Linux Command Line Jobs 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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 399 662 671
Rank change year-on-year +263 +9 -182
Permanent jobs citing Linux Command Line 323 185 195
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.62% 0.20% 0.25%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.66% 0.60% 0.58%
Number of salaries quoted 52 149 156
10th Percentile £37,050 £32,200 £30,875
25th Percentile £38,500 £38,620 £44,946
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £69,063
90th Percentile £96,125 £88,500 £75,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £54,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% -10.00% +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 19,415 30,851 33,900
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 37.30% 33.12% 43.06%
Number of salaries quoted 9,261 20,544 19,800
10th Percentile £29,750 £28,500 £35,722
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £46,570
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £100,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £58,000 £55,000 £64,029
% change year-on-year +5.45% -14.10% +2.45%

Linux Command Line
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Linux Command Line as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Linux Command Line in England

Linux Command Line
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Linux Command Line in England.

Salary trend for Linux Command Line in England

Linux Command Line
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux Command Line in England over the 6 months to 5 July 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 5 July 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
North of England +193 186 £46,250 +23.33% 19
North West +147 180 £37,500 -25.00% 10
South East +67 48 £50,000 +17.65% 33
London +70 30 £80,000 +6.67% 155
East of England +56 30 £39,000 -10.34% 15
Midlands +101 23 £58,750 +17.50% 10
East Midlands +56 17 - - 5
South West +71 6 £70,000 -6.67% 12
West Midlands +63 6 £58,750 +17.50% 5
North East +47 3 £55,000 -
Yorkshire +29 3 - - 9
Linux Command Line
UK

Linux Command Line
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 18 (5.57%) Apache Spark
2 3 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.62%) Confluence
3 2 (0.62%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.62%) WordPress
Applications
1 15 (4.64%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.31%) Weka
Business Applications
1 4 (1.24%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 212 (65.63%) AWS
2 198 (61.30%) Azure
3 186 (57.59%) GCP
4 18 (5.57%) Amazon EKS
4 18 (5.57%) Amazon ELB
4 18 (5.57%) Amazon S3
5 8 (2.48%) SaaS
6 5 (1.55%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (1.24%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (1.24%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (1.24%) GitHub
7 4 (1.24%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (1.24%) PaaS
8 3 (0.93%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (0.93%) OpenShift
8 3 (0.93%) Power Platform
9 2 (0.62%) Azure Machine Learning
9 2 (0.62%) DigitalOcean
9 2 (0.62%) IaaS
10 1 (0.31%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 69 (21.36%) VPN
2 64 (19.81%) TCP/IP
3 5 (1.55%) HTTP
4 4 (1.24%) Cisco IOS
4 4 (1.24%) VoIP
5 2 (0.62%) InfiniBand
6 1 (0.31%) DHCP
6 1 (0.31%) DNS
6 1 (0.31%) Firewall
6 1 (0.31%) GSM
6 1 (0.31%) LTE
6 1 (0.31%) NAS
6 1 (0.31%) Radio Access Network
6 1 (0.31%) SAN
6 1 (0.31%) Software-Defined Radio
6 1 (0.31%) UMTS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (5.57%) Delta Lake
1 18 (5.57%) DynamoDB
1 18 (5.57%) Metadata
1 18 (5.57%) Spark SQL
2 9 (2.79%) SQL Server
3 8 (2.48%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (1.86%) MySQL
4 6 (1.86%) NoSQL
5 4 (1.24%) Metabase
6 3 (0.93%) Power BI
7 1 (0.31%) DB2
7 1 (0.31%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 64 (19.81%) Cucumber
1 64 (19.81%) Robot Framework
2 18 (5.57%) MLflow
3 14 (4.33%) Git
4 6 (1.86%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.93%) JIRA
6 2 (0.62%) Artifactory
6 2 (0.62%) git-flow
7 1 (0.31%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 242 (74.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 122 (37.77%) Social Skills
3 66 (20.43%) Telecoms
4 6 (1.86%) Finance
5 4 (1.24%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (1.24%) Electronics
5 4 (1.24%) Military
6 3 (0.93%) Banking
6 3 (0.93%) Investment Banking
7 2 (0.62%) Billing
7 2 (0.62%) Marketing
7 2 (0.62%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.31%) Advertising
8 1 (0.31%) Games
8 1 (0.31%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.31%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.31%) Retail
Job Titles
1 190 (58.82%) Senior
2 178 (55.11%) Senior Software Engineer
2 178 (55.11%) Software Engineer
3 64 (19.81%) Test Automation Engineer
3 64 (19.81%) Test Engineer
4 22 (6.81%) Support Engineer
5 21 (6.50%) Machine Learning Engineer
6 18 (5.57%) Operations Engineer
7 16 (4.95%) Linux Engineer
8 15 (4.64%) Linux Support
8 15 (4.64%) Linux Support Engineer
9 13 (4.02%) Technical Support
10 8 (2.48%) Developer
11 5 (1.55%) Analyst
11 5 (1.55%) Python Developer
11 5 (1.55%) Support Manager
11 5 (1.55%) Systems Engineer
11 5 (1.55%) Technical Manager
11 5 (1.55%) Technical Support Manager
12 4 (1.24%) Senior Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 180 (55.73%) .NET
2 179 (55.42%) Node.js
3 26 (8.05%) Pandas
4 21 (6.50%) scikit-learn
5 18 (5.57%) Keras
5 18 (5.57%) Lambda Expressions
5 18 (5.57%) Metaflow
5 18 (5.57%) NumPy
5 18 (5.57%) PySpark
5 18 (5.57%) PyTorch
5 18 (5.57%) TensorFlow
5 18 (5.57%) YAML
6 8 (2.48%) JSON
7 5 (1.55%) Puppeteer
7 5 (1.55%) Scrapy
8 4 (1.24%) ARM Templates
8 4 (1.24%) Laravel
8 4 (1.24%) Vue
9 2 (0.62%) FIX Protocol
9 2 (0.62%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 181 (56.04%) Self-Motivation
2 178 (55.11%) Cyberattack
3 3 (0.93%) Data Centre
3 3 (0.93%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (0.93%) Hedge funds
4 2 (0.62%) Mobile App
4 2 (0.62%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.31%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.31%) Device Driver
5 1 (0.31%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (0.31%) FPGA
5 1 (0.31%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (0.31%) LIMS
Operating Systems
1 300 (92.88%) Linux
2 74 (22.91%) Windows
3 22 (6.81%) Unix
4 15 (4.64%) Mac OS
5 11 (3.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.93%) VMS
6 3 (0.93%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.62%) CentOS
7 2 (0.62%) CoreOS
8 1 (0.31%) Debian
8 1 (0.31%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 246 (76.16%) Mentoring
2 199 (61.61%) Machine Learning
3 185 (57.28%) Software Engineering
4 183 (56.66%) Agile
5 182 (56.35%) Microservices
6 181 (56.04%) Data Engineering
7 178 (55.11%) Cloud Security
7 178 (55.11%) Scrum
7 178 (55.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 178 (55.11%) User Experience
8 78 (24.15%) Problem-Solving
9 74 (22.91%) DevOps
10 72 (22.29%) Test Automation
11 67 (20.74%) System Testing
12 64 (19.81%) Coaching
12 64 (19.81%) Test Management
13 36 (11.15%) Artificial Intelligence
14 30 (9.29%) CI/CD
15 24 (7.43%) Containerisation
16 22 (6.81%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 290 (89.78%) Python
2 250 (77.40%) JavaScript
3 184 (56.97%) C++
4 182 (56.35%) Java
5 180 (55.73%) Go
6 178 (55.11%) Rust
7 96 (29.72%) Bash
8 72 (22.29%) PowerShell
9 44 (13.62%) SQL
10 20 (6.19%) Shell Script
11 5 (1.55%) PHP
12 3 (0.93%) C#
12 3 (0.93%) Perl
13 2 (0.62%) C
14 1 (0.31%) PL/1
Qualifications
1 181 (56.04%) Security Cleared
2 179 (55.42%) AWS Certification
2 179 (55.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 179 (55.42%) DV Cleared
3 178 (55.11%) AWS Certified Developer
4 86 (26.63%) Degree
5 11 (3.41%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.24%) A+ Certification
6 4 (1.24%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.24%) Dell Certification
6 4 (1.24%) MCP
6 4 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.62%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.31%) CCNA
8 1 (0.31%) CCNP
8 1 (0.31%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (20.43%) QA
2 4 (1.24%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.24%) Def Stans
2 4 (1.24%) GDPR
3 3 (0.93%) HIPAA
3 3 (0.93%) SOC 2
4 1 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.31%) NCSC
4 1 (0.31%) NIST
4 1 (0.31%) SLA
System Software
1 28 (8.67%) Docker
2 6 (1.86%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (1.24%) zsh
4 3 (0.93%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (0.93%) vSphere
5 2 (0.62%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.31%) NFS
Systems Management
1 28 (8.67%) Terraform
2 26 (8.05%) Kubernetes
3 18 (5.57%) Kubeflow
4 15 (4.64%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (2.48%) Ansible
6 4 (1.24%) Puppet
7 3 (0.93%) Packer
8 2 (0.62%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.31%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 22 (6.81%) Databricks
2 20 (6.19%) Microsoft
3 15 (4.64%) Apple
4 4 (1.24%) Cisco
4 4 (1.24%) Dell
5 3 (0.93%) NetApp
5 3 (0.93%) Red Hat
5 3 (0.93%) ServiceNow
6 2 (0.62%) Google
7 1 (0.31%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.31%) IBM
7 1 (0.31%) Oracle
7 1 (0.31%) Refinitiv
7 1 (0.31%) VMware