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 25 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 422 355 401
Rank change year-on-year -67 +46 +21
Permanent jobs citing Linux Command Line 16 37 67
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.067% 0.31% 0.34%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.19% 0.66% 0.84%
Number of salaries quoted 12 25 58
10th Percentile £44,125 - £47,500
25th Percentile £49,375 £38,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £85,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -41.18% +25.93% +8.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £95,000 £80,938
90th Percentile £74,875 £96,250 £93,250
England median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% -8.33%

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 8,255 5,566 8,007
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 34.32% 46.19% 40.98%
Number of salaries quoted 4,913 3,260 5,103
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,745 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £77,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - -3.13% +6.67%
75th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £107,500
90th Percentile £117,500 £135,000 £140,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -11.54%

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 25 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Linux Command Line in London

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 2 (12.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (43.75%) Azure
1 7 (43.75%) GitHub
1 7 (43.75%) GitHub Actions
2 5 (31.25%) AWS
2 5 (31.25%) Datadog
3 4 (25.00%) GCP
4 3 (18.75%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (18.75%) Entra ID
5 2 (12.50%) IaaS
5 2 (12.50%) PaaS
5 2 (12.50%) SaaS
5 2 (12.50%) Serverless
5 2 (12.50%) Slack
6 1 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (6.25%) Amazon S3
6 1 (6.25%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (6.25%) Cloudflare
6 1 (6.25%) CloudFront
6 1 (6.25%) npm
6 1 (6.25%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 5 (31.25%) VPN
2 4 (25.00%) SSH
3 2 (12.50%) DHCP
3 2 (12.50%) DNS
3 2 (12.50%) Firewall
3 2 (12.50%) TCP/IP
4 1 (6.25%) BGP
4 1 (6.25%) Internet
4 1 (6.25%) VoIP
4 1 (6.25%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (6.25%) DynamoDB
1 1 (6.25%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 5 (31.25%) Jenkins
2 4 (25.00%) JIRA
3 1 (6.25%) Git
3 1 (6.25%) git-flow
3 1 (6.25%) Maven
3 1 (6.25%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (18.75%) Finance
2 2 (12.50%) Banking
3 1 (6.25%) Advertising
3 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Law
3 1 (6.25%) Legal
3 1 (6.25%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) DevOps Engineer
1 5 (31.25%) Linux Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Analyst
2 2 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Desktop Analyst
2 2 (12.50%) Desktop Support
2 2 (12.50%) Desktop Support Analyst
2 2 (12.50%) Linux Support
2 2 (12.50%) Linux Systems Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) QA Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Senior
2 2 (12.50%) Support Analyst
2 2 (12.50%) Systems Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Windows Support Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Field Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Field Service Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) IT Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Security Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (25.00%) YAML
2 3 (18.75%) Terraform
3 2 (12.50%) ARM Templates
4 1 (6.25%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Hedge funds
1 2 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (12.50%) Onboarding
1 2 (12.50%) Product Ownership
1 2 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
1 2 (12.50%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.25%) Data Centre
2 1 (6.25%) Fibre Optics
Operating Systems
1 14 (87.50%) Linux
2 6 (37.50%) Unix
3 4 (25.00%) Ubuntu
4 3 (18.75%) Windows
4 3 (18.75%) Windows 10
5 2 (12.50%) CentOS
6 1 (6.25%) Mac OS
6 1 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (6.25%) SUSE
6 1 (6.25%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
6 1 (6.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (50.00%) DevOps
3 7 (43.75%) Runbook
3 7 (43.75%) Task Automation
4 5 (31.25%) Containerisation
4 5 (31.25%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (31.25%) Infrastructure Automation
5 4 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 4 (25.00%) Tech Ops
6 3 (18.75%) Agile
6 3 (18.75%) Cloud Security
6 3 (18.75%) Migration
6 3 (18.75%) Performance Tuning
6 3 (18.75%) Root Cause Analysis
7 2 (12.50%) Collaborative Culture
7 2 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
7 2 (12.50%) High Availability
7 2 (12.50%) ITSM
7 2 (12.50%) Software Deployment
7 2 (12.50%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (68.75%) Bash
1 11 (68.75%) Python
2 5 (31.25%) PowerShell
3 4 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (12.50%) Shell Script
5 1 (6.25%) Bicep
5 1 (6.25%) Groovy
5 1 (6.25%) Perl
5 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (31.25%) Security Cleared
2 3 (18.75%) Degree
3 2 (12.50%) A+ Certification
3 2 (12.50%) DV Cleared
3 2 (12.50%) Network+ Certification
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Certification
4 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 5 (31.25%) Docker
2 4 (25.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (6.25%) Hyper-V
3 1 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (25.00%) Grafana
1 4 (25.00%) Prometheus
2 2 (12.50%) Ansible
3 1 (6.25%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
3 1 (6.25%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (25.00%) New Relic
1 4 (25.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (12.50%) Atlassian
3 1 (6.25%) Arista
3 1 (6.25%) Brocade
3 1 (6.25%) Cisco
3 1 (6.25%) Dell
3 1 (6.25%) Juniper
3 1 (6.25%) QNAP
3 1 (6.25%) SAP
3 1 (6.25%) SonicWALL
3 1 (6.25%) Synology
3 1 (6.25%) Ubiquiti
3 1 (6.25%) VMware