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

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 365 373 418
Rank change year-on-year +8 +45 +133
Permanent jobs citing Linux Command Line 37 23 56
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.20% 0.18% 0.25%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.55% 0.40% 0.61%
Number of salaries quoted 21 17 47
10th Percentile - £38,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £43,750 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £55,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +31.82% -24.14% +7.41%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £96,250 £125,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +13.64% +4.76% -19.23%

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 6,721 5,750 9,151
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 37.09% 44.78% 40.96%
Number of salaries quoted 3,981 3,256 6,654
10th Percentile £38,500 £42,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% +6.67% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £125,000 £135,000 £125,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -15.38%

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 2 April 2026.

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 2 April 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
Central London +5 5 £55,250 +0.45% 3
East London - 2 £85,000 - 3
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 5 (13.51%) Tomcat
1 5 (13.51%) WebSphere
1 5 (13.51%) WebSphere Application Server
2 2 (5.41%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.70%) Confluence
3 1 (2.70%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 15 (40.54%) AWS
2 9 (24.32%) Azure
3 7 (18.92%) GCP
4 6 (16.22%) Amazon ECR
4 6 (16.22%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (10.81%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (10.81%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (10.81%) Amazon S3
5 4 (10.81%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (10.81%) Serverless
6 3 (8.11%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 3 (8.11%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 3 (8.11%) dbt
6 3 (8.11%) OpenShift
6 3 (8.11%) PaaS
6 3 (8.11%) Pulumi
6 3 (8.11%) Route 53
6 3 (8.11%) Sentry
6 3 (8.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (5.41%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 7 (18.92%) VPN
2 6 (16.22%) TCP/IP
3 5 (13.51%) SSL
4 3 (8.11%) DNS
5 2 (5.41%) Firewall
5 2 (5.41%) Kerberos
6 1 (2.70%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (21.62%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (16.22%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (16.22%) Elasticsearch
2 6 (16.22%) Electronic Patient Records
2 6 (16.22%) MySQL
3 5 (13.51%) DB2
4 3 (8.11%) Redis
5 2 (5.41%) Apache Hive
5 2 (5.41%) Big Data
5 2 (5.41%) Hadoop
5 2 (5.41%) SQL Server
6 1 (2.70%) DynamoDB
6 1 (2.70%) Oracle Database
6 1 (2.70%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Git
1 2 (5.41%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.70%) Browser DevTools
2 1 (2.70%) CircleCI
2 1 (2.70%) git-flow
2 1 (2.70%) GitLab
2 1 (2.70%) JIRA
2 1 (2.70%) Maven
2 1 (2.70%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (2.70%) TeamCity
2 1 (2.70%) webpack
General
1 7 (18.92%) German Language
2 6 (16.22%) Health Technology
3 5 (13.51%) Banking
4 4 (10.81%) Finance
5 3 (8.11%) Investment Banking
5 3 (8.11%) Social Skills
6 1 (2.70%) Advertising
6 1 (2.70%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.70%) Billing
6 1 (2.70%) Front Office
6 1 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.70%) Publishing
6 1 (2.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (16.22%) Consultant
1 6 (16.22%) EPR Consultant
1 6 (16.22%) Senior
1 6 (16.22%) Technical Consultant
2 5 (13.51%) Applications Support
2 5 (13.51%) Linux Support
3 4 (10.81%) Developer
3 4 (10.81%) Linux Engineer
3 4 (10.81%) Platform Engineer
4 3 (8.11%) Automation Developer
4 3 (8.11%) Infrastructure Support
4 3 (8.11%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 3 (8.11%) Support Engineer
4 3 (8.11%) Unix Support
5 2 (5.41%) Administrator
5 2 (5.41%) Analyst
5 2 (5.41%) Applications Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Applications Support Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Linux Administrator
5 2 (5.41%) Linux Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (37.84%) JSON
2 8 (21.62%) HTML
3 7 (18.92%) LDAP
3 7 (18.92%) Regular Expression
3 7 (18.92%) XML
4 6 (16.22%) FHIR
5 5 (13.51%) LAPP Stack
5 5 (13.51%) WebSphere MQ
6 3 (8.11%) Django
7 2 (5.41%) OAuth
7 2 (5.41%) OAuth2
8 1 (2.70%) ARM Templates
8 1 (2.70%) AWS CDK
8 1 (2.70%) CSS
8 1 (2.70%) FIX Protocol
8 1 (2.70%) JDBC
8 1 (2.70%) Middleware
8 1 (2.70%) ODBC
8 1 (2.70%) React
8 1 (2.70%) RSS
Miscellaneous
1 7 (18.92%) Onboarding
2 6 (16.22%) NHS
3 4 (10.81%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (8.11%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (8.11%) Management Information System
4 3 (8.11%) Security Operations Centre
5 2 (5.41%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (2.70%) Data Centre
6 1 (2.70%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (2.70%) TM Forum
6 1 (2.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 29 (78.38%) Linux
2 21 (56.76%) Unix
3 7 (18.92%) Windows
4 6 (16.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (10.81%) Ubuntu
6 3 (8.11%) CentOS
7 1 (2.70%) Debian
7 1 (2.70%) Mac OS
7 1 (2.70%) SUSE
7 1 (2.70%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 1 (2.70%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (32.43%) User Acceptance Testing
2 9 (24.32%) AI
3 8 (21.62%) Data Analysis
3 8 (21.62%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (18.92%) LLM
4 7 (18.92%) Migration
5 6 (16.22%) Business Intelligence
5 6 (16.22%) CI/CD
5 6 (16.22%) DevOps
5 6 (16.22%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (16.22%) Root Cause Analysis
6 5 (13.51%) Change Management
6 5 (13.51%) ITIL
6 5 (13.51%) Performance Tuning
6 5 (13.51%) Release Management
7 4 (10.81%) Analytics
7 4 (10.81%) Cybersecurity
7 4 (10.81%) Disaster Recovery
7 4 (10.81%) Platform Engineering
7 4 (10.81%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 24 (64.86%) Python
2 8 (21.62%) SQL
3 7 (18.92%) JavaScript
4 6 (16.22%) Shell Script
5 4 (10.81%) Bash
6 3 (8.11%) Java
7 1 (2.70%) Groovy
7 1 (2.70%) Perl
7 1 (2.70%) PHP
7 1 (2.70%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.70%) Scala
7 1 (2.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (40.54%) Degree
2 8 (21.62%) Security Cleared
3 5 (13.51%) AWS Certification
3 5 (13.51%) ITIL Certification
4 4 (10.81%) DV Cleared
4 4 (10.81%) SC Cleared
5 2 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.70%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (16.22%) HL7
2 5 (13.51%) SLA
3 1 (2.70%) QA
System Software
1 4 (10.81%) Docker
2 2 (5.41%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.41%) KVM
2 2 (5.41%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (18.92%) Terraform
2 5 (13.51%) Ansible
3 3 (8.11%) AWS Copilot
3 3 (8.11%) Kubernetes
4 1 (2.70%) Kibana
4 1 (2.70%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 10 (27.03%) Red Hat
2 5 (13.51%) IBM
3 4 (10.81%) Google
4 3 (8.11%) ServiceNow
4 3 (8.11%) Splunk
5 2 (5.41%) Apple
5 2 (5.41%) Dell
5 2 (5.41%) Microsoft
5 2 (5.41%) VMware
6 1 (2.70%) New Relic
6 1 (2.70%) Oracle
6 1 (2.70%) SAP