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 17 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 360 395 417
Rank change year-on-year +35 +22 +16
Permanent jobs citing Linux Command Line 34 69 75
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.28% 0.36% 0.34%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.61% 0.89% 0.80%
Number of salaries quoted 25 60 71
10th Percentile - £47,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £50,000 £55,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +25.93% +8.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £95,000 £80,313 £70,625
90th Percentile £96,250 £92,750 £92,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +9.09%

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 5,538 7,763 9,383
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 46.41% 40.48% 42.36%
Number of salaries quoted 3,264 4,663 7,502
10th Percentile £37,705 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £55,000 £55,485
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% +6.67% -
75th Percentile £105,000 £108,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £135,000 £140,000 £130,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £64,811
% change year-on-year -8.33% -7.42% +3.70%

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

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 17 September 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 17 September 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 - 4 £85,000 -
Central London -3 3 - - 2
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 9 (26.47%) Tomcat
1 9 (26.47%) WebSphere
1 9 (26.47%) WebSphere Application Server
2 2 (5.88%) Confluence
3 1 (2.94%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.94%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 7 (20.59%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 17 (50.00%) AWS
2 11 (32.35%) Azure
3 5 (14.71%) Amazon EKS
3 5 (14.71%) Amazon S3
4 4 (11.76%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (11.76%) Amazon ECR
4 4 (11.76%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (11.76%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (11.76%) Route 53
4 4 (11.76%) Serverless
4 4 (11.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 3 (8.82%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (8.82%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (5.88%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (5.88%) GitHub
6 2 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (2.94%) Amazon ELB
7 1 (2.94%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (2.94%) PaaS
7 1 (2.94%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (26.47%) SSL
2 1 (2.94%) DMARC
2 1 (2.94%) Firewall
2 1 (2.94%) HTTP
2 1 (2.94%) NAS
2 1 (2.94%) Network Security
2 1 (2.94%) SAN
2 1 (2.94%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.94%) VPN
2 1 (2.94%) WAN
2 1 (2.94%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (44.12%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (35.29%) SQL Server
3 9 (26.47%) DB2
4 4 (11.76%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (2.94%) Delta Lake
5 1 (2.94%) DynamoDB
5 1 (2.94%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (2.94%) Metadata
5 1 (2.94%) MySQL
5 1 (2.94%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.94%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.94%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 7 (20.59%) Git
2 2 (5.88%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.94%) Artifactory
3 1 (2.94%) Cucumber
3 1 (2.94%) MLflow
3 1 (2.94%) Robot Framework
General
1 15 (44.12%) Social Skills
2 11 (32.35%) Banking
3 10 (29.41%) Finance
4 7 (20.59%) Investment Banking
5 6 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (5.88%) Law
6 2 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.94%) Advertising
7 1 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.94%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (44.12%) Linux Support
2 14 (41.18%) Support Engineer
3 10 (29.41%) Applications Support
3 10 (29.41%) Linux Engineer
3 10 (29.41%) Linux Support Engineer
4 6 (17.65%) Infrastructure Support
5 5 (14.71%) Applications Engineer
5 5 (14.71%) Applications Support Engineer
5 5 (14.71%) Developer
5 5 (14.71%) Python Developer
5 5 (14.71%) Unix Support
6 2 (5.88%) Analyst
6 2 (5.88%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Machine Learning Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Support Analyst
6 2 (5.88%) Windows Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) Active Directory Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) IT Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (26.47%) LAPP Stack
1 9 (26.47%) LDAP
1 9 (26.47%) WebSphere MQ
2 3 (8.82%) Pandas
3 2 (5.88%) ARM Templates
3 2 (5.88%) FIX Protocol
3 2 (5.88%) scikit-learn
3 2 (5.88%) YAML
4 1 (2.94%) Anaconda
4 1 (2.94%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (2.94%) JSON
4 1 (2.94%) Keras
4 1 (2.94%) Lambda Expressions
4 1 (2.94%) NumPy
4 1 (2.94%) Puppeteer
4 1 (2.94%) PySpark
4 1 (2.94%) PyTorch
4 1 (2.94%) React
4 1 (2.94%) Scrapy
4 1 (2.94%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.65%) Management Information System
2 2 (5.88%) Data Centre
2 2 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (5.88%) Hedge funds
2 2 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.94%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.94%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 32 (94.12%) Linux
2 17 (50.00%) Windows
3 12 (35.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (29.41%) Unix
5 7 (20.59%) Mac OS
6 3 (8.82%) Windows Server
7 1 (2.94%) CentOS
7 1 (2.94%) CoreOS
7 1 (2.94%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (29.41%) ITIL
2 9 (26.47%) Change Management
2 9 (26.47%) CI/CD
2 9 (26.47%) Release Management
2 9 (26.47%) User Acceptance Testing
3 8 (23.53%) Artificial Intelligence
3 8 (23.53%) Infrastructure as Code
3 8 (23.53%) Problem Management
3 8 (23.53%) Test Automation
4 7 (20.59%) Asset Management
4 7 (20.59%) Conversational UI
5 6 (17.65%) DevOps
5 6 (17.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 6 (17.65%) Mentoring
5 6 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (17.65%) Software Engineering
6 5 (14.71%) Data Ingestion
6 5 (14.71%) Pair Programming
6 5 (14.71%) Service Management
6 5 (14.71%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 22 (64.71%) Python
2 17 (50.00%) Bash
3 15 (44.12%) SQL
4 8 (23.53%) Shell Script
5 7 (20.59%) PowerShell
6 2 (5.88%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.94%) Bicep
7 1 (2.94%) Go
7 1 (2.94%) Perl
7 1 (2.94%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 18 (52.94%) Degree
2 9 (26.47%) AWS Certification
2 9 (26.47%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (5.88%) Azure Certification
3 2 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.94%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.94%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.94%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (26.47%) SLA
2 5 (14.71%) Data Quality
3 3 (8.82%) QA
4 2 (5.88%) GDPR
4 2 (5.88%) HIPAA
4 2 (5.88%) SOC 2
System Software
1 5 (14.71%) Docker
1 5 (14.71%) zsh
2 3 (8.82%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (5.88%) Active Directory
3 2 (5.88%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (5.88%) vSphere
4 1 (2.94%) Hyper-V
4 1 (2.94%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (20.59%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (14.71%) Kubernetes
2 5 (14.71%) Terraform
3 4 (11.76%) Ansible
4 1 (2.94%) CASB
4 1 (2.94%) Docker Swarm
4 1 (2.94%) Kubeflow
4 1 (2.94%) Packer
4 1 (2.94%) Puppet
4 1 (2.94%) QRadar
4 1 (2.94%) SCCM
4 1 (2.94%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (32.35%) Red Hat
2 9 (26.47%) IBM
2 9 (26.47%) Microsoft
3 7 (20.59%) Apple
4 6 (17.65%) Databricks
5 5 (14.71%) ServiceNow
6 2 (5.88%) NetApp
7 1 (2.94%) Bloomberg
7 1 (2.94%) Cisco
7 1 (2.94%) Citrix
7 1 (2.94%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (2.94%) CyberArk
7 1 (2.94%) Exabeam
7 1 (2.94%) Forcepoint
7 1 (2.94%) Palo Alto
7 1 (2.94%) Qualys
7 1 (2.94%) Refinitiv
7 1 (2.94%) Splunk
7 1 (2.94%) Thales
7 1 (2.94%) VMware