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 23 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 358 525 533
Rank change year-on-year +167 +8 +56
Permanent jobs citing Linux Command Line 294 205 170
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.69% 0.33% 0.34%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.69% 1.01% 0.87%
Number of salaries quoted 76 125 139
10th Percentile £37,500 £30,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £38,500 £40,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -12.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £81,250 £77,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £96,539
UK median annual salary £73,801 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +34.18% -12.00% +13.64%

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 17,380 20,398 19,559
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 40.58% 32.94% 39.44%
Number of salaries quoted 9,246 9,976 14,592
10th Percentile £28,000 £33,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £112,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £54,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% -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 23 October 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 23 October 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 +139 183 £73,801 +92.94% 11
North West +124 176 £73,801 +64.00% 5
London +47 36 £85,000 +25.93% 27
South East +6 21 £45,000 +63.64% 20
Midlands +55 20 £39,000 +20.00% 18
South West +18 15 £86,250 +16.95% 10
West Midlands +49 14 £39,000 +20.00% 12
East of England +1 13 £39,000 -29.09% 9
East Midlands +12 6 £52,500 - 6
Yorkshire -19 4 £45,000 +17.65%
North East +14 3 £73,801 - 6
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 20 (6.80%) Apache Spark
2 15 (5.10%) Tomcat
2 15 (5.10%) WebSphere
2 15 (5.10%) WebSphere Application Server
3 14 (4.76%) IIS
4 6 (2.04%) Apache
5 2 (0.68%) Confluence
6 1 (0.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.34%) CMS
6 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 8 (2.72%) Chatbot
2 3 (1.02%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.34%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 240 (81.63%) AWS
2 209 (71.09%) Azure
3 190 (64.63%) GCP
4 27 (9.18%) Amazon S3
5 24 (8.16%) Amazon EKS
6 18 (6.12%) Amazon ELB
7 12 (4.08%) Amazon ECR
7 12 (4.08%) AWS CloudFormation
7 12 (4.08%) SaaS
8 10 (3.40%) OpenShift
9 9 (3.06%) Amazon EC2
9 9 (3.06%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (3.06%) GitHub
9 9 (3.06%) Serverless
10 8 (2.72%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (2.72%) GitHub Actions
10 8 (2.72%) PaaS
11 7 (2.38%) Azure Key Vault
11 7 (2.38%) Entra ID
12 6 (2.04%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 15 (5.10%) SSL
2 11 (3.74%) TCP/IP
3 6 (2.04%) DNS
3 6 (2.04%) Firewall
4 3 (1.02%) AMQP
4 3 (1.02%) DHCP
4 3 (1.02%) VPN
5 2 (0.68%) 2G
5 2 (0.68%) 4G
5 2 (0.68%) 5G
5 2 (0.68%) Cisco IOS
5 2 (0.68%) HTTP
5 2 (0.68%) ICMP
5 2 (0.68%) Kerberos
5 2 (0.68%) Software-Defined Radio
5 2 (0.68%) VLAN
5 2 (0.68%) VoIP
6 1 (0.34%) Internet
6 1 (0.34%) SSH
6 1 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (9.18%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (7.48%) SQL Server
3 18 (6.12%) Delta Lake
3 18 (6.12%) DynamoDB
3 18 (6.12%) Metadata
3 18 (6.12%) Spark SQL
4 15 (5.10%) Amazon RDS
4 15 (5.10%) DB2
5 9 (3.06%) MySQL
6 7 (2.38%) Elasticsearch
7 6 (2.04%) Redis
8 4 (1.36%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.02%) InfluxDB
10 2 (0.68%) Apache Hive
10 2 (0.68%) Big Data
10 2 (0.68%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 19 (6.46%) Git
2 18 (6.12%) MLflow
3 11 (3.74%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.70%) JIRA
5 4 (1.36%) Browser DevTools
5 4 (1.36%) IDA Disassembler
6 2 (0.68%) GitLab
7 1 (0.34%) JUnit
7 1 (0.34%) Maven
7 1 (0.34%) Selenium
General
1 178 (60.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 46 (15.65%) Social Skills
3 15 (5.10%) Banking
4 11 (3.74%) Finance
5 10 (3.40%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (3.06%) Investment Banking
7 6 (2.04%) Law
8 3 (1.02%) Marketing
9 2 (0.68%) Electronics
9 2 (0.68%) Military
9 2 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.34%) Advertising
10 1 (0.34%) Front Office
10 1 (0.34%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.34%) Publishing
10 1 (0.34%) Retail
Job Titles
1 190 (64.63%) Senior
2 180 (61.22%) Software Engineer
3 178 (60.54%) Senior Software Engineer
4 23 (7.82%) Applications Support
5 22 (7.48%) Linux Support
6 19 (6.46%) Support Engineer
7 18 (6.12%) Machine Learning Engineer
7 18 (6.12%) Operations Engineer
8 17 (5.78%) Platform Engineer
9 14 (4.76%) Linux Engineer
10 13 (4.42%) Linux Support Engineer
11 11 (3.74%) Support Specialist
12 10 (3.40%) Infrastructure Support
13 9 (3.06%) Unix Support
14 8 (2.72%) Applications Engineer
14 8 (2.72%) Applications Support Engineer
14 8 (2.72%) Developer
15 7 (2.38%) Applications Specialist
15 7 (2.38%) Applications Support Specialist
15 7 (2.38%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 179 (60.88%) Node.js
2 178 (60.54%) .NET
3 20 (6.80%) YAML
4 18 (6.12%) Keras
4 18 (6.12%) Lambda Expressions
4 18 (6.12%) Metaflow
4 18 (6.12%) NumPy
4 18 (6.12%) Pandas
4 18 (6.12%) PySpark
4 18 (6.12%) PyTorch
4 18 (6.12%) scikit-learn
4 18 (6.12%) TensorFlow
5 17 (5.78%) LDAP
6 15 (5.10%) LAPP Stack
6 15 (5.10%) WebSphere MQ
7 10 (3.40%) LAMP
8 6 (2.04%) ARM Templates
8 6 (2.04%) Django
9 4 (1.36%) REST
9 4 (1.36%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 182 (61.90%) Self-Motivation
2 178 (60.54%) Cyberattack
3 11 (3.74%) Onboarding
4 10 (3.40%) Management Information System
5 5 (1.70%) Cloud Native
6 3 (1.02%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.02%) Life Science
6 3 (1.02%) Virtual Team
7 2 (0.68%) Arduino
7 2 (0.68%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (0.68%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (0.68%) Embedded Systems
7 2 (0.68%) Omics
7 2 (0.68%) Raspberry Pi
8 1 (0.34%) ARM Cortex
8 1 (0.34%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.34%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.34%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 260 (88.44%) Linux
2 51 (17.35%) Unix
3 30 (10.20%) Windows
4 20 (6.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (2.72%) Mac OS
6 6 (2.04%) VMS
7 5 (1.70%) Windows Server
8 4 (1.36%) CentOS
8 4 (1.36%) Ubuntu
9 3 (1.02%) CoreOS
9 3 (1.02%) Debian
10 2 (0.68%) Mac OS X
10 2 (0.68%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 198 (67.35%) Machine Learning
2 188 (63.95%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 185 (62.93%) Mentoring
3 185 (62.93%) Software Engineering
4 180 (61.22%) Agile
4 180 (61.22%) Data Engineering
5 179 (60.88%) Cloud Security
5 179 (60.88%) User Experience
6 178 (60.54%) Microservices
6 178 (60.54%) Scrum
7 45 (15.31%) CI/CD
8 34 (11.56%) AI
9 28 (9.52%) Containerisation
10 24 (8.16%) ITIL
10 24 (8.16%) Problem-Solving
11 23 (7.82%) Data Science
11 23 (7.82%) DevOps
11 23 (7.82%) Time Management
12 20 (6.80%) Infrastructure as Code
12 20 (6.80%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 249 (84.69%) Python
2 193 (65.65%) JavaScript
3 184 (62.59%) Java
4 182 (61.90%) C++
4 182 (61.90%) Go
5 178 (60.54%) Rust
6 51 (17.35%) SQL
7 26 (8.84%) Bash
8 12 (4.08%) PHP
8 12 (4.08%) PowerShell
8 12 (4.08%) Shell Script
9 4 (1.36%) C
10 2 (0.68%) Bicep
10 2 (0.68%) C#
10 2 (0.68%) R
10 2 (0.68%) Ruby
11 1 (0.34%) Perl
11 1 (0.34%) PL/1
11 1 (0.34%) Scala
11 1 (0.34%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 198 (67.35%) Security Cleared
2 195 (66.33%) AWS Certification
3 192 (65.31%) DV Cleared
4 178 (60.54%) AWS Certified Developer
4 178 (60.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 32 (10.88%) Degree
6 15 (5.10%) ITIL Certification
7 13 (4.42%) SC Cleared
8 6 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.36%) A+ Certification
10 3 (1.02%) PhD
11 2 (0.68%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.68%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.34%) CCNA
12 1 (0.34%) CCNP
12 1 (0.34%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (5.10%) SLA
2 5 (1.70%) Data Quality
3 2 (0.68%) Def Stans
3 2 (0.68%) QA
4 1 (0.34%) GDPR
System Software
1 36 (12.24%) Docker
2 11 (3.74%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.70%) zsh
4 2 (0.68%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.34%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.34%) KVM
5 1 (0.34%) NFS
Systems Management
1 39 (13.27%) Terraform
2 33 (11.22%) Kubernetes
3 18 (6.12%) Kubeflow
4 12 (4.08%) Ansible
5 8 (2.72%) Microsoft Intune
6 6 (2.04%) AWS Copilot
7 4 (1.36%) Docker Swarm
8 3 (1.02%) Grafana
8 3 (1.02%) Progress Chef
8 3 (1.02%) Prometheus
8 3 (1.02%) Puppet
9 1 (0.34%) CASB
9 1 (0.34%) QRadar
9 1 (0.34%) SCCM
9 1 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 27 (9.18%) Microsoft
2 23 (7.82%) Databricks
2 23 (7.82%) Red Hat
3 15 (5.10%) IBM
4 10 (3.40%) Oracle
4 10 (3.40%) Salesforce
5 9 (3.06%) ServiceNow
6 8 (2.72%) Apple
6 8 (2.72%) Google
7 4 (1.36%) HubSpot
8 3 (1.02%) Cisco
9 2 (0.68%) Dell
9 2 (0.68%) VMware
10 1 (0.34%) Adobe
10 1 (0.34%) Bloomberg
10 1 (0.34%) Citrix
10 1 (0.34%) CyberArk
10 1 (0.34%) Forcepoint
10 1 (0.34%) Qualys
10 1 (0.34%) Splunk