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

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 268 272 270
Rank change year-on-year +4 -2 +80
Permanent jobs citing Linux Command Line 21 44 24
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.24% 0.37% 0.29%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.59% 1.14% 0.83%
Number of salaries quoted 16 14 23
10th Percentile £37,500 - £35,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £26,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £27,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +81.82% -35.29% +1.80%
75th Percentile £77,500 £36,465 £67,500
90th Percentile - £56,750 £101,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -12.00% +13.64%

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 3,565 3,875 2,893
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 39.97% 32.67% 35.40%
Number of salaries quoted 1,790 1,734 1,989
10th Percentile £27,000 £31,542 £32,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £41,250 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £55,050
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% -0.09% +0.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £72,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £83,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% -

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 15 October 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 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
Thames Valley -10 12 £75,000 +36.36% 7
Buckinghamshire +9 10 £75,000 +36.36% 4
Hampshire +50 6 £44,375 +61.36% 2
Surrey +18 3 £45,000 +50.00%
Oxfordshire +12 1 £55,000 +17.50%
Berkshire - 1 - - 3
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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (19.05%) IIS
2 2 (9.52%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 7 (33.33%) Azure
2 6 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
2 6 (28.57%) Azure Key Vault
2 6 (28.57%) Entra ID
2 6 (28.57%) GitHub
2 6 (28.57%) GitHub Actions
3 3 (14.29%) AWS
4 2 (9.52%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (9.52%) Amazon ELB
4 2 (9.52%) Amazon S3
5 1 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (14.29%) Cisco IOS
1 3 (14.29%) VoIP
2 2 (9.52%) DHCP
2 2 (9.52%) DNS
2 2 (9.52%) Firewall
2 2 (9.52%) VPN
3 1 (4.76%) InfiniBand
3 1 (4.76%) TCP/IP
3 1 (4.76%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.52%) Delta Lake
1 2 (9.52%) DynamoDB
1 2 (9.52%) Metadata
1 2 (9.52%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 6 (28.57%) Git
1 6 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 4 (19.05%) JIRA
3 2 (9.52%) MLflow
General
1 5 (23.81%) Social Skills
2 3 (14.29%) Electronics
2 3 (14.29%) Military
Job Titles
1 6 (28.57%) Lead
1 6 (28.57%) Platform Engineer
2 4 (19.05%) Analyst
3 3 (14.29%) Pensions Analyst
3 3 (14.29%) Systems Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Technical Support
4 2 (9.52%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Operations Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Support Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) 2nd Line Support
5 1 (4.76%) Analyst Programmer
5 1 (4.76%) Applications Support
5 1 (4.76%) Linux Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Network Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Programmer
5 1 (4.76%) Senior Network Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Software Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) Software Programmer
5 1 (4.76%) Technical Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (28.57%) ARM Templates
2 2 (9.52%) Keras
2 2 (9.52%) Lambda Expressions
2 2 (9.52%) Metaflow
2 2 (9.52%) NumPy
2 2 (9.52%) Pandas
2 2 (9.52%) PySpark
2 2 (9.52%) PyTorch
2 2 (9.52%) scikit-learn
2 2 (9.52%) TensorFlow
2 2 (9.52%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (28.57%) Onboarding
2 3 (14.29%) Virtual Team
3 1 (4.76%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 10 (47.62%) Linux
2 7 (33.33%) Windows
3 6 (28.57%) VMS
4 5 (23.81%) Unix
5 3 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (4.76%) Windows 10
6 1 (4.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (38.10%) CI/CD
1 8 (38.10%) Containerisation
2 6 (28.57%) Computer Science
2 6 (28.57%) DevOps
2 6 (28.57%) Matrix Management
2 6 (28.57%) Network Virtualisation
2 6 (28.57%) Observability
2 6 (28.57%) Platform Engineering
2 6 (28.57%) RBAC
2 6 (28.57%) Resource Management
2 6 (28.57%) Servant Leadership
2 6 (28.57%) Task Automation
2 6 (28.57%) Technical Leadership
3 5 (23.81%) ITIL
4 4 (19.05%) Data Analysis
4 4 (19.05%) Service Management
5 3 (14.29%) Customer Requirements
5 3 (14.29%) Project Delivery
5 3 (14.29%) Requirements Engineering
5 3 (14.29%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 9 (42.86%) SQL
2 7 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 6 (28.57%) Bash
4 5 (23.81%) Python
5 1 (4.76%) PL/1
Qualifications
1 7 (33.33%) Degree
2 5 (23.81%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (19.05%) A+ Certification
4 1 (4.76%) AWS Certification
4 1 (4.76%) Azure Certification
4 1 (4.76%) CCNA
4 1 (4.76%) CCNP
4 1 (4.76%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (4.76%) DV Cleared
4 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
4 1 (4.76%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (14.29%) Def Stans
2 1 (4.76%) GDPR
System Software
1 8 (38.10%) Docker
2 7 (33.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (4.76%) NFS
Systems Management
1 8 (38.10%) Kubernetes
1 8 (38.10%) Terraform
2 2 (9.52%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 6 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 3 (14.29%) Cisco
3 2 (9.52%) Databricks