Linux Command Line Jobs 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 5 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 476 691 638
Rank change year-on-year +215 -53 -156
Permanent jobs citing Linux Command Line 184 153 329
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.39% 0.18% 0.36%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.12% 0.51% 0.81%
Number of salaries quoted 53 126 185
10th Percentile £37,300 £35,000 £31,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,500 £83,125 £97,328
UK median annual salary £56,250 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% -12.50% +4.35%

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 16,395 29,721 40,519
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 35.18% 34.88% 43.98%
Number of salaries quoted 8,838 20,842 21,617
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,000 £35,427
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,000 £46,570
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £98,750 £110,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%

Linux Command Line
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Linux Command Line as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Linux Command Line in England

Linux Command Line
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Linux Command Line in England.

Salary trend for Linux Command Line in England

Linux Command Line
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux Command Line in England over the 6 months to 5 May 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 5 May 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 +117 61 £55,000 +10.00% 16
North West +76 59 £37,500 -25.00% 9
South East +121 54 £55,000 +29.41% 26
London +79 27 £55,000 -21.43% 57
East of England +61 23 £55,000 +26.44% 9
Midlands +68 19 £67,750 +35.50% 14
East Midlands +56 14 £58,000 +45.00% 1
West Midlands +52 5 £77,500 +55.00% 10
South West +93 4 £80,000 +52.38% 7
North East +50 2 £55,000 - 1
Linux Command Line
UK

Linux Command Line
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (1.63%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.09%) Apache
2 2 (1.09%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.09%) WordPress
3 1 (0.54%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.54%) Confluence
3 1 (0.54%) nginx
Applications
1 9 (4.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (3.80%) Chatbot
3 2 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.09%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.54%) Weka
Business Applications
1 4 (2.17%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (1.09%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.09%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (1.09%) PeopleSoft HCM
2 2 (1.09%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 73 (39.67%) Azure
2 67 (36.41%) AWS
3 60 (32.61%) GCP
4 10 (5.43%) Power Platform
5 8 (4.35%) SaaS
6 6 (3.26%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (3.26%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (2.72%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (2.17%) Azure Monitor
8 4 (2.17%) GitHub
8 4 (2.17%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (1.09%) Azure Machine Learning
9 2 (1.09%) DigitalOcean
9 2 (1.09%) IaaS
9 2 (1.09%) OCI
9 2 (1.09%) PaaS
10 1 (0.54%) Amazon SQS
10 1 (0.54%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.54%) Datadog
10 1 (0.54%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 71 (38.59%) VPN
2 65 (35.33%) TCP/IP
3 7 (3.80%) HTTP
4 5 (2.72%) DNS
5 4 (2.17%) Cisco IOS
5 4 (2.17%) VoIP
6 3 (1.63%) HTTPS
6 3 (1.63%) IPsec
7 2 (1.09%) Firewall
7 2 (1.09%) FTP
7 2 (1.09%) Network Security
7 2 (1.09%) SAN
7 2 (1.09%) SSH
7 2 (1.09%) SSL
7 2 (1.09%) VSAN
7 2 (1.09%) Wireless
8 1 (0.54%) InfiniBand
8 1 (0.54%) Radio Access Network
8 1 (0.54%) Software-Defined Networking
8 1 (0.54%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.43%) Power BI
2 7 (3.80%) NoSQL
2 7 (3.80%) Tableau
3 6 (3.26%) MySQL
4 4 (2.17%) Metabase
4 4 (2.17%) SQL Server
5 3 (1.63%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.09%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.09%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.54%) Couchbase
7 1 (0.54%) DB2
7 1 (0.54%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 64 (34.78%) Cucumber
1 64 (34.78%) Robot Framework
2 7 (3.80%) Git
3 6 (3.26%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.17%) JIRA
5 2 (1.09%) Artifactory
5 2 (1.09%) git-flow
6 1 (0.54%) GitLab
6 1 (0.54%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 120 (65.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 109 (59.24%) Social Skills
3 66 (35.87%) Telecoms
4 10 (5.43%) Finance
5 9 (4.89%) Electronics
5 9 (4.89%) Public Sector
6 7 (3.80%) Manufacturing
6 7 (3.80%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (3.26%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (2.17%) Military
9 3 (1.63%) Banking
9 3 (1.63%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.09%) Billing
11 1 (0.54%) Advertising
11 1 (0.54%) Games
11 1 (0.54%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.54%) Retail
Job Titles
1 66 (35.87%) Senior
2 64 (34.78%) Test Automation Engineer
2 64 (34.78%) Test Engineer
3 53 (28.80%) Senior Software Engineer
3 53 (28.80%) Software Engineer
4 13 (7.07%) Support Engineer
4 13 (7.07%) Technical Support
5 9 (4.89%) Linux Engineer
6 8 (4.35%) Developer
7 7 (3.80%) Data Scientist
7 7 (3.80%) Linux Support
7 7 (3.80%) Linux Support Engineer
8 5 (2.72%) Analyst
8 5 (2.72%) Software Developer
8 5 (2.72%) Support Analyst
8 5 (2.72%) Support Manager
8 5 (2.72%) Systems Engineer
8 5 (2.72%) Technical Manager
8 5 (2.72%) Technical Support Manager
9 4 (2.17%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (29.89%) .NET
2 54 (29.35%) Node.js
3 8 (4.35%) Pandas
4 6 (3.26%) JSON
5 5 (2.72%) Hugging Face
5 5 (2.72%) Puppeteer
5 5 (2.72%) Scrapy
6 4 (2.17%) ARM Templates
7 3 (1.63%) FIX Protocol
7 3 (1.63%) scikit-learn
8 2 (1.09%) ASP.NET
8 2 (1.09%) CSS
8 2 (1.09%) EDI
8 2 (1.09%) LAMP
8 2 (1.09%) Laravel
8 2 (1.09%) Oracle Fusion
8 2 (1.09%) REST
8 2 (1.09%) Tailwind CSS
8 2 (1.09%) Unreal Engine
8 2 (1.09%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 57 (30.98%) Self-Motivation
2 53 (28.80%) Cyberattack
3 12 (6.52%) Algorithms
4 5 (2.72%) Molecular Biology
5 3 (1.63%) Data Centre
5 3 (1.63%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (1.63%) Hedge funds
5 3 (1.63%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.09%) Life Science
6 2 (1.09%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.09%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (1.09%) Replication
7 1 (0.54%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.54%) Device Driver
7 1 (0.54%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (0.54%) FPGA
7 1 (0.54%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.54%) LIMS
Operating Systems
1 179 (97.28%) Linux
2 77 (41.85%) Windows
3 11 (5.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (3.80%) Mac OS
4 7 (3.80%) Windows Server
5 6 (3.26%) Debian
6 4 (2.17%) Oracle Linux
6 4 (2.17%) Unix
7 3 (1.63%) VMS
8 2 (1.09%) AIX
8 2 (1.09%) CentOS
8 2 (1.09%) Windows 10
8 2 (1.09%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.54%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (0.54%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (68.48%) Mentoring
2 83 (45.11%) Problem-Solving
3 81 (44.02%) DevOps
4 69 (37.50%) Test Automation
5 68 (36.96%) Coaching
6 67 (36.41%) System Testing
7 64 (34.78%) Test Management
8 63 (34.24%) Machine Learning
9 60 (32.61%) Agile
10 57 (30.98%) Microservices
11 56 (30.43%) Software Engineering
12 55 (29.89%) Data Engineering
13 53 (28.80%) Cloud Security
13 53 (28.80%) Scrum
13 53 (28.80%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 53 (28.80%) User Experience
14 14 (7.61%) Computer Science
15 13 (7.07%) Containerisation
16 12 (6.52%) Analytics
17 10 (5.43%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 153 (83.15%) Python
2 123 (66.85%) JavaScript
3 84 (45.65%) Bash
4 76 (41.30%) PowerShell
5 61 (33.15%) C++
6 57 (30.98%) Java
7 55 (29.89%) Go
8 53 (28.80%) Rust
9 32 (17.39%) SQL
10 12 (6.52%) Shell Script
11 6 (3.26%) PHP
12 5 (2.72%) Perl
13 4 (2.17%) C
14 3 (1.63%) C#
15 2 (1.09%) AWK
15 2 (1.09%) Korn
Qualifications
1 96 (52.17%) Degree
2 66 (35.87%) Security Cleared
3 59 (32.07%) DV Cleared
4 55 (29.89%) AWS Certification
5 54 (29.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 53 (28.80%) AWS Certified Developer
7 11 (5.98%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (5.98%) SC Cleared
8 6 (3.26%) MCP
8 6 (3.26%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (2.72%) Master's Degree
9 5 (2.72%) PhD
10 4 (2.17%) A+ Certification
10 4 (2.17%) Azure Certification
10 4 (2.17%) CCNA
10 4 (2.17%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (2.17%) Dell Certification
11 3 (1.63%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 2 (1.09%) CCNP
12 2 (1.09%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (34.78%) QA
2 4 (2.17%) Def Stans
3 3 (1.63%) GDPR
3 3 (1.63%) HIPAA
3 3 (1.63%) SOC 2
4 1 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.54%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.54%) NCSC
4 1 (0.54%) NIST
4 1 (0.54%) SLA
System Software
1 18 (9.78%) Docker
2 8 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (3.26%) Active Directory
3 6 (3.26%) vSphere
4 3 (1.63%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (1.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.63%) VMware NSX
5 2 (1.09%) EMC RecoverPoint
5 2 (1.09%) Firmware
5 2 (1.09%) KVM
5 2 (1.09%) Postfix
5 2 (1.09%) Sendmail
6 1 (0.54%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 13 (7.07%) Terraform
2 9 (4.89%) Kubernetes
3 8 (4.35%) Ansible
4 7 (3.80%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (1.63%) Failover Clustering
5 3 (1.63%) Packer
6 2 (1.09%) Dell DRAC
6 2 (1.09%) Grafana
6 2 (1.09%) Nagios
6 2 (1.09%) Nessus
6 2 (1.09%) Progress Chef
6 2 (1.09%) Puppet
6 2 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (1.09%) vCenter Server
6 2 (1.09%) vRealize
6 2 (1.09%) VxRail
6 2 (1.09%) WSUS
7 1 (0.54%) PowerCLI
7 1 (0.54%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 21 (11.41%) Microsoft
2 7 (3.80%) Apple
3 6 (3.26%) Cisco
3 6 (3.26%) Dell
4 5 (2.72%) Oracle
4 5 (2.72%) Red Hat
5 4 (2.17%) NetApp
5 4 (2.17%) SolarWinds
5 4 (2.17%) VMware
6 3 (1.63%) IBM
6 3 (1.63%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.09%) EMC
7 2 (1.09%) Hyperion
7 2 (1.09%) JD Edwards
7 2 (1.09%) McAfee
7 2 (1.09%) Palo Alto
7 2 (1.09%) PeopleSoft
7 2 (1.09%) Remedy
7 2 (1.09%) SAP
7 2 (1.09%) Tenable