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 20 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 653 348 672
Rank change year-on-year -305 +324 -8
Permanent jobs citing Linux Command Line 51 304 189
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.061% 0.76% 0.20%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.24% 1.76% 0.60%
Number of salaries quoted 44 52 152
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,050 £32,700
25th Percentile £41,875 £38,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,222 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.56% -4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £64,063 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £81,668 £96,125 £87,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% -12.50%

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 21,250 17,229 31,562
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.37% 43.30% 33.02%
Number of salaries quoted 13,975 8,305 21,360
10th Percentile £30,750 £29,750 £28,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 20 June 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 20 June 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 -170 14 £48,445 +4.74% 5
London -42 13 £70,000 -12.50% 10
South East -58 11 £60,000 +20.00% 7
Yorkshire - 8 £40,000 - 3
Midlands -37 6 £47,500 -19.15% 2
West Midlands -18 4 £47,500 -19.15%
East of England -35 4 £48,180 +23.54% 6
North West -127 4 £51,722 +37.93% 1
East Midlands -43 2 £22,500 - 2
North East -49 2 £48,445 -11.92% 1
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 (7.84%) WordPress
2 1 (1.96%) Apache
2 1 (1.96%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.96%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (5.88%) Magento
1 3 (5.88%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 24 (47.06%) AWS
2 23 (45.10%) Azure
3 10 (19.61%) Entra ID
4 8 (15.69%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (13.73%) Amazon EC2
5 7 (13.73%) Amazon ECS
5 7 (13.73%) GCP
5 7 (13.73%) GitHub
5 7 (13.73%) GitHub Actions
5 7 (13.73%) OCI
6 6 (11.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 6 (11.76%) Amazon S3
6 6 (11.76%) AWS CloudFormation
6 6 (11.76%) Datadog
7 5 (9.80%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (9.80%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (9.80%) PaaS
7 5 (9.80%) Serverless
7 5 (9.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 4 (7.84%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 8 (15.69%) Firewall
2 7 (13.73%) TCP/IP
2 7 (13.73%) VPN
3 3 (5.88%) SSL
4 2 (3.92%) BGP
4 2 (3.92%) LAN
4 2 (3.92%) Network Security
4 2 (3.92%) NGFW
4 2 (3.92%) OSPF
4 2 (3.92%) SMTP
4 2 (3.92%) Software-Defined Networking
4 2 (3.92%) SSH
4 2 (3.92%) WAN
5 1 (1.96%) DNS
5 1 (1.96%) Kerberos
5 1 (1.96%) VoIP
5 1 (1.96%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (1.96%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (15.69%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (13.73%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (13.73%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (11.76%) MySQL
4 3 (5.88%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (5.88%) Power BI
4 3 (5.88%) Redis
4 3 (5.88%) SQL Server
5 2 (3.92%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (1.96%) Apache Hive
6 1 (1.96%) Big Data
6 1 (1.96%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.96%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.96%) SAP HANA
6 1 (1.96%) Trino
Development Applications
1 4 (7.84%) Git
1 4 (7.84%) JIRA
2 3 (5.88%) Jenkins
2 3 (5.88%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (1.96%) Browser DevTools
3 1 (1.96%) CircleCI
3 1 (1.96%) git-flow
3 1 (1.96%) Maven
3 1 (1.96%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (1.96%) TeamCity
3 1 (1.96%) webpack
General
1 18 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 9 (17.65%) Finance
3 8 (15.69%) Public Sector
4 6 (11.76%) Legal
5 5 (9.80%) Law
6 3 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (5.88%) Games
6 3 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (3.92%) Advertising
7 2 (3.92%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (3.92%) Health Technology
8 1 (1.96%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 8 (15.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (13.73%) IT Engineer
2 7 (13.73%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (11.76%) Analyst
3 6 (11.76%) Cloud Engineer
3 6 (11.76%) Network Engineer
3 6 (11.76%) Platform Engineer
3 6 (11.76%) Senior
4 5 (9.80%) Applications Support
4 5 (9.80%) Developer
5 4 (7.84%) IT Manager
6 3 (5.88%) Applications Support Analyst
6 3 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (5.88%) Linux Engineer
6 3 (5.88%) Senior Platform Engineer
6 3 (5.88%) Support Analyst
7 2 (3.92%) Application Support Team Leader
7 2 (3.92%) Automation Developer
7 2 (3.92%) Azure Engineer
7 2 (3.92%) EPR Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (11.76%) CSS
1 6 (11.76%) HTML
1 6 (11.76%) YAML
2 5 (9.80%) Loki
2 5 (9.80%) OpenTelemetry
3 3 (5.88%) Django
3 3 (5.88%) JSON
3 3 (5.88%) React
3 3 (5.88%) RESTful
4 2 (3.92%) FHIR
4 2 (3.92%) Node.js
4 2 (3.92%) Vue
4 2 (3.92%) Web Services
5 1 (1.96%) ARM Templates
5 1 (1.96%) AWS CDK
5 1 (1.96%) JDBC
5 1 (1.96%) LAPP Stack
5 1 (1.96%) LEMP Stack
5 1 (1.96%) OAuth2
5 1 (1.96%) ODBC
Miscellaneous
1 10 (19.61%) Onboarding
2 7 (13.73%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (7.84%) Life Science
4 2 (3.92%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.92%) Data Centre
4 2 (3.92%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (3.92%) NHS
4 2 (3.92%) Security Operations Centre
4 2 (3.92%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.96%) Digital Signage
5 1 (1.96%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.96%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.96%) IoT
5 1 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.96%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 35 (68.63%) Linux
2 7 (13.73%) Unix
3 4 (7.84%) Windows
3 4 (7.84%) Windows Server
4 2 (3.92%) CentOS
4 2 (3.92%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.96%) Mac OS
5 1 (1.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.96%) SUSE
5 1 (1.96%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
5 1 (1.96%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (41.18%) Infrastructure as Code
2 15 (29.41%) CI/CD
3 14 (27.45%) DevOps
3 14 (27.45%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (21.57%) Containerisation
4 11 (21.57%) Migration
5 9 (17.65%) Mentoring
5 9 (17.65%) Secrets Management
6 8 (15.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 8 (15.69%) Observability
7 7 (13.73%) Coaching
7 7 (13.73%) Infrastructure Automation
7 7 (13.73%) Privileged Access Management
7 7 (13.73%) RBAC
8 6 (11.76%) Agile
8 6 (11.76%) Computer Science
8 6 (11.76%) Platform Engineering
9 5 (9.80%) Analytics
9 5 (9.80%) Business Intelligence
9 5 (9.80%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 27 (52.94%) Python
2 18 (35.29%) Bash
3 17 (33.33%) SQL
4 15 (29.41%) PowerShell
5 7 (13.73%) Shell Script
6 6 (11.76%) Java
7 5 (9.80%) JavaScript
8 4 (7.84%) PHP
9 3 (5.88%) Groovy
9 3 (5.88%) TypeScript
10 2 (3.92%) Ruby
11 1 (1.96%) C#
11 1 (1.96%) Perl
Qualifications
1 11 (21.57%) Security Cleared
2 7 (13.73%) DV Cleared
2 7 (13.73%) SC Cleared
3 6 (11.76%) Degree
4 3 (5.88%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 2 (3.92%) CCNP
5 2 (3.92%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (3.92%) HNC
5 2 (3.92%) HND
6 1 (1.96%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.88%) GDPR
2 2 (3.92%) HL7
System Software
1 15 (29.41%) Docker
2 12 (23.53%) Active Directory
3 2 (3.92%) Samba
4 1 (1.96%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.96%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 17 (33.33%) Terraform
2 7 (13.73%) Single Sign-On
3 6 (11.76%) Ansible
4 5 (9.80%) Grafana
4 5 (9.80%) Prometheus
5 3 (5.88%) AWS Copilot
5 3 (5.88%) Kubernetes
5 3 (5.88%) Progress Chef
5 3 (5.88%) Scalr
6 1 (1.96%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (1.96%) Kibana
Vendors
1 7 (13.73%) CyberArk
2 6 (11.76%) Google
3 5 (9.80%) Oracle
4 4 (7.84%) Microsoft
5 3 (5.88%) Red Hat
5 3 (5.88%) ServiceNow
6 2 (3.92%) Dell
6 2 (3.92%) Splunk
6 2 (3.92%) VMware
7 1 (1.96%) Apple
7 1 (1.96%) Brocade
7 1 (1.96%) New Relic
7 1 (1.96%) QNAP
7 1 (1.96%) SAP
7 1 (1.96%) SonicWALL
7 1 (1.96%) Synology
7 1 (1.96%) Ubiquiti