Linux Command Line Job Trends in the South West

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

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Linux Command Line in permanent job vacancies in the South West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Linux Command Line over the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 159 209 215
Rank change year-on-year +50 +6 +84
Permanent jobs citing Linux Command Line 13 30 17
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.37% 0.40% 0.35%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.06% 1.49% 0.85%
Number of salaries quoted 8 25 14
10th Percentile £45,875 £37,750 -
25th Percentile £54,688 £62,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +36.36% +84.10%
75th Percentile £96,875 £77,500 £93,967
90th Percentile £102,500 £85,000 £96,539
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +9.09%

All Generic Skills
South West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,229 2,015 1,990
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 35.32% 26.85% 41.43%
Number of salaries quoted 703 1,120 1,447
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,000 £29,440
25th Percentile £31,750 £38,000 £39,147
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.00% -9.09% +9.48%
75th Percentile £58,549 £70,000 £72,433
90th Percentile £74,777 £83,750 £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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Command Line in the South West

Linux Command Line
Salary Trend in the South West

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

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

Linux Command Line
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux Command Line in the South West over the 6 months to 16 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Linux Command Line in the South West

Linux Command Line
Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 16 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
Gloucestershire +33 6 £58,750 -9.62% 1
Bristol +21 3 £95,000 +26.67%
Wiltshire +32 2 £80,000 +93.94%
Somerset +3 1 - -
Devon - 1 - -
Linux Command Line
England

Linux Command Line
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 1 (7.69%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 9 (69.23%) AWS
2 6 (46.15%) OpenShift
3 4 (30.77%) Amazon S3
4 3 (23.08%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (23.08%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (23.08%) Serverless
5 2 (15.38%) Azure
6 1 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (7.69%) Amazon ELB
6 1 (7.69%) GCP
6 1 (7.69%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (23.08%) AMQP
2 1 (7.69%) Firewall
2 1 (7.69%) Internet
2 1 (7.69%) TCP/IP
2 1 (7.69%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (23.08%) InfluxDB
1 3 (23.08%) Relational Database
2 1 (7.69%) Delta Lake
2 1 (7.69%) DynamoDB
2 1 (7.69%) Metadata
2 1 (7.69%) MySQL
2 1 (7.69%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 5 (38.46%) Git
1 5 (38.46%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.69%) Cucumber
2 1 (7.69%) GitLab
2 1 (7.69%) MLflow
2 1 (7.69%) Robot Framework
General
1 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Law
3 1 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (7.69%) Marketing
3 1 (7.69%) Retail
3 1 (7.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Platform Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Site Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Administrator
3 2 (15.38%) Automation Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Linux Administrator
3 2 (15.38%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 2 (15.38%) Senior
3 2 (15.38%) Senior Automation Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) DevOps Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Operations Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (7.69%) Test Automation Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Test Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Unix Administrator
4 1 (7.69%) Unix Linux Systems Administrator
4 1 (7.69%) Unix Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (7.69%) Keras
2 1 (7.69%) Lambda Expressions
2 1 (7.69%) Laravel
2 1 (7.69%) Metaflow
2 1 (7.69%) NumPy
2 1 (7.69%) Pandas
2 1 (7.69%) PySpark
2 1 (7.69%) PyTorch
2 1 (7.69%) scikit-learn
2 1 (7.69%) TensorFlow
2 1 (7.69%) Vue
2 1 (7.69%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Life Science
1 2 (15.38%) Omics
1 2 (15.38%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 10 (76.92%) Linux
2 4 (30.77%) Unix
3 3 (23.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (23.08%) Windows
4 2 (15.38%) CentOS
4 2 (15.38%) CoreOS
4 2 (15.38%) Debian
4 2 (15.38%) Ubuntu
4 2 (15.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) DevOps
2 6 (46.15%) CI/CD
2 6 (46.15%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (38.46%) Containerisation
3 5 (38.46%) Time Management
4 4 (30.77%) Configuration Management
4 4 (30.77%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 3 (23.08%) Data Science
5 3 (23.08%) Platform Engineering
5 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (23.08%) Visualisation
6 2 (15.38%) Artificial Intelligence
6 2 (15.38%) Bioinformatics
6 2 (15.38%) Biology
6 2 (15.38%) Computational Biology
6 2 (15.38%) Data Analysis
6 2 (15.38%) Experimental Design
6 2 (15.38%) ITIL
6 2 (15.38%) Statistics
7 1 (7.69%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 12 (92.31%) Python
2 4 (30.77%) Bash
2 4 (30.77%) SQL
3 3 (23.08%) Go
3 3 (23.08%) Java
3 3 (23.08%) Shell Script
4 2 (15.38%) JavaScript
4 2 (15.38%) R
5 1 (7.69%) Perl
5 1 (7.69%) PHP
5 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (53.85%) Security Cleared
2 6 (46.15%) DV Cleared
2 6 (46.15%) SC Cleared
3 3 (23.08%) Degree
4 2 (15.38%) Master's Degree
4 2 (15.38%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 6 (46.15%) Docker
2 2 (15.38%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 7 (53.85%) Ansible
1 7 (53.85%) Terraform
2 5 (38.46%) Kubernetes
3 3 (23.08%) Docker Swarm
3 3 (23.08%) Grafana
3 3 (23.08%) Progress Chef
3 3 (23.08%) Prometheus
4 2 (15.38%) Puppet
5 1 (7.69%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Red Hat
2 1 (7.69%) Databricks
2 1 (7.69%) Google
2 1 (7.69%) VMware