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

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 517 549 558
Rank change year-on-year +32 +9 +47
Permanent jobs citing Linux Command Line 112 109 202
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.19% 0.25% 0.30%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.57% 0.64% 0.85%
Number of salaries quoted 64 50 158
10th Percentile £33,375 £41,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £51,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.23% +5.00% -4.35%
75th Percentile £78,790 £74,688 £78,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £96,539
UK median annual salary £62,500 £59,000 £55,001
% change year-on-year +5.93% +7.27% -4.35%

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 19,553 16,904 23,893
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 32.97% 38.04% 35.90%
Number of salaries quoted 10,005 7,904 18,000
10th Percentile £28,000 £34,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,250 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £55,440
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +12.73% -14.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £55,440
% change year-on-year -12.00% +12.73% -14.71%

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 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 16 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 +59 43 £73,801 +20.49% 13
East of England +29 23 £45,000 -21.74% 4
South East -9 14 £45,000 -21.74% 7
Midlands +13 13 £39,000 -13.81% 9
North of England -28 12 £51,722 +8.89% 7
West Midlands +25 11 £39,000 +20.00% 7
North West +8 6 £55,000 +12.82% 3
South West -14 5 £86,750 +19.66% 1
North East - 4 £73,801 - 1
East Midlands -13 2 £52,500 -9.48% 2
Yorkshire -43 2 £48,445 +1.99% 3
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 12 (10.71%) Tomcat
1 12 (10.71%) WebSphere
1 12 (10.71%) WebSphere Application Server
2 10 (8.93%) IIS
3 6 (5.36%) Apache
4 3 (2.68%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.89%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.89%) CMS
5 1 (0.89%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.89%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 41 (36.61%) AWS
2 34 (30.36%) Azure
3 14 (12.50%) GCP
4 13 (11.61%) Amazon ECR
4 13 (11.61%) AWS CloudFormation
5 12 (10.71%) Entra ID
5 12 (10.71%) SaaS
6 9 (8.04%) Amazon ECS
6 9 (8.04%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 9 (8.04%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 9 (8.04%) dbt
6 9 (8.04%) PaaS
6 9 (8.04%) Pulumi
6 9 (8.04%) Sentry
7 7 (6.25%) OCI
8 6 (5.36%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (5.36%) GitHub
8 6 (5.36%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (4.46%) Azure Key Vault
9 5 (4.46%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 18 (16.07%) TCP/IP
2 12 (10.71%) SSL
3 10 (8.93%) VPN
4 8 (7.14%) DNS
5 6 (5.36%) Firewall
6 4 (3.57%) DHCP
7 3 (2.68%) 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%) Internet
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%) DB2
4 12 (10.71%) Elasticsearch
4 12 (10.71%) MySQL
5 9 (8.04%) Redis
6 6 (5.36%) Electronic Patient Records
7 3 (2.68%) Apache Hive
7 3 (2.68%) Big Data
7 3 (2.68%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.89%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 7 (6.25%) Jenkins
2 6 (5.36%) Git
3 4 (3.57%) Browser DevTools
3 4 (3.57%) IDA Disassembler
4 2 (1.79%) GitLab
4 2 (1.79%) Selenium
5 1 (0.89%) JIRA
5 1 (0.89%) JUnit
5 1 (0.89%) Maven
5 1 (0.89%) WebDriver
General
1 17 (15.18%) Social Skills
2 15 (13.39%) German Language
3 12 (10.71%) Banking
4 8 (7.14%) Investment Banking
5 7 (6.25%) Public Sector
6 6 (5.36%) Finance
6 6 (5.36%) Health Technology
7 5 (4.46%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (2.68%) Electronics
8 3 (2.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.79%) Advertising
9 2 (1.79%) Law
9 2 (1.79%) Military
9 2 (1.79%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.89%) Billing
10 1 (0.89%) Front Office
10 1 (0.89%) Marketing
10 1 (0.89%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.89%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.89%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 18 (16.07%) Applications Support
2 17 (15.18%) Platform Engineer
3 13 (11.61%) Senior
4 12 (10.71%) Linux Support
5 10 (8.93%) Support Specialist
6 9 (8.04%) Senior Platform Engineer
7 8 (7.14%) Infrastructure Support
7 8 (7.14%) IT Engineer
7 8 (7.14%) Unix Support
8 7 (6.25%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
8 7 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 7 (6.25%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
9 6 (5.36%) Analyst
9 6 (5.36%) Applications Specialist
9 6 (5.36%) Applications Support Specialist
9 6 (5.36%) Developer
9 6 (5.36%) EPR Consultant
9 6 (5.36%) Lead
9 6 (5.36%) Linux Engineer
9 6 (5.36%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (31.25%) JSON
2 30 (26.79%) HTML
3 29 (25.89%) Regular Expression
3 29 (25.89%) XML
4 15 (13.39%) LDAP
5 12 (10.71%) LAPP Stack
5 12 (10.71%) WebSphere MQ
6 10 (8.93%) LAMP
7 9 (8.04%) Django
8 6 (5.36%) FHIR
9 5 (4.46%) ARM Templates
10 4 (3.57%) REST
10 4 (3.57%) SOAP
11 3 (2.68%) OAuth
11 3 (2.68%) OAuth2
12 2 (1.79%) Flash
12 2 (1.79%) Ruby on Rails
13 1 (0.89%) CSS
13 1 (0.89%) Middleware
13 1 (0.89%) ODBC
Miscellaneous
1 41 (36.61%) Onboarding
2 8 (7.14%) Management Information System
3 7 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (5.36%) NHS
5 5 (4.46%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (3.57%) Virtual Team
7 3 (2.68%) Cloud Native
7 3 (2.68%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (2.68%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (2.68%) Security Operations Centre
8 2 (1.79%) Arduino
8 2 (1.79%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (1.79%) Embedded Systems
8 2 (1.79%) Raspberry Pi
9 1 (0.89%) ARM Cortex
9 1 (0.89%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.89%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.89%) IoT
9 1 (0.89%) Life Science
9 1 (0.89%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 66 (58.93%) Linux
2 61 (54.46%) Unix
3 18 (16.07%) Windows
4 14 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (4.46%) Ubuntu
5 5 (4.46%) VMS
6 4 (3.57%) Windows 10
6 4 (3.57%) Windows Server
7 3 (2.68%) CentOS
8 2 (1.79%) Debian
8 2 (1.79%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.89%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (31.25%) AI
2 30 (26.79%) Data Analysis
3 29 (25.89%) LLM
4 22 (19.64%) Infrastructure as Code
5 20 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
6 19 (16.96%) CI/CD
6 19 (16.96%) User Acceptance Testing
7 18 (16.07%) DevOps
8 17 (15.18%) 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%) Change Management
12 12 (10.71%) RBAC
12 12 (10.71%) Release Management
13 11 (9.82%) CRM
14 10 (8.93%) Containerisation
14 10 (8.93%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 68 (60.71%) Python
2 24 (21.43%) SQL
3 19 (16.96%) JavaScript
4 16 (14.29%) PowerShell
5 15 (13.39%) Bash
6 10 (8.93%) PHP
7 8 (7.14%) Java
8 6 (5.36%) Shell Script
9 4 (3.57%) C
9 4 (3.57%) C++
10 3 (2.68%) C#
11 2 (1.79%) Ruby
12 1 (0.89%) Bicep
12 1 (0.89%) Scala
Qualifications
1 47 (41.96%) Degree
2 18 (16.07%) Security Cleared
3 15 (13.39%) AWS Certification
4 12 (10.71%) ITIL Certification
5 10 (8.93%) SC Cleared
6 9 (8.04%) DV Cleared
7 5 (4.46%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (2.68%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.89%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (10.71%) SLA
2 6 (5.36%) HL7
3 2 (1.79%) Def Stans
4 1 (0.89%) QA
System Software
1 18 (16.07%) Active Directory
2 14 (12.50%) Docker
3 2 (1.79%) KVM
3 2 (1.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.89%) Firmware
4 1 (0.89%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 19 (16.96%) Terraform
2 10 (8.93%) Kubernetes
3 9 (8.04%) AWS Copilot
4 7 (6.25%) Ansible
4 7 (6.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (15.18%) Microsoft
1 17 (15.18%) Red Hat
2 12 (10.71%) IBM
3 11 (9.82%) Oracle
4 10 (8.93%) Google
4 10 (8.93%) Salesforce
5 8 (7.14%) ServiceNow
6 7 (6.25%) CyberArk
7 4 (3.57%) HubSpot
8 3 (2.68%) Dell
8 3 (2.68%) Splunk
9 2 (1.79%) Cisco
9 2 (1.79%) VMware
10 1 (0.89%) Adobe
10 1 (0.89%) Apple