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 advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Linux Command Line over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 680 622 478
Rank change year-on-year -58 -144 -10
Permanent jobs citing Linux Command Line 157 347 929
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.18% 0.37% 0.71%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.53% 0.85% 1.54%
Number of salaries quoted 130 178 271
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,125 £34,000
25th Percentile £40,250 £42,313 £45,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £97,328 £96,250
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% +4.55%

All Generic Skills
England

Linux Command Line is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 29,472 40,611 60,398
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 34.70% 43.35% 46.27%
Number of salaries quoted 20,816 21,856 30,360
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,422 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,570 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £76,000 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £110,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%

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 25 April 2024.

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 25 April 2024. 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 +69 55 £72,500 +11.54% 33
South East -3 35 £42,500 - 10
South West -17 27 £52,500 -24.60% 5
North of England -18 18 £50,000 -13.04% 6
Midlands -27 13 £50,000 -9.09% 7
Yorkshire +54 12 £85,000 +21.43% 1
East of England +17 11 £43,500 -39.58% 7
West Midlands +3 11 £50,000 -2.54% 5
North West -6 5 £50,000 -9.09% 4
East Midlands -30 2 £40,000 -23.81% 2
North East -8 1 - - 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 14 (8.92%) SharePoint
2 13 (8.28%) WordPress
3 11 (7.01%) IIS
3 11 (7.01%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (7.01%) nginx
4 2 (1.27%) Apache
4 2 (1.27%) Confluence
5 1 (0.64%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.64%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.64%) CMS
5 1 (0.64%) Drupal
5 1 (0.64%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (3.82%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.55%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.64%) GNU Octave
Business Applications
1 3 (1.91%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 58 (36.94%) AWS
2 46 (29.30%) Azure
3 26 (16.56%) OpenShift
4 15 (9.55%) Azure DevOps
4 15 (9.55%) Microsoft 365
5 13 (8.28%) Serverless
6 12 (7.64%) AWS Lambda
7 11 (7.01%) Amazon EC2
7 11 (7.01%) Amazon S3
7 11 (7.01%) Azure Monitor
7 11 (7.01%) OneDrive
8 10 (6.37%) Cloud Computing
9 8 (5.10%) Azure AKS
9 8 (5.10%) Datadog
9 8 (5.10%) Pulumi
10 7 (4.46%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 6 (3.82%) SaaS
12 5 (3.18%) GitHub
12 5 (3.18%) Power Platform
13 4 (2.55%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 45 (28.66%) Firewall
2 17 (10.83%) Wireless
3 16 (10.19%) DNS
4 13 (8.28%) TCP/IP
4 13 (8.28%) VPN
5 11 (7.01%) Fibre Channel
5 11 (7.01%) iSCSI
5 11 (7.01%) NAS
5 11 (7.01%) SAN
6 10 (6.37%) Network Security
7 7 (4.46%) LAN
8 6 (3.82%) WAN
9 5 (3.18%) AMQP
9 5 (3.18%) SSH
10 4 (2.55%) HTTP
10 4 (2.55%) Multicast
10 4 (2.55%) OSPF
10 4 (2.55%) Wi-Fi
11 3 (1.91%) DHCP
11 3 (1.91%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (21.02%) MySQL
2 23 (14.65%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (8.28%) SQL Server
4 10 (6.37%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (5.73%) MongoDB
6 8 (5.10%) MariaDB
7 7 (4.46%) Azure SQL Database
7 7 (4.46%) Redis
8 6 (3.82%) Relational Database
9 5 (3.18%) InfluxDB
9 5 (3.18%) Power BI
10 4 (2.55%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (2.55%) NoSQL
11 2 (1.27%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (1.27%) BusinessObjects
11 2 (1.27%) Neo4j
11 2 (1.27%) Oracle Database
11 2 (1.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 1 (0.64%) Big Data
12 1 (0.64%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 51 (32.48%) Git
2 27 (17.20%) Jenkins
3 19 (12.10%) JIRA
4 12 (7.64%) Subversion
5 10 (6.37%) GNU Toolchain
6 9 (5.73%) GitLab
6 9 (5.73%) Robot Framework
7 8 (5.10%) Team Foundation Server
8 5 (3.18%) Bitbucket
8 5 (3.18%) DTrace
8 5 (3.18%) GDB
9 4 (2.55%) Rational DOORS
10 3 (1.91%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (1.91%) JUnit
11 2 (1.27%) Artifactory
11 2 (1.27%) Cucumber
11 2 (1.27%) Gradle
11 2 (1.27%) TeamCity
12 1 (0.64%) CMake
12 1 (0.64%) SonarQube
General
1 26 (16.56%) Social Skills
2 15 (9.55%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (6.37%) Aerospace
4 9 (5.73%) Finance
4 9 (5.73%) Retail
5 7 (4.46%) Law
6 3 (1.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (1.91%) Manufacturing
6 3 (1.91%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (1.91%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (1.27%) Music Industry
7 2 (1.27%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.64%) Advertising
8 1 (0.64%) Aviation
8 1 (0.64%) Banking
8 1 (0.64%) Electronics
8 1 (0.64%) Games
8 1 (0.64%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 36 (22.93%) Azure Engineer
2 28 (17.83%) Developer
3 23 (14.65%) Platform Engineer
4 19 (12.10%) Network Engineer
5 18 (11.46%) Cloud Engineer
5 18 (11.46%) Linux Engineer
6 17 (10.83%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 15 (9.55%) Automation Engineer
7 15 (9.55%) Operations Engineer
8 14 (8.92%) AWS Engineer
8 14 (8.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 14 (8.92%) Support Engineer
9 12 (7.64%) DevOps Engineer
9 12 (7.64%) Senior
10 11 (7.01%) Administrator
10 11 (7.01%) Cloud Automation Engineer
10 11 (7.01%) Linux Administrator
11 10 (6.37%) Linux Developer
11 10 (6.37%) Linux Systems Administrator
12 9 (5.73%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (12.74%) HTML
2 18 (11.46%) Node.js
3 12 (7.64%) React
3 12 (7.64%) XML
4 11 (7.01%) CSS
4 11 (7.01%) LAMP
5 10 (6.37%) POSIX
6 8 (5.10%) ARM Templates
7 7 (4.46%) Laravel
7 7 (4.46%) RESTful
8 6 (3.82%) REST
9 5 (3.18%) JSON
9 5 (3.18%) RabbitMQ
10 4 (2.55%) Akka
10 4 (2.55%) NETCONF
10 4 (2.55%) Spring
10 4 (2.55%) Vue
11 3 (1.91%) RESTCONF
11 3 (1.91%) SOAP
11 3 (1.91%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 13 (8.28%) Replication
2 11 (7.01%) Embedded Systems
2 11 (7.01%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (4.46%) Client/Server
3 7 (4.46%) Product Ownership
4 5 (3.18%) Clustering
5 4 (2.55%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.91%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.91%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.27%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.27%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.27%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.64%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.64%) FPGA
8 1 (0.64%) Life Science
8 1 (0.64%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.64%) Music Streaming
8 1 (0.64%) Pharmacovigilance
8 1 (0.64%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 136 (86.62%) Linux
2 41 (26.11%) Windows
3 39 (24.84%) Unix
4 30 (19.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 22 (14.01%) Windows Server
6 20 (12.74%) CentOS
7 19 (12.10%) CoreOS
8 17 (10.83%) Windows Server 2016
9 13 (8.28%) Ubuntu
10 12 (7.64%) VMS
11 11 (7.01%) Windows Server 2019
12 8 (5.10%) Windows 10
13 2 (1.27%) Mac OS
14 1 (0.64%) Android
14 1 (0.64%) Apple iOS
14 1 (0.64%) Debian
14 1 (0.64%) Fedora
14 1 (0.64%) openSUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (42.68%) DevOps
2 45 (28.66%) Configuration Management
3 41 (26.11%) Agile
4 40 (25.48%) CI/CD
5 38 (24.20%) Problem-Solving
6 33 (21.02%) Time Management
7 27 (17.20%) Infrastructure as Code
8 24 (15.29%) Software Testing
9 23 (14.65%) Platform Engineering
10 22 (14.01%) ITIL
11 20 (12.74%) Test Automation
12 19 (12.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 17 (10.83%) Open Source
14 16 (10.19%) Change Management
14 16 (10.19%) Containerisation
15 14 (8.92%) Analytics
16 13 (8.28%) Collaborative Working
16 13 (8.28%) Computer Science
16 13 (8.28%) Software Engineering
17 12 (7.64%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 84 (53.50%) Python
2 71 (45.22%) Bash
3 43 (27.39%) SQL
4 36 (22.93%) PowerShell
5 35 (22.29%) Java
6 22 (14.01%) PHP
7 19 (12.10%) JavaScript
8 16 (10.19%) C
9 15 (9.55%) Go
9 15 (9.55%) Perl
10 14 (8.92%) Shell Script
11 13 (8.28%) C++
11 13 (8.28%) Ruby
12 11 (7.01%) TypeScript
13 10 (6.37%) C#
14 8 (5.10%) Groovy
14 8 (5.10%) PL/SQL
15 5 (3.18%) OCaml
15 5 (3.18%) SystemTap
16 2 (1.27%) Scala
Qualifications
1 28 (17.83%) Degree
2 22 (14.01%) Security Cleared
3 16 (10.19%) SC Cleared
4 10 (6.37%) Azure Certification
5 8 (5.10%) DV Cleared
6 6 (3.82%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (3.18%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (2.55%) AWS Certification
8 4 (2.55%) Chartered Engineer
8 4 (2.55%) HNC
8 4 (2.55%) HND
9 3 (1.91%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (1.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.64%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 1 (0.64%) CCNA
10 1 (0.64%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.64%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.18%) QA
2 1 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 45 (28.66%) Docker
2 18 (11.46%) Active Directory
3 11 (7.01%) vSphere
4 3 (1.91%) VirtualBox
5 1 (0.64%) Firmware
5 1 (0.64%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.64%) Samba
5 1 (0.64%) Squid
5 1 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 50 (31.85%) Kubernetes
2 48 (30.57%) Ansible
3 46 (29.30%) Puppet
4 36 (22.93%) Terraform
5 25 (15.92%) Progress Chef
6 18 (11.46%) Grafana
7 14 (8.92%) Prometheus
8 12 (7.64%) Microsoft Intune
8 12 (7.64%) Salt
9 11 (7.01%) SCCM
10 5 (3.18%) Docker Swarm
11 4 (2.55%) Kibana
12 2 (1.27%) ZABBIX
13 1 (0.64%) FortiGate
13 1 (0.64%) Jamf Pro
13 1 (0.64%) logstash
13 1 (0.64%) Nmap
13 1 (0.64%) OpenNMS
13 1 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.64%) systemd
Vendors
1 25 (15.92%) Microsoft
2 22 (14.01%) Red Hat
3 15 (9.55%) Palo Alto
4 13 (8.28%) Synology
4 13 (8.28%) Veeam
5 12 (7.64%) Cisco
6 11 (7.01%) Aruba
6 11 (7.01%) ProCurve
6 11 (7.01%) VMware
6 11 (7.01%) Zerto
7 9 (5.73%) New Relic
7 9 (5.73%) ServiceNow
8 8 (5.10%) SaltStack
9 7 (4.46%) Remedy
10 4 (2.55%) Google
10 4 (2.55%) Oracle
10 4 (2.55%) SolarWinds
10 4 (2.55%) Thales
11 3 (1.91%) Acronis
11 3 (1.91%) BMC