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

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 172 179 197
Rank change year-on-year +7 +18 +65
Permanent jobs citing Linux Command Line 12 21 23
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.24% 0.48% 0.53%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.92% 1.28% 1.44%
Number of salaries quoted 9 17 22
10th Percentile £55,250 £49,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £39,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £72,500 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year +24.14% +41.46% -49.63%
75th Percentile £96,250 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £102,500 £78,500 £96,539
England median annual salary £70,000 £55,000 £63,750
% change year-on-year +27.27% -13.73% +15.91%

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 1,302 1,635 1,598
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 25.98% 37.70% 36.59%
Number of salaries quoted 839 806 1,173
10th Percentile £27,250 £23,375 £30,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £34,404 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £58,750 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £73,750 £82,500 £84,056
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%

Linux Command Line
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Linux Command Line relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Linux Command Line job vacancy trend 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 31 December 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 31 December 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 - 6 £70,000 - 2
Bristol 0 5 £93,000 +28.28% 2
Somerset -14 1 - -
Linux Command Line
England

Linux Command Line
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 6 (50.00%) AWS
2 5 (41.67%) OpenShift
3 3 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (25.00%) Amazon S3
3 3 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (25.00%) Serverless
4 2 (16.67%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (25.00%) AMQP
2 2 (16.67%) 2G
2 2 (16.67%) 4G
2 2 (16.67%) 5G
2 2 (16.67%) DNS
2 2 (16.67%) HTTP
2 2 (16.67%) ICMP
2 2 (16.67%) Software-Defined Radio
2 2 (16.67%) TCP/IP
3 1 (8.33%) Firewall
3 1 (8.33%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (25.00%) InfluxDB
1 3 (25.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) IDA Disassembler
1 4 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 3 (25.00%) Git
3 1 (8.33%) GitLab
General
1 4 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Law
2 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Site Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Automation Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Senior
3 2 (16.67%) Senior Automation Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Vulnerability Researcher
4 1 (8.33%) Administrator
4 1 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) DevOps Platform Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Linux Administrator
4 1 (8.33%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 1 (8.33%) Unix Administrator
4 1 (8.33%) Unix Linux Systems Administrator
4 1 (8.33%) Unix Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (16.67%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Arduino
1 2 (16.67%) Cyber Threat
1 2 (16.67%) Embedded Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Life Science
1 2 (16.67%) Omics
1 2 (16.67%) Onboarding
1 2 (16.67%) Raspberry Pi
2 1 (8.33%) ARM Cortex
Operating Systems
1 10 (83.33%) Linux
2 3 (25.00%) Unix
3 2 (16.67%) Debian
3 2 (16.67%) Ubuntu
3 2 (16.67%) Windows
3 2 (16.67%) Windows Server
4 1 (8.33%) CentOS
4 1 (8.33%) CoreOS
4 1 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) DevOps
1 6 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (41.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 4 (33.33%) Embedded Software Development
3 4 (33.33%) Prototyping
3 4 (33.33%) Reverse Engineering
3 4 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 4 (33.33%) Vulnerability Research
4 3 (25.00%) Business Development
4 3 (25.00%) Configuration Management
4 3 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 3 (25.00%) Penetration Testing
4 3 (25.00%) Rapid Prototyping
4 3 (25.00%) Time Management
5 2 (16.67%) Computational Biology
5 2 (16.67%) Data Science
5 2 (16.67%) Digital Innovation
5 2 (16.67%) Experimental Design
5 2 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 12 (100.00%) Python
2 4 (33.33%) C
2 4 (33.33%) C++
3 3 (25.00%) Go
3 3 (25.00%) Java
3 3 (25.00%) Shell Script
3 3 (25.00%) SQL
4 2 (16.67%) R
5 1 (8.33%) Bash
Qualifications
1 10 (83.33%) DV Cleared
1 10 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 5 (41.67%) SC Cleared
3 2 (16.67%) Degree
3 2 (16.67%) Master's Degree
3 2 (16.67%) PhD
System Software
1 5 (41.67%) Docker
2 2 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 5 (41.67%) Ansible
1 5 (41.67%) Terraform
2 4 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 3 (25.00%) Docker Swarm
3 3 (25.00%) Grafana
3 3 (25.00%) Progress Chef
3 3 (25.00%) Prometheus
4 1 (8.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Red Hat