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

6 months to
23 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 524 548 571
Rank change year-on-year +24 +23 +53
Permanent jobs citing Linux Command Line 112 105 190
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.18% 0.24% 0.28%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.56% 0.64% 0.79%
Number of salaries quoted 65 50 146
10th Percentile £33,375 £41,500 £35,000
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 £95,769
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 19,882 16,505 24,142
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 32.69% 38.12% 36.06%
Number of salaries quoted 10,200 7,867 18,103
10th Percentile £28,000 £33,500 £28,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,250 £39,720
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £55,001
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
% 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 23 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 23 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 +34.18% 19
East of England +19 23 £45,000 -21.74% 4
South East -20 15 £45,000 -21.74% 9
Midlands +8 13 £39,000 -13.81% 11
North of England -26 12 £51,722 +8.89% 8
West Midlands +18 11 £39,000 +20.00% 9
North West +5 6 £55,000 +12.82% 5
South West -24 4 £91,000 +25.52% 3
North East - 4 £73,801 - 1
East Midlands -21 2 £52,500 -9.48% 2
Yorkshire -38 2 £48,445 +1.99% 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 11 (9.82%) Tomcat
1 11 (9.82%) WebSphere
1 11 (9.82%) 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
5 1 (0.89%) WordPress
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 15 (13.39%) 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%) GitHub
7 7 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (6.25%) OCI
8 6 (5.36%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (4.46%) AWS Lambda
9 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
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%) SSH
9 1 (0.89%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (18.75%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (13.39%) 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 3 (2.68%) Apache Hive
8 3 (2.68%) Big Data
8 3 (2.68%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.89%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 7 (6.25%) Git
1 7 (6.25%) Jenkins
2 5 (4.46%) Browser DevTools
3 4 (3.57%) IDA Disassembler
4 3 (2.68%) JIRA
5 2 (1.79%) GitLab
5 2 (1.79%) Selenium
6 1 (0.89%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.89%) JUnit
6 1 (0.89%) Maven
6 1 (0.89%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.89%) WebDriver
6 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 14 (12.50%) Senior
4 11 (9.82%) Linux Support
5 10 (8.93%) Support Specialist
6 9 (8.04%) Senior Platform Engineer
7 8 (7.14%) IT Engineer
8 7 (6.25%) Analyst
8 7 (6.25%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
8 7 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 7 (6.25%) Infrastructure Support
8 7 (6.25%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
8 7 (6.25%) Unix Support
9 6 (5.36%) Applications Specialist
9 6 (5.36%) Applications Support Specialist
9 6 (5.36%) Consultant
9 6 (5.36%) Developer
9 6 (5.36%) EPR Consultant
9 6 (5.36%) Linux Engineer
9 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 14 (12.50%) LDAP
5 11 (9.82%) LAPP Stack
5 11 (9.82%) 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%) CSS
12 2 (1.79%) Flash
12 2 (1.79%) Ruby on Rails
13 1 (0.89%) JDBC
13 1 (0.89%) RSS
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 3 (2.68%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.68%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (2.68%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (2.68%) Security Operations Centre
6 2 (1.79%) Arduino
6 2 (1.79%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (1.79%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (1.79%) Raspberry Pi
7 1 (0.89%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.89%) Digital Signage
7 1 (0.89%) IoT
7 1 (0.89%) Life Science
7 1 (0.89%) Smart City
7 1 (0.89%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 65 (58.04%) Linux
2 60 (53.57%) 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 35 (31.25%) 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%) CRM
13 11 (9.82%) Release Management
14 10 (8.93%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 68 (60.71%) Python
2 25 (22.32%) SQL
3 20 (17.86%) JavaScript
4 16 (14.29%) Bash
4 16 (14.29%) PowerShell
5 11 (9.82%) PHP
6 8 (7.14%) 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 47 (41.96%) 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 5 (4.46%) 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 19 (16.96%) 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 10 (8.93%) Kubernetes
3 9 (8.04%) AWS Copilot
4 7 (6.25%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (5.36%) Ansible
6 1 (0.89%) Kibana
Vendors
1 17 (15.18%) Microsoft
2 15 (13.39%) Red Hat
3 12 (10.71%) Oracle
4 11 (9.82%) Google
4 11 (9.82%) IBM
5 10 (8.93%) Salesforce
6 8 (7.14%) ServiceNow
7 7 (6.25%) CyberArk
8 4 (3.57%) HubSpot
9 3 (2.68%) Dell
9 3 (2.68%) Splunk
10 2 (1.79%) Apple
10 2 (1.79%) Cisco
10 2 (1.79%) VMware
11 1 (0.89%) Adobe
11 1 (0.89%) New Relic