Linux Command Line Jobs 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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 275 342 345
Rank change year-on-year +67 +3 -51
Permanent jobs citing Linux Command Line 48 47 20
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.48% 0.26% 0.16%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.18% 0.79% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 11 33 17
10th Percentile £36,000 £26,250 £26,600
25th Percentile £43,750 £31,000 £27,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% - -15.00%
75th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £57,500
90th Percentile - £59,500 £58,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £54,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% -10.00% -

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 4,083 5,959 5,238
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 40.66% 32.94% 41.11%
Number of salaries quoted 2,031 3,739 2,962
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £32,275
25th Percentile £37,000 £35,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -10.71% +1.82%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £73,875
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +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

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Linux Command Line in the South East.

Salary trend for Linux Command Line in the South East

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 5 July 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 5 July 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 +85 41 £50,000 +17.65% 14
Buckinghamshire +49 26 £45,000 +28.57% 4
Oxfordshire +55 10 £55,000 +17.50% 3
Berkshire +25 5 £50,000 +17.65% 7
Hampshire +82 4 £55,000 +22.22% 5
Surrey +41 3 £37,000 -32.73% 2
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 2 (4.17%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 4 (8.33%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 4 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (4.17%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (4.17%) Amazon ELB
2 2 (4.17%) Amazon S3
2 2 (4.17%) AWS
2 2 (4.17%) SaaS
3 1 (2.08%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 39 (81.25%) VPN
2 34 (70.83%) TCP/IP
3 2 (4.17%) Cisco IOS
3 2 (4.17%) VoIP
4 1 (2.08%) DHCP
4 1 (2.08%) DNS
4 1 (2.08%) Firewall
4 1 (2.08%) InfiniBand
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.33%) Metabase
2 2 (4.17%) Delta Lake
2 2 (4.17%) DynamoDB
2 2 (4.17%) Metadata
2 2 (4.17%) Spark SQL
3 1 (2.08%) MySQL
3 1 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.08%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 34 (70.83%) Cucumber
1 34 (70.83%) Robot Framework
2 2 (4.17%) MLflow
General
1 43 (89.58%) Social Skills
2 36 (75.00%) Telecoms
3 34 (70.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (4.17%) Billing
4 2 (4.17%) Electronics
4 2 (4.17%) Military
5 1 (2.08%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 34 (70.83%) Test Automation Engineer
1 34 (70.83%) Test Engineer
2 6 (12.50%) Senior
2 6 (12.50%) Technical Support
3 4 (8.33%) Senior Support Engineer
3 4 (8.33%) Senior Technical Engineer
3 4 (8.33%) Senior Technical Support
3 4 (8.33%) Senior Technical Support Engineer
3 4 (8.33%) Support Engineer
3 4 (8.33%) Technical Engineer
3 4 (8.33%) Technical Support Engineer
4 3 (6.25%) Analyst
4 3 (6.25%) Systems Engineer
5 2 (4.17%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 2 (4.17%) Operations Engineer
5 2 (4.17%) Support Analyst
5 2 (4.17%) Technical Analyst
5 2 (4.17%) Technical Support Analyst
6 1 (2.08%) Backend Developer
6 1 (2.08%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.17%) Keras
1 2 (4.17%) Lambda Expressions
1 2 (4.17%) Metaflow
1 2 (4.17%) NumPy
1 2 (4.17%) Pandas
1 2 (4.17%) PySpark
1 2 (4.17%) PyTorch
1 2 (4.17%) scikit-learn
1 2 (4.17%) TensorFlow
1 2 (4.17%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.08%) Data Centre
1 1 (2.08%) Device Driver
1 1 (2.08%) Embedded Systems
1 1 (2.08%) LIMS
Operating Systems
1 44 (91.67%) Linux
2 36 (75.00%) Windows
3 4 (8.33%) Unix
4 2 (4.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.08%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (83.33%) Problem-Solving
2 36 (75.00%) System Testing
3 34 (70.83%) Coaching
3 34 (70.83%) DevOps
3 34 (70.83%) Mentoring
3 34 (70.83%) Test Automation
3 34 (70.83%) Test Management
4 3 (6.25%) Computer Science
5 2 (4.17%) Artificial Intelligence
5 2 (4.17%) Customer Requirements
5 2 (4.17%) Data Analysis
5 2 (4.17%) Data Science
5 2 (4.17%) Deployment Automation
5 2 (4.17%) Functional Testing
5 2 (4.17%) Information Security
5 2 (4.17%) Metadata Management
5 2 (4.17%) OO
5 2 (4.17%) OOP
5 2 (4.17%) OWASP
5 2 (4.17%) Requirements Engineering
Programming Languages
1 43 (89.58%) Python
2 36 (75.00%) Bash
3 34 (70.83%) JavaScript
3 34 (70.83%) PowerShell
4 9 (18.75%) SQL
5 5 (10.42%) C++
6 3 (6.25%) Shell Script
7 2 (4.17%) Perl
8 1 (2.08%) C
8 1 (2.08%) PL/1
Qualifications
1 38 (79.17%) Degree
2 4 (8.33%) A+ Certification
2 4 (8.33%) Dell Certification
2 4 (8.33%) MCP
2 4 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.08%) CCNA
4 1 (2.08%) CCNP
4 1 (2.08%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.08%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.08%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.08%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (70.83%) QA
2 2 (4.17%) Def Stans
3 1 (2.08%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (4.17%) Docker
2 1 (2.08%) NFS
Systems Management
1 2 (4.17%) Kubeflow
1 2 (4.17%) Kubernetes
1 2 (4.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (8.33%) Dell
1 4 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.17%) Cisco
2 2 (4.17%) Databricks
3 1 (2.08%) Red Hat