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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 330 246 302
Rank change year-on-year -84 +56 -22
Permanent jobs citing Linux Command Line 16 52 36
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.085% 0.58% 0.29%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.34% 1.42% 0.87%
Number of salaries quoted 11 13 13
10th Percentile - £39,000 -
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £27,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +100.00% -35.29%
75th Percentile £63,125 £77,500 £38,620
90th Percentile £82,500 - £57,000
England median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.64% - -8.33%

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 4,743 3,652 4,134
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 25.24% 41.03% 32.86%
Number of salaries quoted 3,245 1,765 1,986
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,336 £30,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £34,988 £39,508
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £52,775
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -10.00% -8.22%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £83,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -6.98%

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 23 September 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 23 September 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
Thames Valley -39 6 £45,000 -30.77% 12
Hampshire -48 6 £61,250 +11.36% 5
Oxfordshire -34 5 £45,000 -18.18% 8
East Sussex - 2 - - 1
Buckinghamshire -34 1 £51,359 -31.52% 3
Kent - 1 - -
West Sussex - 1 £25,000 -
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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (50.00%) AWS
2 5 (31.25%) Azure
2 5 (31.25%) GitHub
3 3 (18.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (18.75%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (18.75%) Datadog
3 3 (18.75%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (12.50%) GCP
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon S3
5 1 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (6.25%) Entra ID
5 1 (6.25%) Serverless
5 1 (6.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) BGP
1 2 (12.50%) Firewall
1 2 (12.50%) Internet
1 2 (12.50%) LAN
1 2 (12.50%) Network Security
1 2 (12.50%) NGFW
1 2 (12.50%) OSPF
1 2 (12.50%) Software-Defined Networking
1 2 (12.50%) TCP/IP
1 2 (12.50%) VPN
1 2 (12.50%) WAN
2 1 (6.25%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (50.00%) Git
2 3 (18.75%) GitLab
3 1 (6.25%) CMake
3 1 (6.25%) GDB
3 1 (6.25%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 6 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 4 (25.00%) Finance
2 4 (25.00%) Legal
3 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Automotive
3 2 (12.50%) Manufacturing
4 1 (6.25%) Electronics
4 1 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (18.75%) Cloud Engineer
1 3 (18.75%) Support Engineer
1 3 (18.75%) Technical Engineer
1 3 (18.75%) Technical Support
1 3 (18.75%) Technical Support Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Lead
2 2 (12.50%) Network Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Senior
2 2 (12.50%) Senior Validation Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Senior Verification Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Trainee
2 2 (12.50%) Validation Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Verification Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) C++ Software Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Embedded Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Operations Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Support Team Leader
3 1 (6.25%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (31.25%) Terraform
2 3 (18.75%) Loki
2 3 (18.75%) Node.js
2 3 (18.75%) OpenTelemetry
2 3 (18.75%) React
2 3 (18.75%) YAML
3 1 (6.25%) OpenTofu
3 1 (6.25%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 5 (31.25%) Robotics
2 2 (12.50%) Data Centre
3 1 (6.25%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (6.25%) Driving Licence
3 1 (6.25%) Management Information System
3 1 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 13 (81.25%) Linux
2 3 (18.75%) Debian
2 3 (18.75%) Robot Operating System
2 3 (18.75%) Ubuntu
3 1 (6.25%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (6.25%) Kali Linux
3 1 (6.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) CI/CD
2 7 (43.75%) Containerisation
3 5 (31.25%) Computer Science
3 5 (31.25%) DevOps
3 5 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (31.25%) Software Testing
4 4 (25.00%) AI
4 4 (25.00%) Software Engineering
5 3 (18.75%) Code Quality
5 3 (18.75%) Edge Computing
5 3 (18.75%) End-to-End Testing
5 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (18.75%) Migration
5 3 (18.75%) Observability
5 3 (18.75%) Simultaneous Localization and Mapping
6 2 (12.50%) Cloud Security
6 2 (12.50%) DevSecOps
6 2 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
6 2 (12.50%) Verification and Validation
6 2 (12.50%) White-Box Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (62.50%) Python
2 7 (43.75%) Bash
3 4 (25.00%) PowerShell
4 3 (18.75%) C++
4 3 (18.75%) Shell Script
5 2 (12.50%) Go
5 2 (12.50%) Ruby
5 2 (12.50%) SQL
6 1 (6.25%) C
6 1 (6.25%) Embedded C++
6 1 (6.25%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (31.25%) Degree
2 3 (18.75%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (12.50%) CCNP
3 2 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (12.50%) DV Cleared
3 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
4 1 (6.25%) HNC
4 1 (6.25%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) QA
2 1 (6.25%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (68.75%) Docker
2 1 (6.25%) Snort
2 1 (6.25%) VMware NSX
2 1 (6.25%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) Grafana
1 3 (18.75%) Prometheus
2 2 (12.50%) Ansible
3 1 (6.25%) Scalr
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Google
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
1 3 (18.75%) NVIDIA
2 2 (12.50%) VMware
3 1 (6.25%) Carbon Black
3 1 (6.25%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (6.25%) Oracle
3 1 (6.25%) Splunk