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 15 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 412 351 401
Rank change year-on-year -61 +50 +29
Permanent jobs citing Linux Command Line 20 33 69
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.081% 0.28% 0.36%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.24% 0.60% 0.89%
Number of salaries quoted 14 25 60
10th Percentile £43,750 - £47,500
25th Percentile £44,688 £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 £70,379 £95,000 £80,313
90th Percentile £81,125 £96,250 £92,750
England median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.64% - -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 8,428 5,513 7,710
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 34.04% 46.54% 40.56%
Number of salaries quoted 5,045 3,238 4,686
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,750 £55,000
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 £108,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £135,000 £140,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -7.69%

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 15 September 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 6 (30.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 8 (40.00%) GitHub
1 8 (40.00%) GitHub Actions
2 7 (35.00%) Entra ID
3 6 (30.00%) AWS
3 6 (30.00%) Azure
3 6 (30.00%) SaaS
3 6 (30.00%) Slack
4 5 (25.00%) Datadog
5 4 (20.00%) GCP
6 2 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (10.00%) IaaS
6 2 (10.00%) PaaS
6 2 (10.00%) Serverless
7 1 (5.00%) Amazon S3
7 1 (5.00%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (5.00%) Azure Functions
7 1 (5.00%) CloudFront
7 1 (5.00%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 9 (45.00%) VPN
2 6 (30.00%) DHCP
2 6 (30.00%) DNS
2 6 (30.00%) TCP/IP
3 4 (20.00%) SSH
4 2 (10.00%) Firewall
5 1 (5.00%) BGP
5 1 (5.00%) Internet
5 1 (5.00%) VoIP
5 1 (5.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (5.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 8 (40.00%) JIRA
2 6 (30.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.00%) Git
3 1 (5.00%) git-flow
3 1 (5.00%) Maven
3 1 (5.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 7 (35.00%) Finance
2 6 (30.00%) Banking
3 1 (5.00%) Advertising
3 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Law
3 1 (5.00%) Legal
3 1 (5.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (30.00%) Analyst
1 6 (30.00%) Desktop Analyst
1 6 (30.00%) Desktop Support
1 6 (30.00%) Desktop Support Analyst
1 6 (30.00%) Linux Support
1 6 (30.00%) Support Analyst
1 6 (30.00%) Windows Support Analyst
2 5 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (20.00%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Linux Systems Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) QA Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Senior
4 2 (10.00%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Field Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Field Service Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Security Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (20.00%) YAML
2 3 (15.00%) Terraform
3 1 (5.00%) ARM Templates
3 1 (5.00%) AWS CDK
3 1 (5.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (30.00%) Hedge funds
1 6 (30.00%) Onboarding
1 6 (30.00%) Video Conferencing
2 2 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (10.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.00%) Fibre Optics
Operating Systems
1 18 (90.00%) Linux
2 10 (50.00%) Unix
3 7 (35.00%) Windows
3 7 (35.00%) Windows 10
4 5 (25.00%) Ubuntu
5 3 (15.00%) CentOS
6 1 (5.00%) Mac OS
6 1 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (5.00%) Rocky
6 1 (5.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (55.00%) Runbook
2 10 (50.00%) Task Automation
3 9 (45.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 8 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (35.00%) DevOps
6 6 (30.00%) AI
6 6 (30.00%) Containerisation
6 6 (30.00%) Customer Service
6 6 (30.00%) ITIL
6 6 (30.00%) ITSM
6 6 (30.00%) Proprietary Trading
6 6 (30.00%) Software Deployment
6 6 (30.00%) User Experience
7 5 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 4 (20.00%) CI/CD
8 4 (20.00%) Tech Ops
9 3 (15.00%) Agile
9 3 (15.00%) Cloud Security
9 3 (15.00%) Migration
9 3 (15.00%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 15 (75.00%) Python
2 14 (70.00%) Bash
3 8 (40.00%) PowerShell
4 4 (20.00%) JavaScript
5 2 (10.00%) Groovy
5 2 (10.00%) Shell Script
6 1 (5.00%) Bicep
6 1 (5.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (30.00%) A+ Certification
1 6 (30.00%) Network+ Certification
1 6 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (15.00%) Degree
3 2 (10.00%) DV Cleared
3 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 8 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 6 (30.00%) Docker
3 1 (5.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (5.00%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (20.00%) Grafana
1 4 (20.00%) Prometheus
2 2 (10.00%) Ansible
2 2 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (10.00%) Progress Chef
3 1 (5.00%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 7 (35.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (30.00%) Atlassian
3 5 (25.00%) Red Hat
4 4 (20.00%) New Relic
5 1 (5.00%) Arista
5 1 (5.00%) Brocade
5 1 (5.00%) Cisco
5 1 (5.00%) Dell
5 1 (5.00%) Juniper
5 1 (5.00%) QNAP
5 1 (5.00%) SonicWALL
5 1 (5.00%) Synology
5 1 (5.00%) Ubiquiti
5 1 (5.00%) VMware