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 in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Linux Command Line over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 598 591 489
Rank change year-on-year -7 -102 -127
Permanent jobs citing Linux Command Line 109 87 446
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.17% 0.18% 0.57%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.54% 0.45% 1.31%
Number of salaries quoted 79 75 175
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £76,250 £75,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £67,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 20,220 19,230 34,139
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 30.98% 39.94% 43.59%
Number of salaries quoted 11,541 10,409 17,070
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,625 £40,000
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 £70,000 £69,375
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,970
UK median annual salary £55,000 £64,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -14.06% +2.40% +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 26 July 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 26 July 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 +26 41 £42,500 - 7
South West +10 30 £75,000 +100.00% 4
North of England +5 18 £35,000 -33.33% 5
Yorkshire +54 15 £35,000 -33.33% 3
Midlands -19 8 £50,000 -9.09% 2
East of England -5 7 £54,000 -25.77% 4
West Midlands +1 6 £50,000 +19.76% 2
Scotland -40 5 £52,500 +16.67% 2
North West -9 2 - - 1
East Midlands - 2 £40,000 -
North East - 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 5 (4.59%) SharePoint
1 5 (4.59%) WordPress
2 4 (3.67%) IIS
2 4 (3.67%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.83%) nginx
4 1 (0.92%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.92%) GNU Octave
Business Applications
1 4 (3.67%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (3.67%) Oracle ERP
1 4 (3.67%) PeopleSoft HCM
2 1 (0.92%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 35 (32.11%) AWS
2 25 (22.94%) Azure
3 20 (18.35%) OpenShift
4 14 (12.84%) Cloud Computing
5 6 (5.50%) Amazon EC2
5 6 (5.50%) Amazon S3
5 6 (5.50%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (5.50%) Serverless
6 4 (3.67%) Entra ID
6 4 (3.67%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (3.67%) OCI
6 4 (3.67%) OneDrive
7 2 (1.83%) DigitalOcean
7 2 (1.83%) GCP
7 2 (1.83%) GitHub
7 2 (1.83%) SaaS
8 1 (0.92%) CloudFront
8 1 (0.92%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.92%) Route 53
8 1 (0.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 29 (26.61%) Firewall
2 11 (10.09%) DNS
3 9 (8.26%) Internet
3 9 (8.26%) Network Security
4 8 (7.34%) TCP/IP
4 8 (7.34%) VLAN
4 8 (7.34%) VoIP
4 8 (7.34%) VPN
4 8 (7.34%) Wi-Fi
5 7 (6.42%) SAN
6 5 (4.59%) AMQP
7 4 (3.67%) Fibre Channel
7 4 (3.67%) IPsec
7 4 (3.67%) iSCSI
7 4 (3.67%) NAS
7 4 (3.67%) Wireless
8 2 (1.83%) DHCP
8 2 (1.83%) HTTP
9 1 (0.92%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.26%) MySQL
2 6 (5.50%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (4.59%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 5 (4.59%) InfluxDB
3 5 (4.59%) Relational Database
4 4 (3.67%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.83%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (1.83%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.92%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.92%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 18 (16.51%) Jenkins
1 18 (16.51%) JIRA
2 17 (15.60%) Git
3 13 (11.93%) Robot Framework
4 5 (4.59%) Bitbucket
4 5 (4.59%) JMeter
4 5 (4.59%) Maven
4 5 (4.59%) Zephyr
5 2 (1.83%) GNU Toolchain
5 2 (1.83%) Subversion
6 1 (0.92%) CMake
6 1 (0.92%) TestDirector
General
1 17 (15.60%) Social Skills
2 15 (13.76%) Aerospace
3 13 (11.93%) Retail
3 13 (11.93%) Tech for Good
4 8 (7.34%) Manufacturing
5 7 (6.42%) Finance
5 7 (6.42%) Games
6 6 (5.50%) Legal
7 5 (4.59%) Billing
7 5 (4.59%) Public Sector
8 4 (3.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.75%) Electronics
10 2 (1.83%) Analytical Skills
11 1 (0.92%) Aviation
11 1 (0.92%) Marketing
11 1 (0.92%) Music Industry
11 1 (0.92%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (15.60%) Consultant
2 15 (13.76%) Cloud Engineer
2 15 (13.76%) Operations Engineer
2 15 (13.76%) Platform Engineer
3 14 (12.84%) Systems Engineer
4 13 (11.93%) Automation Engineer
4 13 (11.93%) AWS Engineer
4 13 (11.93%) Cloud Automation Engineer
4 13 (11.93%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 13 (11.93%) Software Consultant
4 13 (11.93%) Support Engineer
5 12 (11.01%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 12 (11.01%) Kubernetes Engineer
6 10 (9.17%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 9 (8.26%) Developer
7 9 (8.26%) Linux Engineer
8 8 (7.34%) 1st Line Engineer
8 8 (7.34%) 1st Line Support
8 8 (7.34%) 1st Line Support Engineer
9 7 (6.42%) Linux Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (14.68%) HTML
2 13 (11.93%) XML
3 5 (4.59%) OpenAPI
3 5 (4.59%) RabbitMQ
3 5 (4.59%) Swagger
4 4 (3.67%) LAMP
4 4 (3.67%) Node.js
4 4 (3.67%) Oracle Fusion
5 3 (2.75%) .NET
5 3 (2.75%) CSS
5 3 (2.75%) React
5 3 (2.75%) Vue
6 2 (1.83%) gRPC
6 2 (1.83%) Laravel
6 2 (1.83%) OAuth
6 2 (1.83%) POSIX
7 1 (0.92%) jQuery
7 1 (0.92%) NumPy
7 1 (0.92%) Qt
7 1 (0.92%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 19 (17.43%) Hybrid Cloud
2 8 (7.34%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (3.67%) Data Centre
3 4 (3.67%) Onboarding
3 4 (3.67%) PKI
3 4 (3.67%) Replication
4 3 (2.75%) Embedded Systems
5 2 (1.83%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.83%) Client/Server
6 1 (0.92%) Arduino
6 1 (0.92%) ARM Cortex
6 1 (0.92%) Grid Computing
6 1 (0.92%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.92%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 102 (93.58%) Linux
2 22 (20.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 20 (18.35%) Unix
4 19 (17.43%) Windows
5 16 (14.68%) Windows Server
6 11 (10.09%) Ubuntu
7 6 (5.50%) CentOS
8 5 (4.59%) Debian
9 4 (3.67%) CoreOS
9 4 (3.67%) Oracle Linux
9 4 (3.67%) VMS
9 4 (3.67%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (3.67%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (2.75%) Rocky
11 2 (1.83%) Embedded Linux
12 1 (0.92%) Android
12 1 (0.92%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.92%) Fedora
12 1 (0.92%) openSUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (33.94%) Software Testing
2 36 (33.03%) CI/CD
3 35 (32.11%) Agile
4 33 (30.28%) Configuration Management
5 28 (25.69%) Problem-Solving
5 28 (25.69%) Software Engineering
6 22 (20.18%) DevOps
7 19 (17.43%) Change Management
8 18 (16.51%) Infrastructure as Code
9 17 (15.60%) Test Automation
9 17 (15.60%) Time Management
10 15 (13.76%) Collaborative Working
10 15 (13.76%) Containerisation
11 14 (12.84%) Continuous Improvement
11 14 (12.84%) Customer Service
11 14 (12.84%) Service Delivery
12 13 (11.93%) Digital Transformation Programme
12 13 (11.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 13 (11.93%) Requirements Analysis
12 13 (11.93%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 53 (48.62%) Python
2 37 (33.94%) Bash
3 32 (29.36%) SQL
4 26 (23.85%) Java
5 15 (13.76%) Perl
6 11 (10.09%) PL/SQL
6 11 (10.09%) PowerShell
7 7 (6.42%) C
7 7 (6.42%) C++
8 6 (5.50%) PHP
8 6 (5.50%) Tcl
9 5 (4.59%) Go
9 5 (4.59%) Groovy
9 5 (4.59%) Shell Script
10 3 (2.75%) JavaScript
11 2 (1.83%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.92%) Julia
12 1 (0.92%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.92%) R
12 1 (0.92%) Rust
Qualifications
1 20 (18.35%) Degree
2 7 (6.42%) SC Cleared
2 7 (6.42%) Security Cleared
3 4 (3.67%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (0.92%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.92%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 1 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.92%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.92%) DBS Check
4 1 (0.92%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.92%) JTAG
System Software
1 22 (20.18%) Docker
2 10 (9.17%) Active Directory
3 4 (3.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (3.67%) vSphere
4 3 (2.75%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (2.75%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.92%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.92%) Firmware
5 1 (0.92%) Samba
Systems Management
1 38 (34.86%) Kubernetes
2 31 (28.44%) Terraform
3 28 (25.69%) Ansible
4 22 (20.18%) Puppet
5 20 (18.35%) Progress Chef
6 15 (13.76%) Salt
7 6 (5.50%) Grafana
7 6 (5.50%) Prometheus
8 5 (4.59%) Docker Swarm
9 4 (3.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (3.67%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (3.67%) SCCM
9 4 (3.67%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (2.75%) vCenter Server
11 1 (0.92%) PowerCLI
11 1 (0.92%) systemd
Vendors
1 18 (16.51%) Oracle
2 17 (15.60%) ServiceNow
3 10 (9.17%) Microsoft
4 8 (7.34%) Cisco
4 8 (7.34%) Progress
4 8 (7.34%) VMware
5 6 (5.50%) Red Hat
6 4 (3.67%) Aruba
6 4 (3.67%) CyberArk
6 4 (3.67%) Hyperion
6 4 (3.67%) JD Edwards
6 4 (3.67%) Palo Alto
6 4 (3.67%) PeopleSoft
6 4 (3.67%) ProCurve
6 4 (3.67%) Synology
6 4 (3.67%) Veeam
6 4 (3.67%) Zerto
7 1 (0.92%) SAP
7 1 (0.92%) Sun
7 1 (0.92%) WooCommerce