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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 675 331 555
Rank change year-on-year -344 +224 +26
Permanent jobs citing Linux Command Line 83 345 190
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.083% 0.79% 0.28%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.32% 1.89% 0.86%
Number of salaries quoted 65 70 127
10th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £38,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £52,500 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £63,250 £95,125 £87,500
UK median annual salary £48,445 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -11.92% - -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 25,695 18,237 22,146
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.76% 41.93% 32.10%
Number of salaries quoted 16,910 9,263 12,082
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,744 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,925 £43,020
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -4.00%

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 10 September 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 10 September 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 -186 25 £47,000 +4.44% 13
London -79 19 £50,000 -41.18% 24
Yorkshire -33 16 £43,500 -3.33% 4
South East -60 15 £60,000 +14.29% 10
East of England -43 13 £51,359 +31.69% 6
North East -54 8 £47,000 -14.55% 4
Midlands -64 8 £47,500 +36.69% 7
West Midlands -33 6 £47,500 +36.69% 5
East Midlands -39 2 £22,500 - 2
South West -92 1 £55,000 -26.67% 12
North West -148 1 £48,445 +29.19% 5
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 5 (6.02%) Confluence
2 3 (3.61%) WordPress
3 1 (1.20%) Apache
3 1 (1.20%) nginx
3 1 (1.20%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 3 (3.61%) Magento
1 3 (3.61%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 36 (43.37%) AWS
2 21 (25.30%) Azure
3 19 (22.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 19 (22.89%) Amazon EC2
4 18 (21.69%) Amazon S3
4 18 (21.69%) Serverless
4 18 (21.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 17 (20.48%) Amazon ECS
5 17 (20.48%) AWS Lambda
6 16 (19.28%) AWS CloudFormation
6 16 (19.28%) GitHub
7 14 (16.87%) GitHub Actions
8 13 (15.66%) Amazon EKS
8 13 (15.66%) Entra ID
9 11 (13.25%) Azure DevOps
10 10 (12.05%) Datadog
11 7 (8.43%) Microsoft 365
12 5 (6.02%) IaaS
12 5 (6.02%) SaaS
12 5 (6.02%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 18 (21.69%) TCP/IP
2 17 (20.48%) Firewall
3 12 (14.46%) VPN
4 6 (7.23%) DNS
4 6 (7.23%) SSH
5 5 (6.02%) DHCP
6 4 (4.82%) Kerberos
7 3 (3.61%) BGP
7 3 (3.61%) SSL
8 2 (2.41%) LAN
8 2 (2.41%) Network Security
8 2 (2.41%) NGFW
8 2 (2.41%) OSPF
8 2 (2.41%) SMTP
8 2 (2.41%) Software-Defined Networking
8 2 (2.41%) WAN
9 1 (1.20%) Internet
9 1 (1.20%) VoIP
9 1 (1.20%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (21.69%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (6.02%) Power BI
3 4 (4.82%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (4.82%) MySQL
4 3 (3.61%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (2.41%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.41%) Power Query
6 1 (1.20%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.20%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.20%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 13 (15.66%) Git
2 9 (10.84%) Jenkins
3 7 (8.43%) JIRA
4 3 (3.61%) GitLab
4 3 (3.61%) Maven
4 3 (3.61%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (2.41%) Ant
5 2 (2.41%) Apache Ivy
5 2 (2.41%) IBM UrbanCode
5 2 (2.41%) Subversion
6 1 (1.20%) CMake
6 1 (1.20%) GDB
6 1 (1.20%) git-flow
6 1 (1.20%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 27 (32.53%) Social Skills
2 24 (28.92%) Finance
3 21 (25.30%) Law
4 14 (16.87%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (13.25%) Legal
6 5 (6.02%) Banking
6 5 (6.02%) Public Sector
6 5 (6.02%) Retail
7 2 (2.41%) Automotive
7 2 (2.41%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.41%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.20%) Advertising
8 1 (1.20%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 19 (22.89%) Cloud Engineer
2 15 (18.07%) AWS Engineer
3 12 (14.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 9 (10.84%) Network Engineer
5 7 (8.43%) Analyst
5 7 (8.43%) DevOps Engineer
6 6 (7.23%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (7.23%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (7.23%) Linux Engineer
7 5 (6.02%) Applications Support
7 5 (6.02%) Desktop Analyst
7 5 (6.02%) Desktop Support Analyst
7 5 (6.02%) ICT Support
7 5 (6.02%) Lead
7 5 (6.02%) Linux Support
7 5 (6.02%) Senior
7 5 (6.02%) Support Analyst
7 5 (6.02%) Support Team Leader
7 5 (6.02%) Support Technician
7 5 (6.02%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (40.96%) Terraform
2 10 (12.05%) YAML
3 5 (6.02%) CSS
3 5 (6.02%) HTML
3 5 (6.02%) Loki
3 5 (6.02%) Node.js
3 5 (6.02%) OpenTelemetry
3 5 (6.02%) React
4 4 (4.82%) OAuth
4 4 (4.82%) OAuth2
4 4 (4.82%) OpenID
4 4 (4.82%) SAML
5 3 (3.61%) OpenTofu
5 3 (3.61%) RESTful
6 2 (2.41%) ARM Templates
6 2 (2.41%) Vue
6 2 (2.41%) Web Services
7 1 (1.20%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (1.20%) LAMP
7 1 (1.20%) LEMP Stack
Miscellaneous
1 15 (18.07%) Hybrid Cloud
2 9 (10.84%) Onboarding
3 7 (8.43%) Life Science
4 5 (6.02%) Cyber Threat
4 5 (6.02%) Hedge funds
4 5 (6.02%) Robotics
4 5 (6.02%) Video Conferencing
5 4 (4.82%) Cloud Native
5 4 (4.82%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (4.82%) PKI
6 3 (3.61%) Data Centre
6 3 (3.61%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (2.41%) FPGA
7 2 (2.41%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (1.20%) Driving Licence
8 1 (1.20%) Fibre Optics
8 1 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 58 (69.88%) Linux
2 13 (15.66%) Windows
3 9 (10.84%) Unix
4 8 (9.64%) Ubuntu
5 6 (7.23%) Windows 10
6 3 (3.61%) CentOS
6 3 (3.61%) Debian
6 3 (3.61%) Robot Operating System
6 3 (3.61%) Windows Server
7 2 (2.41%) Solaris
8 1 (1.20%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (1.20%) Mac OS
8 1 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (1.20%) Rocky
8 1 (1.20%) SUSE
8 1 (1.20%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (55.42%) Problem-Solving
2 33 (39.76%) CI/CD
3 32 (38.55%) DevOps
4 27 (32.53%) Infrastructure as Code
5 26 (31.33%) Infrastructure Automation
6 22 (26.51%) Migration
7 20 (24.10%) Continuous Improvement
8 19 (22.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 18 (21.69%) ITIL
10 17 (20.48%) Identity Management
10 17 (20.48%) Project Delivery
11 16 (19.28%) Cloud Security
12 15 (18.07%) Service Management
13 13 (15.66%) Cost Management
13 13 (15.66%) Cost Optimisation
13 13 (15.66%) Task Automation
14 12 (14.46%) Containerisation
15 10 (12.05%) AI
15 10 (12.05%) Runbook
16 9 (10.84%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 55 (66.27%) Python
2 42 (50.60%) Bash
3 20 (24.10%) PowerShell
4 15 (18.07%) SQL
5 8 (9.64%) Shell Script
6 7 (8.43%) JavaScript
7 6 (7.23%) Java
8 3 (3.61%) C++
8 3 (3.61%) Groovy
8 3 (3.61%) PHP
8 3 (3.61%) TypeScript
9 2 (2.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (2.41%) Go
9 2 (2.41%) Ruby
9 2 (2.41%) SystemVerilog
10 1 (1.20%) Bicep
10 1 (1.20%) C
10 1 (1.20%) Embedded C++
10 1 (1.20%) Perl
Qualifications
1 11 (13.25%) Degree
2 10 (12.05%) Security Cleared
3 5 (6.02%) A+ Certification
3 5 (6.02%) DV Cleared
3 5 (6.02%) HNC
3 5 (6.02%) HND
3 5 (6.02%) Network+ Certification
4 4 (4.82%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (4.82%) SC Cleared
5 3 (3.61%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.41%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.41%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.41%) CCNP
6 2 (2.41%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.02%) QA
2 3 (3.61%) GDPR
2 3 (3.61%) SLA
System Software
1 35 (42.17%) Docker
2 11 (13.25%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.41%) Samba
4 1 (1.20%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.20%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 12 (14.46%) Ansible
2 9 (10.84%) Grafana
2 9 (10.84%) Prometheus
3 5 (6.02%) Kubernetes
3 5 (6.02%) Progress Chef
4 3 (3.61%) Scalr
5 2 (2.41%) Puppet
6 1 (1.20%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 16 (19.28%) Microsoft
2 5 (6.02%) Atlassian
2 5 (6.02%) Oracle
2 5 (6.02%) Red Hat
3 4 (4.82%) CyberArk
3 4 (4.82%) New Relic
4 3 (3.61%) NVIDIA
5 2 (2.41%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.41%) VMware
6 1 (1.20%) Arista
6 1 (1.20%) Brocade
6 1 (1.20%) Cisco
6 1 (1.20%) Dell
6 1 (1.20%) Juniper
6 1 (1.20%) QNAP
6 1 (1.20%) SAP
6 1 (1.20%) SonicWALL
6 1 (1.20%) Synology
6 1 (1.20%) Ubiquiti