Linux Command Line Job Trends in Wales

Linux/Unix Command Line Interface (CLI)
UK > Wales

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Linux Command Line in permanent job vacancies in Wales. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Linux Command Line over the 6 months leading up to 22 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 - 114
Rank change year-on-year - - 0
Permanent jobs citing Linux Command Line 4 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 0.25% - 0.056%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.08% - 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £68,813 - £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 - £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £78,790 - £52,500
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% -12.50%

All Generic Skills
Wales

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 Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 372 248 578
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 23.16% 46.36% 32.44%
Number of salaries quoted 196 140 342
10th Percentile £28,500 £31,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £38,750 £39,433 £32,021
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £56,750 £44,886
Median % change year-on-year -11.89% +26.43% -0.25%
75th Percentile £68,750 £71,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £68,625
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 Wales

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

Linux Command Line job vacancy trend in Wales

Linux Command Line
Salary Trend in Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Linux Command Line.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Linux Command Line

Linux Command Line
Job Locations in Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 22 April 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
South Wales - 4 £73,801 -
Linux Command Line
UK

Linux Command Line
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) PaaS
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon ECR
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 2 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) dbt
2 2 (50.00%) GCP
2 2 (50.00%) IaaS
2 2 (50.00%) Pulumi
2 2 (50.00%) SaaS
2 2 (50.00%) Sentry
3 1 (25.00%) AWS CodeBuild
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
1 2 (50.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (50.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (50.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Git
General
1 2 (50.00%) Organisational Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Django
1 2 (50.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Management Information System
1 2 (50.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
1 4 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (100.00%) Observability
1 4 (100.00%) Open Source
2 3 (75.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (75.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 3 (75.00%) Incident Response
2 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (50.00%) Clean Code
3 2 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
3 2 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
3 2 (50.00%) FinOps
3 2 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (50.00%) Information Security
3 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 2 (50.00%) Mathematics
3 2 (50.00%) Migration
3 2 (50.00%) Problem Management
3 2 (50.00%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (75.00%) Java
3 2 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (50.00%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Google