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 18 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 343 566 584
Rank change year-on-year +223 +18 -100
Permanent jobs citing Linux Command Line 344 195 159
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.80% 0.28% 0.29%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.90% 0.88% 0.72%
Number of salaries quoted 68 128 149
10th Percentile £37,500 £30,000 £36,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £39,655 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £96,539
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% 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 18,083 22,186 22,203
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 41.84% 32.15% 41.17%
Number of salaries quoted 9,181 11,818 15,926
10th Percentile £28,750 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £37,000 £43,742 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £106,250 £112,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% -

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

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 18 September 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 18 September 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
North of England +140 186 £55,000 +43.79% 10
North West +136 179 - - 7
South East +68 53 £55,000 +100.00% 16
London +31 35 £82,500 +22.22% 21
Midlands +69 29 £36,875 +1.72% 2
East of England +7 28 £39,000 -29.09% 5
East Midlands +47 17 - - 1
South West +58 13 £75,000 - 2
West Midlands +50 12 £36,875 +13.46% 1
Yorkshire -1 4 £45,000 +17.65% 2
North East +23 3 £55,000 - 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 18 (5.23%) Apache Spark
2 10 (2.91%) IIS
3 9 (2.62%) Tomcat
3 9 (2.62%) WebSphere
3 9 (2.62%) WebSphere Application Server
4 2 (0.58%) Apache
4 2 (0.58%) Confluence
5 1 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.29%) CMS
5 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 15 (4.36%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.29%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 223 (64.83%) AWS
2 199 (57.85%) Azure
3 182 (52.91%) GCP
4 25 (7.27%) Amazon S3
5 22 (6.40%) Amazon EKS
6 18 (5.23%) Amazon ELB
7 9 (2.62%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (2.62%) GitHub
7 9 (2.62%) SaaS
8 8 (2.33%) AWS Lambda
8 8 (2.33%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (2.33%) OpenShift
8 8 (2.33%) Serverless
9 7 (2.03%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (1.74%) Azure Key Vault
10 6 (1.74%) Entra ID
11 4 (1.16%) Amazon ECR
11 4 (1.16%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (1.16%) Azure Monitor
11 4 (1.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 66 (19.19%) VPN
2 64 (18.60%) TCP/IP
3 9 (2.62%) SSL
4 5 (1.45%) Cisco IOS
4 5 (1.45%) VoIP
5 3 (0.87%) AMQP
5 3 (0.87%) Firewall
6 1 (0.29%) DHCP
6 1 (0.29%) DMARC
6 1 (0.29%) DNS
6 1 (0.29%) HTTP
6 1 (0.29%) InfiniBand
6 1 (0.29%) Internet
6 1 (0.29%) NAS
6 1 (0.29%) Network Security
6 1 (0.29%) SAN
6 1 (0.29%) SSH
6 1 (0.29%) WAN
6 1 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (5.52%) SQL Server
2 18 (5.23%) Delta Lake
2 18 (5.23%) DynamoDB
2 18 (5.23%) Metadata
2 18 (5.23%) Spark SQL
3 15 (4.36%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (2.91%) DB2
5 7 (2.03%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (1.45%) MySQL
7 4 (1.16%) Relational Database
8 3 (0.87%) InfluxDB
9 1 (0.29%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.29%) Metabase
9 1 (0.29%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.29%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 64 (18.60%) Cucumber
1 64 (18.60%) Robot Framework
2 19 (5.52%) Git
3 18 (5.23%) MLflow
4 12 (3.49%) Jenkins
5 5 (1.45%) JIRA
6 4 (1.16%) Browser DevTools
7 1 (0.29%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.29%) GitLab
7 1 (0.29%) JUnit
7 1 (0.29%) Maven
7 1 (0.29%) Selenium
General
1 242 (70.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 119 (34.59%) Social Skills
3 65 (18.90%) Telecoms
4 11 (3.20%) Banking
4 11 (3.20%) Finance
5 7 (2.03%) Investment Banking
6 6 (1.74%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (1.45%) Electronics
7 5 (1.45%) Military
8 4 (1.16%) Law
9 3 (0.87%) Marketing
10 2 (0.58%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.29%) Advertising
11 1 (0.29%) Billing
11 1 (0.29%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.29%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.29%) Publishing
11 1 (0.29%) Retail
Job Titles
1 186 (54.07%) Senior
2 178 (51.74%) Senior Software Engineer
2 178 (51.74%) Software Engineer
3 64 (18.60%) Test Automation Engineer
3 64 (18.60%) Test Engineer
4 25 (7.27%) Support Engineer
5 23 (6.69%) Linux Support
6 19 (5.52%) Linux Engineer
6 19 (5.52%) Machine Learning Engineer
7 18 (5.23%) Linux Support Engineer
7 18 (5.23%) Operations Engineer
8 13 (3.78%) Applications Support
9 10 (2.91%) Platform Engineer
9 10 (2.91%) Technical Support
10 7 (2.03%) Developer
10 7 (2.03%) Support Specialist
11 6 (1.74%) Applications Engineer
11 6 (1.74%) Infrastructure Support
11 6 (1.74%) Lead
11 6 (1.74%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 179 (52.03%) Node.js
2 178 (51.74%) .NET
3 20 (5.81%) Pandas
3 20 (5.81%) YAML
4 19 (5.52%) scikit-learn
5 18 (5.23%) Keras
5 18 (5.23%) Lambda Expressions
5 18 (5.23%) Metaflow
5 18 (5.23%) NumPy
5 18 (5.23%) PySpark
5 18 (5.23%) PyTorch
5 18 (5.23%) TensorFlow
6 9 (2.62%) LAPP Stack
6 9 (2.62%) LDAP
6 9 (2.62%) WebSphere MQ
7 7 (2.03%) ARM Templates
8 6 (1.74%) LAMP
9 4 (1.16%) JSON
9 4 (1.16%) REST
9 4 (1.16%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 181 (52.62%) Self-Motivation
2 178 (51.74%) Cyberattack
3 10 (2.91%) Onboarding
4 6 (1.74%) Management Information System
5 4 (1.16%) Cloud Native
6 3 (0.87%) Data Centre
6 3 (0.87%) Life Science
7 2 (0.58%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (0.58%) Hedge funds
7 2 (0.58%) Omics
8 1 (0.29%) Device Driver
8 1 (0.29%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (0.29%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.29%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 313 (90.99%) Linux
2 89 (25.87%) Windows
3 34 (9.88%) Unix
4 21 (6.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 15 (4.36%) Mac OS
6 6 (1.74%) VMS
7 5 (1.45%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.87%) CentOS
8 3 (0.87%) CoreOS
8 3 (0.87%) Debian
8 3 (0.87%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 247 (71.80%) Mentoring
2 197 (57.27%) Machine Learning
3 184 (53.49%) Software Engineering
4 182 (52.91%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 180 (52.33%) Agile
5 180 (52.33%) Data Engineering
5 180 (52.33%) Microservices
6 179 (52.03%) Cloud Security
6 179 (52.03%) User Experience
7 178 (51.74%) Scrum
8 84 (24.42%) DevOps
9 77 (22.38%) Problem-Solving
10 73 (21.22%) Test Automation
11 65 (18.90%) System Testing
12 64 (18.60%) Coaching
12 64 (18.60%) Test Management
13 39 (11.34%) CI/CD
14 37 (10.76%) Artificial Intelligence
15 30 (8.72%) Containerisation
16 23 (6.69%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 297 (86.34%) Python
2 252 (73.26%) JavaScript
3 182 (52.91%) Go
3 182 (52.91%) Java
4 180 (52.33%) C++
5 178 (51.74%) Rust
6 99 (28.78%) Bash
7 77 (22.38%) PowerShell
8 48 (13.95%) SQL
9 20 (5.81%) Shell Script
10 8 (2.33%) PHP
11 3 (0.87%) Perl
12 2 (0.58%) Bicep
12 2 (0.58%) R
13 1 (0.29%) C
13 1 (0.29%) PL/1
13 1 (0.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 188 (54.65%) AWS Certification
1 188 (54.65%) Security Cleared
2 186 (54.07%) DV Cleared
3 179 (52.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 178 (51.74%) AWS Certified Developer
5 96 (27.91%) Degree
6 9 (2.62%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (2.62%) ITIL Certification
7 8 (2.33%) SC Cleared
8 5 (1.45%) A+ Certification
9 3 (0.87%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.87%) PhD
10 2 (0.58%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.29%) CCNA
11 1 (0.29%) CCNP
11 1 (0.29%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.29%) Dell Certification
11 1 (0.29%) MCP
11 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (19.19%) QA
2 9 (2.62%) SLA
3 5 (1.45%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.45%) Def Stans
4 3 (0.87%) GDPR
5 2 (0.58%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.58%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.29%) NCSC
6 1 (0.29%) NIST
System Software
1 33 (9.59%) Docker
2 7 (2.03%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.45%) zsh
4 4 (1.16%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (0.87%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.58%) vSphere
7 1 (0.29%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.29%) NFS
7 1 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 35 (10.17%) Terraform
2 33 (9.59%) Kubernetes
3 18 (5.23%) Kubeflow
4 15 (4.36%) Microsoft Intune
5 13 (3.78%) Ansible
6 4 (1.16%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (0.87%) Grafana
7 3 (0.87%) Progress Chef
7 3 (0.87%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.87%) Puppet
8 1 (0.29%) CASB
8 1 (0.29%) Packer
8 1 (0.29%) QRadar
8 1 (0.29%) SCCM
8 1 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 31 (9.01%) Microsoft
2 23 (6.69%) Databricks
3 16 (4.65%) Red Hat
4 15 (4.36%) Apple
5 10 (2.91%) IBM
6 7 (2.03%) Oracle
7 6 (1.74%) Cisco
7 6 (1.74%) Salesforce
8 5 (1.45%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.16%) HubSpot
10 2 (0.58%) Google
10 2 (0.58%) NetApp
10 2 (0.58%) VMware
11 1 (0.29%) Adobe
11 1 (0.29%) Bloomberg
11 1 (0.29%) Citrix
11 1 (0.29%) Dell
11 1 (0.29%) Forcepoint
11 1 (0.29%) Qualys
11 1 (0.29%) Splunk