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

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 493 544 529
Rank change year-on-year +51 -15 +71
Permanent jobs citing Linux Command Line 118 128 186
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.22% 0.27% 0.33%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.63% 0.72% 0.91%
Number of salaries quoted 69 61 144
10th Percentile £33,375 £38,620 £36,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £61,250
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -10.20% +11.36%
75th Percentile £78,790 £62,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £76,250 £96,539
UK median annual salary £65,000 £57,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +13.04% -8.00% +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 18,822 17,878 20,431
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 34.37% 37.36% 36.01%
Number of salaries quoted 9,571 8,382 15,354
10th Percentile £28,000 £34,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £103,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%

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 January 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 23 January 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
London +61 47 £73,801 +44.29% 13
East of England +31 23 £45,000 -20.00% 21
South East +6 16 £45,000 -21.74% 30
Midlands +28 13 £39,000 -13.81% 12
West Midlands +28 11 £39,000 +20.00% 4
South West +1 10 £86,250 +18.97% 17
North of England -9 8 £55,000 +15.79% 22
North West +10 4 £55,000 +12.82% 10
East Midlands -4 2 £52,500 -9.48% 8
Yorkshire -30 2 £46,722 -1.64% 8
North East - 2 £73,801 - 4
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 16 (13.56%) Tomcat
1 16 (13.56%) WebSphere
1 16 (13.56%) WebSphere Application Server
2 11 (9.32%) IIS
3 6 (5.08%) Apache
4 3 (2.54%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.85%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.85%) CMS
5 1 (0.85%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (3.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.85%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 43 (36.44%) AWS
2 31 (26.27%) Azure
3 12 (10.17%) Amazon ECR
3 12 (10.17%) AWS CloudFormation
3 12 (10.17%) GCP
3 12 (10.17%) SaaS
4 9 (7.63%) Entra ID
5 8 (6.78%) Amazon EC2
5 8 (6.78%) Amazon S3
5 8 (6.78%) AWS Lambda
5 8 (6.78%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (6.78%) GitHub
5 8 (6.78%) GitHub Actions
5 8 (6.78%) OpenShift
5 8 (6.78%) Serverless
6 6 (5.08%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 6 (5.08%) dbt
6 6 (5.08%) PaaS
6 6 (5.08%) Pulumi
6 6 (5.08%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 16 (13.56%) SSL
2 15 (12.71%) TCP/IP
3 10 (8.47%) VPN
4 8 (6.78%) DNS
5 6 (5.08%) Firewall
6 4 (3.39%) DHCP
7 3 (2.54%) Kerberos
7 3 (2.54%) VLAN
8 2 (1.69%) 2G
8 2 (1.69%) 4G
8 2 (1.69%) 5G
8 2 (1.69%) AMQP
8 2 (1.69%) Cisco IOS
8 2 (1.69%) HTTP
8 2 (1.69%) ICMP
8 2 (1.69%) Software-Defined Radio
8 2 (1.69%) VoIP
9 1 (0.85%) Internet
9 1 (0.85%) SSH
9 1 (0.85%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (18.64%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (13.56%) DB2
2 16 (13.56%) SQL Server
3 14 (11.86%) Amazon RDS
4 12 (10.17%) MySQL
5 9 (7.63%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (5.08%) Electronic Patient Records
6 6 (5.08%) Redis
7 3 (2.54%) Apache Hive
7 3 (2.54%) Big Data
7 3 (2.54%) Hadoop
7 3 (2.54%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.69%) InfluxDB
9 1 (0.85%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 11 (9.32%) Jenkins
2 9 (7.63%) Git
3 4 (3.39%) Browser DevTools
3 4 (3.39%) IDA Disassembler
4 3 (2.54%) GitLab
5 2 (1.69%) JIRA
5 2 (1.69%) Selenium
6 1 (0.85%) JUnit
6 1 (0.85%) Maven
6 1 (0.85%) WebDriver
General
1 17 (14.41%) Social Skills
2 16 (13.56%) Banking
3 15 (12.71%) German Language
4 10 (8.47%) Investment Banking
5 9 (7.63%) Finance
6 6 (5.08%) Health Technology
7 5 (4.24%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (3.39%) Law
9 3 (2.54%) Electronics
9 3 (2.54%) Public Sector
10 2 (1.69%) Advertising
10 2 (1.69%) Military
10 2 (1.69%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.85%) Billing
11 1 (0.85%) Front Office
11 1 (0.85%) Marketing
11 1 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.85%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.85%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 23 (19.49%) Applications Support
2 17 (14.41%) Platform Engineer
3 15 (12.71%) Linux Support
4 11 (9.32%) Infrastructure Support
4 11 (9.32%) Senior
4 11 (9.32%) Support Specialist
5 10 (8.47%) Unix Support
6 8 (6.78%) Support Engineer
7 7 (5.93%) Applications Engineer
7 7 (5.93%) Applications Specialist
7 7 (5.93%) Applications Support Engineer
7 7 (5.93%) Applications Support Specialist
7 7 (5.93%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
7 7 (5.93%) Lead
7 7 (5.93%) Linux Engineer
8 6 (5.08%) Analyst
8 6 (5.08%) Consultant
8 6 (5.08%) EPR Consultant
8 6 (5.08%) Senior Platform Engineer
8 6 (5.08%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (29.66%) JSON
2 30 (25.42%) HTML
3 29 (24.58%) Regular Expression
3 29 (24.58%) XML
4 19 (16.10%) LDAP
5 16 (13.56%) LAPP Stack
5 16 (13.56%) WebSphere MQ
6 10 (8.47%) LAMP
7 6 (5.08%) ARM Templates
7 6 (5.08%) Django
7 6 (5.08%) FHIR
8 4 (3.39%) REST
8 4 (3.39%) SOAP
9 3 (2.54%) OAuth
9 3 (2.54%) OAuth2
10 2 (1.69%) Flash
10 2 (1.69%) RabbitMQ
10 2 (1.69%) Ruby on Rails
10 2 (1.69%) YAML
11 1 (0.85%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 39 (33.05%) Onboarding
2 10 (8.47%) Management Information System
3 6 (5.08%) NHS
4 5 (4.24%) Cloud Native
4 5 (4.24%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (3.39%) Virtual Team
6 3 (2.54%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (2.54%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.54%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.69%) Arduino
7 2 (1.69%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (1.69%) Embedded Systems
7 2 (1.69%) Life Science
7 2 (1.69%) Raspberry Pi
7 2 (1.69%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (0.85%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.85%) Digital Signage
8 1 (0.85%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.85%) Smart City
8 1 (0.85%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 73 (61.86%) Linux
2 63 (53.39%) Unix
3 26 (22.03%) Windows
4 19 (16.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (5.08%) Ubuntu
5 6 (5.08%) VMS
5 6 (5.08%) Windows Server
6 4 (3.39%) CentOS
6 4 (3.39%) Windows 10
7 3 (2.54%) Debian
8 2 (1.69%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.85%) CoreOS
9 1 (0.85%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (29.66%) AI
2 32 (27.12%) Data Analysis
3 29 (24.58%) LLM
4 23 (19.49%) Problem-Solving
4 23 (19.49%) User Acceptance Testing
5 22 (18.64%) CI/CD
5 22 (18.64%) DevOps
6 21 (17.80%) ITIL
7 19 (16.10%) Infrastructure as Code
8 17 (14.41%) Platform Engineering
9 16 (13.56%) Change Management
9 16 (13.56%) Release Management
10 14 (11.86%) Observability
11 12 (10.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 11 (9.32%) CRM
13 10 (8.47%) Containerisation
13 10 (8.47%) Customer Experience
13 10 (8.47%) Migration
13 10 (8.47%) Prototyping
14 9 (7.63%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 74 (62.71%) Python
2 29 (24.58%) SQL
3 19 (16.10%) JavaScript
4 15 (12.71%) Bash
4 15 (12.71%) PowerShell
5 10 (8.47%) PHP
6 7 (5.93%) Java
6 7 (5.93%) Shell Script
7 4 (3.39%) C
7 4 (3.39%) C++
8 3 (2.54%) C#
8 3 (2.54%) Go
9 2 (1.69%) Bicep
9 2 (1.69%) Ruby
10 1 (0.85%) R
10 1 (0.85%) Scala
10 1 (0.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 53 (44.92%) Degree
2 20 (16.95%) Security Cleared
3 19 (16.10%) AWS Certification
4 16 (13.56%) ITIL Certification
5 14 (11.86%) DV Cleared
6 11 (9.32%) SC Cleared
7 6 (5.08%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (2.54%) Azure Certification
9 2 (1.69%) PhD
10 1 (0.85%) A+ Certification
10 1 (0.85%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (13.56%) SLA
2 6 (5.08%) HL7
3 2 (1.69%) Def Stans
4 1 (0.85%) QA
System Software
1 16 (13.56%) Docker
2 15 (12.71%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.69%) KVM
3 2 (1.69%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.85%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 21 (17.80%) Terraform
2 15 (12.71%) Kubernetes
3 11 (9.32%) Ansible
4 6 (5.08%) AWS Copilot
5 3 (2.54%) Docker Swarm
5 3 (2.54%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (1.69%) Grafana
6 2 (1.69%) Progress Chef
6 2 (1.69%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.85%) Puppet
Vendors
1 24 (20.34%) Red Hat
2 19 (16.10%) Microsoft
3 16 (13.56%) IBM
4 11 (9.32%) Oracle
5 10 (8.47%) Salesforce
5 10 (8.47%) ServiceNow
6 7 (5.93%) Google
7 4 (3.39%) HubSpot
8 3 (2.54%) CyberArk
8 3 (2.54%) Dell
9 2 (1.69%) Cisco
9 2 (1.69%) Splunk
9 2 (1.69%) VMware
10 1 (0.85%) Adobe
10 1 (0.85%) Apple