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 permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH). Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Linux Command Line over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 519 492 517
Rank change year-on-year -27 +25 -69
Permanent jobs citing Linux Command Line 64 172 351
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.19% 0.41% 0.51%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.53% 1.05% 1.11%
Number of salaries quoted 53 82 185
10th Percentile £37,250 £36,460 £41,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £50,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.39% -8.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £97,328 £82,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £117,236 £84,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% +4.55%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

Linux Command Line is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 12,031 16,342 31,704
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 35.53% 38.56% 46.35%
Number of salaries quoted 9,255 11,849 16,959
10th Percentile £32,500 £39,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.46% - +13.04%
75th Percentile £78,750 £86,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £101,250 £107,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +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 6 May 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 (1.56%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (7.81%) GNU Octave
Business Applications
1 5 (7.81%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 31 (48.44%) AWS
2 25 (39.06%) Azure
3 14 (21.88%) OpenShift
4 12 (18.75%) Azure Monitor
5 10 (15.63%) Serverless
6 9 (14.06%) Amazon EC2
6 9 (14.06%) Amazon S3
6 9 (14.06%) AWS Lambda
6 9 (14.06%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (10.94%) Azure AKS
7 7 (10.94%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 7 (10.94%) Datadog
7 7 (10.94%) Pulumi
8 5 (7.81%) Azure Storage
8 5 (7.81%) Entra ID
8 5 (7.81%) GitHub
8 5 (7.81%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (6.25%) CloudFront
9 4 (6.25%) Route 53
9 4 (6.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (9.38%) Network Security
2 5 (7.81%) AMQP
3 3 (4.69%) DNS
4 2 (3.13%) DHCP
4 2 (3.13%) Firewall
4 2 (3.13%) SSH
5 1 (1.56%) Internet
5 1 (1.56%) LAN
5 1 (1.56%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (1.56%) SNMP
5 1 (1.56%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.56%) tcpdump
5 1 (1.56%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (1.56%) Wireless
5 1 (1.56%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (14.06%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (10.94%) Azure SQL Database
2 7 (10.94%) MariaDB
2 7 (10.94%) MongoDB
2 7 (10.94%) MySQL
2 7 (10.94%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (10.94%) Redis
3 5 (7.81%) InfluxDB
3 5 (7.81%) Relational Database
4 3 (4.69%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (3.13%) BusinessObjects
5 2 (3.13%) Oracle Database
5 2 (3.13%) Power BI
5 2 (3.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 18 (28.13%) Git
2 12 (18.75%) Jenkins
3 7 (10.94%) Team Foundation Server
4 5 (7.81%) DTrace
4 5 (7.81%) GDB
5 4 (6.25%) GitLab
6 3 (4.69%) JIRA
7 2 (3.13%) Artifactory
7 2 (3.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (3.13%) Bitbucket
7 2 (3.13%) Gradle
General
1 13 (20.31%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (17.19%) Social Skills
3 8 (12.50%) Retail
4 7 (10.94%) Law
5 5 (7.81%) Aerospace
5 5 (7.81%) Aviation
6 4 (6.25%) Finance
7 2 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (3.13%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.56%) Advertising
8 1 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 25 (39.06%) Azure Engineer
2 22 (34.38%) Platform Engineer
3 17 (26.56%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 16 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
5 15 (23.44%) Linux Engineer
6 14 (21.88%) Automation Engineer
6 14 (21.88%) AWS Engineer
7 13 (20.31%) Operations Engineer
8 11 (17.19%) Cloud Automation Engineer
9 8 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
10 7 (10.94%) Developer
11 6 (9.38%) Azure Platform Engineer
12 5 (7.81%) Python Developer
13 4 (6.25%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 3 (4.69%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
14 3 (4.69%) Senior
14 3 (4.69%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 3 (4.69%) Technologist
14 3 (4.69%) Unix Engineer
14 3 (4.69%) Unix Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (10.94%) ARM Templates
2 5 (7.81%) NumPy
2 5 (7.81%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (3.13%) ADO
3 2 (3.13%) CSS
3 2 (3.13%) HTML
3 2 (3.13%) Node.js
3 2 (3.13%) React
3 2 (3.13%) RESTful
3 2 (3.13%) Spring
3 2 (3.13%) Spring Boot
3 2 (3.13%) Vue
3 2 (3.13%) YAML
4 1 (1.56%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.56%) Flash
4 1 (1.56%) NETCONF
Miscellaneous
1 11 (17.19%) Hybrid Cloud
2 7 (10.94%) Client/Server
2 7 (10.94%) Product Ownership
3 5 (7.81%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.56%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.56%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 51 (79.69%) Linux
2 18 (28.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 13 (20.31%) Windows
4 9 (14.06%) Unix
5 8 (12.50%) CentOS
6 7 (10.94%) CoreOS
7 1 (1.56%) Debian
7 1 (1.56%) Fedora
7 1 (1.56%) openSUSE
7 1 (1.56%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (54.69%) DevOps
2 31 (48.44%) Configuration Management
3 26 (40.63%) Infrastructure as Code
4 25 (39.06%) CI/CD
5 23 (35.94%) Agile
6 22 (34.38%) Platform Engineering
7 13 (20.31%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (20.31%) Software Testing
7 13 (20.31%) Test Automation
8 12 (18.75%) Analytics
8 12 (18.75%) Log Analytics
9 11 (17.19%) Innovative Thinking
10 10 (15.63%) Deployment Automation
11 9 (14.06%) Computer Science
11 9 (14.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 9 (14.06%) ITIL
12 8 (12.50%) Time Management
13 7 (10.94%) ITSM
13 7 (10.94%) Service Management
13 7 (10.94%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 46 (71.88%) Python
2 26 (40.63%) Bash
2 26 (40.63%) Java
3 17 (26.56%) SQL
4 16 (25.00%) PowerShell
5 12 (18.75%) Go
5 12 (18.75%) Shell Script
6 11 (17.19%) Perl
7 9 (14.06%) JavaScript
7 9 (14.06%) PHP
7 9 (14.06%) Ruby
7 9 (14.06%) TypeScript
8 7 (10.94%) C#
8 7 (10.94%) Groovy
9 5 (7.81%) C
9 5 (7.81%) MATLAB
9 5 (7.81%) OCaml
9 5 (7.81%) SystemTap
Qualifications
1 16 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 13 (20.31%) Degree
3 12 (18.75%) Azure Certification
4 8 (12.50%) SC Cleared
5 4 (6.25%) AWS Certification
5 4 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (4.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 3 (4.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.56%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (1.56%) CCNA
7 1 (1.56%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 38 (59.38%) Docker
2 6 (9.38%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.56%) Samba
Systems Management
1 32 (50.00%) Ansible
1 32 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 29 (45.31%) Terraform
3 28 (43.75%) Puppet
4 23 (35.94%) Progress Chef
5 14 (21.88%) Grafana
6 12 (18.75%) Prometheus
6 12 (18.75%) Salt
7 5 (7.81%) Docker Swarm
8 3 (4.69%) Kibana
9 1 (1.56%) logstash
9 1 (1.56%) Nmap
9 1 (1.56%) OpenNMS
Vendors
1 8 (12.50%) Red Hat
2 7 (10.94%) Microsoft
2 7 (10.94%) New Relic
2 7 (10.94%) SaltStack
3 5 (7.81%) BMC
3 5 (7.81%) Remedy
4 2 (3.13%) Alteryx
4 2 (3.13%) Blue Prism
4 2 (3.13%) Oracle
4 2 (3.13%) SAP
5 1 (1.56%) Cisco
5 1 (1.56%) Qualys