Linux Command Line Jobs in the UK excluding London

Linux/Unix Command Line Interface (CLI)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Linux Command Line in permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Linux Command Line over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 659 520 473
Rank change year-on-year -139 -47 -73
Permanent jobs citing Linux Command Line 103 243 422
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.15% 0.40% 0.60%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.43% 0.96% 1.38%
Number of salaries quoted 84 120 159
10th Percentile £34,650 £29,900 £28,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £38,438 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £58,750 £75,000 £62,750
90th Percentile £80,125 £99,319 £67,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £58,750 £57,500
% change year-on-year -10.64% +2.17% +4.55%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

Linux Command Line is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 23,872 25,246 30,663
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 34.05% 41.09% 43.36%
Number of salaries quoted 15,186 11,415 15,886
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,250 £39,810
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £86,250 £83,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%

Linux Command Line
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Linux Command Line as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Linux Command Line in the UK excluding London

Linux Command Line
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Linux Command Line in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Linux Command Line in the UK excluding London

Linux Command Line
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux Command Line in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Linux Command Line in the UK excluding London

Linux Command Line
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 April 2024. 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
South East +3 35 £42,500 - 11
South West -14 28 £52,500 +40.00% 4
North of England -24 18 £50,000 -13.04% 7
Midlands -34 13 £50,000 -9.09% 9
Yorkshire +59 12 £85,000 +21.43% 1
West Midlands +12 11 £50,000 -2.54% 5
East of England +3 11 £43,500 -39.58% 8
North West -2 5 £50,000 -9.09% 5
East Midlands -27 2 £40,000 -23.81% 4
Wales +13 1 £50,000 +11.11%
North East -12 1 - - 1
Linux Command Line
UK

Linux Command Line
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 10 (9.71%) nginx
2 7 (6.80%) SharePoint
3 5 (4.85%) WordPress
4 4 (3.88%) IIS
4 4 (3.88%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.97%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.97%) GNU Octave
Cloud Services
1 40 (38.83%) AWS
2 27 (26.21%) OpenShift
3 16 (15.53%) Azure
4 10 (9.71%) Cloud Computing
5 9 (8.74%) Amazon EC2
5 9 (8.74%) Amazon S3
5 9 (8.74%) AWS Lambda
5 9 (8.74%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (8.74%) Serverless
6 6 (5.83%) Azure AKS
6 6 (5.83%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 6 (5.83%) Azure Monitor
6 6 (5.83%) Datadog
6 6 (5.83%) Pulumi
7 4 (3.88%) DigitalOcean
7 4 (3.88%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (3.88%) OneDrive
7 4 (3.88%) Route 53
7 4 (3.88%) SaaS
7 4 (3.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 33 (32.04%) Firewall
2 10 (9.71%) TCP/IP
3 9 (8.74%) Network Security
4 8 (7.77%) DNS
5 6 (5.83%) LAN
5 6 (5.83%) VPN
5 6 (5.83%) WAN
6 5 (4.85%) AMQP
7 4 (3.88%) Fibre Channel
7 4 (3.88%) HTTP
7 4 (3.88%) iSCSI
7 4 (3.88%) Multicast
7 4 (3.88%) NAS
7 4 (3.88%) OSPF
7 4 (3.88%) SAN
7 4 (3.88%) Wireless
8 3 (2.91%) Internet
8 3 (2.91%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (1.94%) DHCP
10 1 (0.97%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (30.10%) MySQL
2 19 (18.45%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (8.74%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (6.80%) MariaDB
4 7 (6.80%) MongoDB
5 6 (5.83%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (5.83%) Redis
6 5 (4.85%) InfluxDB
6 5 (4.85%) Relational Database
7 4 (3.88%) SQL Server
8 3 (2.91%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (2.91%) Power BI
9 2 (1.94%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.97%) ArangoDB
Development Applications
1 44 (42.72%) Git
2 21 (20.39%) Jenkins
3 13 (12.62%) JIRA
4 10 (9.71%) GNU Toolchain
4 10 (9.71%) Subversion
5 9 (8.74%) Robot Framework
6 7 (6.80%) GitLab
7 6 (5.83%) Team Foundation Server
8 4 (3.88%) Rational DOORS
9 3 (2.91%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (2.91%) Bitbucket
10 2 (1.94%) Artifactory
10 2 (1.94%) Gradle
11 1 (0.97%) CMake
11 1 (0.97%) PHPUnit
11 1 (0.97%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.97%) TestDirector
General
1 10 (9.71%) Aerospace
2 8 (7.77%) Retail
3 7 (6.80%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (4.85%) Social Skills
5 3 (2.91%) Finance
5 3 (2.91%) Manufacturing
5 3 (2.91%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (1.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.97%) Aviation
7 1 (0.97%) Electronics
7 1 (0.97%) Law
7 1 (0.97%) Music Industry
Job Titles
1 26 (25.24%) Developer
2 13 (12.62%) Azure Engineer
2 13 (12.62%) Linux Engineer
3 12 (11.65%) Administrator
3 12 (11.65%) Linux Administrator
4 11 (10.68%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 11 (10.68%) Support Engineer
5 10 (9.71%) Linux Developer
5 10 (9.71%) Unix Administrator
5 10 (9.71%) Unix Linux Systems Administrator
5 10 (9.71%) Unix Systems Administrator
6 9 (8.74%) Consultant
6 9 (8.74%) Software Consultant
7 8 (7.77%) Applications Support
7 8 (7.77%) Applications Support Engineer
7 8 (7.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 8 (7.77%) Network Engineer
7 8 (7.77%) Technical Engineer
7 8 (7.77%) Technical Support
7 8 (7.77%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (18.45%) HTML
2 16 (15.53%) Node.js
3 10 (9.71%) CSS
3 10 (9.71%) POSIX
3 10 (9.71%) React
3 10 (9.71%) XML
4 8 (7.77%) Laravel
5 6 (5.83%) ARM Templates
6 5 (4.85%) LAMP
6 5 (4.85%) RabbitMQ
6 5 (4.85%) Vue
7 4 (3.88%) Akka
7 4 (3.88%) REST
7 4 (3.88%) RESTful
8 3 (2.91%) .NET
8 3 (2.91%) ADO
8 3 (2.91%) ASP.NET
9 2 (1.94%) CodeIgniter
9 2 (1.94%) Spring
9 2 (1.94%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.68%) Embedded Systems
2 6 (5.83%) Product Ownership
3 4 (3.88%) Replication
4 3 (2.91%) Clustering
5 1 (0.97%) FPGA
5 1 (0.97%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.97%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 92 (89.32%) Linux
2 28 (27.18%) Unix
3 21 (20.39%) CentOS
4 20 (19.42%) CoreOS
4 20 (19.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 18 (17.48%) Windows
6 10 (9.71%) Windows Server
7 6 (5.83%) Ubuntu
7 6 (5.83%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (3.88%) VMS
8 4 (3.88%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (1.94%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.97%) Android
10 1 (0.97%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.97%) Debian
10 1 (0.97%) Fedora
10 1 (0.97%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.97%) openSUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (39.81%) DevOps
2 29 (28.16%) Time Management
3 27 (26.21%) Configuration Management
4 21 (20.39%) CI/CD
4 21 (20.39%) Problem-Solving
5 20 (19.42%) ITIL
6 19 (18.45%) Agile
7 16 (15.53%) Containerisation
8 14 (13.59%) Open Source
9 13 (12.62%) Collaborative Working
10 11 (10.68%) Software Testing
11 10 (9.71%) Service Delivery
12 9 (8.74%) Change Management
12 9 (8.74%) Customer Service
12 9 (8.74%) Infrastructure as Code
12 9 (8.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 9 (8.74%) Requirements Analysis
12 9 (8.74%) Systems Engineering
12 9 (8.74%) Technical Analysis
13 8 (7.77%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 57 (55.34%) Bash
2 53 (51.46%) Python
3 29 (28.16%) SQL
4 18 (17.48%) PHP
5 17 (16.50%) Java
6 15 (14.56%) PowerShell
7 14 (13.59%) JavaScript
8 12 (11.65%) C++
9 11 (10.68%) C
9 11 (10.68%) Go
10 9 (8.74%) C#
10 9 (8.74%) Ruby
10 9 (8.74%) TypeScript
11 8 (7.77%) PL/SQL
12 7 (6.80%) Shell Script
13 6 (5.83%) Groovy
14 1 (0.97%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 17 (16.50%) Security Cleared
2 16 (15.53%) Degree
3 14 (13.59%) SC Cleared
4 8 (7.77%) DV Cleared
5 6 (5.83%) Azure Certification
6 5 (4.85%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (3.88%) AWS Certification
7 4 (3.88%) Chartered Engineer
7 4 (3.88%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (3.88%) HNC
7 4 (3.88%) HND
8 3 (2.91%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (2.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.97%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.94%) QA
System Software
1 26 (25.24%) Docker
2 7 (6.80%) Active Directory
3 4 (3.88%) vSphere
4 3 (2.91%) VirtualBox
5 1 (0.97%) Firmware
5 1 (0.97%) Samba
5 1 (0.97%) Squid
Systems Management
1 33 (32.04%) Kubernetes
1 33 (32.04%) Puppet
2 32 (31.07%) Ansible
3 18 (17.48%) Terraform
4 14 (13.59%) Grafana
5 12 (11.65%) Prometheus
6 11 (10.68%) Progress Chef
7 5 (4.85%) Docker Swarm
8 4 (3.88%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (3.88%) SCCM
9 2 (1.94%) Kibana
10 1 (0.97%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.97%) Salt
10 1 (0.97%) systemd
Vendors
1 21 (20.39%) Red Hat
2 10 (9.71%) Microsoft
3 9 (8.74%) ServiceNow
4 6 (5.83%) Cisco
4 6 (5.83%) New Relic
4 6 (5.83%) SaltStack
4 6 (5.83%) Synology
4 6 (5.83%) Veeam
5 4 (3.88%) Aruba
5 4 (3.88%) Palo Alto
5 4 (3.88%) ProCurve
5 4 (3.88%) Thales
5 4 (3.88%) VMware
5 4 (3.88%) Zerto
6 2 (1.94%) Acronis
6 2 (1.94%) Oracle
7 1 (0.97%) Huawei
7 1 (0.97%) Progress
7 1 (0.97%) WooCommerce