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

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 528 557 580
Rank change year-on-year +29 +23 +54
Permanent jobs citing Linux Command Line 112 101 188
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.18% 0.24% 0.28%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.56% 0.62% 0.78%
Number of salaries quoted 65 50 144
10th Percentile £35,025 £36,550 £35,375
25th Percentile £40,000 £51,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,750 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.23% +10.00% -8.70%
75th Percentile £78,790 £74,688 £77,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £96,077
UK median annual salary £62,500 £59,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.93% +12.38% -8.70%

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 20,002 16,335 24,046
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 32.54% 38.14% 36.19%
Number of salaries quoted 10,307 7,884 18,013
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,250 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -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 26 February 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 February 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 +67 44 £74,401 +35.27% 12
East of England +17 23 £45,000 -20.00% 1
South East -28 15 £45,000 -21.74% 4
Midlands +16 12 £39,000 -13.81% 5
North of England -25 12 £51,722 +6.10% 8
West Midlands +25 10 £39,000 +20.00% 3
North West -9 6 £55,000 +12.82% 6
South West -21 4 £91,000 +25.52% 2
North East - 4 £73,801 - 1
East Midlands -20 2 £52,500 -9.48% 2
Yorkshire -52 2 £48,445 - 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 11 (9.82%) Tomcat
1 11 (9.82%) WebSphere
1 11 (9.82%) WebSphere Application Server
2 9 (8.04%) IIS
3 6 (5.36%) Apache
4 4 (3.57%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.89%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.89%) CMS
5 1 (0.89%) Confluence
5 1 (0.89%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.89%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 42 (37.50%) AWS
2 35 (31.25%) Azure
3 16 (14.29%) GCP
4 13 (11.61%) Amazon ECR
4 13 (11.61%) AWS CloudFormation
5 12 (10.71%) Entra ID
6 11 (9.82%) SaaS
7 9 (8.04%) Amazon ECS
7 9 (8.04%) Amazon ElastiCache
7 9 (8.04%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 9 (8.04%) dbt
7 9 (8.04%) PaaS
7 9 (8.04%) Pulumi
7 9 (8.04%) Sentry
8 7 (6.25%) GitHub
8 7 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (6.25%) OCI
9 6 (5.36%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (4.46%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (4.46%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 18 (16.07%) TCP/IP
2 11 (9.82%) SSL
3 10 (8.93%) VPN
4 8 (7.14%) DNS
5 5 (4.46%) Firewall
6 4 (3.57%) DHCP
6 4 (3.57%) Kerberos
7 3 (2.68%) VLAN
8 2 (1.79%) 2G
8 2 (1.79%) 4G
8 2 (1.79%) 5G
8 2 (1.79%) Cisco IOS
8 2 (1.79%) HTTP
8 2 (1.79%) ICMP
8 2 (1.79%) Software-Defined Radio
8 2 (1.79%) VoIP
9 1 (0.89%) SSH
9 1 (0.89%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (18.75%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (12.50%) SQL Server
3 13 (11.61%) Amazon RDS
4 12 (10.71%) Elasticsearch
4 12 (10.71%) MySQL
5 11 (9.82%) DB2
6 9 (8.04%) Redis
7 6 (5.36%) Electronic Patient Records
8 4 (3.57%) Apache Hive
8 4 (3.57%) Big Data
8 4 (3.57%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.89%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 7 (6.25%) Git
1 7 (6.25%) Jenkins
2 4 (3.57%) Browser DevTools
2 4 (3.57%) IDA Disassembler
3 3 (2.68%) JIRA
4 2 (1.79%) GitLab
4 2 (1.79%) Selenium
5 1 (0.89%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.89%) JUnit
5 1 (0.89%) Maven
5 1 (0.89%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.89%) WebDriver
5 1 (0.89%) webpack
General
1 18 (16.07%) Social Skills
2 15 (13.39%) German Language
3 11 (9.82%) Banking
4 7 (6.25%) Investment Banking
4 7 (6.25%) Public Sector
5 6 (5.36%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (5.36%) Finance
5 6 (5.36%) Health Technology
6 3 (2.68%) Electronics
6 3 (2.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.79%) Advertising
7 2 (1.79%) Law
7 2 (1.79%) Military
7 2 (1.79%) Publishing
7 2 (1.79%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.89%) Billing
8 1 (0.89%) Front Office
8 1 (0.89%) Games
8 1 (0.89%) Marketing
8 1 (0.89%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 18 (16.07%) Applications Support
2 16 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
3 15 (13.39%) Senior
4 11 (9.82%) Linux Support
5 9 (8.04%) Senior Platform Engineer
5 9 (8.04%) Support Specialist
6 8 (7.14%) IT Engineer
7 7 (6.25%) Analyst
7 7 (6.25%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
7 7 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (6.25%) Infrastructure Support
7 7 (6.25%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (6.25%) Unix Support
8 6 (5.36%) Applications Specialist
8 6 (5.36%) Applications Support Specialist
8 6 (5.36%) Consultant
8 6 (5.36%) Developer
8 6 (5.36%) EPR Consultant
8 6 (5.36%) Linux Engineer
8 6 (5.36%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (32.14%) JSON
2 31 (27.68%) HTML
3 29 (25.89%) Regular Expression
3 29 (25.89%) XML
4 15 (13.39%) LDAP
5 11 (9.82%) LAPP Stack
5 11 (9.82%) WebSphere MQ
6 9 (8.04%) Django
6 9 (8.04%) LAMP
7 6 (5.36%) FHIR
8 5 (4.46%) ARM Templates
9 4 (3.57%) OAuth
9 4 (3.57%) OAuth2
10 3 (2.68%) REST
10 3 (2.68%) SOAP
11 2 (1.79%) CSS
11 2 (1.79%) Flash
11 2 (1.79%) JDBC
11 2 (1.79%) ODBC
11 2 (1.79%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 42 (37.50%) Onboarding
2 7 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
2 7 (6.25%) Management Information System
3 6 (5.36%) NHS
4 5 (4.46%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (4.46%) Virtual Team
5 4 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (2.68%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.68%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (2.68%) Security Operations Centre
7 2 (1.79%) Arduino
7 2 (1.79%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (1.79%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.79%) Embedded Systems
7 2 (1.79%) Raspberry Pi
8 1 (0.89%) ARM Cortex
8 1 (0.89%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.89%) IoT
8 1 (0.89%) Life Science
8 1 (0.89%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 65 (58.04%) Linux
2 61 (54.46%) Unix
3 17 (15.18%) Windows
4 13 (11.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (4.46%) VMS
6 4 (3.57%) Ubuntu
6 4 (3.57%) Windows 10
6 4 (3.57%) Windows Server
7 3 (2.68%) CentOS
8 2 (1.79%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.89%) Debian
9 1 (0.89%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (32.14%) AI
2 30 (26.79%) Data Analysis
3 29 (25.89%) LLM
4 21 (18.75%) Infrastructure as Code
5 20 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
6 19 (16.96%) CI/CD
6 19 (16.96%) User Acceptance Testing
7 17 (15.18%) DevOps
8 16 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
9 15 (13.39%) ITIL
9 15 (13.39%) Observability
10 14 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 13 (11.61%) Migration
11 13 (11.61%) Prototyping
12 12 (10.71%) RBAC
13 11 (9.82%) Change Management
13 11 (9.82%) Containerisation
13 11 (9.82%) Release Management
14 10 (8.93%) CRM
14 10 (8.93%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 69 (61.61%) Python
2 24 (21.43%) SQL
3 19 (16.96%) JavaScript
4 16 (14.29%) Bash
4 16 (14.29%) PowerShell
5 10 (8.93%) PHP
6 9 (8.04%) Java
7 6 (5.36%) Shell Script
8 4 (3.57%) C
8 4 (3.57%) C++
9 3 (2.68%) C#
10 2 (1.79%) Ruby
11 1 (0.89%) Bicep
11 1 (0.89%) Scala
11 1 (0.89%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 48 (42.86%) Degree
2 18 (16.07%) Security Cleared
3 14 (12.50%) AWS Certification
4 11 (9.82%) ITIL Certification
5 10 (8.93%) SC Cleared
6 9 (8.04%) DV Cleared
7 6 (5.36%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (2.68%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.89%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.89%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.82%) SLA
2 6 (5.36%) HL7
3 2 (1.79%) Def Stans
4 1 (0.89%) QA
System Software
1 20 (17.86%) Active Directory
2 15 (13.39%) Docker
3 2 (1.79%) KVM
3 2 (1.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.89%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 18 (16.07%) Terraform
2 11 (9.82%) Kubernetes
3 9 (8.04%) AWS Copilot
4 7 (6.25%) Ansible
4 7 (6.25%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.89%) Kibana
Vendors
1 16 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 15 (13.39%) Red Hat
3 11 (9.82%) Google
3 11 (9.82%) IBM
3 11 (9.82%) Oracle
4 9 (8.04%) Salesforce
5 8 (7.14%) ServiceNow
6 7 (6.25%) CyberArk
7 4 (3.57%) Dell
8 3 (2.68%) HubSpot
8 3 (2.68%) Splunk
9 2 (1.79%) Apple
9 2 (1.79%) Cisco
9 2 (1.79%) VMware
10 1 (0.89%) Adobe
10 1 (0.89%) New Relic