1.98%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.99%) Debian
9 1 (0.99%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.99%) SUSE
9 1 (0.99%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 1 (0.99%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (37.62%) AI
2 30 (29.70%) Data Analysis
3 29 (28.71%) LLM
4 22 (21.78%) Infrastructure as Code
5 20 (19.80%) Problem-Solving
6 17 (16.83%) User Acceptance Testing
7 16 (15.84%) CI/CD
8 14 (13.86%) Migration
9 13 (12.87%) DevOps
9 13 (12.87%) ITIL
9 13 (12.87%) Prototyping
10 12 (11.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 11 (10.89%) Observability
11 11 (10.89%) Platform Engineering
12 10 (9.90%) Mentoring
13 9 (8.91%) Clean Code
13 9 (8.91%) Computer Science
13 9 (8.91%) Containerisation
13 9 (8.91%) Open Source
14 8 (7.92%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 68 (67.33%) Python
2 22 (21.78%) SQL
3 13 (12.87%) Bash
3 13 (12.87%) JavaScript
3 13 (12.87%) PowerShell
4 8 (7.92%) Java
5 6 (5.94%) Shell Script
6 5 (4.95%) PHP
7 4 (3.96%) C
7 4 (3.96%) C++
8 3 (2.97%) C#
9 2 (1.98%) Ruby
10 1 (0.99%) Perl
10 1 (0.99%) Scala
10 1 (0.99%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 45 (44.55%) Degree
2 20 (19.80%) Security Cleared
3 12 (11.88%) SC Cleared
4 11 (10.89%) DV Cleared
5 10 (9.90%) AWS Certification
6 7 (6.93%) ITIL Certification
7 5 (4.95%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (3.96%) Azure Certification
9 3 (2.97%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.93%) SLA
2 6 (5.94%) HL7
3 1 (0.99%) Def Stans
3 1 (0.99%) QA
System Software
1 18 (17.82%) Active Directory
2 14 (13.86%) Docker
3 2 (1.98%) KVM
3 2 (1.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.99%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 14 (13.86%) Terraform
2 9 (8.91%) AWS Copilot
3 7 (6.93%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (5.94%) Ansible
4 6 (5.94%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.99%) Grafana
5 1 (0.99%) Kibana
5 1 (0.99%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.99%) Scalr
Vendors
1 13 (12.87%) Google
2 11 (10.89%) Red Hat
3 8 (7.92%) Oracle
3 8 (7.92%) ServiceNow
4 7 (6.93%) CyberArk
4 7 (6.93%) IBM
4 7 (6.93%) Microsoft
5 4 (3.96%) Dell
5 4 (3.96%) Salesforce
6 3 (2.97%) Splunk
7 2 (1.98%) Apple
7 2 (1.98%) VMware
8 1 (0.99%) Cisco
8 1 (0.99%) New Relic
8 1 (0.99%) SAP