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 have cited Linux Command Line over the 6 months to 4 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 569 577 568
Rank change year-on-year +8 -9 -17
Permanent jobs citing Linux Command Line 172 579 621
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.32% 0.47% 0.48%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.88% 1.08% 1.10%
Number of salaries quoted 141 286 286
10th Percentile £38,750 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £40,371 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £78,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £96,539 £112,651 £81,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +23.81% +5.00% -

All Generic Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 19,607 53,764 56,466
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 36.83% 43.38% 44.03%
Number of salaries quoted 14,348 29,746 33,691
10th Percentile £33,250 £34,875 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £63,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.57% +5.83% -
75th Percentile £84,056 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £105,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -

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 4 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Linux Command Line in the UK

Linux Command Line
Top 14 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 4 December 2023. 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 +28 152 £63,750 +11.84% 86
Work from Home +127 106 £75,000 +30.43% 43
UK excluding London +39 99 £65,000 +23.81% 57
London +129 58 £67,500 +3.85% 38
North of England +123 43 £85,000 +38.78% 16
North West +109 30 £92,778 +61.35% 6
South West +88 21 £50,000 -50.86% 4
South East +74 20 £42,500 +3.66% 15
Yorkshire +68 13 £85,000 +25.93% 8
East of England +96 12 £85,000 +18.06% 10
Scotland +50 6 £92,778 +80.15% 5
West Midlands +78 1 £70,000 +30.63% 6
Midlands +48 1 £70,000 +30.23% 8
Northern Ireland - 1 £75,000 -

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 6 (3.49%) WordPress
2 4 (2.33%) ArcGIS
3 2 (1.16%) Apache
3 2 (1.16%) IIS
3 2 (1.16%) OpenStack
3 2 (1.16%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.58%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.58%) CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.58%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 96 (55.81%) Azure
2 57 (33.14%) AWS
3 39 (22.67%) Azure DevOps
4 26 (15.12%) GCP
5 25 (14.53%) Azure AKS
6 17 (9.88%) GitHub
7 15 (8.72%) Datadog
8 13 (7.56%) Azure Monitor
8 13 (7.56%) GitHub Actions
8 13 (7.56%) Pulumi
9 11 (6.40%) Amazon S3
10 10 (5.81%) Amazon EC2
10 10 (5.81%) AWS Lambda
10 10 (5.81%) Serverless
11 9 (5.23%) OpenShift
12 6 (3.49%) PaaS
12 6 (3.49%) SaaS
13 5 (2.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 4 (2.33%) Amazon ECS
14 4 (2.33%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (10.47%) Firewall
2 12 (6.98%) DNS
3 10 (5.81%) DHCP
4 8 (4.65%) Internet
5 7 (4.07%) TCP/IP
6 5 (2.91%) VPN
7 4 (2.33%) Wireless
8 3 (1.74%) Ethernet
8 3 (1.74%) SD-WAN
9 2 (1.16%) Fibre Channel
9 2 (1.16%) HTTP
9 2 (1.16%) iSCSI
9 2 (1.16%) NAS
9 2 (1.16%) Network Security
9 2 (1.16%) SAN
9 2 (1.16%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.58%) AMQP
10 1 (0.58%) BGP
10 1 (0.58%) SSH
10 1 (0.58%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (6.40%) MySQL
2 6 (3.49%) Relational Database
3 5 (2.91%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (2.91%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (2.33%) GIS
4 4 (2.33%) QGIS
4 4 (2.33%) SQL Server
5 3 (1.74%) Firebird
6 2 (1.16%) Big Data
6 2 (1.16%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.16%) InfluxDB
7 1 (0.58%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.58%) ArangoDB
7 1 (0.58%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.58%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 46 (26.74%) Git
2 27 (15.70%) Jenkins
3 13 (7.56%) Team Foundation Server
4 9 (5.23%) JIRA
5 8 (4.65%) TeamCity
6 7 (4.07%) GitLab
7 6 (3.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 5 (2.91%) Bitbucket
8 5 (2.91%) CircleCI
9 4 (2.33%) Browser DevTools
9 4 (2.33%) Octopus Deploy
9 4 (2.33%) webpack
10 1 (0.58%) Android Studio
10 1 (0.58%) git-flow
10 1 (0.58%) Maven
10 1 (0.58%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.58%) Selenium
10 1 (0.58%) Xcode
General
1 50 (29.07%) Finance
2 41 (23.84%) Social Skills
3 30 (17.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 17 (9.88%) Banking
5 7 (4.07%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (4.07%) Publishing
6 6 (3.49%) Public Sector
7 5 (2.91%) Games
7 5 (2.91%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (2.33%) Law
8 4 (2.33%) Marketing
9 3 (1.74%) Retail
10 2 (1.16%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.58%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.58%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 41 (23.84%) Azure Engineer
2 39 (22.67%) Senior
3 34 (19.77%) DevOps Engineer
3 34 (19.77%) Lead
4 30 (17.44%) Cloud Engineer
5 26 (15.12%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 21 (12.21%) Software Engineer
7 19 (11.05%) Lead Cloud Engineer
8 18 (10.47%) Operations Engineer
9 16 (9.30%) Cloud Security Engineer
9 16 (9.30%) Cloud Security Lead
9 16 (9.30%) Developer
9 16 (9.30%) Security Engineer
10 14 (8.14%) Senior DevOps
10 14 (8.14%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 13 (7.56%) Linux Engineer
12 12 (6.98%) IT Engineer
13 11 (6.40%) Platform Engineer
14 10 (5.81%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 10 (5.81%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (17.44%) Node.js
2 29 (16.86%) .NET
3 25 (14.53%) YAML
4 20 (11.63%) JSON
5 15 (8.72%) ARM Templates
6 10 (5.81%) CSS
7 7 (4.07%) HTML
7 7 (4.07%) React
8 5 (2.91%) ADO
8 5 (2.91%) REST
9 4 (2.33%) PyTorch
9 4 (2.33%) RabbitMQ
9 4 (2.33%) RSS
9 4 (2.33%) TensorFlow
10 3 (1.74%) Next.js
10 3 (1.74%) NumPy
10 3 (1.74%) Pandas
10 3 (1.74%) Sass
11 2 (1.16%) Laravel
11 2 (1.16%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 25 (14.53%) Self-Motivation
2 23 (13.37%) Cyberattack
3 8 (4.65%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (2.91%) Algorithms
4 5 (2.91%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (2.33%) IoT
6 3 (1.74%) PCIe
6 3 (1.74%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.16%) Distributed Applications
7 2 (1.16%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.16%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.16%) Replication
8 1 (0.58%) Augmented Reality
8 1 (0.58%) Clustering
8 1 (0.58%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.58%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (0.58%) Grid Computing
8 1 (0.58%) Smartphone
8 1 (0.58%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (0.58%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 114 (66.28%) Linux
2 29 (16.86%) Windows
3 17 (9.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 16 (9.30%) Unix
5 14 (8.14%) CentOS
6 13 (7.56%) Ubuntu
7 12 (6.98%) Debian
8 9 (5.23%) Windows Server
9 7 (4.07%) Fedora
9 7 (4.07%) openSUSE
10 6 (3.49%) CoreOS
11 4 (2.33%) VMS
11 4 (2.33%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (1.16%) Windows 10
12 2 (1.16%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.58%) Android
13 1 (0.58%) Apple iOS
13 1 (0.58%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.58%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.58%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (44.77%) Agile
2 73 (42.44%) DevOps
3 54 (31.40%) Infrastructure as Code
4 39 (22.67%) Software Engineering
5 36 (20.93%) CI/CD
5 36 (20.93%) Mentoring
6 32 (18.60%) Scrum
7 28 (16.28%) Configuration Management
7 28 (16.28%) Machine Learning
7 28 (16.28%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 23 (13.37%) Data Engineering
8 23 (13.37%) Microservices
8 23 (13.37%) Problem-Solving
8 23 (13.37%) Software Delivery
8 23 (13.37%) User Experience
9 20 (11.63%) Collaborative Working
10 18 (10.47%) Coaching
10 18 (10.47%) Platform Engineering
11 17 (9.88%) Continuous Integration
11 17 (9.88%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 98 (56.98%) Python
2 68 (39.53%) PowerShell
3 65 (37.79%) Bash
4 43 (25.00%) Java
5 37 (21.51%) JavaScript
6 27 (15.70%) Go
7 26 (15.12%) SQL
8 25 (14.53%) Rust
9 20 (11.63%) Ruby
10 19 (11.05%) C#
11 13 (7.56%) Groovy
12 11 (6.40%) Perl
13 9 (5.23%) Bicep
14 8 (4.65%) C
14 8 (4.65%) PHP
14 8 (4.65%) Shell Script
15 6 (3.49%) C++
15 6 (3.49%) PL/SQL
15 6 (3.49%) TypeScript
16 2 (1.16%) sed
Qualifications
1 29 (16.86%) Security Cleared
2 26 (15.12%) AWS Certification
3 24 (13.95%) DV Cleared
4 23 (13.37%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 23 (13.37%) AWS Certified Developer
4 23 (13.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 20 (11.63%) Azure Certification
6 16 (9.30%) Degree
7 8 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (3.49%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (3.49%) SC Cleared
9 2 (1.16%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (1.16%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.58%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.58%) CCNP
10 1 (0.58%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.58%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.58%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (8.72%) QA
2 1 (0.58%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.58%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.58%) SLA
System Software
1 44 (25.58%) Docker
2 7 (4.07%) Samba
3 4 (2.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.74%) Active Directory
5 2 (1.16%) vSphere
6 1 (0.58%) Firmware
6 1 (0.58%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.58%) Squid
6 1 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.58%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.58%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 72 (41.86%) Terraform
2 64 (37.21%) Kubernetes
3 43 (25.00%) Ansible
4 35 (20.35%) Puppet
5 27 (15.70%) Progress Chef
6 17 (9.88%) Grafana
6 17 (9.88%) Prometheus
7 16 (9.30%) Istio
8 8 (4.65%) Salt
9 4 (2.33%) Kibana
10 3 (1.74%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (1.74%) Nagios
10 3 (1.74%) ZABBIX
11 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (1.16%) Packer
11 2 (1.16%) SCCM
12 1 (0.58%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.58%) Kustomize
12 1 (0.58%) Mesos
12 1 (0.58%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 18 (10.47%) Google
2 17 (9.88%) New Relic
2 17 (9.88%) Red Hat
3 13 (7.56%) Microsoft
3 13 (7.56%) SaltStack
4 6 (3.49%) VMware
5 5 (2.91%) Apple
5 5 (2.91%) Palo Alto
6 4 (2.33%) Oracle
6 4 (2.33%) Synology
6 4 (2.33%) Veeam
7 3 (1.74%) Aruba
7 3 (1.74%) Juniper
8 2 (1.16%) Acronis
8 2 (1.16%) Cisco
8 2 (1.16%) ProCurve
8 2 (1.16%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.16%) Zerto
9 1 (0.58%) Huawei
9 1 (0.58%) NVIDIA