Linux Command Line Job Trends in the Midlands

Linux/Unix Command Line Interface (CLI)
England > Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Linux Command Line in permanent job vacancies in the Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Linux Command Line over the 6 months leading up to 21 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 215 254 227
Rank change year-on-year +39 -27 +86
Permanent jobs citing Linux Command Line 20 10 1
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.36% 0.11% 0.019%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.88% 0.39% 0.050%
Number of salaries quoted 14 1 1
10th Percentile £32,125 - -
25th Percentile £33,469 £31,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,000 £32,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -40.91% +5.42%
75th Percentile £41,750 £33,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £56,750 - -
England median annual salary £65,000 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +18.18% -12.00% +13.64%

All Generic Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 2,273 2,568 2,018
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 40.98% 28.50% 38.05%
Number of salaries quoted 1,147 989 1,455
10th Percentile £26,000 £31,250 £27,760
25th Percentile £30,938 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £62,750 £66,650 £65,500
90th Percentile £76,550 £78,750 £77,000
England median annual salary £54,393 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -9.35% -4.00% -

Linux Command Line
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Linux Command Line relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Linux Command Line job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Linux Command Line
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Linux Command Line.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Linux Command Line

Linux Command Line
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux Command Line in the Midlands over the 6 months to 21 October 2025.

Salary histogram for Linux Command Line in the Midlands

Linux Command Line
Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 21 October 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
West Midlands +55 14 £39,000 +20.00% 10
East Midlands +23 6 £52,500 - 7
Linux Command Line
England

Linux Command Line
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 10 (50.00%) IIS
2 6 (30.00%) Apache
2 6 (30.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 12 (60.00%) SaaS
2 9 (45.00%) AWS
3 6 (30.00%) Amazon EKS
3 6 (30.00%) Amazon ELB
3 6 (30.00%) Amazon S3
4 3 (15.00%) Azure
5 2 (10.00%) GCP
6 1 (5.00%) Amazon ECR
6 1 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (5.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 1 (5.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 1 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (5.00%) dbt
6 1 (5.00%) GitHub
6 1 (5.00%) PaaS
6 1 (5.00%) Pulumi
6 1 (5.00%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 7 (35.00%) MySQL
3 6 (30.00%) Delta Lake
3 6 (30.00%) DynamoDB
3 6 (30.00%) Metadata
3 6 (30.00%) Spark SQL
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (5.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (30.00%) MLflow
2 4 (20.00%) Browser DevTools
3 1 (5.00%) Git
General
1 16 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.00%) Law
3 1 (5.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 10 (50.00%) Support Specialist
2 6 (30.00%) Applications Specialist
2 6 (30.00%) Applications Support
2 6 (30.00%) Applications Support Specialist
2 6 (30.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
2 6 (30.00%) Operations Engineer
3 4 (20.00%) Technical Specialist
3 4 (20.00%) Technical Support
3 4 (20.00%) Technical Support Specialist
4 2 (10.00%) Software Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Senior
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Web Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Website Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (50.00%) LAMP
2 6 (30.00%) Keras
2 6 (30.00%) Lambda Expressions
2 6 (30.00%) Metaflow
2 6 (30.00%) NumPy
2 6 (30.00%) Pandas
2 6 (30.00%) PySpark
2 6 (30.00%) PyTorch
2 6 (30.00%) scikit-learn
2 6 (30.00%) TensorFlow
2 6 (30.00%) YAML
3 4 (20.00%) REST
3 4 (20.00%) SOAP
4 2 (10.00%) Ruby on Rails
5 1 (5.00%) Django
5 1 (5.00%) Laravel
5 1 (5.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 14 (70.00%) Linux
2 7 (35.00%) Unix
3 2 (10.00%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (55.00%) Customer Experience
2 10 (50.00%) CRM
3 9 (45.00%) CI/CD
4 8 (40.00%) AI
4 8 (40.00%) OO
4 8 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (30.00%) Containerisation
5 6 (30.00%) Data Science
5 6 (30.00%) Deployment Automation
5 6 (30.00%) Information Security
5 6 (30.00%) Machine Learning
5 6 (30.00%) Metadata Management
5 6 (30.00%) MLOps
5 6 (30.00%) OOP
5 6 (30.00%) OWASP
5 6 (30.00%) Time Management
5 6 (30.00%) Unit Testing
5 6 (30.00%) Visualisation
6 4 (20.00%) Case Management
6 4 (20.00%) Proactive Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (90.00%) SQL
2 13 (65.00%) JavaScript
3 11 (55.00%) PHP
4 7 (35.00%) Python
5 2 (10.00%) C#
5 2 (10.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 7 (35.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (35.00%) Terraform
2 6 (30.00%) Kubeflow
2 6 (30.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (5.00%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 10 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 10 (50.00%) Oracle
1 10 (50.00%) Salesforce
2 6 (30.00%) Databricks
3 4 (20.00%) HubSpot
4 2 (10.00%) Google