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 30 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 403 357 443
Rank change year-on-year -46 +86 +31
Permanent jobs citing Linux Command Line 15 30 58
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.068% 0.25% 0.24%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.20% 0.54% 0.59%
Number of salaries quoted 11 21 49
10th Percentile £50,000 - £46,750
25th Percentile £52,800 £38,500 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.63% +6.67% +20.00%
75th Percentile £82,989 £96,250 £92,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £102,500 £95,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -12.50%

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 7,436 5,521 9,769
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 33.93% 45.12% 40.48%
Number of salaries quoted 4,582 3,106 6,832
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £38,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £56,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £78,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.91% +4.67% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £136,250 £133,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -15.38%

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 30 June 2026.

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 30 June 2026. 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 -13 3 £82,500 +8.20%
Linux Command Line
England

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 1 (6.67%) Apache Spark
1 1 (6.67%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 6 (40.00%) AWS
1 6 (40.00%) Azure
2 5 (33.33%) GitHub
2 5 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
3 4 (26.67%) GCP
4 3 (20.00%) Datadog
5 2 (13.33%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (13.33%) Amazon ECR
5 2 (13.33%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (13.33%) Amazon S3
5 2 (13.33%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (13.33%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (13.33%) PaaS
5 2 (13.33%) Serverless
6 1 (6.67%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 1 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (6.67%) CloudFront
6 1 (6.67%) IaaS
6 1 (6.67%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 3 (20.00%) VPN
2 2 (13.33%) Firewall
2 2 (13.33%) SSH
3 1 (6.67%) BGP
3 1 (6.67%) Internet
3 1 (6.67%) Kerberos
3 1 (6.67%) TCP/IP
3 1 (6.67%) VoIP
3 1 (6.67%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (13.33%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (6.67%) Apache Hive
3 1 (6.67%) Big Data
3 1 (6.67%) DynamoDB
3 1 (6.67%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (6.67%) Hadoop
3 1 (6.67%) MySQL
3 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (6.67%) Redis
3 1 (6.67%) SAP HANA
3 1 (6.67%) Trino
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (13.33%) Git
3 1 (6.67%) Browser DevTools
3 1 (6.67%) CircleCI
3 1 (6.67%) git-flow
3 1 (6.67%) JIRA
3 1 (6.67%) Maven
3 1 (6.67%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (6.67%) TeamCity
3 1 (6.67%) webpack
General
1 1 (6.67%) Advertising
1 1 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (6.67%) Finance
1 1 (6.67%) Health Technology
1 1 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (6.67%) Law
1 1 (6.67%) Legal
1 1 (6.67%) Publishing
1 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Senior
2 3 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Automation Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Linux Systems Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (6.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Platform Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Data Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) EPR Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Field Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Field Service Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) JSON
1 2 (13.33%) YAML
2 1 (6.67%) ARM Templates
2 1 (6.67%) AWS CDK
2 1 (6.67%) CSS
2 1 (6.67%) Django
2 1 (6.67%) FHIR
2 1 (6.67%) HTML
2 1 (6.67%) JDBC
2 1 (6.67%) LDAP
2 1 (6.67%) OAuth
2 1 (6.67%) OAuth2
2 1 (6.67%) ODBC
2 1 (6.67%) React
2 1 (6.67%) RSS
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (13.33%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (6.67%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (6.67%) Fibre Optics
2 1 (6.67%) NHS
2 1 (6.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (86.67%) Linux
2 6 (40.00%) Unix
3 2 (13.33%) CentOS
3 2 (13.33%) Ubuntu
4 1 (6.67%) Mac OS
4 1 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (6.67%) SUSE
4 1 (6.67%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
4 1 (6.67%) Windows
4 1 (6.67%) Windows 10
4 1 (6.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) DevOps
2 5 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (26.67%) CI/CD
3 4 (26.67%) Containerisation
3 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (26.67%) Root Cause Analysis
3 4 (26.67%) Runbook
3 4 (26.67%) Task Automation
4 3 (20.00%) Agile
4 3 (20.00%) Incident Response
4 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 3 (20.00%) Migration
4 3 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
5 2 (13.33%) Application Security
5 2 (13.33%) Cloud Security
5 2 (13.33%) Platform Engineering
5 2 (13.33%) Security Hardening
5 2 (13.33%) Security Operations
5 2 (13.33%) Tech Ops
5 2 (13.33%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 11 (73.33%) Python
2 7 (46.67%) Bash
3 4 (26.67%) JavaScript
3 4 (26.67%) Shell Script
4 2 (13.33%) Java
4 2 (13.33%) PowerShell
5 1 (6.67%) Groovy
5 1 (6.67%) Perl
5 1 (6.67%) PHP
5 1 (6.67%) SQL
5 1 (6.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (13.33%) DV Cleared
2 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Certification
3 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (6.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) HL7
System Software
1 4 (26.67%) Docker
2 2 (13.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (6.67%) Hyper-V
3 1 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) Ansible
1 3 (20.00%) Terraform
2 2 (13.33%) Grafana
2 2 (13.33%) Prometheus
3 1 (6.67%) AWS Copilot
3 1 (6.67%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (6.67%) Kibana
3 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
3 1 (6.67%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Red Hat
2 3 (20.00%) New Relic
3 2 (13.33%) Dell
3 2 (13.33%) Splunk
4 1 (6.67%) Apple
4 1 (6.67%) Arista
4 1 (6.67%) Brocade
4 1 (6.67%) Cisco
4 1 (6.67%) Google
4 1 (6.67%) Juniper
4 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
4 1 (6.67%) QNAP
4 1 (6.67%) SAP
4 1 (6.67%) SonicWALL
4 1 (6.67%) Synology
4 1 (6.67%) Ubiquiti
4 1 (6.67%) VMware