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 16 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 157 216 199
Rank change year-on-year +59 -17 +59
Permanent jobs citing Linux Command Line 12 8 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.37% 0.13% 0.025%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.91% 0.45% 0.065%
Number of salaries quoted 8 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £32,125 £31,250 £27,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,875 £32,500 £28,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.46% +14.04% -45.37%
75th Percentile £40,250 £33,750 £29,250
90th Percentile £53,375 - -
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +9.09%

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 1,316 1,763 1,544
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 40.36% 29.27% 39.04%
Number of salaries quoted 767 777 1,037
10th Percentile £26,750 £31,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £34,500 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,147 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.91% - +14.82%
75th Percentile £63,125 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% -7.69% +4.00%

Linux Command Line
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Linux Command Line as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Linux Command Line 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 16 September 2025.

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 16 September 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
Birmingham +34 4 £39,000 - 1
Warwickshire - 2 - -
Solihull -2 1 £34,750 +6.92%
Worcestershire - 1 £40,000 -
Coventry - 1 - -
Linux Command Line
England

Linux Command Line
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 (50.00%) IIS
2 2 (16.67%) Apache
2 2 (16.67%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 7 (58.33%) SaaS
2 3 (25.00%) AWS
3 2 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (16.67%) Amazon ELB
3 2 (16.67%) Amazon S3
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon EventBridge
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (8.33%) Azure
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Functions
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (8.33%) GCP
4 1 (8.33%) GitHub
4 1 (8.33%) IaaS
4 1 (8.33%) OpenShift
4 1 (8.33%) PaaS
4 1 (8.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) TCP/IP
1 2 (16.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (58.33%) SQL Server
2 3 (25.00%) MySQL
3 2 (16.67%) Delta Lake
3 2 (16.67%) DynamoDB
3 2 (16.67%) Metadata
3 2 (16.67%) Spark SQL
4 1 (8.33%) DB2
4 1 (8.33%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Browser DevTools
2 2 (16.67%) Cucumber
2 2 (16.67%) MLflow
2 2 (16.67%) Robot Framework
3 1 (8.33%) Git
General
1 10 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (16.67%) Telecoms
3 1 (8.33%) Marketing
3 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Support Specialist
2 4 (33.33%) Technical Specialist
2 4 (33.33%) Technical Support
2 4 (33.33%) Technical Support Specialist
3 2 (16.67%) Applications Specialist
3 2 (16.67%) Applications Support
3 2 (16.67%) Applications Support Specialist
3 2 (16.67%) Machine Learning Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Operations Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Test Automation Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Test Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Solutions Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Web Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Website Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (50.00%) LAMP
2 4 (33.33%) REST
2 4 (33.33%) SOAP
3 2 (16.67%) Keras
3 2 (16.67%) Lambda Expressions
3 2 (16.67%) Metaflow
3 2 (16.67%) NumPy
3 2 (16.67%) Pandas
3 2 (16.67%) PySpark
3 2 (16.67%) PyTorch
3 2 (16.67%) scikit-learn
3 2 (16.67%) TensorFlow
3 2 (16.67%) YAML
4 1 (8.33%) Laravel
4 1 (8.33%) Middleware
4 1 (8.33%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (83.33%) Linux
2 2 (16.67%) Unix
2 2 (16.67%) Windows
3 1 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (8.33%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Customer Experience
2 6 (50.00%) CRM
3 5 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (33.33%) Case Management
4 4 (33.33%) Proactive Management
4 4 (33.33%) Process Improvement
5 3 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 3 (25.00%) Containerisation
5 3 (25.00%) DevOps
5 3 (25.00%) Test Automation
6 2 (16.67%) Data Science
6 2 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
6 2 (16.67%) Mentoring
6 2 (16.67%) MLOps
6 2 (16.67%) OWASP
6 2 (16.67%) System Testing
6 2 (16.67%) Test Management
6 2 (16.67%) Time Management
6 2 (16.67%) Unit Testing
6 2 (16.67%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 9 (75.00%) JavaScript
2 8 (66.67%) SQL
3 7 (58.33%) PHP
4 5 (41.67%) Python
5 3 (25.00%) Bash
5 3 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) AWS Certification
2 1 (8.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (8.33%) Azure Certification
2 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) QA
2 1 (8.33%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (8.33%) NCSC
2 1 (8.33%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (25.00%) Terraform
2 2 (16.67%) Kubeflow
3 1 (8.33%) Ansible
Vendors
1 7 (58.33%) Microsoft
1 7 (58.33%) Oracle
2 6 (50.00%) Salesforce
3 4 (33.33%) HubSpot
4 2 (16.67%) Databricks
5 1 (8.33%) Google
5 1 (8.33%) IBM