Linux Command Line Job Trends in London

Linux/Unix Command Line Interface (CLI)
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Linux Command Line in permanent job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Linux Command Line over the 6 months leading up to 10 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 345 383 397
Rank change year-on-year +38 +14 +152
Permanent jobs citing Linux Command Line 38 60 69
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.31% 0.35% 0.35%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.66% 0.84% 0.86%
Number of salaries quoted 23 51 66
10th Percentile £67,763 £47,500 £42,875
25th Percentile £75,000 £50,000 £55,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +54.55% -12.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £87,500 £83,125 £78,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £67,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +22.73% -12.00% +13.64%

All Generic Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,734 7,119 8,044
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 46.29% 41.24% 41.33%
Number of salaries quoted 3,345 3,960 6,287
10th Percentile £35,750 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,000 £56,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +3.23% +3.33%
75th Percentile £105,000 £108,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £132,500 £132,500 £128,750
England median annual salary £53,750 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.42% -4.00% -0.79%

Linux Command Line
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Linux Command Line relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in London.

Linux Command Line job vacancy trend in London

Linux Command Line
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Linux Command Line.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Linux Command Line

Linux Command Line
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux Command Line in London over the 6 months to 10 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Linux Command Line in London

Linux Command Line
Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 10 November 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
East London - 6 £85,000 -
Central London +12 1 - - 11
Linux Command Line
England

Linux Command Line
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 (42.11%) Tomcat
1 16 (42.11%) WebSphere
1 16 (42.11%) WebSphere Application Server
2 4 (10.53%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.63%) Confluence
3 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 30 (78.95%) AWS
2 16 (42.11%) Azure
3 8 (21.05%) Amazon ECR
3 8 (21.05%) AWS CloudFormation
4 7 (18.42%) Amazon EKS
4 7 (18.42%) Amazon S3
4 7 (18.42%) GCP
5 6 (15.79%) Amazon EC2
5 6 (15.79%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (15.79%) Route 53
5 6 (15.79%) Serverless
5 6 (15.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 4 (10.53%) OpenShift
7 2 (5.26%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (5.26%) Amazon ElastiCache
7 2 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (5.26%) dbt
7 2 (5.26%) GitHub
7 2 (5.26%) PaaS
7 2 (5.26%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 16 (42.11%) SSL
2 4 (10.53%) TCP/IP
3 3 (7.89%) Firewall
3 3 (7.89%) Kerberos
4 2 (5.26%) DNS
5 1 (2.63%) DMARC
5 1 (2.63%) Network Security
5 1 (2.63%) WAN
5 1 (2.63%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (60.53%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (42.11%) DB2
3 11 (28.95%) SQL Server
4 8 (21.05%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (7.89%) Apache Hive
5 3 (7.89%) Big Data
5 3 (7.89%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (7.89%) Hadoop
6 2 (5.26%) Redis
7 1 (2.63%) Delta Lake
7 1 (2.63%) DynamoDB
7 1 (2.63%) Metadata
7 1 (2.63%) Relational Database
7 1 (2.63%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 5 (13.16%) Git
2 1 (2.63%) GitLab
2 1 (2.63%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.63%) MLflow
General
1 16 (42.11%) Banking
2 10 (26.32%) Investment Banking
3 9 (23.68%) Finance
4 6 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (10.53%) Social Skills
6 2 (5.26%) German Language
6 2 (5.26%) Law
7 1 (2.63%) Front Office
7 1 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (44.74%) Applications Support
2 15 (39.47%) Linux Support
3 11 (28.95%) Infrastructure Support
4 10 (26.32%) Unix Support
5 8 (21.05%) Support Engineer
6 7 (18.42%) Applications Engineer
6 7 (18.42%) Applications Support Engineer
7 6 (15.79%) Developer
8 5 (13.16%) Linux Engineer
8 5 (13.16%) Linux Support Engineer
8 5 (13.16%) Platform Engineer
8 5 (13.16%) Python Developer
8 5 (13.16%) Senior
9 3 (7.89%) Data Engineer
9 3 (7.89%) Senior Data Engineer
10 2 (5.26%) Administrator
10 2 (5.26%) Linux Administrator
10 2 (5.26%) Senior Platform Engineer
11 1 (2.63%) Applications Support Specialist
11 1 (2.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (50.00%) LDAP
2 16 (42.11%) LAPP Stack
2 16 (42.11%) WebSphere MQ
3 3 (7.89%) OAuth
3 3 (7.89%) OAuth2
3 3 (7.89%) YAML
4 2 (5.26%) Django
4 2 (5.26%) HTML
4 2 (5.26%) JSON
4 2 (5.26%) Regular Expression
4 2 (5.26%) XML
5 1 (2.63%) FIX Protocol
5 1 (2.63%) JDBC
5 1 (2.63%) Node.js
5 1 (2.63%) NumPy
5 1 (2.63%) ODBC
5 1 (2.63%) Pandas
5 1 (2.63%) React
5 1 (2.63%) scikit-learn
5 1 (2.63%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 11 (28.95%) Management Information System
2 3 (7.89%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (7.89%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (5.26%) Cloud Native
3 2 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (5.26%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.63%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.63%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (2.63%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 33 (86.84%) Linux
2 25 (65.79%) Unix
3 19 (50.00%) Windows
4 16 (42.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (7.89%) Ubuntu
6 2 (5.26%) CentOS
7 1 (2.63%) Debian
7 1 (2.63%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (42.11%) Change Management
1 16 (42.11%) ITIL
1 16 (42.11%) Release Management
1 16 (42.11%) User Acceptance Testing
2 12 (31.58%) Infrastructure as Code
3 11 (28.95%) CI/CD
4 7 (18.42%) Clean Code
4 7 (18.42%) Disaster Recovery
4 7 (18.42%) Service Management
5 6 (15.79%) Acceptance Criteria
5 6 (15.79%) AI
5 6 (15.79%) DevOps
5 6 (15.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 6 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (15.79%) Test Automation
6 5 (13.16%) Actionable Insight
6 5 (13.16%) Data Ingestion
6 5 (13.16%) DataOps
6 5 (13.16%) Mentoring
6 5 (13.16%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 32 (84.21%) Python
2 10 (26.32%) Bash
3 9 (23.68%) SQL
4 4 (10.53%) PowerShell
5 3 (7.89%) Java
6 2 (5.26%) Bicep
6 2 (5.26%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.63%) Go
7 1 (2.63%) Perl
7 1 (2.63%) Scala
7 1 (2.63%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 23 (60.53%) Degree
2 16 (42.11%) AWS Certification
2 16 (42.11%) ITIL Certification
3 6 (15.79%) Security Cleared
4 4 (10.53%) DV Cleared
5 3 (7.89%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (7.89%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (42.11%) SLA
2 5 (13.16%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.63%) QA
System Software
1 5 (13.16%) zsh
2 4 (10.53%) Active Directory
2 4 (10.53%) Docker
3 3 (7.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (5.26%) KVM
5 1 (2.63%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 8 (21.05%) Terraform
2 7 (18.42%) Ansible
2 7 (18.42%) Kubernetes
3 2 (5.26%) AWS Copilot
4 1 (2.63%) CASB
4 1 (2.63%) Docker Swarm
4 1 (2.63%) Kubeflow
4 1 (2.63%) QRadar
4 1 (2.63%) SCCM
4 1 (2.63%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (52.63%) Red Hat
2 16 (42.11%) IBM
3 10 (26.32%) ServiceNow
4 6 (15.79%) Databricks
5 3 (7.89%) Dell
5 3 (7.89%) Microsoft
5 3 (7.89%) VMware
6 2 (5.26%) Google
7 1 (2.63%) Cisco
7 1 (2.63%) Citrix
7 1 (2.63%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (2.63%) CyberArk
7 1 (2.63%) Exabeam
7 1 (2.63%) Forcepoint
7 1 (2.63%) Palo Alto
7 1 (2.63%) Qualys
7 1 (2.63%) Splunk
7 1 (2.63%) Thales