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 25 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 479 524 526
Rank change year-on-year +45 +2 +55
Permanent jobs citing Linux Command Line 139 201 161
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.30% 0.33% 0.35%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.82% 0.98% 0.91%
Number of salaries quoted 72 124 131
10th Percentile £37,500 £33,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,938 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -12.00% +10.62%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £85,625
90th Percentile £94,600 £80,000 £96,539
UK median annual salary £73,801 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +34.18% -12.00% +9.65%

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 16,871 20,601 17,709
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 36.37% 34.24% 38.42%
Number of salaries quoted 9,649 9,985 13,208
10th Percentile £27,707 £33,750 £33,448
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,500 £45,653
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% -2.34%
75th Percentile £77,500 £84,964 £85,000
90th Percentile £104,000 £112,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £54,285 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -9.53% -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 25 November 2025.

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 25 November 2025. 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 +48 41 £82,500 +50.00% 26
East of England +36 31 £39,000 -29.09% 3
South East +26 22 £45,000 -1.23% 19
Midlands +67 20 £39,000 -13.81% 6
West Midlands +61 14 £39,000 +20.00% 5
South West +18 14 £90,000 +20.00% 3
North of England +10 11 £73,801 +92.94% 2
East Midlands +33 6 £52,500 -9.48% 1
North West +46 4 £73,801 +51.39% 1
Yorkshire -10 4 £45,000 +17.65%
North East +21 3 £73,801 - 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 21 (15.11%) Apache Spark
2 16 (11.51%) Tomcat
2 16 (11.51%) WebSphere
2 16 (11.51%) WebSphere Application Server
3 14 (10.07%) IIS
4 6 (4.32%) Apache
5 1 (0.72%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.72%) CMS
5 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (4.32%) Chatbot
2 3 (2.16%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.72%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 64 (46.04%) AWS
2 33 (23.74%) Azure
3 27 (19.42%) Amazon S3
4 24 (17.27%) Amazon EKS
5 18 (12.95%) Amazon ELB
6 13 (9.35%) GCP
7 12 (8.63%) Amazon ECR
7 12 (8.63%) AWS CloudFormation
7 12 (8.63%) SaaS
8 10 (7.19%) OpenShift
9 9 (6.47%) Amazon EC2
9 9 (6.47%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (6.47%) GitHub
9 9 (6.47%) Serverless
10 8 (5.76%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (5.76%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (5.04%) Azure Key Vault
11 7 (5.04%) Entra ID
11 7 (5.04%) PaaS
12 6 (4.32%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 16 (11.51%) SSL
2 13 (9.35%) TCP/IP
3 8 (5.76%) DNS
3 8 (5.76%) Firewall
4 4 (2.88%) DHCP
4 4 (2.88%) VPN
5 3 (2.16%) AMQP
5 3 (2.16%) Kerberos
5 3 (2.16%) VLAN
6 2 (1.44%) 2G
6 2 (1.44%) 4G
6 2 (1.44%) 5G
6 2 (1.44%) Cisco IOS
6 2 (1.44%) HTTP
6 2 (1.44%) ICMP
6 2 (1.44%) Software-Defined Radio
6 2 (1.44%) VoIP
7 1 (0.72%) Network Security
7 1 (0.72%) SSH
7 1 (0.72%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (18.71%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (14.39%) SQL Server
3 18 (12.95%) Delta Lake
3 18 (12.95%) DynamoDB
3 18 (12.95%) Metadata
3 18 (12.95%) Spark SQL
4 16 (11.51%) DB2
5 15 (10.79%) Amazon RDS
6 8 (5.76%) Elasticsearch
7 7 (5.04%) MySQL
8 6 (4.32%) Redis
9 4 (2.88%) Relational Database
10 3 (2.16%) Apache Hive
10 3 (2.16%) Big Data
10 3 (2.16%) Hadoop
10 3 (2.16%) InfluxDB
11 1 (0.72%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 18 (12.95%) MLflow
2 16 (11.51%) Git
3 11 (7.91%) Jenkins
4 5 (3.60%) JIRA
5 4 (2.88%) Browser DevTools
5 4 (2.88%) IDA Disassembler
6 2 (1.44%) GitLab
7 1 (0.72%) JUnit
7 1 (0.72%) Maven
7 1 (0.72%) Selenium
General
1 42 (30.22%) Social Skills
2 16 (11.51%) Banking
3 11 (7.91%) German Language
4 10 (7.19%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (7.19%) Investment Banking
5 8 (5.76%) Finance
6 6 (4.32%) Law
7 2 (1.44%) Electronics
7 2 (1.44%) Marketing
7 2 (1.44%) Military
8 1 (0.72%) Billing
8 1 (0.72%) Front Office
8 1 (0.72%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.72%) Publishing
8 1 (0.72%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 24 (17.27%) Applications Support
2 21 (15.11%) Linux Support
3 18 (12.95%) Machine Learning Engineer
3 18 (12.95%) Operations Engineer
4 17 (12.23%) Platform Engineer
5 15 (10.79%) Support Engineer
6 13 (9.35%) Senior
7 12 (8.63%) Linux Engineer
8 11 (7.91%) Infrastructure Support
8 11 (7.91%) Linux Support Engineer
8 11 (7.91%) Support Specialist
9 10 (7.19%) Unix Support
10 8 (5.76%) Applications Engineer
10 8 (5.76%) Applications Support Engineer
10 8 (5.76%) Developer
11 7 (5.04%) Applications Specialist
11 7 (5.04%) Applications Support Specialist
11 7 (5.04%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
11 7 (5.04%) Lead
11 7 (5.04%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (20.86%) HTML
2 28 (20.14%) JSON
2 28 (20.14%) Regular Expression
2 28 (20.14%) XML
3 20 (14.39%) YAML
4 19 (13.67%) LDAP
5 18 (12.95%) Keras
5 18 (12.95%) Lambda Expressions
5 18 (12.95%) Metaflow
5 18 (12.95%) NumPy
5 18 (12.95%) Pandas
5 18 (12.95%) PySpark
5 18 (12.95%) PyTorch
5 18 (12.95%) scikit-learn
5 18 (12.95%) TensorFlow
6 16 (11.51%) LAPP Stack
6 16 (11.51%) WebSphere MQ
7 10 (7.19%) LAMP
8 6 (4.32%) ARM Templates
8 6 (4.32%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 36 (25.90%) Onboarding
2 11 (7.91%) Management Information System
3 5 (3.60%) Cloud Native
4 4 (2.88%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.16%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (2.16%) Life Science
5 3 (2.16%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.44%) Arduino
6 2 (1.44%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (1.44%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (1.44%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.44%) Omics
6 2 (1.44%) Raspberry Pi
7 1 (0.72%) ARM Cortex
7 1 (0.72%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.72%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.72%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (0.72%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.72%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 80 (57.55%) Linux
2 79 (56.83%) Unix
3 30 (21.58%) Windows
4 20 (14.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (4.32%) Mac OS
5 6 (4.32%) VMS
5 6 (4.32%) Windows Server
6 5 (3.60%) Ubuntu
7 4 (2.88%) CentOS
8 3 (2.16%) Debian
8 3 (2.16%) Windows 10
9 2 (1.44%) CoreOS
9 2 (1.44%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (41.73%) AI
2 44 (31.65%) CI/CD
3 34 (24.46%) Data Analysis
4 29 (20.86%) Containerisation
5 28 (20.14%) LLM
6 25 (17.99%) ITIL
6 25 (17.99%) Problem-Solving
7 23 (16.55%) Data Science
7 23 (16.55%) DevOps
8 22 (15.83%) Time Management
9 21 (15.11%) Machine Learning
10 20 (14.39%) Infrastructure as Code
10 20 (14.39%) OO
10 20 (14.39%) Visualisation
11 19 (13.67%) Information Security
12 18 (12.95%) Metadata Management
12 18 (12.95%) MLOps
12 18 (12.95%) OOP
12 18 (12.95%) OWASP
12 18 (12.95%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 96 (69.06%) Python
2 48 (34.53%) SQL
3 23 (16.55%) Bash
4 14 (10.07%) JavaScript
5 13 (9.35%) PowerShell
6 12 (8.63%) Shell Script
7 11 (7.91%) PHP
8 7 (5.04%) Java
9 4 (2.88%) C
9 4 (2.88%) C++
9 4 (2.88%) Go
10 2 (1.44%) Bicep
10 2 (1.44%) C#
10 2 (1.44%) R
10 2 (1.44%) Ruby
11 1 (0.72%) Perl
11 1 (0.72%) PL/1
11 1 (0.72%) Scala
11 1 (0.72%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 56 (40.29%) Degree
2 21 (15.11%) Security Cleared
3 19 (13.67%) AWS Certification
4 16 (11.51%) ITIL Certification
5 15 (10.79%) DV Cleared
6 13 (9.35%) SC Cleared
7 7 (5.04%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (2.88%) A+ Certification
9 3 (2.16%) Azure Certification
9 3 (2.16%) PhD
10 2 (1.44%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.72%) CCNA
11 1 (0.72%) CCNP
11 1 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (11.51%) SLA
2 4 (2.88%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.44%) Def Stans
4 1 (0.72%) GDPR
System Software
1 36 (25.90%) Docker
2 13 (9.35%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.88%) zsh
4 3 (2.16%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.44%) KVM
5 2 (1.44%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.72%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.72%) NFS
Systems Management
1 40 (28.78%) Terraform
2 34 (24.46%) Kubernetes
3 18 (12.95%) Kubeflow
4 13 (9.35%) Ansible
5 6 (4.32%) AWS Copilot
5 6 (4.32%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (2.88%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (2.16%) Grafana
7 3 (2.16%) Progress Chef
7 3 (2.16%) Prometheus
8 2 (1.44%) Puppet
9 1 (0.72%) CASB
9 1 (0.72%) QRadar
9 1 (0.72%) SCCM
9 1 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 25 (17.99%) Microsoft
2 24 (17.27%) Red Hat
3 22 (15.83%) Databricks
4 16 (11.51%) IBM
5 11 (7.91%) Oracle
6 10 (7.19%) Salesforce
6 10 (7.19%) ServiceNow
7 7 (5.04%) Google
8 6 (4.32%) Apple
9 4 (2.88%) HubSpot
10 3 (2.16%) Cisco
10 3 (2.16%) Dell
10 3 (2.16%) VMware
11 2 (1.44%) Splunk
12 1 (0.72%) Adobe
12 1 (0.72%) Citrix
12 1 (0.72%) CyberArk
12 1 (0.72%) Forcepoint
12 1 (0.72%) Palo Alto
12 1 (0.72%) Qualys