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

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 667 341 582
Rank change year-on-year -326 +241 +17
Permanent jobs citing Linux Command Line 77 343 167
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.081% 0.79% 0.23%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.31% 1.87% 0.71%
Number of salaries quoted 63 66 125
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,125 £38,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £51,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% -6.82% -8.33%
75th Percentile £53,250 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £67,750 £95,625 £87,500
UK median annual salary £48,445 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.72% -4.55% -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 24,517 18,337 23,441
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.67% 42.00% 32.32%
Number of salaries quoted 16,094 9,292 14,096
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £30,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,981 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £107,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -8.73%

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 22 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 22 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 -187 24 £47,000 +4.44% 11
Yorkshire -24 16 £40,000 -11.11% 5
London -69 16 £50,000 -41.18% 11
South East -66 15 £60,000 +20.00% 9
East of England -44 11 £51,359 +31.69% 2
Midlands -54 8 £47,500 -19.15% 7
North East -47 7 £47,000 -14.55% 3
West Midlands -26 6 £47,500 -19.15% 3
East Midlands -38 2 £22,500 - 4
South West -84 1 £55,000 -26.67% 8
North West -144 1 £48,445 +29.19% 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 3 (3.90%) WordPress
2 2 (2.60%) Confluence
3 1 (1.30%) Apache
3 1 (1.30%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.30%) nginx
3 1 (1.30%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 3 (3.90%) Magento
1 3 (3.90%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 35 (45.45%) AWS
2 24 (31.17%) Azure
3 17 (22.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 17 (22.08%) Amazon EC2
4 16 (20.78%) Amazon S3
4 16 (20.78%) Serverless
4 16 (20.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 15 (19.48%) Amazon ECS
5 15 (19.48%) AWS Lambda
6 14 (18.18%) AWS CloudFormation
6 14 (18.18%) GitHub
7 12 (15.58%) GitHub Actions
8 11 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
8 11 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (12.99%) Datadog
9 10 (12.99%) Entra ID
10 7 (9.09%) GCP
10 7 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
11 5 (6.49%) IaaS
11 5 (6.49%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 18 (23.38%) Firewall
2 16 (20.78%) TCP/IP
3 9 (11.69%) VPN
4 6 (7.79%) SSH
5 5 (6.49%) Kerberos
6 3 (3.90%) BGP
6 3 (3.90%) DNS
6 3 (3.90%) SSL
7 2 (2.60%) DHCP
7 2 (2.60%) LAN
7 2 (2.60%) Network Security
7 2 (2.60%) NGFW
7 2 (2.60%) OSPF
7 2 (2.60%) SMTP
7 2 (2.60%) Software-Defined Networking
7 2 (2.60%) WAN
8 1 (1.30%) Internet
8 1 (1.30%) VoIP
8 1 (1.30%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (20.78%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (6.49%) Power BI
3 4 (5.19%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (5.19%) MySQL
3 4 (5.19%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (3.90%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (2.60%) Power Query
5 2 (2.60%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.30%) Apache Hive
6 1 (1.30%) Big Data
6 1 (1.30%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.30%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.30%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.30%) SAP HANA
6 1 (1.30%) Trino
Development Applications
1 9 (11.69%) Git
1 9 (11.69%) Jenkins
2 6 (7.79%) JIRA
3 3 (3.90%) Maven
3 3 (3.90%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (2.60%) Ant
4 2 (2.60%) Apache Ivy
4 2 (2.60%) IBM UrbanCode
5 1 (1.30%) CMake
5 1 (1.30%) GDB
5 1 (1.30%) git-flow
5 1 (1.30%) GitLab
5 1 (1.30%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 29 (37.66%) Social Skills
2 21 (27.27%) Finance
3 20 (25.97%) Law
4 14 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (14.29%) Legal
6 5 (6.49%) Public Sector
6 5 (6.49%) Retail
7 2 (2.60%) Automotive
7 2 (2.60%) Banking
7 2 (2.60%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.60%) Games
7 2 (2.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.60%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.30%) Advertising
8 1 (1.30%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 17 (22.08%) Cloud Engineer
2 13 (16.88%) AWS Engineer
3 10 (12.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 10 (12.99%) Network Engineer
4 7 (9.09%) Applications Support
4 7 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
5 6 (7.79%) Analyst
5 6 (7.79%) Senior
6 5 (6.49%) Application Support Team Leader
6 5 (6.49%) ICT Support
6 5 (6.49%) ICT Support Technician
6 5 (6.49%) ICT Technician
6 5 (6.49%) IT Support
6 5 (6.49%) Lead
6 5 (6.49%) Linux Engineer
6 5 (6.49%) Security Technician
6 5 (6.49%) Support Team Leader
6 5 (6.49%) Support Technician
6 5 (6.49%) Team Leader
7 4 (5.19%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (41.56%) Terraform
2 10 (12.99%) YAML
3 5 (6.49%) CSS
3 5 (6.49%) HTML
3 5 (6.49%) Loki
3 5 (6.49%) OAuth
3 5 (6.49%) OAuth2
3 5 (6.49%) OpenTelemetry
4 4 (5.19%) OpenID
4 4 (5.19%) SAML
5 3 (3.90%) Node.js
5 3 (3.90%) OpenTofu
5 3 (3.90%) React
5 3 (3.90%) RESTful
6 2 (2.60%) ARM Templates
6 2 (2.60%) Vue
6 2 (2.60%) Web Services
7 1 (1.30%) LAMP
7 1 (1.30%) LDAP
7 1 (1.30%) ODBC
Miscellaneous
1 12 (15.58%) Hybrid Cloud
2 8 (10.39%) Life Science
2 8 (10.39%) Onboarding
3 5 (6.49%) Cyber Threat
4 4 (5.19%) Cloud Native
4 4 (5.19%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (5.19%) PKI
5 3 (3.90%) Data Centre
5 3 (3.90%) Robotics
5 3 (3.90%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.60%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.60%) Hedge funds
6 2 (2.60%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.60%) Video Conferencing
7 1 (1.30%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (1.30%) Driving Licence
7 1 (1.30%) Fibre Optics
7 1 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 54 (70.13%) Linux
2 12 (15.58%) Windows
3 7 (9.09%) Unix
4 5 (6.49%) Windows Server
5 4 (5.19%) Ubuntu
6 3 (3.90%) Windows 10
7 2 (2.60%) Solaris
8 1 (1.30%) CentOS
8 1 (1.30%) Debian
8 1 (1.30%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (1.30%) Mac OS
8 1 (1.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (1.30%) Robot Operating System
8 1 (1.30%) SUSE
8 1 (1.30%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (58.44%) Problem-Solving
2 30 (38.96%) DevOps
3 29 (37.66%) CI/CD
4 24 (31.17%) Infrastructure as Code
5 22 (28.57%) Infrastructure Automation
6 19 (24.68%) Migration
7 18 (23.38%) Continuous Improvement
8 17 (22.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 15 (19.48%) Identity Management
9 15 (19.48%) ITIL
9 15 (19.48%) Project Delivery
10 13 (16.88%) Cloud Security
10 13 (16.88%) Service Management
11 12 (15.58%) Containerisation
12 11 (14.29%) Cost Management
12 11 (14.29%) Cost Optimisation
13 10 (12.99%) Computer Science
13 10 (12.99%) Task Automation
14 8 (10.39%) AI
15 7 (9.09%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 49 (63.64%) Python
2 35 (45.45%) Bash
3 17 (22.08%) PowerShell
3 17 (22.08%) SQL
4 7 (9.09%) Java
4 7 (9.09%) JavaScript
4 7 (9.09%) Shell Script
5 3 (3.90%) C++
5 3 (3.90%) Groovy
5 3 (3.90%) PHP
5 3 (3.90%) TypeScript
6 2 (2.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (2.60%) Go
6 2 (2.60%) Ruby
7 1 (1.30%) Bicep
7 1 (1.30%) C
7 1 (1.30%) Embedded C++
7 1 (1.30%) Perl
Qualifications
1 12 (15.58%) Degree
2 11 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 6 (7.79%) DV Cleared
3 6 (7.79%) SC Cleared
4 5 (6.49%) HNC
4 5 (6.49%) HND
5 3 (3.90%) Azure Certification
5 3 (3.90%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.60%) A+ Certification
6 2 (2.60%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.60%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.60%) CCNP
6 2 (2.60%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (2.60%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (2.60%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.90%) GDPR
1 3 (3.90%) QA
1 3 (3.90%) SLA
System Software
1 33 (42.86%) Docker
2 11 (14.29%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.60%) Samba
4 1 (1.30%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.30%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.30%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 13 (16.88%) Ansible
2 9 (11.69%) Grafana
2 9 (11.69%) Prometheus
3 6 (7.79%) Kubernetes
4 5 (6.49%) Progress Chef
5 3 (3.90%) Scalr
6 2 (2.60%) Puppet
7 1 (1.30%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 13 (16.88%) Microsoft
2 7 (9.09%) Oracle
3 4 (5.19%) CyberArk
3 4 (5.19%) New Relic
3 4 (5.19%) ServiceNow
4 3 (3.90%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.60%) Atlassian
5 2 (2.60%) Dell
5 2 (2.60%) Google
5 2 (2.60%) VMware
6 1 (1.30%) Arista
6 1 (1.30%) Brocade
6 1 (1.30%) Cisco
6 1 (1.30%) Juniper
6 1 (1.30%) NVIDIA
6 1 (1.30%) QNAP
6 1 (1.30%) SAP
6 1 (1.30%) SonicWALL
6 1 (1.30%) Synology
6 1 (1.30%) Ubiquiti