Linux Command Line Jobs with Work from Home Options

Linux/Unix Command Line Interface (CLI)
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Linux Command Line in remote or hybrid work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Linux Command Line over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 470 503 532
Rank change year-on-year +33 +29 -36
Permanent jobs citing Linux Command Line 63 76 422
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.23% 0.23% 0.54%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.66% 0.60% 1.15%
Number of salaries quoted 45 65 184
10th Percentile £40,500 £37,091 £38,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +6.19% +15.90%
75th Percentile £87,500 £65,000 £79,063
90th Percentile £95,000 £82,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 9,605 12,729 36,632
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 34.38% 38.79% 46.65%
Number of salaries quoted 6,855 9,924 18,426
10th Percentile £33,500 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - +8.33%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £107,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £64,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -14.06% +2.40% +4.17%

Linux Command Line
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Linux Command Line as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Linux Command Line trend for jobs with a WFH option

Linux Command Line
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Linux Command Line.

Linux Command Line salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Linux Command Line
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Linux Command Line over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Linux Command Line salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Linux Command Line
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (1.59%) Confluence
1 1 (1.59%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (7.94%) GNU Octave
2 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.59%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 12 (19.05%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (6.35%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (6.35%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (6.35%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 22 (34.92%) Azure
2 21 (33.33%) AWS
3 17 (26.98%) Entra ID
4 16 (25.40%) Azure Monitor
5 13 (20.63%) Microsoft 365
6 12 (19.05%) Azure Storage
7 7 (11.11%) Serverless
8 6 (9.52%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (9.52%) Amazon S3
8 6 (9.52%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (7.94%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (7.94%) GitHub
9 5 (7.94%) OpenShift
10 4 (6.35%) OCI
11 2 (3.17%) IaaS
11 2 (3.17%) PaaS
12 1 (1.59%) Akamai
12 1 (1.59%) Cloud Computing
12 1 (1.59%) CloudFront
12 1 (1.59%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (15.87%) Network Security
2 7 (11.11%) DNS
3 5 (7.94%) AMQP
4 4 (6.35%) IPsec
4 4 (6.35%) VPN
5 3 (4.76%) DHCP
6 2 (3.17%) Firewall
6 2 (3.17%) HTTP
7 1 (1.59%) Internet
7 1 (1.59%) LAN
7 1 (1.59%) Radio Access Network
7 1 (1.59%) SNMP
7 1 (1.59%) TCP/IP
7 1 (1.59%) tcpdump
7 1 (1.59%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (1.59%) Wireless
7 1 (1.59%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (9.52%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (7.94%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
2 5 (7.94%) InfluxDB
2 5 (7.94%) Relational Database
3 3 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.59%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.59%) MySQL
4 1 (1.59%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.59%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (20.63%) Git
2 9 (14.29%) Jenkins
3 7 (11.11%) JIRA
4 6 (9.52%) GitLab
5 5 (7.94%) Bitbucket
5 5 (7.94%) JMeter
5 5 (7.94%) Maven
5 5 (7.94%) Zephyr
6 2 (3.17%) DTrace
6 2 (3.17%) GDB
General
1 18 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 13 (20.63%) Analytical Skills
2 13 (20.63%) Law
3 8 (12.70%) Finance
4 7 (11.11%) Games
4 7 (11.11%) Legal
5 5 (7.94%) Aerospace
5 5 (7.94%) Aviation
5 5 (7.94%) Banking
5 5 (7.94%) Billing
5 5 (7.94%) Retail
6 4 (6.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (6.35%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.59%) Advertising
7 1 (1.59%) Back Office
7 1 (1.59%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.59%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 15 (23.81%) Azure Engineer
1 15 (23.81%) Cloud Engineer
2 11 (17.46%) DevOps Engineer
3 10 (15.87%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 7 (11.11%) Developer
5 6 (9.52%) Software Tester
5 6 (9.52%) Tester
6 5 (7.94%) Graduate
6 5 (7.94%) Graduate Software Tester
6 5 (7.94%) Graduate Tester
6 5 (7.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (7.94%) Python Developer
7 4 (6.35%) Consultant
7 4 (6.35%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
7 4 (6.35%) Identity Management Engineer
7 4 (6.35%) JDE CNC Consultant
7 4 (6.35%) JDE Consultant
8 3 (4.76%) Linux Engineer
8 3 (4.76%) Platform Engineer
8 3 (4.76%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.94%) ARM Templates
1 5 (7.94%) NumPy
1 5 (7.94%) OpenAPI
1 5 (7.94%) RabbitMQ
1 5 (7.94%) Swagger
2 4 (6.35%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (3.17%) .NET
3 2 (3.17%) CSS
3 2 (3.17%) gRPC
3 2 (3.17%) HTML
3 2 (3.17%) Node.js
3 2 (3.17%) OAuth
3 2 (3.17%) React
3 2 (3.17%) Vue
4 1 (1.59%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.59%) JSON
4 1 (1.59%) NETCONF
4 1 (1.59%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 12 (19.05%) Public Cloud
2 8 (12.70%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (7.94%) Client/Server
3 5 (7.94%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (7.94%) PKI
4 4 (6.35%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (6.35%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.59%) Clustering
5 1 (1.59%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.59%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 52 (82.54%) Linux
2 23 (36.51%) Windows
3 9 (14.29%) Unix
4 5 (7.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (7.94%) Windows Server
5 4 (6.35%) Oracle Linux
6 2 (3.17%) CentOS
6 2 (3.17%) Debian
6 2 (3.17%) Ubuntu
7 1 (1.59%) Fedora
7 1 (1.59%) openSUSE
7 1 (1.59%) VMS
7 1 (1.59%) Windows 10
7 1 (1.59%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (1.59%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (46.03%) DevOps
2 27 (42.86%) CI/CD
3 25 (39.68%) Analytics
4 18 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
5 17 (26.98%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 16 (25.40%) Log Analytics
7 15 (23.81%) RBAC
8 14 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
8 14 (22.22%) Deployment Automation
8 14 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
9 13 (20.63%) Agile
9 13 (20.63%) Customer Service
10 12 (19.05%) Availability Management
10 12 (19.05%) Capacity Planning
10 12 (19.05%) Change Management
10 12 (19.05%) Incident Management
10 12 (19.05%) ITSM
10 12 (19.05%) Project Delivery
10 12 (19.05%) Service Management
10 12 (19.05%) Trend Analysis
Programming Languages
1 27 (42.86%) Bash
2 21 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 21 (33.33%) Python
3 15 (23.81%) SQL
4 12 (19.05%) Java
5 7 (11.11%) Shell Script
6 5 (7.94%) Go
6 5 (7.94%) Groovy
6 5 (7.94%) MATLAB
7 3 (4.76%) PHP
8 2 (3.17%) C
8 2 (3.17%) C++
8 2 (3.17%) JavaScript
8 2 (3.17%) OCaml
8 2 (3.17%) SystemTap
8 2 (3.17%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.59%) Perl
Qualifications
1 19 (30.16%) Security Cleared
2 17 (26.98%) Azure Certification
3 7 (11.11%) Degree
3 7 (11.11%) SC Cleared
4 4 (6.35%) Oracle Certification
5 2 (3.17%) AWS Certification
5 2 (3.17%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.59%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 1 (1.59%) CCNA
6 1 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.59%) MCSA
6 1 (1.59%) MCSE
6 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Certified Architect
6 1 (1.59%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.35%) GDPR
1 4 (6.35%) HIPAA
1 4 (6.35%) SOC 2
2 2 (3.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (1.59%) NIST
3 1 (1.59%) SLA
System Software
1 18 (28.57%) Active Directory
1 18 (28.57%) Docker
2 6 (9.52%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.59%) Firmware
3 1 (1.59%) Samba
3 1 (1.59%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.59%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (26.98%) Terraform
2 12 (19.05%) Kubernetes
3 7 (11.11%) Ansible
4 6 (9.52%) Progress Chef
5 5 (7.94%) Docker Swarm
5 5 (7.94%) Grafana
5 5 (7.94%) Prometheus
5 5 (7.94%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (6.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (1.59%) Kibana
7 1 (1.59%) logstash
7 1 (1.59%) Nmap
7 1 (1.59%) OpenNMS
7 1 (1.59%) Puppet
7 1 (1.59%) Salt
7 1 (1.59%) SCOM
7 1 (1.59%) SCOrch
7 1 (1.59%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 17 (26.98%) Microsoft
2 12 (19.05%) BMC
2 12 (19.05%) Remedy
3 6 (9.52%) Oracle
3 6 (9.52%) ServiceNow
4 5 (7.94%) Salesforce
5 4 (6.35%) CyberArk
5 4 (6.35%) Hyperion
5 4 (6.35%) JD Edwards
5 4 (6.35%) PeopleSoft
6 2 (3.17%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.59%) Cisco
7 1 (1.59%) Fortinet
7 1 (1.59%) Qualys
7 1 (1.59%) VMware