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

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 587 466 652
Rank change year-on-year -121 +186 -43
Permanent jobs citing Linux Command Line 80 136 151
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.10% 0.36% 0.18%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.35% 0.92% 0.52%
Number of salaries quoted 43 55 127
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,600 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £43,125 £40,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £71,875 £74,375 £77,500
90th Percentile £79,590 £89,750 £87,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% -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 22,606 14,783 29,008
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 28.99% 39.45% 35.21%
Number of salaries quoted 11,758 8,321 20,672
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £27,950
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £37,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £76,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £98,722
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -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 22 April 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 April 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 +2 29 £68,750 +25.00% 10
East of England -27 24 £42,500 -22.73% 3
North of England -54 12 £48,445 -3.11% 3
South East -87 9 £45,000 -18.18% 9
Yorkshire - 5 £42,222 - 2
North West -34 4 £51,722 +25.39%
West Midlands -27 3 £47,500 -38.71% 2
North East -41 3 £61,123 +11.13% 1
Midlands -63 3 £47,500 -29.89% 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 4 (5.00%) WordPress
2 2 (2.50%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.25%) Apache
3 1 (1.25%) Confluence
3 1 (1.25%) nginx
3 1 (1.25%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.25%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.25%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (3.75%) Magento
1 3 (3.75%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 27 (33.75%) AWS
2 24 (30.00%) Azure
3 11 (13.75%) GCP
4 10 (12.50%) Entra ID
5 9 (11.25%) Amazon ECS
6 7 (8.75%) Amazon EC2
6 7 (8.75%) AWS CloudFormation
6 7 (8.75%) OCI
7 6 (7.50%) Amazon ECR
7 6 (7.50%) Amazon S3
8 5 (6.25%) Amazon ElastiCache
8 5 (6.25%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 5 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (6.25%) dbt
8 5 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (6.25%) PaaS
8 5 (6.25%) Pulumi
8 5 (6.25%) Sentry
8 5 (6.25%) Serverless
8 5 (6.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (13.75%) TCP/IP
2 9 (11.25%) VPN
3 6 (7.50%) Firewall
4 4 (5.00%) DNS
5 2 (2.50%) DHCP
5 2 (2.50%) Kerberos
5 2 (2.50%) SSL
6 1 (1.25%) BGP
6 1 (1.25%) LAN
6 1 (1.25%) Network Security
6 1 (1.25%) NGFW
6 1 (1.25%) OSPF
6 1 (1.25%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (1.25%) VLAN
6 1 (1.25%) WAN
6 1 (1.25%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
1 10 (12.50%) MySQL
1 10 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (11.25%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (7.50%) Electronic Patient Records
4 5 (6.25%) Redis
5 3 (3.75%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (3.75%) Power BI
5 3 (3.75%) SQL Server
6 2 (2.50%) Apache Hive
6 2 (2.50%) Big Data
6 2 (2.50%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.25%) DB2
7 1 (1.25%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.25%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.25%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 4 (5.00%) JIRA
2 3 (3.75%) Git
2 3 (3.75%) Jenkins
2 3 (3.75%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (1.25%) Browser DevTools
3 1 (1.25%) CircleCI
3 1 (1.25%) git-flow
3 1 (1.25%) GitLab
3 1 (1.25%) Maven
3 1 (1.25%) Selenium
3 1 (1.25%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (1.25%) TeamCity
3 1 (1.25%) WebDriver
3 1 (1.25%) webpack
General
1 15 (18.75%) German Language
2 12 (15.00%) Social Skills
3 8 (10.00%) Finance
3 8 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 6 (7.50%) Health Technology
5 4 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.75%) Advertising
6 3 (3.75%) Games
6 3 (3.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (3.75%) Legal
7 2 (2.50%) Law
7 2 (2.50%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.25%) Banking
8 1 (1.25%) Billing
8 1 (1.25%) Electronics
8 1 (1.25%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.25%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 8 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 8 (10.00%) IT Engineer
1 8 (10.00%) Senior
2 7 (8.75%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
2 7 (8.75%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (7.50%) Analyst
3 6 (7.50%) Consultant
3 6 (7.50%) EPR Consultant
3 6 (7.50%) Platform Engineer
3 6 (7.50%) Technical Consultant
4 5 (6.25%) Developer
4 5 (6.25%) Senior Platform Engineer
5 4 (5.00%) Applications Support
5 4 (5.00%) Support Analyst
6 3 (3.75%) Applications Support Analyst
6 3 (3.75%) Automation Developer
6 3 (3.75%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (3.75%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (3.75%) IT Manager
6 3 (3.75%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (45.00%) JSON
2 34 (42.50%) HTML
3 29 (36.25%) Regular Expression
3 29 (36.25%) XML
4 6 (7.50%) FHIR
5 5 (6.25%) CSS
5 5 (6.25%) Django
6 4 (5.00%) YAML
7 3 (3.75%) LDAP
7 3 (3.75%) Loki
7 3 (3.75%) OpenTelemetry
7 3 (3.75%) RESTful
8 2 (2.50%) LAPP Stack
8 2 (2.50%) OAuth
8 2 (2.50%) OAuth2
8 2 (2.50%) React
9 1 (1.25%) FIX Protocol
9 1 (1.25%) Node.js
9 1 (1.25%) ODBC
9 1 (1.25%) RSS
Miscellaneous
1 39 (48.75%) Onboarding
2 7 (8.75%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (7.50%) NHS
4 3 (3.75%) Security Operations Centre
4 3 (3.75%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.50%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.50%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.50%) Life Science
5 2 (2.50%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.25%) Digital Signage
6 1 (1.25%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.25%) IoT
6 1 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.25%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.25%) Smart City
6 1 (1.25%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 41 (51.25%) Unix
2 39 (48.75%) Linux
3 7 (8.75%) Windows
4 4 (5.00%) Windows Server
5 2 (2.50%) CentOS
5 2 (2.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (2.50%) Ubuntu
5 2 (2.50%) Windows 10
6 1 (1.25%) Mac OS
6 1 (1.25%) SUSE
6 1 (1.25%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (42.50%) AI
2 30 (37.50%) Data Analysis
3 29 (36.25%) LLM
4 20 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 13 (16.25%) CI/CD
6 12 (15.00%) DevOps
6 12 (15.00%) Migration
7 11 (13.75%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (13.75%) User Acceptance Testing
8 9 (11.25%) Business Intelligence
8 9 (11.25%) Containerisation
8 9 (11.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 8 (10.00%) Mentoring
9 8 (10.00%) Observability
10 7 (8.75%) Coaching
10 7 (8.75%) Privileged Access Management
10 7 (8.75%) RBAC
10 7 (8.75%) Secrets Management
11 6 (7.50%) Incident Response
11 6 (7.50%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 56 (70.00%) Python
2 20 (25.00%) SQL
3 14 (17.50%) Bash
4 12 (15.00%) PowerShell
5 8 (10.00%) JavaScript
6 6 (7.50%) Java
6 6 (7.50%) Shell Script
7 3 (3.75%) PHP
8 2 (2.50%) Groovy
8 2 (2.50%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.25%) C#
9 1 (1.25%) Perl
Qualifications
1 36 (45.00%) Degree
2 12 (15.00%) Security Cleared
3 9 (11.25%) SC Cleared
4 6 (7.50%) DV Cleared
5 3 (3.75%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (2.50%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.50%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.25%) CCNP
7 1 (1.25%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.25%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.50%) HL7
2 3 (3.75%) GDPR
3 1 (1.25%) QA
3 1 (1.25%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (17.50%) Docker
2 13 (16.25%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.25%) Firmware
3 1 (1.25%) KVM
3 1 (1.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (15.00%) Terraform
2 7 (8.75%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (6.25%) Ansible
3 5 (6.25%) AWS Copilot
4 3 (3.75%) Grafana
4 3 (3.75%) Kubernetes
4 3 (3.75%) Prometheus
4 3 (3.75%) Scalr
5 2 (2.50%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.25%) Kibana
Vendors
1 9 (11.25%) Google
2 7 (8.75%) CyberArk
3 5 (6.25%) Microsoft
4 4 (5.00%) Oracle
4 4 (5.00%) Red Hat
4 4 (5.00%) ServiceNow
5 3 (3.75%) Splunk
6 2 (2.50%) Apple
6 2 (2.50%) Dell
7 1 (1.25%) IBM
7 1 (1.25%) New Relic
7 1 (1.25%) SAP
7 1 (1.25%) VMware