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 15 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 238 296 286
Rank change year-on-year +58 -10 +29
Permanent jobs citing Linux Command Line 51 34 26
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.57% 0.26% 0.29%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.38% 0.81% 0.78%
Number of salaries quoted 14 13 24
10th Percentile £37,500 - £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £26,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £27,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -35.29% +1.80%
75th Percentile £76,875 £55,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £59,500 £99,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +9.09%

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 3,702 4,184 3,346
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 41.24% 32.56% 36.98%
Number of salaries quoted 1,762 2,124 2,274
10th Percentile £27,034 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £34,988 £39,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.38% -8.70% +4.35%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% -7.69% +4.00%

Linux Command Line
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Linux Command Line as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Linux Command Line 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 15 September 2025.

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 15 September 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
Thames Valley +24 45 £52,500 -4.55% 9
Buckinghamshire +18 33 £60,000 +9.09% 6
Oxfordshire +32 10 £55,000 +17.50% 1
Hampshire +60 4 £55,000 +22.22% 2
Surrey +27 2 £56,000 +1.82% 1
Berkshire - 2 £50,000 - 3
Linux Command Line
England

Linux Command Line
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (7.84%) IIS
2 2 (3.92%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (1.96%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 4 (7.84%) Azure
1 4 (7.84%) Azure DevOps
1 4 (7.84%) Azure Key Vault
1 4 (7.84%) Entra ID
1 4 (7.84%) GitHub
1 4 (7.84%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (3.92%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (3.92%) Amazon ELB
2 2 (3.92%) Amazon S3
2 2 (3.92%) AWS
3 1 (1.96%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (1.96%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 36 (70.59%) VPN
2 34 (66.67%) TCP/IP
3 2 (3.92%) Cisco IOS
3 2 (3.92%) VoIP
4 1 (1.96%) DHCP
4 1 (1.96%) DNS
4 1 (1.96%) Firewall
4 1 (1.96%) InfiniBand
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.92%) Delta Lake
1 2 (3.92%) DynamoDB
1 2 (3.92%) Metadata
1 2 (3.92%) Spark SQL
2 1 (1.96%) Metabase
Development Applications
1 34 (66.67%) Cucumber
1 34 (66.67%) Robot Framework
2 4 (7.84%) Git
2 4 (7.84%) Jenkins
2 4 (7.84%) JIRA
3 2 (3.92%) MLflow
General
1 40 (78.43%) Social Skills
2 35 (68.63%) Telecoms
3 34 (66.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (3.92%) Electronics
4 2 (3.92%) Military
5 1 (1.96%) Billing
Job Titles
1 34 (66.67%) Test Automation Engineer
1 34 (66.67%) Test Engineer
2 5 (9.80%) Technical Support
3 4 (7.84%) Lead
3 4 (7.84%) Platform Engineer
4 3 (5.88%) Senior
4 3 (5.88%) Support Engineer
4 3 (5.88%) Systems Engineer
5 2 (3.92%) Analyst
5 2 (3.92%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 2 (3.92%) Operations Engineer
5 2 (3.92%) Technical Engineer
5 2 (3.92%) Technical Support Engineer
6 1 (1.96%) Applications Engineer
6 1 (1.96%) Network Engineer
6 1 (1.96%) Senior Technical Engineer
6 1 (1.96%) Senior Technical Support
6 1 (1.96%) Senior Technical Support Engineer
6 1 (1.96%) Software Analyst
6 1 (1.96%) Software Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.84%) ARM Templates
2 2 (3.92%) Keras
2 2 (3.92%) Lambda Expressions
2 2 (3.92%) Metaflow
2 2 (3.92%) NumPy
2 2 (3.92%) Pandas
2 2 (3.92%) PySpark
2 2 (3.92%) PyTorch
2 2 (3.92%) scikit-learn
2 2 (3.92%) TensorFlow
2 2 (3.92%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.84%) Onboarding
2 1 (1.96%) Data Centre
2 1 (1.96%) Device Driver
2 1 (1.96%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 44 (86.27%) Linux
2 40 (78.43%) Windows
3 4 (7.84%) VMS
4 3 (5.88%) Unix
5 2 (3.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.96%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (74.51%) DevOps
2 36 (70.59%) Problem-Solving
3 35 (68.63%) System Testing
4 34 (66.67%) Coaching
4 34 (66.67%) Mentoring
4 34 (66.67%) Test Automation
4 34 (66.67%) Test Management
5 6 (11.76%) CI/CD
5 6 (11.76%) Containerisation
6 5 (9.80%) Computer Science
6 5 (9.80%) Data Analysis
7 4 (7.84%) ITIL
7 4 (7.84%) Matrix Management
7 4 (7.84%) Network Virtualisation
7 4 (7.84%) Platform Engineering
7 4 (7.84%) RBAC
7 4 (7.84%) Resource Management
7 4 (7.84%) Service Management
7 4 (7.84%) Task Automation
7 4 (7.84%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 39 (76.47%) Bash
2 38 (74.51%) PowerShell
2 38 (74.51%) Python
3 34 (66.67%) JavaScript
4 8 (15.69%) SQL
5 2 (3.92%) C++
6 1 (1.96%) C
6 1 (1.96%) Perl
6 1 (1.96%) PL/1
6 1 (1.96%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 40 (78.43%) Degree
2 5 (9.80%) A+ Certification
3 4 (7.84%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.96%) CCNA
4 1 (1.96%) CCNP
4 1 (1.96%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.96%) Dell Certification
4 1 (1.96%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.96%) MCP
4 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.96%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.96%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (66.67%) QA
2 2 (3.92%) Def Stans
3 1 (1.96%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (11.76%) Docker
2 4 (7.84%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.96%) NFS
Systems Management
1 6 (11.76%) Kubernetes
1 6 (11.76%) Terraform
2 2 (3.92%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 5 (9.80%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.92%) Cisco
2 2 (3.92%) Databricks
3 1 (1.96%) Dell
3 1 (1.96%) Red Hat