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

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 669 352 619
Rank change year-on-year -317 +267 +15
Permanent jobs citing Linux Command Line 67 331 164
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.075% 0.76% 0.21%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.29% 1.82% 0.64%
Number of salaries quoted 55 58 133
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,350 £30,200
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £61,383 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £79,452 £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 22,987 18,192 25,807
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.64% 41.88% 33.24%
Number of salaries quoted 15,162 9,180 16,506
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £29,777
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,511 £57,500 £55,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.50% +3.60% -14.62%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £102,500
UK median annual salary £58,500 £57,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.63% +3.64% -14.06%

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 26 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 26 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 20 £47,000 +1.62% 10
London -46 14 £62,717 -26.22% 13
Yorkshire -27 13 £40,000 - 5
South East -69 12 £60,000 +20.00% 7
East of England -37 11 £51,359 +31.69% 4
Midlands -51 7 £47,500 -19.15% 7
West Midlands -21 5 £47,500 -19.15% 3
North East -47 5 £47,722 -13.23% 3
East Midlands -47 2 £22,500 - 4
North West -140 2 £61,373 +63.66% 2
South West -72 1 £55,000 -26.67% 8
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 (5.97%) WordPress
2 1 (1.49%) Apache
2 1 (1.49%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.49%) nginx
2 1 (1.49%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 3 (4.48%) Magento
1 3 (4.48%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 32 (47.76%) AWS
2 27 (40.30%) Azure
3 12 (17.91%) GitHub
4 11 (16.42%) Amazon EC2
4 11 (16.42%) Amazon ECS
4 11 (16.42%) GCP
4 11 (16.42%) GitHub Actions
5 10 (14.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 10 (14.93%) Amazon S3
5 10 (14.93%) AWS CloudFormation
5 10 (14.93%) Datadog
6 9 (13.43%) AWS Lambda
6 9 (13.43%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (13.43%) Serverless
6 9 (13.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 8 (11.94%) Entra ID
8 6 (8.96%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (7.46%) PaaS
10 4 (5.97%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (5.97%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 18 (26.87%) Firewall
2 16 (23.88%) TCP/IP
3 6 (8.96%) SSH
3 6 (8.96%) VPN
4 5 (7.46%) Kerberos
5 3 (4.48%) BGP
5 3 (4.48%) SSL
6 2 (2.99%) LAN
6 2 (2.99%) Network Security
6 2 (2.99%) NGFW
6 2 (2.99%) OSPF
6 2 (2.99%) SMTP
6 2 (2.99%) Software-Defined Networking
6 2 (2.99%) WAN
7 1 (1.49%) DNS
7 1 (1.49%) Internet
7 1 (1.49%) VoIP
7 1 (1.49%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (17.91%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (10.45%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (10.45%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (5.97%) MySQL
3 4 (5.97%) Power BI
4 3 (4.48%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (4.48%) Redis
4 3 (4.48%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.49%) Apache Hive
5 1 (1.49%) Big Data
5 1 (1.49%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.49%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.49%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.49%) Power Query
5 1 (1.49%) SAP HANA
5 1 (1.49%) Trino
Development Applications
1 8 (11.94%) Jenkins
2 6 (8.96%) Git
3 4 (5.97%) JIRA
4 3 (4.48%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (2.99%) Maven
6 1 (1.49%) Ant
6 1 (1.49%) Apache Ivy
6 1 (1.49%) Browser DevTools
6 1 (1.49%) CircleCI
6 1 (1.49%) git-flow
6 1 (1.49%) IBM UrbanCode
6 1 (1.49%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.49%) TeamCity
6 1 (1.49%) webpack
General
1 26 (38.81%) Social Skills
2 18 (26.87%) Finance
3 13 (19.40%) Law
4 10 (14.93%) Legal
5 7 (10.45%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (8.96%) Public Sector
7 5 (7.46%) Retail
8 4 (5.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (4.48%) Games
10 2 (2.99%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (1.49%) Advertising
11 1 (1.49%) Automotive
11 1 (1.49%) Manufacturing
11 1 (1.49%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 10 (14.93%) Cloud Engineer
1 10 (14.93%) Network Engineer
2 8 (11.94%) Applications Support
2 8 (11.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 8 (11.94%) Senior
3 7 (10.45%) DevOps Engineer
4 6 (8.96%) AWS Engineer
4 6 (8.96%) Platform Engineer
5 5 (7.46%) Analyst
5 5 (7.46%) Application Support Team Leader
5 5 (7.46%) ICT Support
5 5 (7.46%) ICT Support Technician
5 5 (7.46%) ICT Technician
5 5 (7.46%) IT Support
5 5 (7.46%) Lead
5 5 (7.46%) Security Technician
5 5 (7.46%) Support Team Leader
5 5 (7.46%) Support Technician
5 5 (7.46%) Team Leader
6 4 (5.97%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (14.93%) YAML
2 6 (8.96%) CSS
2 6 (8.96%) HTML
3 5 (7.46%) Loki
3 5 (7.46%) OAuth
3 5 (7.46%) OAuth2
3 5 (7.46%) OpenTelemetry
4 4 (5.97%) OpenID
4 4 (5.97%) SAML
5 3 (4.48%) Django
5 3 (4.48%) React
5 3 (4.48%) RESTful
6 2 (2.99%) Node.js
6 2 (2.99%) Vue
6 2 (2.99%) Web Services
7 1 (1.49%) JDBC
7 1 (1.49%) JSON
7 1 (1.49%) LDAP
7 1 (1.49%) ODBC
7 1 (1.49%) RSS
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.94%) Life Science
1 8 (11.94%) Onboarding
2 5 (7.46%) Cyber Threat
2 5 (7.46%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (7.46%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (5.97%) PKI
4 3 (4.48%) Cloud Native
4 3 (4.48%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.99%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.49%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.49%) Fibre Optics
6 1 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.49%) Robotics
6 1 (1.49%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (1.49%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 50 (74.63%) Linux
2 10 (14.93%) Windows
3 9 (13.43%) Unix
4 5 (7.46%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.49%) CentOS
5 1 (1.49%) Mac OS
5 1 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.49%) Solaris
5 1 (1.49%) SUSE
5 1 (1.49%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
5 1 (1.49%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.49%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (49.25%) Problem-Solving
2 24 (35.82%) DevOps
3 21 (31.34%) CI/CD
4 19 (28.36%) Infrastructure as Code
5 15 (22.39%) Containerisation
6 14 (20.90%) Migration
7 12 (17.91%) Infrastructure Automation
8 11 (16.42%) Continuous Improvement
8 11 (16.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 10 (14.93%) Task Automation
10 9 (13.43%) Computer Science
10 9 (13.43%) Incident Response
10 9 (13.43%) Observability
11 8 (11.94%) Agile
11 8 (11.94%) Identity Management
11 8 (11.94%) Project Delivery
12 7 (10.45%) ITIL
12 7 (10.45%) Secrets Management
13 6 (8.96%) Cybersecurity
13 6 (8.96%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 41 (61.19%) Python
2 25 (37.31%) Bash
3 17 (25.37%) SQL
4 14 (20.90%) PowerShell
5 10 (14.93%) Java
6 8 (11.94%) JavaScript
6 8 (11.94%) Shell Script
7 4 (5.97%) PHP
7 4 (5.97%) TypeScript
8 3 (4.48%) Groovy
9 2 (2.99%) Ruby
10 1 (1.49%) C++
10 1 (1.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (1.49%) Go
10 1 (1.49%) Perl
Qualifications
1 12 (17.91%) Security Cleared
2 9 (13.43%) Degree
2 9 (13.43%) SC Cleared
3 7 (10.45%) DV Cleared
4 5 (7.46%) HNC
4 5 (7.46%) HND
5 3 (4.48%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (2.99%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.99%) CCNP
6 2 (2.99%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.49%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.48%) GDPR
2 1 (1.49%) SLA
System Software
1 26 (38.81%) Docker
2 10 (14.93%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.99%) Samba
4 1 (1.49%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.49%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 26 (38.81%) Terraform
2 12 (17.91%) Ansible
3 9 (13.43%) Grafana
3 9 (13.43%) Prometheus
4 4 (5.97%) Kubernetes
4 4 (5.97%) Progress Chef
5 3 (4.48%) AWS Copilot
5 3 (4.48%) Scalr
6 1 (1.49%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (1.49%) Kibana
6 1 (1.49%) Puppet
6 1 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (13.43%) Microsoft
2 8 (11.94%) Oracle
3 6 (8.96%) Google
4 5 (7.46%) CyberArk
4 5 (7.46%) New Relic
5 4 (5.97%) ServiceNow
6 3 (4.48%) Red Hat
7 2 (2.99%) Dell
7 2 (2.99%) VMware
8 1 (1.49%) Apple
8 1 (1.49%) Arista
8 1 (1.49%) Brocade
8 1 (1.49%) Cisco
8 1 (1.49%) Juniper
8 1 (1.49%) QNAP
8 1 (1.49%) SAP
8 1 (1.49%) SonicWALL
8 1 (1.49%) Splunk
8 1 (1.49%) Synology
8 1 (1.49%) Ubiquiti