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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 416 346 398
Rank change year-on-year -70 +52 +32
Permanent jobs citing Linux Command Line 17 37 68
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.071% 0.31% 0.35%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.21% 0.67% 0.86%
Number of salaries quoted 13 25 59
10th Percentile £43,750 - £47,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £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 £68,750 £95,000 £80,625
90th Percentile £74,750 £96,250 £93,000
England median annual salary £47,500 £51,250 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.32% -6.82% -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 8,277 5,546 7,906
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 34.33% 46.15% 40.83%
Number of salaries quoted 4,939 3,265 4,947
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £54,000 £54,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% -3.13% +6.67%
75th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £107,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £135,000 £142,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £59,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -6.78% -9.23%

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 1 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 3 (17.65%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (41.18%) Azure
1 7 (41.18%) GitHub
1 7 (41.18%) GitHub Actions
2 5 (29.41%) AWS
2 5 (29.41%) Datadog
3 4 (23.53%) Entra ID
3 4 (23.53%) GCP
4 3 (17.65%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (17.65%) SaaS
4 3 (17.65%) Slack
5 2 (11.76%) IaaS
5 2 (11.76%) PaaS
5 2 (11.76%) Serverless
6 1 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (5.88%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (5.88%) AWS Fargate
6 1 (5.88%) AWS KMS
6 1 (5.88%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (5.88%) Azure Functions
6 1 (5.88%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 6 (35.29%) VPN
2 4 (23.53%) SSH
3 3 (17.65%) DHCP
3 3 (17.65%) DNS
3 3 (17.65%) TCP/IP
4 2 (11.76%) Firewall
5 1 (5.88%) BGP
5 1 (5.88%) Internet
5 1 (5.88%) VoIP
5 1 (5.88%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (5.88%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (5.88%) DynamoDB
1 1 (5.88%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 5 (29.41%) Jenkins
1 5 (29.41%) JIRA
2 1 (5.88%) Git
2 1 (5.88%) git-flow
2 1 (5.88%) Maven
2 1 (5.88%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (23.53%) Finance
2 3 (17.65%) Banking
3 1 (5.88%) Advertising
3 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Law
3 1 (5.88%) Legal
3 1 (5.88%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) DevOps Engineer
1 5 (29.41%) Linux Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Analyst
2 3 (17.65%) Desktop Analyst
2 3 (17.65%) Desktop Support
2 3 (17.65%) Desktop Support Analyst
2 3 (17.65%) Linux Support
2 3 (17.65%) Support Analyst
2 3 (17.65%) Windows Support Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Linux Systems Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) QA Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Senior
3 2 (11.76%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (5.88%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Platform Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Field Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Field Service Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (23.53%) YAML
2 3 (17.65%) Terraform
3 2 (11.76%) ARM Templates
4 1 (5.88%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Hedge funds
1 3 (17.65%) Onboarding
1 3 (17.65%) Video Conferencing
2 2 (11.76%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (11.76%) Product Ownership
2 2 (11.76%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (5.88%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.88%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.88%) Fibre Optics
Operating Systems
1 15 (88.24%) Linux
2 7 (41.18%) Unix
3 4 (23.53%) Ubuntu
3 4 (23.53%) Windows
3 4 (23.53%) Windows 10
4 2 (11.76%) CentOS
5 1 (5.88%) Mac OS
5 1 (5.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (5.88%) SUSE
5 1 (5.88%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
5 1 (5.88%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (47.06%) DevOps
2 8 (47.06%) Runbook
2 8 (47.06%) Task Automation
3 6 (35.29%) Infrastructure Automation
4 5 (29.41%) Containerisation
4 5 (29.41%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (23.53%) CI/CD
5 4 (23.53%) Tech Ops
6 3 (17.65%) Agile
6 3 (17.65%) AI
6 3 (17.65%) Cloud Security
6 3 (17.65%) Customer Service
6 3 (17.65%) ITIL
6 3 (17.65%) ITSM
6 3 (17.65%) Migration
6 3 (17.65%) Performance Tuning
6 3 (17.65%) Proprietary Trading
6 3 (17.65%) Software Deployment
6 3 (17.65%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 12 (70.59%) Bash
1 12 (70.59%) Python
2 6 (35.29%) PowerShell
3 4 (23.53%) JavaScript
4 2 (11.76%) Shell Script
5 1 (5.88%) Bicep
5 1 (5.88%) Groovy
5 1 (5.88%) Perl
5 1 (5.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (29.41%) Security Cleared
2 3 (17.65%) A+ Certification
2 3 (17.65%) Degree
2 3 (17.65%) Network+ Certification
3 2 (11.76%) DV Cleared
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Certification
4 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) QA
System Software
1 5 (29.41%) Active Directory
1 5 (29.41%) Docker
2 1 (5.88%) Hyper-V
2 1 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (23.53%) Grafana
1 4 (23.53%) Prometheus
2 2 (11.76%) Ansible
3 1 (5.88%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
3 1 (5.88%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 5 (29.41%) Microsoft
2 4 (23.53%) New Relic
2 4 (23.53%) Red Hat
3 3 (17.65%) Atlassian
4 1 (5.88%) Arista
4 1 (5.88%) Brocade
4 1 (5.88%) Cisco
4 1 (5.88%) Dell
4 1 (5.88%) Juniper
4 1 (5.88%) QNAP
4 1 (5.88%) SAP
4 1 (5.88%) SonicWALL
4 1 (5.88%) Synology
4 1 (5.88%) Ubiquiti
4 1 (5.88%) VMware