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 17 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 479 521 523
Rank change year-on-year +42 +2 +48
Permanent jobs citing Linux Command Line 136 173 149
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.26% 0.34% 0.34%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.72% 0.91% 0.91%
Number of salaries quoted 67 99 118
10th Percentile £35,850 £36,625 £38,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £47,500 £46,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -15.38% +13.04%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £87,188
90th Percentile £90,400 £80,000 £96,539
UK median annual salary £73,801 £56,250 £67,500
% change year-on-year +31.20% -16.67% +17.39%

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 18,862 18,918 16,380
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 36.62% 36.76% 37.91%
Number of salaries quoted 9,574 9,307 12,326
10th Percentile £27,750 £33,875 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £112,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% -3.25%

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 17 December 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 17 December 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
London +55 44 £80,000 +45.45% 7
East of England +41 29 £42,000 -23.64% 8
South East +17 20 £45,000 -20.00% 15
Midlands +37 19 £39,000 -13.81% 12
West Midlands +34 13 £39,000 +20.00% 6
South West -6 13 £90,000 +20.00% 11
North of England +2 11 £73,801 +59.57% 10
East Midlands +6 6 £52,500 -9.48% 5
North West +28 4 £73,801 +51.39% 4
Yorkshire -26 4 £45,000 +4.96% 4
North East - 3 £73,801 - 2
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 21 (15.44%) Apache Spark
2 16 (11.76%) Tomcat
2 16 (11.76%) WebSphere
2 16 (11.76%) WebSphere Application Server
3 14 (10.29%) IIS
4 6 (4.41%) Apache
5 1 (0.74%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.74%) CMS
5 1 (0.74%) Confluence
5 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (2.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.74%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.74%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 60 (44.12%) AWS
2 30 (22.06%) Azure
3 27 (19.85%) Amazon S3
4 24 (17.65%) Amazon EKS
5 18 (13.24%) Amazon ELB
6 12 (8.82%) Amazon ECR
6 12 (8.82%) AWS CloudFormation
6 12 (8.82%) GCP
6 12 (8.82%) SaaS
7 9 (6.62%) Amazon EC2
7 9 (6.62%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (6.62%) OpenShift
7 9 (6.62%) Serverless
8 8 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (5.88%) GitHub
8 8 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (5.15%) Azure Key Vault
9 7 (5.15%) Entra ID
10 6 (4.41%) Amazon ElastiCache
10 6 (4.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 16 (11.76%) SSL
2 14 (10.29%) TCP/IP
3 7 (5.15%) DNS
3 7 (5.15%) Firewall
4 6 (4.41%) VPN
5 3 (2.21%) AMQP
5 3 (2.21%) DHCP
5 3 (2.21%) Kerberos
5 3 (2.21%) VLAN
6 2 (1.47%) 2G
6 2 (1.47%) 4G
6 2 (1.47%) 5G
6 2 (1.47%) Cisco IOS
6 2 (1.47%) HTTP
6 2 (1.47%) ICMP
6 2 (1.47%) Software-Defined Radio
6 2 (1.47%) VoIP
7 1 (0.74%) DMARC
7 1 (0.74%) SSH
7 1 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (16.91%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (13.24%) Delta Lake
2 18 (13.24%) DynamoDB
2 18 (13.24%) Metadata
2 18 (13.24%) Spark SQL
3 17 (12.50%) SQL Server
4 16 (11.76%) DB2
5 15 (11.03%) Amazon RDS
6 9 (6.62%) MySQL
7 8 (5.88%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (4.41%) Redis
9 4 (2.94%) Relational Database
10 3 (2.21%) Apache Hive
10 3 (2.21%) Big Data
10 3 (2.21%) Electronic Patient Records
10 3 (2.21%) Hadoop
10 3 (2.21%) InfluxDB
11 1 (0.74%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 18 (13.24%) MLflow
2 12 (8.82%) Jenkins
3 11 (8.09%) Git
4 5 (3.68%) JIRA
5 4 (2.94%) Browser DevTools
5 4 (2.94%) IDA Disassembler
6 3 (2.21%) GitLab
7 2 (1.47%) Selenium
8 1 (0.74%) JUnit
8 1 (0.74%) Maven
8 1 (0.74%) WebDriver
General
1 37 (27.21%) Social Skills
2 16 (11.76%) Banking
3 15 (11.03%) German Language
4 10 (7.35%) Investment Banking
5 9 (6.62%) Finance
6 7 (5.15%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (4.41%) Law
8 3 (2.21%) Electronics
8 3 (2.21%) Health Technology
9 2 (1.47%) Military
9 2 (1.47%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.74%) Advertising
10 1 (0.74%) Billing
10 1 (0.74%) Front Office
10 1 (0.74%) Marketing
10 1 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.74%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 24 (17.65%) Applications Support
2 18 (13.24%) Machine Learning Engineer
2 18 (13.24%) Operations Engineer
3 17 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
4 16 (11.76%) Linux Support
5 12 (8.82%) Senior
6 11 (8.09%) Infrastructure Support
6 11 (8.09%) Support Specialist
7 10 (7.35%) Support Engineer
7 10 (7.35%) Unix Support
8 8 (5.88%) Applications Engineer
8 8 (5.88%) Applications Support Engineer
9 7 (5.15%) Applications Specialist
9 7 (5.15%) Applications Support Specialist
9 7 (5.15%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
9 7 (5.15%) Lead
9 7 (5.15%) Linux Engineer
9 7 (5.15%) Technical Support
10 6 (4.41%) Linux Support Engineer
10 6 (4.41%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (25.74%) JSON
2 33 (24.26%) HTML
3 32 (23.53%) Regular Expression
3 32 (23.53%) XML
4 20 (14.71%) YAML
5 19 (13.97%) LDAP
6 18 (13.24%) Keras
6 18 (13.24%) Lambda Expressions
6 18 (13.24%) Metaflow
6 18 (13.24%) NumPy
6 18 (13.24%) Pandas
6 18 (13.24%) PySpark
6 18 (13.24%) PyTorch
6 18 (13.24%) scikit-learn
6 18 (13.24%) TensorFlow
7 16 (11.76%) LAPP Stack
7 16 (11.76%) WebSphere MQ
8 10 (7.35%) LAMP
9 6 (4.41%) ARM Templates
9 6 (4.41%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 40 (29.41%) Onboarding
2 11 (8.09%) Management Information System
3 5 (3.68%) Cloud Native
3 5 (3.68%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (2.21%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (2.21%) Life Science
4 3 (2.21%) NHS
4 3 (2.21%) Virtual Team
5 2 (1.47%) Arduino
5 2 (1.47%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (1.47%) Embedded Systems
5 2 (1.47%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.47%) Omics
5 2 (1.47%) Raspberry Pi
6 1 (0.74%) ARM Cortex
6 1 (0.74%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.74%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (0.74%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (0.74%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.74%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 83 (61.03%) Unix
2 73 (53.68%) Linux
3 29 (21.32%) Windows
4 19 (13.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (4.41%) VMS
5 6 (4.41%) Windows Server
6 5 (3.68%) Ubuntu
7 3 (2.21%) CentOS
7 3 (2.21%) Debian
7 3 (2.21%) Windows 10
8 2 (1.47%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.74%) CoreOS
9 1 (0.74%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (41.91%) AI
2 42 (30.88%) CI/CD
3 39 (28.68%) Data Analysis
4 32 (23.53%) LLM
5 29 (21.32%) Containerisation
6 24 (17.65%) ITIL
6 24 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
7 23 (16.91%) Data Science
7 23 (16.91%) DevOps
8 21 (15.44%) Machine Learning
8 21 (15.44%) Time Management
9 20 (14.71%) OO
9 20 (14.71%) User Acceptance Testing
9 20 (14.71%) Visualisation
10 19 (13.97%) Information Security
11 18 (13.24%) Deployment Automation
11 18 (13.24%) Metadata Management
11 18 (13.24%) OOP
11 18 (13.24%) OWASP
11 18 (13.24%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 97 (71.32%) Python
2 49 (36.03%) SQL
3 16 (11.76%) JavaScript
4 14 (10.29%) Bash
5 13 (9.56%) PowerShell
6 10 (7.35%) PHP
7 8 (5.88%) Java
8 7 (5.15%) Shell Script
9 4 (2.94%) C
9 4 (2.94%) C++
9 4 (2.94%) Go
10 2 (1.47%) Bicep
10 2 (1.47%) C#
10 2 (1.47%) R
10 2 (1.47%) Ruby
11 1 (0.74%) Perl
11 1 (0.74%) Scala
11 1 (0.74%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 59 (43.38%) Degree
2 20 (14.71%) Security Cleared
3 19 (13.97%) AWS Certification
4 16 (11.76%) ITIL Certification
5 14 (10.29%) DV Cleared
6 12 (8.82%) SC Cleared
7 7 (5.15%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (2.94%) A+ Certification
9 3 (2.21%) Azure Certification
9 3 (2.21%) PhD
10 2 (1.47%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (11.76%) SLA
2 3 (2.21%) HL7
3 2 (1.47%) Def Stans
4 1 (0.74%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.74%) QA
System Software
1 36 (26.47%) Docker
2 13 (9.56%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.21%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.47%) KVM
4 2 (1.47%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.74%) Firmware
5 1 (0.74%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.74%) zsh
Systems Management
1 40 (29.41%) Terraform
2 34 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 18 (13.24%) Kubeflow
4 12 (8.82%) Ansible
5 6 (4.41%) AWS Copilot
6 4 (2.94%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (2.21%) Grafana
7 3 (2.21%) Progress Chef
7 3 (2.21%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.74%) CASB
8 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.74%) Puppet
8 1 (0.74%) QRadar
8 1 (0.74%) SCCM
8 1 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (16.91%) Red Hat
2 20 (14.71%) Microsoft
3 19 (13.97%) Databricks
4 16 (11.76%) IBM
5 11 (8.09%) Oracle
6 10 (7.35%) Salesforce
6 10 (7.35%) ServiceNow
7 6 (4.41%) Google
8 4 (2.94%) HubSpot
9 3 (2.21%) Cisco
9 3 (2.21%) Dell
9 3 (2.21%) VMware
10 2 (1.47%) Splunk
11 1 (0.74%) Adobe
11 1 (0.74%) Apple
11 1 (0.74%) Citrix
11 1 (0.74%) CyberArk
11 1 (0.74%) Forcepoint
11 1 (0.74%) Palo Alto
11 1 (0.74%) Qualys