Linux Command Line Jobs

Linux/Unix Command Line Interface (CLI)
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Linux Command Line in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Linux Command Line over the 6 months leading up to 9 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 436 711 697
Rank change year-on-year +275 -14 -191
Permanent jobs citing Linux Command Line 335 193 213
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.55% 0.18% 0.24%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.52% 0.55% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 58 155 180
10th Percentile £36,175 £32,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £38,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% -10.00% +4.35%
75th Percentile £77,813 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,375 £87,500 £81,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £39,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -22.00% -4.76% +5.00%

All Generic Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 22,018 35,406 37,118
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 36.30% 33.73% 42.35%
Number of salaries quoted 10,503 22,490 22,075
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £35,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,836 £55,000 £64,470
Median % change year-on-year +5.16% -14.69% +3.15%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £106,250 £99,750 £108,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%

Linux Command Line
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Linux Command Line as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Linux Command Line in the UK

Linux Command Line
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Linux Command Line.

Salary trend for Linux Command Line in the UK

Linux Command Line
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux Command Line over the 6 months to 9 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Linux Command Line in the UK

Linux Command Line
Top 16 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 9 July 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
England +265 323 £50,000 -7.41% 80
UK excluding London +295 295 £39,000 -22.00% 47
Work from Home +200 194 £45,000 -33.33% 45
North of England +177 186 £46,250 +23.33% 7
North West +150 180 £37,500 -25.00% 2
South East +83 48 £50,000 +17.65% 14
London +58 30 £80,000 +13.48% 40
East of England +48 30 £39,000 -10.34% 8
Midlands +97 23 £58,750 +17.50% 4
East Midlands +62 17 - - 1
Scotland +93 8 £33,000 -37.14% 3
South West +77 6 £70,000 -6.67% 8
West Midlands +72 6 £58,750 +17.50% 3
North East +40 3 £55,000 -
Yorkshire +33 3 - - 5
Wales +36 1 - -

Linux Command Line
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 19 (5.67%) Apache Spark
2 7 (2.09%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.49%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.90%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.60%) Confluence
5 2 (0.60%) WordPress
6 1 (0.30%) CMS
Applications
1 15 (4.48%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.30%) Weka
Business Applications
1 4 (1.19%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 213 (63.58%) AWS
2 203 (60.60%) Azure
3 186 (55.52%) GCP
4 19 (5.67%) Amazon EKS
4 19 (5.67%) Amazon ELB
4 19 (5.67%) Amazon S3
5 9 (2.69%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (2.39%) SaaS
7 5 (1.49%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (1.19%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (1.19%) Azure Monitor
8 4 (1.19%) GitHub
8 4 (1.19%) PaaS
9 3 (0.90%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (0.90%) OpenShift
9 3 (0.90%) Power Platform
10 2 (0.60%) Azure Machine Learning
10 2 (0.60%) DigitalOcean
10 2 (0.60%) IaaS
11 1 (0.30%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 75 (22.39%) VPN
2 64 (19.10%) TCP/IP
3 7 (2.09%) Firewall
4 6 (1.79%) DHCP
4 6 (1.79%) DNS
5 5 (1.49%) DKIM
5 5 (1.49%) DMARC
5 5 (1.49%) HTTP
5 5 (1.49%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (1.19%) Cisco IOS
6 4 (1.19%) VoIP
7 2 (0.60%) InfiniBand
8 1 (0.30%) GSM
8 1 (0.30%) LTE
8 1 (0.30%) NAS
8 1 (0.30%) Radio Access Network
8 1 (0.30%) SAN
8 1 (0.30%) Software-Defined Radio
8 1 (0.30%) UMTS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (5.67%) Delta Lake
1 19 (5.67%) DynamoDB
1 19 (5.67%) Metadata
1 19 (5.67%) Spark SQL
2 9 (2.69%) SQL Server
3 8 (2.39%) MySQL
3 8 (2.39%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (1.79%) NoSQL
5 4 (1.19%) Metabase
6 3 (0.90%) Power BI
7 2 (0.60%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.30%) DB2
8 1 (0.30%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 64 (19.10%) Cucumber
1 64 (19.10%) Robot Framework
2 19 (5.67%) MLflow
3 14 (4.18%) Git
4 6 (1.79%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.90%) JIRA
6 2 (0.60%) Artifactory
6 2 (0.60%) git-flow
7 1 (0.30%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 243 (72.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 128 (38.21%) Social Skills
3 66 (19.70%) Telecoms
4 6 (1.79%) Finance
5 4 (1.19%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (1.19%) Electronics
5 4 (1.19%) Military
6 3 (0.90%) Banking
6 3 (0.90%) Investment Banking
7 2 (0.60%) Billing
7 2 (0.60%) Health Technology
7 2 (0.60%) Marketing
7 2 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.30%) Advertising
8 1 (0.30%) Games
8 1 (0.30%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.30%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.30%) Retail
Job Titles
1 190 (56.72%) Senior
2 178 (53.13%) Senior Software Engineer
2 178 (53.13%) Software Engineer
3 64 (19.10%) Test Automation Engineer
3 64 (19.10%) Test Engineer
4 22 (6.57%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 22 (6.57%) Support Engineer
5 19 (5.67%) Linux Engineer
5 19 (5.67%) Operations Engineer
6 15 (4.48%) Linux Support
6 15 (4.48%) Linux Support Engineer
7 13 (3.88%) Technical Support
8 8 (2.39%) Developer
9 7 (2.09%) Lead
10 5 (1.49%) Analyst
10 5 (1.49%) Help Desk Team Lead
10 5 (1.49%) Systems Engineer
10 5 (1.49%) Team Leader
10 5 (1.49%) Technical Manager
10 5 (1.49%) Technical Support Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 180 (53.73%) .NET
2 179 (53.43%) Node.js
3 27 (8.06%) Pandas
4 22 (6.57%) scikit-learn
5 19 (5.67%) Keras
5 19 (5.67%) Lambda Expressions
5 19 (5.67%) Metaflow
5 19 (5.67%) NumPy
5 19 (5.67%) PySpark
5 19 (5.67%) PyTorch
5 19 (5.67%) TensorFlow
5 19 (5.67%) YAML
6 8 (2.39%) JSON
7 5 (1.49%) Puppeteer
7 5 (1.49%) Scrapy
8 4 (1.19%) ARM Templates
8 4 (1.19%) Laravel
8 4 (1.19%) Vue
9 2 (0.60%) Regular Expression
9 2 (0.60%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 181 (54.03%) Self-Motivation
2 178 (53.13%) Cyberattack
3 3 (0.90%) Data Centre
3 3 (0.90%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (0.90%) Hedge funds
3 3 (0.90%) Replication
4 2 (0.60%) Mobile App
4 2 (0.60%) NHS
4 2 (0.60%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.30%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.30%) Device Driver
5 1 (0.30%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (0.30%) FPGA
5 1 (0.30%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (0.30%) LIMS
5 1 (0.30%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 306 (91.34%) Linux
2 79 (23.58%) Windows
3 28 (8.36%) Unix
4 15 (4.48%) Mac OS
5 11 (3.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (2.39%) VMS
7 3 (0.90%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.60%) CentOS
8 2 (0.60%) CoreOS
9 1 (0.30%) Debian
9 1 (0.30%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 246 (73.43%) Mentoring
2 200 (59.70%) Machine Learning
3 185 (55.22%) Software Engineering
4 183 (54.63%) Agile
5 182 (54.33%) Microservices
6 181 (54.03%) Data Engineering
7 178 (53.13%) Cloud Security
7 178 (53.13%) Scrum
7 178 (53.13%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 178 (53.13%) User Experience
8 78 (23.28%) Problem-Solving
9 74 (22.09%) DevOps
10 72 (21.49%) Test Automation
11 67 (20.00%) System Testing
12 64 (19.10%) Coaching
12 64 (19.10%) Test Management
13 37 (11.04%) Artificial Intelligence
14 31 (9.25%) CI/CD
15 25 (7.46%) Containerisation
16 23 (6.87%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 294 (87.76%) Python
2 252 (75.22%) JavaScript
3 184 (54.93%) C++
4 182 (54.33%) Java
5 180 (53.73%) Go
6 178 (53.13%) Rust
7 96 (28.66%) Bash
8 77 (22.99%) PowerShell
9 47 (14.03%) SQL
10 20 (5.97%) Shell Script
11 6 (1.79%) Perl
12 5 (1.49%) PHP
13 3 (0.90%) C#
14 2 (0.60%) C
15 1 (0.30%) PL/1
Qualifications
1 181 (54.03%) Security Cleared
2 179 (53.43%) AWS Certification
2 179 (53.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 179 (53.43%) DV Cleared
3 178 (53.13%) AWS Certified Developer
4 87 (25.97%) Degree
5 12 (3.58%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.19%) A+ Certification
6 4 (1.19%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.19%) Dell Certification
6 4 (1.19%) MCP
6 4 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.60%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.30%) CCNA
8 1 (0.30%) CCNP
8 1 (0.30%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.30%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (19.70%) QA
2 4 (1.19%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.19%) Def Stans
2 4 (1.19%) GDPR
3 3 (0.90%) HIPAA
3 3 (0.90%) SOC 2
4 2 (0.60%) HL7
5 1 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.30%) NCSC
5 1 (0.30%) NIST
5 1 (0.30%) SLA
System Software
1 29 (8.66%) Docker
2 6 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (1.49%) Hyper-V
3 5 (1.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.19%) zsh
5 3 (0.90%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (0.90%) vSphere
6 2 (0.60%) Active Directory
7 1 (0.30%) NFS
Systems Management
1 29 (8.66%) Terraform
2 27 (8.06%) Kubernetes
3 20 (5.97%) Microsoft Intune
4 19 (5.67%) Kubeflow
5 8 (2.39%) Ansible
6 4 (1.19%) Puppet
7 3 (0.90%) Packer
8 2 (0.60%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.30%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 25 (7.46%) Microsoft
2 23 (6.87%) Databricks
3 20 (5.97%) Apple
4 6 (1.79%) VMware
5 4 (1.19%) Cisco
5 4 (1.19%) Dell
6 3 (0.90%) NetApp
6 3 (0.90%) Red Hat
6 3 (0.90%) SAP
6 3 (0.90%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.60%) Google
8 1 (0.30%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.30%) IBM
8 1 (0.30%) Oracle
8 1 (0.30%) Refinitiv