Linux Command Line Job Trends in the West Midlands

Linux/Unix Command Line Interface (CLI)
England > West Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Linux Command Line in permanent job vacancies in the West Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Linux Command Line over the 6 months leading up to 4 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 160 195 170
Rank change year-on-year +35 -25 +70
Permanent jobs citing Linux Command Line 11 6 6
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.21% 0.14% 0.17%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.55% 0.38% 0.48%
Number of salaries quoted 11 1 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £32,125 £31,250 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,000 £32,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -35.00% -4.16%
75th Percentile £39,500 £33,750 -
90th Percentile - - £63,750
England median annual salary £67,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +22.73% -12.00% +13.64%

All Generic Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,987 1,563 1,253
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 37.75% 36.64% 36.34%
Number of salaries quoted 691 630 1,058
10th Percentile £26,375 £32,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,313 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +7.84% -2.86%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £76,625
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%

Linux Command Line
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Linux Command Line job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Linux Command Line
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Linux Command Line.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Linux Command Line

Linux Command Line
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux Command Line in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 4 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Linux Command Line in the West Midlands

Linux Command Line
Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 4 January 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
Birmingham +23 7 £39,000 - 3
Solihull +4 1 £34,750 +6.92%
Linux Command Line
England

Linux Command Line
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 10 (90.91%) IIS
2 6 (54.55%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 10 (90.91%) SaaS
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon ECR
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon ElastiCache
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 1 (9.09%) AWS
2 1 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (9.09%) Azure
2 1 (9.09%) dbt
2 1 (9.09%) GCP
2 1 (9.09%) PaaS
2 1 (9.09%) Pulumi
2 1 (9.09%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (90.91%) SQL Server
2 6 (54.55%) MySQL
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (9.09%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (9.09%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Browser DevTools
General
1 10 (90.91%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (90.91%) Support Specialist
2 6 (54.55%) Applications Specialist
2 6 (54.55%) Applications Support
2 6 (54.55%) Applications Support Specialist
3 4 (36.36%) Technical Specialist
3 4 (36.36%) Technical Support
3 4 (36.36%) Technical Support Specialist
4 1 (9.09%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (90.91%) LAMP
2 4 (36.36%) REST
2 4 (36.36%) SOAP
3 1 (9.09%) Django
Operating Systems
1 11 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (9.09%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) CRM
1 10 (90.91%) Customer Experience
2 7 (63.64%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (36.36%) Case Management
3 4 (36.36%) Proactive Management
3 4 (36.36%) Process Improvement
4 1 (9.09%) CI/CD
4 1 (9.09%) Clean Code
4 1 (9.09%) DevOps
4 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (9.09%) Migration
4 1 (9.09%) Observability
4 1 (9.09%) Open Source
4 1 (9.09%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (9.09%) Prototyping
4 1 (9.09%) Service-Level Objective
4 1 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 10 (90.91%) JavaScript
1 10 (90.91%) PHP
1 10 (90.91%) SQL
2 1 (9.09%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) AWS Copilot
1 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (90.91%) Microsoft
1 10 (90.91%) Oracle
1 10 (90.91%) Salesforce
2 4 (36.36%) HubSpot
3 1 (9.09%) Google