Linux Command Line Job Trends 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 21 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 543 285 645
Rank change year-on-year -258 +360 -92
Permanent jobs citing Linux Command Line 39 276 98
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.058% 0.94% 0.14%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.24% 2.27% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 24 33 80
10th Percentile £37,500 £32,800 £34,500
25th Percentile £39,375 £37,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,445 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.11% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £62,500 £62,000 £56,250
90th Percentile £78,790 £75,000 £72,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -12.50%

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 15,973 12,144 23,668
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.95% 41.54% 34.15%
Number of salaries quoted 8,854 5,332 15,168
10th Percentile £29,000 £27,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,763 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.41% +3.53% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £84,090 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -15.38%

Linux Command Line
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Linux Command Line job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Linux Command Line
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Linux Command Line.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Linux Command Line

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 21 May 2026.

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 21 May 2026. 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
North of England -176 12 £48,445 -11.92% 8
East of England -24 11 £42,500 -4.49% 4
South East -63 8 £52,500 +5.00% 7
Yorkshire - 6 £42,222 - 2
North West -127 4 £51,722 +37.93% 5
Wales - 4 £73,801 - 1
West Midlands -42 3 £47,500 -38.71%
Midlands -43 3 £47,500 -29.89% 3
North East -39 2 £48,445 -11.92% 1
Northern Ireland -39 1 £73,801 -
Linux Command Line
UK

Linux Command Line
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (7.69%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (7.69%) Magento
1 3 (7.69%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 20 (51.28%) AWS
2 15 (38.46%) Azure
3 8 (20.51%) Entra ID
4 7 (17.95%) Amazon ECS
4 7 (17.95%) GCP
4 7 (17.95%) PaaS
5 6 (15.38%) Amazon S3
5 6 (15.38%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (12.82%) OCI
7 4 (10.26%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (10.26%) Amazon ECR
7 4 (10.26%) Amazon ElastiCache
7 4 (10.26%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 4 (10.26%) AWS CodeBuild
7 4 (10.26%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (10.26%) dbt
7 4 (10.26%) Pulumi
7 4 (10.26%) Sentry
8 3 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (7.69%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (17.95%) TCP/IP
2 6 (15.38%) Firewall
3 1 (2.56%) BGP
3 1 (2.56%) LAN
3 1 (2.56%) Network Security
3 1 (2.56%) NGFW
3 1 (2.56%) OSPF
3 1 (2.56%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (2.56%) VPN
3 1 (2.56%) WAN
3 1 (2.56%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (17.95%) Amazon RDS
1 7 (17.95%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (12.82%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (10.26%) Redis
4 3 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (7.69%) MongoDB
4 3 (7.69%) MySQL
4 3 (7.69%) Power BI
4 3 (7.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (10.26%) Git
2 3 (7.69%) Jenkins
2 3 (7.69%) JIRA
2 3 (7.69%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (2.56%) GitLab
3 1 (2.56%) Selenium
3 1 (2.56%) WebDriver
General
1 13 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 6 (15.38%) Finance
3 5 (12.82%) Public Sector
4 4 (10.26%) German Language
4 4 (10.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (7.69%) Games
5 3 (7.69%) Legal
5 3 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (5.13%) Advertising
6 2 (5.13%) Law
7 1 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.56%) Electronics
7 1 (2.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (20.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (15.38%) Platform Engineer
3 5 (12.82%) IT Engineer
3 5 (12.82%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (10.26%) Analyst
4 4 (10.26%) Senior
4 4 (10.26%) Senior Platform Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) Applications Support
5 3 (7.69%) Applications Support Analyst
5 3 (7.69%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
5 3 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) IT Manager
5 3 (7.69%) Network Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) Support Analyst
6 2 (5.13%) Developer
7 1 (2.56%) C# Developer
7 1 (2.56%) DevOps Engineer
7 1 (2.56%) Test Automation Engineer
7 1 (2.56%) Test Engineer
7 1 (2.56%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (33.33%) HTML
2 9 (23.08%) JSON
2 9 (23.08%) Regular Expression
2 9 (23.08%) XML
3 4 (10.26%) CSS
3 4 (10.26%) Django
3 4 (10.26%) Node.js
4 3 (7.69%) Loki
4 3 (7.69%) OpenTelemetry
4 3 (7.69%) RESTful
4 3 (7.69%) YAML
5 2 (5.13%) Web Services
6 1 (2.56%) .NET
6 1 (2.56%) React
6 1 (2.56%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 17 (43.59%) Onboarding
2 5 (12.82%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (7.69%) Management Information System
3 3 (7.69%) Replication
4 2 (5.13%) Life Science
5 1 (2.56%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.56%) Digital Signage
5 1 (2.56%) IoT
5 1 (2.56%) Smart City
5 1 (2.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 21 (53.85%) Linux
2 17 (43.59%) Unix
3 3 (7.69%) Windows
3 3 (7.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (43.59%) Infrastructure as Code
2 13 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 12 (30.77%) AI
3 12 (30.77%) Containerisation
4 11 (28.21%) DevOps
5 10 (25.64%) Observability
6 9 (23.08%) Data Analysis
6 9 (23.08%) LLM
6 9 (23.08%) Mentoring
7 8 (20.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 8 (20.51%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (20.51%) Secrets Management
8 7 (17.95%) Continuous Delivery
8 7 (17.95%) Incident Response
8 7 (17.95%) Migration
8 7 (17.95%) Open Source
9 6 (15.38%) Infrastructure Automation
9 6 (15.38%) Platform Engineering
10 5 (12.82%) Privileged Access Management
10 5 (12.82%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 29 (74.36%) Python
2 14 (35.90%) SQL
3 8 (20.51%) Bash
3 8 (20.51%) Java
3 8 (20.51%) PowerShell
4 2 (5.13%) Groovy
5 1 (2.56%) C#
5 1 (2.56%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.56%) PHP
5 1 (2.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (30.77%) Degree
2 11 (28.21%) Security Cleared
3 10 (25.64%) SC Cleared
4 4 (10.26%) DV Cleared
5 3 (7.69%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (2.56%) CCNP
6 1 (2.56%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.69%) GDPR
System Software
1 15 (38.46%) Docker
2 8 (20.51%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.56%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 13 (33.33%) Terraform
2 5 (12.82%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (10.26%) AWS Copilot
4 3 (7.69%) Grafana
4 3 (7.69%) Prometheus
4 3 (7.69%) Scalr
5 2 (5.13%) Kubernetes
5 2 (5.13%) Progress Chef
6 1 (2.56%) Ansible
Vendors
1 7 (17.95%) Google
2 5 (12.82%) CyberArk
3 3 (7.69%) Microsoft
3 3 (7.69%) Oracle
3 3 (7.69%) ServiceNow