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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 405 688 622
Rank change year-on-year +283 -66 -149
Permanent jobs citing Linux Command Line 306 156 305
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.62% 0.18% 0.34%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.67% 0.52% 0.78%
Number of salaries quoted 49 125 181
10th Percentile £37,000 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,500 £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 £80,000 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £86,500 £97,328
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% -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 18,282 29,848 39,029
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 37.16% 34.76% 43.99%
Number of salaries quoted 8,839 20,843 20,948
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,000 £35,500
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 £110,000 £100,000 £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 16 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 16 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 +199 182 £55,000 +10.00% 13
North West +146 180 £37,500 -25.00% 7
South East +114 52 £50,000 +17.65% 27
London +79 28 £80,000 +14.29% 71
East of England +55 21 £54,000 +24.14% 34
Midlands +71 19 £67,750 +35.50% 12
East Midlands +44 14 £58,000 +45.00% 1
West Midlands +52 5 £77,500 +55.00% 10
South West +86 4 £80,000 +52.38% 8
North East +46 2 £55,000 -
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 (0.98%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (0.65%) Apache
2 2 (0.65%) Confluence
2 2 (0.65%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.65%) WordPress
3 1 (0.33%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.33%) nginx
Applications
1 7 (2.29%) Chatbot
2 5 (1.63%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.33%) Weka
Business Applications
1 4 (1.31%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (0.65%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.65%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.65%) PeopleSoft HCM
2 2 (0.65%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 196 (64.05%) Azure
2 193 (63.07%) AWS
3 185 (60.46%) GCP
4 8 (2.61%) Power Platform
4 8 (2.61%) SaaS
5 6 (1.96%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (1.63%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (1.31%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (1.31%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (1.31%) GitHub
7 4 (1.31%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (0.98%) PaaS
9 2 (0.65%) Azure Machine Learning
9 2 (0.65%) DigitalOcean
9 2 (0.65%) IaaS
9 2 (0.65%) OCI
9 2 (0.65%) OpenShift
10 1 (0.33%) Amazon EventBridge
10 1 (0.33%) Azure AKS
10 1 (0.33%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 71 (23.20%) VPN
2 65 (21.24%) TCP/IP
3 7 (2.29%) HTTP
4 4 (1.31%) Cisco IOS
4 4 (1.31%) VoIP
5 3 (0.98%) DNS
5 3 (0.98%) HTTPS
5 3 (0.98%) IPsec
6 2 (0.65%) FTP
6 2 (0.65%) Network Security
6 2 (0.65%) SAN
6 2 (0.65%) SSH
6 2 (0.65%) SSL
7 1 (0.33%) GSM
7 1 (0.33%) LAN
7 1 (0.33%) LTE
7 1 (0.33%) NAS
7 1 (0.33%) Radio Access Network
7 1 (0.33%) UMTS
7 1 (0.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (2.61%) Power BI
2 7 (2.29%) MySQL
2 7 (2.29%) NoSQL
3 5 (1.63%) SQL Server
3 5 (1.63%) Tableau
4 4 (1.31%) Metabase
4 4 (1.31%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.65%) Oracle Database
5 2 (0.65%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.33%) Couchbase
6 1 (0.33%) DB2
6 1 (0.33%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 64 (20.92%) Cucumber
1 64 (20.92%) Robot Framework
2 8 (2.61%) Git
3 6 (1.96%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.31%) JIRA
5 2 (0.65%) Artifactory
5 2 (0.65%) git-flow
6 1 (0.33%) GitLab
6 1 (0.33%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 245 (80.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 104 (33.99%) Social Skills
3 66 (21.57%) Telecoms
4 12 (3.92%) Finance
5 9 (2.94%) Electronics
6 7 (2.29%) Manufacturing
6 7 (2.29%) Public Sector
7 5 (1.63%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (1.31%) Military
9 3 (0.98%) Analytical Skills
9 3 (0.98%) Banking
9 3 (0.98%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.65%) Advertising
10 2 (0.65%) Billing
11 1 (0.33%) Games
11 1 (0.33%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.33%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 191 (62.42%) Senior
2 178 (58.17%) Senior Software Engineer
2 178 (58.17%) Software Engineer
3 64 (20.92%) Test Automation Engineer
3 64 (20.92%) Test Engineer
4 14 (4.58%) Support Engineer
5 13 (4.25%) Technical Support
6 9 (2.94%) Linux Engineer
7 8 (2.61%) Developer
8 7 (2.29%) Linux Support
8 7 (2.29%) Linux Support Engineer
9 6 (1.96%) Analyst
9 6 (1.96%) Support Analyst
10 5 (1.63%) Data Scientist
10 5 (1.63%) Software Developer
10 5 (1.63%) Support Manager
10 5 (1.63%) Systems Engineer
10 5 (1.63%) Technical Manager
10 5 (1.63%) Technical Support Manager
11 4 (1.31%) Senior Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 180 (58.82%) .NET
2 179 (58.50%) Node.js
3 8 (2.61%) Pandas
4 6 (1.96%) JSON
5 5 (1.63%) Puppeteer
5 5 (1.63%) Scrapy
6 4 (1.31%) ARM Templates
6 4 (1.31%) FIX Protocol
6 4 (1.31%) Hugging Face
7 3 (0.98%) scikit-learn
8 2 (0.65%) Anaconda
8 2 (0.65%) ASP.NET
8 2 (0.65%) Flutter
8 2 (0.65%) Laravel
8 2 (0.65%) Loki
8 2 (0.65%) Oracle Fusion
8 2 (0.65%) REST
8 2 (0.65%) Tailwind CSS
8 2 (0.65%) Unreal Engine
8 2 (0.65%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 183 (59.80%) Self-Motivation
2 178 (58.17%) Cyberattack
3 10 (3.27%) Algorithms
4 5 (1.63%) Molecular Biology
5 3 (0.98%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (0.98%) Hedge funds
5 3 (0.98%) Management Information System
6 2 (0.65%) Data Centre
6 2 (0.65%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (0.65%) Life Science
6 2 (0.65%) Mobile App
6 2 (0.65%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (0.65%) Replication
7 1 (0.33%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.33%) Device Driver
7 1 (0.33%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (0.33%) FPGA
7 1 (0.33%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.33%) LIMS
Operating Systems
1 303 (99.02%) Linux
2 74 (24.18%) Windows
3 10 (3.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (2.29%) Mac OS
5 6 (1.96%) Debian
6 4 (1.31%) Oracle Linux
6 4 (1.31%) Unix
7 3 (0.98%) CentOS
7 3 (0.98%) VMS
7 3 (0.98%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.65%) AIX
9 1 (0.33%) CoreOS
9 1 (0.33%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (0.33%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 249 (81.37%) Mentoring
2 186 (60.78%) Machine Learning
3 185 (60.46%) Agile
4 182 (59.48%) Microservices
5 181 (59.15%) Data Engineering
5 181 (59.15%) Software Engineering
6 178 (58.17%) Cloud Security
6 178 (58.17%) Scrum
6 178 (58.17%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 178 (58.17%) User Experience
7 81 (26.47%) Problem-Solving
8 79 (25.82%) DevOps
9 70 (22.88%) Test Automation
10 67 (21.90%) Coaching
10 67 (21.90%) System Testing
11 64 (20.92%) Test Management
12 15 (4.90%) Computer Science
13 11 (3.59%) Containerisation
14 10 (3.27%) Data Analysis
14 10 (3.27%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 278 (90.85%) Python
2 248 (81.05%) JavaScript
3 186 (60.78%) C++
4 182 (59.48%) Java
5 180 (58.82%) Go
6 178 (58.17%) Rust
7 83 (27.12%) Bash
8 72 (23.53%) PowerShell
9 30 (9.80%) SQL
10 12 (3.92%) Shell Script
11 6 (1.96%) PHP
12 5 (1.63%) Perl
13 4 (1.31%) C
14 3 (0.98%) C#
15 2 (0.65%) AWK
15 2 (0.65%) Korn
Qualifications
1 189 (61.76%) Security Cleared
2 183 (59.80%) DV Cleared
3 180 (58.82%) AWS Certification
4 179 (58.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 178 (58.17%) AWS Certified Developer
6 94 (30.72%) Degree
7 11 (3.59%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (2.94%) SC Cleared
9 5 (1.63%) Master's Degree
9 5 (1.63%) PhD
10 4 (1.31%) A+ Certification
10 4 (1.31%) Azure Certification
10 4 (1.31%) Dell Certification
10 4 (1.31%) MCP
10 4 (1.31%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.33%) VCAP
11 1 (0.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (21.24%) QA
2 4 (1.31%) Def Stans
3 3 (0.98%) GDPR
3 3 (0.98%) HIPAA
3 3 (0.98%) SOC 2
4 1 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.33%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.33%) NCSC
4 1 (0.33%) NIST
4 1 (0.33%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (5.23%) Docker
2 6 (1.96%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (1.31%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.31%) vSphere
4 3 (0.98%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.65%) KVM
5 2 (0.65%) Postfix
5 2 (0.65%) Sendmail
6 1 (0.33%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 13 (4.25%) Terraform
2 9 (2.94%) Ansible
2 9 (2.94%) Kubernetes
3 7 (2.29%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (0.98%) Packer
4 3 (0.98%) Puppet
5 2 (0.65%) Grafana
5 2 (0.65%) Nagios
5 2 (0.65%) Nessus
5 2 (0.65%) Progress Chef
5 2 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.33%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (0.33%) PowerCLI
6 1 (0.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (5.56%) Microsoft
2 7 (2.29%) Apple
3 5 (1.63%) Oracle
4 4 (1.31%) Cisco
4 4 (1.31%) Dell
4 4 (1.31%) NetApp
4 4 (1.31%) Red Hat
5 3 (0.98%) IBM
5 3 (0.98%) ServiceNow
6 2 (0.65%) Hyperion
6 2 (0.65%) JD Edwards
6 2 (0.65%) PeopleSoft
6 2 (0.65%) SAP
6 2 (0.65%) Tenable
6 2 (0.65%) VMware
7 1 (0.33%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.33%) F5
7 1 (0.33%) Refinitiv