Linux Command Line Jobs 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 7 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 198 236 251
Rank change year-on-year +38 +15 +7
Permanent jobs citing Linux Command Line 5 10 22
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.11% 0.14% 0.34%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.36% 0.40% 0.72%
Number of salaries quoted 1 10 7
10th Percentile - - £33,600
25th Percentile £76,250 - £39,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £50,000 £47,610
Median % change year-on-year +55.00% +5.02% +26.96%
75th Percentile £78,750 - £58,125
90th Percentile - - £58,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

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 1,385 2,470 3,072
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 30.85% 33.96% 46.84%
Number of salaries quoted 707 1,709 982
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,925 £35,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% -4.55% +15.79%
75th Percentile £63,750 £64,108 £70,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £83,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +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

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

Salary trend 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 7 May 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 - 3 £77,500 - 7
Warwickshire - 2 - - 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle ERP
1 2 (40.00%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) OCI
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon EventBridge
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (20.00%) Azure
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Functions
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (20.00%) IaaS
3 1 (20.00%) OpenShift
3 1 (20.00%) PaaS
3 1 (20.00%) SaaS
3 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) VPN
2 2 (40.00%) IPsec
2 2 (40.00%) Network Security
2 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle Database
2 1 (20.00%) DB2
2 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (40.00%) Robot Framework
General
1 4 (80.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Senior
2 2 (40.00%) Cloud Consultant
2 2 (40.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Consultant
2 2 (40.00%) Consultant
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Consultant
2 2 (40.00%) Oracle Consultant
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Consultant
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Infrastructure Consultant
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Oracle Consultant
2 2 (40.00%) Test Automation Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Test Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Solutions Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (20.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (40.00%) Oracle Linux
2 2 (40.00%) Windows
3 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (20.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) Coaching
2 4 (80.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (40.00%) Analytics
3 2 (40.00%) Customer Retention
3 2 (40.00%) ERP
3 2 (40.00%) ITIL
3 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (40.00%) System Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (40.00%) Test Management
4 1 (20.00%) Asset Management
4 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven
4 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 1 (20.00%) High Availability
4 1 (20.00%) Integration Patterns
4 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (20.00%) SABSA
4 1 (20.00%) Security Architecture
4 1 (20.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Bash
1 3 (60.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (60.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Degree
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) QA
2 1 (20.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (20.00%) NCSC
2 1 (20.00%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Ansible
1 3 (60.00%) Terraform
2 2 (40.00%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle
2 2 (40.00%) Hyperion
2 2 (40.00%) JD Edwards
2 2 (40.00%) PeopleSoft
3 1 (20.00%) IBM