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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 661 349 604
Rank change year-on-year -312 +255 +13
Permanent jobs citing Linux Command Line 73 340 167
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.078% 0.78% 0.23%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.30% 1.85% 0.70%
Number of salaries quoted 59 66 132
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,500 £40,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,445 £51,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.47% -6.82% -8.33%
75th Percentile £61,383 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £79,177 £95,625 £87,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £51,250 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% -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 24,054 18,393 23,923
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.83% 42.22% 32.92%
Number of salaries quoted 15,756 9,296 14,773
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,497 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.36% -4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -10.51%

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 7 August 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 7 August 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 -185 22 £47,000 +4.44% 10
South East -62 15 £60,000 +20.00% 11
Yorkshire -13 14 £40,000 -11.11% 5
London -51 14 £62,717 -23.98% 35
East of England -47 11 £51,359 +31.69% 2
Midlands -49 8 £47,500 -19.15% 10
West Midlands -32 6 £47,500 -19.15% 4
North East -49 6 £47,000 -14.55% 3
East Midlands -42 2 £22,500 - 6
North West -145 2 £61,373 +63.66% 2
South West -74 1 £55,000 -26.67% 9
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 4 (5.48%) WordPress
2 1 (1.37%) Apache
2 1 (1.37%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.37%) nginx
2 1 (1.37%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 3 (4.11%) Magento
1 3 (4.11%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 35 (47.95%) AWS
2 27 (36.99%) Azure
3 14 (19.18%) Amazon EC2
3 14 (19.18%) Amazon ECS
4 13 (17.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 13 (17.81%) Amazon S3
4 13 (17.81%) AWS CloudFormation
4 13 (17.81%) GitHub
5 12 (16.44%) AWS Lambda
5 12 (16.44%) Serverless
5 12 (16.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 11 (15.07%) GCP
6 11 (15.07%) GitHub Actions
7 10 (13.70%) Azure DevOps
7 10 (13.70%) Datadog
8 7 (9.59%) Amazon EKS
8 7 (9.59%) Entra ID
8 7 (9.59%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (6.85%) PaaS
9 5 (6.85%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 18 (24.66%) Firewall
2 17 (23.29%) TCP/IP
3 6 (8.22%) SSH
3 6 (8.22%) VPN
4 5 (6.85%) Kerberos
5 3 (4.11%) BGP
5 3 (4.11%) SSL
6 2 (2.74%) LAN
6 2 (2.74%) Network Security
6 2 (2.74%) NGFW
6 2 (2.74%) OSPF
6 2 (2.74%) SMTP
6 2 (2.74%) Software-Defined Networking
6 2 (2.74%) WAN
7 1 (1.37%) DNS
7 1 (1.37%) Internet
7 1 (1.37%) VoIP
7 1 (1.37%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (20.55%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (10.96%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (8.22%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (6.85%) Power BI
5 4 (5.48%) MySQL
6 3 (4.11%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (4.11%) Redis
6 3 (4.11%) SQL Server
7 2 (2.74%) Power Query
8 1 (1.37%) Apache Hive
8 1 (1.37%) Big Data
8 1 (1.37%) DynamoDB
8 1 (1.37%) Hadoop
8 1 (1.37%) MongoDB
8 1 (1.37%) SAP HANA
8 1 (1.37%) Trino
Development Applications
1 9 (12.33%) Git
1 9 (12.33%) Jenkins
2 5 (6.85%) JIRA
3 3 (4.11%) Maven
3 3 (4.11%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (2.74%) Ant
4 2 (2.74%) Apache Ivy
4 2 (2.74%) IBM UrbanCode
5 1 (1.37%) Browser DevTools
5 1 (1.37%) CircleCI
5 1 (1.37%) CMake
5 1 (1.37%) GDB
5 1 (1.37%) git-flow
5 1 (1.37%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (1.37%) TeamCity
5 1 (1.37%) webpack
General
1 28 (38.36%) Social Skills
2 19 (26.03%) Finance
3 16 (21.92%) Law
4 11 (15.07%) Legal
5 10 (13.70%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (6.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (6.85%) Public Sector
6 5 (6.85%) Retail
7 3 (4.11%) Games
8 2 (2.74%) Automotive
8 2 (2.74%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.74%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.37%) Advertising
9 1 (1.37%) Electronics
9 1 (1.37%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 13 (17.81%) Cloud Engineer
2 10 (13.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 10 (13.70%) Network Engineer
3 9 (12.33%) AWS Engineer
3 9 (12.33%) Senior
4 8 (10.96%) Applications Support
5 7 (9.59%) DevOps Engineer
6 6 (8.22%) Platform Engineer
7 5 (6.85%) Analyst
7 5 (6.85%) Application Support Team Leader
7 5 (6.85%) ICT Support
7 5 (6.85%) ICT Support Technician
7 5 (6.85%) ICT Technician
7 5 (6.85%) IT Support
7 5 (6.85%) Lead
7 5 (6.85%) Security Technician
7 5 (6.85%) Support Team Leader
7 5 (6.85%) Support Technician
7 5 (6.85%) Team Leader
8 4 (5.48%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (13.70%) YAML
2 6 (8.22%) CSS
2 6 (8.22%) HTML
3 5 (6.85%) Loki
3 5 (6.85%) OAuth
3 5 (6.85%) OAuth2
3 5 (6.85%) OpenTelemetry
4 4 (5.48%) OpenID
4 4 (5.48%) SAML
5 3 (4.11%) Django
5 3 (4.11%) React
5 3 (4.11%) RESTful
6 2 (2.74%) Node.js
6 2 (2.74%) Vue
6 2 (2.74%) Web Services
7 1 (1.37%) AWS CDK
7 1 (1.37%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (1.37%) LAPP Stack
7 1 (1.37%) LEMP Stack
7 1 (1.37%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.96%) Hybrid Cloud
1 8 (10.96%) Life Science
2 7 (9.59%) Onboarding
3 5 (6.85%) Cyber Threat
4 4 (5.48%) Cloud Native
4 4 (5.48%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (5.48%) PKI
5 3 (4.11%) Data Centre
6 2 (2.74%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.74%) Robotics
6 2 (2.74%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.37%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (1.37%) Driving Licence
7 1 (1.37%) Fibre Optics
7 1 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.37%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.37%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 54 (73.97%) Linux
2 11 (15.07%) Windows
3 8 (10.96%) Unix
4 6 (8.22%) Windows Server
5 2 (2.74%) Solaris
5 2 (2.74%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.37%) CentOS
6 1 (1.37%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (1.37%) Mac OS
6 1 (1.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.37%) SUSE
6 1 (1.37%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
6 1 (1.37%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (53.42%) Problem-Solving
2 28 (38.36%) DevOps
3 26 (35.62%) CI/CD
4 22 (30.14%) Infrastructure as Code
5 17 (23.29%) Migration
6 15 (20.55%) Containerisation
6 15 (20.55%) Infrastructure Automation
7 14 (19.18%) Continuous Improvement
8 13 (17.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 11 (15.07%) Identity Management
9 11 (15.07%) Project Delivery
9 11 (15.07%) Task Automation
10 10 (13.70%) Agile
10 10 (13.70%) ITIL
11 9 (12.33%) Computer Science
11 9 (12.33%) Observability
11 9 (12.33%) Service Management
12 8 (10.96%) Cloud Security
12 8 (10.96%) Incident Response
13 7 (9.59%) Cost Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 46 (63.01%) Python
2 28 (38.36%) Bash
3 17 (23.29%) SQL
4 14 (19.18%) PowerShell
5 10 (13.70%) Java
6 8 (10.96%) JavaScript
7 7 (9.59%) Shell Script
8 4 (5.48%) PHP
8 4 (5.48%) TypeScript
9 3 (4.11%) C++
9 3 (4.11%) Groovy
10 2 (2.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (2.74%) Go
10 2 (2.74%) Ruby
11 1 (1.37%) C
11 1 (1.37%) Embedded C++
11 1 (1.37%) Perl
Qualifications
1 14 (19.18%) Security Cleared
2 10 (13.70%) Degree
2 10 (13.70%) SC Cleared
3 7 (9.59%) DV Cleared
4 5 (6.85%) HNC
4 5 (6.85%) HND
5 3 (4.11%) Azure Certification
5 3 (4.11%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (2.74%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.74%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.74%) CCNP
6 2 (2.74%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.11%) GDPR
1 3 (4.11%) SLA
2 1 (1.37%) QA
System Software
1 32 (43.84%) Docker
2 9 (12.33%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.74%) Samba
4 1 (1.37%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.37%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.37%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 30 (41.10%) Terraform
2 13 (17.81%) Ansible
3 9 (12.33%) Grafana
3 9 (12.33%) Prometheus
4 5 (6.85%) Kubernetes
4 5 (6.85%) Progress Chef
5 3 (4.11%) AWS Copilot
5 3 (4.11%) Scalr
6 2 (2.74%) Puppet
7 1 (1.37%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (1.37%) Kibana
Vendors
1 10 (13.70%) Microsoft
2 8 (10.96%) Oracle
3 6 (8.22%) Google
4 5 (6.85%) New Relic
4 5 (6.85%) ServiceNow
5 4 (5.48%) CyberArk
6 3 (4.11%) Red Hat
7 2 (2.74%) Dell
7 2 (2.74%) VMware
8 1 (1.37%) Apple
8 1 (1.37%) Arista
8 1 (1.37%) Brocade
8 1 (1.37%) Cisco
8 1 (1.37%) Juniper
8 1 (1.37%) QNAP
8 1 (1.37%) SAP
8 1 (1.37%) SonicWALL
8 1 (1.37%) Synology
8 1 (1.37%) Ubiquiti