Linux Command Line Job Trends in the South East

Linux/Unix Command Line Interface (CLI)
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Linux Command Line in permanent job vacancies in the South East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Linux Command Line over the 6 months leading up to 22 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 286 199 353
Rank change year-on-year -87 +154 -4
Permanent jobs citing Linux Command Line 9 54 30
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.063% 0.78% 0.19%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.25% 2.33% 0.53%
Number of salaries quoted 9 15 24
10th Percentile £36,675 £38,600 £34,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +29.41% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £61,500 £56,250
90th Percentile £66,500 £62,000 £69,875
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -12.50%

All Generic Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 3,644 2,322 5,615
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 25.65% 33.62% 34.80%
Number of salaries quoted 1,961 1,301 3,749
10th Percentile £29,000 £30,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,250 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +9.18% -10.91%
75th Percentile £66,250 £66,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -15.38%

Linux Command Line
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Linux Command Line job vacancy trend in the South East

Linux Command Line
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Linux Command Line

Linux Command Line
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux Command Line in the South East over the 6 months to 22 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Linux Command Line in the South East

Linux Command Line
Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 22 April 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
Hampshire -23 5 £60,000 +9.09% 2
Thames Valley -51 3 £40,000 -25.58% 3
Buckinghamshire -52 3 £40,000 -30.74% 2
Surrey -24 1 £45,000 +21.62%
Linux Command Line
England

Linux Command Line
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 7 (77.78%) AWS
1 7 (77.78%) Azure
2 3 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 3 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
2 3 (33.33%) Amazon S3
2 3 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (33.33%) Datadog
2 3 (33.33%) Entra ID
2 3 (33.33%) GCP
2 3 (33.33%) Serverless
2 3 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) Firewall
1 2 (22.22%) VPN
2 1 (11.11%) BGP
2 1 (11.11%) DHCP
2 1 (11.11%) DNS
2 1 (11.11%) LAN
2 1 (11.11%) Network Security
2 1 (11.11%) NGFW
2 1 (11.11%) OSPF
2 1 (11.11%) Software-Defined Networking
2 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
2 1 (11.11%) VLAN
2 1 (11.11%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
1 3 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) JIRA
1 3 (33.33%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 3 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (33.33%) Finance
1 3 (33.33%) Games
1 3 (33.33%) Legal
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Analyst
2 3 (33.33%) Applications Support
2 3 (33.33%) Applications Support Analyst
2 3 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Support Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) 2nd Line Support
3 1 (11.11%) Network Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Pensions Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) Loki
1 3 (33.33%) OpenTelemetry
1 3 (33.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Onboarding
2 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
2 1 (11.11%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (55.56%) Linux
2 4 (44.44%) Windows
2 4 (44.44%) Windows Server
3 1 (11.11%) Unix
3 1 (11.11%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) ITIL
2 3 (33.33%) AI
2 3 (33.33%) API Management
2 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 3 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 3 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 3 (33.33%) DevOps
2 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
2 3 (33.33%) ITSM
2 3 (33.33%) Migration
2 3 (33.33%) Observability
2 3 (33.33%) Process Improvement
2 3 (33.33%) Test Scripting
2 3 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (11.11%) Logistics
3 1 (11.11%) Roadmaps
3 1 (11.11%) Test Automation
3 1 (11.11%) White-Box Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) Python
1 7 (77.78%) SQL
2 4 (44.44%) PowerShell
3 3 (33.33%) Bash
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) DV Cleared
1 4 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 3 (33.33%) Degree
2 3 (33.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Certification
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Certification
3 1 (11.11%) CCNP
3 1 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 6 (66.67%) Docker
2 4 (44.44%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Terraform
2 3 (33.33%) Grafana
2 3 (33.33%) Prometheus
2 3 (33.33%) Scalr
3 1 (11.11%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Google
1 3 (33.33%) Oracle
1 3 (33.33%) ServiceNow