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 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 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 632 664 485
Rank change year-on-year +32 -179 -42
Permanent jobs citing Linux Command Line 169 171 1,066
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.22% 0.24% 0.73%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.65% 0.58% 1.53%
Number of salaries quoted 134 147 338
10th Percentile £30,300 £34,600 £30,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £50,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,250 £107,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -

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 25,806 29,571 69,564
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 32.93% 41.60% 47.31%
Number of salaries quoted 16,283 18,664 32,310
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,408 £34,506
25th Percentile £40,523 £46,570 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,124 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.66% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £110,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £64,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -14.06% +2.40% +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 26 July 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 26 July 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 +50 64 £67,500 +8.00% 8
South East +26 41 £42,500 - 7
South West +10 30 £75,000 +100.00% 4
North of England +5 18 £35,000 -33.33% 5
Yorkshire +54 15 £35,000 -33.33% 3
Midlands -19 8 £50,000 -9.09% 2
East of England -5 7 £54,000 -25.77% 4
West Midlands +1 6 £50,000 +19.76% 2
North West -9 2 - - 1
East Midlands - 2 £40,000 -
North East - 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 6 (3.55%) IIS
1 6 (3.55%) SharePoint
1 6 (3.55%) WordPress
2 5 (2.96%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.78%) Confluence
4 2 (1.18%) nginx
5 1 (0.59%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 5 (2.96%) Microsoft Office
1 5 (2.96%) MS Visio
2 4 (2.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.59%) GNU Octave
Business Applications
1 12 (7.10%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (2.37%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (2.37%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (2.37%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 57 (33.73%) Azure
2 45 (26.63%) AWS
3 21 (12.43%) OpenShift
4 18 (10.65%) Entra ID
4 18 (10.65%) Microsoft 365
5 16 (9.47%) Azure Monitor
5 16 (9.47%) Cloud Computing
6 12 (7.10%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (7.10%) Azure Storage
7 9 (5.33%) IaaS
7 9 (5.33%) PaaS
8 7 (4.14%) Serverless
9 6 (3.55%) Amazon EC2
9 6 (3.55%) Amazon S3
9 6 (3.55%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (2.96%) OneDrive
11 4 (2.37%) OCI
12 3 (1.78%) Azure AKS
12 3 (1.78%) GCP
12 3 (1.78%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 36 (21.30%) Firewall
2 25 (14.79%) DNS
3 14 (8.28%) DHCP
4 12 (7.10%) Network Security
5 11 (6.51%) VPN
6 10 (5.92%) Internet
6 10 (5.92%) TCP/IP
6 10 (5.92%) Wireless
7 9 (5.33%) Wi-Fi
8 8 (4.73%) SAN
8 8 (4.73%) VLAN
8 8 (4.73%) VoIP
9 5 (2.96%) AMQP
9 5 (2.96%) Fibre Channel
9 5 (2.96%) IPsec
9 5 (2.96%) iSCSI
9 5 (2.96%) NAS
10 4 (2.37%) SSH
11 2 (1.18%) HTTP
12 1 (0.59%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.92%) MySQL
2 6 (3.55%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (3.55%) NoSQL
2 6 (3.55%) Relational Database
2 6 (3.55%) SQL Server
3 5 (2.96%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 5 (2.96%) InfluxDB
4 3 (1.78%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (1.18%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.59%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.59%) Big Data
6 1 (0.59%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.59%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.59%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.59%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 32 (18.93%) Jenkins
2 25 (14.79%) Git
3 24 (14.20%) JIRA
4 13 (7.69%) Robot Framework
5 7 (4.14%) GitLab
6 5 (2.96%) Bitbucket
6 5 (2.96%) JMeter
6 5 (2.96%) Maven
6 5 (2.96%) Zephyr
7 4 (2.37%) JUnit
8 3 (1.78%) Cucumber
9 2 (1.18%) DTrace
9 2 (1.18%) GDB
9 2 (1.18%) GNU Toolchain
9 2 (1.18%) Subversion
10 1 (0.59%) CMake
10 1 (0.59%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.59%) Postman
10 1 (0.59%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.59%) TestDirector
General
1 48 (28.40%) Social Skills
2 27 (15.98%) Finance
3 17 (10.06%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (8.88%) Aerospace
5 13 (7.69%) Games
5 13 (7.69%) Law
5 13 (7.69%) Retail
5 13 (7.69%) Tech for Good
6 7 (4.14%) Banking
6 7 (4.14%) Legal
6 7 (4.14%) Manufacturing
7 5 (2.96%) Billing
7 5 (2.96%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.18%) Electronics
10 1 (0.59%) Advertising
10 1 (0.59%) Aviation
10 1 (0.59%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.59%) Music Industry
10 1 (0.59%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 35 (20.71%) Cloud Engineer
2 27 (15.98%) Azure Engineer
3 25 (14.79%) Platform Engineer
4 22 (13.02%) Senior
5 20 (11.83%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 18 (10.65%) Operations Engineer
7 17 (10.06%) Administrator
7 17 (10.06%) Automation Engineer
7 17 (10.06%) Consultant
8 16 (9.47%) DevOps Engineer
8 16 (9.47%) Support Engineer
9 15 (8.88%) Systems Engineer
10 14 (8.28%) AWS Engineer
10 14 (8.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 13 (7.69%) Cloud Automation Engineer
11 13 (7.69%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 13 (7.69%) Kubernetes Engineer
11 13 (7.69%) Software Consultant
12 12 (7.10%) Developer
13 11 (6.51%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (9.47%) HTML
1 16 (9.47%) XML
2 10 (5.92%) JSON
2 10 (5.92%) Node.js
3 9 (5.33%) React
3 9 (5.33%) RESTful
4 7 (4.14%) ARM Templates
5 5 (2.96%) LAMP
5 5 (2.96%) OpenAPI
5 5 (2.96%) RabbitMQ
5 5 (2.96%) Swagger
6 4 (2.37%) Oracle Fusion
7 3 (1.78%) .NET
7 3 (1.78%) CSS
7 3 (1.78%) Hibernate
7 3 (1.78%) J2EE
7 3 (1.78%) JPA
7 3 (1.78%) SOAP
7 3 (1.78%) Spring
7 3 (1.78%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 19 (11.24%) Hybrid Cloud
2 12 (7.10%) Public Cloud
3 11 (6.51%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (3.55%) Data Centre
5 5 (2.96%) Client/Server
5 5 (2.96%) PKI
5 5 (2.96%) Replication
6 4 (2.37%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (2.37%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.78%) Embedded Systems
7 3 (1.78%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.18%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.18%) Hedge funds
8 2 (1.18%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.18%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.18%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.59%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.59%) Insider Threat
9 1 (0.59%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 152 (89.94%) Linux
2 46 (27.22%) Windows
3 28 (16.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 24 (14.20%) Unix
4 24 (14.20%) Windows Server
5 12 (7.10%) Ubuntu
6 10 (5.92%) Windows Server 2016
7 6 (3.55%) CentOS
7 6 (3.55%) VMS
7 6 (3.55%) Windows Server 2019
8 5 (2.96%) CoreOS
8 5 (2.96%) Debian
8 5 (2.96%) Windows 10
9 4 (2.37%) Oracle Linux
10 3 (1.78%) Rocky
11 2 (1.18%) Android
11 2 (1.18%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.59%) Embedded Linux
12 1 (0.59%) Fedora
12 1 (0.59%) openSUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (42.01%) CI/CD
2 56 (33.14%) DevOps
3 50 (29.59%) Agile
4 42 (24.85%) Problem-Solving
5 38 (22.49%) Software Testing
6 37 (21.89%) Configuration Management
7 35 (20.71%) Change Management
7 35 (20.71%) Continuous Improvement
8 34 (20.12%) Infrastructure as Code
9 27 (15.98%) Analytics
9 27 (15.98%) Software Engineering
10 26 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 25 (14.79%) Customer Service
12 23 (13.61%) Time Management
13 21 (12.43%) Containerisation
13 21 (12.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 21 (12.43%) Test Automation
14 17 (10.06%) Incident Management
15 16 (9.47%) Log Analytics
16 15 (8.88%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 87 (51.48%) Python
2 67 (39.64%) Bash
3 45 (26.63%) SQL
4 38 (22.49%) Java
4 38 (22.49%) PowerShell
5 20 (11.83%) Perl
6 11 (6.51%) PL/SQL
7 9 (5.33%) JavaScript
8 8 (4.73%) C
8 8 (4.73%) C++
8 8 (4.73%) Shell Script
9 6 (3.55%) Go
9 6 (3.55%) Tcl
10 5 (2.96%) Groovy
10 5 (2.96%) PHP
11 3 (1.78%) TypeScript
12 2 (1.18%) OCaml
12 2 (1.18%) SystemTap
13 1 (0.59%) JCL
13 1 (0.59%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 28 (16.57%) Degree
2 20 (11.83%) Azure Certification
2 20 (11.83%) Security Cleared
3 8 (4.73%) SC Cleared
4 4 (2.37%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (2.37%) Oracle Certification
5 3 (1.78%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.59%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.59%) CEH
7 1 (0.59%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.59%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.59%) MCSA
7 1 (0.59%) MCSE
7 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Certified Architect
7 1 (0.59%) OSCP
7 1 (0.59%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.73%) GDPR
2 6 (3.55%) HIPAA
3 4 (2.37%) QA
3 4 (2.37%) SOC 2
4 2 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 1 (0.59%) NIST
5 1 (0.59%) SLA
System Software
1 34 (20.12%) Docker
2 25 (14.79%) Active Directory
3 9 (5.33%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (3.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (3.55%) vSphere
5 4 (2.37%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.59%) Firmware
6 1 (0.59%) Samba
6 1 (0.59%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 51 (30.18%) Kubernetes
2 41 (24.26%) Ansible
2 41 (24.26%) Terraform
3 30 (17.75%) Puppet
4 28 (16.57%) Progress Chef
5 17 (10.06%) Salt
6 6 (3.55%) Grafana
6 6 (3.55%) Prometheus
7 5 (2.96%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 5 (2.96%) Docker Swarm
7 5 (2.96%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (2.96%) SCCM
7 5 (2.96%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (2.37%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.59%) Kibana
9 1 (0.59%) Nmap
9 1 (0.59%) OpenNMS
9 1 (0.59%) SCOM
9 1 (0.59%) systemd
9 1 (0.59%) yum
Vendors
1 31 (18.34%) Microsoft
2 20 (11.83%) Oracle
3 19 (11.24%) ServiceNow
4 16 (9.47%) Remedy
5 13 (7.69%) Cisco
6 12 (7.10%) BMC
7 11 (6.51%) VMware
8 9 (5.33%) Palo Alto
8 9 (5.33%) Progress
8 9 (5.33%) Red Hat
9 5 (2.96%) Aruba
9 5 (2.96%) ProCurve
9 5 (2.96%) Salesforce
9 5 (2.96%) Synology
9 5 (2.96%) Veeam
9 5 (2.96%) Zerto
10 4 (2.37%) CyberArk
10 4 (2.37%) JD Edwards
10 4 (2.37%) PeopleSoft
10 4 (2.37%) SolarWinds