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

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 483 507 511
Rank change year-on-year +24 +4 +60
Permanent jobs citing Linux Command Line 119 154 158
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.23% 0.31% 0.35%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.64% 0.84% 0.93%
Number of salaries quoted 70 81 123
10th Percentile £33,375 £38,620 £38,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +22.73% -12.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £79,697 £71,250 £86,875
90th Percentile £90,100 £80,000 £96,539
UK median annual salary £72,500 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +26.09% -11.54% +18.18%

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 18,647 18,396 16,926
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 35.78% 37.29% 37.01%
Number of salaries quoted 9,399 8,758 12,644
10th Percentile £27,750 £33,713 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £46,063 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £78,500 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £110,000
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 2 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 2 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 +51 47 £75,000 +39.80% 8
East of England +37 24 £45,000 -20.00% 4
South East +5 18 £45,000 -21.74% 9
Midlands +26 13 £39,000 -13.81% 6
South West +7 12 £90,000 +24.14% 9
West Midlands +32 11 £39,000 +20.00% 3
North of England -3 5 £73,801 +55.37% 3
North West +27 2 £73,801 +51.39% 1
East Midlands -17 2 £52,500 -9.48% 3
North East - 2 £73,801 - 1
Yorkshire -23 1 £45,000 -5.26% 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 16 (13.45%) Tomcat
1 16 (13.45%) WebSphere
1 16 (13.45%) WebSphere Application Server
2 14 (11.76%) IIS
3 6 (5.04%) Apache
4 3 (2.52%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.84%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.84%) CMS
5 1 (0.84%) Confluence
5 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (2.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.84%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 42 (35.29%) AWS
2 30 (25.21%) Azure
3 12 (10.08%) Amazon ECR
3 12 (10.08%) AWS CloudFormation
3 12 (10.08%) GCP
3 12 (10.08%) SaaS
4 9 (7.56%) Amazon EC2
4 9 (7.56%) Amazon S3
4 9 (7.56%) AWS Lambda
4 9 (7.56%) OpenShift
4 9 (7.56%) Serverless
5 8 (6.72%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (6.72%) GitHub
5 8 (6.72%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (5.88%) Azure Key Vault
6 7 (5.88%) Entra ID
7 6 (5.04%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (5.04%) Amazon ElastiCache
7 6 (5.04%) Pulumi
7 6 (5.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 16 (13.45%) SSL
2 15 (12.61%) TCP/IP
3 10 (8.40%) VPN
4 8 (6.72%) DNS
5 7 (5.88%) Firewall
6 4 (3.36%) DHCP
7 3 (2.52%) AMQP
7 3 (2.52%) Kerberos
7 3 (2.52%) VLAN
8 2 (1.68%) 2G
8 2 (1.68%) 4G
8 2 (1.68%) 5G
8 2 (1.68%) Cisco IOS
8 2 (1.68%) HTTP
8 2 (1.68%) ICMP
8 2 (1.68%) Software-Defined Radio
8 2 (1.68%) VoIP
9 1 (0.84%) DMARC
9 1 (0.84%) SSH
9 1 (0.84%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (19.33%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (14.29%) SQL Server
3 16 (13.45%) DB2
4 15 (12.61%) Amazon RDS
5 12 (10.08%) MySQL
6 8 (6.72%) Elasticsearch
7 6 (5.04%) Electronic Patient Records
7 6 (5.04%) Redis
8 4 (3.36%) Relational Database
9 3 (2.52%) Apache Hive
9 3 (2.52%) Big Data
9 3 (2.52%) Hadoop
9 3 (2.52%) InfluxDB
10 1 (0.84%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 12 (10.08%) Jenkins
2 11 (9.24%) Git
3 5 (4.20%) JIRA
4 4 (3.36%) Browser DevTools
4 4 (3.36%) IDA Disassembler
5 3 (2.52%) GitLab
6 2 (1.68%) Selenium
7 1 (0.84%) JUnit
7 1 (0.84%) Maven
7 1 (0.84%) WebDriver
General
1 18 (15.13%) Social Skills
2 16 (13.45%) Banking
3 15 (12.61%) German Language
4 10 (8.40%) Investment Banking
5 9 (7.56%) Finance
6 7 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (5.04%) Health Technology
7 6 (5.04%) Law
8 3 (2.52%) Electronics
9 2 (1.68%) Military
9 2 (1.68%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.84%) Advertising
10 1 (0.84%) Billing
10 1 (0.84%) Front Office
10 1 (0.84%) Marketing
10 1 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.84%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.84%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 24 (20.17%) Applications Support
2 17 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
3 15 (12.61%) Linux Support
4 12 (10.08%) Senior
5 11 (9.24%) Infrastructure Support
5 11 (9.24%) Support Specialist
6 10 (8.40%) Support Engineer
6 10 (8.40%) Unix Support
7 8 (6.72%) Applications Engineer
7 8 (6.72%) Applications Support Engineer
8 7 (5.88%) Applications Specialist
8 7 (5.88%) Applications Support Specialist
8 7 (5.88%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
8 7 (5.88%) Lead
8 7 (5.88%) Technical Support
9 6 (5.04%) Consultant
9 6 (5.04%) EPR Consultant
9 6 (5.04%) Linux Engineer
9 6 (5.04%) Senior Platform Engineer
9 6 (5.04%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (30.25%) JSON
2 31 (26.05%) HTML
3 30 (25.21%) Regular Expression
3 30 (25.21%) XML
4 19 (15.97%) LDAP
5 16 (13.45%) LAPP Stack
5 16 (13.45%) WebSphere MQ
6 10 (8.40%) LAMP
7 6 (5.04%) ARM Templates
7 6 (5.04%) Django
7 6 (5.04%) FHIR
8 4 (3.36%) REST
8 4 (3.36%) SOAP
9 3 (2.52%) OAuth
9 3 (2.52%) OAuth2
9 3 (2.52%) RabbitMQ
10 2 (1.68%) Flash
10 2 (1.68%) Ruby on Rails
10 2 (1.68%) YAML
11 1 (0.84%) ODBC
Miscellaneous
1 38 (31.93%) Onboarding
2 11 (9.24%) Management Information System
3 6 (5.04%) NHS
4 5 (4.20%) Cloud Native
4 5 (4.20%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.52%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (2.52%) Life Science
5 3 (2.52%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.68%) Arduino
6 2 (1.68%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (1.68%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (1.68%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.68%) Omics
6 2 (1.68%) Raspberry Pi
7 1 (0.84%) ARM Cortex
7 1 (0.84%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.84%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.84%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (0.84%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.84%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 76 (63.87%) Linux
2 63 (52.94%) Unix
3 30 (25.21%) Windows
4 19 (15.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (5.04%) VMS
5 6 (5.04%) Windows Server
6 5 (4.20%) Ubuntu
7 4 (3.36%) Windows 10
8 3 (2.52%) CentOS
8 3 (2.52%) Debian
9 2 (1.68%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.84%) CoreOS
10 1 (0.84%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (31.09%) Data Analysis
2 36 (30.25%) AI
3 30 (25.21%) LLM
4 25 (21.01%) Problem-Solving
5 24 (20.17%) CI/CD
5 24 (20.17%) ITIL
6 23 (19.33%) DevOps
6 23 (19.33%) User Acceptance Testing
7 17 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
7 17 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
8 16 (13.45%) Change Management
8 16 (13.45%) Release Management
9 14 (11.76%) Observability
10 11 (9.24%) Containerisation
10 11 (9.24%) CRM
10 11 (9.24%) Service Management
11 10 (8.40%) Customer Experience
11 10 (8.40%) Prototyping
11 10 (8.40%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 9 (7.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 77 (64.71%) Python
2 34 (28.57%) SQL
3 19 (15.97%) JavaScript
4 13 (10.92%) Bash
4 13 (10.92%) PowerShell
5 10 (8.40%) PHP
6 8 (6.72%) Java
7 6 (5.04%) Shell Script
8 4 (3.36%) C
8 4 (3.36%) C++
8 4 (3.36%) Go
9 2 (1.68%) Bicep
9 2 (1.68%) C#
9 2 (1.68%) R
9 2 (1.68%) Ruby
10 1 (0.84%) Perl
10 1 (0.84%) Scala
10 1 (0.84%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 57 (47.90%) Degree
2 20 (16.81%) Security Cleared
3 19 (15.97%) AWS Certification
4 16 (13.45%) ITIL Certification
5 14 (11.76%) DV Cleared
6 12 (10.08%) SC Cleared
7 7 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (3.36%) A+ Certification
9 3 (2.52%) Azure Certification
9 3 (2.52%) PhD
10 2 (1.68%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (13.45%) SLA
2 6 (5.04%) HL7
3 2 (1.68%) Def Stans
4 1 (0.84%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.84%) QA
System Software
1 18 (15.13%) Docker
2 13 (10.92%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.68%) KVM
4 2 (1.68%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.84%) Firmware
5 1 (0.84%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.84%) zsh
Systems Management
1 22 (18.49%) Terraform
2 16 (13.45%) Kubernetes
3 12 (10.08%) Ansible
4 6 (5.04%) AWS Copilot
5 4 (3.36%) Docker Swarm
6 3 (2.52%) Grafana
6 3 (2.52%) Progress Chef
6 3 (2.52%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.84%) CASB
7 1 (0.84%) Puppet
7 1 (0.84%) QRadar
7 1 (0.84%) SCCM
7 1 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (19.33%) Red Hat
2 20 (16.81%) Microsoft
3 16 (13.45%) IBM
4 11 (9.24%) Oracle
5 10 (8.40%) Salesforce
5 10 (8.40%) ServiceNow
6 7 (5.88%) Google
7 4 (3.36%) HubSpot
8 3 (2.52%) Cisco
8 3 (2.52%) Dell
8 3 (2.52%) VMware
9 2 (1.68%) Splunk
10 1 (0.84%) Adobe
10 1 (0.84%) Apple
10 1 (0.84%) Citrix
10 1 (0.84%) CyberArk
10 1 (0.84%) Forcepoint
10 1 (0.84%) Palo Alto
10 1 (0.84%) Qualys
10 1 (0.84%) Thales