Linux Command Line Jobs 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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 381 451 477
Rank change year-on-year +70 +26 -12
Permanent jobs citing Linux Command Line 30 59 109
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.23% 0.24% 0.36%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.51% 0.60% 0.81%
Number of salaries quoted 21 51 85
10th Percentile - £47,500 £42,650
25th Percentile £38,500 £59,375 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +20.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £96,250 £92,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £95,000 £79,500
England median annual salary £50,000 £54,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% -10.00% -

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 5,928 9,755 13,410
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 45.20% 40.34% 44.33%
Number of salaries quoted 3,206 6,809 9,647
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,000 £43,467
25th Percentile £55,750 £51,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,500 £75,000 £75,554
Median % change year-on-year +4.67% -0.73% +0.74%
75th Percentile £110,000 £100,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £136,250 £135,000 £126,250
England 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 London

Job postings citing Linux Command Line as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Linux Command Line in London

Linux Command Line
Salary Trend in London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Linux Command Line in London.

Salary trend for Linux Command Line in London

Linux Command Line
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux Command Line in London over the 6 months to 5 July 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 5 July 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
Central London +18 9 £76,250 +12.96% 19
Linux Command Line
England

Linux Command Line
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (10.00%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (6.67%) Confluence
3 1 (3.33%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 7 (23.33%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 17 (56.67%) Azure
2 12 (40.00%) AWS
3 6 (20.00%) GCP
4 5 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
4 5 (16.67%) SaaS
5 4 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (13.33%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (10.00%) GitHub
6 3 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (6.67%) Azure Machine Learning
7 2 (6.67%) PaaS
8 1 (3.33%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (3.33%) Amazon ELB
8 1 (3.33%) Amazon S3
8 1 (3.33%) Azure AKS
8 1 (3.33%) Datadog
8 1 (3.33%) IaaS
8 1 (3.33%) OpenShift
8 1 (3.33%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 5 (16.67%) HTTP
2 1 (3.33%) NAS
2 1 (3.33%) SAN
2 1 (3.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (26.67%) SQL Server
2 6 (20.00%) NoSQL
3 5 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.33%) Delta Lake
4 1 (3.33%) DynamoDB
4 1 (3.33%) Metadata
4 1 (3.33%) MySQL
4 1 (3.33%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 8 (26.67%) Git
2 5 (16.67%) Jenkins
3 2 (6.67%) Artifactory
4 1 (3.33%) Cucumber
4 1 (3.33%) MLflow
4 1 (3.33%) Robot Framework
4 1 (3.33%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 20 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 6 (20.00%) Finance
3 4 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (10.00%) Banking
4 3 (10.00%) Investment Banking
5 2 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (3.33%) Advertising
6 1 (3.33%) Games
6 1 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (30.00%) Support Engineer
2 7 (23.33%) Linux Engineer
2 7 (23.33%) Linux Support
2 7 (23.33%) Linux Support Engineer
3 5 (16.67%) Support Manager
3 5 (16.67%) Technical Manager
3 5 (16.67%) Technical Support
3 5 (16.67%) Technical Support Manager
4 4 (13.33%) Azure Engineer
4 4 (13.33%) Developer
4 4 (13.33%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 4 (13.33%) Python Developer
4 4 (13.33%) Senior
5 3 (10.00%) Windows Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Analyst
6 2 (6.67%) Lead
6 2 (6.67%) Platform Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Senior Platform Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Support Analyst
7 1 (3.33%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (30.00%) Pandas
2 6 (20.00%) JSON
3 5 (16.67%) Puppeteer
3 5 (16.67%) Scrapy
4 4 (13.33%) ARM Templates
4 4 (13.33%) scikit-learn
5 2 (6.67%) Anaconda
5 2 (6.67%) FIX Protocol
6 1 (3.33%) Keras
6 1 (3.33%) Lambda Expressions
6 1 (3.33%) Metaflow
6 1 (3.33%) Node.js
6 1 (3.33%) NumPy
6 1 (3.33%) PySpark
6 1 (3.33%) PyTorch
6 1 (3.33%) React
6 1 (3.33%) RESTful
6 1 (3.33%) TensorFlow
6 1 (3.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
1 3 (10.00%) Hedge funds
2 2 (6.67%) Data Centre
2 2 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 28 (93.33%) Linux
2 9 (30.00%) Windows
3 7 (23.33%) Mac OS
4 4 (13.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (10.00%) VMS
5 3 (10.00%) Windows Server
6 1 (3.33%) CentOS
6 1 (3.33%) CoreOS
6 1 (3.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (36.67%) CI/CD
2 9 (30.00%) Computer Science
2 9 (30.00%) Data Pipeline
2 9 (30.00%) DevOps
3 8 (26.67%) Artificial Intelligence
3 8 (26.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (23.33%) Asset Management
4 7 (23.33%) Conversational UI
4 7 (23.33%) Problem Management
4 7 (23.33%) Software Engineering
4 7 (23.33%) Test Automation
5 6 (20.00%) ETL
5 6 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (16.67%) API Testing
6 5 (16.67%) Containerisation
6 5 (16.67%) Data Extraction
6 5 (16.67%) Data Science
6 5 (16.67%) Mentoring
7 4 (13.33%) Machine Learning
7 4 (13.33%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 20 (66.67%) SQL
2 18 (60.00%) Bash
2 18 (60.00%) Python
3 9 (30.00%) Shell Script
4 8 (26.67%) PowerShell
5 7 (23.33%) JavaScript
6 2 (6.67%) Go
6 2 (6.67%) Java
7 1 (3.33%) C#
7 1 (3.33%) PHP
Qualifications
1 14 (46.67%) Degree
2 7 (23.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (10.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.33%) Data Quality
2 3 (10.00%) GDPR
2 3 (10.00%) HIPAA
2 3 (10.00%) QA
2 3 (10.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 8 (26.67%) Docker
2 6 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (13.33%) zsh
4 3 (10.00%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (10.00%) vSphere
5 2 (6.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (30.00%) Terraform
2 8 (26.67%) Kubernetes
3 7 (23.33%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (16.67%) Ansible
5 3 (10.00%) Packer
5 3 (10.00%) Puppet
6 2 (6.67%) Progress Chef
7 1 (3.33%) Kubeflow
7 1 (3.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (23.33%) Apple
1 7 (23.33%) Microsoft
2 5 (16.67%) Databricks
3 3 (10.00%) NetApp
4 1 (3.33%) Bloomberg
4 1 (3.33%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.33%) Refinitiv