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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 330 672 602
Rank change year-on-year +342 -70 -131
Permanent jobs citing Linux Command Line 272 103 153
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.70% 0.14% 0.26%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.04% 0.42% 0.62%
Number of salaries quoted 31 80 108
10th Percentile £32,000 £34,500 £30,350
25th Percentile £36,625 £38,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £97,328
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -

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 13,329 24,370 24,539
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 34.18% 32.93% 42.24%
Number of salaries quoted 5,816 15,263 10,953
10th Percentile £28,500 £26,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,925 £35,000 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,793 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.59% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%

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 29 May 2025.

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 29 May 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
North of England +192 180 £46,250 -7.50% 64
North West +148 178 £37,500 -25.00% 30
South East +108 49 £50,000 +17.65% 90
East of England +54 22 £39,000 -10.34% 61
Midlands +64 17 £77,500 +55.00% 60
East Midlands +45 13 - - 18
Scotland - 6 £33,000 - 15
South West +94 5 £75,000 +42.86% 34
West Midlands +49 4 £77,500 +55.00% 39
North East +47 2 £55,000 - 6
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 6
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 7 (2.57%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.84%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.74%) WordPress
4 1 (0.37%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.37%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (1.47%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.37%) Weka
Business Applications
1 4 (1.47%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.37%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 180 (66.18%) Azure
2 178 (65.44%) AWS
3 174 (63.97%) GCP
4 9 (3.31%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (1.10%) Power Platform
5 3 (1.10%) SaaS
6 2 (0.74%) DigitalOcean
7 1 (0.37%) Amazon EventBridge
7 1 (0.37%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (0.37%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.37%) Azure Functions
7 1 (0.37%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (0.37%) GitHub
7 1 (0.37%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (0.37%) IaaS
7 1 (0.37%) OCI
7 1 (0.37%) OpenShift
7 1 (0.37%) PaaS
7 1 (0.37%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 72 (26.47%) VPN
2 63 (23.16%) TCP/IP
3 6 (2.21%) DNS
4 5 (1.84%) DHCP
4 5 (1.84%) DKIM
4 5 (1.84%) DMARC
4 5 (1.84%) Firewall
4 5 (1.84%) Wi-Fi
5 4 (1.47%) Cisco IOS
5 4 (1.47%) VoIP
6 2 (0.74%) IPsec
7 1 (0.37%) GSM
7 1 (0.37%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.37%) InfiniBand
7 1 (0.37%) LTE
7 1 (0.37%) Network Security
7 1 (0.37%) Radio Access Network
7 1 (0.37%) Software-Defined Radio
7 1 (0.37%) UMTS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.84%) MySQL
2 4 (1.47%) Metabase
3 3 (1.10%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (1.10%) Power BI
4 1 (0.37%) Couchbase
4 1 (0.37%) DB2
4 1 (0.37%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.37%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.37%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.37%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 62 (22.79%) Cucumber
1 62 (22.79%) Robot Framework
2 4 (1.47%) Git
3 3 (1.10%) JIRA
4 2 (0.74%) git-flow
5 1 (0.37%) Jenkins
General
1 236 (86.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 85 (31.25%) Social Skills
3 64 (23.53%) Telecoms
4 7 (2.57%) Electronics
5 4 (1.47%) Military
6 3 (1.10%) Manufacturing
7 2 (0.74%) Billing
7 2 (0.74%) Finance
7 2 (0.74%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.37%) Marketing
8 1 (0.37%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.37%) Retail
Job Titles
1 180 (66.18%) Senior
2 172 (63.24%) Senior Software Engineer
2 172 (63.24%) Software Engineer
3 62 (22.79%) Test Automation Engineer
3 62 (22.79%) Test Engineer
4 9 (3.31%) Support Engineer
5 8 (2.94%) Technical Support
6 6 (2.21%) Developer
6 6 (2.21%) Lead
6 6 (2.21%) Linux Engineer
7 5 (1.84%) Help Desk Team Lead
7 5 (1.84%) Systems Engineer
7 5 (1.84%) Team Leader
8 4 (1.47%) Linux Support
8 4 (1.47%) Linux Support Engineer
8 4 (1.47%) Senior Support Engineer
8 4 (1.47%) Senior Technical Engineer
8 4 (1.47%) Senior Technical Support Engineer
8 4 (1.47%) Technical Engineer
8 4 (1.47%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 174 (63.97%) .NET
2 172 (63.24%) Node.js
3 3 (1.10%) Laravel
3 3 (1.10%) Vue
4 2 (0.74%) ASP.NET
4 2 (0.74%) CSS
4 2 (0.74%) Flutter
4 2 (0.74%) REST
4 2 (0.74%) Tailwind CSS
4 2 (0.74%) Unreal Engine
5 1 (0.37%) LEMP Stack
5 1 (0.37%) Middleware
5 1 (0.37%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (0.37%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 173 (63.60%) Self-Motivation
2 172 (63.24%) Cyberattack
3 3 (1.10%) Algorithms
3 3 (1.10%) Molecular Biology
4 2 (0.74%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.37%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.37%) Device Driver
5 1 (0.37%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (0.37%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.37%) FPGA
5 1 (0.37%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (0.37%) LIMS
5 1 (0.37%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 265 (97.43%) Linux
2 68 (25.00%) Windows
3 7 (2.57%) Unix
4 6 (2.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (1.84%) VMS
6 4 (1.47%) Debian
6 4 (1.47%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.37%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (0.37%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 235 (86.40%) Mentoring
2 174 (63.97%) Agile
3 172 (63.24%) Cloud Security
3 172 (63.24%) Data Engineering
3 172 (63.24%) Machine Learning
3 172 (63.24%) Microservices
3 172 (63.24%) Scrum
3 172 (63.24%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 172 (63.24%) Software Engineering
3 172 (63.24%) User Experience
4 70 (25.74%) Problem-Solving
5 66 (24.26%) DevOps
6 65 (23.90%) System Testing
7 64 (23.53%) Test Automation
8 63 (23.16%) Coaching
9 62 (22.79%) Test Management
10 6 (2.21%) Data Analysis
11 5 (1.84%) Artificial Intelligence
11 5 (1.84%) Asset Management
11 5 (1.84%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 249 (91.54%) Python
2 235 (86.40%) JavaScript
3 178 (65.44%) C++
4 174 (63.97%) Java
5 172 (63.24%) Go
5 172 (63.24%) Rust
6 72 (26.47%) Bash
7 68 (25.00%) PowerShell
8 7 (2.57%) Shell Script
8 7 (2.57%) SQL
9 4 (1.47%) Perl
9 4 (1.47%) PHP
10 2 (0.74%) C
10 2 (0.74%) C#
11 1 (0.37%) PL/1
Qualifications
1 177 (65.07%) Security Cleared
2 174 (63.97%) AWS Certification
3 173 (63.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 173 (63.60%) DV Cleared
4 172 (63.24%) AWS Certified Developer
5 71 (26.10%) Degree
6 4 (1.47%) A+ Certification
6 4 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.47%) Dell Certification
6 4 (1.47%) MCP
6 4 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (1.47%) SC Cleared
7 3 (1.10%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.10%) PhD
8 1 (0.37%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (22.79%) QA
2 4 (1.47%) Def Stans
3 1 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.37%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.37%) GDPR
3 1 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.37%) NCSC
3 1 (0.37%) NIST
3 1 (0.37%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (1.84%) Hyper-V
1 5 (1.84%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (1.10%) Docker
3 1 (0.37%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (3.31%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (1.47%) Terraform
3 3 (1.10%) Ansible
4 2 (0.74%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (5.51%) Microsoft
2 9 (3.31%) Apple
3 6 (2.21%) VMware
4 4 (1.47%) Cisco
4 4 (1.47%) Dell
5 3 (1.10%) ServiceNow
6 2 (0.74%) Oracle
7 1 (0.37%) Google
7 1 (0.37%) Hyperion
7 1 (0.37%) IBM
7 1 (0.37%) JD Edwards
7 1 (0.37%) PeopleSoft
7 1 (0.37%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.37%) SAP