Linux Command Line Jobs 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 advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Linux Command Line over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 684 628 483
Rank change year-on-year -56 -145 +1
Permanent jobs citing Linux Command Line 156 342 931
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.18% 0.37% 0.71%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.53% 0.85% 1.54%
Number of salaries quoted 129 179 273
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £32,800
25th Percentile £40,250 £42,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £85,500 £97,328 £96,250
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% +4.55%

All Generic Skills
England

Linux Command Line is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 29,443 40,387 60,488
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 34.72% 43.32% 46.27%
Number of salaries quoted 20,757 21,802 30,475
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,422 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,650 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £98,474 £110,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%

Linux Command Line
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Linux Command Line as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Linux Command Line in England

Linux Command Line
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Linux Command Line in England.

Salary trend for Linux Command Line in England

Linux Command Line
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux Command Line in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 2024. 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 +73 53 £70,000 +7.69% 26
South East +9 35 £42,500 - 11
South West +3 28 £52,500 +40.00% 4
North of England -8 18 £50,000 -13.04% 6
Midlands -25 13 £50,000 -9.09% 9
Yorkshire +60 12 £85,000 +21.43% 1
West Midlands +12 11 £50,000 -2.54% 5
East of England +3 11 £43,500 -39.58% 8
North West -6 5 £50,000 -9.09% 4
East Midlands -29 2 £40,000 -23.81% 4
North East -10 1 - - 1
Linux Command Line
UK

Linux Command Line
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 13 (8.33%) SharePoint
2 11 (7.05%) nginx
2 11 (7.05%) WordPress
3 10 (6.41%) IIS
3 10 (6.41%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.28%) Apache
4 2 (1.28%) Confluence
5 1 (0.64%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.64%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.64%) CMS
5 1 (0.64%) Drupal
5 1 (0.64%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.56%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.64%) GNU Octave
Business Applications
1 4 (2.56%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 58 (37.18%) AWS
2 46 (29.49%) Azure
3 27 (17.31%) OpenShift
4 15 (9.62%) Azure DevOps
4 15 (9.62%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
5 12 (7.69%) Serverless
6 11 (7.05%) AWS Lambda
7 10 (6.41%) Amazon EC2
7 10 (6.41%) Amazon S3
7 10 (6.41%) Cloud Computing
7 10 (6.41%) OneDrive
8 8 (5.13%) Azure AKS
8 8 (5.13%) Datadog
8 8 (5.13%) Pulumi
9 7 (4.49%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 6 (3.85%) SaaS
11 5 (3.21%) Entra ID
11 5 (3.21%) Power Platform
12 4 (2.56%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 44 (28.21%) Firewall
2 16 (10.26%) Wireless
3 15 (9.62%) DNS
4 13 (8.33%) TCP/IP
5 12 (7.69%) VPN
6 10 (6.41%) Fibre Channel
6 10 (6.41%) iSCSI
6 10 (6.41%) NAS
6 10 (6.41%) Network Security
6 10 (6.41%) SAN
7 7 (4.49%) LAN
8 6 (3.85%) WAN
9 5 (3.21%) AMQP
9 5 (3.21%) SSH
10 4 (2.56%) HTTP
10 4 (2.56%) Multicast
10 4 (2.56%) OSPF
10 4 (2.56%) Wi-Fi
11 3 (1.92%) DHCP
11 3 (1.92%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (21.15%) MySQL
2 23 (14.74%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (7.69%) SQL Server
4 10 (6.41%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (5.77%) MongoDB
6 8 (5.13%) MariaDB
7 7 (4.49%) Azure SQL Database
7 7 (4.49%) Redis
8 6 (3.85%) Relational Database
9 5 (3.21%) InfluxDB
9 5 (3.21%) Power BI
10 4 (2.56%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (2.56%) NoSQL
11 2 (1.28%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (1.28%) BusinessObjects
11 2 (1.28%) Neo4j
11 2 (1.28%) Oracle Database
11 2 (1.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 1 (0.64%) Big Data
12 1 (0.64%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 51 (32.69%) Git
2 27 (17.31%) Jenkins
3 18 (11.54%) JIRA
4 12 (7.69%) Subversion
5 10 (6.41%) GNU Toolchain
6 9 (5.77%) GitLab
6 9 (5.77%) Robot Framework
7 8 (5.13%) Team Foundation Server
8 5 (3.21%) Bitbucket
8 5 (3.21%) DTrace
8 5 (3.21%) GDB
9 4 (2.56%) Rational DOORS
10 3 (1.92%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (1.92%) JUnit
11 2 (1.28%) Artifactory
11 2 (1.28%) Cucumber
11 2 (1.28%) Gradle
12 1 (0.64%) CMake
12 1 (0.64%) Postman
12 1 (0.64%) SonarQube
General
1 25 (16.03%) Social Skills
2 16 (10.26%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (6.41%) Aerospace
3 10 (6.41%) Finance
4 9 (5.77%) Retail
5 8 (5.13%) Law
6 3 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (1.92%) Manufacturing
6 3 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (1.92%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (1.28%) Music Industry
7 2 (1.28%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.64%) Advertising
8 1 (0.64%) Aviation
8 1 (0.64%) Banking
8 1 (0.64%) Electronics
8 1 (0.64%) Games
Job Titles
1 37 (23.72%) Azure Engineer
2 27 (17.31%) Developer
3 23 (14.74%) Platform Engineer
4 19 (12.18%) Cloud Engineer
5 18 (11.54%) Linux Engineer
5 18 (11.54%) Network Engineer
6 17 (10.90%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 15 (9.62%) Automation Engineer
7 15 (9.62%) Operations Engineer
8 14 (8.97%) AWS Engineer
8 14 (8.97%) Support Engineer
9 13 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 12 (7.69%) Administrator
10 12 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
10 12 (7.69%) Linux Administrator
10 12 (7.69%) Senior
11 11 (7.05%) Cloud Automation Engineer
11 11 (7.05%) Linux Systems Administrator
12 10 (6.41%) Unix Administrator
12 10 (6.41%) Unix Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (12.18%) HTML
2 17 (10.90%) Node.js
3 12 (7.69%) XML
4 11 (7.05%) React
5 10 (6.41%) CSS
5 10 (6.41%) LAMP
5 10 (6.41%) POSIX
6 8 (5.13%) ARM Templates
7 7 (4.49%) Laravel
7 7 (4.49%) RESTful
8 6 (3.85%) REST
9 5 (3.21%) RabbitMQ
10 4 (2.56%) Akka
10 4 (2.56%) JSON
10 4 (2.56%) NETCONF
10 4 (2.56%) Spring
10 4 (2.56%) Vue
11 3 (1.92%) RESTCONF
11 3 (1.92%) SOAP
11 3 (1.92%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 12 (7.69%) Replication
2 11 (7.05%) Embedded Systems
2 11 (7.05%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (4.49%) Client/Server
3 7 (4.49%) Product Ownership
4 5 (3.21%) Clustering
5 4 (2.56%) Data Centre
5 4 (2.56%) Public Cloud
6 3 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.28%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.28%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.64%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.64%) Hedge funds
8 1 (0.64%) Life Science
8 1 (0.64%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.64%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.64%) Music Streaming
8 1 (0.64%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 136 (87.18%) Linux
2 41 (26.28%) Windows
3 40 (25.64%) Unix
4 31 (19.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 21 (13.46%) CentOS
5 21 (13.46%) Windows Server
6 20 (12.82%) CoreOS
7 16 (10.26%) Windows Server 2016
8 12 (7.69%) Ubuntu
9 11 (7.05%) VMS
10 10 (6.41%) Windows Server 2019
11 8 (5.13%) Windows 10
12 2 (1.28%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.64%) Android
13 1 (0.64%) Apple iOS
13 1 (0.64%) Debian
13 1 (0.64%) Fedora
13 1 (0.64%) openSUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (43.59%) DevOps
2 45 (28.85%) Configuration Management
3 41 (26.28%) CI/CD
4 40 (25.64%) Agile
5 36 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
6 34 (21.79%) Time Management
7 28 (17.95%) Infrastructure as Code
8 24 (15.38%) Software Testing
9 23 (14.74%) ITIL
9 23 (14.74%) Platform Engineering
10 20 (12.82%) Test Automation
11 19 (12.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 17 (10.90%) Change Management
12 17 (10.90%) Open Source
13 16 (10.26%) Containerisation
14 15 (9.62%) Analytics
15 13 (8.33%) Collaborative Working
15 13 (8.33%) Computer Science
15 13 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
15 13 (8.33%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 84 (53.85%) Python
2 72 (46.15%) Bash
3 43 (27.56%) SQL
4 36 (23.08%) PowerShell
5 35 (22.44%) Java
6 21 (13.46%) PHP
7 18 (11.54%) JavaScript
8 16 (10.26%) C
9 15 (9.62%) Go
9 15 (9.62%) Perl
10 14 (8.97%) Shell Script
11 13 (8.33%) C++
11 13 (8.33%) Ruby
12 10 (6.41%) C#
12 10 (6.41%) TypeScript
13 8 (5.13%) Groovy
13 8 (5.13%) PL/SQL
14 5 (3.21%) OCaml
14 5 (3.21%) SystemTap
15 2 (1.28%) Scala
Qualifications
1 28 (17.95%) Degree
2 23 (14.74%) Security Cleared
3 16 (10.26%) SC Cleared
4 11 (7.05%) Azure Certification
5 8 (5.13%) DV Cleared
6 6 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (3.21%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (2.56%) AWS Certification
8 4 (2.56%) Chartered Engineer
8 4 (2.56%) HNC
8 4 (2.56%) HND
9 3 (1.92%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (1.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.64%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 1 (0.64%) CCNA
10 1 (0.64%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.64%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.21%) QA
2 1 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 45 (28.85%) Docker
2 18 (11.54%) Active Directory
3 10 (6.41%) vSphere
4 3 (1.92%) VirtualBox
5 1 (0.64%) Firmware
5 1 (0.64%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.64%) Samba
5 1 (0.64%) Squid
5 1 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 50 (32.05%) Kubernetes
2 49 (31.41%) Ansible
3 47 (30.13%) Puppet
4 36 (23.08%) Terraform
5 25 (16.03%) Progress Chef
6 18 (11.54%) Grafana
7 14 (8.97%) Prometheus
8 12 (7.69%) Salt
9 11 (7.05%) Microsoft Intune
10 10 (6.41%) SCCM
11 5 (3.21%) Docker Swarm
12 3 (1.92%) Kibana
13 2 (1.28%) ZABBIX
14 1 (0.64%) FortiGate
14 1 (0.64%) Jamf Pro
14 1 (0.64%) logstash
14 1 (0.64%) Nmap
14 1 (0.64%) OpenNMS
14 1 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
14 1 (0.64%) systemd
Vendors
1 25 (16.03%) Microsoft
2 23 (14.74%) Red Hat
3 14 (8.97%) Palo Alto
4 12 (7.69%) Cisco
4 12 (7.69%) Synology
4 12 (7.69%) Veeam
5 10 (6.41%) Aruba
5 10 (6.41%) ProCurve
5 10 (6.41%) VMware
5 10 (6.41%) Zerto
6 9 (5.77%) ServiceNow
7 8 (5.13%) New Relic
7 8 (5.13%) Remedy
7 8 (5.13%) SaltStack
8 4 (2.56%) BMC
8 4 (2.56%) Google
8 4 (2.56%) Oracle
8 4 (2.56%) SolarWinds
8 4 (2.56%) Thales
9 3 (1.92%) Acronis