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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 673 341 559
Rank change year-on-year -332 +218 +5
Permanent jobs citing Linux Command Line 86 343 193
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.085% 0.79% 0.28%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.33% 1.90% 0.87%
Number of salaries quoted 65 67 125
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £31,750
25th Percentile £43,750 £38,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £52,500 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £63,250 £95,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £48,445 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -11.92% - -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 25,991 18,090 22,113
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.82% 41.92% 32.18%
Number of salaries quoted 16,978 9,160 11,767
10th Percentile £31,125 £28,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,000 £43,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -6.98%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,575 £112,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -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 16 September 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 16 September 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 -192 25 £47,000 -14.55% 21
London -67 20 £50,000 -41.18% 126
Yorkshire -21 16 £43,500 -3.33% 6
South East -92 14 £60,000 +9.09% 20
East of England -47 13 £51,359 +31.69% 7
Midlands -50 10 £47,500 +28.81% 12
North East -58 8 £47,000 -14.55% 2
West Midlands -45 7 £47,500 +28.81% 7
East Midlands -45 3 £22,500 - 5
South West -82 2 £55,000 -26.67% 25
North West -150 1 £48,445 - 13
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 6 (6.98%) Confluence
2 3 (3.49%) WordPress
3 1 (1.16%) Apache
3 1 (1.16%) nginx
3 1 (1.16%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 3 (3.49%) Magento
1 3 (3.49%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 39 (45.35%) AWS
2 21 (24.42%) Azure
3 19 (22.09%) Amazon EC2
4 18 (20.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 17 (19.77%) Amazon S3
5 17 (19.77%) AWS CloudFormation
5 17 (19.77%) GitHub
5 17 (19.77%) Serverless
5 17 (19.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 16 (18.60%) Amazon ECS
6 16 (18.60%) AWS Lambda
7 15 (17.44%) GitHub Actions
8 13 (15.12%) Amazon EKS
8 13 (15.12%) Entra ID
9 9 (10.47%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (10.47%) Datadog
10 7 (8.14%) Microsoft 365
11 6 (6.98%) GCP
11 6 (6.98%) SaaS
11 6 (6.98%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 19 (22.09%) TCP/IP
2 17 (19.77%) Firewall
3 13 (15.12%) VPN
4 7 (8.14%) DNS
5 6 (6.98%) DHCP
5 6 (6.98%) SSH
6 4 (4.65%) Kerberos
7 3 (3.49%) BGP
7 3 (3.49%) Internet
7 3 (3.49%) SSL
8 2 (2.33%) LAN
8 2 (2.33%) Network Security
8 2 (2.33%) NGFW
8 2 (2.33%) OSPF
8 2 (2.33%) SMTP
8 2 (2.33%) Software-Defined Networking
8 2 (2.33%) WAN
9 1 (1.16%) VoIP
9 1 (1.16%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (19.77%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (5.81%) MySQL
2 5 (5.81%) Power BI
3 3 (3.49%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (3.49%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (3.49%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.33%) Power Query
5 1 (1.16%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.16%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.16%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 15 (17.44%) Git
2 10 (11.63%) Jenkins
3 8 (9.30%) JIRA
4 3 (3.49%) GitLab
4 3 (3.49%) Maven
5 2 (2.33%) Ant
5 2 (2.33%) Apache Ivy
5 2 (2.33%) IBM UrbanCode
5 2 (2.33%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (2.33%) Subversion
6 1 (1.16%) CMake
6 1 (1.16%) GDB
6 1 (1.16%) git-flow
6 1 (1.16%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 27 (31.40%) Social Skills
2 24 (27.91%) Finance
3 21 (24.42%) Law
4 16 (18.60%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (11.63%) Legal
6 6 (6.98%) Banking
7 5 (5.81%) Public Sector
7 5 (5.81%) Retail
8 2 (2.33%) Automotive
8 2 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.33%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.16%) Advertising
9 1 (1.16%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 18 (20.93%) Cloud Engineer
2 15 (17.44%) AWS Engineer
3 12 (13.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 9 (10.47%) DevOps Engineer
4 9 (10.47%) Network Engineer
5 8 (9.30%) Analyst
6 6 (6.98%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (6.98%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (6.98%) Desktop Analyst
6 6 (6.98%) Desktop Support
6 6 (6.98%) Desktop Support Analyst
6 6 (6.98%) Linux Support
6 6 (6.98%) Support Analyst
6 6 (6.98%) Windows Support Analyst
7 5 (5.81%) Application Support Team Leader
7 5 (5.81%) ICT Support
7 5 (5.81%) Lead
7 5 (5.81%) Security Technician
7 5 (5.81%) Senior
7 5 (5.81%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (38.37%) Terraform
2 9 (10.47%) YAML
3 6 (6.98%) React
4 5 (5.81%) CSS
4 5 (5.81%) HTML
4 5 (5.81%) Node.js
5 4 (4.65%) Loki
5 4 (4.65%) OAuth
5 4 (4.65%) OAuth2
5 4 (4.65%) OpenID
5 4 (4.65%) OpenTelemetry
5 4 (4.65%) SAML
6 3 (3.49%) RESTful
6 3 (3.49%) Web Services
7 2 (2.33%) OpenTofu
7 2 (2.33%) Vue
8 1 (1.16%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (1.16%) LAPP Stack
8 1 (1.16%) LEMP Stack
8 1 (1.16%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 15 (17.44%) Hybrid Cloud
2 10 (11.63%) Onboarding
3 7 (8.14%) Life Science
4 6 (6.98%) Hedge funds
4 6 (6.98%) Video Conferencing
5 5 (5.81%) Cyber Threat
5 5 (5.81%) Robotics
6 4 (4.65%) Cloud Native
6 4 (4.65%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (4.65%) PKI
7 3 (3.49%) Data Centre
7 3 (3.49%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (2.33%) FPGA
8 2 (2.33%) Product Ownership
9 1 (1.16%) Algorithms
9 1 (1.16%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (1.16%) Driving Licence
9 1 (1.16%) Fibre Optics
9 1 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 62 (72.09%) Linux
2 14 (16.28%) Windows
3 10 (11.63%) Unix
4 8 (9.30%) Ubuntu
5 7 (8.14%) Windows 10
6 3 (3.49%) CentOS
6 3 (3.49%) Debian
6 3 (3.49%) Robot Operating System
6 3 (3.49%) Windows Server
7 2 (2.33%) Solaris
8 1 (1.16%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (1.16%) Mac OS
8 1 (1.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (1.16%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (53.49%) Problem-Solving
2 34 (39.53%) CI/CD
3 32 (37.21%) DevOps
4 28 (32.56%) Infrastructure as Code
5 26 (30.23%) Infrastructure Automation
6 21 (24.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 21 (24.42%) Migration
7 20 (23.26%) Continuous Improvement
8 19 (22.09%) ITIL
9 18 (20.93%) Cloud Security
10 17 (19.77%) Identity Management
11 16 (18.60%) Project Delivery
12 15 (17.44%) Containerisation
12 15 (17.44%) Service Management
13 13 (15.12%) Cost Management
13 13 (15.12%) Cost Optimisation
13 13 (15.12%) Task Automation
14 11 (12.79%) AI
14 11 (12.79%) Runbook
15 9 (10.47%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 56 (65.12%) Python
2 41 (47.67%) Bash
3 19 (22.09%) PowerShell
4 14 (16.28%) SQL
5 10 (11.63%) Shell Script
6 7 (8.14%) JavaScript
7 6 (6.98%) Java
8 4 (4.65%) Groovy
9 3 (3.49%) C++
9 3 (3.49%) PHP
9 3 (3.49%) TypeScript
10 2 (2.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (2.33%) Go
10 2 (2.33%) Ruby
10 2 (2.33%) SystemVerilog
11 1 (1.16%) Bicep
11 1 (1.16%) C
11 1 (1.16%) C#
11 1 (1.16%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 11 (12.79%) Degree
1 11 (12.79%) Security Cleared
2 6 (6.98%) A+ Certification
2 6 (6.98%) Network+ Certification
3 5 (5.81%) DV Cleared
3 5 (5.81%) HNC
3 5 (5.81%) HND
3 5 (5.81%) SC Cleared
4 4 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.33%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.33%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.33%) CCNP
5 2 (2.33%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.81%) QA
2 3 (3.49%) GDPR
2 3 (3.49%) SLA
System Software
1 37 (43.02%) Docker
2 12 (13.95%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.33%) Samba
4 1 (1.16%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.16%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 12 (13.95%) Ansible
2 8 (9.30%) Grafana
2 8 (9.30%) Prometheus
3 6 (6.98%) Kubernetes
3 6 (6.98%) Progress Chef
4 2 (2.33%) Puppet
4 2 (2.33%) Scalr
5 1 (1.16%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 18 (20.93%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.98%) Atlassian
3 5 (5.81%) Oracle
3 5 (5.81%) Red Hat
4 4 (4.65%) CyberArk
4 4 (4.65%) New Relic
5 3 (3.49%) NVIDIA
6 2 (2.33%) Google
6 2 (2.33%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.33%) VMware
7 1 (1.16%) Arista
7 1 (1.16%) Brocade
7 1 (1.16%) Cisco
7 1 (1.16%) Dell
7 1 (1.16%) Juniper
7 1 (1.16%) QNAP
7 1 (1.16%) SonicWALL
7 1 (1.16%) Synology
7 1 (1.16%) Ubiquiti